Farcaster
Thursday 12-27-2007, 04:16 AM
You awake as if from a horrid nightmare, unable to breathe. You try to scream, but instead find yourself on your hands and knees retching forth what seems like an endless torrent of something foul and oily. Your entire body convulses with pain as the last of the fetid, crimson tinged fluid spills from your lips. You cry out in agony and confusion, but your voice is little more than a whisper in the howling, crackling wind.
Above you, streams of black smoke streak across the hazy red sky--tails left in the wake of gigantic flaming balls of pitch. A field of broken, charred and dangerously sharp rock rises in a daunting slope before you, meeting shortly with a blackened cliff that towers for hundreds of feet. Here and there, the cliff face is cut by what appear to be thin streams of blood that flow down and eventually join an oil-slicked crimson river that rages only a dozen or more feet beneath the precipice of jagged rock you now find yourself on.
Your mind races, trying to recall how you might have come to be here, or for that matter any thing at all. You remember nothing. Your first and only memories are of clawing your way from the putrid water of the river below, from which the stench of death and decay is overpowering.
As you look back towards the foul waters, you spy several ragged figures trying desperately to pull themselves free of its violent embrace. One of the lot suddenly looses his grip and is smashed viciously against a jagged boulder before being swept away. A smear of gore leaves no question as to whether he survived.
Those few that do survive soon join you on the rocky shore. They, as you, are adorned only in tattered undergarments. And their wrists, as yours, are raw and bleeding, suggesting you may have been a prisoner of some sort, some how freed. As their agonized cries ring in your ears, you feel, truly this must be hell...
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This is a new campaign starting in the South Bellevue, Washington area. I'm looking for between four and six players to join me in a biweekly game. Saturday's work best for me, but I could consider running the game late on Friday (8pm) or perhaps earlier in the day on Sunday.
Characters will start at 3rd level. Up to +2 ECL races will be considered, but core races (and classes) are preferred. As you can see from the description above, your character remembers nothing of who he is, how he got there or why. So, you don't need to come up with a character background at this point. You also don't need to specify an alignment at the beginning of the game. All characters will actually start as Neutral -- although, you can still choose any of the core classes even if a character of neutral alignment does not qualify.
My games tend to have their fair share of combat, and I suspect this one will as well. However, I am interested in finding players that can also enjoy roleplaying their characters and a story driven plot. This game is also likely to have some mature, but not over the top topics, so if you are ultrasensitive to such things, this might be a bit too gritty for your tastes.
If you're interested, please shoot me a PM, email, or feel free to post here on this thread.
Above you, streams of black smoke streak across the hazy red sky--tails left in the wake of gigantic flaming balls of pitch. A field of broken, charred and dangerously sharp rock rises in a daunting slope before you, meeting shortly with a blackened cliff that towers for hundreds of feet. Here and there, the cliff face is cut by what appear to be thin streams of blood that flow down and eventually join an oil-slicked crimson river that rages only a dozen or more feet beneath the precipice of jagged rock you now find yourself on.
Your mind races, trying to recall how you might have come to be here, or for that matter any thing at all. You remember nothing. Your first and only memories are of clawing your way from the putrid water of the river below, from which the stench of death and decay is overpowering.
As you look back towards the foul waters, you spy several ragged figures trying desperately to pull themselves free of its violent embrace. One of the lot suddenly looses his grip and is smashed viciously against a jagged boulder before being swept away. A smear of gore leaves no question as to whether he survived.
Those few that do survive soon join you on the rocky shore. They, as you, are adorned only in tattered undergarments. And their wrists, as yours, are raw and bleeding, suggesting you may have been a prisoner of some sort, some how freed. As their agonized cries ring in your ears, you feel, truly this must be hell...
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This is a new campaign starting in the South Bellevue, Washington area. I'm looking for between four and six players to join me in a biweekly game. Saturday's work best for me, but I could consider running the game late on Friday (8pm) or perhaps earlier in the day on Sunday.
Characters will start at 3rd level. Up to +2 ECL races will be considered, but core races (and classes) are preferred. As you can see from the description above, your character remembers nothing of who he is, how he got there or why. So, you don't need to come up with a character background at this point. You also don't need to specify an alignment at the beginning of the game. All characters will actually start as Neutral -- although, you can still choose any of the core classes even if a character of neutral alignment does not qualify.
My games tend to have their fair share of combat, and I suspect this one will as well. However, I am interested in finding players that can also enjoy roleplaying their characters and a story driven plot. This game is also likely to have some mature, but not over the top topics, so if you are ultrasensitive to such things, this might be a bit too gritty for your tastes.
If you're interested, please shoot me a PM, email, or feel free to post here on this thread.