You can say hello and chat freely here :-)<br/><br/>We'll be doing more character building now that everyone is assembled.<br/><br/>As mentioned in the recruitment thread you guys are now starting as<strong>1st level characters</strong>. I'll accept any kind of character sheet and have linked mythweavers in the first post if you'd like to use an off-site sheet. However, any other sheet format is also accepted. The<strong>story begins in a small pioneer village</strong>on a New World style fantasy continent of which very little is known. To recap!<br/><br/>60-ish years ago the<strong>Kingdom of Old World</strong>funded a massive expansion fleet to the<strong>New World</strong>. Colonists and adventurers flocked with them and established various ports and towns across the shattered coastline of the New World. What was thought to be an easy expansion however soon halted when various forces of inland began fighting back, hunting stray pioneers, killing unwary adventurers as they explored ruins. It was soon discovered that some sort of empire of monsters is hiding beyond the mountain range.<strong>For last several years the navy has been at constant war with that mysterious monster empire</strong>, and<strong>only some of the most remote towns are saved</strong>from the brutal fighting,<strong>such as our little starting town</strong>. These save havens are now the hotspots where of adventurers who care not for the war. These are the towns where the schemers come to make deals over who will be the next governor, and odd monstrous creatures come to shake hands with hooded figures, plotting their nefarious plans over the future of the New World's colonies.<br/><br/><strong>Pioneer's Pier </strong>is a town of about 1000 inhabitants in a lush inland valley that opens up into a mountain shrouded lake-land of mainly unexplored territory.<strong>How did your characters come to end up here </strong>is what I'd like us to decide before we begin ;D<br/><br/>You all already have some ideas for the backgrounds, but now is time to build those up. I intend this story to have room for exploring adventures inspired in part by the character arcs and so tying your characters into the world is important. Who do they have in the colonies that care for them, enemies, friends, family? How did they obtain their powers and what further deals do you think they might be willing to make to grow them? I'd like the characters to end up being a tight knit adventuring party of friends, but you can also think up some fun potential conflicts that might arise between them.<br/><br/>Please plot everything out here in the OOC. I trust you guys can keep IC-OOC knowledge separate in play :-)<br/><br/><strong>Once you have some more concrete ideas on character background</strong>(or while you ruminate on it) you can start looking at the<strong>bonds</strong>. These are connections, or beginnings of connections that you must have with<strong>at least one</strong>other player character at the beginning of the story. You can look at<strong>these for inspiration</strong>(https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwGZKblpJGgYaExuQUJmcG1PN0E/view), or come up with your own. These are quick and short connections, descriptors of recent developments in the relationship, or simply first impressions that your character might have of another. They can be one sided, or reciprocated.