Kuroi and Filthy_Casual's thread

Welcome to the game everyone. This thread is to catch you up to speed, so you don't have to spend the next few weeks reading through the story (although you are more than welcome to if you wish to lol). The start of this story will sound very familiar to you both.

The original characters all come from a city called Lion's Head in the Sapphire Iles. The were travelling on board a colony ship and heading to an unknown new colony known as the New World when their ship was attacked by pirates.
The party managed to save the day and blow up the pirate ship but at the cost of their own lives as they were all caught in the explosion.

Miraculously, the party somehow survived the explosion and wound up washed ashore near a very small village called Berda Trading Post in the nothernmost parts of the Immerald Empire. The Empire is well known and quite civilized. The trading post however, is a company secret run by the Western Trading Company, an international company that is also behind the founding of the new colony in the New World.

Without their weapons and equipment, the players made a deal with the company representative Mr. Sigmar and are currently working as freelancers for The Western Trading Company in exchange for passage to the New World.

While solving a case of missing animals they discovered a dungeon built by a long extinct race as a proving grounds for their heroes. They battled their way through the dungeon and at the end of it they felt a certain, unexplicable calling. They don't know how or why but each of them found an object of great power.

One of the items, a glowing green shard could talk to Tomas (the sorcerer/fighter) and telepathically told him that it had been created and sent forward in time to stop a powerful necromancer from destroying the world.

One night, while the heroes were sleeping at the inn, a group of assassins attacked the party seeking the green shard. The party managed to fight off the assassins who exploded in a pool of blood. Before the assassins died they told the party that the master now knew of their whereabouts and was sending an army to destroy the town.

The party called a town meeting to decide what to do. The party has decided to stay and help the town even though their only chance to get to the new world is to go via the supply ship that arrives today. They are currently on their way to visit a strange old recluse called Alik the Mad, a powerful magic user who lives nearby in an old lighthouse.

I have a couple of ideas for introducing you to the party. The first is that you end up washed ashore on the beach, as the party is travelling down the coast then this will work well. My second idea is that you could either work for Alik the Mad or be his apprentice or something. If you have your own ideas then please let me know :). I'll work with whatever you come up with.

You are free to come up with whatever backgrounds you like but at some point you all had a very odd feeling, you felt drawn to something due to some inexplicable feeling. You followed this odd feeling and it lead you to discover an item of great power. Please choose one from the list below:I would like you to include in your backstory how you found your item of power :)

Please post your backstory here and it should end with you feeling a strange almost compulsion to head north. You don't need to post fully in character just yet as there is a lot of information. Let's treat this thread as a workshop and if you need any additional information just let me know :)

Well, the only two that appeal to a wizard are the Firestone and the Mirror... without knowing which does what, I'll take the firestone.
I've decided to continue with Arwen, and leveled him. He has been submitted.
What would being a poor orphan child of the twon who became an apprentice of Alik the Mad entail?

First off, interesting colour choice lol. We can continue Arwen's personal story from the last game. He fought the Siren with the marines, was knocked unconscious but instead of arriving at the town if Berda he washed ashore about a days travel to the south where Alik the mad found him, recognised his potential and took him on as his apprentice. It doesn't require anything specifically from you. Just that you do the odd job around the lighthouse and help him with his experiments.Does that work for you?

If not, then please let me know.

Regarding the magic items, all of them could potentially work for a magic user although the fire stone is an excellent choice.

I would like you to tell me how you found it. At some point in your travels you felt something calling you, almost pulling you from the back of your head. You followed this calling and found the fire stone. But what exactly were you doing?

I like that alteration. If Arwen had to travel to the town on foot by himself I can't imagine he was able to go out and take anything from anyone... If the Firestone is an artifact, perhaps it was something uncovered in Alik's dusty basement, apparently lost forever until a certain force pulled Arwen to it.

You apprentiship begins well and you learn a lot about magical theory over the next couple of weeks or so. One day Alik has you dust out his basement. He warns you not to touch any of the items contained within as many of them are rare, fragile and dangerous.
Despite his warning you feel a strange pull coming from the back of your skull. You close your eyes and follow the pull and as you move you feel the pull get stronger and stronger as you approach your destination. You find the strongest point and open your eyes. In front of you is a strange oval shapped, dark red rock. Bright orange and yellow lines circumnavigate the rock like cracks. You reach put your hand and pick it up. It is warm to the touch and as you hold it, you feel it begin to vibrate.

Your instincts do you credit. This stone does indeed seem to be alive. However, it is clearly not a natural creature from the material plane.

Again, your instincts do you credit. You build a fire in a controlled pit and take cover. You wait for a moment. Then another. Finally, you look at the egg. However, nothing has happened.

Then you recall something Alik taught you when you were doing a recent experiment. The fire on the fire elemental plane is not natural. It is, however, the source of all fire magic from the humble firebolt through to the mighty fireball. Your knowledge of arcana leads you to conclude that using fire magic on the egg may have some effect.

Ok, sorry for being late. Can Moonless Night be "revived" into this alternative reality? Maybe even with her mysterious map still in her possession? :)

Firstly, I wrote this at the beginning of the post but it is important, so I'll write it again. Moon felt some kind of irresistible pull that led her to travel, discover the ruins and ultimately, the mirror.

The first thing Moon notices is that the mirror she found in the ruins is not of this world. It definitely does not come from the material plane.

At first, when she looks in the mirror she sees her reflection, then the surface of the mirror ripples like the disturbed water of a pond. When it clears you see a large half-orc female staring back at you. You reach up and touch your face and you are surprised to see the orc figure do the same. You quickly draw your dagger and look at the blade. You see that you have changed and you look like a half orc woman. You also notice that you're wearing strange, elaborate and beautiful wrist guards. The armour seems to specific for the change to be random. You deduce that you must look like an actual person. But whether living or dead? You have no idea.

You look into the mirror again, and your appearance has returned to its normal self. The magic seemingly expended for now.

Moon now intuitively knows how to cast the spell disguise self but there is a strange limitation. She cannot take the form of another Tabaxi or change her Tabaxi appearance. She pracrices taking on other human and non-human guises without any problem.

She has no idea where the orc-female or the armour comes from but she has heard that orcish tribes live in the uncontrolled lands north of the Immerald Empire.