Koloss17

It’s mostly the Sphere for purely Rosharans. However, you can set up camp just about anywhere! Right now the main plot is focused in the Mistwarrens, but that is subject to change depending on where the story goes. That doesn’t mean you have to live there, but the likelihood of you spending time there is high.

Venser, The Corridor, The Silver Dagger. Venser looked at Keshi curiously. How many do-gooders are going to wind up in this city? Venser had to remind himself that he was one of those do-gooders once. It was before he realized how hopeless this place was, and that he was just better off making a living off of it than going broke trying to fix it. Above all, Venser was a Thaylen. And Thaylens mean business. ”How much are you willing to pay?” He asked. Given his current knowledge, he was much more concerned about getting on the inquisitor’s bad side than an altruistic rat’s.

Well, feel free to either submit a character draft to the Era 7 thread, or send a draft to my DMs. That way I’ll be able to get better advice.

So my biggest concern with that is that it might not be all that fun for other players. And frankly, the only way I can see this playing out is immediate confrontation by any and every person they come across.

Hey everyone! I’ve created myself a new character, in order to better RP with folks while Perses is sitting back and brooding. Their name is Chloris, and they are an ex-Edgedancer with an abusive relationship with a midnight essence (spore-eater style). She’s a good soul, and could frankly run into anyone. The likelihood of joining team Corbeau is likely, as they have similar ideals.

A few notes: @Brik_head and @TheRavenHasLanded: don’t forget to list your character, area of the city, and specific area before getting into what your character does. In this case, it would be formatted like this: Character name, The Mistwarrens, Bendalloy Bar. It doesn’t have to be in every post, but it is useful when starting a character interaction in a new location. In addition, you should tag the people you are interacting with at the end of the post, just to notify the folks you are RPing with that you have responded.

So the biggest thing to consider when building a character is how powerful they are. Right now, we have -a person with a Smedry talent -a Cytonic with only the ability to teleport and cause illusions -an iron misting -an obligator with no powers other than being smart and charismatic -a chromium compounder with the downside of being allergic to chromium -A forger -A bronze compounder -A midnight essence spore-eater with a dead shardblade, with heavy trauma and in an abusive relationship -The main villain of the era, who is an A-bronze F-Tin Twinborn, who is completely blind. He has recently acquired fifth heightening and A-steel and A-iron spikes. He is also slightly insane. Generally speaking, make a character with the base power level without any significant flaws be around the strength of a mid-tier Twinborn. You can definitely have a full Mistborn, but the more powerful the character is, the bigger the flaws should be. Additionally, the more you develop the character, making them more interesting and 3-dimensional, the more you can get away with having a stronger character. Since this is a storytelling RP over a gameplay RP, the more interesting and well developed your character is, the happier everyone will be. As you can see from our current roster, the strongest character is a pseudo inquisitor who is still getting a hang of their powers. However, they are also the main villain, which means that people will naturally gang up on them. The whole idea of power level in this case is to make it so that you find that sweet spot between fun to RP and not encroaching on other people’s ability to be useful in the plot. Besides powers, what do you have in mind personality-wise?

Hmmmmm. Surges are generally quite powerful, shardblades too. I mean, so long as the character is fleshed out, and has pretty strong flaws, it could be alright. For them to be a proper herald would be a bit much I think. Immortality and hundreds, if not thousands, of combat training is a recipe for an overpowered character. And alternate universe Cosmere characters I don’t think have been done before. Could they be done? I mean…maybe? We have alternate earths with the Reckoners, so alternate Cosmeres aren’t that far out of the question. However, I would need a very good reason and a ton of worldbuilding to justify it.

Oh for sure! I’d say anything up to third heightening is going to be a minor advantage, assuming the character is not particularly adept at awakening. If they are, normal merit is probably fair. However, if they are an awakener above all else, it might be higher than that.

Yeah, that’s frankly my thought too. I’m straddling the line between spore and full Aether, and I’m not sure how great that is. However, the best option to fix that would be to go full Aetherbound, which would be pushing further into unknowns Yeah, I certainly have ideas for how her trauma will affect her character. However, given that it was already quite long, I didn’t want to overstuff it. Plus, I’ll get a clearer picture of her trauma and its manifestations as I roleplay. But I will certainly not be disrespectful about it (at least not intentionally!). For the time being, it’s safe to say that she -has issues forming meaningful connections with others due to fear of losing them -Has at least some form of PTSD due to I mean, you name it (being orphaned, losing all of her friends, killing her spren). -unresolved grief from Gideon definitely, and potential unresolved grief from losing her friends and family -Is clingy to those that she does have connections to, which is for now only Minthe. -likely has dissociated from reality in some way due to all of the grief she has experienced over the years Again, further specifics on how those develop will be ironed out in roleplay, and will likely have some other issues as well. I will try not to dabble my toes outside of what I’m knowledgeable in, and will definitely do research on something if I do plan on using it as a facet of her character.

Whell yeah. But from what we have seen, Midnight Essence is by far the most complex. Automatically forming a Luhel bond and having at least some form of basic consciousness/intelligence is something we have not seen in any other spore thus far. Hence why I made this post and not one about Zephyr spore-eaters, for example. But you are right that I have made a bit of a generalization :P.

Whell yeah, but it’s clear midnight essence is much weirder than any other spore, with a level of intelligence that other spores don’t seem to have. How would that work with a spore-eater? I don’t know. But I imagine it would be different than Crow’s affliction.

Oh you're saying that that would be the fate of someone trying to cause harm to a midnight essence spore-eater?

hehe yeah. My thought is that given that midnight essences seem to be much more intelligent than other spores, you could collaborate with them to allow them to do more than simply protect you. Perhaps sharp but brittle swords/claws, or summoning spy goop in a similar way to harnessing them normally. And yes, nightmare goop potential is high.

Chloris Valekev (Chlo, for short)

So basically, the Alleyverse is a dimension where all of Brandon Sanderson’s works can exist within the same universe. Alleycity is the main area where things happen, and it has an extensive history. Though at the moment, we are trying for a soft reset where everything still happened, but for the most part, you don’t need to worry about it. To start, I would brainstorm a character, check out other characters, ask questions, and use your creativity! Once you have a solid character idea, check out the character thread and submit one for approval! Theres a guide here, but it’s a few years old. Most of the things still apply though! Im currently the active “mod” (I stick around, help out, and have character approval privileges, but don’t actually have mod privileges.) The only other ‘active’ mod is @AonEne, who can pop in from time to time to resolve issues. Our current plot revolves around Perses, a pseudo inquisitor that seeks on gaining a foothold in Alleycity, and Corbeau, who is a prelan who seeks to become the mayor of Alleycity. However, for a new player, you can definitely just hop in and figure that kind of stuff out as your character does. The biggest thing to note is that the Alleyverse Roleplay is more of collaborative storytelling than a roleplay, which means we work together to form a plot. There’s no DM, so you need to provide the details and worldbuilding along with the other characters. You are free to make up any details about anything that has not been explicitly stated by another Sharder, and just have fun! If you have any questions, you are free to ask here or ask me! I am honestly considering making a thread about the new fundamentals of the Alleyverse RP, starting with character creation, but for now just look at the character thread and check out what the approved characters have.

Well, I meant venom as in a talking and probably bad influence compatriot, not big fella.

So we have a very basic concept of spore eaters. Spores form a symbiotic relationship with the host, where they protect them in exchange for an ever increasing amount of water. However, midnight spores are much different. The Luhel bond with them are complex, and they seem to have some amount of mind of their own. Would it be a Venom-like situation? And I apologize if this question has been asked before. It just seems to be an interesting premise.

I’m considering making a new character, as that could solve my sitting around with not much to do problem. However, I currently have no real preferences for one. Does anyone have a niche that needs filling? Just some sort of character to help out or be a rival to?

They are legal pretty much anywhere but the US. They are giant African land snails, and they apparently make for great pets! The only reason they can’t be pets in the US is that they are highly invasive.

Hey folks! A Potential issue is arising. @Ookla of whimsy is currently the leading force of two out of the three current thread interactions. Admittedly, they have two characters, but that’s still a lot of pressure on a single human. Is there any way to resolve this issue? Maybe one of the threads gets wrapped up, maybe another human joins in on one of the threads, which would help move that particular interaction along without the input of Ookla if needed. @Edema Rue, @Ravenclawjedi42, @Brik_head, @TheRavenHasLanded, @AonEne, @Lunamor, @Scars of Hathsin(if you are interested) Side note-It might be easy if y’all choose to follow this thread, so that way I wouldn’t need to worry about pinging ya if I need to do something kinda like this. And side side note—Perses is still not doing a whole lot, and part of that is because I don’t have a good way to currently RP them in the story.

;( whyyy? They’re friend shaped!

Well, so long as you can guesstimate on how much luck that would give your character, it works for me! Character approved!

Interesting! So how does the allergy manifest? Is it a histamine response of some sort? Is it magical or just an unfortunate coincidence?

He actually would fit into the story quite well, I think. @Ookla of whimsy is in a bit of a slump with their character and where to go, and your character bumping into them would be a good way to get the ball rolling again. As to changes, it’s mostly finding stronger flaws or lowering the strengths of the character, and then you’re looking pretty good!