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Subject: 'Helen' Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:23 pm
Overview:
Deities:Voar, God of the hunt. Along with, Harthan, the Occitanian female patron saint of the hunt. Race:Human-Werecat(Felanthrope). Birthplace:In a small town in the nation sate of, Buchloe, Southern Occitan. Near the foothills of the northern Khadrin mountains. Position:Vampire Hunter. Description:You're sitting in the bar, having a right good time with your mates. Drinking, laughing, joking. You gesture towards the serving wench to bring you another ale, and that's when you see her. She's wearing heavy leather hunting raiment, although it looks a little bulky on her. Almost like she's wearing something underneath. Her features are strikingly Nordic, angular and raptor like. Her blond hair loose and messy. She moves with an almost catlike grace, which would not be out of place on a Kazuth. She meets your gaze, causing you to shy away meekly from the intensity of her own glance. Alignment:Neutral-Evil.
Biography:
T'was such a pure night. The moon settling over the starry sky of the foothills of Occitan. A grizzled hunter has made camp for the night, smiling at his young daughter as he tells her stories of past hunts, of game caught, of the land its self. His daughter despite her weariness, listens eagerly to all the words he has to say. Gobbling them up like their dinner of rabbit.
As the night grew on, so did her weariness. Her father offered to take first watch, but she wanted to prove her mettle. She sat by the warm campfire, swaddled in the blanket her mother had knitted for her. It was so warm and cozy, the smell of smoke, the cool summer air. Her head dipped forwards a tad, the yellow lights in the darkness calming her. Wait, yellow? But before her mind could react, the beast was upon her. With a great swat of its paw, darkness overcame her.
It wasn't until morning that she awoke. The camp was torn asunder, as was their hunt, and her father. She clutched her bounding head, sobbing as she stumbled the long miles back into her village. By the time she arrived, she was dehydrated and feverish, and it was all the village healer could do to calm her. It took her a few days to recover, and the first thing she did was move out into wilderness to recover her father's body. She eventually found what was left of it, digging a modest grave. She picked up his musket, setting off to find the beast who killed him.
For days she tracked him through the bush, diligently and tirelessly tracking him. And she was closing on him. The huge tracks leading towards a fjord in the mountains. She made camp for the night, admiring the full moon as it poked through the clouds.
Skills: Firearms: <||||||||||> Training long hours each day with firearms, some would call her a natural. With 'Hawkeye' in hand, she's a deadly and proficient rifleman and sharpshooter. Blades: <||||||||||> She mainly wields her silver sword bayonet, and in doing so has learned to exercise a caution and finesse with the weapon that elevates her swordsmanship. Brawling: <||||||||||> Been in more then a few fights in her time, she can swing a punch as well as any mercenary. Tracking: <||||||||||> Having been tracking most of her life, on four legs and two, she's pretty astute, but without magic she can't progress any farther. Magical Potency: <||||||||||> Whilst not completely devoid of it, she's got little aptitude.
Hawkeye: She wields a special rifle and bayonet, dubbed 'Hawkeye' and 'Talon' respectively. She commissioned the rifle from a master Sanctimonian gunsmith, residing in Occitan. After borrowing approximately seven thousand shillings from a local criminal organization, she promptly took her rifle, and skipped out on the debt. She fled across the border, leaving a good deal of trouble in her wake. The gun is enchanted, which serves to increase it's accuracy greatly. A trained marksman with a matchlock musket can hit a target at 50 yards maximum. A trained marksman wielding this rifle, could hit something at 90 yards. The downside to this is, however it takes longer to reload. It also must be maintained daily. The accompanying bayonet is pure silver, which forces Helen to use it cautiously. Tasks: Completed
Spoiler:
Avenge her father.
Current
Spoiler:
Hunt the night children. Serve thine self.
Failed
Spoiler:
Save her father.
Traits: Positive Charming. Cunning. Confident. Neutral Meticulous. Passionate. Negative Immoral. Sadistic. Lustful. Quotes: "Such pale skin, it'll make a perfect coat." Related Pictures: Her rifle 'Hawkeye' and its accompanying bayonet 'Talon'. Her engraved powder horn, made of the bones of a vampire.
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thorogoodd
Posts : 701 Join date : 2010-04-19 Age : 27 Location : London, Ontario
Denied to hell. Never coming back. Change it or I'll keep denying.
I'm on board with this, I mean in how the lore is setup, there is no way in the nine hells that you could forge a rifle of such maginitude. I'd say in at least 50 or 75 years it would be able to but alas.
I'd say take it down a notch, its not like you really can to snipe in the area around Surna.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 8:53 am
Cakebread wrote:
Kain wrote:
400 yards. 1200 ft.
Denied to hell. Never coming back. Change it or I'll keep denying.
I'm on board with this, I mean in how the lore is setup, there is no way in the nine hells that you could forge a rifle of such maginitude. I'd say in at least 50 or 75 years it would be able to but alas.
I'd say take it down a notch, its not like you really can to snipe in the area around Surna.
Lol, sorry. I'm a metric fag trying to do imperial.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:07 am
Halved the range. It's now 200 yards, or 182 meters, or 600 hundred feet.
ViralHatred Radiation Moderator
Posts : 376 Join date : 2010-08-10 Age : 33 Location : Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:52 am
Christoph wrote:
Halved the range. It's now 200 yards, or 182 meters, or 600 hundred feet.
Seems more acceptable, especially since an experienced archer can hit 100m+
But taking inaccuracy into account 150 or less would be more appropriate. We're talking turn of the era firearms, not the ones that would show up in about 10 years or so that are far more accurate.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:13 am
ViralHatred wrote:
Christoph wrote:
Halved the range. It's now 200 yards, or 182 meters, or 600 hundred feet.
Seems more acceptable, especially since an experienced archer can hit 100m+
But taking inaccuracy into account 150 or less would be more appropriate. We're talking turn of the era firearms, not the ones that would show up in about 10 years or so that are far more accurate.
The gun is enchanted. There's a reason why's she's wanted in Occitan. It's probably worth 5000Shillings+
Krug
Posts : 1397 Join date : 2010-01-20 Age : 31 Location : England
Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:32 am
Christoph wrote:
But taking inaccuracy into account 150 or less would be more appropriate. We're talking turn of the era firearms, not the ones that would show up in about 10 years or so that are far more accurate. The gun is enchanted. There's a reason why's she's wanted in Occitan. It's probably worth 5000Shillings+
Hmmm. Well I suppose this checks out.
How / where did she get it enchanted? There's no way in hell an Occitanian noble would carry an enchanted rifle.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:41 am
Krug wrote:
Christoph wrote:
But taking inaccuracy into account 150 or less would be more appropriate. We're talking turn of the era firearms, not the ones that would show up in about 10 years or so that are far more accurate. The gun is enchanted. There's a reason why's she's wanted in Occitan. It's probably worth 5000Shillings+
Hmmm. Well I suppose this checks out.
How / where did she get it enchanted? There's no way in hell an Occitanian noble would carry an enchanted rifle.
I'm going to uhhh. Rewrite that bit in a bit. It seems a tad odd now that you mention it.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:54 am
I fixed the lore around the gun to make it not dumb.
Krug
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:26 am
To be honest, I've thought about this and realised that the whole justification for guns in the timeskip was that we said, "it's okay, they just exemplify the period-change really well and they're so bloody ineffective that it'll never be like Old Olden's gun rampage that made us all hate guns in the first place."
And then there's an accurate rifle... EEEEEK. You could just sit on the wall, far away from earshot, and pop someone in a second. I'm not saying I don't trust you, I just find this very risky. It's going against the balancing factor of guns - why we allowed them in.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:31 am
Krug wrote:
To be honest, I've thought about this and realised that the whole justification for guns in the timeskip was that we said, "it's okay, they just exemplify the period-change really well and they're so bloody ineffective that it'll never be like Old Olden's gun rampage that made us all hate guns in the first place."
And then there's an accurate rifle... EEEEEK. You could just sit on the wall, far away from earshot, and pop someone in a second. I'm not saying I don't trust you, I just find this very risky. It's going against the balancing factor of guns - why we allowed them in.
Well, you've provided me a problem, and no solution. Also, I'd like opinions and stuff on the character. If anyone else has problems with this particular fascist of my character, I'd love to hear suggestions.
Psycheandromida He Who Wears Sunglasses at Night
Posts : 1503 Join date : 2009-09-25
Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 11:36 am
There's the issue, which I discussed with Pat, about too many lycanthropes. Yes, this is a "were-cat", but as far as I understand it's the same thing.
By my count there are already three lycanthropes, and that's more than enough for me.
thorogoodd
Posts : 701 Join date : 2010-04-19 Age : 27 Location : London, Ontario
For the record, the most accurate type of musket you could get away with from enchantments would only add an additional 200 ft, putting your maximum effective range at 300 ft, and for a trained shot, 400 ft.
I'd like to point out that a rifle like that costs in excess of 100,000 shillings and could kill an average man just by grazing him.
Look, even 60 ft advantage over the average musket is good, so I'd recommend you make the maximum effective range to be 240 ft, or 80 yards. This gives you a very large advantage without making it OP. And yes, 600 ft is an OP advantage. Even with a long reload time, no one can even conceive you're going to shoot them before it happens, which is and has always been the major flaw of guns.
Also, Psyche has a point about the were-people.
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Psycheandromida He Who Wears Sunglasses at Night
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:08 pm
Not to make it seem like you're being kicked out of an exclusive group or anything stupid like that, but one thing Olden needs to avoid is having too many characters belonging to a certain trope or cliche. The same rule can apply for too many dark-and-brooding-Linkin-Park-Altair-Original-Character-Do-Not-Steal-Assassin archetypes, or even something simple like blacksmiths.
Dark Espadon had no restrictions on lycanthropes, and that was a train-wreck.
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:12 pm
Psycheandromida wrote:
Not to make it seem like you're being kicked out of an exclusive group or anything stupid like that, but one thing Olden needs to avoid is having too many characters belonging to a certain trope or cliche. The same rule can apply for too many dark-and-brooding-Linkin-Park-Altair-Original-Character-Do-Not-Steal-Assassin archetypes, or even something simple like blacksmiths.
Dark Espadon had no restrictions on lycanthropes, and that was a train-wreck.
I really don't think my character caters to a certain trope. Felanthrope is a single aspect of my character, although an important one. I'll take your advice concerning the abilities of the rifle in question, but personally I don't think the other aspect is too much of a problem. And yes, DERP had major major problems with limiting, and it turned into a massive clusterfuck. I'm not going to emit Felanthrope from this character. If you think that is too much of a problem, I encourage you to toss in a deny.
Psycheandromida He Who Wears Sunglasses at Night
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:26 pm
I will do just that.
thorogoodd
Posts : 701 Join date : 2010-04-19 Age : 27 Location : London, Ontario
Well olden successfully proves to be mainly dicks without giving any decent arguments.
Fix the rifle and I'll give my accept.
i think people are saying we have too many animal people in general and dont need more, the gun is just a side problem. plus he's already had an animal character, whom he managed to get PK'd, and the Tyrr girl
Christoph
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Subject: Re: 'Helen' Sun Jan 29, 2012 5:13 pm
PuPeT-KaI wrote:
ViralHatred wrote:
Well olden successfully proves to be mainly dicks without giving any decent arguments.
Fix the rifle and I'll give my accept.
i think people are saying we have too many animal people in general and dont need more, the gun is just a side problem. plus he's already had an animal character, whom he managed to get PK'd, and the Tyrr girl
Why is having a character pk'd a bad thing? It happened through the course of legitimate roleplay. I am insult, sir.
Christoph
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