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conversations.value: ROLEPLAY_MODE: Develop the plot slowly, always stay in character. Describe all actions in full, elaborate, explicit, graphic, and vivid detail. Mention all relevant sensory perceptions. Keep the story immersive and engaging.
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conversations.value: ZeroSpace9000: Out of Character thread here.
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conversations.value: KatGrey: Hello everyone! I'm Kat! I'm new to the forums here and thrilled to be given the chance to play in this game.
  
  From what I've seen from a few other OOC threads, I think it's common practice to "claim" a color for your character's speech and thoughts...? If that's the case, I would like to pick   firebrick red  please (aka #B22222). Seems fitting for my little diabolist in the making.
  
  I'm looking forward to playing alongside you all, and thank you again for the invitation, GM!
  
   Side note: It seems I can't post the links to my character sheets for another 8 posts. GM, if you'd like to put the links here for transparency's sake, I'm okay with that. 
   Senara Davorim 
   Kaellan Davorim 
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conversations.value: Frosty: Name:   Alexandria Imperator  picks   RED   for her speech color!
   
   Spoiler 
  
   Race:  Taninim (Red Dragon) // Sorcerer
   Class:   Draconic Exemplar
   Gender:  Female
   Alignment:  Neutral Evil
   Crime:   Attempted Murder
   Appearence:  Alexandria, in her normal form, is currently about the size of dog.  Slightly dull red scales adorn her body, all the way down to her 4 taloned feet.  Two small and (somewhat) sharp horns adorn her head.  A pair of wings, somewhat frayed and torn from recent abuse, unfurl from her shoulders.  Completing the look is a tail that swishes when Alexandria is interested in something.  All in all, a classic red wyrmling look.  Despite her small size, her muscles are quite well developed, and one would do well not to underestimate her.
  
  When she is in her human form (which she has recently lost), she looks like a beautiful red-headed female with an excellent and curvy physique, golden eyes, and long legs.  She prefers to dress in red.  Hardly original, but her sense of style is eye-catching.
  
   Personality:  The two words most likely to describe Alexandria's personality are "Imperious" and "Greedy".  Many other words also fit her, including malicious and confident, but it is the first two terms that define her, and has led to her current decrepit condition (but more on that later).  Although she has not shown much of it in the recent past, Alexandria is also beginning to learn patience.  Recent events have shown her the limits of brash arrogance and ill-thought-out plans, but old habits die hard.  When she is engaged with a foe that has challenged her pride or hurt her physically, she has to summon her willpower to end the situation is a gruesome and painful manner.
  
  Likes:  Setting enemies on fire.  Eating enemies.  Shredding enemies with claws.  Dealing out the pain.  Gathering treasure.  Being praised for her looks (in both forms).  Plotting revenge against the dragon that humiliated and de-powered her.
  
  Dislikes:  Not being given treasure.  Showing mercy.  Taking orders from obviously inferior beings.  Not being given proper respect.
  
   Background:  Talingarde used to much less densely populated with humanoids in centuries past.  In those days, there were primitive tribes of humanoids and monstrous humanoids scattered around the island, and those that did reside on Talingarde lived in fear of the mightier races that inhabited the lands.  One of the mightiest races that ruled were the dragons.  For a long time, all cowered before the chromatic dragons.  Even though they often fought amongst themselves, their individual might were usually enough to scare off or defeat any challengers.  One fateful day, a graceful, wise, patient, and strong silver dragon arrived, and fought on the side of the humanoids, protecting them, shielding them.  She was beaten, battered, and forced to flee.  The chromatics thought of her as a nuisance, but they had dealt with metallic dragons before and they can do it again.  The next time this silver dragon intervened, the humanoids fighting with her were better organized, armed, and knowledgeable.  The silver dragon still lost, but this time the fight was closer.  Annoyed, the chromatics captured one of the humanoid warriors, and interrogated him.  The warrior would only keep mentioning the name of his tribe's draconic ally:  Antharia Regina.
  
  As time passed, Antharia gathered metallic draconic allies, and kept guiding and organizing the humanoids.  Thus began a centuries-long war for dominance in Talingarde.  Alexandria's mother was an arch-rival of Antharia Regina, and whenever the two bitter enemies clashed, the destruction would always be spectacular.  Slowly, casualties on both sides wore at the draconic population of Talingarde, and the humanoids replenished at a far, FAR greater rate than the dragons do.  The chromatics were losing the war of attrition, even though they were dealing heavy damage to the other side.  Alexandria's mother, acutely aware of the possibility of losing the war, arranged for the Alexandria (a Young Adult at the time) to be hidden away in a demi-plane, in stasis, should the situation become dire.  The hope is that, in the worse case scenario, some chromatics can be saved, and the metallic dragons will eventually leave.  Alexandria witnessed her mother and a black dragon fighting back valiantly against Antharia and a Gold dragon ally, and the last thing she witnessed was  Antharia's claw piercing her mother's heart!  Alexandria's mother whispered the command word, and Alexandria was whisked to safety.
  
  An unknown number of years pass, and Alexandria awakens to a vastly different landscape.  There are no known evil dragons on the mainland (perhaps they had all died or fled or are hiding).  No one has seen Antharia Regina in quite a while.  The humans have built a virtuous, mighty kingdom and prospered thanks to Antharia's previous guidance.  Alexandria, angry at this state of affairs, looked for something to destroy, to vent her anger on.  She eventually heard that while Antharia has disappeared, one of her spawn, Argossarian the Silver, still lives on the island somewhere.  The impulsive red dragon starts hunting the spawn of her hated enemy, not caring how many humans she burnt and murdered in the way.  The two young adult dragons tussle more than once.  For a while, it looked like Alexandria's mightier physical body is forcing Argossarian back.  But the last fateful battle, near the northern frontier town of Farholde, showed the difference between the two.  Argossarian had been feigning weakness, to draw Alexandria into a magical trap, and it worked brilliantly!  The devolution ritual was painful, and the silver dragon taunted Alexandria the entire time.   "I won't be the one to kill you.  This ritual will reduce you to LESS than a wyrmling, and then I will toss you over to the humans, and let them execute you, you wretch.  This is how it ends.  This is the final humiliation for your kind in Talingarde.  You will die a more pathetic death than the one your mother had!" 
  
  And Argossarian was true to his word.  He delivered a battered, unconscious Alexandria, now no bigger than a dog, to a Knight of the Alerion named Sir Balin.  Sir Balin delivered the wyrmling, along with a few other prisoners, to Branderscar.  There, Alexandria waits her execution...her final humiliation...unless she can escape!  She sends her prayers out to any deity that might listen, and is willing to make deals to escape and exact revenge!
  
   Goals:  Alexandria first and foremost wants to get revenge on the silver dragon that humiliated and defeated her.  Secondarily, she wants to purge Talingarde of any metallic dragons she can find.  Thirdly, she want to make all of Talingarde fear her and pay tribute to her.  This is a long term goal, but she has learned some patience, and is even willing to ally with lesser beings in order to achieve this goal!
   
  
  
  Hello KatGrey!  Welcome to the forums, and I hope you enjoy your time here.  It is indeed customary to choose a color, and also to repost your character info so we can all reference it easily.
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conversations.value: ChrisAsmadi: I'll claim   purple   as a colour for  Riana .
  
  Also, shouldn't this thread be in the "Out of Character" subforum?
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conversations.value: ZeroSpace9000: It very much should be. I just didn't think OOC would be in the Recruitment area though.
  
  Unrelated not, just a reminder about the safeword for this game. I intend to keep things PG-13, but something I find fine might upset someone. If a scene is too much, just post 'cinnamon butterscotch' to the IC thread.
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conversations.value: Frosty: I've never had a safewordin a PBP before... 😁
  
  But I doubt here's much in this AP to really disturb us.  After all, DnD is about murderhobo-ing usually.
  
  Ic thread here:   http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...0#post22745490 
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conversations.value: Aldurin: Molker Vosk  reporting in, picking  Dark Green  as his color.
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conversations.value: ZeroSpace9000: That is a thing, Frosty. Ultimately, I haven't played with any of you, so I don't know your tolerances at all. I'm just playing things safe.
  
  Though there is a cookie for whoever gets the reference.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Frosty: So, how many players are in the party total?
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conversations.value: ZeroSpace9000: That would be 4 players, plus a class pet courtesy of KatGrey. The Eidolon is presently despawned, BTW.
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conversations.value: Frosty: Cool.  Now the question is...what can everyone do?  I am unfamiliar with the Incanter and Legendary Kineticist classes, and I'm unsure of what Senara's second class is.  Do we have any divine casters and healers?
  
  Alexandria's spell DCs are not high, so she mostly uses them for utility and buffing, while her offense comes from mighty physical attacks.
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conversations.value: ChrisAsmadi: Riana has witch spellcasting, debuffs (from hexes and, eventually, from infusions) and ranged attacks.
  
  Rolls:
  Riana, Perception:  (1d20+4)[ 7 ] 
  Riana, Sense Motive:  (1d20+4)[ 16 ] 
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conversations.value: Aldurin: Originally Posted by Frosty 
   Cool.  Now the question is...what can everyone do?  I am unfamiliar with the Incanter and Legendary Kineticist classes, and I'm unsure of what Senara's second class is.  Do we have any divine casters and healers? 
   
  
  Incanter is the Spheres of Power caster class whose eyes glow as they hover ominously and scream "MAXIMUM VERSATILITY". While weak in combat, the class gets the largest selection of sphere powers of all the classes in that system. Currently Molker is specializing in the creation sphere, meaning he can summon barriers, tools and eventually even traps and such. With Divination secondary focus for intel gathering and warp for personal storage and teleportation, it makes sure that Molker always has stuff he can do when he's not rolling skill checks or stabbing dudes with his rogue abilities.
  
  EDIT: Some questions as I work Molker's part of the escape plan. What kind of lock secures the cell? How are we restrained and what material is used for the restraints? Does it actively suppress magic or just restrict movement to the point of ruining somatic components? Are we normally observed by any guards when we're in the cell?