Gloomy & Caek / Ritual

[Hangman]

Race/Class/Alignment/Level/Name of Character:
Human / Fighter & Ranger / 4 / Borgol Kren & Tobin Koeseph (Gloomy_Sunday & caek)

What specific perk(s) (faction, special background, etc):
Items for a ritual to be available IG following the earning of them, and for it to be a "legitimate ritual"

The Ritual of Eternal Watch: Found written in a tome found within a sacked temple it details three items that need collecting in order to become immortal protectors to Helm, undertaking his watchful duties for eternity:

A crystal / spirit from a Druid Grove - The Land
The body of a King (Gondegal / Matrim) - The People
A netherese sarcophagus - The Heavens

They symbolise "everything that Helm watches over and protects"

A few sentences on how you plan to make the server more fun to play on for everyone, through your characters actions/story:

Hunt down and persecute mages, as they believe anyone who can use magic is a potential necromancer (they believe Helm killed Mystra becasuse her loose management of mages was a danger to everyone)

Act as Witchhunters / Monster Hunters for the House of Ash - climb the ranks to learn their secrets and assimilate it into the Helmite faith

Find and collect evil relics, weapons, tomes as they believe they are the only ones trusted enough to have and catalogue them - offer bounties, religious edicts banning them etc

Push to become The New Law in the city and become official members of the Helmite church - conflict with pretty much everyone

If you're not applying on your normal log-in or handle, what accounts have you played under?:

Gloomy_Sunday and caek

Brief background as relevant to the application:

Kren & Koeseph are two Helmites who wish to become immortal to do Helm's work for eternity, and are working towards conducting the "Ritual of Eternal Watcher" to do so.

[Puffy]

They need to be IG and create fun and engagement. Then we can discuss this

[SpiffyMeister]

I told them to put in an application as a form of legitimacy toward earning this. We can say 'approved contingent on IG events.'

AKA: If they don't deliver, they don't get the ritual.

[StrawMan]

Gloomy gave up on his other character already?

[Echo]

what have they done to earn a ritual on PCs that arent even created yet?

Tell them to make PCs, get IG and do stuff, then we'll see about "rituals".

[Lord_Acererak]

@Hangman

This looks like a ton of fun, I love a good crazy ritual.

I would be careful with involving the corpses of kings, as they are probably one of the more well-guarded and formally significant pieces of architecture for the commoner in our setting. I would broaden it to a significant item that once belonged to them.

Witch hunters are a really fun source of conflict in a heavy magic setting like ours. It would be interesting to see how they develop their story as they persecute every magic-user that gets in their way.

Overall this concept is fun and engaging, my only caveat would be have the potential that one or more of these ritual-items be intercepted by a rival or another member of the player base to provide the opposition with some agency over the plot.

I'd like to point out:
There are no designations on what the ritual must do.
They will inevitably need to involve others to get the 3 above items.
Official Clergy of Helm is EiG

• The DM requirements on the above are pretty minimal. At most we drop a hint where an item might be now and then, and once they have it all together we run a ritual where we decide, not the players, what happens.

[Puffy]

Corpse of king is major unlikely to happen unless I am having my mind blown

[SpiffyMeister]

None of this would happen without us having our minds blown puffy. [Nod nod]

We can just say this app is 'EIG'

[Prof. Misclick]

@SpiffyMeister said in Gloomy & Caek / Ritual:

None of this would happen without us having our minds blown puffy. [Nod nod]

We can just say this app is 'EIG'

I agree

[SpiffyMeister]

Can we just say that this is their application for the House of Ash, though?

Their end goal being that ritual.

[Puffy]

@SpiffyMeister said in Gloomy & Caek / Ritual:

this is their application for the House of Ash, though?

Its a terrible app for that, I just want to see a basic thing they have done IG in the interest of HoA for rank 2. But this isnt it, lol

[Echo]

@SpiffyMeister said in Gloomy & Caek / Ritual:

Can we just say that this is their application for the House of Ash, though?

no
i'd like to see the 2 of them do something IG first

[SpiffyMeister]

okay

hot take

just let them in the HoA, and make rank 2 an npc promotion convo any existing pc in the HoA can take them to so we don't need to read apps like this.

[SpiffyMeister]

@Echo https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/63427/report-submitted-to-house-of-ash

[Puffy]

@SpiffyMeister said in Gloomy & Caek / Ritual:

@Echo https://nodebb.cityofarabel.com/topic/63427/report-submitted-to-house-of-ash

Great, make a new app for Gloomy only

[Hangman]

Gloomy notified me he's not pursuing this character and is taking a break, whether Caek does as well I'm not sure.