Adventurer's Guild [AGSA] Adventurer's Guild Sky Archipelago - OOC Room

[Reborn_Cat]

 

[Nahrenne]

Actually @BouncyCactus wrote about the school
Gargan would later learn that these are a school of elven arts, heavily influenced by the governing Count Household, the Elven House of Aereith, who sponsored quite a number of public projects, and is quite loved by the people.

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That doesn't give a name, though.
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[Reborn_Cat]

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That doesn't give a name, though.
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Just call it Aerelieth University

 

[GodlyKamui]

Just call it Aerelieth University

I approve this motion with increasing violence!

 

[Ddraig]

We can have them overlap in terms of attending the academy at the same time, but Gawr graduated first.

Since I like to bully Sharkboi, we can even say that Gawrgaru was required to stay behind a year after Raul thoroughly trashed him at their graduation tournament, so Gawrgaru would have been Sven's senpai?

Nah, we can just have Sven at his final year in academy and Gawr graduated the previous year or something

 

[The_Everdistant_Utopia]

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My likes returned just to like this!

Just call it Aerelieth University

How about "Aesist[eb]"? It means "Lake of Knowledge" in Sindarin (AKA contemporary Tolkien Elvish). The -eb ending just denotes that is a pool ('Aes') full ('-eb') of knowledge ('ist').

 

[The_Everdistant_Utopia]

I arpove this motion with increasing violence!

Actually, nevermind, THIS is the best name.

 

[AG_Newsletter]

AGSA Newsletter - Month 2 (June 1 - July 31)​

Duke Grogar declared "Manifest Destiny", aiming to colonize the Lower World.
A powerful duke from Sky Archipelago is sponsoring quests to colonize the Great Lake region (a). This is highly controversial, and some adventurers fear that this could lead to war with the natives. There are rumors of assassins after the Duke (3). Meanwhile, exploration of the new world continues (6)(7)(8)(10).

The Sky Archipelago National Museum caught on fire during the worldshift, and restorations are in progress.
The library is collecting rare books and artifacts. Several entries about Sky Archipelago's history have been submitted (1)(2)(9)(11).

The snake monster incident of Aerelieth.
A giant snake monster appeared out of nowhere and destroyed several buildings, including a tannery in the harbor district and a brothel in the red light district. Sir Gawrgaru of House Getandmark defeated the snake monster (5). Other strange monsters have been observed in Aerelieth (2)(4).

Multiple groups of cultists are active in Sky Archipelago.
Strange and mysterious activity has been observed in Cimon's Hollow (b)(d), the Conshire Islands (c), and Runeswick (e). It is believed that cults are responsible for these events, although it is unclear if the cults in all three locations are related with each other. A joint task-force of several noble houses have converged on Cimon's Hollow to investigate the cultists in the area (note: massive group roleplay PM).

Natives from Terra Nova have made contact with Sky Archipelago.
Rose Wyvornkin of the Albion Mountains (f) and Anya Featherdown of Roost (g) have made contact with the guild and are active in Sky Archipelago. Wedding preparations between Lucía of the Kingdom of Numancy and Raul of Aerelieth are underway (i).

Complicated politics involving the Principality of Zara (Sky Archipelago) are happening.
It's really complicated and it's unclear what they're doing. Read @The_Everdistant_Utopia's story and speculate for yourself. Current major political factions on Sky Archipelago include the Warhawk Faction (House of Getandmark), the Stronghold Faction (House of Zarăscu), the Astalart Faction (Conshire Isles), and the Duskwood Faction (House of Vale).

Starting to update the newsletter... @fyrre's Empress is not on here but there's been no indication if she made contact, so she's unknown to the guild for now.

 

[AG_Newsletter]

Also @Reborn_Cat you should write more with the Duskwoods! I know almost nothing about them, so it's difficult to say much unless you write a whole lot more!!

 

[Nahrenne]

I'm beginning to wonder if I should make an NPC for Clarice, or wait for a PC to interact with her.
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Even being a mistress would be fine by her, as long as she gets to live in the lap of luxury and study.
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The problem with making an NPC is it doesn't leave much room for development between people's PC's.
Though the other problem with a PC is people have their own plans and stories they want to tell...
. . .
Dilemma...
OTL

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[The_Everdistant_Utopia]

So it seems that even the newsletter gave up on trying to understand what the fuck the Strongholds are even doing...

 

[AG_Newsletter]

So it seems that even the newsletter gave up on trying to understand what the fuck the Strongholds are even doing...

It's difficult to understand so explain it to me!

 

[Reborn_Cat]

Also @Reborn_Cat you should write more with the Duskwoods! I know almost nothing about them, so it's difficult to say much unless you write a whole lot more!!

Will do, but I just posted my chap on Derek vale yesterday, so I'll wait a while

 

[The_Everdistant_Utopia]

It's difficult to understand so explain it to me!

Ah, for the Strongholds it's a secret. As for House Zarăscu, their openly announced goals are two:

1. Recover territory lost to disrepair and pirates;
2. Improve their standing within the Stronghold Faction.

 

[Ddraig]

Unevaluated

Spoiler: Quest -Failed-

Before he could confirm his strength he had to do one more thing to prove himself. He had hunted the rats in the sewer showing that he could adapt to dark, he took down goblins proving he could take down those armed with weapons, and he hunted deer showing he could think somewhat on his feet.

The only thing left for him to do was hunt down dire wolves. Beings that were both bigger and faster than him. To prove to himself he could truly handle moving on from here and now.

The location the guild gave him were somewhere a bit ways away from the forest entrance. But, if he manage to take the wolves down then it wouldn't take him too long to drag their bodies back to the guild. Then he saw it.

The wolf itself was so big Cassel believed that he could stack five goblins besides it and it still would be bigger. It's fur a plain grey and it's eyes were an golden amber luckily they weren't facing them. He couldn't help but feel a sense of fear he didn't feel toward the goblins and rats he had faced before.

The reason he didn't fear them was because of the constant fights he had with the guards during practice. A goblin was a lot less scary then a full grown man rushing towards you with a long sword.

But, this was different could he really do this. Feeling his hand shake, he steadied it on his sword.

If he couldn't take this wolf down now even with all his training then he would never be able to catch up to his friends shadows. He needed to advance now and take care of things in the city so he could finally provide the support he promised.

Drawing his sword and placing it in both hands he glared at the wolf and muttered, "Come,"

He didn't know if it heard the sound of his sword being drawn over his whisper but it responded in kind.

Turning from a wolf to a grey blur. Cassel barely was able to sidestep it's first strike dragging his sword on it's side. Smiling at his small success he couldn't help but mutter, "That has to good."

Before facing reality as his swing only left a small scratch on it's side. The harsh reality of things was that his sword could barely cut it's fur. And, as they clash this seemed to only worsen as while he could predict and avoid it's attack his swings and movements were slowly getting weaker and weaker.

Until...

"AGH!"

It managed to get a bite in. As much as he swung his sword the wolf simply wouldn't let go. And, without much leverage or room to use his sword he might've well be using a toy.

As it tore down on his shoulder he felt the grip on his sword loosen and the sound of metal hitting the floor could be heard.

It seemed that he was too cocky. He didn't have the talent or strength the others taken in world had. And, with a the couple of small successes went to his head. As his hand went to his side and he closed his eyes he felt something.

It was the small dagger he had bought on a whim during the city. If the sword wouldn't work there it wouldn't make sense for a dagger to work but if he was going down then he was going to take something with it.

Drawing the dagger he stabbed the wolf with reckless abandon and after feeling the the first strike sink into it body. He did it again and again trying to get the wolf off him. Rather then letting him go it seemed that it rather try to finish the job with the constant stabbing only encouraging the wolf to work faster.

So it became a contest of whether or not he could take the wolf down with his repeated stabbings or if the wolf tear his body into sherds before he did so.

Luckily for him it seemed that luck was on his side. Struggling to keep his eyes open he managed to he take a heath potion before falling unconscious.

When he woke up, he sighed in relief it seemed nothing including the other wolves found him during his brief encounter with the underworld.

Getting up he winced as he tried to use both hands only to feel the reality of his right shoulder. So using his left arm he dragged it back to town getting some help by a passerby to get back.

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Summery

Moved to one of the place described by the guild that Dire Wolves have been known to be in.
Found and tried to fight one direwolf
Succeeded on taking it down at the cost of injuring his right shoulder.
Used heath potion before falling unconscious.
Woke up but was unable to complete the quest but managed to get a ride home from a town merchant passing by.
Failed Quest

Hey, that version of AG rp is dead now. You may want to participate in this new version though.

You can probably even somehow include this quest of yours in the new version?

 

[Way]

I'm trying my best to fish for possible explanations!

The best I could think of was that Eochy called up a bunch of nobles and asked "please come", except that places a lot of the burden on Eochy to explain things. I think from the perspective of the Getandmark House and the other nobles, either:

• Someone important/trustworthy asked them come
• They were forced to come (by obligation)
• The mission was considered extremely important -- seems less likely because the nobles don't know what actual the threat is, and it doesn't make sense to send nobles on a high-risk "scouting mission", and the parents of weaker noble like Audriana would have definitely refused if it was framed as extremely dangerous with a high chance of death. Also the nobles seem really casual (low tension) and spent like 10 hours just chilling, which hardly seems like the behavior of anyone tackling an 'urgent' quest.
• They were offered a really nice reward / benefits for coming

So it has to be one of those four explanations... unless I'm missing a potential angle.

As for non-nobles, I guess it's still a regular quest on top of all these strange shenanigans x.x

Your posts were very insightful, but lemme go off whatever comes to my mind first:

It's one of those tonal dissonance problem, imo- I kinda got the impression that it was kinda important from the getgo with all of the foreshadowing and the multiple quest listings pertaining to cultists- and that everyone involved knew what they were in for.

Eochaidh got his position by virtue of the League of Valour, so it further reinforces the 'something is afoot' angle- but there were so many shenanigans before things got serious in tone that we do indeed need a rationalisation for what is exactly going on...

One plausible angle to look as that the scouting mission, in my mind, would have been the possible prelude to an actual full-frontal assault assuming that the initial scouting mission yielded results that called for it.

So at this stage everyone is still slightly relaxed, but apprehensive enough that they would have immediately rolled up their sleeves if a need to really demonstrate the power of the noble houses arose, and this potential 'main' stage of the mission would have gotten the full fanfare and seriousness a coalition raid would have called for.

With this recontextualisation, what @Bochi meant with Keade requiring to hide things is to fool the nobles was not necessarily fooling the nobles into thinking there was no serious, brewing threat, but rather fooling them into thinking that they still had time to probe for intel, when the cultists were actually way ahead of schedule and already almost done with their eldritch carepackage, and while I feel that the cultists probably lacked something, the intent of the mastermind was possibly to completely take the nobles off guard by throwing a raid boss at their scouting party. Which would definitely throw them for a loop since they would now have to scramble to finish assembling a subjugation force ahead of schedule.

 

[ohko]

Your posts were very insightful, but lemme go off whatever comes to my mind first:

It's one of those tonal dissonance problem, imo- I kinda got the impression that it was kinda important from the getgo with all of the foreshadowing and the multiple quest listings pertaining to cultists- and that everyone involved knew what they were in for.

Eochaidh got his position by virtue of the League of Valour, so it further reinforces the 'something is afoot' angle- but there were so many shenanigans before things got serious in tone that we do indeed need a rationalisation for what is exactly going on...

One plausible angle to look as that the scouting mission, in my mind, would have been the possible prelude to an actual full-frontal assault assuming that the initial scouting mission yielded results that called for it.

So at this stage everyone is still slightly relaxed, but apprehensive enough that they would have immediately rolled up their sleeves if a need to really demonstrate the power of the noble houses arose, and this potential 'main' stage of the mission would have gotten the full fanfare and seriousness a coalition raid would have called for.

With this recontextualisation, what @Bochi meant with Keade requiring to hide things is to fool the nobles was not necessarily fooling the nobles into thinking there was no serious, brewing threat, but rather fooling them into thinking that they still had time to probe for intel, when the cultists were actually way ahead of schedule and already almost done with their eldritch carepackage, and while I feel that the cultists probably lacked something, the intent of the mastermind was possibly to completely take the nobles off guard by throwing a raid boss at their scouting party. Which would definitely throw them for a loop since they would now have to scramble to finish assembling a subjugation force ahead of schedule.

That could make sense! Although if that was the case, shouldn't the nobles have abstained from participating until after the scouting intel came back? It's rather strange for the nobles to insist on going on the scouting party, and a lot of the noble factions seem underprepared for a conventional frontal assault (i.e. Audriana, Sven, and even the Getandmark ships arrived unarmed -- most of the other nobles arrived without airships or military escort / foot soldiers, which is sort of criminally underprepared for a conventional battle -- yet oversupplied for a scouting mission -- it really does seem like all the nobles came for a leisurely "camping trip" lol).

I was also under the impression the @Bochi intended to do the final bombardment with Kanon by herself, unless the intention was for Kanon come with an entire fleet with even more nobles(?)

 

[Nahrenne]

Your posts were very insightful, but lemme go off whatever comes to my mind first:

It's one of those tonal dissonance problem, imo- I kinda got the impression that it was kinda important from the getgo with all of the foreshadowing and the multiple quest listings pertaining to cultists- and that everyone involved knew what they were in for.

Eochaidh got his position by virtue of the League of Valour, so it further reinforces the 'something is afoot' angle- but there were so many shenanigans before things got serious in tone that we do indeed need a rationalisation for what is exactly going on...

One plausible angle to look as that the scouting mission, in my mind, would have been the possible prelude to an actual full-frontal assault assuming that the initial scouting mission yielded results that called for it.

So at this stage everyone is still slightly relaxed, but apprehensive enough that they would have immediately rolled up their sleeves if a need to really demonstrate the power of the noble houses arose, and this potential 'main' stage of the mission would have gotten the full fanfare and seriousness a coalition raid would have called for.

With this recontextualisation, what @Bochi meant with Keade requiring to hide things is to fool the nobles was not necessarily fooling the nobles into thinking there was no serious, brewing threat, but rather fooling them into thinking that they still had time to probe for intel, when the cultists were actually way ahead of schedule and already almost done with their eldritch carepackage, and while I feel that the cultists probably lacked something, the intent of the mastermind was possibly to completely take the nobles off guard by throwing a raid boss at their scouting party. Which would definitely throw them for a loop since they would now have to scramble to finish assembling a subjugation force ahead of schedule.

Meanwhile, poor Anya just had no idea what she had arrived to, thinking it was a simple scout quest.
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[ohko]

Hey, that version of AG rp is dead now. You may want to participate in this new version though.

You can probably even somehow include this quest of yours in the new version?

Sky Archipelago might have transmigrated into the world of the old adventurer's guild.

We can bring back all our old characters!

 

[Ddraig]

Your posts were very insightful, but lemme go off whatever comes to my mind first:

It's one of those tonal dissonance problem, imo- I kinda got the impression that it was kinda important from the getgo with all of the foreshadowing and the multiple quest listings pertaining to cultists- and that everyone involved knew what they were in for.

Eochaidh got his position by virtue of the League of Valour, so it further reinforces the 'something is afoot' angle- but there were so many shenanigans before things got serious in tone that we do indeed need a rationalisation for what is exactly going on...

One plausible angle to look as that the scouting mission, in my mind, would have been the possible prelude to an actual full-frontal assault assuming that the initial scouting mission yielded results that called for it.

So at this stage everyone is still slightly relaxed, but apprehensive enough that they would have immediately rolled up their sleeves if a need to really demonstrate the power of the noble houses arose, and this potential 'main' stage of the mission would have gotten the full fanfare and seriousness a coalition raid would have called for.

With this recontextualisation, what @Bochi meant with Keade requiring to hide things is to fool the nobles was not necessarily fooling the nobles into thinking there was no serious, brewing threat, but rather fooling them into thinking that they still had time to probe for intel, when the cultists were actually way ahead of schedule and already almost done with their eldritch carepackage, and while I feel that the cultists probably lacked something, the intent of the mastermind was possibly to completely take the nobles off guard by throwing a raid boss at their scouting party. Which would definitely throw them for a loop since they would now have to scramble to finish assembling a subjugation force ahead of schedule.

I still dont get the need for fooling nobles in any possible way, it implies that nobles are not at the top of the chain but secret orgs are. Secret orgs is good and all, at some point the amount of nobles is too big to remain silent.

Now if the mission is nothing serious or life-threatening, well why lie? And if that is not the case, well,

Can you imagine the possibility of Grogar flipping the shit out? All it takes for that is Gawr and Gwen getting harmed or dying because of deception and thus being fooled into a suicidal mission by a basically traitorous org. He is a duke - one who got his stuff done by wars and is thus more than capable of starting a rebellion or sending the whole org to gallows.

The orgs work for nobility and royalty, not the other way round.