[~Sylvia~]

@ASAP: How large is the magical tree-house at the moment?

[Je suis]

Question. In my mind, the scene taking place in the RP right now is still the conclusion to chapter 1. Only after that, one month passes and everyone can post. Is this your expectations as well or should time have already passed?

[Charlotte Buckley]

I was thinking it took Leandra a month to rescue Fiona. Uhh, she got there eventually at least.

Woah..board is [censored] up a little. Hold on tight boys its gonna be a bumpy ride.

[Wayland Neace]

What kind of temple is in town (ie, to which god)? If I make a priest, would it be okay to come in and set up my own temple to whichever deity I choose (assuming it's one of the eight, of course)?

[le GraiN]

Well, there was the chapel that Glass Argonian was the head of. Mara, I believe. But, a priest could easily change the place to whichever deity he/she chooses.

@Smig and Vincent: Leandra searched for clues and stuff a month, and is only now actually rescuing Fiona, right? Or am I just cornfused.

[Kate Murrell]

Valton seems more blessed by the Madgod than anyone else to be honest...

[neen]

Mara works perfectly for me, actually CS'll be up today.

[Dina Boudreau]

A priest who pretends to have a chapel devoted to one of the eight, but has a daedric shrine in the basemant? :dundundunn!:

Dun?

Edit: The RP lacks a character-list. We need to add one to both the OOC and the RP thread.

There's cheese-cake in it for the one who updates their particular thread first.

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Edit2: Also, Ayumi: Could you add the "Valton" tag to this OOC-thread? This thread currently doesn't seem to have one, making it hard to find if it goes away in page history.

Edit3: Cake for Smig.

Edit4: Could I post or couldn't I post? Oh well, I posted annyhoo. Hrmm...

[Emzy Baby!]

I copy/pasted the character list from the wiki, with their links. http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1457173-valton-the-new-hold-rp-thread-chapter-ii-1/#entry22578709 and tell me what you think.

Obviously, the biggest advantage is less work, since there's only one character sheet to keep, and a (arguably) better presentation. On the other hand, it may be more convenient to have them on the spoiler tags?

I'd prefer it this way but I'm curious about your reactions. I'm streamlining here!

[Jesus Duran]

Well, it is easier to browse through them in spoiler-tags, but it does save up some room to have them through the wikia, plus we might as well put the wikia to 100% usefulness, now that we have someone updating it frequently. I like the idea.

Edit: The wikia hates me... Tried to update Gorbad Yak-Bogadbu's char-sheet, but it got all messed up. I had to rollback my edit to make it readable again, but it still shows the old char-sheet. If a kind soul could change it, I'd be happy. Here's the char-sheet:

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Name: Gorbad Yak-Bogadbu
Age: 72
Race: Orc
Gender: Male
Height: 6’2’’
Birthsign: The Lord (Those born under the sign of the Lord are stronger and healthier than those born under other signs, which explains why is in such a good shape even at a high age)
Appearance: A tall and muscular Orc, somewhat softened by age, with a face full of wrinkles. His hair is a short bright-white mess at the back of his head. His skin is dark-green and leathery from exposure to rough weather and the forge.

Class: Blacksmith and Enchanter
Skills:
-Armorer: Repairing a broken pieces of equipment is mandatory for a man who calls himself a smith.
-Smithing: As an age-old smith, he is able to make impressive weapons and armors out of most materials.
-Enchanting: Gorbad uses a quite uncommon technique to enchant gear, forging the enchantment to the very core of the weapon or armor while it’s still molten steel. As of such, he is only capable of enchanting gear he’s making from scratch, unlike most enchanters.
-Speech: A good product deserves a good price and Gorbad is always looking for the best deals.

Clothing / armor: A blacksmiths outfit with custom heavy armor reinforcement with a cooling enchantment as a counter to the forges’ heat, heavy Orcish gauntlets and boots.
Weapons: Two blacksmiths hammers at his belt, plus any weapons he might take with from his forge.
Miscellaneous items: Tools needed at the forge, a small amount of coins in a chest, locked in his house.

Personality: Calm and focused, loyal, friendly. Doesn’t usually get angry, but recent events in Valton has brought back some of that infamous Orcish spark.
Major flaw: His age is a problem; he can feel his vigor and strength from his youth slowly fading him. The Lord-birthsign has kept him going for the last ten years and it hasn’t given up on him just yet. In a fight, he wouldn't be much of a challenge. He might be able to crack a skull with his hammer, but it'd be a game of luck for him, not skill. A recently injured arm doesn’t help.

Background: Gorbad has lived a long and tough life. He grew up in a stronghold. In early child-hood, his passion for smithing was far greater than his will to fight and never was an excellent warrior. That didn’t make him weaker than anyone else and he might even have been one of the strongest young-ones in the stronghold. His skills as a blacksmith were appreciated and Gorbad would surely have lived all his days in the stronghold if it wouldn’t have been for the attack against it, when he was 22. They never knew who attacked them in the darkness of the night, but there were spell casters, archers and warriors up against them and in overwhelming numbers. They were forced to retreat through the mines and blew it up behind them. This little group of Orcs eventually found their way to a new stronghold, but wasn’t welcomed with open arms. Especially the existing blacksmith didn’t like Gorbad’s arrival one bit. Out of jealousy, the strongholds blacksmith framed Gorbad for theft on his very first week there and fled the scene. Everyone thought he was guilty, eve the Orcs he had come there with. He didn’t want trouble and moved out. After that he spent time in many different places and got to learn the secrets of the arcane enchanting. It was on his travels he learned the art of business and trade and the mastery of every material known in Tamriel came from these decades of adventure and hard work. He even set up his own shop in a small town and was able to save up a nice amount of septims.
He has now lived in Valton for as long as it’s been around, providing his smithing services for the citizens and travellers.

[Campbell]

Yeah, let's link the character sheets to the wiki! Then we can gradually add new bits of information as the story progresses. And I can add lots of drawings

[Cathrine Jack]

Yeah, it misbehaves like that. I'll fix that for you.

In the future, if anyone's having trouble with it, you can just send it to me.

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Edit: There. It's all pretty now

For reference, what I do is I paste the formatted text, I get rid of the line breaks and then remake them. I also set the headings to paragraph style "Heading 2" which automatically makes that little index menu on top of the headers. I think I remake bold formatting as well sometimes.

[Marta Wolko]

Ya 'aven't got a clue 'bout how darn tricky it is ta get Jackie's weird dialect back in ma system. Ain't gonna say I dun enjoy it, though

[Laura]

Guards! Open the floodgates! Posting is open!

[Cat Haines]

I edited the time of Gorbad's morning smithing accident to be 23rd of Heartfire, as that is the current date.

We should by all means RP the current Valton as Autumn, which keeps things interesting in a different way that the first Valton chapter. Thoughts?

[Kelly Upshall]

Yeah, I imagine mid to late Hearthfire would be the ideal time to harvest crops and Hearthfire mornings would be pretty cold, but not as bad as the winter.

[Steve Smith]

Sorry for the late reply. I was at the state finals track meet all day.

After a month? I'd say it's become noticeable, but not terribly large yet. It's probably large enough to house Varyn and his belongings (albeit very tightly.) So until he makes his reappearance, we'll assume that's where he's been.

EDIT: And here's Varyn's sheet for safe keeping.

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Name: Varyn Uvirith
Age: Born 2E 386 (1148 as of 4E 204)
Race: Dunmer
Gender: Male
Height: 5’7”
Birthsign: The Mage

Appearance: Varyn is getting quite old, and it shows rather badly. Even though he stands at 5’7”, he hunches over making himself seem quite a few inches shorter. His face is somewhat gaunt, making his already pronounced cheekbones even more noticeable, and is covered in a long, rough grey beard. Upon his head, surprisingly, is a wild mess of grey-white hair, showing a rather bad receding hairline. Varyn’s brow is also somewhat pronounced and home to thick flared white eyebrows. Wrinkles are etched across his face like trenches, and his crimson eyes give a sense of sharp aloofness, if there was ever such a sense – Varyn himself seems as a walking contradiction.

Class: Mage

Skills: Once upon a time, Varyn was an extremely powerful Telvanni Mage-Lord. However, that was a very, very long time ago. Old age has stripped Varyn of most of his power. While he still maintains the potential to wield the same power he had when he was younger, it is now much harder for him to do so. Most of the time, any attempt from the old mage-lord to cast a spell ends with disastrous or nonexistent results.

When Varyn was in his prime he was a master in the arts of Destruction, Alteration, and Mysticism. His power was quite awe inspiring, and to this day, if anyone can remember that far back, he is considered one of the greatest Telvanni to have ever walked Mundus, joining the same league as Divyath Fyr and Mistress Therana. Even though he has aged and his power has waned, Varyn still retains the knowledge he acquired while achieving such power. He may not be able to blow things to pieces anymore, well not often that is, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t know how. Well, sometimes he doesn’t know how to. Depends on if he’s had his tea or not.

Clothing / armor: Varyn wears an ensemble of robes and sashes in the Telvanni fashion. Most follow an earthen palette, but a few are quite a bit flashier.

Weapons: Varyn has no need for weapons. However, he does carry a a remarkable collection of Dunmeri weaponry made of razor sharp glass. Though, where it is he could not tell you, and if he were to find it, he would most likely not know how to use it.

Miscellaneous items: Varyn is in possession of a large collection of scrolls and tomes with focus on the arcane arts and other less common things. He almost has enough to populate the shelves of a rather sizeable library. Other than his books and magical apparatuses, Varyn has brought quite a few things with him to Valton. Mostly small insignificant items like his pipe, ink and quills, random chunks of dilapidated and seemingly inoperable Dwemer machinery, a set of alchemists tools (even though he knows almost nothing about alchemy), a few magical trinkets that seem to do nothing of importance, a bronze and glass dish engraved with runes that also seems to do nothing at all, and an assortment of other odds and ends packed into suitcases and trunks.

Personality: Varyn is a very opinionated and blunt person. He tends to speak his mind no matter what the consequences and is in no way scared of the outcome. Varyn can also come off as quite mad at times. Having almost 1200 years of memories tends to jumble things up pretty bad. He often mumbles random nonsense to himself or forgets even the most obvious things. Varyn also strongly believes that he’s still capable of the feats he was able to do while in his prime. This causes him to be quite feisty and strong willed. He often attempts to do things he used to do back in the day, and just as often he ends up failing miserably in some way or another.

Major flaw: Varyn is very old, even for a Dunmer. Even though he’s not disabled, he finds it hard to walk for longer than ten minutes without the help of a cane, which he sometimes is reluctant to use as a walking instrument and instead uses it as a club to whack unsuspecting “fetchers” and “imbeciles”. Varyn also is no longer able to use the arcane arts as he used to. However he still has the potential to do some damage, that is if he remembers how to cast the spell without blowing himself or someone else up (something that happens on a regular basis.)

Background: (This is the condensed version of Varyn’s extremely long history. It would be a nightmare to include 1200 years of back-story into a suitable post.)

Varyn was born into House Telvanni, and, like all born in House Telvanni, he strove to achieve greatness. He studied the arcane arts for centuries and eventually worked his way up in the Hous - through the normal means of backstabbing, murder, and trickery no doubt. After establishing himself as a Mage-Lord and Councilor of the Telvanni, through the rather brutal murder of his older brother, Varyn began construction of his tower, Tel Uvirith.

However, late in the 3^rd Era Varyn’s younger brother, ironically, drove him from his tower and off of Vvardenfell. Since then Varyn has been plotting his revenge as he continues to age and wane in power. His obsession with killing his brother is almost comical at times due to his age and his extreme conviction. Little does he know his brother has been dead for centuries along with the rest of the Telvanni. He still believes that the invasion of the Argonians was a myth and could never have happened. He claims “Those muck eating slaves don’t even know how to wipe their own arses!” and that they could never have triumphed over the mighty Dunmer.

[Taylah Haines]

Name: Titus Velarius
Age:19
Race: Cyrodiil
Gender: Male
Height: 6'2
Birthsign: Unknown (For he was an orphan and never knew his parents.)
Appearance: slightly tall for an Imperial, Titus is slighlty build but still generally thin. He has a typical Nibenease appearence with slight Pale skin. His hair is black as night and his eyes are green
Class (what would you describe your character as?): Scout.
Skills and known spells (if any): Despite his size, Titus is an expert at stealth. And so he prefers to use one handed weapons. While he does use a crossbow, he only has a basic knowledge of Marksmanship. Though Titus does not know of any spells, save for a very basic knowledge of Restoration.
Clothing / armor: Titus will first be seen with Standard Issue Imperial light armor. However, he'll wear anything he feel confortable in and what is appropriet for a certain situation.
Weapons: He is equiped with an Imperial short-sword and a crossbow.
Miscellaneous items: a military canteen, a pocket knife used for environmental reasons than for combat reasons. And a basic supply of food.
Personality: Bassically, Titus is unsocial. He does not like to talk unless it's important, he has few friends, if at all, and does not keep them for long. Though despite his lack of social skills, he can still communicate well when he has to.
Major flaw: His lack of sociability could prevent him from gaining important "allies". His height may give him away when he's sneaking around. His thin body and lack of combat skills will also not help him when he's in a bad situation.
Background: He was born a bastard and raised in an orphanage in the Imperial City. All Titus knows about his parents is that one of them left him at the doorsteps of the orphanage. As he grew up, he never gotten well with the other orphans and had virtually no friends, causing him to be the unsocial type.

When he turned 18 years of age, he joined the Imperial Legion hoping to live a better life than he had. He spent a few months in training to be a soldier. Every day, he would wake up before the sun rised with the other recruits. He would do military drills every morning. Than they begin the actual training. It was eventually decided by the recruiters that Titus would make a better scout than a legionaire, so when basic training was completed, he spent another few months training to be a scout. During then, he learned the important skills he needed to serve in the Imperial Legion.

When his training was done, he spent much of the year in Cyrodiil, near the border to the Aldmeri Dominion. However, for whatever reason, he was transfered to Skyrim. It was not since a few weeks since arriving in Skyrim that he was already given a mission to scout for Stormcloak encampments in the Falkreath Hold. However, during his assignment, Titus was nervous about the possibility of getting killed by Stormcloaks. And fearing the possibility of dying in Skyrim, he left his mission and deserted the Legion. Titus had heard of a hold between Falkreath and the Rift that's a neutral zone between both sides. He then went on to that hold, quickly moving to prevent getting caught by Legionaires.

[Pants]

Sorry for my lack of activity. I think I want to bring Theseus back(with some changes). Would it be accepted that itan-ru recommended that Theseus leave for riften to receive advanced treatment to heal from his wounds completely?

[Keeley Stevens]

Would make sense. Riften has a well established chapel and an excellent alchemist. Compared to the services currently available in Valton I think most people would want to go to Riften if they had the choice.

[Chris Johnston]

Hmmm.....does Valton have a Hall of the Dead set up?

[herrade]

Oh noes....I know what's coming next.

[Brad Johnson]

Valton Halloween special?

[Mel E]

Hey! I may have characters that are Necromancers, but you'd have to be real stupid to use a Priest of Arkay as your cover!*

*Or a GODDAMNED GENIUS

[Marina Leigh]

So what do you people think of the character I had in mind?