Memories of the Tuluki

[deathkamon]

Rules of Posting

(Rules will change under staff discretion)

-This is a posting area to discuss and post about old characters from Tuluk, that are either dead or stored. Keep this in mind, as posting about living characters will most likely have punishments handled by staff, not me.

-If the character's actions have game-changed Tuluk only, and are at least one IRL year old, you may post about them.

-If the character's actions have game-changed Tuluk and one or more places aside from Tuluk (i.e.: Allanak), they must be at least two IRL years old before you post about them.

-Remember, if you're unsure about whether or not you should post a detail about your character or not, it's wise to first tell mods/admins before you post.

Now that we've got that sweat off our brows, let's begin.

[Majikal]

I played a Tuluki midget that was a shadow artist. I hilariously rolled Absolutely Incredible strength on him and he was short enough that he looked UP to dwarves. I had a pretty good time with him. He was eventually out-shadow artist'd by an ex-clanmate who backstabbed him when he ran to the barracks to get his helmet for sparring. Pretty gangster.

My most memorable moment with this pc was a pre-murder emote that echoed something like...

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the pitter patter of tiny feet can be heard as someone comes running out from beneath the table full tilt, right for you!
Backstab girl


I also played a shadow mage that was a shadow artist successfully, for a short time. The hardest part was having to avoid demonstrating my combat capabilities around essentially everyone. He haunted quite a few soldiers and mudsexxers with his shenanigans as he had alot of enemies within the city.

I loved the shadow art system, when it was utilized it kicked ass.

My two most memorable don't fall within the guidelines so for now I have to keep them to myself. =(

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

I played a citizen who was an unmanifested rukkian, who ended up working for House Dasari and getting in on some cool house secrets. Her subtly twisted personality (which kept her from having long-term friends that weren't willing to adapt to her twisted sense of humor) was accepted by the House noble she worked for and even turned on her once, to the amusement of both parties (he had pretended to be poisoned by a fruit she had brought back.)

She manifested one day while outside and spent everything she had, including her mount, to be taken to Red Storm. Once there though the fun essentially ended (Tuluk was a blast, Storm was always empty) and I died rather stupidly trying to get to a known mage sanctuary in the wilderness without branching a thing (this was before I knew how to effectively branch a mage.)

[Cutthroat]

I played Chosen Lord/Chosen Governor/Senior Patron Raleris Winrothol. His picture is in the character portraits thread, done by the talented James de Monet.

I started playing him in mid December of 2008 when he was "the freckled, sinewy young man" at the age of 20. Almost six years and a few desc changes later, he was murdered in late September 2014 at the age of 68 or 69.

Some notable things:

- He was my first real Tuluki PC in Tuluk. I had played in Tuluk before Raleris with a couple of PCs, but not as a Tuluki. Playing Raleris led to me spending more time as a player in Tuluk than in Allanak or other game areas.

- IMO he really hit his stride after about a RL year, which is when the deluge happened. That's when Raleris started to run and/or help run most of the various plots that involved cleaning up and rebuilding Tuluk. That eventually culminated in the reconstruction of the Red Sun Commons, which was Raleris's crowning achievement not only because of the (mostly virtual) effect it would go on to have for the Tuluki economy, but for the sheer amount of players that were involved in everything from materials-gathering to planning to RPTs and more. Indeed, my approach to plots was to involve as many players as possible in them, though this varied in success.

- Though a noble, he got into combat with all of the dangerous things around Tuluk and not only lived, but won most of the time. Back when PCs could be enslaved, he enslaved someone who tried to kill him. He also got into combat with many things that will be <redacted> since they relate to magickal things that attacked Tuluk.

- He was often given (and would brag about annoyingly) the honorary titles he got from the Faithful for battles. He went into the Battle of Tyn Dashra as the honorary commander of the non-Legion and volunteer forces of Tuluk, but after a bunch of templars died/fled he ended up leading all the Tuluki forces in retreat.

- He started "Winrothol Improvisation Contests" which involved using Kruth cards to pick one of twenty-four random, predetermined topics for participants to perform about for a limited time. Bards and non-bards competed in separate divisions. Focusing on improvisation in particular was a reference to Winrothol's manual labor force, which wasn't capable of building wonders on its own and so had to focus on making simple structures in the Red Sun Commons with foraged or re-purposed materials.

- Despite all of this he was an extremely flawed character as well. He was hot-tempered and paranoid. He was a bit of a sadist when it came to executing people or having them assassinated in specific ways related to their behavior. The people that he loved who had died haunted him and the thoughts of them encouraged him to face dangerous situations recklessly. He followed Tuluki culture and custom when it suited him, and didn't when it didn't. This earned him many enemies and rivals among the Chosen and Faithful.

- Although he exaggerated most war stories slightly, he really did eat the mangled remains of his eye after a kryl shot a chitin spine into it during a major battle against the kryl. The given reasons for this was moral support of a dejected troop and to keep with him what the Sun King allowed him to have. Though secretly he also wondered what it would taste like. He was gifted "an odd, eye-shaped glass charm" by a Lyksae afterward, which he wore until he died.

- Despite genuinely hating politics and intrigue, he used it often when it was important (to push a project through, to foil assassination plots against himself (of which there were a few), etc). It was also fun for me as a player.

- He had a wife who was an NPC, but she was murdered in the events running up to the destruction of House Uaptal (though her death was not the cause for that plot).

- He had a child who became an NPC. He made sure to teach her how to use a sword.

[Erythil]

I played Asil, the amber-eyed man, as my first Armageddon character.  I think this was around 2008 or 2009?  He had extensive contact with a lot of Tuluki notables, and I learned the gameworld's secrets at the same pace Asil did.  So he was actually stunned to learn, for instance, about psionicism in the templarate, and was genuinely conflicted over whether or not he believed it or thought it was southern slander.  It's kind of a miracle that I survived so much wandering around in the wilderness alone as a guild merchant.

He started as a partisan to the Jihaens, worked for Uaptal, 'befriended' the mega-assassin Wisp, and then quit Tuluk after being unimpressed with the new crop of sponsored roles at some point.  He saw the Eclipse and the Precentor's tree and all kinds of neat things.

He wound up being an Agent for Kurac and learned how to read and write and dealt in all kinds of questionably legal things that I'm probably not allowed to talk about.  He was eventually rather blantantly murdered by a Lirathan in an expedient political deal.  And if it wasn't for Raissa-di and Goldy and a few other key supporters, he probably never would have made it that far.  He was obviously ambitious, and though he believed that Tuluki culture was the world's best, he rationalized that its stringent rules about magick use were impractical in the wider world.  Fighting in Soh territory with an icy shield and flaming sword was probably not the best way to enamor himself to the templarate.


He also totally heard about Raleris's eye and he thought Raleris was nuts after that.

[Inks]

Could you define game-changed please?

[Eurynomos]

It's safe to say if you think it's not public knowledge, don't post it on the GDB. That's all.

[deathkamon]

The one char I remember making was Leverex. He was actually really close towards Minuit and basically served as his henchman for quite a while. There was some secret code language made between us, and we made a big plot with our chars. Leverex did a lotta things for Minuit. He saved his ass from being chomped from a bahamet (I can't believe how absurd my shield skill was), as well as spy on others for him. Nothing major had been made between the two, but the heavily built human and that man made one of the most deep plots in Tuluki history. And then there was Lan the Lad, but I think that'll be saved for another day.

[Gilgamesh]

I loved my first real Tuluki. A guy covered in bone and gem piercings named Jayali. I had a lot of fun with that. He started out as a promising businessman and self-styled smooth talker. But also an idiot that didn't know when to stop drinking. His dream was to work for Kurac. He eventually did, with an Agent taking him under his wing as a sort of protegee. But subsequently became severely addicted to Thodeliv spice and lost all his potential and money and a bitter disappointment to his employer, not to mention ripping off his friends and basically selling off most business of his wealthy lover (what he could get his hands on anyway). I really wish I didn't store him, but I lost the time to play and unfortunately the role I was playing was setting off a few of my own RL triggers as well, so I had to back off. He was my second favorite character. My favorite character was my first one. Now that's the one I'm really proud of. And not just because my first character lasted several IG years.

[ibusoe]

I loved my first real Tuluki. A guy covered in bone and gem piercings named Jayali. I had a lot of fun with that. He started out as a promising businessman and self-styled smooth talker. But also an idiot that didn't know when to stop drinking. His dream was to work for Kurac. He eventually did, with an Agent taking him under his wing as a sort of protegee. But subsequently became severely addicted to Thodeliv spice and lost all his potential and money and a bitter disappointment to his employer, not to mention ripping off his friends and basically selling off most business of his wealthy lover (what he could get his hands on anyway). I really wish I didn't store him, but I lost the time to play and unfortunately the role I was playing was setting off a few of my own RL triggers as well, so I had to back off. He was my second favorite character. My favorite character was my first one. Now that's the one I'm really proud of. And not just because my first character lasted several IG years.

Dude, that's kind of an awesome story.  I wish I could have met that character.

[boog]

I always admired Cutthroat's ability to stick with it. I don't know that I would have the endurance to play a character that long. Raleris was a staple of Tuluk.

[bcw81]

I always admired Cutthroat's ability to stick with it. I don't know that I would have the endurance to play a character that long. Raleris was a staple of Tuluk.

+1

[Barsook]

I always admired Cutthroat's ability to stick with it. I don't know that I would have the endurance to play a character that long. Raleris was a staple of Tuluk.

+1

[Synthesis]

One of my (first?) d-elves got sirihish lessons from Ysania in exchange for me basically making shit up about what was supposedly going on out in the desert.

[Refugee]

I really enjoyed Raleris and always planned to make a PC to join his clan just to get to play with him more.  I was genuinely saddened when I heard he'd died.

I played Aonghus, a hunter who formed White Carru Trading Company, and interacted quite a bit with Raleris.  Aon won a lot of bardish contests but would never consent to be a bard despite a lot of encouragement/pressure.  He was always making up poems and songs and telling stories and jokes.  He once pushed and wrangled and begged and managed to organize a city-wide party sponsored by nobles just so he could dance.  He helped run the weekly Citizens' Call, which I really enjoyed doing!  He was a partisan of a Faithful Lord and was part of a double-secret witch hunting crew that never quite got off the ground but was fun to RP around.  Aon was my first Arm PC and I wrote a lot about him in another thread about your first PC, so I won't go into him so much here.  But I had a great time with him.

The next Tuluki PC I had was a sponsored Byn Sergeant named Niall, who was offered to me two weeks after Aon's death.  I was seriously in over my head with this one, but I had a blast with all the IC stuff.  I thank all the Bynners I played with for some great crazy times!  Finally he was brought down by a stream of unending spiders.

I next had a Tuluki PC named Rhyd who made his way as a hunter, but was actually an uber-patriotic assassin training up to be a tool of the Templarate.  He had a cool backstory that I enjoyed playing.  He died just as he was getting skilled enough to be useful, trying to scout the Nakki army for a Faithful Lord, 2 weeks before the HRPT.  Rhyd was the first partisan of newly minted Hlum Lord Rider.

With 2 weeks to go before the HRPT that I really wanted to be part of, I tried to figure out what to make that wouldn't be entirely irrelevant in two weeks time.  So I made a dwarf legionnaire named Torrian who had some nice stats and somehow ended up with the best wisdom of any PC I've had, despite having ranked it at the bottom.  He improved his fighting skills quickly!  But he still turned out to be entirely irrelevant in two weeks time because the entire Byn attacked him first and he had to flee immediately, lol!  He ended up with 3 hp after ten PCs swung at him as he fled.  I was terrified he'd fall off his inix and die.  But he survived, and became a Corporal in time before finally being executed by a Faithful Lady.  I was terribly bored a lot of the time with Torri; the Legion was sparsely populated after the HRPT, and there seemed little to do besides spar all day every day with the other two recruits, who were great and made it tolerable.  Finally we got a sergeant named Jharl, who really turned things around for me.  I was extremely grateful for Jharl!

[Barsook]

I remember Aon and the fact that one of my PC's, Tulay (or was it Arkadi), helped him start the dance party but never was able to come to it because real life ate me.  Great job on your first PC!

[BadSkeelz]

I remember Niall (I think it was Niall) getting tossed around by two dujats in the Sea.

[Refugee]

I remember Aon and the fact that one of my PC's, Tulay (or was it Arkadi), helped him start the dance party but never was able to come to it because real life ate me.  Great job on your first PC!

Thanks!  It was Arkadi.  Aon would've never pulled it off without you.

I remember Niall (I think it was Niall) getting tossed around by two dujats in the Sea.

Funny story, that.  It was dark and stormy, nobody could see.  And I was getting thrashed fast...but my PC was so new that suddenly I couldn't remember his name!  So I was saying help me!  But I couldn't remember his name to let people know who to help.  

Luckily one of the dujat charged him and missed, and everyone got that echo.  Ever since then when I make a new PC, I make an alias named helpme that calls out his name, hah!

[Quell]

Awww, I remember Niall. He was my very favorite Byn sergeant! So incredibly unbelievably organized (seeming at least).

I have vague recollections of spreadsheets being made to pinpoint the actual start time of RPTs based on the in game times they were at.

[Refugee]

Awww, I remember Niall. He was my very favorite Byn sergeant! So incredibly unbelievably organized (seeming at least).

I have vague recollections of spreadsheets being made to pinpoint the actual start time of RPTs based on the in game times they were at.

Thank you! 

I didn't make the spreadsheet that converted dates, I found that somewhere and downloaded it.  But I made spreadsheets for figuring out the pay cuts, that was necessary when we were running around with twenty people of varying ranks all the time.  And we had so many contracts going that we had to make a calendar for the forums, I remember.  I was recruiting a couple of runners every day, and killing them off just as fast!  People must have been having a good time though, because they kept coming.

[slipshod]

I have a lot of fond memories about Tuluk and my time there.

I played a Jihaen Templar named Velox Winrothrol, shortly after the end of the Occupation.  He served alongside a teenage Elithan and was killed by a bahamet while escorting a wagon across the eastern plains.  Velox preferred to be called "Faithful Lord" at a time when the custom was to use "Lord Templar" as a form of address.

I played a Chosen Lord named Mahesh Winrothol.  He was perhaps the most fun character I've ever played.  When I created him I researched some psychological conditions so I could play out his mental afflictions accurately.  He was a blast and I was never bored when I logged him in.  An immortal once intended to animate an NPC to launch an assassination attempt, but attacked Mahesh using their immortal avatar by mistake and insta-killed him.   The entourage of Winrothol guards freaked out accordingly until there was a retcon and resurrection.

I played a Jihaen Templar named Vraj Dasari.  He was a pudgy man with feathered hair and a keen interest in the halfling peoples.  He learned to speak the halfling language and - appropriately - was eventually killed by a massive swarm of halfling attacking Ayun Iskandir.

I played a Lirathan Templar named Isatep Mrenteki.  I considered posting a week or two ago in a thread elsewhere on the GDB about asshole characters.  I definitely played Isatep as an asshole, though she'd never tolerate being referred to with such crass terminology.

In amongst these characters were a variety of other commoner PCs who lived in or passed through Tuluk regularly.  I loved being in a position to watch the city and culture grow and evolve from its post-Occupation rebirth to what it became and remains today.  I am thankful to all the players I interacted with who allowed me to take a hand in shaping certain customs and traditions.  Players had such a palpable impact in shaping Tuluk after the Occupation, and players were so great about embracing the unique qualities and traits that made the north distinct and different from the south.
I have also played my share of leader characters in Allanak, and I must say that Tuluk made for a wonderful adversary in events like the Copper War.  From the perspective of a 'Nakki, the ranks of the Tuluk Templarate and Bard Circles produced some excellent villains and foils.

[The Silence of the Erdlus]

I had a Luir's born Tuluki dweller called Siko one time, a forty-some year old unmanifested ruk who became a Kadian jeweler. She was supposed to be borderline sociopathic, but I went and made her full-blown and made her desire (before I knew this was a thing in real life for them) more in life than what she had, made her wish she had her mate back and her father back. She was polite if not kind to others because A. northerner and B. she wanted people to be polite to her. She had the strange ability to garner empathy from others even considering her lack of a soul, and stored in Kadius, never manifesting. I had a lot of fun solo rping her in dreams and in the Kadian gazebo. She couldn't fight, but there were hints of a badass heart in her. She was infertile.

[Nyr]

Rules of Posting

(Rules will change under staff discretion)

-This is a posting area to discuss and post about old characters from Tuluk, that are either dead or stored. Keep this in mind, as posting about living characters will most likely have punishments handled by staff, not me.

-If the character's actions have game-changed Tuluk only, and are at least one IRL year old, you may post about them.

-If the character's actions have game-changed Tuluk and one or more places aside from Tuluk (i.e.: Allanak), they must be at least two IRL years old before you post about them.

-Remember, if you're unsure about whether or not you should post a detail about your character or not, it's wise to first tell mods/admins before you post.

Now that we've got that sweat off our brows, let's begin.

In the future, follow your own advice here and ask in advance before deciding what the rules should be.   In this case (since players have put in a couple of requests about this already, citing these rules), please go by the rules we have elsewhere about original submissions, which are much easier to follow.  Adapted below:

If your Tuluki PC hasn't been dead or stored more than 1 RL year, you can't post about it.

[Lizzie]

I played Carine, one of Dragean Tenneshi's long line of aides. Got a couple people assassinated, had a few assassination attempts made on her. Her #1 goal while in Tenneshi's employ, was to get Raleris and Dragean to cast aside their arguements and emerge as friends. As a player I knew that wasn't gonna happen but Carine was convinced it could, with a little nudge in this or that direction. Since there are still some characters living now (even though it's been well over a year) I won't say how she met her end. Wrote and performed a number of pieces while clanned in the Elkinhym circle.

[Rathustra]

I played Rathustra Utep. I was kind of a big deal.