Speedplay

[FantasyWriter]

If you could play any role with no expectation of them living past two weeks, what would you do? Go!

[RogueGunslinger]

Pick-pocket, spice-smuggling/dealing elf with annoying tics, like twitching.

[QuillDipper]

I feel like a Rinthi, Mutant Necker might be a shorter role.

[FreeRangeVestric]

An insane, treasonous elderly person in either city-state with nothing left to live for, and thus who has no qualms about mouthing off to nobility/Templars/other authority figures!

Should make two weeks seem like a generous expectation.  

[Bushranger]

Escaped Borsail Gladiator Family!



Have a good game of Red Rover with the Borsail Wyverns for two weeks

[FantasyWriter]

Hahah, no idea why, but that one made me laugh my ass off.

[Riev]

I actually have a role in mind, for when this character dies, if I have enough karma by that time. Basically, its going to be a magicker that publicly manifests. Not one that does it in front of trusted people, who hopes to live from it. Someone who just outright like, in front of a Templar just goes berserk and like, throws a fireball at their face or something.

Because I mean, thats GOT to happen sometimes, right?

[Chettaman]

halfling robot sent from the past to be mechanically inhanced in the the future then sent back to wipe out the monsters that took over the grey forest.

Take back my lands with a chaingun!

[Malken]

A 'giker who can only learn new magick by losing a limb for each new spell he gains.

[Narf]

Tuluki musician that refuses to "sell out" to the circle.

[TimTembo]

You've got an advanced case of <Zalanthan disease>. You've been <throwing up blood/passing out/seeing bright lights/having minor strokes>.

You just know you've got a month left to live. You can feel it in your bones.

What do you do?

[Molten Heart]

A Tuluki lumberjack that manifests as a Suk-Krath elementalist.

[Ourla]

Any sort of rotten villain to spice things up for the militia.

[askaran]

A genuinely nice person.

[Zoan]

Demon-worshippers. I'm sure they exist, right? I'm sure there's NPCs, vNPCs and PCs who worship demons. Why not you?

Also: someone who disagrees with a certain aspect of the city-state they live and are part of the masses rallying against it (anti-elementalist quarter is a good one - Senate is filled with this debate every single year, and every year it gets barely turned down, apparently).

[solera]

Well last time , while I waited on a d-elf app, I just sat in a bar for 2 weeks , catching up on city affairs. 

Next time? Load a c-elf burglar acrobat with agility and send it down the sewers. There's other places I'd like to explore, but they'd take solid skills to get there. Unless I'm allowed a quickie whiran.

Zalanthas seems to have worn all rebellion, insanity and fanaticism out of me.

[Fujikoma]

Guy who is utterly convinced he is the Highlord/Sun King/Sandlord and goes about acting the part.

[SmashedTregil]

Pretty much my usual character concept. If they live past 2 weeks, I'm doing something wrong.

[Knight of Knives]

Silt Sea pearl diver.

[RogueGunslinger]

Pretty much my usual character concept. If they live past 2 weeks, I'm doing something wrong.

This is sort of true. Two weeks is kids gloves. Hell I can hardly maintain that when I'm trying .

[i love toilets]

I'd spend the first ten days training my ranger on weak wildlife/sparring in the militia and then flee into the wilderness for an initial background reason, exploring the awesomeness. Can't really think of an area I haven't explored to some extent that doesn't require mad skills, so there's probably three options at my disposal.

[valeria]

A dirty beggar.  Create, junk all starting gear but clothing, park inside or outside of a tavern and try to survive on handouts.  I thinkI'd find it hard to play one for more than two weeks, but those two weeks would be awesome.

[TimTembo]

edit by me: this post wasn't helpful

[LauraMars]

[Classclown]

[Classclown]

My all-time favorite would actually be a lone astronaut that crash lands on Zalanthas, the ship sinking into the silt and the guy barely making it to the shore. I know impossible, but one can dream. He would likely die quickly, though so it fits.

[FantasyWriter]

Reminds me of the Luke Skywalker v. Lirathan crossover story a staffer wrote a few years ago.

[Harmless]

The best speedplays are raiders of some kind.

[manonfire]

Since my playtimes are so low, I might start churning out disposable characters that exist simply to attempt assassination on PC templars and nobles.

[Potaje]

Gladiator mul, that snaps in the city and tries to battle out to freedom.
Or
A Cultist for some imagined new religion, trying to build a flock to depose the control of the Highlord/Sunking.

[Evoru]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

[Barzalene]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I want to do this!

[ShaLeah]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I want to do this!

Longest lived char ever.  +2 karma if you make them filthy rats.

[mattrious]

I feel like this thread was created for me. I'm somewhat of an expert of fast paced short lived PCs. Not sure if that is something I should brag about.

1. City-elf assassin in either city. From hour 0 you're convinced that you're the greatest gift to the shadows since Tek himself. You can drop anyone at any given time. They cross you. They're dead.

2. You're a master burgalar. You've got 24 hours to come up with the <insert noble house jewels>. If you do not? Repercussions.

3. An entire tribe's existence is hanging onto your choices. You've got to find a way to prolong their existence in the world. Find a home. Make friends. Destroy your enemies.

4. You're a sewer horror. <race=HG mutant> <guild=ranger> <subguild=scavenger>. You only climb out of the depths at night. You wreak havoc and return home.

[Ourla]

A mundane who thinks he's a magicker. He carries pocketsful of weird little objects and gets a gem.

[Bogre]

A templar's swooning, squealing, obsessive fan girl. Bury your face in their cast off clothes and inhale deeply...follow them in a really obvious way when they're out on the town...hire bards to compose terrible love ballads (or undertake that noble art yourself)...try to bribe other templars to let you into the compound so you can "clean their room"...the possibilities for creepiness are endless.

I'm pretty sure Fathi did that for my templar a couple years ago.

[i love toilets]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

[Bushranger]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

The person would need to be named Horripilation.

[sizeshowz]

Pick-pocket, spice-smuggling/dealing elf with annoying tics, like twitching.

[Fujikoma]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

say (rage and annoyance tinging his voice as his eyes burn with rage) No! FORK YOUUUUUU!

[ShaLeah]

A human being, obsessed with forks. Eventually he tries to kill a random person over them.

say (rage and annoyance tinging his voice as his eyes burn with rage) No! FORK YOUUUUUU!

That's it. Forks have to become backstabbing weapons.

[JustAnotherGuy]

A dirty beggar.  Create, junk all starting gear but clothing, park inside or outside of a tavern and try to survive on handouts.  I thinkI'd find it hard to play one for more than two weeks, but those two weeks would be awesome.

I've played this... and it lasted for several months.  First few months just living off of begging.  Then he got bribes to just tell people things he has heard... then he got brought into peoples clans and such (then robbed them blind and left).  It was quite entertaining.

Mine would have to be some sort of raider, but the problem is I have a hard time just playing something that short because it is underdeveloped.  Something with a sickness...  maybe a special app or some sort.

[yoink]

In this setting? I'd probably play myself. 

[slatefox]

I actually like speed playing -- I get the feeling it doesn't get you noticed much, but when I actually do get around to playing, I feel those characters have way more flavor and oomph to them than a long-lived 'dedicated' character.

Let's see, some things I would try...


1.  A very noisy cult worshipper -- Cuz in a world that sucks, somebody is gonna find religion in the desert, whether the Sorcerer King likes it or not
2.  An expeditionist intent on discovering the lost secrets of Steinal   (actually, this sounds like an interesting long-term char, but we all know how this is gonna end)
3.  A mutant and rather mean-spirited Rinther
4.  A sheltered child with a NapoleonTemplar complex
5.  The town drunk
6.  A really, really bad poet who thinks he's the finest artisan to have ever uttered a rhyme

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

A Raider.

[TheWanderer]

The Zalanthian equivalent of everybody's favorite psychopath...

[Scarecrow]

A George of the Jungle guy who is a spec app who lives with gortoks in their dens, can't speak any languages and just wears crude furs.

[whitt]

The Zalanthian equivalent of everybody's favorite psychopath...

Grand Theft Beetle?

[long live miley cyrus]

The last of my family has disappeared for reasons that I, a young man/woman so insane as to be incapable of any more than basic work, have no conception of at all. I've decided to go and pursue my dream, now that my family can't exactly tell me not to and no one mentioned anything about after they were dead except several instances of "Don't you freakin' dare go do that thing you've always wanted to do if we happen to be gone one day and leave you alone," but, hey, that is obviously so generalized so that it could mean anything.

Anyway, here I am, pursuing my life-long dream of sneaking past apartment renters, breaking into peoples' rooms, touching their belongings, and watching them as they sleep. Watching them for hours. Touch their belongings some more. Eat a piece of meat I found in a bag. Watch them some more.

And then as they wake up I'll be hiding inside a container and watch them some more! And watch them and listen to them until they leave. Or bring a prostitute in. Yeah. That's kind of a deal killer, so, I'll bust out of the container and run for the door if that ever happens. I'll scream lots and lots, in order to create confusion and make my presence less noticeable.

And no one will ever catch me!

[bmburmas]

A former slave who now goes around trying to free every slave he sees, but not before he tells their owners that they are morally reprehensible.

[whitt]

And no one will ever catch me!

I smell a rat.

[Fujikoma]

The last of my family has disappeared for reasons that I, a young man/woman so insane as to be incapable of any more than basic work, have no conception of at all. I've decided to go and pursue my dream, now that my family can't exactly tell me not to and no one mentioned anything about after they were dead except several instances of "Don't you freakin' dare go do that thing you've always wanted to do if we happen to be gone one day and leave you alone," but, hey, that is obviously so generalized so that it could mean anything.

Anyway, here I am, pursuing my life-long dream of sneaking past apartment renters, breaking into peoples' rooms, touching their belongings, and watching them as they sleep. Watching them for hours. Touch their belongings some more. Eat a piece of meat I found in a bag. Watch them some more.

And then as they wake up I'll be hiding inside a container and watch them some more! And watch them and listen to them until they leave. Or bring a prostitute in. Yeah. That's kind of a deal killer, so, I'll bust out of the container and run for the door if that ever happens. I'll scream lots and lots, in order to create confusion and make my presence less noticeable.

And no one will ever catch me!

Bonus points if you burst out of the box fully unclothed. Like... what... the... FUCK, was that about?!

EDIT: Except the face-wrap, don't forget that.

[Asche]

Fade in from black, a gritty, aerial view of Allanak. House Fale is having an extravagent party/orgy. 'Gickers are living in extravagance in their Den of iniquity. Fade out to black.

Narrating voice of main character: "If'n ya only had a month ta' live... and a goal wurth dyin' for... wouldncha' go out swingin'?"

Fade in from black, aerial view of a makeshift shack, zoom in to a sawbones doctor looking at a dwarf's junk.

"Yep... hope trainin' a gith ta give head was worth it, stump. You've got maybe... two weeks? Think you're gonna die satisfied?"

"No... I've a new path ta' follow..."

Iorek Githfucker was your average Rinthi dwarven assassin. Until the day he fulfilled his focus. Now, with only one month to live until gith rot takes him from the junk up, he has one month to complete his new focus:

Close up on Githfucker's face; "I'm gonna' shank the Highlord."

Now, with only two weeks on the clock, and only an absolutely incredible in strength and subguild tailor to assure coin with no repercussions in his arsenal, Iorek must battle against racism, a poor in wisdom, spam-training backstab in the Rinth without staff catching on, and, hot dwarf on 'gicker action as he mudsexes his way to the necessary buffs.

Voluptuous woman in loose, water-hued robes, "Oh, Githfucker... take me..."

See the excitement!
Feel the baldness!
Wince at the code abuse!
This Summer, Ioreth Githfucker IS

TWINKING HARD

[Wish]

HAHAHAHA

[Rahnevyn]

I'd approve that app.

[Zoan]

Oh my god do this.

[TheWanderer]

[FantasyWriter]

Fade in from black, a gritty, aerial view of Allanak. House Fale is having an extravagent party/orgy. 'Gickers are living in extravagance in their Den of iniquity. Fade out to black.

Narrating voice of main character: "If'n ya only had a month ta' live... and a goal wurth dyin' for... wouldncha' go out swingin'?"

Fade in from black, aerial view of a makeshift shack, zoom in to a sawbones doctor looking at a dwarf's junk.

"Yep... hope trainin' a gith ta give head was worth it, stump. You've got maybe... two weeks? Think you're gonna die satisfied?"

"No... I've a new path ta' follow..."

Iorek Githfucker was your average Rinthi dwarven assassin. Until the day he fulfilled his focus. Now, with only one month to live until gith rot takes him from the junk up, he has one month to complete his new focus:

Close up on Githfucker's face; "I'm gonna' shank the Highlord."

Now, with only two weeks on the clock, and only an absolutely incredible in strength and subguild tailor to assure coin with no repercussions in his arsenal, Iorek must battle against racism, a poor in wisdom, spam-training backstab in the Rinth without staff catching on, and, hot dwarf on 'gicker action as he mudsexes his way to the necessary buffs.

Voluptuous woman in loose, water-hued robes, "Oh, Githfucker... take me..."

See the excitement!
Feel the baldness!
Wince at the code abuse!
This Summer, Ioreth Githfucker IS

TWINKING HARD

Fu----king----wyn.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

Super wyn.

That's hilarious.

[Zoan]

Every goddamn time, man. Every time someone makes a funny dwarf post I want to make a stumpy.

[Asche]

I'd approve that app.

I'll hold you to that.

[Rahnevyn]

I'd approve that app.

I'll hold you to that.

Approve it and then SLAY YOU IN THE HALL OF KINGS BEFORE YOU CAN POINT AT ANYTHING.

[Zoan]

NO RAHN YOU MUSTN'T. IT IS FOR THE GOOD OF THE GAME THAT THIS CHARACTER IS A REAL THING. PLZPLZPLZ

[BleakOne]

Ioreth Githfucker isn't in danger.

He IS the danger.

[Zoan]

Tek doesn't know what's coming for him.

[Kevo]

Staff: "Why are you mudsexing this Templar, that's got nothing to do with your focus."

Ioreth Githfucker raises his crossbow at the sky.

Githfucker: "Focus This!



...   

[Zoan]

Fuck yeah, Ioreth Githfucker. I predict we've found our new Memetic Badass, fellow geedeebeers.

[Wish]

This Summer, Ioreth Githfucker: Watch as he joins the legendary ranks of Gage Gritshaw, Samos Rennik, and that dude who made up necksnap.

[bmburmas]

A dwarf whose focus is to collect human skin of every possible color.
He goes around, getting pieces of skin whatever way he can from humans, often resorting to murder, and hangs the flaps of skin on his wall, arranged in order of darkening hue, i.e. albino skin on the left and midnight-black on the right, with everything else in between. He spends hours at a time staring at the wall deciding where the most significant gap in his hue palette is, and then goes out trying to find skin a shade between two he already has.

[yoink]

A dwarf whose focus is to collect human skin of every possible color.
He goes around, getting pieces of skin whatever way he can from humans, often resorting to murder, and hangs the flaps of skin on his wall, arranged in order of darkening hue, i.e. albino skin on the left and midnight-black on the right, with everything else in between. He spends hours at a time staring at the wall deciding where the most significant gap in his hue palette is, and then goes out trying to find skin a shade between two he already has.

Tl;dr, what I imagine when I think of dwarven foci.

[Symphony]

Zalanthan reincarnate of Miley Cyrus and introduce 'twerking' to the Known. Survivability? Yeah.. no.

[Jeax]

Zalanthan reincarnate of Miley Cyrus and introduce 'twerking' to the Known. Survivability? Yeah.. no.

I have already done this; can't say how, would be IC.

[Tuannon]

A vivaduan / healer anywhere with any loyalty to any group.

[Zoan]

A vivaduan / healer anywhere with any loyalty to EVERY group.

[rodic]

Play an angered successful merchant tired of laws of the city states and beggars getting his sid's
Sets out start his own city under the silt sea.

Amos Ryan