Tormented Soles - The Original Thread.

[Kalamos]

I might post a list of "Famous Men", if other players appreciate it.

I can only suggest you read the Background infos, so you can familiarize yourself with the gaming world.

As I said, Morean history does bear a resemblance to Roman history, but it is not like and the same.
You might have surprises. 🙂

 

[Kalamos]

Darth Vegeta's Revised Character Sheet.


Name: Maximos Valerios
Age: 24
Gender: male
Race: Human
Description:
Short black hair, slightly paleskin but varies depending time spent out in the open. Very dark Brown eyes. Broadshouldered. 1m70.
Wears a 'Magister Kentum' uniform and a decorated forge-moulded breastplate.
Tunic that is black and with red line at edges. Leather cover. Shinprotectors, wristprotectors. Open-faced Karea Helmet with a red plume. Garatios sword and ornated Vugios dagger attached to a Baratheos double belt.
Has a Bakulos.
At times, wears a black Kurgalas cloak, especially during winter. And gloves.

Bio:

Descending from a noble aristocratic family of Morea, young Maximos has followed the typical career of all men of his family.
He began a military career to gain prestige but also moral fiber, insight and experience.

Thanks to the influence of his family and his citizenship combined he easily became a Magister Kentum in the Morean Legions. Having campaigned in several regions, including against restless Althwyrans, rebelling slaves and pirates from Hybetia, Rythis and Vaskos, he has obtained considerable experience.
He strives to rise into the ranks of the officers, and wishes to, one day, lead Legions as a Magister Militum, or even better, a Magister Armum.
It is a long way to the top, though.

Being an honourable yet ambitious young man, showing great promise both politically and militarily, his family hopes he will reach great heights and become a Vadamor, or even a Geramor, one day.

However Maximos Valerios's made it clear his personal preferances are not of the same type. He merely wishes to become a Magister Armum, with a military Imperios as it is clear his specialties lie in that field.
The political machinations, the corruption and the dishonour of the Geramorea sometimes disgust him.


Misc. Info:

Maximos is a skilled swordsman.
He has great tactical and strategical insight.
He is very insightful in politics but is a bit lacking in diplomacy and tact.
He is rational, honourable but also ruthless and stubborn.
He and his family are very conservative and uphold the ideals of old.
He has one sibling, a younger brother who is more into governing the financial interest and assets of his family.
Maximos understands the value of this work but still thinks money as a main goal to be somewhat 'impure'.
He is most lenient and friendly with slaves. Unlike many noblemen he doesn't like to torture or mistreat prisoners or people unless his meaner edge appears or he is provoked/forced.
He sees the Morean civilization as superior to that of others.
For the rest he can be at times both 'Knightly' and bloodthirsty.

On a sidenote, Maximos wishes to bring back discipline to the slacking Legions; Tharagyan, in particular, are lagging behind, and Maximos thinks their efficiency has suffered as a result.

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Very nice.
You even used terms I haven't heard or haven't heard/Read in ages.
I'm impressed.
Studied Military History? Or just a hobby?

 

[Kalamos]

Happy 2005 folks.
Hope all's fine and well.

Game will be slow paced a bit, while some players are on vacancy.
In the meanwhile, I am expanding the game background history.
Feel free to read on, so you can familiarize with Aygomen and its nuances.


Darth Vegeta, I added a Magister's pic, in the History section devoted to Tharagya.
You might want to give a glance. 🙂

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Okay so where shall I start?
If he's in Bysanthium with what reason?
Is there a boarder region thread where his Cohort/Legion could be stationed?

 

[Kalamos]

Where would *you* start? 🙂

Why is Maximos in Tharagya?

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Hmmm well I'll see. I'll go read some threads and post in a fitting one.

 

[Duke Diablo]

Well, wellcome to the game, Darth Vegeta. Maybe our characters will meet each other during their adventures.

 

[Darth Vegeta]

Sure. Looking forward to it. Tnx 🙂

 

[TicklishAllison]

Revised Character Sheet, plus suggested changes.


Character name: Tyler Alexandria, better know as Ty
Suggested Name: Tylas Alexandrys.

Age: 18
Removed Part:", but just barely"

Gender: Female

Race: entirely human
Got a genetic check, lately? 😉

Description: Muscularly built 5'4" frame. Sandy brown hair to shoulders, usually tied back with leather straps. Wears mocassin-type shoes, men's leather pants and oversized men's deer hide shirt, hiding a VERY feminine figure. She has deep brown eyes, somewhat resembling a puppy's. Dimpled cheeks add a charismatic innocence to her sweet, but mischevious smile.

Bio: Ty grew up in an orphanage in the Hills of Sorrow with many other children. Her parents died when she was young and left her with nothing to her name. As she grew, the orphanage began to completely dictate her attitude. Other orphans taught her such skills as theiving, use of a knive, and how to take pain. Ty's one weakness is ticklishness, and it was exposed by other older girls. She, in turn, learned the art of tickling also, and occasionally used it against her enemies. She makes a living by doing odd jobs and being a theif. She is well known for her abilities, but keeps much to herself, as she does not trust anyone.

 

[AcornaMordor]

Name:
Francois du Marquis
Suggested Names:
Farawyn T'on Marakys.
Farawyn Malakos

Age: 25
Gender: Male (Yes yes I like to play Male characters. It's just easier to avoid getting groped. -.-😉
Race: Human
Description:
Curly auburn hair and blue eyes. Approximately 5'10"
Usual attire being a loose pair of travel-worn black pants and black manacles holding his wrists behind his back.
Barechested, barefoot, and clean shaven of any torso or facial hair for sheer appearance. His nipples are pierced with thin silver rings and a brand marks his left shoulder.

Bio:
A prisoner of war, now a slave, the young knight had been brought to the city in a caravan of slaves headed for the pens and the market.

Outside the city one night before they arrived, a zealot for some anti-slavery cause killed the sole slaver taking the caravan and freed the few slaves that had survived the trip in the arabian sun and desert. With no food or water left after the other slaves had looted and run, Francois stripped the slaver's corpse of his clothes which turned out to be too big in the waist and too short in the legs and arms. Discarding them thus, he wrapped himself up in his cloak and took the few small coins the man had hidden in his boots that the other frantic escapees had overlooked, and hurried into the city under the cover of night. He knew he must hide and wondered how long until news of the murder and escape would outrun him.

 

[Kalamos]

Let me review your chars, so I can make them "aygomenia-compliant". 😉

If you followed us so far, you know what I mean. 🙂

 

[AcornaMordor]

Well crap, Kalamos, halfway through the bio I stopped and tried to think but all I kept getting was "Roman, Arabian, Roman, Arabian."

 

[Kalamos]

Actually *that* part is up to me.
That's what I am here for. Making sure the characters are... in character. 😀

I am just making up a reason for your char to be there. He would start somewhere very far from the others... and we need an intro action.

Just that.
If you are in no hurry, we can make that up easily. 🙂

I just have to write up actions for people waiting for theirs, before. 🙂

 

[Hue]

Character Sheets.

Name: Night Raptor

Age: 1,250

Gender: Male

Race: Half Human, Half Dragon with Dragon Blood running in his veins

Occupation: PENDING REVIEW


Features: 6’ 9”, 325 lbs., long orange hair, bright black eyes, very muscular, and scar on his face (left side).

Weapon(s): Wooden Staff, 2 razor sharp knives, and a Scythe

Clothing: Red silk robes, and black boots

Bio: PENDING REVIEW.
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Pending Review.

Name: Draco

Gender: Male

Age: 1,000

Race: Half Human, and Half Dragon, like his half brother Night Raptor, with Dragon Blood flowing in his veins.

Clothing: Black Muscle shirt, Gray sleeveless robe, Gold Cape, and Green & Orange boots.

Features: Long Green Hair worn in a ponytail, height = 6’ 1”, weight = 210 lbs., very muscular, not as muscular as Night Raptor or NIGHTMARE but more muscular than Robert, Blood Red eyes, and on the front of his shirt, is a flaming bright red ‘D’.

Occupation: PENDING REVIEW

Weapon(s): Battle Axe, 2 Double Edged daggers, and a Double Edged Medium Broad Sword. He wears the daggers at his sides, the sword is belted on his back (right side) and the Battle Axe is strapped on the left side of his back when he doesn’t want to carry it in his hand(s).

Bio: PENDING REVIEW



Suggested Abilities:

Draco:
Ability to project his image, or blend in the background.
Can shapeshift into dragon-kin form, or assume hybrid winged humanoid form.
Heightened, eleven-like, senses.

Night Raptor:
Ability to mind-bend lesser humanoids.
Can shapeshift into dragon-kin form, or assume hybrid winged humanoid form.
Heightened, eleven-like, senses.



Original Post Follows:


Draco = Ablilty to clone himself, can transform into a dragon and back into human form also can have only dragon wings to accompany his human form, can turn himself invisible, has heighten senses of sight, smell, and hearing, and has advance healing powers!

Night Raptor - Ability to tranform into a full dragon, full human, or human with dragon wings, can breathe fire (Draco has this power also), can transport to the inside of a building from the outside and vise versa, heighten senses of sight, smell, and hearing!

I hope this helps you and everyone 😎

 

[tukano_2]

I don't want to be annoying, but didn't we say, when the game was first started, that players should create playing characters of their own gender? We already have a male player controlling a female playing char.

Don't get me wrong, everyone is free to choose the character they want to play with, but being this also a tickling RPG, the gender factor could be of some relevance.

But if none else here complains, they probably agree, so, ok, majority wins 🙂

 

[Kalamos]

Tukano has a point there, but Acorna too.

Acorna clearly stated she didn't want her character to be harassed in the first few gaming turns.

Xtxlx had his char, Tanadra, oblivious to pain, tickling and so on. Effectively, he put out a "red light", so nobody would tickle her.

It should be noted, though, that we did suggest a rule about sexual preferences.
Cassandra did say that character should adhere to each player's gender and inclinations.
We never enforced that rule, because it could make the game too narrow in scope, but we could, in the future.

Of course we are still testing things out.
This is just the first Tale of Aygomenia, Tormented Soles. We can adjust things as game goes on. 🙂

 

[tukano_2]

First of all, I just wanted to remember something we say at the beginning and to say my opinion on the matter, no intention to criticize anyone. As Kalamos says, let's just test things out and see how it works 🙂

I understand the concern about the harassment, but I think it could be clearly stated: "I don't want my player to be harassed, tickled, raped, whatever", and players should respect that, just as they must respect other players' actions, masters' judgement, game's rules in general, and mods would enforce those rules.

Information about the tk orientation of the players, as well as if they want or not be involved in tk actions, could also be added to the char sheet.

 

[Kalamos]

That is a problem: a fair share of people regard tales of aygomenia as their average, fantasy rpg.
They come up with chars that would fit in a console game, and they wonder why so little tickling is present in the game. 😀

If you want tickling, guys, you must provide it too. 😀

 

[AcornaMordor]

Well I didn't see the beginning to know about the gender suggestion - I probably skimmed over that.

Why would that be a rule anyway? What if I don't -want- to play a female character? I've played lots of rps with male characters and been my normal dickless self in OOC and no one's complained before..

 

[Duke Diablo]

Well, I don't complain. Wellcome to the game, Acorna, and I hope you have as much fun as myself. Kalamos is a very good DM, and it comes from one of the better DMs(in my group, I'm always a DM, they want no one else).

 

[Kalamos]

😉

We - Cassandra and I - try to be fair, as narrators, considering this is an "always-expanding" game.

The gender suggestion was proposed because tickling is sexual, and people would like to interact with characters of their favourite gender.
Of course nobody can ever be sure about that, that's why we don't usually enforce that rule anyway. 😀

We'd like to elaborate on it, though, because we could risk losing the tickling focus.
But this is first and foremost, an RPG. It has fetish overtones, so it is *more* and we hope *better* than the average e-RPG.
That is a plus, a bonus, not a constraint. 🙂

 

[AcornaMordor]

Well interact with the characters by all means but why should what characters they choose to associate bleed over into the OOC players?

 

[Kalamos]

Choices do not "bleed". 🙂

We proposed to keep the "gender-preferences" combination consistent, between player and character.

It would make sense, since this is a game with sexual overtones. But it is not mandatory.

Frankly put, we all know that users' gender is impossible to know. 😀
So, making a rule to impose the same gender upon the characters is pointless.

What is not, is stating what the player is looking for: that is, action, intrigue, plain tickling, and so on.
What really taxes a narrator is building an adventure around the players' expectations. And it's doubly hard, if they want it all, in a conveniently prepared package. 😀

We can't simply put a char in his/her/its favourite situation, and let the player enjoy it.
Since there are a lot of players/characters, we have to create a complex, realistic world, so they can meet up and interact.

But that means we have to enforce some rules: travel rule is an example, but other exist.
Nothing is mandatory; anybody could reason this is just a game, and we shouldn't be that strict.
Problem is, this is a public game, so we'd like to have fun together. And that means it cannot be a free-for-all.

The good thing is, since this is an e-RPG, instead of a videogame, you don't have to wait for the patch. You can simply state what your expectations are, and we try and put your char where he/she/it would better fit.
But we need to hear from you. 🙂
And, I am afraid, you'll have to wait a bit, since we are not drawing from a printed sourcebook.

We listen for advices and comments, even if we don't seem to react.
Just because you don't see things change, that doesn't mean they stay the same. 😉


Hope you'll enjoy your stay. Please, have a look at the Background History, in the meanwhile. 🙂

 

[cassandra1]

I said "preferably your real gender". It's preferred, but not a must.