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There are two types of great people, people who are born into greatness and people who become great. The goal of this RP is to come to prominence by any means necessary. You can either protect the people and be rewarded with gold and land, or take the gold and land from their corpses. It is completely up to you. This will feature PP, or Prominence Points. You will need a certain amount to get a rank within the world of Vesto. Good/Evil You start out with nothing but a shack, you can buy almost anything, land, slaves, armor, weapons, just about anything, if you have enough you can buy a whole country! Builds: Careers Jobs Level one Class R - Skill required: Reading Class F - Skill required: Fighting Class T- Skill required: Tactics I will include more when people actually get far enough to make a decision, good luck! I will be in the game and will not conquer everything by godmodding like I did in the Place! Please put a description of your character before beginning, you may join at any time! You start out with ten gold pieces, please have fun and enjoy the game. *** Name: Bertilius Septim | ||||
[[OOC: Forgot to put payment for each job...oops... Level one Class R - Skill required: Reading Class F - Skill required: Fighting Class T- Skill required: Tactics Septim walks down to the recruiting office and asks to join the military, the recruiting officer signs Septim up. Septim walks over to the military base and is given a shortsword in a scabbard, an iron barbute, and an iron chestplate (the armor is to be given back at the end of the service). For the rest of the day Septim learns to fight with his new shortsword, and at the end of the training session he is congratulated, he can now fight like a regular footman within the legion. Septim walks to the barracks, takes off his armor, and goes to bed. | ||||
[[OOC: Time to post the political landscape as well...there are six continents, and eighteen kingdoms. We all start on the continent of Ersos, so I will describe only it right now. Ersos is mainly forest and grassland. It has three kingdoms, Valkond, Seron, and Tysolon. Valkond is under the control of the evil King Ursar Valkar X, whose army threatens Tysolon, but is kept in check by the armies of Seron. Seron is led by King Garon Serisar. Tysolon is the kingdom we start out in, but we can move. Valkar and Serisar are fierce rivals, having fought in direct combat three times before, all three times being interupted. Valkar has black hair, with a black beard, Serisar has blond hair, and has no beard. King Veris Tysin wishes to have no part in any war, but is constantly attacked by Valkond. Tysolon's army wears iron breastplates, iron barbute helmets, and uses shortswords, some footmen use wooden shields as well. Valkond wears platemail with great helms using spike shields and maces. Seron's army wears scalemail to counter the maces used by Valkond and wear Armet helmets, they wield kite shields and longswords.]]
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Name: Panic III Panic III is a product of warfare. His father, Panic II, (his biological father is unknown) was a dwarf, who excelled at mining. He eventually became famous for his ability to work without sleep. Panic II came across whom would be Panic III while serving his kingdom in a war against an Orcish force. Impressed by his fighting ability, Panic II captured a then 7 year old boy and put him to work in the mines. Initially he did not know what to name him, but after finding out his wife was barren, Panic II named him after himself. This drew a special fondness between the two. Panic III awakens, now 18 years old for 3 days, with a strange taste in his mouth. His head is pounding and he quickly realizes his nose is bleeding. He feels as though his hasnt completely escaped his dream upon opening his eyes. The sounds of swords clanging rattles his brain. However, he is alone and there is no fighting near his shack. Violence and agression fill his usually calm demeanor. | ||||
[[OOC: You grab an iron chestplate, an iron barbute helmet, and an iron shortsword, that is standard issue where you're at.]]
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[OOC: I didnt see the geographical history before I wrote that, notice the times... looks like we were typing simultaneously] EDIT: Panic III obliges and grabs an iron chestplate, an iron barbute helmet, and an iron shortsword. He then heads to his quarters and begins to lay to rest. The dreams begin again.... | ||||
[[OOC: Yes, I notice that.]] Septim is discharged from the military that night after two days of service, he is given his shortsword and gives his barbute and chestplate back, he has learned how to use his shortsword well, becoming a little better than the average footman, but not much. Septim then walks over to the academy where he decides to learn how to read, but he won't learn until tomorrow as it is night. He walks to his shack where he lays on his straw bed and falls asleep. | ||||
Name: Erunion Telcontar | ||||
A week later, the doctor told Erunion that he could go. Unfortunately, the care cost 5 gold coins, leaving our protagonist with a measly 10. | ||||
Name: Ant Build: Slim Ant is a man who dispite his high intelligance failed to gain much money; all that he had was on his back or in his pocket, 10 gold coins. But he was still confident he could successed with hard work and using his brain. He saw a yong man, Erunion Telcontar, training at a fighting centre and though i would like to lead troops into battle. That became his dream | ||||
Name: Deathuelf Build: Slim Deathuelf worked in he's fathers smithy all his life until it was attacked by bandits when he was 17 and his farther was killed. His mother got injured in the attack and could no longer walk. When Deathuelf turned 18 he set of to help people in need. He had his sack and 10 gold coins that his mother had given him. | ||||
Name: Killer Killer couldn't remember a home as long as he had lived. He just drifte the streets, begging for money, as he couldn't get enough money to learn a course, and barely enough to buy food. He failed to ever get a job, and recently had come to thieving. He had managed to steal 10 gold, which would see him through a few measly days. [How much food do you need, and what does it cost? etc...] | ||||
Name: Ernie Ernie was born in the wilderness. He had no parents he remembered. He only knew that he woke up one day and just lived in the woods. He was thought to have been raised by animals but could not explain his knowledge of the local languages. He was tall, had jet black hair, and had piercing orange eyes that seemed very odd and seemed to see into the soul of one he looked at. One day he suddenly had the desire to leave his home. He took everything he owned of value and went to the nearest town that he found. He sold everything except his walking stick and his black cloak for 10gp. He then went and signed up to be a soldier and was given an iron chestplate, an iron barbute helmet, and an iron shortsword. He had gotten there early in the morning so he was able to practice all day with his short sword and was put through a tough training course for many hours until his superiors felt he was fit enough to be added to the local troop garrison. Ernie then was sent to the barracks to begin his duties the next day.
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Panic III awakens for the first day of his training with a now familiar pounding headache. That day he learns marching in formation and completes a crash course in handling a shortsword. The day flies past. Did I even eat today? That night Panic III again falls asleep and the dreams continue. | ||||
[[OOC: Food - You must eat at least one of these a day. Red meat - 15 gold, will help you gain and maintain an athletic build, which makes you stronger in melee combat. Bread - 5 gold, does nothing for your build, but it fills you up! Doughnuts - 10 gold, makes you gain an obese build...which does nothing but slow you down... *** Jobs - Time to add a few more! Level one Class R - Skill required: Reading Class F - Skill required: Fighting Class T- Skill required: Tactics, Fighting. Class M - Skill required: Mathematics Class O - Skill required: Oration Class S - Skill required: Smithing If anybody else has any ideas please let me know, some skills can serve other purposes besides allowing better jobs...such as learning tactics through reading tactical manuals.]] | ||||
deathuelf gets a job as a solider. | ||||
Can I join? Also, can I suggest Assassin/Thief path? :) Name: Wraith Wraith was a young boy. He had fled from his parent's cruel dictatorship of a life and gone to try his luck in the world. He figured, nothing could be worse than his parents house. He found an ad outside a bar which needed staff. He walked in, had a hurried discussion and was allowed to work there.
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[[OOC: You can't get any work in the army until you're eighteen, want to redo your biography? Level one Class R - Skill required: Reading Class F - Skill required: Fighting Class T- Skill required: Tactics, Fighting. Class M - Skill required: Mathematics Class O - Skill required: Oration Class S - Skill required: Smithing Class C - Skill required: Thieving or fighting - Obtain thieving for a hundred gold from a shadowy figure behind the academy. | ||||
[I'm just going to wait until I see what the prices are for the courses before I pick a job...] | ||||
I'll just change the age. I don't think it'll matter much. | ||||
[[OOC: Reading - 1000 gold Fighting - 100 gold, free with becoming a soldier for two days. Tactics - 1000 gold Math - 1000 gold Oration - 400 gold Smithing - 500 gold Thieving - 100 gold Courses are expensive...gotta make them that way or people becoming scholars will buy them all with their first paycheck, a course takes a day to complete and by the end of the day you will be a journeyman in that area. The ranks are: Each rank costs triple the previous, so if you learn Journeyman fighting with your two days in the army, you will pay three hundred gold for veteran, nine hundred for Expert, and 2700 for Master. ]] | ||||
Name: Arvious V | ||||
Level one Class R - Skill required: Reading Class F - Skill required: Fighting Class T- Skill required: Tactics Class M - Skill required: Mathematics Class O - Skill required: Oration Class S - Skill required: Smithing Class C - Skill required: Thieving or fighting - Obtain thieving for a hundred gold from a shadowy figure behind the academy. Upgrading a skill one rank will give you double the pay from your job, so if you become a smith, and you go learn veteran forging for 1000 gold, you will be payed 500 gold instead of 250 gold per day...]]
Septim approaches the academy, where, over a day, he is taught how to read. His skill in reading increases to intermediate and he goes to immediately become a scholar, reading is not a common skill in the kingdom and he is accepted as a scholar and is given four hundred gold a day, starting tomorrow. Septim goes to a bakery to find it just closing, he buys a loaf of bread for five gold coins, and walks off to his home where he eats it. Septim then unbuckles his shortsword, leans it up against the wall, and goes to sleep. [[Name: Bertilius Septim I did this for tomorrow, I might not be able to get on.]] | ||||
Ernie spent his two days going through training sessions and vigorous workouts and then his time was up. He turned in his weapons, early in the morning, and wandered around for a short amount of time looking for his best possible opportunity to succeed in life. He heard that becoming literate was the first step so he began to take classes to learn how to read, hoping to become a scholar (the next day). He then managed to buy a loaf of bread with some of his money before heading to his shack in the woods and falling asleep. [[I also may not be on tomorrow since I have a crapload of school work for the end of the year to do]] Name: Ernie | ||||
so is the 1000g to get a skill not a payment but a loan assuming a loan: Ant walk into the milatary accadamy, where he asked if he could become a officer they say that it is possible but suggest he learns the way of the sword first. So he inrolls into the millatary way of life with tthe promise of learning how to be an offficer latter, he trains very hard and is soon fairly profficate with a shortsword | ||||
[[OOC: If it helps, please types what you are going to write in word first so that your spelling is correct. And the skill you recieve is payment for military service, along with the shortsword and learning to fight. It's the best track in my opinion...]] | ||||
{So the military finances my college? Cool! :P} | ||||
i can't see how not reading stops you from doing math but it could make it more difficult to learn | ||||
[Tch... I'll have to go and fight I suppose...] *Killer heads to the barracks and starts to prctise fighting while waiting for something to do.* | ||||
Wraith works in the bar all day, listening to people's gossip when he had nothing to do. 46 gold(yesterday + today) - 5 for bread. = 41 | ||||
[[OOC: You can learn math without reading, but it will take two days instead of one as they have to teach you numbers before teaching you math, the cost is covered, but it will take more time.]] | ||||
Ernie is taught how to read and then decides that his best course in life at this time is to become a scholar. He starts early in the day earning his salary of 400g. After his day was done he bought some red meat since he had some money now. He then went back to his shack for the night to sleep. Name: Ernie | ||||
[[OOC: Learning to read takes a day, so you are currently just learning...and remember that what you posted yesterday was for today...]] | ||||
Erunion continues to learn mathematics... | ||||
Ant continues on his plan and buys some bread, of which he eats half. | ||||
*Killer continues to train, wondering how these other recruits manage to fit in a course on their schedule while still learning to fight. He buys some bread and eats it. | ||||
[[OOC: Learning to fight takes two days in the army, and then you're discharged...]] Septim is hired as a scholar by a nobleman named Lord Garsus, whom is hiring many to find a legendary item called the Armor of Immortality, which renders the user invulnerable to death in battle. Septim knows the item doesn't exist, but he would rather like to keep the four hundred gold a day paycheck, and continues searching books for no reason. At night Septim goes home to his shack. | ||||
[[OOC: Housing: 7000 gold coins - Two room house with kitchen. 10000 gold coins - Three bedroom house with kitchen. 13000 gold coins - Four bedroom house with kitchen. 15000 - two story home, six bedrooms, with kitchen. 17000 - two story home, six bedrooms, with kitchen and swimming pool. 30000 - Large estate, twenty bedrooms, with kitchen and swimming pool. 50000 - Massive castle, fifty bedrooms, armory, treasure room, prison, barracks, and stable. Housing is quite expensive, you can upgrade your current shack though, but not much. Farmland, five acres - 1000, you recieve 200 gold a day if you choose to farm it. Ten acres - 5000, you recieve 400 gold a day if you choose to farm it.]] | ||||
Ernie is taught how to read and then decides that his best course in life at this time is to become a scholar. He starts early in the day earning his salary of 400g for reading up on ancient lore and history. After his day was done he bought some red meat since he had some money now. He then went back to his shack for the night to sleep. Name: Ernie [[Ok we are assuming that I finished reading today and not yesterday]] | ||||
Septim wakes up in the middle of the night, his stomach grumbling. Septim walks down the a butcher shop and knocks, a man in pajamas comes to the door. "You're lucky I was not in bed yet!", he yells before walking in, "What'll it be?" "I want steak..." The man gives Septim steak, Septim eats and it goes home, he does around sixty pushups and one hundred twenty sit-ups before going back to sleep. [[Name: Bertilius Septim New builds: Obese (350 lbs of fat, running at a risk of a heart attack) | ||||
*Killer finishes his training, thanks the soldiers, and heads to the university, stopping at the bakers on the way to buy bread. He gets into a course to learn how to read. He was always interested to see how those squiggly lines worked...* Name: Killer Height: 5' 5" Weight: 130 lbs Hair colour: Brown Eye colour: Blue Build: Slim Age: 18 Skills: Fighting: Journeyman | ||||
Erunion, having earned his diploma in mathematics, goes to a engineering firm and takes up a job. | ||||
Ant eats the rest of the bread a learns how to comand other soldiers, this is something he excells in | ||||
Wraith is robbed in an alley after working hard. He is stripped of all his items and left for dead. {{Sorry no time :( }} | ||||
Ernie spends another day working as a scholar by looking up ideas on alchemy and philosophy. He earned another days salary and then went to the butcher shop and got some more red meat for his meal(-15g) He also started a workout regimen since he had a lot of free time due to the simplicity of beinga scholar Name: Ernie | ||||
*Killer passes by a near dead person on the street on the way home. He takes out his last piece of bread and gives it to him. He helps him get up, and brings him to his shack. He wraps him in his dirty blanket, and then goes outside, wondering whether he should have left the guy for dead or not. He goes for a walk, and when he comes back he sees the man has gone. He sighs, then decides it would be handier for him at any rate.* | ||||
[[OOC: They don't teach you how to command soldiers, they teach you how to fight. And you should only be there for two days before being discharged.]] [[Name: Bertilius Septim Bertilius wakes up in the early hours of the morning and walks to Lord Garsus, where he continues searching for the armor for him. After seven hours of searching he is given four hundred coins and is told to come again tomorrow. Bertilius buys a rack of ribs on the way home and eats them upon reaching his house. He then does his work-out routine, but increases his push-ups to 70 as 60 is getting to easy, but keeps his sit-ups the same. After his work-out he goes to sleep. [[OOC: Introducing books! You can read these instead of going to class, but it takes a week to read a book. There aren't many copyists in the Empire, so book prices are rather high. You must, naturally, be able to read to read books. Mathematics for Novices - 550 gold - Teaches Journeyman Mathematics. Mathematics for Journeymen - 1100 gold - Teaches Veteran mathematics Basic Tactics - 600 gold - Teaches Journeyman tactics. Forging for Novices - 250 gold - Teaches Journeyman smithing. Reading for Journeymen - 1200 gold - Teaches Veteran reading. The Techniques of Avason - 1000 gold - Teaches Journeyman Oration.
Time for weapons and armor as well! Iron dagger - 100 gold Iron shortsword - 200 gold Iron longsword - 300 gold Iron trendarat (This is for you Erunion, as I know you'll ask if I don't include it, I think I spelled it right...) - 325 gold Iron greatsword - 400 gold Iron chainmail shirt - 300 gold. Iron chainmail coif - 150 gold Iron cuiress - 400 gold Iron pauldrons - 150 gold. Iron boots - 200 gold. Iron gauntlets - 200 gold. Iron helmet (barbute, greathelm, or armet) - 400 gold. Yew longbow - 100 gold, arrows cost 50 gold per dozen. Yew shortbow - 75 gold, arrows cost 50 gold per dozen. Introducing: Ranging skill Ranging skill - 300 gold. I will post more when everybody starts making more money.]]
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Ernie decided that in his free time he would start gathering armor for moving forward with his life adventures. He started off by buying a fine yew longbow for 100 gold and also bought 6 dozen arrows for 300 gold. He then bought some more meat for his meal. And he also started practicing archery from a teacher for 300gold. Name: Ernie Skill in progress - Ranging [[OOC: Can we get some archer armor such as Soft Leather Armor(100), Hard Leather Armor(200gp), Studded Leather armor(300), leather chaps(legs)(200), studded leather chaps(300), bracers(100), ect? would expand the ranging skill a little so this isnt melee bound]] | ||||
[[OOC: Sure. Leather breastplate - 100 gold. Leather chaps - 100 gold leather bracers - 75 gold. Leather cap - 75 gold leather boots - 75 gold. The hardened armor and studded armor will be like steel for rangers... Hardened leather breastplate - 300 gold Hardened leather chaps - 200 gold. Hardened leather boots - 200 gold Hardened leather cap - 200 gold. Hardened leather bracers - 200 gold. Studded leather breastplate - 800 gold Studded leather chaps - 700 gold Studded leather bracers - 300 gold. Steel toed hardened leather boots - 300 gold.]] | ||||
Septim wakes up in the morning and goes to Lord Garsus's estate, where he pretends to look for an item that doesn't exist for a day and recieves 400 gold coins for his work, he then goes to the inn and orders a steak, after finishing it he goes to a clothing shop, as he is been wearing a pair of rags for a while he buys a black shirt, a brown vest, a brown jacket, a pair of brown pants, and brown shoes for one hundred coins. [[OOC: Clothes are cheap, they don't do anything but make NPCs say "Lookin' good!". They magically don't wear out as I really don't want to come up with a system for clothes wearing out.]] Septim then walks home and does his normal workout routine and finds that he has been getting stronger, he now has an athletic body. Septim unbuckles his shortsword and goes to sleep. [[OOC: To get muscular and overly-muscular, you continue eating red meat after getting an athletic build, muscular and overly muscular tend to slow you down...athletic is a perfect combination between speed and strength.Tomorrow (Sunday) Valkond will attack Tysolon, and Seron will move in to defend it, we will be caught in the middle and will be called upon by Tysolon out of military service, if you havn't had military service, don't worry about it. At one point the Tysolonian Army will be defeated, and you will have the choice of helping Seron, or helping Valkond.]]
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