The ultimate focus

[Iiyola]

http://www.zalanthas.org/gdb/index.php/topic,43763.msg692316.html#msg692316

Guild: Assassin

Point: Red Storm

Focus: Guess the gicker

[MeTekillot]

Guild: Warrior

Point: Allanak

Focus: Warp reality so that everyone is more pleasant.

[Ender]

Guild: Burglar

Point: Luir's

Focus: Control the Spice.

[titansfan]

Guild: Ranger

Point: Tuluk

Focus: Climb Tektolnenes' Tower and piss on his door step.

[Creslin]

Posted this in the "roles you want to play but never will for some reason thread"... Obviously just as a joke... not very original...

Guild: Sorcerer

Point: Allanak

Focus: Start and complete the metamorphosis to become a dragon, defeat Tektolnes in an epic battle that will likely destroy half of Allanak and claim his throne as your own. 

Rule Allanak with a... bone fist? 

[Barsook]

Guild: Merchant

Point: Tuluk

Focus: To start a all dwarf and only dwarf merchant house

[Ritikki]

Guild: Warrior

Point: Red Storm

Focus: Become the most notorious group of Salt Flat raiders (after a family role call)

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The Salt Flats [N, S, E, W]
  This a vast expanse of salt as far as the eye can see. Purplishs glints come from the
white terrain, awaiting your twinky foraging. There is no one at all who is going to raid
you.

<76H 108V 70ST> forage
You begin searching the area intently.

You look around, but you don't find anything.

The blue dwarf has arrived from the west, riding a war beetle.
The red dwarf has arrived from the west, riding a war beetle.
The black dwarf has arrived from the west, riding a war beetle.
The grey dwarf has arrived from the west, riding a war beetle.

The black dwarf begins guarding the southern exit.
The red dwarf begins guarding the western exit.
The grey dwarf begins guarding the northern exit.
The blue dwarf begins guarding the eastern exit.

The black dwarf says in, in sirihish:
    "hi"
The grey dwarf laughs.
With spittle flying out as he angrily barks, the red dwarf says in, in sirihish:
    "Yer coins an' yer salt, or your life!"
The blue dwarf says in, in sirihish:
    "drop pack"


[Patuk]

Guild: any

Point: any

Focus: make it as hard as possible on every dwarf you know to complete -their- foci.

[A Large Bag]

Guild: Warrior

Point: Allanak

Focus: To see what black robed templars really do have up their butts.

[Cind]

Guild: any

Point: any

Focus: make it as hard as possible on every dwarf you know to complete -their- foci.

That's so **** ***** ****ing awesome. For my favorite for myself for ones I'd actually try, its between this one and the OP.

Guild: Ranger

Point: Tuluk

Focus: Find out the fate of the hobbits.

[Karieith]

Guild: Merchant

Point: Tuluk

Focus: To start a all dwarf and only dwarf merchant house

Help House Kurac.

j/k j/k 

Guild: Pickpocket
Point: Tuluk
Focus: Steal all the pants.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Guild: any

Point: any

Focus: make it as hard as possible on every dwarf you know to complete -their- foci.

That's hilarious.

[Chettaman]

guild: warrior

point: any

Focus: kill all legendary creatures.

[Delirium]

In a similar vein....

guild: sorcerer

point: any

Focus: Defeat the Dragon.

[Jeshin]

Subguild: Con artist

point: any

Focus: Convince both city-states you've located steinal and start a war over nothing.

[Sav]

Subguild: Con artist

point: any

Focus: Convince both city-states you've located steinal and start a war over nothing.

Nice.

[Patuk]

You need to finish reading that passage - likely, if someone's using flint and something to strike a fire, they're using a piece of rock with pyrite deposit, which wouldn't necessarily be uncommon. Without having to get into why this isn't mass-mined for conversion into iron (and sulfuric acid), it's safer to just assume that the crystals are extremely small - such that it merely blends into the grain of the bearing rock, which can be many different types but likely granite, quartz(ites) and metamorphic rocks that don't have names in Zalanthas (some staff know which rock in particular I'm glaring at right now) - and humans just don't know it's a metal but that if they strike flint against it, it sparks.

Trying to strike flint and obsidian would likely just result in breaking part of the obsidian and possibly sending a shard into someone's eye. Yes, I will laugh.

Honestly, in cities, it's probably more common to light torches and things from existing flames, but does it really matter? Does anyone really want to have to go through being stuck in the dark some place, never able to light a torch? This is one of those suspension of disbelief things.

As to obsidian itself, the really nice kind most people think of is likely to only comprise a minority of the obsidian used for things in-game. The vast majority is probably just vitrified basalt/granite, which while not as pretty is still glass, and is just as sharp and pointy when you break it. It also hurts like a son of a bitch with you drop a big piece on your foot - verified personally.

In comparison, the "glass" deposits we see in-game are likely vitrified sand (desert glass) caused by dry lightning from sandstorms.

Place: Allanak

Guild: Sun elementalist

Focus: Become really goddamn good at fire magics and burn so much sand that the city's mining deposits will triple overnight.

[Morrolan]

Place: Allanak

Guild: Sun elementalist

Focus: Become really goddamn good at fire magics and burn so much sand that the city's mining deposits will triple overnight.

Find out IC!

Place: Any
Guild: Pickpocket
Focus: Learn how to cook everything.

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>steal baby
You approach the target...

[Iiyola]

XD

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Subguild: Con artist

point: any

Focus: Convince both city-states you've located steinal and start a war over nothing.

Nice.

Hey.

HEY!!

Fuck it. I'm gonna go suicide.

[Cind]

Guild: Anything nonmundane

Point: Allanak, Luir's or Tuluk--- basically, somewhere with an acceptable ease of access to materials and manpower which on an individual basis doesn't override your own.

Focus: Destroy the world.

[Twilight]

Guild:  Assassin
Point: Any
Focus: Build yourself a wig, one hair from each kill

[Creslin]

In a similar vein....

guild: sorcerer

point: any

Focus: Defeat the Dragon.

Hey! You stole mine! 

[Barsook]

In a similar vein....

guild: sorcerer

point: any

Focus: Defeat the Dragon.

Hey! You stole mine! 

I think everyone wants that focus.

[MeTekillot]

Guild: Sorceror

Point: Tuluk

Focus: Make a female mul grow a beard.

[Nyr]

This thread is useless without this one.

[BadSkeelz]

Guild: Mundane

Location: Any

Focus: "Become (in)famous" by getting at least 2/3s of the tavern board posts to involve you, without you posting a single one.

[Morrolan]

Guild: Merchant

Location: Any

Focus: Breed the perfect elf.

[Schrodingers Cat]

Guild: Assassin

Point: Allanak

Focus: Destroy Allanak

(probably already been tried)

[Patuk]

Watch Jiro Dreams of Sushi (YouTube link)

It is the story of an 85 year old itamae who owns and works at a tiny sushi bar in an office buildings basement next to a subway station. It has 3 Michelin Stars because of his focus "To become a sushi master"

This guy is a dwarf, he is even bald. Watching this movie has made me understand how a dwarf focus should be played.

Point: Tuluk

Guild: merchant

Focus: make the perfect travel cake

[Creslin]

Guild: Any to Start

Point: Allanak

Focus: Become a Templar! Although this is a focus that probably could never be achieved for a dwarf. My co-worker who use to play 3 years ago and just got back into the game, and also just recently introduced me to ARM, had a dwarf with this focus.

[Patuk]

Even though that -is- never gonna happen.. I think RPing such a focus would be hilarious indeed.

[BadSkeelz]

Guild: Warrior

Start: Tribal (?)

Focus: Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their women.

[Iiyola]

This thread is useless without this one.

Love that one!

[Barsook]

Guild: Any to Start

Point: Allanak

Focus: Become a Templar! Although this is a focus that probably could never be achieved for a dwarf. My co-worker who use to play 3 years ago and just got back into the game, and also just recently introduced me to ARM, had a dwarf with this focus.

I wanted to do that one, but as a noble.

[Cind]

Guild: ranger
Point: Tuluk
Focus: Learn the secret of taming bahamets for mounts.

[Morrolan]

Guild: ranger/bard

Location: Tuluk

Focus: Conquer Allanak in proper style

Subfocus: Find perfect sunslits
Subfocus: Make cloak of metal thread
Subfocus: Write theme song
Subfocus: hire back-up band
Subfocus: build conquering army

[Creslin]

This is more rooted in Athas than Zalanthas but still wanted to post it...

Guild: Sorcerer

Location: Allanak

Focus: Turn Allanak into a city of undead.

Step 1: Discreetly track down and hunt dwarfs who are in the middle of their tasks. Kill them so they become banshees. Cast "Control Undead" to make them your servants.
Step 2: After you have a large army of banshees, go through the city to heavily populated establishments like taverns and what not. Have the banshees kill everything in sight. Cast "Open the Gray Portal" for 2 reasons A) To turn all the fresh corpses into Gray Zombies B) To summon more undead creatures from the Gray.
Step 3: Move from place to place doing this, growing your undead army until all life has perished.
Step 4: ?
Step 5: Profit!

[FantasyWriter]

Guild: Sorc
POint: Tuluk

Focus: Impregnate a Lirathan and ensure the mul comes to full term.

Next Focus: Take over the world with your super strong, super intelligent, totally faithful bodyguard of awsomeness.

[Kebron]

Race : Any
Guild: Sorcerer
Subguild: Physician

focus: Genetic Engineering program, Breed the new ubber-people from your own seed and destroy the known.

Alternate

Race: Dwarf ( a small stunted green one that speaks backwards)
Guild: Sorcerer (Preserver)
Subguild: Aggresor
Focus: Starting as a child attempt to restore the most inhospitable areas to lush greenery, long term goal, to defeat tektolnes.
But speaking backwards must you do.

[marko]

Guild:  Merchant
Focus:  Do an inventory of the salt in the salt flats
Upon completion Focus 2:  Use said salt to build a salt castle

[Morrolan]

Guild: any
Focus: Kill Douchey McGee

[Recharge]

Focus: To make anyone's life long goal or focus impossible to complete.

[Barsook]

Focus: To make anyone's life long goal or focus impossible to complete.

[Delusion]

Guild: assassin
Subguild: master tailor
Point: Tuluk
Focus: dominate and monopolize the silky black braies market

[Barsook]

Why assassin?  Shouldn't be merchant?

[Delusion]

Why assassin?  Shouldn't be merchant?

Have to deal with the competition.

In seriousness, someone should probably submit a request about crazily overpriced items, and I'm lazy. The braies just seem to keep popping up on the GDB lately.

[Barsook]

In seriousness, someone should probably submit a request about crazily overpriced items, and I'm lazy. The braies just seem to keep popping up on the GDB lately.

And IC.

[Schrodingers Cat]

Guild: Any
Focus: Find an honest man/woman

[Cind]

Guild: nonmundane
Point: A city-state
Focus: Choose an elf, and condition them to hate stealing.


Because who cares about an elf's sanity?

[John]

Rule Allanak with a... bone fist? 

I was talking to someone about a D&D campaign where the players become kings. I said "We need to rule the country with... a, ummm.. what's the opposite to iron fist?" I seriously didn't know the correct phrase, simply because I'm so accustomed to Allanak (Velvet glove, I was told).

Guild: Any

Location: The city of the Real Armageddon.

Focus: Bring back the kanks.

[Gilgamesh]

Guild: Any
Focus: Find an honest man/woman
Focus upon completion: Kill honest man/woman

[FantasyWriter]

Guild: Warrior/merc
Focus: Kill a man in a fair fight.  Or if you think he is going to start one. Or if there is a woman. Or you are getting paid..... especially if you are getting paid.

[Delirium]

^ bahahahahahahahaha.

[BadSkeelz]

Guild: Warrior/AggressorThug
Starting Point: Any
Focus: Care not from where the blood flows, so long as it flows.
Restrictions: If you cannot kill someone once a RL day, kill yourself.

EDIT: Tweaked to lessen the CCP cost while maintaing the crippling overspecialization.

[jstorrie]

I think I'd want to kill myself the moment I typed 'score', saw 'warrior/aggressor', and realized what I'd spent one of my scant three special-apps-per-year on!

[Bogre]

My favorite was:

'commit every illegal act in spectacular fashion'

[FantasyWriter]

Nice.

[Zoan]

My favorite spectacular illegal act would be adultery.

[Cind]

Guild: ranger
Point: Tuluk
Focus: Tame kryl for mounts.

[Incognito]

Guild: Merchant
Location: Anywhere
Focus: Open a chain of McDonalds

Guild: Any
Location: Anywhere
Focus: Become a party planner who specializes in organizing spice orgies

Guild: Uber-evil Sorc
Location: Everywhere
Focus: Cover the entire surface of the Known World in ash

[Morrolan]

Bio everything my character does in Dr. Seuss style rhymes.

I got my training in the Byn,
I learned to fight so now I win.

Title all bios with altered movie titles.

Malik: First Blood Citizen Amos The Wizard of Allanak Bright Torches, Big City Obsidian Dawn Gone with the Duststorm The Kalans of Wrath The Tuluki Falcon Templar Strangelove Lirathu White and the Seven Stumps Rebel without a Clan Dances with Gortoks The Carru Hunter Unit

[Cind]

Guild: unwitting 'gicker who manifests at least one month after chargen
Point: Allanak
Focus: Publicly masturbate in front of a templar and survive.

Maybe the sudden manifesting will help your dwarf survive to his or her next focus?

I thought of this focus the other day and couldn't stop laughing... I wonder how realizable it is.

[Morrolan]

I wonder how realizable it is.

Totally realizable. Just act like a newb who is unfamiliar with the code, use say instead of talk at the bar, write out your pronouns, put conversation into emotes, and refuse to capitalize or punctuate.

The Templar will probably let you live.

[kayza]

Guild: Assassin
Focus: Kill all the humans.

I'm not very creative.

[Large Hero]

Guild: Any

Focus: Find out the foci of other dwarves and complete them before they can. Then, destroy the product of the focus in front of them.

[Cind]

Guild: Assassin
Focus: Kill all the humans.

I'm not very creative.

That's awesome.

I'd probably log in and hang out in the appropriate area if I knew someone really were trying to kill all the humans for real and wouldn't just give up at some point.

[Morrolan]

Guild: Assassin
Focus: Kill all the humans.

Approached correctly, this could be awesome.  A careful and thorough dwarf, after doing population studies of other animals in the wild, might realize that killing males does not impact reproduction rates, but that killing females does.

Because the real danger here is that the limit on human population is not their ability to have children, but their ability to feed, water, and protect them from outside dangers.  So killing a few humans does not change the human population.

Spoiling their resources and strengthening their enemies, however, does.

[Bast]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

[RogueGunslinger]

That'll be my next pc. Made to intentionally ruin peoples good time by murder.

[FantasyWriter]

I had a PC turned down once because his focus was elven genocide.
The staffer thought it was too PK oriented out of the box.

They obviously lacked Morrolan's creativity.

[John]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

My fun is never ruined by a PC killing me. It breaks up the monotony to dying to NPCs, animals and the environment.

[TheBadSeed]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

My fun is never ruined by a PC killing me. It breaks up the monotony to dying to NPCs, animals and the environment.

Agreed. All stories end eventually, it's more fun if there's some other story continuing by your death. Getting run over by a Carru doesn't enhance anyone's storyline.

[Eriad]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

My fun is never ruined by a PC killing me. It breaks up the monotony to dying to NPCs, animals and the environment.

Agreed. All stories end eventually, it's more fun if there's some other story continuing by your death. Getting run over by a Carru doesn't enhance anyone's storyline.

Yes, I've had 20-30 characters, and one death from a PC (it made me feel so happy  )

[AdamBlue]

Guild:Warrior/Mercenary
Focus: Become a gladiator and masturbate in front of the entirety of Allanak mid-battle and finish both the fight and the fun times.

[Iiyola]

Guild:Warrior/Mercenary
Focus: Become a gladiator and masturbate in front of the entirety of Allanak mid-battle and finish both the fight and the fun times.

Talk about multitasking.

[SMuz]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

How about this one then:

Guild: Warrior/Thug
Focus: Figure out how to breed muls without magic
... by testing it on human women.

[Kaineus]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

How about this one then:

Guild: Warrior/Thug
Focus: Figure out how to breed muls without magic
... by testing it on human women.

::cringe::
I've seen consenting human/dwarf couples before. That shit ain't cute.

[AmandaGreathouse]

I know killing people is often part of the game but I try to never start a pc with killing others and ruining their fun in mind.

How about this one then:

Guild: Warrior/Thug
Focus: Figure out how to breed muls without magic
... by testing it on human women.

::cringe::
I've seen consenting human/dwarf couples before. That shit ain't cute.

I can't help but wonder how the human side can stand it. I'm imagining if the dwarf is doing it, it's got to be focus related, because I can't conceive of a dwarf finding a human woman sexually appealing when they're so scrawny and hairy.

[kayza]

Guild: Pickpocket/thug
Focus: To dream the impossible dream.


I'm pickpocket because I will have to knock people out to watch them dream and see if I can learn from that.

[evilcabbage]

Guild: Pickpocket/thug
Focus: To dream the impossible dream.


I'm pickpocket because I will have to knock people out to watch them dream and see if I can learn from that.

But... to see the dream...

guild_psionicist???

[hyzhenhok]

Guild: Pickpocket/thug
Focus: To dream the impossible dream.


I'm pickpocket because I will have to knock people out to watch them dream and see if I can learn from that.

But... to see the dream...

guild_psionicist???

That guild is human only.

guild: sorcerer
focus: become a psionicist

[SmashedTregil]

Race:Dwarf
Guild:Sorceror
Focus:To be become a pickpocket.

[Cind]

Point: Anywhere
Guild: Pickpocket or merchant
Focus: Kill 1000 sentient beings.

Anyone who demonstrates the ability to speak or understand language and to plan and think is game. You could get some Byn training, and then get discharged due to low ability for a dwarf (you might have been actually a decent sort and hoped you'd stay in and rack up gith kills instead) and then begin raiding and also calculating vnpcs into your bios and emote taking completely random bodies to Meleth's circle and/or emote cleaning up blood in apartments and curtained booths. What would be fun for me in doing this would be how this sort of warps the dwarf's interactions with, basically, everyone. A deep-set dedication to getting the opportunity to kill anyone who isn't dead? Yep.

Would be even better, if the dwarf has a focus before this one which was a safe type, which they were at the end of completing, long enough for people to think they were at least safe to be around in taverns, before taking on this one.

[tarkas]

I played a dwarf sorcerer around 1997 who's focus was to break into Tek's tower.

I then stood on dragon's way and stared at the tower all day long, then do other crap at night.

One day a templar walked by.  "What are you doing?"

me, "It's beautiful, isnt it?"

templar looks up at the tower, "Yes I suppose it is", walks off.

One of my favorite moments in the game oddly enough.

[evilcabbage]

I played a dwarf sorcerer around 1997 who's focus was to break into Tek's tower.

I then stood on dragon's way and stared at the tower all day long, then do other crap at night.

One day a templar walked by.  "What are you doing?"

me, "It's beautiful, isnt it?"

templar looks up at the tower, "Yes I suppose it is", walks off.

One of my favorite moments in the game oddly enough.

That templar was jealous because it wasn't his tower. All Templars really hate and fear Tek and do not trust him at all. And with good reason:  He doesn't fucking trust them <.<

Guild: Merchant/Tailor

Focus:  Discover ancient magical texts, became an almighty sorcerer, and show Tek who's boss.

Fallacy: Reading.

Sub-focus: Learn to read.

Sub-sub-focus: Find someone who can read

Sub-sub-sub-focus: Make sure they are trustworthy as a person.

[BleakOne]

Focus: To codedly poop

[Scarecrow]

The scarred, ripply-muscled dwarf is squatting here, crafting a poo.

[Ami]

The scarred, ripply-muscled dwarf is squatting here, crafting a poo.

I'm ashamed to admit this made me laugh out loud.