Cool deal. I'll let you two work out the particulars of how and where you met, why David felt the need to hire Shik as a bodyguard (assuming that's your intention), what your immediate goals are, and anything else your relationship entails.

In reply to ucat (msg # 83):

Ucat both sound fun and usefull albeit in very different situations.

No strong preference on my side. Maybe a bit more intrigued by the monk.

No, sorry. Seems the character concept des not fit the game, so i won't be playing a charioteer.

Ah well. So what is your character concept now?

Sir David I have some history with the Al'Malik, it could be grounds for some common interet, past or future. I'll send you some suggestions of what I can suggest.

So it's possible that my Etyri Charioteer could have some sort of connection with any Decados, by the same reasoning as above. Even with that down-on-her-luck Decados female (PM me if you're interested, Ucat, and I'll drop a hint in confidence).

The only other Guilder is the Sgt, right? Again, if you wanted we could come up with some war-time connection.

Open to other ideas, too. Anyone Sanctuary Aeon? I could've met you on Grail when I was a wide-eyed chick admiring the human spacefarers.

Just sent over my character concept, etc, via PM, GM.

Like I mentioned before my character is going to be a Follower of Sancutary Aeon however I suspect that my character is too young to have meet you on Grail before you left However its possible that they meet while the good Captain was transporting him between posts.

That would be fine. He's the alien-friendly pc, correct? Generally though, it would be likely that they would just be acquaintances, if it was just one voyage. Nonetheless, a tenuous contact is better than none.

Yep the Alien-friendly PC :D

If you wish to try to find a more solid link between my character and yours. Your welcome to PM some suggestions.

Its possible since Juandaastas has quite the Forestry operation going on Rangor. Captain Kidhido'on could be protecting Charioteer interests on Gwynneth (They control the Agora with the Muster) or he could be the pilot/captain of one of Juandaastas' primary cargo carriers.

In reply to Sir David Juandaastas (msg # 96):

He was in the war pretty much up to the end, and I don't yet know how our GM is going to set us up, so I'm a little hesitant to establish him on a specific world as of yet. Also he wouldn't really be looking after Charioteer interests on his own; he would have to be on assignment.

It's a good idea though. Let me see how things develop a bit.

Plenty of good ideas going around. I would say those suggestions are viable if you both decided you wanted to go that route (as Kid' said, he would have been on an assignment from the guild if that were the case). One thought I had is that it seems Istakhr is becoming a common location between various characters' backgrounds during the Emperor Wars (Sir David served there during the very tail-end of the wars, Shik served there on a contract from the Muster and mrstrange's Ukari would have been there at around the same time). Kid' flew star-fighters during the Emperor Wars and with the League's close ties to the al-Malik, it's quite possible that the Charioteers were hiring out some of their best pilots to al-Malik fleets to help defend their holdings - those on their homeworld of Istakhr certainly being no exception. On the other hand though...


It could also mean that if Sir David and company ever need to travel somewhere and need a reliable pilot, Kidhido'on might be the first one who springs to mind, and they could seek him out at the spaceport.

Heh heh, putting me on the al-Malik side is a possibility. Funny contrast since his home world's House Keddah was compelled to fight for the Decados against al-Malik. Means if he fought for al-Malik, he might've been killing the first humans he ever knew.

True, although despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that House Masseri - and by extension via an old agreement of honor, House Keddah as well - is bound into war with the al-Malik under the auspices of the Decados, I suspect both the Masseri and the Keddah detest the Decados greatly and have no actual desire to fight the al-Malik, but are simply forced to do so by treaty.

This is the reason so many young Masseri nobles are renouncing their status and joining the guilds (that's right, the League! Allies of the al-Malik!) or the Church instead. If that persists and the House becomes extinct, the old agreement of honor whereby the Keddah must assist the Masseri will be null and void, and the Keddah will thus no longer be held into war with the al-Malik. House Decados would be on its own.

Anyway, this is just to make the point that though Kidhido'on's human friends from Grail might be held into war with the al-Malik, they'd probably rather be fighting on the al-Malik's side if they could choose, so I doubt Kid' would feel much compulsion to fight the al-Malik out of any misplaced notions of patriotism. ;)

No no, not from patriotism! Purely from having nightmares of killing friends.

Anyway, I'm open to either side. Whichever works best for the story.

Hi again!

I'm still struggling to get a character concept for myself. As GM stated, the group seems to be in need of some "technical specialist". We thought about an engineer but being one in real life makes it really unattractive for me, so we thought about a scientist-like character. Lately i thought about playing a church scientist (they are extremely rare but they do exist, i understand) who could even be a member of Academia Interatta, with a several areas of study in order to understand a broader subject (formerly i thought about terraforming, but lately i'm thinking about an annunaki "specialist"). Do you think that could fit in the stories you are planning?

Absolutely, a scholar of the Annunaki could fit in brilliantly (perhaps an Eskatonic with a fascination for Ur technology/artifacts). I'll let other players weigh in with their thoughts and suggestions.
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Sure, works for me.

In reply to Gamemaster (msg # 103):

an Annunaki specalist who is disinterested by the scheming of the guilds so works freelance or even just a Eskatonic priest with a fascination for Ur Technology/artifacts sounds like a nice addition to the group.

a possible thing is have the character obsessed with the the Annunaki Thunders and any hint of them brings out a desire by s/he to recover them before the church can destroy them. The character completely believes the story that once the 15th book is found. The world will end.

At the moment i can't think of any different ideas sorry.

What is the Annunaki Thunder?

Let me give it a shot, and tell me what you think:

Professor Jonathan Brayton was born in an Engineer family in Ligaheim. His parents introduced them to the world of science and technology at a very young age, in order to prepare him for joining the guild once he reached adulthood, but the Pancreator had other plans for him. When he first set foot in the city's cathedral Jonathan knew his love for the Pancreator was stronger than anything else, so, in spite of his parent's objections, he applied and was easily accepted into the eskatonic order. But then, although his faith was great and his profficiency with the rites was not low, something inside him wanted to rebel against the teachings of the order: the eskatonics supported the orthodox idea that technology impoverished and endangered the human soul, but Jonathan, surely due to his upbringing, could not cope with such an idea. He thought that God had put laws for the humans to discover in order to reach their destiny among the stars. It was true that technology should be restricted by morality in order to avoid the renaissance of the horrors of the second republic, but it should not be something forbidden per se. In the end, much to the dismay of his tutors, Jonathan became an hesycast monk and left his home planet. The next things his companions knew about him was that he had been offered a post at Academia Interatta after uncovering an annunaki archeological site at some forgotten place. Rumours abound that he made a deal with aliens, or even demons, in order to locate it. Actually Jonathan is known to be in a gap year, although there are people who think he is in a quest for his ignominous patron, whoever he (or it!) may be.

Sounds awesome, sir.

Sounds fantastic!

Sounds like quite the character concept. If you go with that, I will totally be looking forward to seeing how you have the character progress through the epic.

I have to say, this has got to be the most interesting, colorful, varied composition of character types I have seen in a single adventuring party. We have an Etyri Charioteer pilot war-veteran, an elderly Vorox ex-commando Muster sergeant serving as a bodyguard to a Juandaastas Knight discharged from his House's Guard, an exiled Ukari Banjak theurgist trying to reconnect with his roots, a down-on-her-luck Decados noble drifting aimlessly through the Known Worlds, a Hawkwood Questing Knight diplomat, and a Hesychast 1-part-Engineer/2-parts-Eskatonic-theurgist Annunaki scholar. My mind is now awash with ideas for this Epic. :)

For those of you that "hear" characters when you read, in my mind Shikaalgargund has a voice that sounds like Michael Clarke Duncan, with the speech patterns of Christopher Judge in the part of Teal'c in Stargate SG-1.