The Ruins of Serathlia (OOC + Sign-Ups)

[Eikre]

[Insert Fanciful picture here]​

Pre-Fall Storyline:

What does it mean to stand the test of time anyways? Does it mean you survived? Did you leave an imprint on the book of history? Are you remembered in the hearts of others?

Regardless of the answer, the fact still remains that Serathlia, once a powerful city-state, failed in its test.

It was a grand place. High walls protected the city, with its design unlike anything else. It flew in the skies as a massive floating island, a venerable paradise within. Magic ruled here, and life flourished. However, as with all power, there was corruption. Others without it decided that they were going to take that power, and distribute it amongst themselves to garner the full power of Serathlia's magics.

Only problem was: They failed, though only in the course that the fighting reduced the city they were fighting for to ashes and rubble. In a magical cataclysm, the city was destroyed, and its inhabitants were either dead, dying, or missing. The island that housed the city, as well was what was left, fell into a vast open plain and destroyed it, turning a massive crater into a desert.

But there was still power to be had. And of course, magical residue like that is going to lure monsters to that area. Not that it's stopped anyone.

Present Day Storyline:

It was a night to be remembered. It was the coming of age party for one Eikre Dar'Nell. There was great fun, and awesome music. In the interests of giving back to the community that had housed him for so long, he gathered his friends to a table, and laid out a map that was given to him as a present by his uncle.

It was a map to, and inside, the fabled ruins of Serathlia.

Not questioning where it had come from, nor questioning the danger, the only topic being heard at that table for hours after he had unrolled the map was the adventures and the loot to be had inside the ruins. Rare magical doohickeys and weapons aplenty were inside, waiting to be claimed!

They agreed to meet again at this table again tomorrow at noon to begin the adventure of a lifetime.​

Serathlia in a nutshell:

This is a very easy plot line to get. In a medival-fantasy era, there was this flying city-state thingie, and it was LOADED with magic and power. Obviously, somebody didn't like that, and decided to try and shift that power, and failed spectacularly, resulting in the destruction of most of the inhabitants, and portions of the town, and the whole damn island crashed down to earth. Now, generations after the incidents had been wiped from the memories of others short of legends, a group of young'ns think they can go in and loot the place.

We're the youngsters. Simple as that.​

Rules

1)I'm new here, but I know this is "Advanced". PROVE IT.
2)HAVE FUN OR GTFO.
3)You will be young, even if you're an Elf. Thus your life will be quite short, and relatively uneventful. And you will have friends, so no emo stuffs.
4)No super awesome weapons/armors/spells/abilites. With luck, you'll be getting these in the rp anyways.
5)Did I mention to have fun?
6)Somewhere in your profile, include the word "sunshine". Don't just put it at the top of your profile, actually use the word sunshine.
7) Keep this at a PG-13 level, 'k? No massive details about inner organs, no details about how steamy you inn stay was. There really is no need for all of that.
8) Obey the common courtesy of RPing, plzkthnx. If not, bai.

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Character's Name: Eikre Dar'Nell (EYE-kruh Daar-NELL, Phonetically)
Gender: Male
Race: Half-Elf
Appearance: Eikre stands about five and a half feet tall, and has got the thickness of a month old sapling. Starting from the top, he's got a mop of silvery-white hair and a rat-tail that's about shoulder length, with sky-blue eyes.

Personality: Eikre is a rather energetic lad with a happy-go-lucky sense of optimism. He's always ready to try something new, or to jump in the fray to help out a buddy. If curiosity could kill a cat, then it's all very well that Eikre is not feline, otherwise he would have used up all nine lives by now. Eikre is sure of himself, and perhaps is unaware of a little ego developing inside of him, but tries to bring up people around him while he's a it. He's a little absent-minded, and compulsive, but we all have our blemishes.

History: Eikre was born to a pair of rangers that defending the surrounding country side from small threats and the like. When the kid Eikre was growing up, he was always getting into trouble, usually on "an adventure", like his parents used to. This wasn't helped out at all by an "uncle" that had adopted Eikre while his parents were gone for some reason. A couple of years ago, Eikre discovered he could cast magic through focus and sheer will. Prodded on by his elvish mother, who approved of the magic coursing through his veins, Eikre began to train himself to the point where he could cast a load of simple spells by simply shaping the magic in his head. Then, on his coming of age party, his uncle had given him a map to, and inside of, the fabled Serathlia. This provided the ultimate adventure for him, and so he gathered his friends (And a few other interested) to discuss going there.

Job: Sorcerer
Skills:A diverse set of siimple spells, but occasionally gets lucky with power surges.
Weapon: A simple punching dagger

And the Party's List?
Eikre ~ Eikre Dar'Nell
Jopari ~ Ilana Riestan
Novaix ~ Hallan Oland
Cicero ~ Ravage Sunshine
Solareon ~ Ryu Kenyaka
XiphonIII ~ Senya Taino​

 

[Endless Warrior Sora]

Reserve me, this loks interesting....

But...if we don;t have swords and stuff...what do we do?

 

[Eikre]

You're allowed swords. You're just not allowed to have anything that like Cloud's lolsword or anything amazing like that.

So something simple, like an axe you bought at the local blacksmith or a spear you picked up from a goblin you shot down with your homemade bow. Like I said, with luck, you'll be getting cool gear later on.

If you've played the likes of Icewind Dale, you'll see what I'm talking about. I hope.

EDIT: Wait, durr. Forgot about that. My bad.

 

[Jopari]

Character's Name: Ilana Riestan
Gender: Female
Race: Human

Appearance: Ilana is a young human female tanned from playing and working in the sunshine. She has shoulder length ash blonde hair that she generally lets fall naturally. Her bangs frame her soft face and light blue eyes. Illana has an average build that comes from her life, not too muscular, but not startlingly thin.
Ilana’s wardrobe consists of mostly cotton shirts and pants of neutral colours, like tan, black and white. Her most common outfit is a light cotton shirt with pants. The shirt is a light brown and the pants are a darker shade. She wears a pair of work boots normally, and a rolled up white bandanna tied around her left wrist. She sometimes wears a long white cotton coat that has a gusset down the back for ease of movement during riding. The front of the coat buttons up, though she leaves it open most of the time.

Personality: Ilana is happy with her life and doesn’t let much get her down. She’s not giddy however, but rather down to earth with a focus on making the best of what she’s got. Not one to start fights, or get too involved with violence Ilana has a reputation as a passive girl. She does love adventure though, and always finds time to explore what she can. She knows the entire town like the back of her hand and is the quickest in any race, often reminding others of this. Her ego has gotten her into trouble more than once though, but she makes no effort to curb it.

History: Ilana was the first daughter of the town’s stable master. Despite his disappointment in not getting a son to be his heir he tried to raise her as best he could. Ilana learned to ride at a young age, and learned more about animals than some farmers her family knew. She grew up normally enough, only a bit more emphasis on “boy” things due to her mother’s apparent inability to bear a son. In recent years she has become the errand runner for the stables, delivering messages and such all across the town and surrounding area. She revels in the chance to explore the world in their journey to Serathalia.

Job: Scout
Skills: Incredibly fast runner and quick to find paths that other people cannot. Her skill with animals stemming from her work in the stables also helps her greatly.
Weapon: A simple short sword given to her by her father along with a small knife hidden in the folds of the bandanna around her wrist.

 

[Solareon]

I'm in, I'll be posting my temp soon, but I have a qenstion by young do you mean a kid or a teen?

 

[Jopari]

I went with teen in my description. >.> Though it could be younger. I dunno.

 

[Novaix]

Character's Name: Hallan Oland
Gender: Male
Race: Human

Appearance: Hallan is a young human male with light skin. He has short, light brown hair that is spiked at the back and has medium length bangs at the front {Much like Sasuke from naruto's hair}. He has hazel eyes that shine in the sunshine, he has a average build and is quite short
Hallan's clothes consist of a navy blue, baggy half-robe that ends at his thighs. He wears simple black pants with brown buckled boots, on his right arm he wears a large gauntlet that extends from his hand up to his shoulder, there is a dragon type designed shoulder pad connected to the gauntlet.

Personality: Hallan is well-mannered youth who helps all who ask him. He is very helpful and doesn't deny the chance to help the needy, though his helpful attitude is sometimes used against him by the wrong people. Hallan is an excellent judge of character who makes friends to some of the most trustworthy people in the world, he himself is very trustworthy being very loyal and protective of his friends.

History: Hallan's parents were an unlikely couple. His mother was one of the few female knights and his father was a simple mage, they raised Hallan, his father schooling him while his mother taught him the basics of combat. When Hallan was matured his mother was killed in a battle leaving his father to look after him. A messenger came to their house shortly after her death, presenting the only items that haden't been looted from her corspe by theives, her Gauntlet and her sword. Hallan took these and wore them in honor of his mother and became a strong young man. He wants to protect his friends during his journey to Serathalia.

Job: MageKnight

Skills: Hallan is training in the art of magic but he can only use basic spells such as tiny fireballs. He is average in combat focusing in speed more than power, Hallan also is an expert in first aid.

Weapon: A medium sized two-handed broadsword that belonged to his mother

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Are we allowed to have magic? if not i'll change it

 

[Cicero]

The rules got me over.

Character's Name: Ravage Sunshine

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: A gentle face with small, dark-brown eyes and common short hair bearing the same color as those eyes. Not being able to buy high-quality, his wardrobe consists of a simple brown leather tunic, a black belt to keep his dark-green pants up, and some fancy shoes he stole from a rich person once. He has multiple types of leather sacks and packages hanging around his belt containing all sorts of things...

Considering jewelry; he just has a simple silver necklace with a suncrest hanging around his neck, a gift from his father said to have belonged to his late mother.

Personality: An outgoing fellow. Never really talks about feelings of himself, but sucks the information out of others without them knowing it: a handy skill when being a deciever and a thief. He was egocentric by nature but let that slip into a more egoistic life style fairly quick. Hardly noticeable though, as his charming skills make up for it: being nice and galant is also a good thing when you want to decieve for a job. Just know that within, he actually, well, just thinks about himself.

History: Being born in a small town without much importance his early life wasn't all that special. Raised solely by his father, he had never known his mother. Father never spoke of her. To use this intro sentence again: being born in a small town without much importance, he hardly ever experienced something weird or different. This, as it does to most adventurous souls, arose an undying fire within his heart telling him to leave and roam the world. And so he did, just like that. His father looked at him as if he knew something he didn't, but then laughed and said he'd miss him and await his return. He gave him a nice necklace as well. 'From your mother' were his only words.

Now, after roaming the world for a year, he was flat-broke and stranded in a lovely town. He's been here for a few months already, living of the streets: this life wasn't everything after all. He left that thought though when he met a young man name Eikre. Also being an adventurous guy; they had some good times togheter. And now his new-made friend had called him for a party, and showed all a map to the mysterious ruins of Serathlia. This was going to be the adventure of a lifetime.

Job: Thief/Freelancer, does what he can to get some bread.

Skills: Has sticky fingers...

Weapon: A long spear made from the finest wood; a dark-green type as hard as stone. The blade is a simple one; hard steel with sharp edges, you know what a spear looks like. Just under the blade rests a dark-blue ribbon wrapped around the stick, fluttering in the wind. He once heard that the color blue frightens enemies, plus he thought it looked cool. He always gives the weapon a cool name, which changes with the day. It mostly involves names like 'The Sunshine Spear'.

 

[Solareon]

Character's Name: Ryu Kenyaka

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance:

A boy with a young happy face, Ryu's features are just like most his age since he is still young and life hasn’t really changed him at all. The boy has brown hair that reaches down to his neck and has some bangs in front of his face but none blocking his view, Ryu has dark blue eyes, and a type of sun like skin, not dark though just noticeable that the young boy spends much if not all of his time outside.

His outfit is a brown sleeveless tunics with a white cotton shirt underneath it, his pants are mostly brown cotton pants held up by a blue cloth belt, Ryu wears string tied boots that have been somewhat worn out from all the traveling he does, he also wears a necklace around his neck at all times, his mother gave it to him, not worth much but he tends to hold on things his family gives him. Ryu sometimes wears a tattered brown cloak that he wears when the weather gets into harsh conations, for a sum up Ryu's cloths are motleys old and not very expensive and most of the time he doesn't have many but no complaints from this boy, most of his cloths were made by though like his cloak some are tattered from traveling..

Personality: A free spirit, that's what his brother use to call him. Ryu is a type of boy that never really cared about the stressful ways of life, he's always more a follow the wind kind of kid, never really going over board on things but always finding ways to have fun. some of tried to cal him simple minded but the truth is he just has simple pleasures, his view of a good time would just be sitting in a tree on a windy day looking at the clouds go by, feeling the sunshine on hisc face and then watching the sun set before he would star gaze. His life is very simple in his travels and he doesn't really get into trouble but the time to time fight, late at night he does think about his brother and home but he knows there ok. Though Ryu does have things that spark his interests, he's becoming pretty found of the sword, being very agile and skillful with it, his dream is to one day become a great warrior.

History: Ryu was a born into a family of farmers, though not your average farm, his family took care of creatures and animals that could be thought of as dangers to your well being, like wolves, over sized bats, and at least a dragon a year, though the dragons were taken care of his farther in a place very far from his home. He had a older brother named Kage who like Ryu wanted to be a warrior, his family had backed his brother all the way and told him to follow his dreams, his brother trained hard when he wasn’t taking care of the farm but when he turned fourteen he left to do his training around the world, his parents let him and his brother left him with one dream, to be a warrior like his brother. His folks understood that Ryu wanted to be like his brother so his farther had made a sword for him, not a greatest sword in the world but it was great to him, a sword made by his farther given to him meant for to Ryu than anything, he left on his journey to become a real warrior. About a year later Ryu's training has been going well and his next stop on his journey is to Serathalia.

Job: Warrior

Skills: Ryu is a talented young warrior, his skills with the sword are improving as he keeps traveling though he's far from becoming a master. The youth is also good with dealing with animals and certain types of creatures from working on a farm, Ryu is also good with a sense of direction from his travels.

Weapon: A simple sword that had been made by his farther, the hilt is old metal that had been melted down from some armor they had found while working in the farm one day when his brother was still around, the hilt was made to look like a dragon and the sword has the words courage scraped into it by his farther. It took awhile to make but after being given to him Ryu's sword become one of his most prized items.

 

[Eikre]

Jopari: Nice seeing you again. You're in. =D

Novaix: You're in too. Magic is all good, we need someone to throw fireballs.

Cicero: You're in too. Also, I copy-pasta'd the rules from this in another forum. Which is why it says I'm new =P


Solareon:...as much as I like the character...I'd have to say no. You missed a small, but required detail. :<

 

[Solareon]

LOL oh I see what I missed, sorry man I was kinda out of it when I made the temp. Anyway I fixed it.

 

[Eikre]

When Cicero comes back and edits his profile, we can start this adventure!

Yay.

 

[Cicero]

I'm done. I went along and made us friends, Eikre, hope you don't mind. ^^

Tell me if I need to edit something.

 

[Jopari]

This still on? I'd be happy to have something a bit lighter than Slipstream on my plate.

 

[Eikre]

Hey guys, forgot to mention: IC THREAD OVER HERE. <--(That/this is a link)

 

[XiphonIII]

Is it too late to join?

Character's Name: Senya Taino

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Appearance: Straight black hair, about four to five inches long, but he has let it go wild, and it now sticks out in tufts and knots. He wears various clothing, he is usually seen in some kind of breathable desert clothing(think jasper from rouge galaxy), and a tattered gray cloak he got from his mentor and father figure, Gentalin. Has blue eyes, and is around 5' 10". He is quite lithe, and some have even called him almost elf-like.

Personality: Never one to stay still for long, Senya has a quite excitable personality. He has always been fond of motion, and considers it an artform. Slightly distrusting, due to his childhood being abused by the other, larger, orphans, but with an extremely strict personal code of honor, he would never let a friend down, and trusts his true friends with his life. Can, however, be manipulative at times, and never lets his guard down.

History: Senya was an orphan. He never knew his true parents, and was left in an orphanage. At the age of eight, he ran away, and never looked back. He lived on his own, learning how to read the system, and the people who formed it, and manipulate both. He was discovered by Gentalin, a fire eater in a traveling circous, and respected for the first time in his life. He took up with the fire eater, whom he learned was also an acrobat, and became his apprentice. He was beginning to become quite the little performer, when at the age of thirteen, he was left behind in a small town, with nothing but his mentor's tattered gray cloak, and a note saying that Gentalin wanted him to have a better life than his. He was taken in by the innkeeper, and sometimes entertained the guests for spare money, making fast friends with some of the locals. It was on one of his many nights relaxing in the tavern downstairs that he joine in on Eikre's party, and decided to tag along. He missed the traveling of his youth, the adventure, the sunshine, the mystery of the unknown, and besides, it might be fun. They may even run into Gentalin. after these four long years.

Job: Fire Eater, Acrobat(I know, not real jobs...he'll learn one later....keep a bowman spot open for me.)

Skills: Senya is a talented fire eater, and this can be a good distraction to get his friends out of trouble, besides merely the usefulness of the skill in combat. He was also trained as an acrobat, and has extreme control over the motions his body makes, other than the fact that he can't sit still. He also is reasonably skilled with a crossbow, but has not saved up enough money for one of his own yet.

Weapon: His fire, as well as his body, a formidable weapon of it's own.

 

[Eikre]

You're in. Seeing as you already posted, I can't really deny you anyways. You'll be fine.

Also, there were no set "Classes", I just added that in as a guide for those who wanted to know.

 

[XiphonIII]

Oh, okay, cool. And you could have denied me if you really wanted....Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing how this progresses.....

 

[XiphonIII]

Hmm....hey, Eikre, did this die? I really didn't want it to. If it did, may I have permission to post it on Role Play Gateway? I'll PM you a link if you want....

 

[FinalSora04]

I'll join if there is still room...

Edit: O wait, it's dead..