Forums / Roleplaying / Prominence

*Killer, having finished his course in learning how to read, becomes a scholar. He buys some red meat with the gold he earns as he is fed up with bread.

Ant inlists as an officer in the army(how much do i earn)

[[OOC: I will start the war now...]]

Septim awakes with a start, a man outside is yelling, his voice is uncle*beep*ptim opens his front door and looks out to see a man on horseback riding down the street yelling, "The Valkondians! They're attacking!". Septim runs into his house, locks his door, and hides under his bed. Another voice is heard outside, this one clearer, "All Tysolonians with military training report to the barracks, bring your swords!"

Septim curses, gets out from under his bed, and picks up his shortsword, he buckles it and walks outside, he keeps his hand on his hilt at all times as he walks down the street, this would be his first time in real combat, he had never been this nervous, in the heat of combat, one mistake could mean your life. Septim reaches the barracks where they are passing out iron chestplates, barbutes, and round shields. Septim takes his gear and puts it on. A junior lieutenant by the name of Ant approaches the group of twenty five wearing an iron cuiress, barbute, and holding the hilt of his shortsword and his iron round shield. There are around five hundred men from the capital, but they are divided into groups of twenty five and given to Junior Lieutenants.

"I am your commanding officer", he says clearly in a voice of command, "You will follow me into battle. Our orders are to defend the city at all costs, understand?"

"Sir yes sir!", says the group of twenty five, which includes Septim, Ernie, Erunion Telcontar, and Killer.

Ant leads them out to the walls, where they are ordered to sheath their swords and stow their shields so that they may handle the shortbow, Ernie already has a bow, so he uses his. As the Valkondians storm across the battlefield, chaos ensues as the men shoot wildly, only Ernie and a man named Gosfield hit anything. They reach the gate and use their battering ram to knock it through. The men shoot down below as the Valkondians climb the ladders, when they reach the top, the Tysonians begin knocking the enemies down. The enemy numbers seem endless, until, on the horizon, a horn is heard.

"The Seronians! They've come!", yells a soldier.

Septim, who has killed five enemies and now had blood on both his sword and his shield from smashing somebody in the face with it, is relieved. Septim blocks a blow from an enemy on his now dented kiteshield, he returns to combat.

***

The Seronian Grand Army arrives and fights the Valkondians, the Tysonians flee, leaving only Ant's group out in the city fighting. The group is split, and Septim joins a group of Seronians in fighting the Valkondians. After two days of on and off fighting, a wall is erected in the center of the city, one side is called Valkondian Tysos, the other Seronian Tysos. The Tysonian King and his remaining soldiers come out of the palace into the Seronian side to be told that their empire had been split into two, and that he was no longer a King.

[[OOC: Pick which side of the city you were on when the wall was made. You can either pick Seron or Valkond, Valkond is the more evil one, Seron is the good one. Everybody can keep their iron cuiress, kite shield, and barbute helmet by the way...due to the Empire's collapse, nobody's coming to collect them.]]

Septim, no longer needed by the Seronian Empire as they had plenty of troops, returned to his shack, which was on the Seronian side. Septim cleans his sword, shield, cuiress, and helmet before puting them in a small cupboard, he keeps his sword with him at all times though. Septim then goes to sleep on his bed, having gotten little sleep in the past three days.

[[OOC: What side you pick has little effect on your job, people still need the services of engineers, scholars, and whatever else there are out there. For Ant, depending on what side you choose, you can either become a Lieutenant for the Seronian or Valkondian side.]]

[[OOC: You find three hundred gold worth of stuff. You are also promoted to Lieutenant and you recieve 125 gold a day. Your commanding officer is Major Hosus of the Seronian Army. You tactical skill didn't increase though. You must go to the academy or read books for that. And you can't fast forward to morning...each day ends with a post of you going to bed.]]

Name: Ernie
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Orange
Build: Slim
Age: 18
Skills: Reading
Fighting: Journeyman
Reading: Journeyman
Job: Scholar
Gold: 500

Ernie, after the combat, found himself on the Seronian side and decided to save up his money to increase his skill with a bow.  He then bought some red meat and went to sleep after a long day

Septim is hired by Lord Volendad, who hires Septim to tutor his son, Goven, for four hundred gold coins a day. After work Septim goes to the book store where he buys Reading for Journeymen for 1200 out of his 1500 gold coins. He then travels to the bakery and buys a chunk of bread, as red meat isn't required to maintain a build, only get it. He eats the bread before going home and doing his workout routine, which is required to maintain the build, he then reads Reading for Journeymen before going to sleep.

[[OOC: You don't have one thousand gold, and you can't read books because you can't read, so I don't think you can learn much unless you want to learn smithing or thieving...]]

[Ernie, how can you have three skills already?]

[[OOC: Learning a skill by reading takes a week (seven days), learning skills by school takes a day and you can't do any work...]]

[[OOC: Then you only have 200 gold, as it costs 300 to learn to range, and you didn't recieve the 400 for working that day. I have to be strict or it won't be fair for other people...]]

[[OOC: That's good!]]

[[OOC: You didn't have a thousand gold coins to learn how to read, so you can't read...you only know tactics...didn't you see my post?]]

Name: Erunion Telcontar
Height: 6'4
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair colour: Blonde
Eye colour: Green
Build: Fit
Age: 19
Skills:
Fighting: Journeyman
Mathematics: Journeyman

Occupation: Engineer
Gold: ??? (A lot, I guess... I've been working for a few days.)


Erunion, who was on the Seronian side takes his gold and goes to learn reading/tactics. (If I don't have enough for both, just tactics.)

[Cost of books were there earlier on the first page.]

Septim walks down to his master's home and begins teaching his son again, teaching him proper writing. After Septim is done he drops by the bakery and buys a loaf of bread, he then goes home, after eating the bread he reads Reading for Journeymen until going to sleep.

[[OOC: Name: Bertilius Septim
Height: 6'
Weight: 185 lbs.
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Green
Build: Athletic
Age: 18
Skills:
Fighting: Journeyman
Reading: Journeyman
Job: Scholar
Gold: 655

Learning: Veteran reading, progress: 2 days out of 7]]

[[OOC: Finally figured out a good aging system, at the end of each month you age a year...and I have three new builds, these only happen when you don't eat.

Skinny, boney, dying.

Skinny takes two days without food, boney takes three days, dying takes four, then on the fifth you die of starvation. I will form a guide for this game in another thread so you don't have to look back, you lazy bums! ;-)]]

[[OOC: You can also name your blades if you want, and if you want the name engraved it costs fifty gold coins. I will only give a worthy blade my favorite name though. There are some legendary weapons in the world.

Unden - Greathammer, carried by the legendary Valkondian King Verdon centuries ago, he used it to destroy the armies of evil, the hammer was lost upon his son's attack on their old ally, Seron, sparking a long and brutal rivalry.

Jovin - Longsword, currently used by the King of Seron. It is made from the rarest of metals, mithril. It is one of the symbols of office, the other being the crown of Seron.

I will name more later...]]

Name: Killer
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 129 lbs
Hair colour: Brown
Eye colour: Blue
Build: Slim
Age: 18
Skills:
Fighting: Journeyman
Reading: Journeyman

Occupation: Scholar
Gold: 750

Ernie went and worked for Master Sentorious at his manor house in the countryside.  He researched legends on the ancient Greeks and also legends about treasure that the master wanted to know earning him 400gold  He also helped a man carry some heavy sacks of food to his house on the way home and was given 15gold for his help.  Ernie then spent 1000gold on the book Veteran Reading for Dummies and bought some bread.  He then went home, read his book for a short time, and then went to sleep.

Name: Ernie
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Orange
Build: Athletic
Age: 18
Skills: Reading
Fighting: Journeyman
Reading:Journeyman                                                                                  

Ranging: Journeyman
Job: Scholar
Gold: 0

[[Yeah I know it increases gold a day...thats why I chose to upgrade reading rather than upgrade ranging...]]

[[crap I was looking at the post ABOVE where it talked about that...shoot I saw Reading - 1000 and just went for it...well ill pay it I guess but 150% seems steep in these days....interest rates werent THAT much..oh well...life isnt fair anyways]]

Erunion, having finished his course in reading, goes back to work then buys some food and works out.

Name: Erunion Telcontar
Height: 6'4
Weight: 190 lbs
Hair colour: Blonde
Eye colour: Green
Build: Athletic and Fit
Age: 19
Skills:
Fighting: Journeyman
Mathematics: Journeyman
Tactics: Journeyman
Reading: Journeyman

Occupation: Engineer
Gold: 415

Ernie paid off his debt of 300 gold after working for Master Timmons at the Carten estate.  He spent the day tutoring his son Geoffrey in ancient texts.  Ernie was supplied dinner by the family as a thanks for his hard work.  Ernie then went home and read Reading For Dummies (2/7)

Name: Ernie
Height: 6' 3"
Weight: 180 lbs.
Hair color: Black
Eye color: Orange
Build: Athletic
Age: 18
Skills: Reading
Fighting: Journeyman
Reading:Journeyman                                                                                  

Ranging: Journeyman
Job: Scholar
Gold: 100

[Just wondering, if I become a librarian, do I get get to read books?]

[[Knowing my luck the battle will be over by the time I get home from school....(sigh)]]