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1. If you join please please PLEASE stick to this RPG.
2. Only one charrie. And it must NOT be overpowered. They must have weaknesses. People with a more Snape-like character and especially one who loses at things sometimes are much much better than Mary Sues.
3. No godmodding.
4. This is NOT a fast-paced RPG. I suggest you edit and plan your posts. Insert description. If you are posting more than once a day I would appreciate you slowing down a bit.
5. Have fun.
They live in a sprawling country hidden by a crust of long-dead volcanoes and surrounded on all sides but one with sea. There is a king, a queen, princes and princesses but there are other positions of power- there are the queen’s handmaidens, who are her messengers and advise her, and there are the Mage Guilds, who work with the monarchy to protect their little kingdom. Just to switch things up, in this world the Queen is in a higher position than the King. It is more likely for Mages to be girls than boys.
Mage powers:
Fire, lightning, earthbending, making plants grow, telepathy, telekinines (but the last two only work for adult mages)
I’m thinking we could just do some court intruige. Love triangles maybe a bit of a rebellion and some betrayl along the way all works great.
Here are some characters I think it would be nice to use:
-A villain (A Mage who wants to marry the eldest princess)
-Handmaiden to the queen (who just might actually work for the villain)
-The queen
-The eldest princess (In love with a guard who always protects her faithfully. Her parents want her to marry the villain.) [14-18]
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-A mage or two
- The next oldest princess (who is actually adopted from a mage family) (Yes she has magic- but only ONE power) [11-14]
- A thief
First come, first serve applies here.
Charrie form:
Name:
Age:
Character type:
Appearance:
Powers/talents:
Weaknesses:
Personality:
Habits:
My character:
Name: Anura (Ah-nor-a) Shyle (Shy-ul)
Age: 42
Character type: Queen
Appearance: She has red streaked bronze hair pulled up into a high tight ponytail or braid. She has tapering fingers and violet eyes. She has lightly tanned skin.
Powers/talents: She conveys authority and her citizens are very loyal. She also is good at shooting arrows and weaving.
Weaknesses: She is bossy and set in her ways. She makes all of her children wear formal clothes all of the time, and she makes them attend all manner of banquets.
Personality: Slightly bossy, set in her ways. She is just and kind but isn't very brave. She also indulges in her riches a little too much sometimes. She collects shoes. However she is on good terms with her handmaidens.
Habits: Folding her hands, standing up very straight
submitted by Indigo
(July 11, 2015 - 8:38 am)
(July 11, 2015 - 8:38 am)
I'll keep writing, I guess..
Callidus~
The horses blaze over the castle grounds like an out of control wildfire. Mauris and I grip fiercly onto the reigns, guiding the animals through town square. People shriek when we come galloping out of the castle gates, hurrying to move barrels and carts out of our path and giving us dirty looks as we streak by.
I looked back at Mich. Her horse is the smallest and slowest, but is still far too much for her to handle. She looked a second away from falling off, clinging to the horse for dear life with one arm and trying to grab hold of the reigns with the other. Her feet were not even in the stirrups, and were flying almost horizontally behind her. These were indeed the fastest horses I had ever witnessed. They were difficult for skilled riders to control, let alone a street thief who had never even touched a saddle.
"She's going to fall off!" I yell to Mauris. "We need to slow down!" The earth mage nods, and thumps his feet against the side of his horse. I do the same, attempting to slow it down. When that doesn't work, we utter a plethora of whistles and commands to stop. The horses need none of them, and continue at top speed as if nothing had happened.
"The stable master gave us untrained horses!" I cry angrily. "They most likely only listen to his commands!"
"Will we have to jump off, my lord?" Mauris shouts in reply.
"No, we can't do that. It would be abandoning the mission."
"Well, we must do something!"
Furiously, I try to think of a way to decelerate the horses. At last, it dawns on me. Telepathy. It just might work.
Focusing on my horse, a light brown stallion, I try to speak telepathically into its mind. Slow! Stop! Cease!
At once, the stallion slows to a trot. The other horses do the same.
Mauris looks at me in amazement. "How did you get them to slow down?"
"Telepathy. I've used it on humans before, but I had no idea it could work on other beings."
I look at Mich again. Her hair is windblown and her cheeks are crimson from being blasted by moving air, but she looks okay. And she also appears to have figured out the basics of riding. "Are you alright?" I ask.
"Yes... I'm... fine," she pants. "That was... pretty amazing, actually."
I take a moment to take in our surroundings. We're well out of town square, but we haven't completely left the village. We're encircled mostly by farmland, but to the northeast I see a familiar mass of lights and tents. The annual fair.
"Ah, this is perfect," I say. "I will buy some food for our journey once we reach the fairgrounds. You two are to stay put until I return, do you understand?" Mauris and Mich nod.
Once near the fair, I stop the horses and dismount my stallion. As I venture into the colorful mob of people, I am almost immediately approached by a man with strange colored clothes, mismatched shoes, and a face painted red. "Would you like to see something EXTRAORDINARY?" he asks flamboyantly.
"How's this for extrodinary?" I grumble, igniting one of my hands. The man helps and scampers off. Good riddance. I will not tolerate fools like that.
Once I finally find a food cart, I purchase some apples, bread, and cheese, and a knife for Mich. That is, if she doesn't already have one. I'm just turning around to walk back to the horses when I see something that almost makes me drop my sack of food.
The princesses? Why on earth are the royal princesses at the fair?
(August 6, 2015 - 5:20 pm)
Mich~
I tap my foot against a rock, impatient. My stomach was still untying from its many knots. The horse ride, though how much amazing it was, still gave me a sick feeling.
I'm still on the line between running and staying. I have... Well... I have never been into the foolish talk of royalty and what not. I mean, who would know the prince would die? They seem to live forevvveeerrrr.
My hands itch as I look over to the fair. There is much, much more stalls than in the village market... So crowded... Too crowded... I smirk. Making sure Mauris wasn't looking, I sneak over to the closet one, which was selling the soft, sugary bread that rarely made it to the village market. My mouth waters and I drop myself onto my knee. The crowd hiding me from view, I hide under the table and wait.
Patience is key. A huge, important key. As the man takes his interest on something else, I snatch a piece of bread and streak into the crowd. Was I too sudden? I don't look back, afraid that I might have made a mistake. hearing yells and hollers from behind me, I realize I did.
Awkwardly easing my way through the crowd, I can hear them gaining on me. I bend down while running and grab a rock, throwing it behind me. It distracts them for a moment, and that moment gives me the time to finally reach Mauris and... Oh no. The General. By the angry glaze he gives me, I can tell he wasn't happy. At all.
"hellooo-!"
"Don't give me that, Mich," He hands where red with sparks of fire. "Why did you steal?"
"Because I wanted t-" I look behind me, and see a few men still on my chase.
"Look what you'd done!" The General pulls his leg over his horse.
"What're we doing?" I ask slightly nervously.
" Getting the blazes out of here!" He replies, quoting my words. I nod and grab my own horse. With some uncomfort, I pull myself up onto the horse.
And with that, we run.
(August 6, 2015 - 7:05 pm)
Oh my gosh! I am so sorry! I completely forgot about this! Ok, I will try to get a hang of this again.
Shaelle~
We leave the fortune tellers tent, and wander for a bit. I start to start thinking. My birthday is coming up soon. Who am I going to marry? What am I even going to do for my birthday? I get caught up in my thoughts, so much, that I get separated. I start to panic. What if I am kidnapped? What if I'm mugged? ................ What if I end in the same fate as Timothy? I wander, trying to get out of the crowd. Finally, I reach the edge of the fair. There are nothing but empty tents and broken stuff. I don't even know if this is part of the fair at all. But out of the corner of my eye, I notice a tent with a light on inside and voices. I creep steadily toward it. As I get closer, I see the outlines of a feeble old lady, and a big, bulky man. I peek in through the crack. The woman is talking into a pot of a green liquid. "And remember. After he succeds, you will save the girl, therefore being rewarded with her hand. And then I shall take her place. I don't know what we will do with the younger one. Probably dispose of her." I have a deep knot in my throat telling me that this woman meant me and Estella. I'm about to run, when a muscular hand seizes the back of my collar. "So we have a little spy, don't we? Well, I'll show you what we do with spies." I let out a loud shriek.
(August 6, 2015 - 8:18 pm)
Sorry to interrupt, but if that woman and man are supposed to be the witch and Calldus' brother, it would be impossible because Callidus' brother is in disguise as 'Mauris' and is helping Callidus track down the thieves.
(August 6, 2015 - 9:49 pm)
No. The man was kind of like a body guard. When she was talking into the pot, it was kind of like using a phone.
(August 6, 2015 - 9:56 pm)
Ah, I see. Thank you for explaining. That probably means she's communicating with Callidus' brother at night, when no one else can here them. If it's OK to post twice in one day just this once, I'd like to right a post about that.
Callidus~
Our pursuers are no match for the horses, and the angry shouts soon fade away. We ride for a good distance before slowing to a trot again. I can tell that Mich has definitely gotten the hang of riding by now, but that doesn't change the fact that I'm furious at her.
"We're supposed to work together, Mich," I say, trying to keep my temper in check. "That's the only way I can become ki- I mean, the only way we can find these thieves."
Mich looks at me skeptically for a while at that last sentence. Mauris just snickers. Finally, the girl speaks. "Fine. I won't steal anything else. Not that there's anyone to steal from here, anyway."
She's right. There's no one in sight, nothing but fields and farmland. In fact, it isn't long until we come to the Great Wall, the border between the immediate Kingdom and the outlying lands. A small hidden door is the only way past it. (side note- it's basically like the great wall of China.) Beyond the Wall was more farmland, fields, deserted mage settelements, and forest, then the mysterious long-dead volcanoes, and finally the sea. I stop the horses once we reach the Wall.
"This is it," I say. "One way into the Kingdom, one way out. Here is where we start tracking."
"Well, who's to say the thieves came this way at all?" Mich comments. "I mean, they could've climbed over the Wall, or moved inland in the opposite direction we're headed! It's like finding a needle in a haystack."
"We have to start somewhere, and this is where we're starting!" I reply. "If you had a better idea, you had plenty of time to tell me."
"So sorry to interrupt," Mauris suddenly says in his eerie deep voice. "But I believe we've found our first lead."
I look over at the earth mage. He's pointing at a small hole that starts on one side of the Wall and ends on the other. It's too big for any of us to fit through, but perhaps a very small child, or a dog. I think back to my conversation with the captain of the guard. He had said the thieves were smaller than usual...
"So they dug under," I observe. "Crafty little devils. They couldn't find the secret door but they were able to dig. Let's waste no more time!"'
I get off my horse, prompting the others to do the same. I open the camoflauge door by pressing on a stone marked with the royal crest, and lead my horse through the narrow opening. Once everyone is through, the door reseals. I look at the hole from the other side of the Wall, and sure enough, there are scuff marks and footprints leading away from it, and up a nearby hill.
"We've got them now!" I shout with glee. "Come on!" I mount my horse and start to follow the faint trail of footprints. It's a tedious task, and soon darkness falls.
"We shall camp here," I say when we arrive in a meadow atop a small hill. I can faintly see the castle outlined against the setting sun from here, as well as the distant lights of the fair. I tie the horses to a nearby tree, and create a small arrow shape out of sticks pointing to where the footprints continue so we don't lose our trail. Then, after a small meal, we sleep. Mauris says he'll take the first watch.
Just as I'm drifting off, I suddenly hear voices, and one of them is Mauris. The other one sounds strangely familiar, though I can't put my finger on it.
On the second night from tonight, you shall poison him. It will not become effective until you return to the castle, where he will go insane just as he is asking the princess for her hand in marriage. I will change your appearance to make you handsome again, and you shall kill him, saving the princess from the insanity. Then, she will fall in love with you and you shall marry. Finally, you must collect some of her blood which I shall use to take on her image. You and I will rule, forever!
"Yes, but what of the princess? And her younger sister? Do I kill them as well?"
Leave that to me.
The voices stop, and I fall asleep before I can make sense of what I just heard.
(August 6, 2015 - 11:34 pm)
Quinn~
"No!" I clutch my head in despair. Then i turn to the younger princess, Estella, and grab her shoulders with complete disregard for the fact that she is royal. "When did you last see her?!?"
"Uh..." She glances at my hands and I quickly release her, apologizing. She nods, "I don't know. We should ask around."
I take a deep breath, "Great plan."
We wander around asking, until we come upon an elderly couple. "Have you seen a...not too tall, pale girl with long golden hair."
"Why, there are lots of those! Even lovely Nancy here was pale and blond back in the day." The man smiled lovingly as his wife, Nancy.
"Uh..." I scramble for words to describe her. "Short nose....overall very beautiful." Estella snickers and I cast her a glare.
"Oh! Now that changes things up a bit...you know...I did see a very lost, and attractive," Nancy elbows him, "Oof!" He glares at her, "Looking young lady over on the north side. Just on the outskirts of the fair."
"Thank you lots!" Estella exclaims, dragging me behind her.
It takes us a while with all of the people, but we finally make it just outside the fair. We wander around for a while until Estella points out some torn up grass. "Good eye!" I say sincerely. "Looks like there was a struggle!" We walk over to the tent it was near and I glance in, shoving Estella, and myself, backwards when I see who it is. I cover the princess's mouth before she makes a sound and cast a warning glance at her. She nods slowly, and I remove my hand.
We stand behind a tent not even ten paces from the old woman's tent, but out of view of it. "We need to follow the foot prints in the tall grass." I whisper, pointing to a flattened path, which stands out amongst the tall grass around it.
So we do, attempting to act casual, and follow the path.
Completly unaware of the old woman's eyes boring down into our backs, a wicked smile upon her evil face.
(August 7, 2015 - 1:26 am)
Augh! *headdesk* I'm so sorry for not posting more. Can someone catch me up?
(August 7, 2015 - 10:26 am)
Sure.
It turns out Ehtelinda, the witch working with Callidus, is a double crosser and is also working with Callidus' brother who is still alive and is in disguise as a mage student named 'Mauris'. The two of them plan to poison Callidus and convince Shaelle to marry Mauris. After that, the witch plans to make a potion from Shaelle's blood, most likely killing her in the process, and take on her appearance by drinking the potion. Quinn overhears Ethelinda and Mauris discussing the plan and decides to take Shaelle and her sister out of town to the annual fair to keep them safe.
Meanwhile, Callidus, unaware of the plan, promises the queen he will track down prince Timothy's murderers, and a locket they stole from him. He needs helpers, of course, and, seeing an opportunity to find Callidus' weaknesses, Mauris volunteers. Callidus also recruits Mich to help him find the thieves, since she thinks like they do.
Ethelinda follows Quinn and the princesses to the fair, and goes over the plan again with Mauris at night using a magic communication device. Shaelle hears their voices behind a tent, and ends up getting kidnapped. Meanwhile, Callidus is woken up by Mauris communicating with Ethelinda while they're sleeping after their first day of tracking. Before he can figure out what he was hearing, he falls alseep.
(August 7, 2015 - 5:38 pm)
Callidus~
I wake up a second time in the night to the same noises I heard before, Mauris' voice as well as the familiar one.
There's been a change of plan.
"How do you mean?"
We've got the eldest princess. This makes things much easier.
"This means we don't have to worry about the princess rejecting my proposal?"
Yes, because I will be the princess. That is, as soon as I create a potion from her blood. Won't be too hard, we have her very well contained in my secret chamber.
"And the other?"
We no longer need to poison him, but we still need him out of the picture. Kill him any way you wish, as long as it's before you return. When you come back, I will be waiting for you disguised as the princess and we shall marry. No one will ever know I'm not the real girl.
Alright, now I really need to see what's going on. I stand up and briskly walk over to where Mauris is keeping watch. When I get there, he's sitting by himself on a stump, gazing into a pool of water.
"Who are you talking to?" I demand.
Mauris looks up. "My Lord, I did not hear you approach."
I circle the pool of water and the surrounding brush, searching for a possible source of the other voice. "There was someone else here," I insist.
"No one but me," Mauris replies. "These woods play tricks on your mind, my lord."
"I'm positive someone was here. I heard them earlier in the night."
"Look, if you're so sure I've been talking to someone, why don't you take the watch for me."
I sigh. "Fine." Mauris grins and walks away to our campsite. I lower myself down onto the stump Mauris had been seated on, and gaze long and hard into the pool of water. I see nothing but the reflection of my own eyes and the shimmering silver moon slowly setting...
So, yeah. I changed the witch's plan to make more sense now that she captured Shaelle. Hope you all don't mind.
(August 7, 2015 - 10:58 pm)
Silva-
I look guiltily behind me. After all is a handmaiden of the Queen supposed to be coming out of a ship cabin? All I wass doing was hoping to send a letter to my family far away. I don't know exactly where they are however I'm hoping the captain will explore some of the islands where ships went 10 years ago. I'm not paying attention to where I'm going when I see The flags of the fair flying. I had forgotten that this town was close to the where the fair is hosted each year.
I will go to the fair if only for awhile I decide. It only takes a few minutes to walk to the outskirts of the fair. It is bigger than I had remembered. As i make my way in past the crowds I hear voices, they sound sinister to me. Something about taking the form of the eldest princess and marrying someone. I don't really understand the news, but I know it's something to notify the Queen of. I wait for a carriage to take me back to the castle.
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