For more info, click here to visit the interest check! (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343577.0)<br/><br/>It’s a hot, dusty summer day in the frontier town of Daymare– a place where everybody is a stranger and nobody stays for long. You get all kinds here: Nagaran traders, tieflings on pilgrimage to the Ashlands, refugees from the Spice Isles adrift and forlorn, gruff Rose Army troops on patrol– and, of course, from all corners of the world, adventurers. That’s where you come in, on that hot summer day, standing in front of the bulletin board outside Daymare’s dingy tavern, ignoring the sounds of drunken yelling and the occasional shattered glass as you read the board’s latest addition.<br/><br/>Wanted: big damn heroes.<br/><br/>Well, it’s not the most eloquent job posting, but it sure catches your eye, and even manages to sustain your interest after it becomes apparent it’s a crappy job polished up with a little rhetorical spitshine. It seems a certain Captain Qasval is looking for five to seven people who know their way around a sword (or an axe, or a bow, or a staff) to run protection in a little village east of Daymare– a village that, just the prior week, was attacked by suspiciously well-armed and well-trained bandits. The villagers managed to stave off the first attack, but they’re afraid it was just a feint to test their strength, and that the ‘bandits’ will be back soon to finish the job. This, the job listing declares, is what heroism is all about– helping the helpless, defending the weak, and kicking butt in the process. These people need help. They need, as the mysterious Captain Qasval puts it, big damn heroes.<br/><br/>All in all, it’s a very extravagant posting for what basically just amounts to swatting flies away from a dingy little village and not being very well paid for it at that. But maybe you need the money. Maybe you’ve got nothing better to do. Maybe, just maybe, the captain’s enthusiasm and verve has gotten to you. Either way, you figure it’ll be a simple job. After all, it’s not the sort of thing that usually ends up turning into an epic quest of world-changing proportions, right?<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Some expectations and rules</div><div class="spoiler_body">1. As expressed in the interest check, this is a freeform RP that will not be using any RPG systems or mechanics (ie, no dice rolls, no leveling up, no stats, etc). Rather than being based on either an existing RPG setting or a world of my creation, I'd like for the world this RP takes place in to be the collaborative product of all the RPers' imagination and world-building; I'll lay the basic foundation, including elements crucial to the plot, but for the most part, I want folks to be able to come in with their own ideas for the world, as well as for subplots and side quests. I will periodically update this thread's 'A World in Progress' section with lore from the RPers about new nations, cultures, and peoples as we work together to flesh out the world and make it come alive.<br/><br/>2. This RP will feature violence (I mean, what fantasy adventure doesn't?) that may include things like decapitation, limbs being chopped off, people getting set on fire, etc, although preferably not in gratuitous detail. Smut won't be a feature of this roleplay and anything heavier than kissing should fade to black. What you write on your own time ain't no business of mine, so have at it in PMs if you want.<br/><br/>3. My only requirement in terms of writing style is that you write in the past tense and in the third person. In terms of writing level, I'm looking for reasonably advanced writers. The pace will be slow to moderate.<br/><br/>4. I'm aiming to bring on five to seven RPers for this. I'll be accepting the characters that I feel will mesh well with the spirit of the roleplay and bring some interesting subplots, arcs, and relationships to the story, not on a first-come-first-serve basis. If I don't accept your character, it's nothing personal; in an RP as character-driven as this, having the right cast is crucial, and sometimes even the best writer doesn't come up with the most fitting character.<br/><br/>5. While the job posting will be the initial thing that brings characters together, there's no reason that some can't know each other from prior encounters, or that two of them can't be traveling/working together at the start of the RP. Feel free to reach out to the other RPers and do some brainstorming before the RP starts!<br/><br/>6. I won't put too many restrictions on world-building, since I want it to be an open and collaborative process, but I don't want to see any races that are inherently evil a la D&amp;D-- no sentient races that universally or even mostly have a specific alignment. If you want to play an orc or a goblin, go for it; don't feel obligated to be a half-orc or something just because D&amp;D says a full orc has to be evil.<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>Name:<br/><br/>Race: (Feel free to go with any of the classic fantasy races, something from D&amp;D, or something of your own invention-- if you go with something of your own, please include some information on the race for the benefit of the rest of us, either in this section or separately during worldbuilding)<br/><br/>Class: (Again, feel free to just crib something from D&amp;D or make something up with a little description; this field will have no mechanical bearing on what your character can and can't do and is just a shorthand way of giving us a general sense of your character's style and skills, which you'll get more into further down)<br/><br/>Age:<br/><br/>Appearance: (Include a brief description, picture/art optional but not necessary)<br/><br/>Personality: (What is your character like?)<br/><br/>Background: (You can give us a full biography of your character or just the bare minimum of what others might be able to tell about them when first meeting them-- or nothing at all; it's up to you)<br/><br/>Skills: (What is your character good at? This includes not just combat skills but things like art, medicine, cooking, juggling, the like)<br/><br/>Language(s): (We're going with the D&amp;D method of Common as a lingua franca, but what else can your character speak? This is an opportunity to do a little world-building and help flesh out the setting and your character)<br/><br/>Extras: (Anything you think is worth making explicit that isn't covered above!)<br/></div></div><br/><div align="center">Cast of Characters...<br/><br/>Captain Qasval (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16230723#msg16230723)<br/>Priyantha Sarmatyu-Dharmayu (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16233270#msg16233270)<br/>Deluna Dolor (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16232388#msg16232388)<br/>Valstadt Averus (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16255713#msg16255713)<br/>Vylara of Stonewood Forest (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16231992#msg16231992)<br/>Zeksi Hasah (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16241449#msg16241449)<br/>Maksym the Swift (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=343624.msg16244222#msg16244222)<br/></div>