Introduce Yo' Bad Self | OOC Meet and Greet

[postergirl]

 

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Well, since the game officially opens as of Tuesday -> Wednesday at midnight EST, I figured I would put this up now, so we have a chance to do introductions!  Rather than having everyone make an individual OOC post, I thought we could do it all in one get-to-know-each-other post like this.  

For one, this game may be different from others you have been in, because when it comes to your original characters, you are encouraged not to OOCly tell other people all about their background/secrets/etc.  I'm going to run this as much like a tabletop campaign as possible without bogging it down in rules and mechanics, but the act of being surprised along with your characters, ICly and OOCly, is an essential part of the fun in that!  This is why all apps are screened, btw.  

However, there are things that would be obvious off your character off the bat, so feel free to talk about any of those things / their surface personality / appearance / skills / etc!  And you can use this post to share any other info you think would be useful for others to know about the way you like to game / your time zone / etc.  :)  

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS, GUYS.  And ask you to be open and communicative with me on any questions you might have that crop up as we go along.  \o\   

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GAMEMASTER || Arden

[rationalizes]

I am the mod and Game Master of knightsoflegend, and I... already know everyone who happens to be here right now, but WHATEVER, I AM INTRODUCING MYSELF ANYWAYS. B|

I'm on EST, and can be reached anytime through plurk (ardendactyl), AIM (thegreatmuldini), PMs, or the mod contact post.

I won't be playing any "PCs" so to speak in this game, but I will be playing a gigantic cast of NPCs, who will be super involved in things, and act... more or less... like playable characters, except that they are my chess pieces to get certain plot events, storylines, etc. moved along. As they're introduced into the game, you will be able to see all of them listed here at any time.

Trying to run a DW RP in this style has long been a dream of mine, and the storyline of this game will be based directly off the plot of a campaign I ran for my friends back between 2003 and 2005. I'm interested to see how it diverges, and apologize in advance for how much of the soundtrack will seem ridiculously dated.

Oh, yeah. By the way, I obsessively soundtrack everything, and you can expect to see musical cues in mod posts and NPC threads, all of the time. You can find clues to the plot line in a lot of the songs, so if you're the type who likes to obsess over that kind of thing... well, you will have lots to do.

ANYWAYS, HI AND WELCOME, AND ILU ALL. ♥

and yes that picture above was taken of my actual dice bag. THOSE ARE THE DICE WITH WHICH I WILL DETERMINE YOUR FATE MWA HA HA

DESMOND DESCANT | Chris

[nothingsodivine]

I'm Chris and I play this guy (and another guy, provided I get his app finished in time and he gets accepted). I'm on EST and you can always contact me on Plurk (quasigina).

Des is a paranormal investigator who works alongside the Knights, but is not fully affiliated with them, which means you might not see him a whole lot at first, but that's okay, because once he's in your lives, he'll never let go, because he's stubborn and obsessive like that.

I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE. :D

SPIKE and ANDIE DODGE | Shana

[bigbad]

Hello! I'm Shana! I've been playing D&D since high school, and RPing online for slightly longer. This is the first time I've combined the two, and I'm psyched. Also, I'm an obsessive Buffy the Vampire fan and I read lots of comics.

I'll be playing Spike, who is a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and easily google-able should you want to know more. He wants to know more. All he remembers from home is the full plot of the television show Passions. It should be interesting since I've never SEEN Passions, but that is what Wikipedia and Google are for.

Andie Dodge is my OC. She's got the power to run really, really, really fast and the attention span to match it. Also, she's freaking adorable.

If you want to contact me, I'm aboutblood on AIM and shanajeanh on... plurk. Can't wait to start!

MARTHA JONES / Megan

[sparklepwny]

Hi, I'm Megan! I'm, uh, not really used to D&D, but I want to learn more because it is awesome.

Anyway, I currently have Martha Jones, who is from that one show about that dude who travels through time, or something like that. Except she can't actually remember him, whoops. And she's a doctor! Which, you know, is always useful in RPGs, though slightly less useful if you have ~magic~ healers and shit around.

Also I'm currently working on an OC technomage who casts spells with a smartphone. Alas, this does not mean she can throw spherical birds at people this should totally be a spell.

I'm on CST, and you can contact me by plurk (sanestlunatic) or PM or what have you, I'm easy.

[bigbad]

Oooh, a technomage sounds awesome. As does the bird spell. And Martha Jones. HI MEGAN!

Alainn O'Rourke / Christine

[attollores]

Hey all, I'm Christine! Yeah, I know this is uh...kinda late to put this up, but I just waned to say HEY!

This is my first time online RP-ing in this style...so I am hella nervous. If you see anything that I do wrong, or weird, or...you know just dumb, puh-lease tell me! I really want to do well, and would rather not embarrass myself too darn much :P.

My character Alainn is actually the first ever D&D character I played, and she is original to the plot of this game, though not exactly in the time frame which we are playing. She is a Mage (spellcaster), who walks around with a huge red-tailed hawk hanging off her arm most of the time. She also happens to have an extremely heavy Irish accent, which is hard to get across through typing, though I will attempt some grammatical changes to help prod that along. When I played her for the 2 years which the actual Table-top RPG lasted, I spoke the entire time with the Irish accent, so it's near and dear to my heart :).

I'm glad to meet you all, and excited to try this out!

Oerba Dia Vanille // Brandi

[oerban]

I'm Brandi, and I'm going to be playing Vanille from Final Fantasy XIII here. I've never done a single D&D thing in my entire life, so this is a new and very nervewracking experience for me, but I'm really excited! I will need hand holding and help, I'm sure, but I restate that I'm very excited.

Vanille is from Final Fantasy XIII and her job/class in game is essentially a mage. She has a wandering Australian accent that shows up heavily sometimes and then is hardly there at all others, so...I apologize for that now. She comes across as very hyper and occasionally annoyingly so, and is very animated and expressive. She uses her hands to express a lot of things, so I hope that comes through when tagging with her. She has a bad habit of closing her eyes and thinking of better times, or just up and running away when scary/bad things happen. This will happen frequently.

I think I know quite a few of you, but I'm excited to meet everyone I don't already know yet. ♥

Francesca | Karen

[socialgraces]

Hi, I'm Karen. I'm playing Francecsa, an original character who I also played in the table top RP of this game a few years back. This is my first online RP and I'm very excited for it, but very nervous too, so forgive me if I'm slow in the start.

Francesca has been a Knight of the Silver Dragon for over 100 years at this point and is a Freelance Knight, which means she doesn't belong to a particular sect but fills in on missions where needed. She's a drow, or dark elf, and has dark skin and white hair. She can sometimes be very reserved and private, but is friendly and assuring in one-to-one social situations.

I can be best reached on AIM and my screenname is spicykitty04 so feel free to message me if you want to talk about anything!

[witchwoman]

I see your dice pic and raise you one of my own. I took this for a class, trying to explain dice punishment systems. That'll show those dice B|

Anyway! Hey guys- I'm Alli and I'll be bringing in this girl here who is NOT a character from the Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and Fire. She's from another set of books entirely. Her name is Myrilandel and I do not expect you to know anything about her because I do not think anyone else in the world has ever read her trilogy /sobs She's going to be slow to get close to anyone, but that doesn't mean that I don't look forward to threading with each and every one of you! She just won't make a best friend right away. Don't be offended, k? <3

I'm a major D&D nerd and this game warms my heart because it means I can use all my years of gaming experience and put them to an epic use.

If you ever want or need to get a hold of me, you can find me on plurk here or on AIM at airchildstrega

Arthur Pendragon / Amber

[king]

hi! I'm Amber, and I'm bringing in everyone's favourite once and future king. he's from BBC's Merlin which enjoys differing wildly from Arthurian legend and indeed from... commonly-known historical facts! yeah!!! have some contact info, there is also a lot of stuff in this journal.

I've played Arthur in a few games, but this is the first time I've experimented with memoryloss, and I'm really excited to have Arthuriana built so strongly into the game's premise, so I look forward to a lot of character development.

I've been tabletop gaming for about twelve years, though my campaigns died down to accommodate my obsession with online journal rp which I guess I became really heavily involved with six years ago. While I've played quite a few D&D campaigns, my interest has always been with D10s and I'm mostly only a munchkin in the various White Wolf 'verses. (you know, that knowledge level difference between a few casual games and GMing for a two year campaign.)

basically this RPG is my wet dream and I'm so excited to be here. idk if I will app anyone else since Arthur uses up about 90% of my online time, but I have a Rokugan OC that I played for a 26-levels-in-52-weeks OA campaign whose core concept and history I think would adapt really well to this setting, so we'll see!

also I have no belief in dice magic so I use Pip for iPhone. I know, I know.

eta I also play Fyrel Lear now at lear. she is shrouded in mystery. and my plurk is greyjoy!

[spymaster]

I'm Knight and I'm bringing in James Watson here from Sanctuary! The easiest way to sum him up is Sherlock Holmes, so take from that what you will!

It's been a while since I've played D&D but, I've been wanting to for a while now and finding here well was a great find! But I'm also very familiar with Warhammer and it's various incarnations, as well that was what I grew up on. So I apologize for some jokes that may not make sense to you because of that.

I'm, planning on maybe an OC in a month or two as well depending on things, as I love building characters.

If you need me you can get me on atlantisknight or PM my journal or AIM: zaftswordfish. I can't wait to get started here though!

[aproperdoctor]

What's her trilogy I WILL TOTALLY READ IT

/dork

assuming I can find it to pirate it

[witchwoman]

Irene Radford's Dragon Nimbus History. The first book is called The Dragon's Touchstone.

Totally worth digging for :D

[servant]

It just occurred to me that I never did this either...

Okay! I'm mi and I play that guy I seem to play everywhere, Merlin from BBC's series of the same name. I remember playing D&D with my step-uncle and his friends when I was younger, but it's been awhile, so please be patient with me!

I'm pretty much open to all the things and if you need to contact me, you're welcome to PM this journal or hit me up on Plurk @ aokigahara.

I've been active for a couple of days and loving it! ♥

Andrea Anderson | OC

[piratitude]

So hello I'm late getting to this, but my name is Rebecca and I am playing Andrea here. She is, as you can probably guess, a pirate. But don't let the word scare you. She was actually a privateer, which if you don't know is basically an...anti-pirate pirate. She's very nice, I promise, as well as crass, obnoxious, and uh...very generous with her affections.../shifty eyes

I pretty much eat, sleep and breathe D&D when I'm not RPing around here. I think I've been at it about seven years now. I actually have a YouTube channel filled with videos from some of our games. Andrea is in fact a former character from a fairly recent campaign, though nowadays we run Pathfinder, which is basically still D&D with less balance issues.

But anyway, I find the idea of this game very intriguing and I can't wait to play more with you guys (even if I am slowwwwwww /sob)

Rayna | Kory

[mellifluence]

Helloooo everyone! I'm Kory, and I'll be playing Rayna here. She's a fairly introverted and kind girl from the Colorado mountains who loves animals. She'll be carting her dog and hawk halfway across the world to live with her, too. :)

A fair warning, this is my first venture into D&D, but I'm trying to learn fast. Feel free to tell me if I'm doing it wrong, though. I don't mind! I just think everyone here is fantastic so I wanted to give it a go. ♥

I can be found at korynth on plurk and kawaiipancake on AIM. I look forward to playing with everyone so much!

[witchwoman]

hello! I'm Alli and I play this girl named Myrilandel from a book series no one else has ever heard of called the Dragon Nimbus History. Myri has a familiar and will be stoked to see other animals running around.

Also, I'm pretty well versed in D&D so if you have any questions and the lovely game master is busy, I never mind passing along some knowledge :)

Iiiii am going to add you on plurk, if that is alright. I'm airchildstregs over there.

Hope to play with you soon!

[mellifluence]

Oh goodness, thank you! I could certainly use the help. I have pretty much been stalking the game since Arden opened it, and I just have to say that Myri is so adorable. ♥

[witchwoman]

lksdjflskjf stalking is just how people show their love, so I totally appreciate it. <333

Tallisibeth Enwandung-Esterhazy (Scout)

[burnsbright]

Idk if this will get read, but hey, what will it hurt! I'm Joysweeper. This is Scout. She's one of my favorite characters ever, basically a young Jedi with weak powers and a lot of heart. Another author took her and had her survive Order Sixty-Six but also kind of. Mangled her character horribly. But that's what amnesia is for!

She's good at choking people and treating wounds. She's best at scoping out situations. She's not so good at the Force, and she's abysmal at giving up.

"Too few Jedi have I already. But even had I a crop of thousands, small one, I would not let you go without a fight. Spirit and determination you have. Between the stars, so much darkness there is. Why would I throw away one who burns so bright?"

[king]

idk about everyone else, but i track top-level comments to this post. i am excited for Jedi times! and adding you on plurk. :)

[burnsbright]

|D Not that she's likely to tell anyone about the Jedi thing. Genocide and all... Sure, there's no Empire here, yet, but life-giving paranoia, plus what if first contact happens?

Woot!

[slays]

Heeeey, I know you! Welcome to the game, I hope you like it and I'm glad to see you here!

[burnsbright]

Hey! Thank you, I'm hoping so too!

[mellifluence]

Jooooys! ♥ So happy to have you here. :)