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Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on March 17, 2020, 08:22:39 PM
@Imaginative Kane @Alphadoom @ogunbiyi6422 welcome ladies and gentlemen! You three are the lucky winners and have been chosen to learn from I, Excalibur, the ancient and esoteric arts of roleplaying!

Jokes aside, thank you all for taking a chance with this class. I am very happy you have decided to sign up and learn more! This class will follow in a similar vein with Ruguo's class, and the course curriculum will more or less parallel each other. Now, to start us off, I want you all to define the following terms in your own words:

Mary Sue
Godmod
OP
Powerplay
Direct speak
Indirect speak
First person
Third person

Since this is our first lesson, no deadline has been set for responses. Once everyone has posted, we will discuss the answers and move on to the next portion.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on March 18, 2020, 12:49:31 AM
I'm excited to get this started so I'll go ahead and respond

Mary Sue: A sarcastic term used to describe a perfect or spotless character in a form of fiction, to the point that it is a little weird

Godmod: taking control of another player's character during RPing

OP: stands for overpowered, a character or attribute of a character that is considered too strong for the story

Powerplay: similar to godmodding, actively trying to control someone else's player

Direct Speak/Speech: basically quoted speech, writing the exact words a character is saying/thinking

Indirect Speak/Speech: expressing someone's words or the content of their speech without directly quoting them

First person: point of view in which the narrator is speaking from their own view or experience

Third person: point of view in which the narrator is not involved in the story and normally not in the story or at least they aren't really seen.

 :)
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ezkiolandgamer on March 18, 2020, 04:40:27 AM
Mary sue:The perfect character often a self insert to a story. You often want to avoid it as it breaks lore or the story.

Godmod: Using any means and tricks that may or may not make sense to get your way or win in the roleplay.

Op:It means it's too strong or has to much power and you need to tone it down.

Power play:Trying to one up each person.

Direct speak:Not sure but I think you're directly speaking to a person face to face.

indirect speak:Not sure about this one as well but I think you're indirectly via other people speaking to them.

First person: Talking or discribing yourself you wanna avoid speaking this in your discribing or action text but it's perfectly fine in dialogue. pronouns are I, we, and me I think

Third person: Mainly used for actions and discribing your characters actions in text or referencing other characters or a group. Includes she,her,him,he,they,them.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Imaginative Kane on March 18, 2020, 06:13:03 AM
Marysue: From what I have noticed, this seems to refer to created characters which are flawless.

Godmod: I am not sure about this one but I have heard it mentioned before.  If I remember correctly from the mentions, it seems to refer to interactions between characters where a character's action is unfair in such a way to prevent the other character from having a chance to respond to that action.  Especially applicable if that memory serves correctly to action and fights.

OP: I am guessing this is similar to the gamer term OP which pretty much means overpowered?

Powerplay: I have no idea at all but I would guess that it is some sort of attempt to usurp the one running the RP.

Direct speak: No idea.  I would guess that this is dialogue mentioning another participant in the RP or just ordinary IC and OOC dialogue.

Indirect speak: No idea.  I would guess that this is dialogue done in the OOC chat discussing another character without mentioning them.

First person: If it is anything like the language definition of first person, this is narration from the perspective of the character or talking about yourself using your own dialogue.  Often makes use of words like I and my.

Third person: If it is anything like the language definition of third person, this is narrating a story from an outside perspective, either a god like omniscient perspective, or a more limited perspective.  Often makes use of words like their, his, her, he, she, they, etc.

Hopefully the other parts of the class will also have less limited times because I am not sure how much time I will have for the later assignments.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on March 22, 2020, 04:06:26 PM
Sorry for the late response, everyone, but thank you all for the quick response! I promise I will be quicker in the future to post the next lesson. First I will give my definitions, and then we can move on to lesson 2.

A note on everyone's definitions, nobody got anything outright wrong, but some hit the mark closer than others.

Excalibur's definitions:
Mary Sue: A Mary Sue is a seemingly perfect character who is depicted as unrealistically lacking in flaws or weaknesses. They can usually perform better at tasks than should be possible given the amount of training or experience and are judged as poorly developed characters, too perfect and lacking in realism to be interesting. They are often recognized as self-insertions, where the character is an idealized proxy for the player in the RP.
Godmodding: When a character features god-like powers, such as invincibility, mind control, or the ability to do practically anything without limits or boundaries.
OP: Also overpowered. A person (character or NPC), place, or thing that is considered game-breaking or too strong for the storyline.
Powerplaying: Power-playing is when a player controls someone else's character without the other player's consent.
Direct Speak: Quoting what someone said directly, or using someone else's words to describe what your character sees, thinks, or feels.
Indirect Speak: Using the character's senses to describe what someone else has said, or alluding to past feelings and conversations without the direct quotes.
First Person: Using "I" when describing a character's actions and speech.
Third Person: Using"She/he/they/it" when describing a character's actions and speech.

Lesson Two

Before we can start roleplaying, we have to know what to avoid when roleplaying. Below, I've written a sample post that you all need to dissect and figure out what is wrong with it. Point out at least three problems that I have in the sample in your first post. Afterwards, post a revised version of the post to make it more suitable for proper roleplaying. There are more than three problems in this sample, so no one should have the same answers. Feel free to comment on your peer's work as well. Your posts can be done at the same time, or spread out.

Aliya spread her arms wide, summoning to her hand her Djinn Staff of Ultimate Smiting. The staff was unbreakable, could kill anyone it touches, and was given to Aliya as a gift when she first left her small village of Stockhall after saving them from an army of dragons. She pointed her staff at Olhara, instantly obliterating her as she moved on to her next target. After disarming Neuvan with her secret fighting style that she learned in the mountains of Dendarhon, Aliya broke his magical shield with ease as she transformed Neuvan into a frog. After stopping on the frog, N'Zaroth looked around at her other targets, all attempting to run away from her display of unlimited power. Since I am an angel-dragon-demon-elf hybrid, I was faster than all of them and dodged all of their attacks before releasing powerful magical energy and destroying most of the continent, along with my foes. Even though this blast should've killed me, my other artifacts protected me with potent spells. After gazing around at the wasteland, Aliya flew away to the nearest undestroyed city.

The deadline for this assignment is roughly 48 hours from the time of this post, or 9:06 Pacific time on the 24th. Good luck!
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Imaginative Kane on March 24, 2020, 11:58:33 PM
1. This Aliya character seems OP.
2. That doesn't seem like a good time to switch from First to Third Person.
3. I am thinking stopping was supposed to be stomping.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on March 25, 2020, 03:26:10 AM
1. Aliya's character is godmodded
2. Powerplaying, in which the character could could transform characters
3. I would go to say that the character also seems to be a Mary Sue in which the character seems invincible and a perfect combination of power and intelligence.
4. Seems that her name changed, she was Aliya and then she was called N'Zaroth.

This is my attempt to correct it...

Aliya spread her arms wide, summoning to her hand her Djinn Staff. The staff was near unbreakable and was given to Aliya as a gift when she first left her small village of Stockhall after saving them from an army of dragons. She pointed her staff at Olhara, while summoning its power, Olhara quickly dodged her attack and also summoned her own staff, in which a large and equally matched battle ensued. Olhara then quickly disapparated, and she moved on to her next target. After disarming Neuvan with her secret fighting style that she learned in the mountains of Dendarhon, Aliya broke his magical shield with ease and as Neuvan was also able to escape from her, angering Aliya. Aliya then looked around at her other targets, all attempting to run away from her display of unlimited power. Though she was a hybrid and powerful, many ran away and escaped from her. They continued to attack her, weakening her, and in a last burst of effort she released powerful magical energy and destroyed part continent, along with her foes and severely injuring herself, breaking her power.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on March 25, 2020, 07:07:24 PM
1. Aliya's character is godmodded
2. Powerplaying, in which the character could could transform characters
3. I would go to say that the character also seems to be a Mary Sue in which the character seems invincible and a perfect combination of power and intelligence.
4. Seems that her name changed, she was Aliya and then she was called N'Zaroth.

This is my attempt to correct it...

Aliya spread her arms wide, summoning to her hand her Djinn Staff. The staff was near unbreakable and was given to Aliya as a gift when she first left her small village of Stockhall after saving them from an army of dragons. She pointed her staff at Olhara, while summoning its power, Olhara quickly dodged her attack and also summoned her own staff, in which a large and equally matched battle ensued. Olhara then quickly disapparated, and she moved on to her next target. After disarming Neuvan with her secret fighting style that she learned in the mountains of Dendarhon, Aliya broke his magical shield with ease and as Neuvan was also able to escape from her, angering Aliya. Aliya then looked around at her other targets, all attempting to run away from her display of unlimited power. Though she was a hybrid and powerful, many ran away and escaped from her. They continued to attack her, weakening her, and in a last burst of effort she released powerful magical energy and destroyed part continent, along with her foes and severely injuring herself, breaking her power.

Yes on all three counts! The last one was a mistake on my part. The character's name was originally N'Zaroth, but I changed it to Aliya. I must've not caught all of the changes. I also like you edited cut of the scene. Good work!
1. This Aliya character seems OP.
2. That doesn't seem like a good time to switch from First to Third Person.
3. I am thinking stopping was supposed to be stomping.
Yes, yes, and yes! I really need to work on proofreading my posts.

Anyway, I'll give @Alphadoom one more day to respond. If they don't we'll move on to the next lesson.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on April 15, 2020, 02:32:59 AM
When will our lessons continue @Excalibur?
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on April 15, 2020, 04:12:41 AM
When will our lessons continue @Excalibur?
I am so very sorry all. I was caught up in family life leading up to Easter, so now that that’s done. I can focus more on ARTS. I’ll have the next lesson up tomorrow.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on April 16, 2020, 12:29:35 AM
Alright! We are now going to work on making characters. There are four days budgeted for this section, with three posts required. Your first post is going to be fairly simple, just a basic profile on your character.
(https://media.dnd.wizards.com/styles/second_hubpage_banner/public/images/head-banner/07_NewtoDnD_Hero_Locations.jpg)
Make a character that would fit in the environment of the above image. Your profile should include name, age, an imagined hometown, appearance, and biographical information. Once you have posted your character's profile, we will work on revising the characters and adding more details to them.

Example:

Name: Damnad Kuel
Age: 37
Appearance: A young, clean-shaven man with black hair and green eyes. Wears a flowing, star-studded robe and carries a staff topped with an azure orb.
Hometown: Redford, a town that sits on the mouth of the Sanguine River.
Bio: Kuel was born into a family of prominent warriors, so it was a surprise when he pursued the path of the wizard. He became a mage at 18, and is currently trying to work his way up to the position of magus by serving the kingdom of Boranel.

@Imaginative Kane @Alphadoom @ogunbiyi6422
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Imaginative Kane on April 16, 2020, 01:47:13 AM
I ended up looking up the names mentioned in the post to possibly get some background because otherwise I am not sure what kind of setting I am seeing in the image.  (It looks like some kind of mixture of a Medieval and Renaissance European port city with dragons, castle, and some big ships.)

Name: Alexander Rusable
Age: 19
Appearance: A short, thin, and elderly looking but muscular child with long hair and a pale appearance.  Generally seen wearing as many layers of clothing as he can find and fit.
Hometown: Evik, an urban center found in the Ruakine province of Nopald.
Bio: Born to a family of peasants who specialized in hunting in the coldest part of the land of Nopald; at the age of 16, Alexander ran away after a hostile lord killed his family while they were hunting.  He successfully lived off of the land as he migrated westward to some seas he heard about.  After two years of wandering, he was found by a band of traveling brigands who knew how to reach the sea and after he proved to be a good hunter and able to fend for himself well despite his appearance; they agreed to take him to a town where they were not wanted that was also on the sea.  The band was not far away from this city when they started to guide Alexander towards it and so it only took 2 months to reach the city.  Now he has been in the city for 10 months and has become a successful hunter who is known for venturing into the nearby mountains and returning with numerous hides and carcasses ready to be sold to merchants.  Alexander lives on the streets where the market stalls are set up.

Spoiler
The last name and location names are all taken from the letters of Kiev, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus. I find Eastern Europe (especially the Slavic areas) interesting. :P
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ezkiolandgamer on April 16, 2020, 02:02:15 AM
Name:Ireland Direlin

Age:24

Appearance:A young looking woman standing at 5' 01", who is average build. She has long messy brown hair, violet eyes, and white porcelain skin and  She wears a yellow tonic and a purple skirt. She has brown boots. She carried a small basket full of flowers from time to time when she's selling flowers, and may wear a hat made out of hey when working on the gardens.

Hometown:She lives in Maplefalls, a town covered in maple trees by the sanguine waterfall. The town's man export is flowers.

Bio:She was born into a normal family, who made average income. When she was 6, she learned to care for flowers and would often help out in the flowerfields, and when she was 12 she would go with her mom to the capital to sell flowers every Sunday. She went to a college to Become a scholar and learn some new info and pick up a new skill at the age of 19. She is currently 24 and is still studying the worlds wonders, while working on flowers and selling them every Sunday to fund her studies.
Spoiler
I think the last name may be off, and maybe I could cut some content off the backstory or explain some elements. But I think it's fine.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on April 19, 2020, 05:14:40 PM
Name: Rufus Biggins
Age: 105

Appearance: A small man at only 5"2. He has short blond hair, dark purple eyes, a crooked nose, and wrinkly tanned skin. He has a long green robe that extends beyond his legs and a matching green top hat. In his left hand he holds a old crooked staff.

Hometown: Margery, a small farming village at the edge of a large city.

Bio: Abandoned by his parents a day after he was born, he was found by a old couple who did not have any children, and was raised at their farm. At the age of 5, he exhibited powers such as super strength and super intelligence, being able to read large adult novels and Shakespeare before his 6th birthday. His powers allowed his family to become wealthy from farming and they moved to a big city. A terrible earthquake that did not seem to have any environmental impact killed his parents, and he has been tracking the cause of this ever since. The dark lord, his grandfather, was an evil wizard, and defeated him later in life. After retiring from crime-fighting business, he settled down in Margery where he grew up, training children with similar abilities like himself and raising his only son, age 12.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on April 22, 2020, 07:15:09 PM
Great job everyone! It's feedback time!

@Imaginative Kane
Excellent work! I really like the idea of the character, and I can see him fitting into the setting. However, I think we can add a little more detail to his character. What does he like to hunt? How does he hunt? Does he go to one merchant every time to sell his hides and carcasses or does he try to vary his choice? As you expand in your next post, I would like to see more added about his hunting.

@Alphadoom
Great job! I really enjoyed your description of Ireland, and I like the direction you're taking with her backstory. What does she specialize in? What is her goal in life? Does she want to write a famous treatise on a certain subject, or compile famous works to make an all-encompassing guide? Where does she study? For your expansion, I think it would be good for you to focus on Ireland's goals in life and more about her scholarly work.

@ogunbiyi6422
You have a good start here, but there is definitely things to work on. First, his age, how does he have blond hair at 105? And a 12 year old son as well? You also talk about Shakespeare, too, but I wasn't really thinking about this being an alternate Earth. I think some of the powers need to be toned down as well. Super strength and super intelligence, all at 5 years old? The dark lord was a wizard and his grandfather, and Rufus defeated him later in life? We hear a lot about him, but when you think about the definitions we defined in the beginning, wouldn't this take away the fun from others? There's not a lot to expand on in roleplay, as it seems that he's already had all of his character and power growth. When you expand, I think you need to try to tone down his abilities and rethink some of his backstory.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ezkiolandgamer on April 22, 2020, 09:12:24 PM
Name:Ireland Direlin

Age:24

Appearance:A young looking woman standing at 5' 01", who is average build. She has long messy brown hair, violet eyes, and white porcelain skin and  She wears a yellow tonic and a purple skirt. She has brown boots. She carried a small basket full of flowers from time to time when she's selling flowers, and may wear a hat made out of hey when working on the gardens.

Hometown:She lives in Maplefalls, a town covered in maple trees by the sanguine waterfall. The town's man export is flowers.

Bio:She was born into a normal family, who made average income, she Originally wanted to be rich and famous. When she was 6, she learned to care for flowers and would often help out in the flowerfields which made a newfound passion to love plants and to one day know more about them, and when she was 12 she would go with her mom to the capital to sell flowers every Sunday, studying the lack of information on plants. She went to a college to Become a scholar and learn some new info to help her learn how to research the plants and pick up a new skill at the age of 19. After college at 22 , she decided to find herself a study idea. She bought herself a farm in maplefalls and decided to study plants since her Passions are around flowers. She decided to study all the plants in many ways, her main focus is around flowers and crossbreeding. But she is also focusing on certain goals, making plants be able to be grown in the cold, make them survive droughts, try and make natural pesticides on the plants that don't harm Bee's but keep bugs at Bay, and try and make plants loot prettier and/or have better quality. A long list of goals, but these goals could revolutionized the plant Industry and help farms out. Her main passion besides naturally evolving plants to fit these goals, is to research how to make flowers survive longer so people can be able to have them longer, and try and research medicine and food with wild plants. She commonly is seen out on the field, or her farm at maplefalls doing research or taking care of flowers. She plans to revolutionize the plant and farming industry, and make plants more well known in facts. She still sells flowers every Sunday, but now has her new Passions and research goals to help plants become better. Living at her research site near the forest and waterfall of maplefalls her farm.

Spoiler
I might have made it to long or ruined the backstory entirely, aw well.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Imaginative Kane on April 23, 2020, 08:18:35 AM
Name: Alexander Rusable
Age: 19
Appearance: Stands at about 5' 4" and weighs 140 pounds.  Muscular, hairy, and pale, with the appearance of someone who has been through more than most people of their age.  Prefers wearing multiple layers of pelts while carrying most of his possessions in small bundles that can be easily hidden and stored for later use.  Hidden underneath the pelts are knives and small clubs made from some of the dragons he killed while he often will have a slingshot and a pack of stones in a convenient but visible location among his pelts.  When he is hunting, he often has a bow and quiver on his back.
Hometown: Technically not from a town as his family lived miles away from any towns (they were in a forest) with the city of Evik in the Ruakine province of Nopald being the closest one and being controlled by the lord who killed his family.

Original Bio
Bio: Born to a family of peasants who specialized in hunting in the coldest part of the land of Nopald; at the age of 16, Alexander ran away after a hostile lord killed his family while they were hunting.  He successfully lived off of the land as he migrated westward to some seas he heard about.  After two years of wandering, he was found by a band of traveling brigands who knew how to reach the sea and after he proved to be a good hunter and able to fend for himself well despite his appearance; they agreed to take him to a town where they were not wanted that was also on the sea.  The band was not far away from this city when they started to guide Alexander towards it and so it only took 2 months to reach the city.  Now he has been in the city for 10 months and has become a successful hunter who is known for venturing into the nearby mountains and returning with numerous hides and carcasses ready to be sold to merchants.  Alexander lives on the streets where the market stalls are set up.

Altered Bio: Alexander was being taught how to hunt elderly dragons when his family was killed.  Luckily he had already learned how to hunt other animals by the time of the lord's attack.  He knew how to move pretty much silently in both snow and forest although he had not figured out how to hide well just yet.  He also knew how to take advantage of water and wood for forming traps and making fires to cook with.  He was taught to hunt with bolas and slingshots.  Eventually, he had progressed to becoming proficient at hitting deer that were walking with a bow but not moving targets or small targets.  He also learned how to fight well with daggers and clubs and also got a little sword fighting practice.  He could hunt and trap deer, hares, rats, and even birds (only if he got the jump on them).  He was able to improve his hunting skills on the run and then with the bandits along with his weapon and stealth skills.  By the time he found the city, he could fight with swords, knives, bows, shields, and even the hammers used to forge weapons; he could also at last hide in plain sight depending on which wearable pelts he had with him and what the terrain was like.  He never could learn how to stone or drug people or animals though (unless he had the drug on a weapon).  His earliest hunting lesson was how to snap a deer's neck with only some rope or rocks and then with just his bare hands.  After moving to the city, he found out about other creatures he could hunt and quickly made it his goal to teach himself how to hunt dragons.  He already knew how to find dragons and had actually seen the telltale signs of their presence not long before the brigands took him to the city.  He would kill his first elderly dragon in the mountains by attacking while it was asleep; he trapped its mouth, wings, and legs with bolas and then managed to kill it with his clubs, slingshots, and knives (despite the knives breaking on the scales).  He then ran into a problem, he didn't know how to skin a dragon.  Eventually he would return to the city and find some hunters in the city who were experienced with dragons and managed to convince them to teach him.  These hunters also knew who would buy dragon parts and seeing how he actually had killed a dragon, offered to teach him more about hunting.  He accepted the lessons but continued living on the streets.  Eventually he would be taught who would secretly buy dragon parts (dragon hunting is frowned on and Alexander has suspected that may have been why the lord killed his family) and better ways to kill dragons and even how to trap them with what he had.  He also learned how to disguise dragon parts as other things and how to hide them within hides and carcasses.  With the assistance of these hunters, Alexander would become the newest hunting expert.  He is still learning new dragon hunting techniques and they are his favorite targets; his hunting abilities have made him known among the butchers and some clothing workers because everytime he goes to the market to sell goods, he has enough deer and wolf pelts and carcasses to keep them busy for the next few months.   He has learned to spread his selling of goods to various merchants so that people are less likely to be suspicious of his products.  Generally, he is not in dire need of food when he shops but he often runs short on metal (useful for bolas), weapons, and he will look for new pelts and skins that could be used to make better disguises or keep him warmer.
His best hunt after moving to the city lasted a week: he brought back 2 dragons, a dragon eggs, 10 wolves, 25 deer, a family of 6 bears, and 30 assorted rabbits, birds, and mice.  How there are so many animals in the mountains and forests he has no idea but the merchants and his fellow hunters are not complaining.  His favorite killing methods when hunting are stoning, punching, wrestling, and clubbing but he will use arrows, knives, and even a sword every now and then if necessary.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on April 28, 2020, 11:57:21 PM
*Edit*

Name: Rufus Biggins
Age: 55

Appearance: A medium sized man, standing at 5 ft 8. He has black hear and a beard that has a streak of gray. He wears brown boots, a matching jean jacket and a hat that makes him look like a sheriff from the wild west. He carries a tool belt around his waist with essential and deadly tools.

Hometown: Margery, a small farming village at the edge of a large city (Katunga).

Bio: He was born to a poor family in the farming village of Margery and had 2 older siblings. His father was a farmer and blacksmith and his mother was a local substitute school teacher When he was five years old, a drought struck the town and his family could no longer sustain themselves. The land, which had been in the Mashind family for 7 generations was sold and with the little money they had they moved to the big city of Katunga. Their parents landed success after opening a metalworking business and they became much more wealthy. However, a terrible earthquake in the city destroyed the Mashind shop and house and killed both of his parents and his older siblings. He was severely injured and still bears a limp from the event. The circumstances of the earthquake was strange, as there was no fault line anywhere near the town. He was later adopted into a series of foster homes before he was finally accepted by the Biggins family. He later adopted their last name. He became a private investigator and has been searching for the cause of the earthquake. He settled down in the city and married Sally Biggins, and had a son, Mashind. 12 years after his son was born, an earthquake with the same range struck again, this time killing his wife but sparing him and his son. Distraught, he moved back to the farming village he grew up in with his son and has been tracking down the cause of these disasters along with his son. He has connected this event to many all over the world.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on May 04, 2020, 03:24:44 AM
I love all the improvements you guys have made to your characters :). You all have grown tremendously as roleplayers. Now that you have your characters, and a sense of the setting, w're going to start doing what you all came here to do: roleplay! For the first post, I want you to respond with as much or as little as you are comfortable with. We will work in expanding it later. Based on your profiles, I will put each of you in a different location, and it is your job to interact with your surroundings. You might see other people in your first post, but should not interact with them, as all of you are starting during the same time frame. This will be a short exercise, and two posts are required, one solo and one interacting with another non-player character (NPC) once you have all posted your solo post. We will build off these posts in future posts.

@Alphadoom
Your starting location is in the outskirts of Maplefalls, in the town's carefully cultivated gardens near the Sanguine Waterfall. Around you, you see other people tending to their own plots, while in front of you is your own. You have several plants here, some native, others from around the world, which you have picked due to their unique qualities.  Some you have crossbreeded, and you have come here to observe the results.

@Imaginative Kane
You start in the city of Evik, preparing for your next hunt. A merchant has offered you and a fellow hunter a bet, to see if one of you can bring back a dragon wyrmling (young dragon) alive in a week's time, with a payment of 5,000 gold pieces. You are completing your final gear check before heading into the mountains to complete the bet.

@ogunbiyi6422
You start in Margery, your hometown, and have found a tome detailing natural and unnatural disasters. Outside, you hear the sounds of a typical farming village, punctuated by the sounds of animals and the hawking of merchants. Somewhere in these pages should be an explanation of the earthquake that killed your wife, and a means to track down the perpetrator.

Have fun with your posts, and, most of all, be creative! Add in your own details, and see what you can make of the situations I've put you in. I will be joining your characters with my own after your first post.. Let's try to have this finished by next Sunday, a week from today.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ezkiolandgamer on May 06, 2020, 01:52:18 PM
She would look up at all her progress, each plant was different each unique, she had worked hard on her crossbreed plants. She carefully dug them up, and put them in a pot to research more information about them like always. She would water her plants with water mixed with fertiliser, then carefully pull the weeds. She looked at her progress then would start writing her notes for awhile studying the new plants.

Spoiler
I feel like this is not my greatest post I have ever made
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Imaginative Kane on May 18, 2020, 11:44:32 PM
Alexander can be seen wandering around in the streets of Evik picking things up from off the ground and other places.  He already has eight cloaks made from rabbit skin on to obscure the fact that he has dragon knives on his person and that he is wearing some dragonskin.  He continues to find more bundles of supplies but not surprisingly is starting to have trouble carrying them all once he has picked up his sixth bundle.  Luckily, he has other ways of carrying these supplies since he keeps the wraps used for the bundles and just makes a bigger bundle with some treads attached from some of the stone and wood from some of the bundles.  This bigger bundle eventually is made into a sled which he then places all of the supplies he is not carrying on to while covering them up with the remaining cloth and pelts from the creation of the sled.

What he is currently carrying are four dragon fang knives (stuffed at various points between the pelts along his arms), a dragon bone club (between his left leg and the first layer of rabbit), and a slingshot (looped around his right shoulder).  He sees a dead rat on the ground and stoops to pick it up, placing it on the sled knowing he can cook it later either as a snack or to give to someone else.  Finally he finds his last bundle of supplies in the city and collects it, then he moves the sled into an alleyway near the entrance to the city and takes it apart while leaving the bundles at different spots within the alleyway.  Now that he is ready to exit the city, he picks up three bundles at a time and in multiple trips moves them to a spot outside the city gates where he knows the guards do not pay attention.  Then after the bundles have all been moved outside, he gathers the supplies and reassembles the sled and then walks into the forest.  Soon he has found two of his caches and uncovered them to collect the supplies but the sled is starting to buckle so he stops.  He knows, he is going to need all of his supplies in order to succeed in this hunt but if the sled is already starting to buckle then how can he carry all of them?  Eventually he decides to leave the sled behind and make multiple trips with some of the supplies in order to transport them all to the cache where he keeps his bow and arrows.  Once he reaches the cache, he takes the time to set aside some wood to make a fire later while equipping the bow and quiver on his back.  While he is setting aside the wood he chastises himself for forgetting to switch the pelts he is wearing in order to hide better and not carrying the necessary pelts to the cache and campsite.  Eventually he manages to return to where the rest of the supplies are and finish the trips and so Alexander has gathered most of his supplies but noticing that dusk is approaching, he prepares the campfire and sets up a campsite and decides to finish gathering his caches later.  He is setting up camp for more than one person knowing that the other hunter wanted to meet with him outside the city before they set off on the hunt.

With the camp prepared for two and some meat cooking at the fire and well bundled in a combination of wolf, deer, and bear pelt mixed with feathers; Alexander waits.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ezkiolandgamer on June 10, 2020, 02:29:18 PM
I love all the improvements you guys have made to your characters :). You all have grown tremendously as roleplayers. Now that you have your characters, and a sense of the setting, w're going to start doing what you all came here to do: roleplay! For the first post, I want you to respond with as much or as little as you are comfortable with. We will work in expanding it later. Based on your profiles, I will put each of you in a different location, and it is your job to interact with your surroundings. You might see other people in your first post, but should not interact with them, as all of you are starting during the same time frame. This will be a short exercise, and two posts are required, one solo and one interacting with another non-player character (NPC) once you have all posted your solo post. We will build off these posts in future posts.

@Alphadoom
Your starting location is in the outskirts of Maplefalls, in the town's carefully cultivated gardens near the Sanguine Waterfall. Around you, you see other people tending to their own plots, while in front of you is your own. You have several plants here, some native, others from around the world, which you have picked due to their unique qualities.  Some you have crossbreeded, and you have come here to observe the results.

@Imaginative Kane
You start in the city of Evik, preparing for your next hunt. A merchant has offered you and a fellow hunter a bet, to see if one of you can bring back a dragon wyrmling (young dragon) alive in a week's time, with a payment of 5,000 gold pieces. You are completing your final gear check before heading into the mountains to complete the bet.

@ogunbiyi6422
You start in Margery, your hometown, and have found a tome detailing natural and unnatural disasters. Outside, you hear the sounds of a typical farming village, punctuated by the sounds of animals and the hawking of merchants. Somewhere in these pages should be an explanation of the earthquake that killed your wife, and a means to track down the perpetrator.

Have fun with your posts, and, most of all, be creative! Add in your own details, and see what you can make of the situations I've put you in. I will be joining your characters with my own after your first post.. Let's try to have this finished by next Sunday, a week from today.

So when we going to the next step?
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on June 10, 2020, 08:21:49 PM
So when we going to the next step?
I've been waiting for @ogunbiyi6422 to post his, but I will get the next steps out either today or tomorrow.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on June 12, 2020, 10:11:37 PM
You start in Margery, your hometown, and have found a tome detailing natural and unnatural disasters. Outside, you hear the sounds of a typical farming village, punctuated by the sounds of animals and the hawking of merchants. Somewhere in these pages should be an explanation of the earthquake that killed your wife, and a means to track down the perpetrator.


Rufus woke up from a feverish dream in a sweat. Occasionally, he would have these, hearing the screams of his big sister or the yelling of his father, "Run Rufus, run." Rufus got up off his bed, and thought of what could have been, what could hav been with his wife. This was interrupted by the crying of his son, he had once again tripped on one of his toys! After dressing up, he took Mashind to the local primary school and went off to his rundown shed, where he had all his notes, research that he had been collecting for years in hopes of tracking down the perpetrator. In the distance, he heard the sounds of stubborn goat being herded by his good friend and the calling to buy corn from the corn seller. He was getting increasingly frustrated, he had no leads in the last few months, and he was losing hope. His thinking was cut short by the dropping of tools in his shed. He looked to see why it fell and he saw footprints of an animal. He decided to follow it, cause why not! He followed it to a small cave, and continued inside, where he tripped on a large object. He looked closely and found a tome. Could it be! The Ancient book of topography, detailing the forms of disasters, natural and unnatural. He quickly took it and ran back to the shed, and for hours he carefully documented information concerning earthquakes. In these pages would have the information he had sought for years, but his adventure would have to wait till tomorrow, he needed to pick his son up. He took the book in a special bag and quickly ran to the school to take Mashind home.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Excalibur on July 06, 2020, 06:00:46 PM
She would look up at all her progress, each plant was different each unique, she had worked hard on her crossbreed plants. She carefully dug them up, and put them in a pot to research more information about them like always. She would water her plants with water mixed with fertiliser, then carefully pull the weeds. She looked at her progress then would start writing her notes for awhile studying the new plants.
A young man in his late-thirties picks his way carefully through the gardens of Maplefalls. He looks on as an older lady checks on a cross-breed of her own, most likely a mix of peacebloom and silverleaf, due to the tall bush's white flowers, which you usually wouldn't find on the same plant. He steps around an aging man as he begins to plant some exotic plant from out of town. By the look of its sickly blue petals and the stench of death it gives off, it is most likely felweed. The younger man frowns as he considers the implications of a garden of felweed in Maplefalls, and he files that in his memory to come back to later. He approaches Ireland slowly, not wanting to disturb her work.
Finally, he clears his throat and says, "Miss Direlin? I am Damnad Kuel, and I seek your expertise in the field of botany. My compatriots and I have found a strange plant in the northern mountains, and we were perplexed as to what it could be. Can you help us identify it?"
He sets down a pot with a peculiar plant inside. The flowers seem white at first, but when the wind blows they begin to kaleidoscope through a variety of different colors, before finally settling back to white as the wind dies down.
Alexander can be seen wandering around in the streets of Evik picking things up from off the ground and other places.  He already has eight cloaks made from rabbit skin on to obscure the fact that he has dragon knives on his person and that he is wearing some dragonskin.  He continues to find more bundles of supplies but not surprisingly is starting to have trouble carrying them all once he has picked up his sixth bundle.  Luckily, he has other ways of carrying these supplies since he keeps the wraps used for the bundles and just makes a bigger bundle with some treads attached from some of the stone and wood from some of the bundles.  This bigger bundle eventually is made into a sled which he then places all of the supplies he is not carrying on to while covering them up with the remaining cloth and pelts from the creation of the sled.

What he is currently carrying are four dragon fang knives (stuffed at various points between the pelts along his arms), a dragon bone club (between his left leg and the first layer of rabbit), and a slingshot (looped around his right shoulder).  He sees a dead rat on the ground and stoops to pick it up, placing it on the sled knowing he can cook it later either as a snack or to give to someone else.  Finally he finds his last bundle of supplies in the city and collects it, then he moves the sled into an alleyway near the entrance to the city and takes it apart while leaving the bundles at different spots within the alleyway.  Now that he is ready to exit the city, he picks up three bundles at a time and in multiple trips moves them to a spot outside the city gates where he knows the guards do not pay attention.  Then after the bundles have all been moved outside, he gathers the supplies and reassembles the sled and then walks into the forest.  Soon he has found two of his caches and uncovered them to collect the supplies but the sled is starting to buckle so he stops.  He knows, he is going to need all of his supplies in order to succeed in this hunt but if the sled is already starting to buckle then how can he carry all of them?  Eventually he decides to leave the sled behind and make multiple trips with some of the supplies in order to transport them all to the cache where he keeps his bow and arrows.  Once he reaches the cache, he takes the time to set aside some wood to make a fire later while equipping the bow and quiver on his back.  While he is setting aside the wood he chastises himself for forgetting to switch the pelts he is wearing in order to hide better and not carrying the necessary pelts to the cache and campsite.  Eventually he manages to return to where the rest of the supplies are and finish the trips and so Alexander has gathered most of his supplies but noticing that dusk is approaching, he prepares the campfire and sets up a campsite and decides to finish gathering his caches later.  He is setting up camp for more than one person knowing that the other hunter wanted to meet with him outside the city before they set off on the hunt.

With the camp prepared for two and some meat cooking at the fire and well bundled in a combination of wolf, deer, and bear pelt mixed with feathers; Alexander waits.
A man of indeterminate age begins to approach the campsite. In the fading light, it is difficult to pick out many details, but it seems that he is wearing a dark blue robe with stars woven in a silver thread. He carries a staff topped with an emerald orb that he uses as a walking stick, and leaned into it as the wind buffeted him. As he stepped closer to the firelight, he appears to be a clean-shaven man with ebon hair and green eyes. He sets his staff down as he sits by the fire and warms himself against the encroaching cold.
"Hello, Alexander. I am Damnad Kuel, and I am very excited to see a hunter of your prowess can go up against the might of magical power. However," at this he tilts his head to see the hunter a little better in the light, "You seem like a man with a few tricks up his sleeve. I can't wait to see what that will look like in the field."
You start in Margery, your hometown, and have found a tome detailing natural and unnatural disasters. Outside, you hear the sounds of a typical farming village, punctuated by the sounds of animals and the hawking of merchants. Somewhere in these pages should be an explanation of the earthquake that killed your wife, and a means to track down the perpetrator.


Rufus woke up from a feverish dream in a sweat. Occasionally, he would have these, hearing the screams of his big sister or the yelling of his father, "Run Rufus, run." Rufus got up off his bed, and thought of what could have been, what could hav been with his wife. This was interrupted by the crying of his son, he had once again tripped on one of his toys! After dressing up, he took Mashind to the local primary school and went off to his rundown shed, where he had all his notes, research that he had been collecting for years in hopes of tracking down the perpetrator. In the distance, he heard the sounds of stubborn goat being herded by his good friend and the calling to buy corn from the corn seller. He was getting increasingly frustrated, he had no leads in the last few months, and he was losing hope. His thinking was cut short by the dropping of tools in his shed. He looked to see why it fell and he saw footprints of an animal. He decided to follow it, cause why not! He followed it to a small cave, and continued inside, where he tripped on a large object. He looked closely and found a tome. Could it be! The Ancient book of topography, detailing the forms of disasters, natural and unnatural. He quickly took it and ran back to the shed, and for hours he carefully documented information concerning earthquakes. In these pages would have the information he had sought for years, but his adventure would have to wait till tomorrow, he needed to pick his son up. He took the book in a special bag and quickly ran to the school to take Mashind home.
A man approaches Rufus's house and knocks on the door. He seems to be in his late thirties, and he wears an opulent blue robe studded with stars woven with a silvery thread. Over the robe he wears a drab, brown traveler's cloak, and slung over one shoulder is a messenger bag stuffed to bursting with books. He carries a staff in his right hand, and uses it to knock on Rufus's door.

So there it is, folks! All of your posts were very good, and now I want you to respond to my post with a post of your own interacting with my character. Let's try to have this done by next Wednesday, July 15th.
Title: ARTS: Snowflake Group Two
Post by: Ogun of Valeria on July 23, 2020, 09:03:07 PM
Rufus hears several loud knocks on the door. He tells his son to stand back and grabbed his blade. He was going to take no chances. He looked through the small peephole on his wooden door and saw a relatively young man with a blue robe and a bag with books that looked like it would rip at any second. He announced himself, I am the one you are seeking. Carefully, Rufus opened the door and let him in. He quickly went to the kitchen and poured himself a cup of tea and made himself quite at home. Mashind found him interesting and giggled, but Rufus was not interested or amused. He told him that he was quite busy and that he didn't know who he was or what he wanted. The man told him that he knew he had the book of topography. Rufus dropped the plate he had in his hand. He quickly rushed at him and demanded him to tell him how he knew, and threatened to kill him. The man told him, quite calmly, that this book was extremely old and sought after. Armies would be coming to his doorstep in a matter of hours. The book, known as the Libre Inferno, was one of the most powerful books in the world. The few chapters he had read were not even the prologue of its powers. In addition, it was written in Ancient proto-Sanskrit, which only ancient wizards could read. The fact that he could read it was amazing but also dangerous. Rufus let go of him and a new sense of worry came upon him. He was in danger, and so was Mashind. The man introduced himself as Nathan, he had escaped from the powerful King of West who sought to take over the world. Rufus' father had been an avid opponent of him and it is likely that he was the one that killed your family. You must come with me, take your son, your belongings, and your books, we must leave this place or you will be dead. Rufus was in shock, but Mashind was quick, and began packing.