Discussion of the Tomb of Coritonius

This thread is starting to get interesting and it's moving nicely. Two decent RP threads in one month!

Would you mind if a fourth person joined? I wouldn't want to break up your happy threesome. :lol:

Again, I'll probably play a mage character. However, instead of an adventurer, I'll most likely go for a scholarly mage. Not a bookworm, but someone who goes out and starts dig sites to excavate and examine various artifacts - and protect them of course, and then send them to museums. She'll know a few spells, but will use them mainly for defending her dig sites etc. rather than gallavanting over the world looking for artifacts. She won't be confident in a fight so she'll need protecting.

Let me know if this is OK and I'll see what I can do about joining. If you've any preference as to how I should join then let me know that also. I don't want to just turn up uninvited because there would be no reason for me to.

I was thinking that I might be doing some on-site research at the Elven burial ground to the east of Tarant. Professor Smythe could suggest that he's heard about your map, but he doesn't know too much about it. Someone who would know more is my character, and then he could suggest that you all go to meet me at my dig site at the burial grounds.

Only when you get there it's been inhabited by the dark Elves and the guards and lead archeaologist are dead. I'll need rescuing of course, if you want answers......

 

Ferret, it's fine with me if you join. My character is planning to go raid the tomb, so we'd have some nice contrast there. Maybe a sneaky double cross. :razz: If it's okay with Flink and Phoenix, then go ahead and join. I just don't want either of them to resent you, which I doubt that they'd do, but better safe than sorry.

 

Thanks.

About you stealing stuff from the dig site; would it be something related to the map or just something you want? If it's map related then I wouldn't see a problem. After all, you would have rescued me. Maybe the tomb was raided by the dark Elves because we uncovered something about the map?

Anyway, if it's something map related that you're after then I would be happy to let you have it, seeing as it's so important, and maybe that would be a good reason for me to tag along? After all, I'd have to make sure it wasn't lost or damaged etc. Things like that belong in a museum not in the hands of the Nazi's! Ahh.. too much Indy last night. Sorry. :lol:

 

Name: Lindsay Farrington
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Race: Human

Description: She has long, slightly wavey, honey-blonde hair. Normally she wears this in a pony tail down to her lower back, loosely-tied with an elaborately plaited leather hair tie. However, when on site she usually wears it tied up in a bun so as to keep the dust out.

She has rich, hazel eyes and soft features. She is very attractive and of medium build and full figure. She is slim, but not athletic, keeping to a sensible diet rather than working out.

She usually wears a dress of some sort, but since this is impractical at a dig site, where she is often running around through dirt and obstacle-filled passages and dust bowls, she tends to wear comfortable soft-leather leggings and jacket, over a blouse of some description. She wears Elven boots whether in town or on site, because they are comfortable, quiet and both soft enough so as not to damage anything underfoot and hard wearing enough so as not to wear out too often. She also tends to wear soft elbow-length leather gloves in order to protect any specimens she handles from damage due to oils or moisture from her fingers.

Currently, she is wearing a pale blue blouse, with the top two buttons undone because of the heat from being underground, as well as her black leather leggings and a beige sleeve-less soft leather jacket/waistcoat. Her leater gloves are also beige and she is wearing a brown swuede fedora, that used to belong to her father, to keep her hair tied up in a bun.

At her hip is a flask of water, a sharp double-edged dagger for use in removing artifacts, that is also perfectly weighted for throwing and a small pouch that contains various tools of the trade, such as soft brushes, cloth and bandages for the various incidents that invariably happen on digs.

Lindsay is a friendly and outgoing person who is enthusiastic in her learning and gleaning of knowledge and can often be quite excitable. Especially if there is an unknown or newly discovered artifact involved.

She is trusting and makes friends easily but can hold a grudge if her trust is broken. She can also be fiercely protective of her acquisitions and dig sites.

Abilities: Lindsay is highly dextrous. Years of crawling through small spaces and tunnels, over objects and around obstacles has given her a flexibility that is invaluable in her line of work.

She is highly intelligent and always keen to learn. She is a expert healer and is accomplished at most forms of throwing weaponry although she has never had to put her skills to the test.

She is also a mage of some ability. She knows three spells from the force college and these have proved highly useful in securing sites (there's not much that's less penetrable than a wall of force) or protecting herself and colleagues from the occaisional rockfall or cave collapse. She also knows a few other spells (yet to be decided what).

Inventory: She has a flask of water, her balanced, sharp double-edged dagger, her excavation and archaeology tools and some bandages readily accessible at her waist. She also has a more complete doctoring and healing kit in her pack for those more serious occaisions.

She is wearing her normal excavation clothing (see description) and has a spare white blouse, gloves and boots in her pack incase it gets too muddy or dirty in the caves.

She has a bladed boomarang tucked into a pouch on the inside her sleeveless leather jacket, just incase it's needed.

On her right hand is a ring of divination that allows her to identify magickal items, on the rare occaisions that her knowledge isn't extensive enough to identify them through non-magickal means. She considers it invaluable although she has only ever had to use it once, since it means that she doesn't have to go through the laborious process of training in the divination college of magick. As far as she can tell, the ring itself appears to have infinite charges, but it takes time to regenerate it's energies after each use.

Background: Lindsay is an unusual women. She is an educated woman. She was born in Roseborough in the Caladonian states and from a very young age she became fascinated with the Ring of Brodgar and the history surrounded it. By the time she reached her teens there was little else she could learn about Arcanum's history from her local environment as so her parents sent her to a school just outside Caladon.

Although she was not from a wealthy family, she soon excelled in her learning and by the time she was 16 she had won a scholarship to study at the esteemed Caladon Institution of History and Archeaology, a member institution of the University of Caladon.

She learned much at the Institution and graduated with high honours at the age of 19. She then went on to study for courses in the Magickal History of Arcanum and the Endemic Magickal Properties of the Ancient Artifacts of Arcanum at the mage academy of Tulla.

She left Tulla at the age of 21, with a doctorate in the History of Arcanum with a minor in the Use of Magicks in Information Gathering. Whilst at Tulla she also learned the art of Force magick and has since gained a keen interest in the study of magery.

After leaving Tulla she moved back to Caladon for 2 months before getting a year placement at the Tarant History Museum under a Gnome by the name of Professor Donald Smythe. When her year placement was finished she moved into field excavations and has spent the last two years at various dig sites around Arcanum, including the famous lair of the dragon Bellerogrim.

She is currently attending a dig at the site of what appears to be an ancient Elven burial ground to the east of Tarant. This is unusual because there have never been any Elves documented to have lived in the Morbihan area, even when it was forested.

 

I'm completely ok with it. The more the merrier in my opinion. The thing that bothers me however is that its basiclly the same people in both threads. Many of the people that joined the great adventure haven't posted anything in a long time.
I'm just afriad that one of the threads might be neglected...

 

I certainly have no problem with it. Can always use a mage character. None of us have a magic backgound. Like Flink said, the more the merrier

 

Excellent. I'll see what I can write tonight then. I think I'll just detail a little bit about the dig site, what we're finding and maybe introduce the first bit of the threat.

Snowy, I'll PM you about what it is that you want us to be excavating and how you want things to pan out.

And don't worry about there being the same people in both threads. It doesn't matter at all, as long as both threads are active and we're all having fun. I quite regularly have 4 or 5 different threads on the go at once.

 

Wow, must not've been here, I don't remember 4 or 5 rp'ing threads ever going at once

 

I roleplay on two other forums aswell. Actually, make that 5 threads.

 

It seems The Great Adventure is starting to get very neglected.

 

The problem is that Icarius isn't around at all, which is rather unfair to the rest of the people in the thread. There isn't much direction, and it seems like some of the people in the thread are just disappearing. However, Xan made a new thread, that looks promising that you could join, or, we could try to revive TGA.

 

Hmmm.

I'm willing to join another thread. I don't quite have the experience to be master of a thread.

 

I'd like to get TGA back up and running again, but I don't like posting too close together as it's as if I was writing the story on my own.

I tend to like people to write little snippets of character interaction where they can so that it develops their character and makes it not only more interesting but allows other people to better judge how other people's character might react when they post something.

If you would like then I'll carry the story on again to get it moving, but it would be nice if everyone could write about their experiences in the camp first.

 

Yeah, I tried some interaction but I got told off ~sniff~ :lol: .

 

:lol: There's always the exception I suppose. Bad Snowmane!

Hehe. And if Ari decides to tell me off then she can go without any breakfast.

 

Yeah, well, for tellin me off she can go without, uh... I'll get back to you later on that.

 

I think that I'm losing my mind. I meant to post here that one of you guys could catch me or something, but I don't see the post. :/

Ah ha! I found it. I posted it in TGA discussion thread, without realizing it.
Flink and Phoenix, I'm not really going to abandon you. One of you could follow me or something, then catch me. Whatever you'd like. Ferret, we'll rescue you! (One way or another.)

 

It's OK. I like sitting in the dark. All alone. With creepy people slaughtering my friends just next door..... :lol:

 

Ah ha! I have a great idea! Or, I think it's great. So, anyway, here's what I was thinking:

I could run away from Phoenix, and jump on the trail as it's leaving, to escape from him and Flink to get my treasure. You guys decide to set off, because you know where the site is, while I actually don't have much idea. So, you guys are tailing after me, although by some strange coincidence we don't meet at all. However, as I'm traveling along, I get attacked by something or other, and you guys catch up to me! Volia! What do you think? Too complicated? Stupid?

 

Ok, I'm confused. Typo maybe?