Auki
02-21-2010, 02:45 PM
The Protection Detachments:
Background:
The Humans of Thervi form peaceful clans, their mud-hut villages ranging across the continent, inhabiting even the harshest of environments. Clans keep to themselves and war is unheard of – Disputes within villages are common but so few venture outside their hometown, that full-scale conflict is impossible. In fact, for the last few years, only the Protection Detachments have been seen outside the village walls. The village’s ‘Broadcasters’ carry out any urgent inter-clan communication but there is rarely a need for such a thing.
The Protection Detachments are the informal military of the clans. After all, although there is no threat from other humans, the surrounding creatures can often be aggressive. No one knows where their violent streak originated from – Elders of the town reminisce of when they used to play with the nearby centaurs and wolves. Now they are seen, not as intelligent beings, but as rabid monsters.
Broadcasting:
All Humans of Thervi are gifted with a talent nicknamed as ‘Broadcasting’. Broadcasting is the telepathic ability to communicate through thoughts. For many, the talent is highly limited however. Most people only have a Broadcasting range of a couple metres and can only transmit simple words or phrases.
Broadcasting to more than one person at a time requires intense training and a high level of control. However, each village has specially trained ‘Broadcasters’ – People who have dedicated their lives to the art of mind control and honed the ability to broadcast across miles of land. They are primarily used for emergency communication with other clans or villages.
Protection Detachments:
Each detachment squad is made up of five members, each individual with a different specialisation. Members are allowed to join between the ages of sixteen and twenty and are trained for the following three years. After their third year of training they are deemed ready to attempt their first mission and are joined with four other members. Together they form an ITD (In Training Detachment).
ITDs are given the simplest missions where there is no chance of any powerful creatures attacking. During this time, it is not uncommon for members to switch ITDs. When the team as a whole is deemed ready, they are promoted to a Protection Detachment and forced to deal with real missions.
As well as having different specialisations, it is encouraged that each member has a different Skill to their team-mates.
The different Specialisations and Skills are covered below.
Specialisations:
The Warrior: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ High strength
+ High defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Slow attack speed
+ Trained to fight with a sword to an expert level.
The Archer: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Medium strength
+ Moderate defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Moderate attack speed
+ Trained to fight with a bow or crossbow to an expert level
The Healer: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Very low strength
+ Very low defence
+ High magical healing abilities
+ Healing spells take time to cast and cannot be interrupted
+ Trained to fight with a stave and unarmed to a moderate level
The Mage: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Low strength
+ Moderate defence
+ High magical offensive abilities
+ Offensive spells take time to cast and cannot be interrupted
+ Trained to fight with a stave to a low level
The Scout: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Medium strength
+ Very low defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Very high attack speed
+ Trained to fight with daggers or short-swords to a moderate level
Skills:
First Aid: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
First Aid includes the knowledge of bandages, medicine and emergency first aid.
Horse Handling: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Horse Handling includes looking after horses, grooming and equine first aid.
Cooking: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Cooking includes preparing and serving meals for your comrades.
Hunting: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Hunting includes the trapping and killing of fish, birds or small animals.
Herbalism: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Herbalism includes the ability to identify the properties and uses of herbs and plants.
Rules:
+ Firstly, obey the rules of RPA
+ I expect literate role-players. This includes a few paragraphs per post, plus correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I won’t kill you if you make the occasional mistake but I certainly encourage the use of a spell-checker.
+ Don’t kill other people’s characters without permission and please accept that your character might die later in the RP.
+ NPCs can be controlled by all role-players.
+ One character per person
+ Ensure you are active. If you plan to go away for a while, it’s important you warn me first.
+ Do not make your character anywhere near perfect/all-powerful. Everyone has weaknesses and negative points, as well as good points. I should also point out that all your characters will be pretty ‘weak’ for the first few missions, simply due to inexperience.
+ Although I encourage romance, I don’t want any perfect love stories. Of course, the characters can have crushes and fall in love, but there should also be complications and the occasional heartbreak.
+ Read this far? Put 'cupcake' at the end of your character sheet to show me.
+ I am always open to players contributing to the plot. I encourage it actually.
+ If you have any questions, please ask~ C:
How to design your character:
Template:
(These do not have to be particularly long or detailed)
Full Name:
Gender:
Age:
Sexual Orientation:
Specialisation:
Skill:
Height:
Build:
Appearance:
Personality:
The Template Explained:
Full Name:
Choose the first, second and surname of your character.
Gender:
Choose whether they are male or female.
Age:
Choose an age between nineteen and twenty-three for your character.
Sexual Orientation:
Decide whether they are heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, asexual or anything else you can think of.
Specialisation:
Choose an Available specialisation from ‘The Warrior’, ‘The Archer’, ‘The Healer’, ‘The Mage’ and ‘The Scout’.
Skill:
Choose an Available Skill from ‘First Aid’, ‘Horse Handling’, ‘Cooking’, ‘Hunting’ and ‘Herbalism’.
Height:
Decide upon the height of your character e.g. 6ft 7”
Build:
Decide upon the build of your character e.g. Petite, Chubby, Well-built.
Appearance:
Link to a photograph of your character’s appearance. No anime or drawn images.
Personality:
Describe the personality of your character.
Background:
The Humans of Thervi form peaceful clans, their mud-hut villages ranging across the continent, inhabiting even the harshest of environments. Clans keep to themselves and war is unheard of – Disputes within villages are common but so few venture outside their hometown, that full-scale conflict is impossible. In fact, for the last few years, only the Protection Detachments have been seen outside the village walls. The village’s ‘Broadcasters’ carry out any urgent inter-clan communication but there is rarely a need for such a thing.
The Protection Detachments are the informal military of the clans. After all, although there is no threat from other humans, the surrounding creatures can often be aggressive. No one knows where their violent streak originated from – Elders of the town reminisce of when they used to play with the nearby centaurs and wolves. Now they are seen, not as intelligent beings, but as rabid monsters.
Broadcasting:
All Humans of Thervi are gifted with a talent nicknamed as ‘Broadcasting’. Broadcasting is the telepathic ability to communicate through thoughts. For many, the talent is highly limited however. Most people only have a Broadcasting range of a couple metres and can only transmit simple words or phrases.
Broadcasting to more than one person at a time requires intense training and a high level of control. However, each village has specially trained ‘Broadcasters’ – People who have dedicated their lives to the art of mind control and honed the ability to broadcast across miles of land. They are primarily used for emergency communication with other clans or villages.
Protection Detachments:
Each detachment squad is made up of five members, each individual with a different specialisation. Members are allowed to join between the ages of sixteen and twenty and are trained for the following three years. After their third year of training they are deemed ready to attempt their first mission and are joined with four other members. Together they form an ITD (In Training Detachment).
ITDs are given the simplest missions where there is no chance of any powerful creatures attacking. During this time, it is not uncommon for members to switch ITDs. When the team as a whole is deemed ready, they are promoted to a Protection Detachment and forced to deal with real missions.
As well as having different specialisations, it is encouraged that each member has a different Skill to their team-mates.
The different Specialisations and Skills are covered below.
Specialisations:
The Warrior: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ High strength
+ High defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Slow attack speed
+ Trained to fight with a sword to an expert level.
The Archer: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Medium strength
+ Moderate defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Moderate attack speed
+ Trained to fight with a bow or crossbow to an expert level
The Healer: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Very low strength
+ Very low defence
+ High magical healing abilities
+ Healing spells take time to cast and cannot be interrupted
+ Trained to fight with a stave and unarmed to a moderate level
The Mage: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Low strength
+ Moderate defence
+ High magical offensive abilities
+ Offensive spells take time to cast and cannot be interrupted
+ Trained to fight with a stave to a low level
The Scout: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
+ Medium strength
+ Very low defence
+ No magical abilities
+ Very high attack speed
+ Trained to fight with daggers or short-swords to a moderate level
Skills:
First Aid: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
First Aid includes the knowledge of bandages, medicine and emergency first aid.
Horse Handling: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Horse Handling includes looking after horses, grooming and equine first aid.
Cooking: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Cooking includes preparing and serving meals for your comrades.
Hunting: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Hunting includes the trapping and killing of fish, birds or small animals.
Herbalism: [ Available / Reserved / Taken ]
Herbalism includes the ability to identify the properties and uses of herbs and plants.
Rules:
+ Firstly, obey the rules of RPA
+ I expect literate role-players. This includes a few paragraphs per post, plus correct spelling, punctuation and grammar. I won’t kill you if you make the occasional mistake but I certainly encourage the use of a spell-checker.
+ Don’t kill other people’s characters without permission and please accept that your character might die later in the RP.
+ NPCs can be controlled by all role-players.
+ One character per person
+ Ensure you are active. If you plan to go away for a while, it’s important you warn me first.
+ Do not make your character anywhere near perfect/all-powerful. Everyone has weaknesses and negative points, as well as good points. I should also point out that all your characters will be pretty ‘weak’ for the first few missions, simply due to inexperience.
+ Although I encourage romance, I don’t want any perfect love stories. Of course, the characters can have crushes and fall in love, but there should also be complications and the occasional heartbreak.
+ Read this far? Put 'cupcake' at the end of your character sheet to show me.
+ I am always open to players contributing to the plot. I encourage it actually.
+ If you have any questions, please ask~ C:
How to design your character:
Template:
(These do not have to be particularly long or detailed)
Full Name:
Gender:
Age:
Sexual Orientation:
Specialisation:
Skill:
Height:
Build:
Appearance:
Personality:
The Template Explained:
Full Name:
Choose the first, second and surname of your character.
Gender:
Choose whether they are male or female.
Age:
Choose an age between nineteen and twenty-three for your character.
Sexual Orientation:
Decide whether they are heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual, asexual or anything else you can think of.
Specialisation:
Choose an Available specialisation from ‘The Warrior’, ‘The Archer’, ‘The Healer’, ‘The Mage’ and ‘The Scout’.
Skill:
Choose an Available Skill from ‘First Aid’, ‘Horse Handling’, ‘Cooking’, ‘Hunting’ and ‘Herbalism’.
Height:
Decide upon the height of your character e.g. 6ft 7”
Build:
Decide upon the build of your character e.g. Petite, Chubby, Well-built.
Appearance:
Link to a photograph of your character’s appearance. No anime or drawn images.
Personality:
Describe the personality of your character.