The World of Layonara
The Layonara Community => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: Chuckles_McChuck on March 18, 2007, 05:16:09 pm
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Greetings all,
I've finally made it home and have never been happier. 6 months is definately a long time. I see theres now a new site, the new campaign began and apparently the dark ages are over. So much has changed since I've been gone and I have alot of reading to do it seems before I submit my new character. I would definately appreciate any assistance in knowing whats imperative to read so it doesn't take me all day (just a little shove down the right path, heh). To help with my characters story I would like to know more about the dark ages, like how long it lasted.
I can't wait to see you all in game again, I hope everyone will like my new character, well I'm quite possitive she will be more likable then Lia was, though that does't take much to achieve, haha. I thought about trying to be origional, but then with all the players here, most being excellent role players, I wouldn't be suprized if everything has been tried already, so I decided to instead play what I like and just have fun, which of course means, wizard, female, elf, haha. I can't help it, its my favorite class, sex and race to play. I thought; though, so to be a tad different from my last character (well other then the personality and story difference) I would also multiclass her as a theif. I then thought of the dual class prospect back in 2nd edition and thought it would be interesting and fun to have her start off as a theif and then strive to become a wizard. Since Layonara is supposed to be a low magic world (that could have changed since I was gone as well though), I thought it would be a great idea to play a character struggling to become something that should be difficult to acheive in a low magic world. Of course there would be much RP assistance from the community, I'm counting on it, but I do intend to give her a few small personallity traits to insure it doesn't become too easy, hehe
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Welcome back man. Good to see you around.
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welcome back.. good to see you in one piece.
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*waves* Glad you made it!!!
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Welcome back for real! :)
Can't wait to see your new char and *coughs* Lia's history (http://www.layonara.com/hall-heroes-heroines/108537-life-lia-dimakiir.html).
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Hi Lia/LFFF Welcome Back!
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Welcome back for real! :)
Can't wait to see your new char and *coughs* Lia's history (http://www.layonara.com/hall-heroes-heroines/108537-life-lia-dimakiir.html).
yeah I know I slacked off on that one and have a bit of work to do still *coughs* it will be done some day, heh
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Welcome back!
The dark ages definitely aren't over yet though.
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Can't wait to RP with your new character in-game. =)
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hey and welcome back
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Welcome back!!
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bout time
didnt you tell them that six months is really 2 weeks
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Good to hear from you again :)
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haha, excellent, so the dark ages aren't over yet, this is accually important for me to know because in my story right now its the dark ages that changes my characters life. What is the current Layonara year right now? Also I can never seem to remember how many RL days make a year in Layo... thats good to know right now as well. I'm also making a guideline list, basically a list of things my character will have to acheive through RP in game before my character would qualify for a CDQ to become what she dreams of becoming (don't worry the CDQ will be for far more developement for her then just allowing her to multiclass, but you will see that when the time comes). For that list there is something I'm not really sure of though. What race language is magic mostly based on? I imagine through the years it evolved into a language of its own, but a race had to have started it right?
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The current year in Layo is 1414.
And as per LORE, 1 IG year is: 22 days, 9 hours, 36 minutes
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Which would make all the humans during the blood era like 80 years old or something :P
If you see any of these folks, you see old ladies and men running around. Be nice to the geizers folks (jk).
(And ya, I know we aren't playing the ages up so much and ya, many would be more like 60).
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really?
According to the timeline, the dark ages began in 1402, so thats only a 12 year difference, does that mean that most of the human adventurers were already around 48 years of age... thats a bit old for adventuring I thought.
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well if ya think about it the bloodwar lasted 61 years
so even if they started at 18 and came in in the middle they would be pushing 70
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true, but how many of those adventurers at the end were there from the very beginning, there were alot of new faces. Its more of a matter on how old the players made their characters near the end, not how long the war lasted, and I doubt many players had their human characters hitting that 40 mark at the end
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I don't recall it ever being RP'd really - age I mean. Could be wrong though as I'm not able to play very much these days. From the area of realism, any human character that, for example fought Bloodstone himself, will most likely be 60+ at this point. Again, age is one of those factors where a boundry between realism and game fun don't blend together too well - disagree if you must and I'd love to hear a reason for it - as there are always exceptions.
There wouldn't be very many high level humans running around compared with elves and dwarves unless they got that way quickly. Again, I'm sure their are exceptions and I'm by no means an expert here.
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*shrugs* don't really wish to argue it any further, heh, just think 60+ sounds a tad old for a war that ended 12 years ago. Those who were around since blood returned would be over 60 though.
As for the age thing, it will matter to me for awhile, I intend to make my character very young, not quite reaching the age of elvin maturity (90 years if I recall) but old enough so in atleast an RL year she will become an elvin woman. *shrugs* I just want my story to make sence with the world
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On a side note, I guess I should use this thread for what it was meant for, the player behind the character.
Names Charles Wiebe, I'm 24 and live in Canada. I'm in the Canadian Navy and just came back from a 6 month deployement yesterday, hence the title and first paragraph I wrote. I'm a NESOP in the navy which means I work with Electronic Warfare, I also do fire control, which is launching the missiles and shooting the big 57mm gun and the 20mm gattling gun, not fire fighting (though every sailor is trained to fight fires, since well, no firefighter can come to our rescue in the middle of the ocean). Our job also involves a bit of intel gathering and communications.
I'm a decetly active person and tend to enjoy both sides of the fence, i.e. I'm sporty but geeky as well. I love to party and simply have fun. Though my freinds would tell you I'm a man*****, I'm not, really, so don't listen to them :P.
Hmmm, I like everything about fantasy, though I'm not hugely into PnP D&D anymore. I'm a comic book geek as well (spiderman being my favorite superhero) and I like anime. I play golf, squash, hockey at times, I also love to go hiking, camp and trail bike (not hardcore trail biking though, that would just kill me). I'm extreemly clumsy but make up for it with unatural balance, bringing myself to many positions where I should be on my arse, but recover in the most interesting ways.
I have an interseting way of thinking which tends to make people think I'm weird, I simply tell them it keeps me interesting, which they can't deny, hehe. I plan to do some schooling while in the military and hopefully get a PHD in psychiatry, though thats a long ways away from now. Until then its travelling around the world with a warship.
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Good luck with pursuing that PhD :)
As many have said and will say, you've always been a terrific RPer.
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Sorry it took so long to reply... trying to figure out my character, finishing off her bio story and just trying to enjoy my vacation with my freinds made this low priority.
I thank you for your compliment Shadowblade. There was once apon a time, where being one of the best RPers on this server was the only thing that mattered to me and I became a tad competitive on quests... glad I gave that up, it accually made the game less enjoyable... now I just try and have fun and enjoy my characters (heh, it will sometimes get to the point where if anyone puts me on a top list I will tell them to take my name off of it so that competitive edge doesn't come sneaking back on me).
Anyways, I'm up for questions as well... I doubt anyones too curious and I think I covered everything... well in as much detail as I want anyways. I consider myself an intelligent person, but I like simple, it makes things alot less stressful.