Doomed princes, cunning vagabonds and greedy mercenaries try to prevail in a decaying world. Amongst all men You are Doomed to Greatness, cursed and blessed in equal measure. You will learn: There is no Truth but that of Eternal struggle. You were born to a people considered… >Barbarians >Decadant >Civilized>Please roll 1d20 when you vote.
Rolled 14 (1d20)>>6451636>BarbariansI'm feeling barbarious
Rolled 1 (1d20)>>6451636>DecadantPleasure Palaces ahoy!
Rolled 4 (1d20)>>6451636>CivilizedI think normal can be good
Rolled 18 (1d20)>>6451636>Civilizedfeudalmaxing
Rolled 3 (1d20)>>6451636>Decadant We are the best, and thus must go on...perhaps after a nap...and some grapes...
Rolled 13 (1d20)>>6451636>Civilized
>>6451636>Barbarians
Rolled 14 (1d20)>>6451657
Rolled 1 (1d20)>>6451636>Decadant
It's all pretty close, surprised by the amount of votes, I hope people aren't going through the effort to samefag. I'm going to sleep, feeling under the weather, will close vote at around 8am EST tomorrow. Post questions if you have any, I will answer them later. I feed off comments, dopamine goes up.
Rolled 14 (1d20)>>6451636>Barbarians
>>6451666Too early for questions, for me.
>>6451666We ain't got enough stuff to ask questions, dog.
>>6451666What level of fantasy are we operating at? High or low?
>>6451666What's the tech level of the setting? Medieval, Renaissance, other?
>>6451666Do we have siblings? Older, younger, a twin?
Any inspiration going into this one from Soulsborne, The Wanderer's Choice, Berserk, Dark Sun, Sworn to Valour, or the Thorns Book Trilogy?
>>6451677Definitely lot's of fantastical elements. Mercurial Gods, monsters, demons, Fae, spirits, Mad Sorcerer, Decaying Magical Empires, etc. Tone itself is inspired by Berserk, Conan, Elric of Melnibone, The Broken Sword, Bran Mak Morn, Thorgal. Traitor Son Cycle, Warhammer Fantasy, I recommend them all as good reads. >>6451681Ranging from Early Medieval to Early Renaissance, depending on location and society. >>6451682Maybe? I don't know so I guess the MC doesn't know yet. >>6451686See above for some of my primary inspirations. Berserk is in there. There is a region similar to the Canton from Sworn to Valour, but definitely more darker in tone, think dark woods and false knights. As for some of the others works you list, I def love the dark fantasy of Dark Sun, but I have not read The Wanderers Choice or the Thorn books.
>>6451692>BerserkBased>Elric of MelniboneBased >The Broken SwordBased QM have you read Song of Swords by Saberhagen? Or The Worm Ouroboros by Eddison? You might like both. >>6451686>Dark Sun I am thinking heavily about running a fantasy quest soon in a homebrew setting that takes some heavy inspiration from Dark Sun...
>>6451692>There is a region similar to the Canton from Sworn to ValourBased Knigga
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Rolled 19 (1d20)>>6451636>Decadant
Rolled 15 (1d20)>>6451636>Decadant
Rolled 13 (1d20)>>6451636>>Barbarians
Rolled 11 (1d20)>>6451636>BarbariansBetween the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas...
>>6451692>Bran Mak MornOh hell yeah, someone who's read more of Howard's work beyond Conan, this is going to be good.
Rolled 8 (1d20)>>6451636>Civilized
Rolled 15 (1d20)>>6451636>>6451666>Civilized
Honestly I'd rather be part of the ancient decaying society or whatever than not knights or not Conan.I think we've seen the latter way more than the former.
>Decadant"All of you are degenerates and i am d'Artagnan."
Rolled 10 (1d20)>>6451636>Barbarians
Rolled 16 (1d20)>>6451636>>Barbarians
>>6451636>DecadentI want to play as someone cunning and amoralAnd then to die in a poetic avoidable way, due to greed or similar
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Rolled 2 (1d20)>>6451871My phone capitalised the co
>>6451666My guy, no one is gonna samefag for a quest that has a couple lines of intro. Likewise no questions on my part for the same reason.>>6451692Oh nice, guess we'll have something for our dark fantasy fix.
Rolled 2 (1d2)I believe Barbarian and Decadent are tied. 1 for Barbarian. 2 for Decadent.
>>6451874>My guy, no one is gonna samefag for a quest that has a couple lines of intro.Sure, but also? How often does any quest around here get 18 votes at a time? Or even just 8 inside of an hour?
>>6451884It's not that uncommon to have a surge of votes on the first post if the premise activates the neurons of many people. It usually decreases to the standard 3-7 over time.
Rolled 18 (1d20)>>6451636>DecadantNo 20 eh
>>6451884True, but seemingly low effort quests can attract a lot of votes on the first decision because of the low attachment/effort to read, especially on char gen-esque votes.
>>6451636You were born in a jeweled tower, where all the heirs of the empire had been born for all memory. In a chamber sheathed in amethyst and gold. It was the greatest symbol of the Porphyrian empire, which foreigners in their various tongues called simply the Purple Empire. Once Sorcerer-Emperors had sat the throne and ruled half the known world. But that was long ago, and the empire that remained was a parody of its old self. Shrunken in everything but its ceremony, deluded like the very old lingering on their once great youth.Your father was a usurper. A peasant's son who had risen through the ranks on talent. First a soldier, then a general, and then, on a single red morning when he opened his master's throat and lifted the diadem from the dead man, an Emperor. The old emperor's blood did not lie quiet. His kin gathered in the provinces, and from among them they raised up the most charismatic and the most battle-proven: Andronikas Xeros, who governed the eastern themes and was loved there. From his provinces he raised an army. But the sinews of war demand much, and the imperial treasury sat behind the walls of the capital in your father's hands.So Andronikas made a bargain. The armed retinues of Ordolan were forever passing eastward in those years. Knights on pilgrimage and crusade in the name of their Virgin Goddess, men of war, men with holy debts–crusading was always ruinously expensive. And it happened that a great host was upon the road, the greatest in living memory, and its captain was Prince Robert of Ordolan, called the Red. To him Andronikas offered a sum so ludicrous that it could only be believed because it came from a noble of the Purple Empire. Robert the Red weighed his options and decided the offered gold would serve both his interests and his goddess’ and accepted.They came to Chrysera, the golden city and understood it could only be taken by storm—once and twice, three times, four times—until on the fifth assault a gate was breached.Andronikas had negotiated for the preservation of his city. It was to be his, whole and unharmed, but he died in the final assault within sight of the breach, and with him died the bargain. The people of Chrysera were proud, they fought the Ordolanes in the streets, preferring death to conquest. Your father, viewing from the palace as his city was overrun, summoned his court warlocks and commanded them to summon a demon of Wrath. All knew it would demand blood as its payment>The Warlocks, fearing the dangers, decide the Emperor is mad and refuse the order. Enraged, the Emperor orders them massacred, the crusaders reach the Palace to find it in chaos. >Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.
>>6451903>>The Warlocks, fearing the dangers, decide the Emperor is mad and refuse the order. Enraged, the Emperor orders them massacred, the crusaders reach the Palace to find it in chaos
>>6451903>Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.They are doomed either way, but this way they may take the enemy with them at least. They prefer death to conquest after all.
>>6451636hehehe I remember your last quest..
>>6451903>Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.And so the long twilight of our age begins.Do we weaponise warlocks in the future or distrust them?
>>6451903>Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.The Empire will not yield to these invaders. Let it all burn, give these invaders a brutal execution as the city they sought to conquer burns around them.>>6451921Maybe we hold some suspicion towards them after this, but personally I feel we would likely have our hatred focused on Ordolan and their knights who came here to burn our city to the ground at the behest of the traitor Andronikas.
>>6451924excellent point, Crusaders get sent to the many hells and traitors and usurpers suffer the earthly delight of sadistic sacrifice to our many demons
>>6451903>Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.
>>6451903>>Reservations are set aside and a summoning circle is drawn, Gorgo the Wrathful is summoned and imbues all the citizens of Chrysera with a portion of his wrath and power, impossible to survive but each man made temporarily unstoppable.
Looks to be pretty decisive. VOTE CLOSED. The demon Gorgo comes forth. >Please roll 1d6 x 3. >If a 1 appears in any of the rolls, the summoning circle wavers and Gorgo is let loose upon the world.
Rolled 5 (1d6)>>6451936Dangerous.
Rolled 6 (1d6)>>6451936
Rolled 3 (1d6)>>6451936Gorgo moment
Gorgo power rangers *guitar riffs*
Seems we're safe from Gorgo's wrath for now.
Get fucked, Gorgonzola.
QM do you have any other quests up on the archive for us to check out, or is this your first?
