Comatose

You need to set up a separate account (we have individual character accounts for MBI, so we keep it separate from the main page). The crafty games section of the site isn't up and running quite yet, but I believe Kuri and Shivertongue are running campaigns, and are in the process of getting things going.

There's already a couple campaigns of the crafty version being set up on the MBI site.

Because I thought this would be a fun game, and Pokemon is singled out in the topic description (deliberately). Apologies if it is way too easy. If the difficulty need raising, I'm sure some more confounding silhouettes can be found. Still, let's start with an easy one:

I'm still dwelling on my rogue type character (considering a Beguiler) not sure if that counts as a trapper or not. I've just been super swamped, and my lack of familiarity with the game system is making it time consuming.

Another difference is that, in Tolvera, K'rrhl and Bix, while uncommon, aren't really world. Since earth-shells are quite secretive, I'm sure the guards were surprised to see him when he entered the city, but they were able to identify what he was, and would have allowed him in. From what I gather, not much is known about the Hamartions in Tolvera (of course, I could be completely wrong about this). Thus, we can assume anyone from Tolvera would react similarly to a giant grey insectoid as people in our world would. Would you accept a bribe if Zeratul was asking to come into your house? Furthermore, you'd have to figure out how he escapes from the guards when he is so easily noticeable. Like I said, all these problems would be solved if the Hamartians are a known race on Altieryn. But Comatose, Altieryn is not our world. It's different, and full of weird creatures, so Hamartians shouldn't stand out so much. Like Kuri said, the other races we've created aren't weird on Altieryn. Seeing an earthshell in Tolvera is roughly the same as seeing an indigenous Guatemalan in Norway (though slightly less shocking, I'll admit, since indigenous Guatemalans aren't made of rock and prone to instantaneous tunneling). It could happen, and probably has multiple times. But it's not something you see every day. Seeing a Hamartian is like seeing... well... a Hamartian . I hope that helps and wasn't entirely redundant.

Kuri, for a long time I too, held the honor of being the sole obligator according to the group listing. Then I got spiked, and they took away my pretty grey letters. Ugh... red. I hate red. Don't abuse the power, haha. Just so you know, you guys are not helping me to resist the temptation to stage a coup and take over this place... I keep trying to tell you I'm a power hungry psychopath, but you're response is consistently, "Let's give Matt MORE power." It's like your ASKING to be ousted. In all seriousness, thanks for the promotion guys, I hope I don't mess things up. Also, Zas wins for referencing Utopia Green.

If your question is about the in-world organized religion (which is what I think you are asking), I think it varies quite a bit from culture to culture. That's just based on my understanding though, and I'm not sure how much Kuri has defined the religion of Xanthuru, and how much he has left up to the players.

I think it would be cool for the two to interact as well. IT will be interesting to see how Sayuri responds, especially since she has gone against the values of her culture officially, but many of them are still a part of her, since she was raised by them.

If Caton is dead, it's dead. That's fine. I just had a humorous idea and decided to go with it. Don't stress if you'd rather not bother.

Name : Chunky Gender : Male Age : Unkown Class/occupation: Object of study Species : Mistwraith breed: Uses the bones of the common tabby cat (found dead in an alley) relationships: Love/Hate relationship with former obligator owner, Felicity. (MBI crossover? WHAT?) Description: Chunky looks like the average tabby cat, except for the fact that his skin is entirely transparent. Also, occasionally he develops random bulges here or there. Nobody really knows why. Spikes: Chunkey has seven spikes, though they are not the standard (waiting for approval). There are four atium ones (one each for allomantic atium, malatium, gold, and electrum). Not really understanding how to use these powers leaves Chunkey often very dazed and confused. Being a mistwraith, he has less need for feruchemical gold or atium. His other three spikes are a combination of zinc and copper spikes, used to bring sentience. However, the spikes used on Chunky were fourth-hand, and had been in storage for some time. Even with three, he was only barely breached the barrier between being a sentient life form and a thoughtless scavenger. Personality: Likes: potted plants and the pots they come in, rancid meet, falling down stairs. Dislikes: old people. Habits: Digesting random things, randomly burning some combination of atium, gold, malatium, and electrum and becoming so disorientated he falls down stairs, forming random bulges on his body for no apparent reason. Skills: Very hard to kill, functionally immortal, weak only to acid. Impossible to corrupt with ideas contrary to the Caton's goals (also impossible to indoctrinate). Background/history: Chunky was found at a very young age, in 918 FE, by a retired obligator named Felicity. Hoping to study mistwraiths, the old woman abducted Chunky before he could grow to the monstrous size he was surely destined for, and kept him in her shop. In order to keep him at a manageable size, the cruel woman kept him on a diet of only what was needed to survive. Driven to extremes by hunger, Chunky often tried to find other sources of food, such as Felicity's many potted plants, or the pots they were planted in (the pots were usually the safer of the two). When he was caught doing this, Felicity would often kick him down the stairs, heedless of the pain it caused him, leaving him all night to wallow in pain in her basement until the next morning when she brought him the bones of another small animal to use for a body (all ready picked clean by one of her kandra). It was a harsh life, but Chunky was nearly mindless at time, so it didn't matter overly much to him. In their time together, he actually began to develop a fondness for Felicity, even though he hated her as much as a mindless scavenger could hate for starving him and kicking him down the stairs. Then one day, the old hag died, leaving Chunky alone. He survived out in the wild for a time. He found, however, that Felicity's treatment of him had severely stunted his growth. As things were, he was unable to grow beyond the size of a larger than average house cat. He lived in the alley ways of luthadel, surviving off of scraps. Years passed this way, and Chunky watched (or ignored) the fall of hte final empire, the near destruction of the world, and the rebuilding with mild indifference. Then one day, he was found by the Caton. Using mainly cat bones at the time to form his skeleton, the agent (likely an incompetent human hireling, for what Cat would be so foolish?) mistook him for a strange breed of feline. When he was brought back, the human's cat masters harshly rebuked him and had him turned into a spike. Then they had to decide what to do about Chunky. Some argued to throw him back out in the wild, but somehow, something about his pitiful, twisted, stunted form demanded pity. It was decided he would be made into a Cat-Quisitor, like the rest of them, for the ostensible reason of doing tests on him, because of his unique situation. Not wanting to use fully charged spikes on so lowly a creature (not even a real mammal, let alone a feline), left over spikes were used instead. They also included several temporal allomantic powers, wanting to see how an inferior mind would cope with such a confusing combination of powers. And so Chunky was born.

I'm really liking the beguiler option. They sound kind of cool. So, Prestige classes are ones that can be upgraded to later, but not used at the start right? Trying to make sure I understand. Also, what are the "simple weapons", and what is the difference between them and the weapons that are class specific? Still trying to wrap my head around how the stat system works... any tips or easier explanations than have already given would be much obliged.

That's fine, haha. I'm in a similar boat. Which is why I thought I'd try to get back on track. IF you think you should go first, take your time, I have more than enough to keep me busy with school and MBI. I just wanted to make sure no one was waiting on me.

So I'm not exactly sure if it's me or Eero who is supposed to be going next... Before the barkeep, I was the last to post, so Eero hasn't gotten a chance to reply, but the barkeep addressed both of us... clarification anyone?

Okay, if I do make a character (no promises!) I was thinking of doing one of the sneaky/stabby sort. Any suggestions? Also, based on these conversations, I am going to be significantly out of my element. I've been skimming reference materials in my free time, but I'm still pretty lost... I'll let you know when I'm done working my way through the beginners guide. Any helpful hints?

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