Hi folks!

This is the OOC thread for the new group. I'd like each of you to post here with a quick indication of what your character is like and what they do - you don't have to give away too much information, but enought to get an idea of how you'd work together would be nice.

Any requests for starting country and aims would be great, otherwise I'll choose :P

I'd like at least a couple of you to be acquainted IC when we start as it saves on introductions and helps me find a good starting point.

Don't worry if you haven't quite finished your sheet - I'm sure by now you each know well enough the basics of your characters.

Jos is a livestock rustler and petty thief.  He's from northwest Ddaran, the son of poor ranchers.

He'd be fine in any country.  Having a reward on your head in some of the helps you learn to appreciate the others.  But something more wild or frontier-sy.  He'd stand out like sore thumb in a cultured city.

Ah good, this will help. I am still sorting my character out, so doing this with other players around is great.

Here is the initial idea for Harry, and it hasn't changed much. Looks like he has mutual interests with Jos.

Harry the Bastard. A rogue* and a scoundrel, Harry makes a fair living performing small services for men of breeding, services with which they would not wish to be associated. Among his peers, Harry professes to be the bastard son of a nobleman, but the nobleman's identity changes every month. Harry's grudge against men with airs and graces appears real enough, but he is sufficiently dissolute that it seems the best that fate has to offer him is a dagger in his back and a slow death in an alley. To hear him talk, though, you would think he will become the Duke's right hand man before his hair turns grey.

* small r

Very interesting, we seem to have a common theme!
Sikhandyn used to be a petty thief before being adopted and trained by an old mage (after trying to steal his belongings).

I'd still prefer if we could try our luck in a richer country, at least in the mid-term; that's where the pay will be highest.

Appearance: Sikhandyn is a slim young man of average height with brown hair, green eyes, and boyish good looks. His eyes are sometimes lost or haunted, sometimes sparkling with interest and full of life. In spite of a certain uneasiness which seems to indicate that he is not used to being part of a group, he clearly enjoys company, and his listening skills are truly remarkable, as suggested by the unique smile of delight on his face when engaged in a conversation and the passion in his eyes when he gazes at his interlocutors.

Diarmuid is a fairly non-descript freeman of medium build and slightly above average height. With his unruly coal black hair, dark brown eyes and tanned skin he has the look of a farmhand, something he takes pains to counteract with grooming so as not to put off women. His father, as head of the family, is considered the equal of a Knight's squire. Diarmuid is some way below that.

Nobles looking at him tend to say things like 'from good tough peasant stock'.

When angry his dark eyebrows and glare can be mildly intimidating, but he is as quick to laughter as anger. As a freeman, above the peasants but below the nobility, he is very aware of station. He shows deference to the nobility and expects deference from those of a lower social class.

His horse 'Tuatha' is about the only thing that sets him apart from the hoi polloi.

Otherwise Diarmuid appears to be a cavalry mercenaryman, the sort that seem to multiply like flies on a bloody battlefield whenever times are rough.

Looks like most of you will get along nicely ;) Making money is always a good bonding point.

A point about rich countries - there may be more wealth knocking around, but things cost more...after all, 'rich' is a relative term ;)

One of the reasons I left Blighty.

Join the club. I'm in Japan, which non Blighty country would you be in?

I'd leave, but I like the land too much. The people I can live without for the most part :P

Scuse the off topic, but even with this apparant global recession there's no shortage of flash cars here - quite seriously more than 1 in 10 of the cars I see on the roads are BMWs, Mercs or Audis.

Supposedly we have a high GDP and wealth per capita, but the standard of living seems better in many european countries, simply because prices are more sane. Housing is the worst thing - I don't think I'll ever be able to afford to buy a house without compromising my quality of life, and the earnings of myself and my fiancée are not much less than average.

*sigh*

I'm in Brazil. I left in October 2006. Did you know São Paulo is the largest Japanese city outside Japan? (If you get my drift.)



That's the nail on the head right there. I had a decent job (senior lecturer), if stressful. My wife was doing a postdoc so was bringing money in. We tried to buy a house (Oxford) and couldn't. As she is Brazilian and I speak Portuguese, we came here and both ended up with lectureships.

Once my brother complained that his flat wasn't increasing in value quite fast enough. I felt like throttling him :)

p.s. As for ever moving back to London, that was right out of the equation. It always made me sad to think I had been priced out of my home town.
This message was last edited by the player at 12:39, Fri 29 May 2009.

Look at all these ex-pats!

What is it that you lecture in? London prices are silly - but that's ok by me, I can't stand the place ;)

My fiancée wants us to move to New Zealand - I don't think I could leave my friends though, and just as importantly, the history. No castles and old manors to tour in the New World!

It was biology. Now it is entomology. I work on pathogens of insects, the eological side of things. I like disease!

Apparently, cost of living in NZ means you can get on with life. But yes, no sense of history, these colonials!