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Hello guildmates: this is the third installment in the ongoing story arc I have been running in this guild. I have 1 to possibly 2 spots open for new players in this next arc.

First, let me go over the ground rules. I expect players who join this game to be active. I need to see at least 2 posts a week from each player during roleplaying. For combat, when it is your turn, you have 24 hours to post—otherwise you will be skipped or your character will be controlled by me for that turn. However, I do not count weekends. It also should be noted it takes about a year of time to play through one of these arcs by play by post, so keep that in mind when considering to join this game.

If you have stuff going on IRL that prevents you from meeting these requirements, please let me know. If you go a week without posting you will be contacted. If I have to contact you too much, you will be dropped. If I don't hear from a player for over 2 weeks, they will be dropped from the game.

[ Character Sheets ]

1] Ilikan Iceborn Vaimei-Laga
2] Keovith

[ Setting Information/Background ]
The hastily constructed fort of Light's Stand stands upon edge of a massive, freshly used battlefield. Its spiky wooden walls are all that stand in front of a great maw of darkness, a wound in the earth that stretches all the way down to the Underdark. It was here that an army of some of the most unsavory denizens of that lightlost place tried to invade the surface world. It was only through the combined efforts of kingdoms of Haverest and Larethal that their forces were beaten back and forced to return from whence they came. Now, the kingdoms lick their wounds and stand steady vigilance over the scar left in the earth, in case the forces of darkness attempt such a folly again.

[ Game Introduction/Plot ]
You are a hero from the great war against the Underdark invasion. You are now tasked with an important mission. From one of the prisoners freed from the retreating enemy forces, it was learned that a village of underground dwelling Goliath lay in the warpath of the Underdark army as they made their way to the surface. It is now up to you to secretly infiltrate the Underdark and find out the fate of the village.

[ Character Creation ]

Available Sources: Anything official; if I can build it in the character builder it goes.
Banned Resources: Nothing homebrew.

ECL: Characters begin at level 7
Wealth: One lvl 8 item, one lvl 7 item, one lvl 6 item, 1800gp
Races: No Changelings, no Pixies—all other races are okay, though character options that grant flight are not allowed.
Ability Scores: 20 point buy OR roll 4d6 and drop the lowest. If you choose to roll, you can attempt one re-roll if you don't like your first roll. At this point, you can't go back to using your first roll. If you're unhappy with your second roll result, you may use point buy instead. Please do your stat dice roles here in this thread.
Alignments: No evil of any kind.
Pantheon: Any non-evil.
Backgrounds: Any, please provide me with a written background for your character; this must be at least a paragraph long and should tie into your background benefit if you choose one.
Themes: Any.

Characters with a short bios and their player

Revenge: Moon Paladin who has a rewards card with the Raven Queen, played by Rain

Kouri: Warden who used to be a Ranger, played by Pupsage

Ruin: Hexblade THP generator striker built like a tank, played by some fool. mrgreen
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I don't know if Mongoose's Valac will be joining us, but he is a barbarian.

Nani?

No other character(to my knowledge) had to roll a death saving throw... Revenge did it twice. Raven Queen is the goddess of the Grim Reaper. So, she holds your reward card account... with every 9 death saving throws, you get a free cookie.

Valac has taken a dirt nap or two so Ruin isn't the only one.

Remember, Kouri might be changing her character from an archer to a Warden, so that would be another tank. Also, with the departure of Twyla the party is without a healer.

Much as the idea of playing a party with three defenders and a tanky striker amuses me, I've been looking at controllers and leaders that I thought would fit well with a 2-defender tanky party in my spare time. First instinct is cunning bard, to take advantage of those high ACs a lot- and to make up for how few skills defenders usually have. Not decided yet though.

I got to say, I always assumed Kuori was a Warlord, instead of a Cleric.

*Revenge falls in battle*

Kuori: Oh, get up Naeem! T'is, but a flesh wound.

Revenge: I told you not to call me that...

If that's your preference I can roll with that. I'd been looking at bards and found myself designing a Runepriest because I couldn't think of a better party for one than one with multiple defenders. But if competitive cleric is your thing I'm sure I can find something else useful- or multiclass really hard.

I should also try rolling my stats now, just in case the dice like me enough to be better/equal to the point buy.