TVC OOC (New)

[Mr Nightwere]

We will see...
I will discover your book! Also realize that a conflict between you and Jason will result in your immediate and entirely painful death but its ok we can resurrect you.

Edit
Ahhhhh Count Darvaleth is afraid of a little interrogation. That's a bit of a low blow, Simon showing up to help you out?

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

I have noticed a few people posting others actions, such as saying that the other character is afraid of them. Please can we try not do this as you are effectively posting the other characters actions when that should be done by the player.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

I sort of bowed to Mr. Nightwere's superior experience and status here on CN, and I guess it's natural that Drake should be afraid. I see it more as prompts than actual actions, and after all, he has every right to do so after my scandalously blatant god-mod.

 

[Gree]

Hi everybody. I was just wondering if anybody has any criticism for my character submission. He's in the "signing up" thread.

In hindsight, I believe some of his stats may be a tad inflated. I didn't look too hard at the other characters submitted before I created him, and his stats kind of reflect that. I'm willing to lower them if anybody thinks it's necessary.

I'll help you out. Going through your post I'm a bit concerned at your character's high weapon stats. But not too much, seeing as he's not much of a sorcerer by comparison.

 

[Mr Nightwere]

Sorry DoN I only do it on occasion and only when I feel like Jason should be feared at the time

Jason looked down to his prisoner a cold smile on his face, as smelled the air a scent of ancient evil caught his nostrils and he crouched down to look drake in the eyes. Drake fought down the fear in his belly, as he looked into Jason's eyes his body felt warn and bated and he thirsted for blood.
Jason spoke with an elegance and cold seriousness, as he looked into Drake's eyes.

Like here I do feel as through some fear should be felt by Drake, before Jason's starts questioning him. Never the less I shall defiantly cut down on how much I control peoples actions, as it only gives me grief later on about how I'm received by others.

I sort of bowed to Mr. Nightwere's superior experience and status here on CN, and I guess it's natural that Drake should be afraid. I see it more as prompts than actual actions, and after all, he has every right to do so after my scandalously blatant god-mod.

I don't feel as through I'm a superior In the TVC in fact I usually feel fairly New to the vampire council and occasionally underpowered compared to the true veterans like DoN-Bot and Simon Gree Vekky and Goully, I haven't meet all the characters formally in the story and the established fluff of the council still eludes me. I sometimes feel as through Jason is a stranger and that I myself are disliked as a poster, by that's most likely mere paranoia.

 

[Bravo_10]

So...should I change my technique strength to 7? I think base WS should still be 8 (the guy spent centuries doing nothing but training), but I could see reducing his technical power a bit.

And if no one has any objections, how would Count Drystus best be introduced into the storyline? I thought there needed to be some kind of say-so from DoN...

 

[Malatith the bloody]

Why are my zombies dropping to the ground, and the humans the're around a vampire all the time they should probably only look away
Sorry I haven't posted for the last few daysI've had a cold and haven't been able to focus propoply,

 

[Mr Nightwere]

Well Zombies are Zombies and keeping them animated when one needs to is well rather of little use, I was hoping that Malatith would like to say high first before the armies mobilize?

@Bravo_10
I think your character is OP for his age Many character's, I have looked over usually have a few skills lacking in there Bio but your's are quite high in all areas including magic and Items, Which are not too shabby either. I think you may want to tone him down a notch and get him to specialize in a particular area Keep in mind that a 5 is a regular vampire Lord and that as it stands you could probably take many of the more ancient vampires one on one....

@Simon/DoN
Is there going to be a Bio for Vlad? I see you haven't posted on up and I was wondering about it... Ty

 

[Bravo_10]

Thanks for the critique, Mr. Nightwere! Yeah, that was really what I was afraid of. When I saw "average," I guess I just assumed that it meant something the along the lines of "average human." I would still like to keep WS8, but to be honest, I will tweak my character as much as needed. Item-wise, I'm not really sure what to do. His armor is supposed to be the RPG equivalent of a 4+ Ward Save, but it does seem horrendously OP that half of everything directed at him glances off an invisible force-field...

Also, keep in mind that he WILL NOT cast a spell when he has the wedding ring on. It's my method of making him completely combat specialized, but it also enables him to, say, throw the ring to the ground and cast Vanhel's Danse Macabre on himself to escape a tight spot.

 

[Mr Nightwere]

Yes that's good if you want to be a combat orientated Vampire then be a combat orientated vampire, give him Awesome armor high speed, weapon skill all good things. A skill set is also a good way your character can contribute to the over all role play where others cannot.
Eg. My character is both an alchemist/ enchanter and a linguist thus he can be very useful in certain situations.
(Yes I did not your Military Command skill set, I just thought I would check to see if you wanted to do something else?)

One more thing Just try to stay clear of actual game references, as it wont really matter in the Role play. Spells which make you move faster are good on the table top, but having higher speed is probably the way to go it becomes slightly less awkward to simply be faster than say hes becoming faster, now ???

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Now Simon, Drake was very nice, he said he would come and everything, and he said nothing about complete desertion or anything. He found it very rude that you just made your dragon grab him and carry him off. It's hardly a way to gain allies.

I think I just may have to side with the Council.

 

[Mr Nightwere]

I would kind of like to engage with, Malatith the bloody before I depart to warn Lesa of Simon being Simon. But I suppose its not necessary

 

[Simon von Carstein]

You'll have to forgive Simon. Drake's apparent refusal to give him the book of Nagash has finally made him snap. Its been coming on for some time now the council constantly arguing against him, certain members plotting against him and the pressure of leading the Carsteins and resurrecting Vlad has finally got to him. Drake just had the misfortune of setting him off.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

Well unfortunately, I guess Simon has made the Carsteins' an enemy for unlife.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

You have to hand it to Simon and Gree though - they have done a superb job of RPing the most arrogant and self-confident vampires ever. Though in the RP they drive the Council insane, from outside the RP it is always interesting to see what they do next, or how they manage to twist every situation to convince themselves they were right.

Bravo - Sorry for taking so long to reply to you character. I have had a look and to be honest he is too powerful. Since we are nearing the end of the RP I have put on stop of powerful character signups as we already have loads of them. Even discounting that, his stats are too high for a Carstein. A WS of 5 is for an average vampire lord, so what is expected Carsteins to be, maybe a point or so higher but not 8. The force field is too much as well. You could say he has a ward for protection but it should not be infallible.

On the note of this RP drawing to a close I wanted to ask you all a couple of questions about the sequel:

Do you all want a break between this one ending and the next one starting, a week / month etc?
I have worked the story so we will all be taking a step down in power, you'll see why. This is so we can grow again over the story. I presume no one has an issue with this?
Finally, good news that in the sequel Simon has agreed to help me out. I will still be running it overall, so plots / sideplots etc are the same. However Simon will be helping with the story, giving the go ahead for characters etc. With being an admin I am sometimes distracted elsewhere so I thought it was unfair to keep others waiting, and considering Simon and me kick started this one off, it seemed only right he joined in running the sequel.

 

[Mr Nightwere]

Hmmm I smell a power explosion at the very end of the battle....
As for the break between the Role plays. I say maybe... I don't think its necessary, unless people didn't know what there character was doing for 10 years between maybe give people some time to figure out what their doing and if they wanted to do it with other characters I know I would like too.
Also is there going to be a round up of all the characters!!! Because that sounds cool to me, like Lesa or Simon seeking out all the old council members catching a glimpse of what they were up to something like that?.

Also whats happening with the desert folk as I understood that section of the TVC was a few months ago in Role play terms, I am not sure through, but maybe they could all turn up at Darkenhof?

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

Darvaleth - I am unsure what you are doing with the Book of Nagash? Some of the things you are posting, well they have not been agreed on, such as the book being at your characters disposal. It is very powerful and such changes have to be agreed before hand. Secondly the fluff you are stating such as the book can only be used by a Necrarch, where are you getting this from? I have never heard of it.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

I thought it was a cool idea. Mr Nightwere suggested to me that the Book had a conscience, and I like the idea. It would act similarly to Tz'Arkan with Malus Darkblade; in that, to start with, it seems great, lovely, etc. really helpful. Then it influences Drake, starts to control him, until he is almost completely enslaved. You wonder why Zacharias kept it in a wardrobe.

And the Necrarch thing, well, essentially; the Book is lying to Drake. Nagash still has full sway over it. He will start using Drake, until Drake discovers it, and chucks the Book away, or tries to. (Tom Riddle's diary...). It would then eventually end up in the hands of somebody more powerful (Lesa or Vlad?) and, depending on who it is, they either dispose of it or attempt to use it.

I thought it would be cool to slowly let this unfold, but alas, not everyone has the apparent "powers" of the Book. We can't all be able to read my mind. (And a good thing too!) Sorry this wasn't made clear.

EDIT: @ Simon: I do seem to have the unfortunate habit of being the "last straw" quite often. The one time last year my homework was late in (I have done EVERY other piece on-time to a good standard, yes geek oh well I play warhammer) and all I had to do was print it in the lunch-break (ie in the next two minutes) and hand it in to the teacher in the same hour, and they gave me a freakin' Friday after-school. At least the teacher didn't summon a dragon and drag me into the sky though. That's new.

@ The subject of the END of TVC 1: However long you need. I personally enjoy it a lot, and could re-start after just a week if everyone else wants to.

- On a tangent slightly, but I might like to have Drake killed off...? I feel I've mucked him up by having a changing Bloodline and not really developed any sort of character, due to my epic failure at grasping a new kind of roleplay concept. If Drake were to die, would it be all right if I made a new character for the next VC? (The next "The Vampire Council" doesn't make sense. The next "Vampire Council" does!!!) I'd like him to be more closely associated with another of the characters, maybe an underling of some sort? -

But anyway, those are just my thoughts.

 

[Disciple of Nagash]

I see - well the plot sounds good but in that's the reason that all plots are meant to be PM'd to me, so I can check and give them the ok.

In regards to killing off, by all means. He is your character and you are welcome to create a new one for the sequel.

@ where has Ghouly got to? Waiting on him to post......

 

[Trevy the Great]

I thought the difference between this and the sequel was already set at ten years.

Edit
Bravo, your character is 6" tall? I wonder if he runs under girls skirts to get good looks or slips under door thresholds.

 

[Count Darvaleth]

Edit
Bravo, your character is 6" tall? I wonder if he runs under girls skirts to get good looks or slips under door thresholds.

At least you could pick him up and use him to accurately measure movement. Oh wait, damn; we can pre-measure now anyway! Oh, and as for the 10-year thing, I think DoN means RL time, not RP time. Not ten years RL time, we'd never remember to start it again!

And I'm sorry DoN. I know I've been a naughty child, and I promise if I ever dabble in powerful artefacts again, I will ask you about it before I start making them into imaginary friends. I should really have realised the difference between what my character is doing and setting plots in motion. I will give you my favourite zombie as an apology. (Not Rob... Bob!!!)

 

[Bravo_10]

Oh, blasted inches abbreviation! :swear:

No, he's obviously supposed to be 6' tall. He's not a pigmy vampire.

And thanks for the feedback DoN. Unfortunately, I may have to take him off of the forum and completely re-tool. I liked the idea of a fighter in the von Carstein bloodline, and I love the story I came up with. But it looks like I may have to re-write it a-la Blood Dragon. Curses...

Oh well. Maybe I'll get him done in time to be ushered into the next RP. o_o

 

[Mr Nightwere]

- On a tangent slightly, but I might like to have Drake killed off...? I feel I've mucked him up by having a changing Bloodline and not really developed any sort of character, due to my epic failure at grasping a new kind of Roleplay concept. If Drake were to die, would it be all right if I made a new character for the next VC? (The next "The Vampire Council" doesn't make sense. The next "Vampire Council" does!!!) I'd like him to be more closely associated with another of the characters, maybe an underling of some sort? -

Well If you want a character I have 4... also if you do decide to use the book as something akin to the ring of power. perhaps you can link it back to drake with your new character?

Thanks for the feedback DoN. Unfortunately, I may have to take him off of the forum and completely re-tool. I liked the idea of a fighter in the Von Carstein bloodline, and I love the story I came up with. But it looks like I may have to re-write it a-la Blood Dragon. Curses...

You don't need to re-write him as a blood dragon, if you like your fluff then no ones going to make you change it. You just have to tone him down being this level of power from the start is fine because as over the role play your character develops and become more powerful.

 

[Anilar]

Hi.

Im planning to join this adventure, im thinking that since the current chapter is aproaching its end, and a new chapter/adventure is to start, is the right moment for a new vampire to show itself.
Now I have tried to read through some of the chapters, and its quite challenging, so wont even try get through it all. Thinking that a new vampire to the council wouldnt know what have happened in details anyways.

Have several ideas for some background stories, so have a few questions I hope you can/will answer so I can get a direction on my character creation process.

Is there any of the chapters that are important to read, to understand and join this adventure, or is it fine to come in as a noob for you all to manipulate and use in youre devious intrigue and schemes.

Is there some of the bloodlines that could use some more representation. Dont do Strigoi, but have ideas for the other bloodlines, and dont have any preferance yet.

Im thinking to write my background relatively open, so I can join whatever faction, after discussing with the GM's how to be introduced to the roleplay, or should I choose from the start. (have a real hard time to figure out all the sides in this roleplay, so would be a very daunting task).

Ani

 

[Mr Nightwere]

I didn't worry about the other chapters, Anilar I do read them occasionally and its a good idea but Unnecessary.
The representation of the bloodlines if relatively balanced excluding the Strigoi I'm afraid Graweclaw and Mr Todd are the only ones and Todd is kinda half blood dragon as it is.

As for background I would recommend asking characters you like to be included in there's I love history between characters .