A Dark Sea

Captain Ronald One-Eye is a hero of renowned status all over the shores of the Norrath Pace. His ship is a ship of wonders and mystery and his crew is the happiest, weirdest, open-minded and easy going bunch of seamen one could ever find on the waters.

But Ronald wasn’t always Captain, Ronald didn’t always have just one eye, and Ronald didn’t have his crew and possessed all the wonders he now have. And it all began with Ronald the Deckhand, Ronald the Rat, Ronald the Small, Ronald the puny young man without ambition when the ship he sailed on – The Flying Hummingbird – happened to get lost during a transport of supplies and weapons during the end of The Great Fire Wars.

And what Ronald experienced then, were to forever change him and his friends forever.

This is the introduction for The Tale of Ronald One-Eye, one new hero of the sea I just made up for Nianze to suit my purposes later on. You all haven’t met him since I just made him up so no use speculating about that. This though is the beginning of a great change for Ronald and the beginning of his Journey. He won’t become Captain Ronald One-Eye during this campaign but the character Ronald is supposed to be “invincible” and in a sense immortal. This though isn’t the case of course. This tale ends with him alive and on his way to become this great captain, any other ending is forfeit.

His surviving friends will also become heroes in history and get a name and nickname for themselves. This will be the reward for surviving this campaign that plus the benefit of learning about the Xin and the Creation of Exile which you will personally experience in first hand!! Afterwards I’ll give you a one time offer to play a Xin with one of their Racial Abilities for free (the race and the ability) if you can write a good story about your character that fits into the Xin-history that you know of.

The campaign will be played once a week in “chapters” which I will try to plan in before. The first chapter will be the prologue where the story begins and you can just try out your character a little. You will play Deckhands or Apprentices on the Flying Hummingbird and you will be young (tops 22 years of age, this including your specialty age addition). The ship is relatively big, about four decks, not including the ballast or the captain’s cabin, and with just over a hundred men working and living on the boat. No passengers, it’s a ship of transport working to help the world in the war.

You cannot be Healer or Tyniker. It is possible to be an Apprentice Mage but not Mentalist if that’s the case. You cannot be Orc, Littleman or Half-elf either. The sum you can create characters for is 3000 CP and you are Non Strikers. That’s the major rules about creation of the characters. You will know of each other even though if you might not “know” each other. How that will be, we’ll work out later.

Other than your Character Creation I’ll need a short description of your character’s appearance, his personality and also what he really likes and dislikes plus if you can muster up, some personal ambitions filling his life right now. I will add some quirks to your characters plus most likely determine your relationship and some other things to make it interesting plus deal you a plotline after I’ve gotten that information.

The main goal during the campaign is to keep Ronald alive and to help mold him into a character. It’s possible for someone in the group to play him; I’ll personally be willing to reward this person if you are able and can play him like I want him played out. If Ronald dies the Campaign ends and you will all die. It will be possible to replay the campaign until we have the story of Ronald and his friends. A hint you might have guessed, a lot of people on the ship will die and you and your characters plus Ronald will probably be the group mostly.

The challenge in this campaign is mostly to keep Ronald alive and out of trouble since he will be one of the Star Crossed fellas which will truly be one of The Tormented Ones. He will be the equalent opposite to Matrim Cauthon or David’s character with a curse. He will be the trigger of all events and also the only possibility to survive each chapter. If he dies at any stage you’ll loose. But as long as he is alive the campaign will go forward and the possibility of success will be high. The tricky part is mostly Ronald which I might say is a similar person as Rem, if you remember him. The whiny guy with Jayde who had someone inside of him.

Well, characters can be mailed or sent to me over MSN and questions about the campaign here. Since I will most likely start this campaign next Wednesday I would prefer the characters be finished by the next Sunday or Monday. This due to the fact that I want to keep this campaign alive as the feeling and idea is alive. I cannot promise that it will be alive if you aren’t prepared or willing to start it next week.

Best Regards,
Herid Fel