For Occluded Oceanographic Pursuits.
This message was last edited by the GM at 01:28, Thu 19 Jan 2023.

Hello to everyone in the RTJs:

Lots of applications so far, as is to be expected for a 5e game! I'm going to leave the RTJs open till Monday (NZ time), then sift through them.

Apologies, everyone, for the delay in handling the RTJs; got busy the last couple of days. Starting it now.

Thank you everyone for your patience, and my apologies to those RTJs I wasn't able to respond to personally.

I had so many good applications that part of the reason it took me so long was that I was wrestling with how many I could accept; in the end I decided to expand the campaign remit to include two adventuring parties, exploring the same world and mystery from two different angles. I think it could be interesting to have two bands splitting up to chase down leads in different places, teaming up to tackle great threats, cooperating to share information and resources or falling into opposition with each other, depending on the paths the characters and players choose.

I finally settled on two groups of four, one mostly human and the other stocked with slightly more exotic concepts. One group will start focused on the problem of Ibh-Kewar's dwindled water supply, while the other will be commissioned to mount a rescue mission for an important caravan that has sent up smoke signals of distress from the desert.

(I picked these groups based on combinations that seemed interesting to me; we're not necessarily wedded to this division of PCs).

Waterseekers
Ka Anpu, a holy warrior dedicated to Khem-Vor the Judge of the Dead, from the Senpethi Empire.
Omar Swiftarrow, a nomadic mercenary horse-archer from the Thundering Steppes.
Ineqtawy, a scoundrel from Hayandrasht who has formed a bond with a mysterious black dagger that fell into his possession.
Ardul'ssyn Nasadra, an druu elven sorcereress and scholar touched by Morgu'th the scorpion goddess.

Smokefinders
Vayu-Raman, a gnoll disciple of the mysterious Bone-White Pharoah from the glassy wastes.
Pasha Renn, a student of the ecology around Ibh-Kewar.
Eshma, a fate-weaving halfling sorcererss who left her regimented burrow to become a merchant.
Anahitaria, a sea elven martial artist far from her watery home in the Pearl Kingdom.
This message was last edited by the GM at 04:19, Sun 29 Jan 2023.

There's a character sheet template in the house rules thread which you can adjust as needed to the specific features of your character and class. Please let me know if there's problems with the template or RPOL's sheet functionality - I've been on this site for dang near 20 years and still find the sheets a pain in the neck to use.

Hello all and HELLO my fellow Waterseekers

Greetings. Looking forward to having a good time!

Hello everyone and welcome all of you fellow waterseekers!

Hello seekers and finders both! I am excited to see how we weave this story together!

Hello! Looking forward to playing with you all!

I'm hoping to get a character profile up ASAP, though the username might change.

What are the relations between the Waterseekers? Have we been pulled together before the first game or will we meet each other in game?

Good morning all my fellow Waterseekers! I am glad to be here and look forward to undertaking this quest of grave importance!

A bit about Eshma to start things off, she is a halfling sorcerous, clockwork soul, who works as a merchant moving from one city to the next hocking wares for whoever can afford her. She is personable and even between cities she never forgets a face. Imagine if the stereotype of pushy car salesman met an actually decent human being who cared about people (I know a lot of car sales folks and they are great people, just like the imagery). She kind of bucks the general hive mindedness of the Halfling society. She is currently in our starting city hocking woven goods, so one potential hook for knowing some if not all of you is if you needed to procure clothing, rugs, bed sheets, etc. She might have sold them to you :)

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