[Accepted] Fatwampa's New Character

[fatwampa 25]

Out-Of-Character Information

 

What’s your Minecraft Account Name?: -  fatwampa

How old are you?: -  21

What time-zone do you live in?: -  GMT -5

 

Have you ever roleplayed before - if you have, how?: -  I played on this server for a little over a year (maybe longer) quite some time ago. I'm also a seasoned D&D vet with several campaigns under my belt. Several of these campaigns were custom worlds I DMed. 

Have you been on any other roleplaying servers?: -  None worth mentioning.

Have you applied to this server before?: -  Pretty sure all my apps were deleted long ago. 

 

How did you hear about us?: - No idea, I heard about LotC years ago.

What do you think the server will be like? - Hopefully as good as I left it.

Have you read and agreed to the rules?: -  Several times, yes.

What’s your favorite rule / the rule you agree with the most?: - 

 

"You need to keep IC at all times. If you need to use OOC, you can either privately message the player using /tell <minecraft name>, or by using Local OOC. This channel can be accessed by putting double brackets before your speech, like this “((Hi guys”. Please use Local-OOC sparingly around other players!"

 

Clearly the most important rule in RPing (with the possible exception of meta/power-gaming) as it requires a distinction between RP problems and OOC conflict. A lot of times players forget that their characters are the ones arguing and will start attacking the other player. This leads to some confusing scenarios as players (not involved in the exchange) aren't sure where the RP ends and the OOC insults begin. This rule makes all that much more managable. 

 

Definitions

 

What is roleplaying?: -  Creating and acting as a set character in a situation, some times with other players' characters. The act of living life as this character is the literal definition of RP as it is seeing the world through a different set of eyes. 

 

What’s metagaming?: - Using information gain OOC in a IC situation. For example, a player (say Jack94killa) is talking to his buddy, y0momL1kit, on teamspeak. y0mom casually drops that his guild, a cult of merchant killers, is going to assassinate Mr. Heinsenberg, a fur-tradesman, on the road in two days. Jack94, wanting to be a hero, makes his character, Jose Del Entimore, go to the merchant and warn him of the impending attack. This is a classic example of meta-gaming.

 

What’s powergaming?: -

In most games this means using the most efficient approach in a bid to reduce the difficulty by being over-powered. Like playing a restoration/one-handed fighter in an Elder Scrolls game. However, in RP, it means something slightly different usually. Usually this means dominating RP and not allowing your opponent to fight back or react. For example:

 

Gorok grabs his broadsword off the ground and charges at the small elf.*

Lithi (the elf) picks up a stick in a bid to ward the blow.*

Gorok raises his sword and swings downward, crushing the elf's skull in.*

The orc didn't give the elf a chance to react, thus making this a good example of powergaming. This also arises often when magic is involved, in my experience.

 

In-Character Information

 

What’s your character called?: -  Vlindir Stonehold or just Brother Stonehold. The last name is a chosen one and not one gained due to birth. More on that later.

 

What race are they?: - Mountain Dwarf

 

What sex are they?: - Male

 

How old are they?: - 310

 

Give us a brief description of their life - their story, childhood, family: - Before the Dwarf had even been born, the gods made sure that his life would be especially trying. Born to lowly working class family, Vlindir never met his father. His violent temper and his bastard heritage were a poor combination as it caused many fights in his early years. These fights usually ended the same way, Vlindir would win the fight only to get beaten by his grandfather. His grandfather was the unofficial patriarch of the little mining community and it hurt his reputation to have his bastard grandson constantly starting brawls with the children of the miners. So soon he gave up, allowing the law to do the punishing. 

 

This had an unintended result. One day Vlindir was being whipped by one of the members of the watch. This had become a pretty normal routine for all involved as the whippings seemed to have no real effect on the lad and soon it became a game of sorts. Today the watch thought they would finally get a reaction out of Vlindir as they were upping the intensity of the beating. Nothing. The only thing the lad said was the usual jokes and quips. Defeated, the whipper dropped his tool and sat down next to the whipping post. A large Dwarf, who had been watching for the past ten minutes, walked up to the pair. The Watch member quickly got to his feet and greeted his superior. The Legatus waved the soldier aside and approached the lad tied to the post. After asking him a few questions the Legatus left and Vlindir was allowed to go home.

 

A few days later two members of the Legion came to Vlindir's house and, after a few words passed between  his grandfather and the soldiers, Vlindir was taken from home and conscripted into the Dwarven army. During this time he decided to pick a surname as he was never given one. Stonehold, it was a good name. After all his first battle took place in a fortress, so why not? After spending many years training and fighting Orcs, among other races, Vlindir was allowed to leave. Getting on a ship, Vlindir worked as a deck hand for years, usually smuggling but he soon got involved in piracy as well. The following years are fuzzy as most of the time was spent traveling, searching for answers. One answer, actually. Who was his father? All he could determine was that his father traveled a lot, had a many friends but even more enemies. Still unable to come to any conclusions, Vlindir returned to Anthos, defeated. Giving up, the Dwarf decided to go find purpose again in his life but in a more meaningful way.

 

What are they like?: - Short tempered, quick witted but a violent alcoholic. Well built from years of fighting but a little suspicious due to his years of traveling. If you meet him in a pub and you've been drinking, he'll be your buddy. If he was a shipmate of your's back in his sailing days, you'll swear the devil was his father. If you met him out in the field in combat, you'll know he's got to have some relation to the devil. Probably not true but he's just as clueless as you are.

 

What are their ambitions?: - To find purpose in his life, find a driving passion that can take him the rest of his life to accomplish. Secretly Vlindir still wants to know who his father is though.

 

Do they have any special skills?: - If breaking an iron helm in half with nothing but a wooden mallet is a skill then yes. He also has a language proficiency due to traveling and a knack for naval travel due to his years in piracy and smuggling. 

 

What are their weaknesses?: - A short fuse as well as an addiction to alcohol. This is a pretty bad combination but also add an absolutely obscene vocabulary and a love for violence and this Dwarf is basically a keg waiting to explode. He also has hard time with women, mostly in respecting them due to his early family issues. He also has a loose moral code as he was adverse to the law for so many years. (I'll put in a villain app soon).

 

Give us a description of how they look (not a screenshot yet!)?: - A hairy Dwarf that stands at about 4'7". Though his hair is brown, some red can be seen in it that reveals his Mountain heritage. His arms and chest are covered in tattoos and muscles, both from years of life on a ship.

 

Anything else you want to say about them?: - His father was a well known character on this server in years past and now his legacy lives on in his unremarkable bastard child. 

 

Please give us a screenshot of your character’s skin: - 

[Treshure 5818]

(*Cough* Fringe, not Anthos.)

 

Excellent application, welcome back! Please wait for a GM to implement you.

[Treshure 5818]

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