Etrian Odyssey: Chronicles

[Drathi]

[Drathi]

~The Newsboard~

About the Newsboard
Current Stratum-- Self Explainitory.
Floor-- Ditto.
Guild Est.-- How much time has passed in the RP (changes every stratum).

Synopsis-- Current Events and Quests the Guild is on.

Current Stratum: Emerald Grove
Floor: 1

Guild Est. : 9 Days Ago

Synopsis:

Week 1(Days 1-9)- Maxi has recruited the first members of the guild ItL. As per custom of Etria, all new guilds must make a map of the first floor of the labyrinth. This is the perfect chance for the members to become acquainted with each other. After all, if they expect to be in this for the long haul, they must learn to work together as a team.

In the forest, the guild was ambushed first by a small group of moles, which proved simple enough to dispact. However, whn they stopped to rest in a clearing, the next day they woke up with venomflies all over them. The whole party succumbed to the poison and were saved by two adventurers passing by. They woke up the next day in the hospital and were given their first quest: find a stream for an old man.

Week 2(Days 9-???)- Once again inside of the forest, ItL tries to finish mapping out the first floor. They also have something to keep them occupied, while mapping. Looking for the stream was tough, taking almost the entire day. With tensions beginning to form between members, will the newly found stream help any? Or will the crab standing between them and the objective of their first quest ruin everything?

~Profile Skeleton~
*Profiles don't have to be really detailed.
Name:
Age:
Sex:
Class:
Appearance:
Backstory:

[Drathi]

~The Character Codex~

-The Leader-
Name: Maxi
Age: 13
Sex: Female
Class: ???
Appearance: ???
Backstory: Not much is known about the Leader of ItL. She hardly speaks to anyone, but what is evident is she is a brilliant map-maker for her age. That is what makes her the leader for the guild.

-The Guild-

Name: Grey Opus
Age: 15
Sex: Male
Class: Ronin
Appearance: [spoiler][/spoiler]
Backstory: Grey joined ItL, when he came to Etria on his pilgrimage. All boys come of age when they turn fifteen, in his clan. They sent him out to look for something of value or to make a name for himself. Etria offered a chance for him to fulfill either one of those challenges. A level-headed child with a very keen sense of his surroundings, Grey's nomadic lifestyle has given him survival skills comparable to a survivalist.
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Name: Malachi James
Age:20
Sex: M
Class: Dark Hunter, sword route
Appearance:


Backstory: MJ joined the guild ItL to journey into the labyrinth to better learn to fight. His grandfather was a master swordsman, and Malachi wanted to follow in his footsteps. His father, whom he lives with on the outskirts of Etria, is a farmer who hates violence. Malachi knows how to harvest from "take" points because of his upbrining on a farm, as well as he is able to determine which plants are safe for use or consumption in the forest.
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Name: Marcus Remedy
Age: 49
Sex: Male
Class: Protector
Appearance: Broad and tall, he has the muscular strength of an bull. He has a Garibaldi beard and his black hair is kept short, and neat enough to not need a comb. His hair colour hasn't faded as of yet, but there is a grey streak through the center of his hair, giving him the unfortunate look of a stunk. His left eye is blue, and his other was slashed away, a non-descript eyepatch over it, with a horizontal scar from the bridge of his nose through it. His metal armor is heavyset, being plate armor, and wears a Burgonet all of which is grey and weathered, which tells of the experiences it has gone through.

Backstory: As a hot-headed youth, Marcus was already with a guild at his coming of age. With shield and sword, he was both first to fight, and last to leave in whatever battles his adventuring party had. He also found conflict with his fellow explorers; His brash nature more than often clashed with the more cautious members, but eventually like his personality, it slowly cooled over time, and Marcus felt like a brother to them. As they braved together, they became a successful, though not well known, group.

However, tragedy struck. A abrupt ambush from a monster caused Marcus to lose an eye and the life of a ally. After recovering, he never quite felt the same. His fellow guildmates felt the same, and with a bit of sadness, Marcus decided to retire with their blessings. He settled rather fast, and even managed to father a child despite being known for womanizing from time to time. For several years, Marcus was content with raising his child who was now motherless as she was of weak health when Marcus had wooed her.

As the years went by, he felt the same, fiery urge he had as a teen, and found himself wanting to go to this "Yggdrasil Labyrinth" people around him had talked about. He practiced various lessons as much as he remembered, from fighting, to various survival tips. He wasn't in his prime, but he was learning quickly. His daughter knew of this, and was actually happy about it, hearing about the times of his exploits from when she was a child, how could she not? She was of age to be independent, and urged Marcus to go. With slight reluctance followed by a renewed spirit, he wound up joining ItL.

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Name: Chamomile Asteraceae
Age: ~20 years
Sex: Female
Class: Medic

Appearance:
Brown eyes, and light brown hair tied back in a single, hip-length braid. She has a ring of stitches around her right wrist, and another around the thumb of the same hand. Wears a short-sleeve dress shirt under a trademark white lab coat, a plain skirt down nearly to her knees, and a red tie that she insists makes her look professional. She wears tall, heavy boots over similarly long socks, with metal shin guards strapped on over the boot laces.

Background: Chamomile was born as the youngest daughter of the town doctors. At first, she paid their work only passing attention, and her brothers trained to take over the family practice. Around the age of 11, however, she became completely enamored with it, and began to secretly watch them, and even "practice" on her own. After a number of near-disasters, her parents caught on, and gave her some proper training. Now, armed with an education and altogether too much enthusiasm, she left her town to find work as a doctor.

And thus, she came to Etria...
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Name: Franz Blitzen
Age: 18
Sex: Male
Class: Alchemist (Volt)
Appearance: [spoiler]
((Not the best recolor ever, but oh well.))[/spoiler]
Backstory: Part rash, youthful adventurer, part eccentric yet intelligent researcher, Franz is a certified member of the Royal Alchemists' Society of a neighboring country. Barely. In fact, the only reason he ended up in Etria was due to his superiors' fear of him blowing up their estate. His obsession with "practical application of alchemic research" bumped him to the top of the list of candidates to send to study the Yggdrasil Labyrinth...not because they found him most qualified, but due to the aforementioned fear. He tends to be a bit impulsive and, well, odd, but is packed full of knowledge. However despite his wild behavior, he does not have a death wish; back home, he has someone waiting for him to return, and keeps a memento with him at all times to remind him of this.

Franz was sent to Etria with a sealed letter of recommendation from the Royal Alchemists' Society, but never actually read it himself. If the guild leader did, however, she would note that it sounded more like a letter of warning. Two excerpts from the letter include:

"...his hair wasn't naturally [white] like that, and it tends to glow a faint green when he uses his skills in combat. ...[we] do not know what he drank to make it do that, but it is entirely possible his body chemistry is unstable and volatile. I wouldn't go so far as to use the words 'living bomb', but...well..."

"...he should suit your needs at any rate. Bear in mind that while it is okay for him to study the valuable resources found in the labyrinth, he should never be allowed to directly handle them. Odds are they will be unusable after whatever experiments he decides to use them in..."

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Name: Aodhamair Bradigan (pronounced EY-MUR, last name is simply pronounced as you read it.)
Age: 14-15 (Where she came from, they don't age people, they just remember the season they were born in, in this case its summer.)
Sex: Female
Class: Landsknecht
Appearance:[spoiler]I was at a loss for designs and just used this out of laziness, so canonically to the rp she wears wool shorts and t-shirt and sometimes wears leather moccasins, but only if the ground beneath her is sharp, such as thorns, otherwise she go's barefoot completely. She also wears a leather belt strapped around her waist, bearing a small stiletto, which she looted from the ships captain on the way to etria (more on that in the backstory.) As for weaponry she has an old battle axe said to be forged by dwarve's century's ago. (she won that in a bet with a classmate)
She has a very odd accent that closely resembles Irish. She favors offense highly over defence and in turn, doesn't wear much armor "Oi'd rather go 'round naked than ware a big soot o' armor." She claims.[/spoiler]

Backstory:In a far off land that nobody knows about (conveniently) Aodhamair was born and raised. Her mentors had no idea what to do with her as she disrupted all of her classes and training. (Where she comes from, women are commonly trained in magic and healing, its one of the few places they train hexcasters.) She was so disruptive that the scholars and lecturers planned to send her off overseas so she could live in the wild and let her get raised by wolves. Lucky for her, her family was rich and, after paying a large sum of money, sent her to a warriors school to become a Landsknecht. She trained and trained there (not without a great deal of rambunctious undertakings with the other students though.) And after about 3 years of training got "Real bored of the 'ting" and hijacked a merchant ship in broad daylight (by herself) and set sail to a strange new land named Etria, where large exports were going out of town to supply food and weaponry. (Not armor mind you.) After arriving she wandered into the guild and found a group of strangers she deemed "A fun lot" and ventured forth into the labyrinth with them.
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Name: Lullaby "Lull" Nightswath

Age: 30-ish

Sex: ???

Class: Troubador

Appearance: Long black hair flows from Lull's ambiguous scalp down to his...or her...chest. Has a fondness for unnecessary ruffles, but is always impeccably fancy. Carries a handsome li'l guitar that greatly complements his/her most splendid voice.

Backstory: Lull is a wandering musician that happened to stroll into Etria at the right time. Finding the labyrinth quite interesting, Lull wishes to spread the love of music with anyone he (or she) can find. No one knows anything about Lull's history, really, because it doesn't matter. Lull simply is. And she (or he) also quite enjoys relations of the carnal variety, and is quite the figure. Lull has caused so much self-doubt it's ridiculous.

[zamisk]

Name: Malachi James
Age: 17
Sex: M
Class: Dark Hunter, sword route
Appearance: note: will redo, I think I could do better here. [spoiler][/spoiler]
Backstory: MJ joined the guild ItL to journey into the labyrinth to better learn to fight. His grandfather was a master swordsman, and Malachi wanted to follow in his footsteps. His father, whom he lives with on the outskirts of Etria, is a farmer who hates violence. Malachi knows how to harvest from "take" points because of his upbrining on a farm, as well as he is able to determine which plants are safe for use or consumption in the forest.

[Skele Von Mann]

Name: Marcus Remedy
Age: 49
Sex: Male
Class: Protector
Appearance: Broad and tall, he has the muscular strength of an bull. He has a Garibaldi beard and his black hair is kept short, and neat enough to not need a comb. His hair colour hasn't faded as of yet, but there is a grey streak through the center of his hair, giving him the unfortunate look of a stunk. His left eye is blue, and his other was slashed away, a non-descript eyepatch over it, with a horizontal scar from the bridge of his nose through it. His metal armor is heavyset, being plate armor, and wears a Burgonet all of which is grey and weathered, which tells of the experiences it has gone through.

Backstory: As a hot-headed youth, Marcus was already with a guild at his coming of age. With shield and sword, he was both first to fight, and last to leave in whatever battles his adventuring party had. He also found conflict with his fellow explorers; His brash nature more than often clashed with the more cautious members, but eventually like his personality, it slowly cooled over time, and Marcus felt like a brother to them. As they braved together, they became a successful, though not well known, group.

However,, tragedy struck. A abrupt ambush from a monster caused Marcus to lose an eye and the life of a ally. After recovering, he never quite felt the same. His fellow guildmates felt the same, and with a bit of sadness, Marcus decided to retire with their blessings. He settled rather fast, and even managed to father a child despite being known for womanizing from time to time. For several years, Marcus was content with raising his child who was now motherless as she was of weak health when Marcus had wooed her.

As the years went by, he felt the same, fiery urge he had as a teen, and found himself wanting to go to this "Yggdrasil Labyrinth" people around him had talked about. He practiced various lessons as much as he remembered, from fighting, to various survival tips. He wasn't in his prime, but he was learning quickly. His daughter knew of this, and was actually happy about it, hearing about the times of his exploits from when she was a child, how could she not? She was of age to be independent, and urged Marcus to go. With slight reluctance followed by a renewed spirit, he wound up joining ItL.

[Doktor_Q]

Oh hey, this is here. Here I go:

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Name: Chamomile Asteraceae
Age: ~20 years
Sex: Female
Class: Medic

Appearance:
Brown eyes, and light brown hair tied back in a single, hip-length braid. She has a ring of stitches around her right wrist, and another around the thumb of the same hand. Wears a short-sleeve dress shirt under a trademark white lab coat, a plain skirt down nearly to her knees, and a red tie that she insists makes her look professional. She wears tall, heavy boots over similarly long socks, with metal shin guards strapped on over the boot laces.

[spoiler][/spoiler]

Background:
Chamomile was born as the youngest daughter of the town doctors. At first, she paid their work only passing attention, and her brothers trained to take over the family practice. Around the age of 11, however, she became completely enamored with it, and began to secretly watch them, and even "practice" on her own. After a number of near-disasters, her parents caught on, and gave her some proper training. Now, armed with an education and altogether too much enthusiasm, she left her town to find work as a doctor.

And thus, she came to Etria...

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[s]So, are we going to actually specify skills/skill points/etc, or is that part more free-form?[/s]

EDIT: For kicks, then, her specialties are single [s]victim[/s] patient healing, with various degrees of [s]invasiveness[/s] thoroughness (cure I/II/III, Unbind, Refresh), and investigative monster autopsy (AKA Scavenge). She should not be trusted to differentiate between safe and deadly poisonous plants, powders, or other raw chemicals.

[Curry-Kohai]

So, before I make my character, I'm assuming we are only aloud to use EO1 classes? Thanks.

Also the first stratum is called "Emerald Grove"

[Drathi]

[Doktor_Q]

[Drathi]

((Third person is easiest. ))

[Doktor_Q]

(Two questions: 1, Are we starting now? Playing, writing out our actions, etc? 2, Is there a reason my character profile is not listed currently?)

[FomeRubr555]

[Drathi]

[Doktor_Q]

((Here's hoping I'm doing this part right.))

"Sooo..." Chamomile yawned, rubbing the sleep from her eyes. "This is the place we're supposed to be exploring?" As the spoke, she fiddled with the strap on her bag, trying to get it to a comfortable position, and studied her companions. They all looked surprisingly young... especially the girl currently holding the map, their purported leader.

Not that it was a bad thing, in fact, quite the contrary, but being around so many young people made her, who had always been the "baby" of the family, somewhat... misplaced.

[zamisk]

((looks fine))

Malchi glanced warily at the group of strangers that were now his companions. He couldn't help but think how weak most of them looked, with the exception of the warrior standing next to the little girl holding the map. He lazily unsheathed his sword and spun it around in a practiced motion.

"So when do we get this party started?" he asked with a raised eyebrow and a smirk.