Xamador - Qorlander Bay - Human Thread
[Private to Cecil Bellic: The town of Qorlander Bay bustles with activity. Every major kind makes its home here, however temporary. The Invar outnumber all the others put together in the town, but it was Kradok designed and Unbular built. There is no strict military presence, as the world is relatively at peace, at least among most sentient kinds of any significant number, but this city is heavily fortified and it's populace is heavily armed. Few ships at a time dock at the small jetties located within the protective walls. The rest remain outside in the wider bay, unprotected. Four deadly looking Unbular frigates sit outside the walls, armaments positioned toward the wild land beyond the walls.
Within the town there is a solid core citizenry that operates. Inns, shops, taverns, combinations of all three, and homes. There is also an Invar academy, and Unbular inner castle (a small area more heavily fortified than even the city walls where Unbular train and live), and an underground Kradok workshop that doubles as a first line of defense against underground attacks from whatever unknown beastie decides to do so.
There are no humans to speak of.]
[Private to Xanthius Shariam: Life for you is already an adventure. Humans are viewed as a nuisance in the tamer lands across the sea. That one family, the Shariams, had the gall to settle on the wild mini-continent of Xamador and the temerity to actually survive, gives them no end of trouble. It also grants them a measure of begrudging respect.
Today, you have headed into the nearby town, Qorlander Bay. It is a coastal town with all manner of rugged individuals and even some strange creatures not seen elsewhere in the world...so far as you've heard. The items crafted by you and your dad are mostly service tools and lesser things that you are underpaid for. That's not the point, so far as your dad says anyway.
As you make your way past the small fortified dock area (the rest of the docks are unprotected beyond the wall) you the Morning Star, a large Unbular sea-monster hunter ship. It was not built for speed or agility in any fashion. Wide and sitting low in the water when fully loaded, it would not make more than 5 knots under the strongest manageable wind. What Morning Star lacked in speed, it made up for in durability. Its infra- and superstructures were both metal bound, reinforced double-layered and hardened wood. The railing mirrored crenelations at the tops of Unbular fortifications. The whole ship was designed as a floating fortress that could withstand a single large attacker, another ship, or significant boarding parties. Pirates were not unknown in coastal waters and in the few remote island chains, but the larger problem lay in the huge reaches of uncharted waters and the crazy mad life below their surface.
After a double-take, you realize that the person debarking from the Morning Star this very moment is a fellow human.]
GM: Welcome to Qorlander Bay. Future posts for you both will be in this thread until such time as you join the main group.