You were the only one who requested Arcane Duelist, so feel free to keep that class if you would like.

Hello hello! Twessa, Gnome Cleric* at your service!

(like Istvan I said I'd be happy to switch classes, Twessa's character is pretty solid in my mind and she could easily be flavored as anything).

For Bonds/already knowing each other purposes...
- Twessa is from The Frozen North
- She's travelled south to convert people to the faith of Sagrae, Dragon Goddess of Grace and Gentility. There's a story that goes with that.
- She's a sucker for a bet!
- She hates how its hot every day down south.
- If she offers you food or drink, expect something overly flavored of fungi and grasses.
- She's wary of trees, not having grown up with them.

Hello folks! I'm very excited to explore the wonderous dungeon with (some) of you.

Gania, so far, is a desert tribeswoman that got bonded to a fire spirit (or elemental or something). So far I'm open on whether it was intentional, for good of the tribe, some freak accident or who knows what.

But the fire inside her is difficult to control and after lashing out against the ones she loves and hurting them badly, she exiled herself and is looking for a way to rid herself of the flame.

She likely roamed the world searching for wise men, artifacts, places of power or anything else that she caught the wind of that might help her. So far nothing has, but she could have met a number of you during her travels. The Tapestry is her final resort and she's all in to exploring it for as long as it takes.

Mechanically, she'll be a Barbarian, an Immolator or some hybrid of the two.

P.S. I can't wait to explore the cold/hot relationship between Twessa and Gania. What is Twessa's disposition towards aiding Gania to get rid of her curse? Does she have a reason of her own to seek the Tapestry?

Mm, I see what you mean-- and another consideration is that with 10 people, even if we're divided into squads of 5 or whatever, no one's likely to cry and say "oh noes we don't have a magic person" or "we're missing a tough fighter" or whatever! Okay, I'll expect to stick with Arcane Duelist...

Yay, made the cut! Elven Ranger, at your service.

GM, do you have any ideas on how tapestry is accessible, or should we brainstorm them?
Is it new or ancient?
Static or moving around the world?
Constant or appearing in intervals (or at random)?

Hi, I'll be playing, Sierpinski, a neutral human wizard.

I intend to take low-offense ongoing spells, and generally to take any other option besides losing them after casting.

The GM assures me that dead characters will be replaced quickly, so I don't care if my character dies.

It is ancient and is a physical object. Attempts to destroy it have been unsuccessful. Feel free to brainstorm how it is accessed, and where in the world it is at this moment.


While it is true that characters can be easily replaced, and I won't hesitate to put the characters in life-threatening situations, please at least attempt to keep them alive. I would prefer to not have a revolving door of PCs. If it happens, it happens, but it should not be a goal. ;-)

Human Druid from the great plains. Chaotic rebel-rouser who sees civilization as a way to prevent individuals from controlling their own destiny.
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World-wise, we have:
The wast desert, where the Emberstorm tribe lives.
The Frozen North where the Sagrae, Dragon Goddess of Grace and Gentility reigns.
The great plains.

Atalanta, I look forward to shunning the civilization together with you.

Why do others seek the Tapestry?

I'm thinking that maybe someone got control of it and is demanding a fee for it to be accessed? Maybe there is a war breaking out over it.
Or they are looking for those desperate enough to seek it and allow them access under the condition (and a magical oath) that they will bring back something that the holder of the tapestry desires?

Hello all. I'm playing Tobias Hiller, a human country farmer turned paladin.

Tobias comes from a large family owned apple orchard. He lived and worked there most of his life before joining a nearby city's garrison for some extra coin. Their orchard can only bring in so much money, and sometimes they hit a rough patch if a harvest isn't so good.

He has only recently been blessed by his god. So while he knows how to fight, having learned from the garrison, he is still learning how to use his holy powers.

His god isn't one of valor or battle. His god is Ajanna, the god of Family Hearth and Home. Ajanna appears as an old but strong motherly woman. Tobias sees himself more as a family man. A caretaker. Even before his god called upon him family has always been important to Tobias.

He was called upon his god because his younger brother, Sydney. Tobias had no idea what has become of Sydney, but knows he has to bring him home. With his family's blessing Tobias set out. For the first time leaving his hometown.

Tobias has been traveling for only a month.

Maybe we need a Gazetteer thread to keep track of places and gods...?

We definitely need a thread to keep track of all the lore we've came up with.



Perhaps I have showed you a secret rite of the Land, or

You have tasted my blood and I your. We are bound by it?
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If the GM doesn't want to, I'll volunteer to write it/update it/keep track of it...?

Be my guest. I have never been great at note-taking.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 11):

I will attempt to keep my character alive, but I won't go to great lengths. In particular, I won't discuss the relative merits of any plans anyone offers, though I will add things to them, without negating the intent. I'd rather keep things moving than talk about them.

Should we brainstorm here, and only when we have a idea we all agree upon, post in the Setting Information Thread?

Cause I have a few ideas I want to propose for the Tapestry.

1. The Tapestry had been found on a border between three powerful kingdoms/countries. I like the idea of having more than two factions fighting over the tapestry. Two factions means war. Three means politics. This could mean there's tension around the location, but no open warfare.

2. It is attached to a large machine that continuously weaves more and more of it. (It's an ever growing dungeon after all) No one knows how the machine works or if moving it will destroy the tapestry. So it must remain at the border, continuing the political tension.

3. There is an "entrance" located on the machine for would be adventurers to use to access the dungeon. Their "being" is then woven onto the Tapestry. Inspecting the Tapestry in detail can reveal other adventurers moving through the dungeon like small embroidered caricatures

Hey there everyone! I'm Lydia Smokestone the Neutral Human Immolator. The latest in a long line of very well regarded jewelers. Every time I see an immolator they're always played as pyrophiles with an unhealthy desire to just burn everything. So this time I want to take a more sophisticated approach by having her come from a well off family and have her focus more on elegance of flame rather than it's pure burning potential.

Out of curiosity, are the plains you come from more like the great plains of the USA with buffalo and gophers, or more like the Serengeti with lions and elephants? Or somewhere else?

Also, have you decided on the physical tell that you retain when you shapeshift?

Well, isn't this a pleasant surprise to wake up to . . .

Hello everyone, I'll be playing Brynn, and posting from the other side of the world, so expect me to have some catching up to do when I get up in the morning.

Brynn is a Human fighter, somewhere between neutral and good. Four years ago, she took up her father's blade, the black axe named Coldheart, and left home to seek her own destiny. She's never looked back. Like Tobias, she led a simple life, growing up on a farm in the dense pine-forests of the near-north, but since then, she's been hardened by the road and the life of a wandering mercenary, and the things that she's done in pursuit of her own legend have dulled the light in her eyes . . .

On other topics, Sierpinski sounds like the sort of person who owes me their life, whether they admit it or not.

I could also definitely see her believing that Tobias is soft, but I will make them hard like me.

Hmm, so since we have an Immolator, I guess Gania is a Barbarian... and Uri must be either a bard or a thief...

I like that. Tobias' trusting/kind nature would definitely look soft to someone like Brynn.

On the other hand. How does Brynn feel about her own family? She hadn't looked back when she left. Does that mean she resents/forgotten them? To Tobias that would look like Bryn's misguided behavior endangers their very soul. After all family means everything to Tobias and his god.

That would make their views contradictory to one another. Which would be really interesting to play.

In reply to Tobias Hiller (msg # 25):

Her relationship with her family is so, so much worse than that...

Yeah, that sounds great. I can see them fighting shoulder to shoulder a lot, even if their relationship outside of danger is a lot more tense.

Ok, trying to catch up!

Atalanta, Gania, what do you think of having all the nature types come in together? Harlin's backstory is currently quite fluid. But I think it would be fun to have him roaming the savannah, counter to elf type. So I need some kind of tribe of plains elves--I'll work on that. I don't want to be another exile.

His alignment move is "combat an unnatural threat" so that's fairly easy to weave in (no pun). And might be trying to help Gania.

Suggested outgoing bonds:

Atalanta is a friend of nature, so I will be their friend as well.
Tobias does not understand life in the wild, so I will teach them.
Twessa has no respect for nature, so I have no respect for them.*

*I've seen this "no respect" over-played before to the point of it making me uncomfortable as a player. I'd play it at a lower level, things like gibes and maybe sarcasm.

I also have
I have guided _______________ before and they owe me for it.

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For the Tapestry, I like these ideas from Tobias in particular. Making it a machine would get Harlin's attention.

Hey all, hippy dippy good-aligned human bard here.  Pleased to meet you, glad you don't have to guess my name!

If you've ever met me before, you've probably heard the story about how the lute I play is all that was left behind after my father mysteriously disappeared in a puff of smoke.

I don't have any good ideas yet for who goes with which of my bonds, but I'm happy to take volunteers for any of the following:
This is not my first adventure with ___.
___ trusted me with a secret.
___ does not trust me, and for good reason.