Death Whistles: A Mercenary Quest

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[X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)

This sounds like an interesting choice.
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This path feels like a personal attack :V What? I'm not lazy, I just... am good at preserving energy.
Psst that's the (literal) boring route! Join us in glorious violence instead!
 
[X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)

*Revs up chainsaw* Get ready for some action boys! Violence is always the right path towards victory!

Oh crikey the votes are split. I just hope that Apathy or Violence wins!
 
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[X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
 
[X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)

It worked for the Trojan War.
 
[X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)


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[X] For your siblings. You were born the eldest child and heir to a powerful merchant house. You were given the best education money could buy, and lived happily at your estate with your two sisters and brother. Shortly after your thirteenth birthday, the head guard grabbed you and your much younger siblings and fled. You found out your parents were executed for treason, and your entire family have dead or alive bounties placed on them. You have no idea if your parents were guilty or innocent, nor do you care. All that matters is keeping your sisters and brother safe, and ending the fear of the King's agents discovering them. Hopefully Mercier will either take over or cripple the Kingdom of your birth, and your siblings will no longer be hunted. (Story: Path of Family)

EDIT: thanks for approving it, @SweetSorrow
 
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[X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)

EDIT: Apathy is Death!
Adhoc vote count started by byzaboo on May 28, 2019 at 11:21 AM, finished with 31 posts and 18 votes.
  • [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)
    [X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)
    [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For your siblings. You were born the eldest child and heir to a powerful merchant house. You were given the best education money could buy, and lived happily at your estate with your two sisters and brother. Shortly after your thirteenth birthday, the head guard grabbed you and your much younger siblings and fled. You found out your parents were executed for treason, and your entire family have dead or alive bounties placed on them. You have no idea if your parents were guilty or innocent, nor do you care. All that matters is keeping your sisters and brother safe, and ending the fear of the King's agents discovering them. Hopefully Mercier will either take over or cripple the Kingdom of your birth, and your siblings will no longer be hunted. (Story: Path of Family)
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Sigh, guess y'all are too lazy or horny for extreme violence... shame:tongue:
 
[X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)
 
[X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)

Blood for the Blood God, yes?
 
[X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)
Adhoc vote count started by Mars on May 28, 2019 at 2:44 PM, finished with 37 posts and 21 votes.
  • [X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)
    [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)
    [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For your siblings. You were born the eldest child and heir to a powerful merchant house. You were given the best education money could buy, and lived happily at your estate with your two sisters and brother. Shortly after your thirteenth birthday, the head guard grabbed you and your much younger siblings and fled. You found out your parents were executed for treason, and your entire family have dead or alive bounties placed on them. You have no idea if your parents were guilty or innocent, nor do you care. All that matters is keeping your sisters and brother safe, and ending the fear of the King's agents discovering them. Hopefully Mercier will either take over or cripple the Kingdom of your birth, and your siblings will no longer be hunted. (Story: Path of Family)
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[X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)
 
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Could someone throw up a tally for me? I'm guessing my account is too new for me to have the option to make one in this thread.

With what I counted out so far the tally stands at

Lust - 8

Apathy - 7

Violence - 6
 
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Could someone throw up a tally for me? I'm guessing my account is too new for me to have the option to make one in this thread.

With what I counted out so far the tally stands at

Lust - 8

Apathy - 7

Violence - 6
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Mmm. Come! All manner of warriors! Is it not glorious to watch your enemies scatter before you? To feel the sting of cold steel in your hands? The warmth of enemy blood the only warmth you've ever known? (Ok, maybe not really) Then join us in our parade of violence! Plenty here in the mercenary life!:sour:
Only ~2 hours left to vote! Women are temporary, War is forever!
 
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Closing the vote in one hour. Regardless of who wins I've decided due to Plausitivity's determination to incorporate the other two/three losing votes as characters in the story.
Adhoc vote count started by Yanez on May 28, 2019 at 5:50 PM, finished with 39 posts and 22 votes.
  • [X] For your love of women. You loved women and women loved money, which indirectly made you a lover of money, at any cost. (Story: Path of Lust)
    [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For the thrill of battle! There was nothing like the rush you get from fighting to the death with your life on the line! (Story: Path of Violence)
    [X] For the dreams of early retirement. You were an extremely lazy individual. Any other career field that you could get would have you working until the day you died. Hopefully after you helped Mercier take over the world, you would have enough money to retire and not do a damn thing for the rest of your life. (Story: Path of Apathy)
    [X] For your siblings. You were born the eldest child and heir to a powerful merchant house. You were given the best education money could buy, and lived happily at your estate with your two sisters and brother. Shortly after your thirteenth birthday, the head guard grabbed you and your much younger siblings and fled. You found out your parents were executed for treason, and your entire family have dead or alive bounties placed on them. You have no idea if your parents were guilty or innocent, nor do you care. All that matters is keeping your sisters and brother safe, and ending the fear of the King's agents discovering them. Hopefully Mercier will either take over or cripple the Kingdom of your birth, and your siblings will no longer be hunted. (Story: Path of Family)
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Character Creation; Update 1
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    Lover Boy Path Wins!
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    You've had this conversation many times with people who asked what made you become a mercenary in the first place. Oftentimes they were disappointed when you didn't give them responses like "Hurrr I want to bring honor to my family name." or "Durrr I want to provide for my loved ones that I hold dear.". Those pitiful excuses could never compare to your drive. You were a mercenary for one reason and one reason only, because you loved women.

    "What man doesn't love women, that's no real reason!" This is what most fools would say in response.

    That's until they get to know you and realize that compared to your love for women their love is nothing more than a preadolescent crush. You see, most men were only interested in a select "type" of women that they found attractive which completely baffled you. That's like a cheese connoisseur saying they only eat Swiss cheese (disgusting). You on the other hand were a true connoisseur of women. You didn't care if they were skinny, fat, blonde, red-haired, green-haired, pale, tan, freckled, pretty, or ugly. The only thing that mattered to you was that they were women! That is why your love could not be compared! Your love for the queen would be just as strong for the queen's mother or her grandma, or her great grandma if she were still alive, or even-

    You realized you working up a sweat as a result of your frenzied thoughts. You fanned yourself off to cool down and regain your composure.



    Bottom line, you really love women.


    Trait Gained!

    Ladies Man: MC gains +20 to all social rolls involving women. +1 Bonus Rep gained whenever you gain rep with women.

    Lover Boy: MC loses -30 to all rolls involving fighting women or women attempting to persuade/seduce him.

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    In the world of Oz the most powerful warriors were usually magic users, with a select few just being physical freaks of nature, or having other advantages.

    You wish you could say that you were one of those freaks of nature but alas you were just another magic user.

    Choose your magical abilities!

    (Whatever pillar you choose, you can only pick magic from that pillar. Ex; If you pick the Pillar of Life and summoning magic, you can't select fire magic as well. Also you can pick up to 3 types of magic from any pillar although the more types you pick the less concentrated your specialization will be. Ex; choosing only fire magic will make you an expert/master of fire magic while picking fire, water, and earth magic would make you competent at all 3.)

    [] Pillar of the Elements:
    -[] Fire Magic
    -[] Water Magic
    -[] Earth Magic
    -[] Wind Magic
    -[] Lightning Magic

    [] Pillar of Life:
    -[] Summoning Magic
    -[] Healing Magic
    -[] Plant/ Nature Magic
    -[] Light Magic
    -[] Animation Magic

    [] Pillar of Death:
    -[] Shadow Magic
    -[] Necromancy Magic
    -[] Poison Magic

    [] Pillar of the Cosmos
    -[] Enchantment Magic
    -[] Energy Magic
    -[] Dimensional Magic
    -[] Metamagic
    -[] Shapeshifting Magic

    [] Pillar of the Mind
    -[] Illusion Magic
    -[] Clairvoyance Magic
    -[] Telekinetic Magic
    -[] Emotion Magic

    A/N: I might as well go over the more ambiguous types of magic down here. The ones I didn't include should be pretty self-explanatory but if you have any questions, feel free to ask.

    Animation Magic: The ability to breathe life into inanimate objects. (Animating your backpack to warn you about enemies sneaking up from behind etc.)

    Enchantment Magic: Empowering weapons or yourself and allies with tattoos. (Boosting your allies speed, strength, or increasing the cutting power of a sword, etc)

    Energy Magic: Converting magic into raw energy and using it. (Creating bombs of energy, shooting energy beams, etc)

    Dimensional Magic: Creating portals and teleportation, some gravitational magic.

    Metamagic: Buffing/Debuffing/Affecting existing magic. (Increasing the power of an allies fireball or creating a shield that reflects magic spells back at the user)

    Clairyovance Magic: Visions of the future, reading minds, etc.

    Emotion Magic: Using magic to manipulate the emotions of others. (Making an enemy feel love towards you or hate towards their allies, etc.)
     
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    Lover Boy: MC loses -30 to all rolls involving fighting women or women attempting to persuade/seduce him.
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    Dominatrix character incoming.

    [X] Pillar of the Mind
    -[X] Illusion Magic
    -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
    -[X] Emotion Magic

    Make sure sense to me for our lover boy here to have illusions and fortunetelling to impress ladies, and perhaps charming them with a Burberry of magical persuasion/reading the situation correctly.
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    Animation Magic: The ability to breathe life into inanimate objects. (Animating your backpack to warn you about enemies sneaking up from behind etc.)
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    Wanted to pick this to have him make pickup lines involving animating certain body parts in addition to objects. Oh! @Sweet Sorrow do body parts count as inanimate objects when still attached to the body?
    Man this horn dog of a character haha.
    Adhoc vote count started by Plausitivity on May 29, 2019 at 8:33 AM, finished with 8 posts and 7 votes.
    • [X] Pillar of the Mind
      -[X] Illusion Magic
      -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
      -[X] Emotion Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic (Empower objects or people with seals (tattoos)
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      -[X] Shapeshifting Magic
      [X] Pillar of Life
      -[X] Summoning Magic
      -[X] Light Magic
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    Plausitivity said:
    Wanted to pick this to have him make pickup lines involving animating certain body parts in addition to objects. Oh! @Sweet Sorrow do body parts count as inanimate objects when still attached to the body?
    Man this horn dog of a character haha.
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    Unfortunately, no they do not.

    I can appreciate where you were going with that.
    Adhoc vote count started by Sweet Sorrow on May 29, 2019 at 7:33 PM, finished with 14 posts and 13 votes.
    • [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      -[X] Shapeshifting Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Mind
      -[X] Illusion Magic
      -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
      -[X] Emotion Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic (Empower objects or people with seals (tattoos)
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of Life
      -[X] Summoning Magic
      -[X] Light Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Mind
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    Adhoc vote count started by Sweet Sorrow on May 30, 2019 at 5:01 AM, finished with 14 posts and 13 votes.
    • [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      -[X] Shapeshifting Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Mind
      -[X] Illusion Magic
      -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
      -[X] Emotion Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic (Empower objects or people with seals (tattoos)
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Mind
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    [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
    -[X] Enchantment Magic (Empower objects or people with seals (tattoos)
    -[X] Energy Magic
    -[X] Dimensional Magic

    CAPTAIN COSMOS AWAY!!!!!!
     
    [X] Pillar of the Mind
    -[X] Illusion Magic
    -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
    -[X] Emotion Magic
     
    [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
    -[X] Dimensional Magic
    -[X] Metamagic
    -[X] Shapeshifting Magic
    Adhoc vote count started by JiggyStreet on May 29, 2019 at 1:46 PM, finished with 13 posts and 12 votes.
    • [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      -[X] Shapeshifting Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Mind
      -[X] Illusion Magic
      -[X] Clairvoyance Magic (Seeing into the future, reading minds)
      -[X] Emotion Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic (Empower objects or people with seals (tattoos)
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
      [X] Pillar of Life
      -[X] Summoning Magic
      -[X] Light Magic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Enchantment Magic
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Metamagic
      [X] Pillar of the Cosmos
      -[X] Energy Magic
      -[X] Dimensional Magic
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