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Anonymous — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:07:25 CDT

Mage Campaign info
Places & Factions
Isle of Beltar
The isle of Beltar is a large island located north of the Salenheim mainland. Historically Beltar is a province of Salenheim, however recently it has been bought out by the business giant Better World Corporation. Beltar is now the world’s only privatised country. Due to expert business management Beltar’s net value has skyrocketed, unfortunate human rights on the island are not so impressive. Legend says that Beltar was once home to a great city of magic wielding wizards, even if there was any truth to this they are all long dead.

Better World Corporation
Born hundreds of years ago as the Better World Lumber and Trade Guild, The Better World Corporation (BWco) is now by far the most massive business entry in the world. BWco is based out of Better World Tower (the world’s Tallest) in Salenheim city. With stakes in any and every possible industry it is rare to buy a product not profiting BWco somehow, expect in Kassamaki where BWco products are boycotted. BWco is headed by an unknown person referred to only as the CEO or by many colloquial names such as “Fascist bully boy” or “god”. BWco was partially responsible for ending the oppressive reign of the fanatic Church of Tiagrath, however some argue that the BWco is just as oppressive if a little more subtle.

Salenheim
The Nation of Salenheim is an entire continent unified under a single banner. For countless centuries Salenheim has been the undisputed world power. Recently however Salenheim has hit financial hardship, fearing its rivals the Salenheimian Government turned to the Better World corporation. A bill was passed allowing the better world corporation to field a private army; in return they would protect Salenheim’s boarders. The alliance of Salenheim and better world is now once again a true superpower, however now some questions are raised about who is truly in control.

PUK (peoples union of Kassamaki)
PUK represents a great number of small countries making up a continent to the west of Salenheim. Kassamaki is a land with rich culture free from the rampant capitalism of Salenheim. Although powerful and in theory unified there is far too much internal politics for the PUK to ever be a true world leader.

Better World Paranormal investigations division
A little known BWco department with huge funding, the paranormal investigations division is officially tasked with paranormal research and unofficially with genocide. Over the years it has been the paranormal investigations division who have been responsible for the extermination of many non human sentients such as Vampires, Kartika, and Gargoyles, finishing the work of the Church of Tiagrath before them. The current task at hand for the paranormal investigation division it to once and for all wipe out all magically sensitive individuals. Tactics like the force awakening serum and the highly classified ‘witch hunter project’ have been employed with harsh effectiveness. Unfortunately for BWco they may have finally pushed the mages too far and have started what might be a very bloody struggle.

Domus Mages
The last surviving cell of Mages on the isle of belter, the Domus mages are a grim but resolute school of wizards pushed dangerously close to extinction. Cut off from the mainland schools when the mages officially decided to go into hiding the Domus mages have been struggling against the BWco ever since. Lead by Purgatory the grand master of death magic, the Domus mages spend their time in their strong hold ‘Dolus Domus’ training and preparing for the battles ahead.

Dolus Domus
The strong hold of the Domus Mages, Dolus Domus is a peaceful sanctuary. None but its creator, the matter master known as substance knows its true location; it is speculated to be under the isle of Beltar however.

Characters- NPCs

Domus mages

Purgatory
Purgatory is the leader of the Domus Mages; he is a powerful grand master of death magic and is officially dead himself being a lich. Purgatory survives by absorbing one year of lifespan from each new initiate mage that join the Domus Mages. He has a keen interest in protecting the mages from extinction, stating this as his reason to live past his rightful time. Purgatory is grim and humourless agonising at every decision he must make.

Eon
Master of both forces and time Eon is arguably the most powerful mage on Beltar. Eon was exiled from Dolus Domus after a monumental fight with Purgatory. Eon warned that his premonitions predicted a great disaster if the mages did not attack the BWco right away, purgatory refused and a fight broke out. Only after Eon’s apprentice Entropy turned on his master was Eon defeated and banished, his parting words were “And so it is to be, may you both weather the storm”. Eon’s current location is unknown.

Entropy
Entropy is current leader of the School of force at Dolus Dorums despite in fact not being a master. Entropy is a self proclaimed Battle Mage although which battle exactly he has experienced is unknown. Entropy is reckless, rude and hot-headed both traits his former teacher Eon tried to tone down.

Vector
Mater of Space vector serves as a authority on logistics and tactics at Dolus Dorums. He spends most of his time in a universe he created himself but takes special precautions not to become detached from the real world. He is prudent and stern but not without sense of humour.

Cogs (tock)
Current leader of the School of Time in Eon’s absence, Cogs appears as a woman in her early 20s although she is far older. Cogs was originally trained is a mainland school but migrated to Beltar shortly before ties were broken and portals sealed.

Lucky
A very gifted fate mage and former carnie, Lucky is the master of fate at Dolus Domus. Although apparently a care free chap, lucky takes oaths and destiny very seriously.

Style
A master of the mind, style is an extremely gifted psychic. His outward appearance is of a somewhat seedy womanizer but his true personality is locked behind some many spells and enchantments it would be very hard to truly know style.
Substance
Being the old eccentric alchemist he is, it would appear substance is more interested tinkering and building wonderful creations that the fate of the mages. He is an optimistic, jolly old type who is content to play a supporting role.

Threshold
The life of a shaman is never easy and Threshold is no exception, he is constantly overwhelmed and distracted by the hundreds of thousands of sprits that he can see and hear. However when he does focus he can give insights far beyond what would seem possible.

Spring (springtime)
Spring is lead druid at Dolus Domus and is responsible for, healing, and production of food. Spring is unbelievably beautiful; however being a life mage it is very unlikely that it is her natural from. She is friendly and helpful, but possesses a fairly prominent mean streak also.

Non Mage NPCs-

The discrete Lebanese’s carpet salesmen
Carnix’s old band, they are a bunch of poor arse stoners.

Patrick O’reilly
Tratitum’s old work friend, he thinks he is a pro womanizer.

Steampunk

Anonymous — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:02:04 CDT

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Pi'Mae Shou

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:06:21 CST

Pi'Mae Shou was born in Lazuli Delta capital of the Kasamaka in 1E486. Born into a distinctly lower class family Pi'Mae was forced to fend for himself from a very young age. His mother was a poor weaver in one of the many manual labour shops in the outskirts of Lazuli Delta and his father was a rank-and-file soldier in the Kasamaka Grand Army, a career with little prospect of fortune in an age of bickering but powerful clans and warlords. Often left alone on the unpleasent back streets of Lazuli Delta, Pi'Mae soon learned to fight effectively to defend himself and his possessions from looters and gang members. Tall and strongly built for a Kasamaki Pi'Mae was approached by many clans, organisations and the Grand Army by various recruiters. Pi'Mae although similar in combat prowess and sense of honor to his father was very different in a number of respects. Pi'Mae had a greater sense of business and a lesser sense of patriotism. Due to this he examined every offer in great detail before reaching a decision. Pi'Mae wanted to serve in an army and not be an enforcer for a local crime syndicate but he did not wish to make the same mistake as his father and join the financially troubled Grand Army. Offers for employment came and went over time but the ideal opportunity did not arise immediately. Pi'Mae arrived home one day to find the awful sight of two killers standing over the body of his mother. They had ransacked the house and she had stood to defend the small household shrine to the triad (an object very sacred to each Kasamaki). Fuelled by anger Pi'Mae killed one of the assassins with his bare hands, picking up the blade of the dead man he turned to the other. The man stood and fought striking at Pi'Mae who fought back with a vengence. The fight drew on, Pi'Mae although strong began faultering under the superior training of the assassin. With his strength failing he began drawing upon his power of will. "Curse you for killing my mother, curse you and your family. You shall feel the pain you brought to me for all eternity. Xin will see to it that by my power and through my hand there shall be vengence!" As the last word was spoken Pi'Mae felt a burst of cursed energy fly forth from his left hand, striking the man. The man was shaken, clearly this had destabilized his fighting ability. Pi'Mae swung brutally removing the man's hand with a well placed hit. Turning to flee the man was brutally cut down by Pi'Mae. Pi'Mae stood, confused, he had killed before but this was different. If he could attune the power he felt from his rage no army could reject his ability. "Xin..." he muttered, that was the source of his power and that was the clan he must join for fame, fortune and power. Soon afterwards he heard a knock at the door. Before him stood an old man, one he recognized as the Xin Clan recuiter. This was his destiny, this was his calling, leaving the smoldering looted ruins of his house Pi'Mae left the past behind him.

Pi'Mae was a remarkably quick learner and soon became one of the Generals of the House of Xin. In the year 1E511 under the direct orders of High Warlord Gord, Pi'Mae was reassigned to the Special Operations Division and given the rank of Senior Sergent First Class, seemingly a considerable demotion from his previous posting. Despite this Pi'Mae didn't particually mind, although he had experience fighting rival Kasamaka Houses and elves in relatively uneventful battles Pi'Mae believed that this was the break he was looking for. Leaving his homeland behind he left for Slarrg where allies would coordinate the main army. He was joined by other specialists for and became leader of a small squad. After a number of successful missions Pi'Mae's suspicions were confirmed when he was offered vasselhood and the rank of Warlord of the House of Shou; a rank reporting only to the High Warlord himself.

Pi'Mae has medium length black hair, is tall and well built, has one brown eye and one magical golden "eagle eye" with a scar on the cheek received in an incident involving snow orcs and a dark god where he lost his original eye. Pi'Mae wears the traditional warpaints of the Arcane Warriors of Xin.

Compendium Salenheimium

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:27:03 CST

****IMPORTANT UPDATE****

20/02/2009

We are in the process of moving the wiki over to our own webserver. The new address will be http://realm.salenheim.net/wiki. Once the basic stucture is in place all new pages are to be created there.
-bwco

Welcome. Here is a place where knowledge on all our stuff can be entered. This allows greater flexibility than our forum as all can edit. This is more of a publishing ground, if you want to discuss take it to the forum (www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/clanfms.html). This project will take a while to get up and running but I'm sure that with everyone's participation we can make it good.
That is information on the following topics:

and a new rpg system

GPK
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Space Badass the Game

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:26:28 CST

Factions/favour system

There will be a number of different factions within the universe for example if you help BWC, your rating with them goes up, wheres if you screw them over, it goes down.

Random faction missions are associated with char level/stats/something

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Shops

Two types of shops universal and local.

A typical universal shop such as gbay.ru (or guns bay) which is a space ebay type thing can be accessed anywhere in the universe. Certain shops are blocked in certain areas i.e. dodgey shit is blocked in Inner Space but allowed in Outer Space. These sorts of stores are where lot of badass equipment comes from.

You will find a vendor or 2 in each system, these are local shops. Examples include:
Johnny the Tool's Tool Warehouse or whatever
Better World Co Registered Merchandice Stands

Furthermore gear and items can be traded at something similar to the KoL mall (player run shops) to be added at a date after release.

Each item has an 'autosell' price? Aka a generic price if sold to an NPC vendor, this applies to both univeral and local shops.

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Quest/Story Stucture

Fairly freeform, various sidequests, etc

Some kind of 'main' quests, which effect the universe -> added when needed, use a counter for which 'side' gets helped (KoL style), winner overall after certain time becomes canon

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-= Attributes =-

There will be 5 major attributes which are as follows:

Buffness -> Strength/Constitution (Physical toughness)

Intelligence -> Possibly broken down into book smarts and street smarts?

Dexterity -> Self explanitory

Manliness/Sexiness -> The appearence side of the traditional charisma stat.

Bullshittery -> The deception/speechcraft side of the traditional charisma stat.

Other vital character attribute include
Level (Badassery)
HP (Red)
Mana (Blue)
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Star map type thing.

There is a universe/star map divided into solar systems each of which has a number of planets.
Each planet has a number of zones (town, etc).
Each zone has a number of areas (buildings in town, etc).

zone/area same thing(?): planet contains areas, which can in turn link to other areas, etc A town has a building, which has 4 rooms, one of which has a basement.

You will need better ships/engines to get to further stars.

Each planet/star cluster has a series of zones with quests, etc
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Damage System

5 types of damage, items grant resistances?
different types of damage are only superficial (apart from different resistances)

Combat has a 5x5(?) 'combat area' with cover/obstacles/etc

Items have stat requirements, not level

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Crap for translation

certain number of npc's and once they are dead, they are dead (on a per user basis)
or various areas where there are a bajillion that you can kill over and over
can fight anyone? (at the risk of getting your ass beaten, maybe have some safeguards to stop players getting pwned)
[00:58] Daegøn: i guess a bajillion
[00:58] Daegøn: though maybe make some of the noncombat encounters one-offs
[00:58] Daegøn: eg. that one in the mine with the massive lord of the rings reference
[00:59] Daegøn: i would say make some one-off named enemies as well, a la Diablo
[00:59] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: that you meet randomly while spamming turns?
[00:59] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: or that you can pick to encounter
[01:00] Daegøn: actually the way you phrased that first one has reminded me that i fucking hated that about KoL
[01:01] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: hehe
[01:01] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: i see this as more RP based, in that you pick fights
[01:01] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: maybe for generic shit though, another dude enters the bar when one dies, or something
[01:02] Daegøn: and in other missions, where you are say smashing up a drug dealers house, how does the combats work?
[01:03] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: house has a layout, as you move througout it, chance of encountering a bad guy.. or something?
[01:03] hackerz_unite00@hotmail.com: and the boss is sitting in a room at the end
Daegøn says:
would co-op be possible?
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
for the most part i would say no
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
adds too many complexities for a browser based game
Daegøn says:
yup that is what i guessed
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
can there be multiple enemies in 1 fight?
Daegøn says:
yes, if that is possible
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
would have to work out the mechanics and balancing of it, but could work
Daegøn says:
AI would be an interesting challenge too
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
mm
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
specially since im no longer doing the AI class i wanted to :p
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
could cheat, enemies start behind cover, shoot till dead
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
:p
Daegøn says:
lol yeah
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
at least at the beginning
Daegøn says:
a bit silly though 'i flank him.'
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
yeah
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
*shrugs*
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
each turn you can only move 1 square, so it will take 5 turns to get to them
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
im sure simple AI wouldnt be hard, to make them choose to get behind cover if they are in the open
Daegøn says:
yeah i would expect it to be possible
Daegøn says:
shouldn;t movement be affected by Dex?
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
probably
À£ÍÅ§ ÑÊÕ - <3 Jean-chan says:
would need to work out how to balance it though, in such a way that the player cant leeroy to the other side of the combat area
Daegøn says:
yeah you're right
Daegøn says:
but not make it so hard melee characters are nerfed to hell

Clan [~FMS~]

bwco — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:05:24 CDT

History

Clan [~FMS~] was founded in the year 2006, as an RPPvP GUild on the World of Warcraft server The Venture Co. The Clan went through a lull in itself in late 2006, before renewing its status as a more general gaming clan. The highlight of the clan's recent career was an invite to the ViCiouS.XXX.pr0 Tourney at Vicious Island, which they are currently en route too.

Members

Coincidentally enough, the clan has one major member to represent each genre of games that isn't sh*t. In order of rank these are:

Name	Other Names	Genre
Burgo.McSock	d4rX_pwnz0rK	RTS
Steelo:McBuff		Fighting
anUbis	f0rC3_pWn4g3	Adventure
d33n0		Racing
Tr4nscended		MMO

Name

The Clan has kept a cloak of secrecy surrounding its true name. Suggested acronyms include:

Fine Metal Soldiers
Free Magic Swords
Funny Monkey Secks
Freely Manic Socks
!@#$ Me Sideways
Fridge Magnet Society
Find My Skirt
Flea Market Shirts
Fudge Muffin Scone
Filthy Malevolant Scum
Fizzel My Shizzle
Fairly Magical Stamps
Freezing Man's Slacks
Flaming Man Sacks
Flippant Mapping Sect
Four Major Sex-gods
Freshly Made Snoone
Festering Maggot Snacks
Financial Management Services
Freemason's Society
Financing My Show
Find a Major Sacrifice

The Legend of the ViCiouS.XXX.pr0 Tourney at the Vicious Island (itself)

Teh Copypasta

ViCiouS.xXx.pr0 Tourney

bwco — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:04:53 CDT

Chapter 1.

f0rC3_pWn4g3 looked up from his PC, glancing about him. His eyes fell upon the clock on his desk, showing the time as 1:37AM, the rhythmic flash of the second LED hurting his tired eyes. Something had disturbed his gaming, something...not quite right. He got up, fumbling for the door-handle and headed out to fix himself a cup of tea. The kettle began to whistle as he clattered mugs around. He sat at his desk, drinking his tea, and considering strategies for his next game of de_dust, but still there was a slight feeling of discomfort. He looked over his shoulder and then shook himself and finished the tea. Perhaps he should just go to bed. He turned off the lights and fell into bed, sleeping soundly until morning. He never saw the flashes up the street or the mail icon on his PC...

-f0rce_pWn4g3

Chapter 2.

Steelo awoke in is laughable excuse for a flat to the sound of two cats making sweet sweet love outside his window, his fingers found the deadly sharp hunting knife he always kept beneath is pillow and he wondered if he had the energy to go for the double kill.
to steelo's surprise as he opened his eyes he found that it was still deep in the night and that a message notification was flashing on his computer screen right over his tasteful just buff league wallpaper, this message could easily be about anything from overdue rent to the end of the world but steelo couldn’t help feeling that his life of gaming, failing uni, and trying to get layed may just take a turn for the better.

-Steelo

Chapter 3.

damn bots, always getting you killed. d33n0 raved as he died for the fourtieth time in an hour trying to do CZ on hard... and woke his brother in the process, at least they did not still live under the iron curtain that had hung over their lives until a couple of years ago. (read "f*ing communsts") nope, he's just getting some tea... Deagle time boys, Boom HEAD-SHOT 1 down, 4 to go, then time to work on the awp... the power cuts. he plays on... apparently there is one advantage to laptops. the last T comes into view, and the game shuts down, replaced by a flashing mail icon...

-d33n0

Chapter 4.

Burgo was in the middle of an important game when he realised that he was infact really hungry. Leaving his allies to take control of the situation Burgo got up to go fix himself some chicken. Usually this would be an okay thing to do but today it was not. You see Burgo infact had no chicken left in the house... anyware. This presented a mild problem should he satisfy his hunger and risk losing the game? Besides where can he get chicken at this time of night? Burgo pondered this for what must have 1 hour and eventually his stomach got the upper hand on his desire to play. He farewelled his friends and left the game figuring maybe Steelo in the flat (if you could call it that) across the road might have some chicken.

As he grabbed his coat from the rack he noticed something strange on his shiny monitor. A mail icon was flashing in the corner of the screen. Burgo who didn't have a mail client active on his computer was intriqued. He reached for the mouse and gave a sharp doubleclick on the mysterious flashing icon...

-Burgo

Chapter 5.

f0rC3_pWn4g3 slept heavily, haunted with visions of the clan's last foray online, in which he and the other Ts had been gang AWPed by the CTs. He and the boys had tried as hard as they could, but an AK just doesn't match an AWP. He dragged himself out of bed at the ring of his door-bell, stumbling to the entrance in his gold pyjamas. At the door stood several other members of the clan, wearing worried faces. He opened the door and Burgo and Steelo walked in. "You guys want some tea?" he said.

-f0rc3_pWn4ge

Nocturné Gargoyles

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:45:57 CDT

The race of Gargoyles is an ancient sub-race of the recently massacred elves. They have never been as plentiful as the elves, and few humans have met a Gargoyle, or at least, realised they have met a Gargoyle. They have survived the purge only through their great skill at remaining concealed, even when immersed in human or other cultures. They live amongst normal civilisation, largely unrecognised for what they are, and also in underground settlements in the Southern mountains and through the world.

Personality:

Generally cynical and dark, their personalities matching their horrifying true appearances, gargoyles have seen too many of their brothers and sisters disappear over their long life-spans. They have a tendency towards keeping to themselves rather than sharing their life-history, though they will tell a lot to one or two fellows they have grown to respect and trust. They are usually honest regarding their true feelings about an idea or plan, not minding causing offence if they can say what they feel. In battle, they feel similarly, attempting to fight a straight battle relying on their skill and power to finish it without wasting time or risking injury.

Physical description:

Another race of bizarre appearance, the gargoyle is mostly human size, though slightly slimmer and taller, averaging from 1.6 to 2.2 metres tall and weighing 60 to 120kg. Each gargoyle, however, has batlike wings extending from his or her shoulder-blades and extending roughly the length of their arms. They usually have dark grey skin with a blue, green or even maroon tinge and hair that ranges between black and white, as well as dark primary colours, such as navy and maroon. They have long and angular faces with sharp chins and share their elvish cousin’s pointed ears. Ear piercings are common on both sexes and clan tattoos mark the faces and chests of many gargoyles. They have thin and bony arms and legs and a tendency to hunch their backs, as well as sharp black talons on their fingers. They generally wear leather or thin cloth clothing and robes, covering much of their bodies. They reach adulthood at around 40 and can live to be up to 500 years old.

Relations:

Almost no other races know of the existence of the gargoyle race, which has allowed their survival of the purge and continued use of arcane magic despite its outlawing. Clever humans, both Tiagarathian scholars and non-religious researchers; Kartika; vampyres and Labori have come across mentions of them in ancient texts, but few have seen them and recognised them for what they are. The Gargoyles are seen by non-gargoyles as humans or other Medium sized humanoids at all times except when flying or choosing to appear in their true form to a particular person or group. This has allowed them to keep their existence secret, and several clever gargoyles have made lives on the surface, always maintaining the façade of humanity.

Alignment:

Gargoyles tend more towards chaos than law, but despite their horrifying appearance and unusual behaviour they are just as likely to be good as evil. Those who are good-hearted often reveal themselves to a party of human and other adventurers that they have befriended, lending their talents to the dark world in hopes of fixing the mistakes of the lawful government.

Gargoyle Lands:

Gargoyles have dens and cities in deep caverns in the southern mountains and throughout the world, in which the majority of them live, not bothering with the pretence of humanity and relishing their gargoyle abilities. Some few, however, often those who did not fit with into gargoyle society, travel to the surface and adopt the appearance of a normal human, mutant or vampyre, living amongst those whose appearance they have assumed and rarely, if ever, being caught, due to a combination of their perfect disguise and preference for solitary life. These Gargoyles usually work in skilled trades or as scholars, as opposed to the cave-dwellers who are usually forced to concentrate almost entirely on providing food for the table.

Religion:

Most gargoyles do not see a point in worship, however there are exceptions to this rule: surface-dwelling gargoyles like to worship a particular god to avoid drawing attention, usually Tiagarath or a variant. Underground, some evil gargoyles belong to cults to the dark gods, but the majority of those who believe worship what is believed to be a variant of Harajat, known as Karmbakja (in Common, The Hooded Man).

Language:

Gargoyles speak a Elvish variant known as Gargoy, which sounds much like elvish and shares many words, though it has a more guttural and harsh sound. Gargoy is written using elvish script with a few unusual characters added. It is a fairly literal language, without the flowery synonyms and metaphors of Common and elvish.

Names:

In general Gargoyles are given names in Gargoy at birth, though any that wish to dwell amongst other races adopt a name appropriate to the race they find themselves living amongst. Their birth-names are similar to ancient elvish names, but are pronounced according to the more guttural Gargoyle language.

Gargoyle Racial Traits:

Medium: As Medium creatures, Gargoyles have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.

Gargoyle base land speed is 10 meters.

Masquerade: A Gargoyle may assume the illusion of being any Medium sized living creature once per day. This Masquerade will last all day unless ceased by the conscious decision of the Gargoyle or if the Gargoyle attempts to fly. To assume the guise of a creature, the Gargoyle must have either known them on a casual basis for at least a year or observed their appearance and mannerisms ceaselessly for 3 days or more. With 8 hours of concentration, a Gargoyle may assume the guise of an individual that is entirely produced in the Gargoyle’s imagination. After a Gargoyle has masqueraded as a creature once, it can remember how to ‘play’ that creature for 1d6+Int months. So long as these requirements are met, there is no way to distinguish between a Masquerading Gargoyle and the normal humanoid. If the study requirements for a known person are not meant, a DC 20 Spot or Sense Motive check reveals that something is wrong. When seen by unprepared humanoids in their true form, a gargoyle is treated as having 3 Charisma, no matter what it truly has. In Masquerade, its Charisma is as rolled.

Winged: A Gargoyle’s wings allow it to fly in all directions at a base speed of 10 meters. It may double this to hustle, but not multiply it for running. When flying a Gargoyle’s masquerade falls, and the Gargoyle is unable to cast spells of a spell greater than its caster level – 10. The Gargoyle is also unable to undertake skill checks requiring fine work, such as Open Lock checks, while in flight, and his or her Dexterity bonus to armour, attack rolls (if applicable) and reflex saves is halved.

Solid-skin: A Gargoyle has a +2 bonus to his Armour Class from natural armour. This does not cause arcane spell failure or encumbrance, and gargoyles may wear other armour or clothing if it is specially made. This doubles to a +4 bonus when the Gargoyle is reduced to ¼ of his health.

Arcane channel: Arcane energy infuses the very blood of every gargoyle, lending it a +3 racial bonus on Concentration checks made to continue casting, Spellcraft checks and on the DC for saves against the gargoyle’s spells.

Automatic Languages: Common and Gargoy.

Favoured class: Battle-mage. A multi-class gargoyle’s battle-mage class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty.

Rhys' World of Darkness

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:22:50 CDT

Next Session:

Sunday july 5, 7 pm

Backstory:

The year is 2010. Cooma has expanded exponentially to approximately 35 000 people, most of them refugees from a disaster that destroyed? much of Canberra, news has not been forthcoming as to the cause, or even that it actually occured. the remainder are fleeing a *something* which has been wreaking havoc throughout the Snowy Mountains area, driving the people into more heavily built up areas ie. Cooma and the hole with a lake that is Jindabyne.
These bizarre occurrences have coincided with a slight gothification of the Cooma area although this may be just coincidence or one may follow the other, if it is the second it is still unclear as to which came first, the bizarre or the Goths.
The architecture of Cooma has become more goth and the small town has turned into a compact city. the citizens are also getting a bit weirder although the suburbs have the same feel:
- Cooma North = dreg
- Zalka = upper class snobs (who want their stuff taken)
The City has grown in area only slightly, many of the outlying farms have been abandoned due to weather and drought difficulties. Many high density apartment blocks have been built and moist of the population lives in these

Many of the shops and businesses are still around, some doing better than ever, of particular note are:

Cooma Sports store

The sports store runs a very profitable business in this troubled time, the government has legalised semiautomatic and portable weaponry for an undisclosed reason and handguns are now more readily available. they also still carry a variety of other weaponry (knives, bows etc.)
They also have a contract with snowy Hydro to arm their personell

Snowy Hydro

snowy hydro is a huge faceless corporation that has all its agents around doing "routine
maintenance" with guns(clarify pls ed.)

The local media

The local media is all but dead, all news broadcasts are transmitted on ABC national radio and are all government controlled. You do not know what to trust. especially after what happened to Canberra was reported as, a string of improbable and catastrophic malfunctions.
There are several ham radio broadcasters that broadcast as they see fit, when these channels are discovered the government is quick to silence those responsible.

The Church

The church has become a dominant political force and religion is rampant. Some conspirists believe that the more prominent religions are just another arm of the government that is being utilised to ...

Characters:

The PC's operate from a nightclub/bar in the CBD managed and payed for by the Snowy Hydro Corporation

Cyphus Zeal (Asher)

Asher's char is the up-and-coming vampire mastermind. very clever, very manipulative,
into poison, but not that buff.

Aidan Sadik (James)

Raven X (Simone)

Simone's is the knife-and-gun-wielding babe

Xavier 'Sidewinder' Galway (Pierce)

Tobias X (Ned)

X (Viki)

X (Kurt)

Kurt = intravert (first time for everything) to allow the others room to RP more and
partly to give me more points to put into arse kicking
- i'll just have him be the mysterious Bouncer for the bar... the guy who dosent talk
much, looks kinda scrawny, and somehow ejected a full biker gang by himself this one time
- force mage - lethal punching spell - stop bullets

X (Nathan)

X (anyone else)

KF's World of Darkness

d33n0 — Fri, 23 May 2008 17:48:04 CDT

Characters

Vincent Genio (Rhys)
Mikhael Bergsohn (Nathaniel)
Kent Dickinson (Kurt)
Gengis (Dane)

Kent Dickinson

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:19:00 CDT

kent is a musician, who's favourite line, along with band mate Mikhael Bergsohn is something along the lines of the following

we've got a song about that
that would make a great song/album
we should make a concept album of this

Sashin

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:09:34 CDT

The dread relic Sashin is an intelligent magical amulet of some considerable power.

History

It is unknown who or what created Sashin, Sashin Claims that he has always existed (and always will), however his physical form is demonic in design and suggests some link to the underworld.
For many years Sashin was in the possession of Ralth Blackblood, an Unorthodox but very powerful paladin working in the service of Lord Konrad the Avenger. It is said that Ralth used Sashin's powers to quickly dispatch powerful evildoers who refused to repent.
Whilst following a known necromancer though the astral plane Ralth lost Sashin in an ancient astral conduit facility, and that is where Sashin stayed for many hundreds of years.
Finally Sashin was found at the bottom of a water pit trap by Pi'mae Shou and his Unit of Xin Special Forces soldiers, Sashin then was appointed a new master, the bard Bane Norris, who unfortunately was killed by an Astral terror moments later.
Sashin was still carried by pi'mae's group and was returned to Bane once he was resurrected.

In My Pants

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:05:59 CDT

You know that myspace bulletin game where you write the song you last listened to and "in my pants." Well, this is that, but with just good stuff, not bollocks, and it doesn't have to be the last listened to song if its lolworthy. No wrong stuff, unless very funny. Wrong stuff is defined as "The Human Stain in My Pants"

The Beast Within My Pants (Aina)
Centre of the Universe in My Pants (Kamelot)
She Is My Sin in My Pants (Nightwish)
Some Kind of Monster in My Pants (Metallica)
Welcome to the Machine in My Pants (Pink Floyd)
Stairway to Heaven in My Pants (Led Zeppelin)
Perfect Warrior in My Pants (Lost Horizon)
The Thorn in My Pants (Leaves' Eyes)
Forever Free in My Pants (Stratovarius)
A Fool's Paradise in My Pants (Symphony X)
Invocation of Apocalyptic Evil in My Pants (DragonForce)
Voodoo Child in My Pants (Jimi Hendrix)
Private Investigations in My Pants (Dire Straits)
Let the Children Play in My Pants (Santana)
The Valley in my Pants (Epica)
Always will be in My Pants (Hammerfall)
Wasting Love in My Pants (Iron Maiden)
Destruction Preventer In My Pants ( Sonata Arctica)

Classes

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:45:36 CDT

There are ten base classes presented in this area, each allowing a character to follow a different path to heroism – or infamy.

Battle-mage: The remnants of those who practised the magic arts, the Battle-mage blasts foes with raw arcane power. Exiled from contempary Tiagarathian for their heretic practices battlemages form small secretive orders in the lands outside of the direct influence of the Tiagarathians. Most battlemages survived the inquisitions either through a combination of their combat training and offensive magics or through subtlety and subterfuge linked to arcane powers whilst many of their brothers of other schools of magic

Bard: In a blasted land, the people are forced to rely on others for entertainment and their happiness, the Bard uses his charisma to help some and his skills to hurt others.

Gunslinger: An expert in firearms and explosives, the Gunslinger uses the latest in technology to win their battles.
Necromancer: A master of the dead and the black arts, the Necromancer holds terrifying power over all – beyond the veil or not.
Outcast: A horrific mutant from blasted lands, the Outcast uses brute strength and uncontrollable instinct to beat down enemies.
Priest: The word "Priest" is generally associated with the members of the Tiagarathian Church but can be taken to mean a follower of other now outlawed deities. People of all that is holy or unholy can be counted as Priests provided that they channel (or claim to channel) energy given to him by the gods and have some formal recognition/education. Many who would have been considered Priests during the first empire are now considered heretics. The average priest posseses the ability to channel the power of their chosen god along with considerable melee prowess.
Explorer: Custodian of nature and follower of paths no other can see, a Ranger uses weapons and cunning to end foe’s lives.
Rogue: Skilful and stealthy, a Rogue can break in to your house, steal your valuables and slash your throat before anything knows they’re there.
Scientist: An individual who has embraced the new technology that is appearing, the Scientist uses his technologies for many things.
Warrior: Unequalled in his mastery of all manner of weapons, the Warrior uses combat prowess to its utmost to beat opponents.

Races

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:39:06 CDT

The vast majority of intelligent folk in the world are humans, as they were even before the Great Purge in which all the remaining elvish folk and dwarves were slaughtered along with most of the remaining non-humans. The humans themselves live under oppression from those who authorised the purge, the zealot worshipers of the sun-god Tiagarath. Those humanoids that are left live through a variety of lucky or unlucky circumstances: The vampyre has taken hold of the post-apocalyptic south, where darkness holds sway over light and undead stalk the blackened earth.Great packs of werewolves have also risen in the south and spread across the world, the government focusing more attention within than without. In deep caverns and throughout the human world, unbeknownst to almost all of their neighbours, the gargoyles, dark cousins to the elves, keep to themselves to themselves. In the western deserts and on the northern continent the snakelike kartika hold sway, respected by the ruling Tiagarathians for their sun-worship and their strength. The mutants, humanoids scarred by the terrible forces used in the purge, remain throughout the nation, scorned, but not cared about enough to either fix or remove. Finally, a race of clockwork and magical machines, the Labori, have been built in recent times and some have found some of the intelligence the rest of the world seems to have lost, arising as a race within itself.

Races:

Gengis

d33n0 — Sat, 17 May 2008 00:23:58 CDT

= Who are you?
Gengis, of the great line of mongolian royalty
How old are you?
28/7
When were you born?
29 february, 1980
How old were you when you underwent the First Change?
26*
How long have you been a werewolf?
2*
Did the Change affect your emotional maturity? For better or worse?
in a word? yes... if you want more you're still not going to get it
Do you look older or younger than your years?
my looks follow my age, the maturity less so. gaze into my eyes and you will realise that i have seen things no human, or even werewolf should have to see
Are you more or less mature than you seem?
as above

What was unique about your childhood?
Well i don't know many people in the wetern world that grew up on the steppes of mongolia or any for whom riding war horses in the snow was common place
What do you remember about your early years?
how would i know... i don't remember what i don't remember... i do the rest.. comprende?

What was your home life like? Was it idyllic? Troubled? Abusive?
idyllic... compared to now anyway.
sure it was cold, hard work was the norm, but the only people around youy were your loved ones, and that life has a lot going for it

Where did you go to school?
i was home(yurt) schooled until i was 18 at which point i gained entry to a rather mundane university in russia wher i supposedly studied medicine, but did more computer high jinks than work

What is your most powerful childhood memory?

Did you go to high school or college?

Did you have a hometown, or did your family move often?
we were nomads, of course we moved often... who writes this crap?

Did you run away from home?
yes, well more i stayed and it moved off around me. it happend a lot in my early teens, i had discovered alcohol and they weren't prepared to wait till mid afternoon when i woke up
Did you play sports?
does horse riding count? i threw snowballs, shot, rode, but that was work not recreation
.
Did any of your childhood friendships last until adulthood?
they were few and far between, so yes most of them have lasted the test of time
Did your nascent Rage affect your childhood?
a little... but it was passed off as something i would grow out of
= What kind of person were you?

Did you like who you were?

How would the people who knew you best describe you?

How would someone who disliked you describe you?

What about a total stranger?

Did you have an active social life?

A family?

A steady job?

Good friends, or simply acquaintances?

How did you expect life to go before the Change turned everything upside down?

= What experiences with the supernatural have you had?

Did omens manifest before your First Change? Did you take particular note of them?

Were you hunted and bitten prior to the Change?
.
Did you ever have an encounter with a manifested spirit, Ridden or other supernatural entity?

Were you sceptical of the supernatural? Is there anything you learned to fear?

= What was your First Change like?

How did your auspice moon affect your Change?

What stress brought on the Change?

Did you do anything you regret?

Did your Change have ramifications in the mortal world? Are you now hunted by the police, or by someone else?

How does your First Change haunt you today?

= Who taught you what you are?
Who was your mentor?

Who brought you into werewolf society after your Change?

Were they expecting you to Change, or did they run across you by accident?

Are you related?

Is your mentor one of the People or someone with wolf blood?

Do you come from a strong werewolf bloodline, or were you born into a family in which the blood was weak?

= Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?
Are you a “missing person”?

Have you been presumed dead?

Do you retain contact with your family or friends?

Have any of your loved ones been subject to danger due to your new life?

Do you have any wolf-blooded relatives?

= What motivates you?
Do you have issues from your mundane life that still go unresolved?

Do you have loved ones to protect, or are you in search of someone who understands?

Are there wrongs in your past that need to be righted?

Have your experiences as a werewolf given you new motivation?

Do you want to hold on to a portion of your previous life?

If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?

Mikhael Bergsohn

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:09:54 CDT

How old are you?
26
When were you born?
1982
How old were you when you underwent the First Change?
21
How long have you been a werewolf?
5 years
Did the Change affect your emotional maturity? For better or worse?
I have become more mature than I was before after the change and finding a tribe to join.
Do you look older or younger than your years?
I look a bit older due to a large amount of hair and beard.
Are you more or less mature than you seem?
More, I have an on stage act that is pretty immature and sometimes it funnels down into my real life, I try to avoid it mostly but it happens. When I stop to think I am generally pretty rational.

• What was unique about your childhood?
What do you remember about your early years?
Skiing over frozen lakes with my parents and siblings every winter, walking to school through metres of snow… I have always been a winter person so most of my memories from my childhood are centered on the outdoors in colder weather. My family for the most part was loving and supportive but I often felt detached and separated, only recently did I learn why.
What was your home life like? Was it idyllic? Troubled? Abusive?
Mostly pretty good although I had random, uncontrollable mood swings often resulting in anger and confusion. This made for some awkward situations. I took up writing/playing/singing metal to express/control this anger in a more constructive way.
Where did you go to school?
Were you a good student?
Neither good nor bad; I went to class but never did exceptionally well. I passed all of my classes but not in a spectacular manner.
What is your most powerful childhood memory?
Seeing a pack of wolves move across the snow; powerful, graceful and organised.
Did you go to high school or college?
Yes, I finished high school then began to study music after working within the industry as a roadie.
Did you have a hometown, or did your family move often?
Did you run away from home?
Occasionally but never for too long; I was often protective of my friends and family.
Did you play sports?
Yes, football and various snow sports and martial arts.
Did any of your childhood friendships last until adulthood?
Yes many people I have known for years are still in regular contact these days. As I am always traveling on the road I rarely see them face to face.
Did your nascent Rage affect your childhood?
Yes, I had some unexplainable bouts of anger and I lost the occasional friend over it. If something upset me I had a tendency to overreact.
• What kind of person were you?
Did you like who you were?
Yes mostly.
How would you describe yourself as a person before the Change?
How would the people who knew you best describe you?
He is rough around the edges but easy to get along with once you know him, creative, honorable, open minded and honest but has tendencies to be egotistic, stubborn and angry. Most people like him due to his rather dominant presence so long as you don’t annoy him he is a good friend, not the sort of person you want on your bad side… that can get unpredictable; he may let it go or may put a personal vendetta against you. Who knows? Sometimes I think he is borderline insane but then he maintains normality for ages… I worry that he becomes part of things beyond his control and somehow this affects his actions.

How would someone who disliked you describe you?
Isn’t he that nerd with anger issues? Seriously how is it that anyone can like his death metal band when he is really such a softcock? I mean come on… I could beat the shit through him if he tried. You can’t be metal and honourable what bullshit.
What about a total stranger?
Metal Fan: Hey isn’t that guy the vocalist in some obscure Swedish band? I hear they are alright actually…

Non-metal fan: Whoa long hair and epic beard… wearing mostly black; better get out of his way.

Gangsta: Hey fuck you man… get out of da hood! Ghetto fo life shizzel!

Did you have an active social life?
Absolutely, being a lead singer in a band which is reasonably popular in your home country and has a cult following other the continent can make you quite popular.
A family?
I still have both parents, an older brother called Marco, and a younger sisters called Sonja. Currently no significant other, I went through a series of meaningless relationships after the first change; it is hard to relate to people individually these days as I tend to see things as ‘packs’ and ‘tribes’
A steady job?
Yes, works as a sound technician (well a roadie actually) for tours of major bands. Often gets invited to play support acts.
Good friends, or simply acquaintances?
My band mates and people I knew before the change are good friends. Other people despite getting on well are just acquaintances so a mixture I guess. I know heaps of people a little but very few people a lot.
How did you expect life to go before the Change turned everything upside down?
For the band to one day make it big lol… nah not really. I expected the band to fall apart pretty soon but it still hasn’t. I guess I thought I would end up a producer or studio technician as I did a lot of that sort of stuff at college.

Vincent Genio

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:06:41 CDT

= Who are you?
I am Vincent Genio, formerly of the Polizei Italia. These days, I wander the night to avenge the wrongs that are done to me and others.
How old are you?
33
When were you born?
31st August, 1976
How old were you when you underwent the First Change?
28
How long have you been a werewolf?
5 years
Did the Change affect your emotional maturity? For better or worse?
Since Changing, my maturity increased exponentially. That first night was a terrible experience, and it got worse from that point on. I’m not sure whether that was a good thing or not, I came out greatly changed, probably for the better…but the things that happened. I would change them if I could.
Do you look older or younger than your years?
On the surface, I look as old as I am, but in my eyes there lies the age of experience given by someone who’s seen more than anyone should have.
Are you more or less mature than you seem?
On first meeting, I seem quiet and solemn, a man who has suffered much. When you get to know me, you’ll notice my demeanor softens around people I can trust, I’ll laugh more and meditate less. On the whole, I’m probably less mature, but that’s because I seem extremely mature.

= What was unique about your childhood?
There wasn’t much that seemed unique to me. I was just one of the many children who’s parents fight all the time, who live in a world where a few lire off the street is a ticket to eat properly that night.
What do you remember about your early years?
I remember little of my early years. A few vivid images stand out, snapshots from an… interesting childhood. My parents shouting over me in our kitchen. The funeral of my best friend aged 16, dead from drug-induced suicide. Hours spent on the roof of our apartment building, watching the city, sometimes elated, sometimes irate, sometimes crying. A school trip to the Dolomites, the scent of snow and pines and the sight of soft prints in the white.
What was your home life like? Was it idyllic? Troubled? Abusive?
Troubled…you could say that. My parents seemed to be in a permanent state of near-divorce. They’d fight over me, over work, over the house, over the curtains. Whatever it was, they’d fight about it. They never physically abused me or each other, but every night there’d be a battle over the kitchen table. I don’t know how they lived with each other. They were foster-parents, I discovered at about 11 – I’ve looked for my true parents ever since.
Where did you go to school?
I went to a primary public school in Genoa, Italy, for my childhood schooling. There was nothing notable about it, besides a fairly high quotient of bullies and the dregs of society.
Were you a good student?
I tried as hard as I could. I wanted to get out of the pathetic apartment; I wanted to help other people like me get out. Other children bullied me, I was skinny and average in pretty much everything, but I tried. Sometimes, the kids got under my skin, but I internalized much of it.
What is your most powerful childhood memory?
The aforementioned ones. Additionally, my first kiss with my long-standing girlfriend, again, up in the Dolomites, after school ended. It was a beautiful, yet terrifying moment.
Did you go to high school or college?
I went first to a Genoa high school, which was a similar experience to my primary schooling, then to a police college, also in Genoa, where I trained to become an officer. That was much better, the one time in my life that I was truly happy.
Did you have a hometown, or did your family move often?
I had lived in Genua, Italy for my entire life, until I followed the trail of my parents here to Marseilles.
Did you run away from home?
No. As I said, I spent many hours on the roof, gazing at the sky, but I never ran away from home.
Did you play sports?
Not really. My family didn’t have the spare money, and I was concentrating on my schooling. I did spend time walking and jogging through both the city, and the wilderness, when I could get there.
Did any of your childhood friendships last until adulthood?
The girlfriend I mentioned earlier lasted nearly 10 years. Aside that, no, I had few friends in childhood and all of those drifted away from me or died. The rough parts of Genoa are very, very rough.
Did your nascent Rage affect your childhood?
Not really. I internalized most of it. The occasional person caught a blow from it, but mostly they accepted that I had just taken too much and bottled it up too long.

= What kind of person were you?
When? After childhood, before the Change, I was just a policeman. I fought with the pack…well, the department, to keep at least some degree of order in the city. I lived with my fiancée, the same girlfriend of all those years, and we loved each other more than anything. My Rage had never spread to her; she seemed to calm me down when no-one else could. I was basically just a hard-working, quiet, but happy man.
Did you like who you were?
Yes. I miss those days. I was happy, I had at least some effect on the city – perhaps not as much as now, but I wasn’t a monster, and I had my wonderful fiancée.
How would the people who knew you best describe you?
Much as I have above. Quiet, hard-working, introverted. My fiancée liked to call me romantic. I had a black sense of humour and a sharp tongue for things that I disagreed with, people often found it difficult to get past that. I was extremely loyal to my few close friends. I also had a tendency to come across aloof and arrogant, but that was mostly just a façade to cover up chronic shyness, something few people ever saw.
How would someone who disliked you describe you?
I had worked my way from a lower-class life in a terrible apartment in what were basically the slums of Genoa to a comfortable middle-class tenement by the river, and people often focused on that. Many new acquaintances disliked me on sight for my arrogance and quietness, misinterpreting it as an attempt to be rude. In my earlier years, people judged me by my appearance, my skinny body and long hair, but I got past that pretty quickly.
What about a total stranger?
On occasion they were intimidated by my sharp tongue, difficulty with trust and a tendency to wear black. Usually, however, they were friendly and often automatically trusted me, I had charm when I wanted to use it, and they saw I was a decent man.
Did you have an active social life?
Not as such. I kept to myself, went out with the force one or twice a month to dinner or something, or took milady to dinner, but usually I spent all my time at home. I was usually invited, I just found myself more comfortable alone.
A family?
I had severed ties with those who had brought me up. They had never been a family in any more than name to me, so it wasn’t hard. My family was just my fiancée, and I was happy like that. We had considered children, but decided it could wait.
A steady job?
Yes, I was steadily working in the police force.
Good friends, or simply acquaintances?
I had good friends or nothing. There were few good friends, two or three men and women who worked with me and a few others, neighbours and the like, who were close. Really, though, I was an antisocial guy.
How did you expect life to go before the Change turned everything upside down?
We were finally going to get married, just a few weeks after the Change, everything was getting prepared. My work was going brilliantly, I was expecting a transfer, we were going to move out of the city, up into a town in the Dolomites, where the pay was better and the work easier. Life was going swimmingly. Perhaps that should have been the clue.

= What experiences with the supernatural have you had?
I had had only slightly more experience with the supernatural than you would expect of a man who served for 10 years in a city with as much history as Genoa. Ghosts were common, I, if not believing in them, certainly knew that other people did and that was enough. I had seen my share of occult behaviour, I’d even studied it. Vampires. Undead. Mythology. That stuff had interested me right back to my school days and I had seen my share of it.
Did omens manifest before your First Change? Did you take particular note of them?
I suffered from insomnia in the couple of weeks leading up to it. My wife told me that I had been talking in my sleep, twitching. My Rage was bottled up worse than it had ever been, but I assumed it was the stress. Three nights prior, I had shot a man who had killed his wife dead, straight in the head, even though he was not struggling at all. I’d begun to feel uncomfortable and drowsy during the day and had felt bizarre bestial feeling at particularly passionate moments. I put all of this down to stress and anger.
Were you hunted and bitten prior to the Change?
Yes. At about midnight I was patrolling around the area I had used to live. An enormous silver wolf leapt out of an alleyway, sniffed me for a while, half-heartedly bit my left pectoral muscle and then darted back into the alley and disappeared. I was surprisingly unafraid by the experience.
Did you ever have an encounter with a manifested spirit, Ridden or other supernatural entity?
On occasion, yeah, I came across some supernatural stuff. I came across a demon once in the course of my duty, ghosts once or twice and stuff from the spirit realm. I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone, and I didn’t want to. The only person I told was my fiancée.
Were you sceptical of the supernatural? Is there anything you learned to fear?
It’s hard to be sceptical when you’ve seen your fair share of the stuff. I learned a few things about the occult, I learned which superstitions were true and I could pick up the signs of something…unusually evil coming. The main thing I feared though was silver. I never bought anything silver or had it in my house. I know why that was now.

= What was your First Change like?
I was walking in a park in the early evening with my fiancée. We were attacked by a group of louts, I recognised their leader as the lieutenant of a major Mafioso I’d recently put away. A revenge attack, no doubt. They threw me to the leaf-strewn ground and held me down, on of the grunts holding a Desert Eagle to my head. My fiancée tried to run, but three of them caught her. The lieutenant and some grunts. They…they tried to rape her, and make me watch. The golden colours of autumn glowed in the park around me, and suddenly I felt a new moon rise above the horizon. I couldn’t see it, but it was there. I changed, I now know, to Urshul form and ripped her attackers to pieces.
How did your auspice moon affect your Change?
It didn’t directly affect me, I think, except in small ways. I changed to Urshul, rather than Gauru, thus retaining the sanity not to kill everything in sight. I recovered quickly from the Change and retained the presence of mind to dispose of the corpses of my victims. Finally, I didn’t realise I had truly Changed until later. This would be the greatest pain of my First Change.
What stress brought on the Change?
Must I describe it twice?
Did you do anything you regret?
Again, do I have to say it again? Of course I regret so brutally killing those men, deserving or not. Even more so, I regret Changing in front of my fiancée.
Did your Change have ramifications in the mortal world? Are you now hunted by the police, or by someone else?
No. I took enough care that no-one realised what had happened. The only ramifications were my fiancée becoming terrified of what I was. I had thought our love was enough to stand it, and perhaps it would have been in the long term, but she disappeared as soon as the incident concluded.
How does your First Change haunt you today?
I have lost the one time and place in which I was comfortable, I have lost the only person in the world I truly loved. Even worse, I have done this through my own rage, justified though it may have been. Of course I am haunted.

= Who taught you what you are?
Who was your mentor?
The Silver wolf that had marked me in the alleyway came to me shortly after I had finished cleaning the mess I had made. I was gazing at my reflection in the slow-moving river. She came to me and explained who I was, and when I didn’t believe her, she showed me the truth. I only ever knew her by the name of Argent.
Who brought you into werewolf society after your Change?
Argent took me to what I thought was an abandoned house in the city, threw me on the doorstep and ran off into the city. I saw only glimpses of her from that point on. Another reason I came to Marseilles. In the abandoned house, I was introduced to a tribe of Storm Lords, who inducted me and led me through those early days in the Hunt.
Were they expecting you to Change, or did they run across you by accident?
Argent was expecting me to Change soon. She had been loosely following me ever since she marked me, knowing that it was imminent.
Are you related?
No. Well, maybe. I don’t know.
Is your mentor one of the People or someone with wolf blood?
My mentor? Well, my mentors were the tribe of Storm Lords, none of them in particular. So yeah, they were all members of the People.
Do you come from a strong werewolf bloodline, or were you born into a family in which the blood was weak?
I don’t know. I have been told the scent of werewolf is strong with me, so I assume it’s fairly strong, but I don’t know. I’m trying to find out.

= Do you retain any connections to your mortal life?
Are you a “missing person”?
No. I have just severed – or had severed – all the ties I had with my previous life. I quit my job, knowing that I could not survive in an organisation like that with the Rage inside me so brutal. For the first few years, I was a private investigator, but even that was too ordered, and I became more of a vigilante.
Have you been presumed dead?
No. People just always think I’m somewhere else.
Do you retain contact with your family or friends?
No. None from before the change. It hurts too much to talk to them, or I hate them.
Have any of your loved ones been subject to danger due to your new life?
During my First Change, my fiancée was, but since then I haven’t had loved ones, so no.
Do you have any wolf-blooded relatives?
None that I know of. I know none of my family.

= What motivates you?
Do you have issues from your mundane life that still go unresolved?
Yes. I want to find my real family. I want to find my fiancée, see if I can make her understand. Finally, I want to find Argent, so she can explain more of my life to me.
Do you have loved ones to protect, or are you in search of someone who understands?
No loved ones to protect. Just me.
Are there wrongs in your past that need to be righted?
There are a few crimes I haven’t yet avenged, but mostly, I wish to find my real family, a place were hopefully I can belong.
Have your experiences as a werewolf given you new motivation?
They’ve shown me that in this form I can truly make a difference to the world. In this form I can make things right. That motivates me.
Do you want to hold on to a portion of your previous life?
I want to hold on to my love. But she’s already gone.
If you could change one thing about your life, what would it be?
I think you can work that out.

Xavier Galway

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:54:34 CDT

A Matter/Space/Mind Mage

- Who are you?
I am Xavier Galway

- How old are you?
21

What year were you born and how old were you when you Awakened?
I was born in 1989. The first noticed signs of my Awakening at the age of 3 where I was bullied by some kids similar to my age at a preschool. According to the teachers the world darkened and one boy was thrown 20 metres backwards. It wasn’t until I was 17 that I was able to grasp the true power of my awakening through the help of a man I came to know of as ‘master’. It was only 1 year ago where died during my training as a part of my final test, thus infusing his spirit with my own.

Did your Awakening make you old beyond your years or are you emotionally a child?
My awakening did not alter me in anyway, but it was at the point where my master’s spirit entered mine, that I gained the knowledge of many many times my age.

Do you look your years?
That I do

- What was unique about your childhood?
Nothing really, the powers from my awakening I managed to keep suppressed and did not explore them until the age of 17.

What were your early years like? Did you get along well with your family or were your relations troubled?
My early years were no different to those of similar age, bar every now and again where certain moments in my life, such as extreme grief, sorrow, fear and pleasure have unleashed certain things within me. My family was a broken one, my father being military, was never around and my mother was always worried of him, until he was killed in the field of battle in the Afghani War, he died on the 29th of April 2008.

Did you like school, and if so, why?
School I felt was the same for me as any other child. But I took great interest in the areas of science and computing.

Did it challenge you or insult your intelligence?
To a degree it insulted it, as I wanted to learn more about certain things, were I was only able to do in my own time, as I was constantly held up by others in the class and teachers.

Did you fit in the high school pecking order or were you ostracized?
I fit into the high school pecking order with a group of others such as myself, misfits we were termed.

Or did you create a clique of your own, foreshadowing the members-only world into which you’ve stumbled?
As I said, my Awakening was not truly embraced until the age of 17, where school was almost finished, so no I did not create a clique.

What about life after school?
Life after school over the last few years, mostly consisted of me slinking away from society and training in line with my Awakening. My time was also mostly spent on computers and self teaching myself AI programs and computer hacking.

Was there college or did you go straight into the work force?
Neither currently I live in my mothers basement.

Are or were you married?
No.

Do you have any long-term friendships or just acquaintances?
Most of my friends have moved on to better places, but as I was out of touch from the world for a few years, most people thought that I had left them, or that I died.

- What kind of person were you?
A bold and commanding person, not afraid of showing to others my prowess (par my Awakening)

What were you like before Awakening? A chivalrous example to all, or a cad?
I was too young to remember.

Are you likable to strangers or do people have to get to know you?
To a degree, it depends on the type of person and if I ‘click’ with them or not

Are you rude to those who disrespect you or do you turn the other cheek?
I will stand my ground if need be.

What experiences of the supernatural have you had?
Apart from my spirit infusion, not many dealings aside from the common hell spawned daemon from a summoning ritual.

- When did you first feel the brush of magic?
During the beginning of my training with ‘master’.

Was it an unlimited sense of wonder or a nightmare you’re still trying to forget?
I was knocked unconscious by the initial brush, so trying to forget what little I remember.

Have you seen a spirit or a ghost, or witnessed someone do something that can’t be explained away by the normal laws of physics?
I have.

Do you believe the occult to be synonymous with Satan, or are you more open minded?
Occult has its purpose as does satan, within the realms of magic.

- Who was your first mentor?
Master

Who was the first mage to find you upon your Awakening?
Master

Was he helpful or abusive?
He was like the father I never had.

Did he offer his aid or did you have to beg him for it? Or did you refuse his offers?
He offered his aid to me, I refused at first, but explored what the old man was talking about and then accepted.

Does he hold political power among the Awakened, or is he a pariah?
He did not speak much, but I could sense that he was of great power

Are you still loyal to him or do you prefer to forget him?
I am forever bound and thus loyal to him

- Do you maintain a sanctum?
I maintain a shrine to him, to his spirit.

Where do you live and work your magic?
In my mothers basement. She occasionally wonders what all the loud noises and flashes of darkness are.
Or do you share a sanctum with others, such as your cabal or your mentor? Where is it and how obvious is it?
I do not, and it is well hidden, within another dimension of space and time.

Are you attached to it or are you looking to move the first chance you get?
I am bound to it, as it is wherever I go.

• Do you retain any connections to your Sleeper life?
I had lost most connection during my years of isolation.

Do your parents and friends still know you?
My mother yes, my friends, no.

Do you visit them frequently? What about talking to them over the phone?
I live with my mother.

How do you explain your strange absences and new obsessions?
I told my mother that I was going on a working holiday for 2 years to see the world, she was a bit sceptical about it when she was never able to contact me for several years

Do you involve them in your new work?
I keep to myself.

Do other mages know about them?
There are no others I know of.

• What motivates you?
My will to learn and control.

What are your goals? Revenge for a past slight? Mastery of an Arcanum or Arcana? To become powerful in mage society? Or do you spurn power for wisdom and spiritual awareness, preferring knowledge to conflict and wealth?
Revenge upon my enemies, mastery, power.

Do you desire to mentor other mages?
I will lead them if necessary.

Do you want others to Awaken?
That I do.

If you could have anything you wanted (which isn’t beyond possibility for a mage!), what would it be?
Power.

Aidan Sadik

Anonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:51:54 CDT

A Life/Time/Fate Mage

- Who are you?
I am Aidan Sadik – I’m from New York with African predecessors. I strive to protect that that is important to me.

- How old are you?
25

What year were you born and how old were you when you Awakened?
I was born 17 May 1988 and I was awakened on the 11th of October 1995

Did your Awakening make you old beyond your years or are you emotionally a child?
It made my mental abilities well advanced, while still keeping my physical body as youthful and in its prime.

Do you look your years?
I am said to look older then I am because of the lines that have formed under my eyes and my face becoming more drawn out. The people that are closer to me think I still look childish once I stop wearing my “mask”

- What was unique about your childhood?
I enjoyed school and got along with my teachers fairly well. I also started martial arts at the age of 5. I also grow up without knowing my mother and at the age of 10 my father was killed in a racial attack, since then I have kinda looked after myself. I dropped out of school and become a shadow of who I was until I was about 13 when I found some stability with a small family on my suburb’s outskirts. After this I continued to led a normal life

What were your early years like? Did you get along well with your family or were your relations troubled?
I had a mixed childhood as I stated above. I had experienced many aspects of life before I was 15. My relation with my Dad was the closest I have had with anyone until recent times, but I did get along with my second family very well and become close friends with their daughter.

Did you like school, and if so, why?
School I enjoyed. I got on with teachers and students alike, I was perceived as popular although I only stayed in the back ground and observed mostly. I stayed out of trouble (somehow) the whole time I was there.

Did it challenge you or insult your intelligence?
It was a combination of both. I am wise beyond my years I admit, but the challenge was not showing it yet still passing with high enough grades while remaining under the radar.

Did you fit in the high school pecking order or were you ostracized?
I was near the top... but I never abused that. But I saw what people at the top do to the ones near the bottom... and what people at the bottom do to get to the top. This scared me, the things people will do to each other.

Or did you create a clique of your own, foreshadowing the members-only world into which you’ve stumbled?

What about life after school?
I left school early, at the age of 15 and went travelling; it was a get back to nature experience. Or at least that is what I told me ‘family’. The real reasons I went was to practice and explore magic and also to see where my ancestors are from. I also learnt ~3 languages in the same amount of years.

Was there college or did you go straight into the work force?
When I returned to my home town I got a job doing random stuff, I have never had a ‘proper’ job, or one that has lasted over 6 months

Are or were you married?
This is something that I don’t talk about often, when people ask I persuade them into believing they already know and they forget to ask for a while. That is all I will say on the subject.

Do you have any long-term friendships or just acquaintances?
I have quite a few long term friendships, but mostly just acquaintances. This suits me better as I like to move around alot. But everywhere I go I like to make at least one “good” friend that I can trust and turn to if everything turns to crap on me.

- What kind of person were you?
I normally keep to the background. I don’t like drawing unnecessary attention to myself; this can be harmful and stupid. I respect all life form and find it pitiful the way some people treat both plants and animals.

What were you like before Awakening? A chivalrous example to all, or a cad?
Before my awakening? Well, I was a little too young to remember much... I would say a so-so type of kid... just the average 5 and under.

Are you likable to strangers or do people have to get to know you?
It is a bit of both. I am likable to most people that meet me but they only begin to actually like me once they know me, which in itself is quite hard to do most of the time.

Are you rude to those who disrespect you or do you turn the other cheek?
I generally ignore people that are rude to me; it depends on how they are rude and what they are rude about. Some things I won’t forgive but I won’t tell you about those, but you will know if you touch a nerve

What experiences of the supernatural have you had?
I have a few experiences... it is hard to explain what it is like... you just see something out of the corner of your eye but you can’t focus on it. That is all that has happened to me.

- When did you first feel the brush of magic?
About 1 week before my awakening. That was a scary, scary day. I will never forget it. I was wakening home where I say a person kicking a puppy. I yelled at the guy to stop and he wouldn’t, I yelled at him again and he dropped to the ground unconscious. Since that day that dog has become my closest friend.

Was it an unlimited sense of wonder or a nightmare you’re still trying to forget?
I would say it was a sense of wonder. I knocked some bloke out just by yelling... you gotta admit that is pretty cool

Have you seen a spirit or a ghost, or witnessed someone do something that can’t be explained away by the normal laws of physics?
First off can human emotions be explained by the laws of physics? And physics hasn’t yet branched out into the realm of the dead yet, so it is yet to be defined. But everything in nature defies us in some way and we just “invented” physics

Do you believe the occult to be synonymous with Satan, or are you more open minded?
"Knowledge of the hidden" referring to Satan? I don’t think it is

- Who was your first mentor?
My Sensei, who taught me not only my forms of martial arts but also my basic understanding of life. Even after his death he has been watching over me. My second most important one is my awakener... she has helped me alot with magic and the know how of it. After him I would say ever person I have witnessed has been my mentor, I learn from where they fail and where they succeed

Who was the first mage to find you upon your Awakening?
Edeva – meaning a rich gift. I have seen her periodically throughout my life.

Was he helpful or abusive?
_She_ was very helpful, explained everything to me and where I was to go to from there

Did he offer his aid or did you have to beg him for it? Or did you refuse his offers?
As the good little boy I accepted all her help like she was my mother. I’m very grateful for everything she has done for me thus far, and when I see her I no that only good fortune can come from it.

Does he hold political power among the Awakened, or is he a pariah?
SHE is a nomad like me, but she still has quite a bit of power within the Awakened. She is also introducing me to important people every now and again; this is why I am generally allowed to do what I want, as long as I don’t take it too far. This has also made me somewhat of an outsider, which is what I have always seen myself as.

Are you still loyal to him or do you prefer to forget him?
I am very loyal to her, if it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t be the person I am today

- Do you maintain a sanctum?
No, I leave that up to the radicals

Where do you live and work your magic?
Mainly on my travels, but sometimes in towns, cities. Where ever it is needed. I only ever practice where it is safe to practice though

Or do you share a sanctum with others, such as your cabal or your mentor? Where is it and how obvious is it?
Sanctums aren’t my type of thing, I have been to my mentors a few times, in fact I will be heading there as soon as I finish this. It is in a town called Cooma. It is of little importance, but a political sect of mages has infiltrated the Government of Australia and schools have become a place where we can observe the young and watch for the future mages. We are currently trying to establish this worldwide. I have been summoned there to obverse a student with a potential power similar to my own.

Are you attached to it or are you looking to move the first chance you get?
I have been to many, most are boring places and only places I go when called for or in need of help.

• Do you retain any connections to your Sleeper life?
No, I can’t say that I do

Do your parents and friends still know you?
My friends from school I have lost contact with when I left, the other friends I have all over the place? We try to keep in contact just to know where our safe places are.

Do you visit them frequently? What about talking to them over the phone?
We try to keep this type of contact minimal but we have other ways of contacting each other. Especially we Life and Spirit users.

How do you explain your strange absences and new obsessions?
These friends are all mages or know about me being a mage; they understand what is going on. But my life is pretty normal anyway... nothing really to explain

Do you involve them in your new work?
Only some of them, and depending on the work. Most of it I can do by myself, it is mainly identifying the ones with and without talent. It isn’t a challenging task

Do other mages know about them?
Yes it is apart of a network known among mages. But I’m not sure if they know which I am friends with and which are just working partners

• What motivates you?
My mentor has been a big motivator. But I normally don’t need one, I am usually self motivated. This also means I can do things at my own pace

What are your goals? Revenge for a past slight? Mastery of an Arcanum or Arcana? To become powerful in mage society? Or do you spurn power for wisdom and spiritual awareness, preferring knowledge to conflict and wealth?
My one and only goal is to live a life that I won’t regret. This isn’t anything too hard to accomplish...

Do you desire to mentor other mages?
Only one: I don’t know which one it will be, but when I see them I will know they are the one and I shall take him or her on and teach all that I know to them.

Do you want others to Awaken?
Yes, some mages don’t as they see it as a threat to them; these people are only worried about personal gain. I can see no harm from it – it can only be a good thing.

If you could have anything you wanted (which isn’t beyond possibility for a mage!), what would it be?
This I am unsure of as of yet.