Sorry everyone, the last two days have been totally screwed for me, too much work to do and not enough time. I really have to stop being so nice and just let those around me fend for themselves. No, that would be mean. See? Its a vicious cycle...

Anyway, the IC thread is ready and saved in a formatted and all typed up form. I am going to post it tomorrow morning, perhaps late tonight. Hopefully everyone has received the PMs I've sent, and some of you I still have to get back to. Just to clarify, the confirmed characters are:

TheWalrus: Genevieve Haley, Royal Gun Mage
luke4215: Lucard De'Monte, Assassin for Hire
Phidius: William Gale, Battle Mage of Cygnar
Mina Blackraven: Razz, Fayling Summoner
Jermain: Jason R. Finch, Rifleman
Conquerer_Man: Dr. Fredrick Hallon, Master Mechanist
Weaver: Noxukmdamt, 'Nox', Gobber Alchemist
Allonsus: Horace Deering, Sharpshooter

Prophetic_fury has not responded to me, so his character is not yet approved.

Sorry for any delays, but your patience will pay off my friends.

Cheers,

TheWalrus

Sweet! *hugs* sorry things haven't been going well for you but this will get better. We are all happy you are gonna post the IC and cant wait! ^ ^

I don't know what's up with my PMs. I don't have it set to not recieve or anything.

Well, that is unfortunate, but I cannot contact you: I've tried on two different computers. Hopefully this problem will be solved before it is too late.

Cheers,

TheWalrus

Name: Horace Deering

Age: 45

Gender: Male

Race: (Mostly) Human

Class: Cyborg Sharpshooter

Native Kingdom: Khador

Appearance:
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 173 lbs
Hair: Deep brown.
Eyes: The bolted metal that makes up the right side of his face is mostly made of silvery iron and is lined with cheap copper wire. His other remaining eye has lost coloration due to the destruction of the nerves in his face.
Clothing: The only two sets of clothing he owns are Khadoran military fatigues, and his Khadoran army uniform. He wears different pieces interchangeably.

Past: His family inserted him into the Khador military at a young age, as is customary. He quickly began showing exemplary marksmanship skill as he participated in small skirmishes Khador would have with Cygnar, sniping high-ranked Cygnarians with ease. He would not hesitate, yet there was no blood lust; he did what he had to do for queen and country. At some point during his time in the army, his father disappeared from his farm, leaving his mother sickly and near death. After some years of fighting in mostly trivial battles, Horace was approached by an aide of Queen Vanar who informed him that the queen has taken an interest in him, and has personally requested his assistance with a matter. The assignment was not to be spoken of to others, but rather to be completed, and forgotten. Horace had no cause to question his queen. In fact, he was glad he was pleasing his leader, after all, his duty is all that matters. That is what she called it: doing his duty. Refraining from showing his excitement, he accepted.

He was sent to a far-off plantation in Cygnar with his orders being to eliminate confirmed Cygnarian assassins plotting to murder the queen. He arrived late at night as the conspirators were chatting on the stone trail leading up to the homestead. Horace chose a spot 100 meters away from the target and crouched into a prone position with his rifle shouldered. He took a deep breath, pressed his check against the rifle, and eased his eye up to the scope. A stocky man walking past a grapevine. Face first into the dirt. Both chatting men, one holding up a map and the other inspecting it. The map holder was the first to realize what was to happen, however helpless he was. There were four unnamed men on Horace's list, and the fourth just walked out of the house. As he slowly came into view, he realized that, though now older and more gray haired, it was his father.

Horace lifted his face slightly from his rifle. There was no surprise in his face: they never told him, but he knew his father was a deserter. Even though he's hardly met his father, even though he only recognized him from pictures his mom sent him while he was in the service, even though his father was a traitor, he couldn't do it. Horace sighed and slowly lifted his finger from the trigger. It was at that instant that he heard a twig snap behind him, and with no time to react, a bullet from a blunderbuss pistol ripped through the back of his head.

His next fuzzy memory had him waking up in an old, abandoned cabin on a dirty bed with a bloodied surgeon standing over him. He couldn't move. "Well, this is all we can do. Hey, look on the bright side: he looks better than he did before. Hah!" Laughter rang out in the cabin as he slipped back into unconsciousness.

Five years later, now one of the most infamous bounty hunters in four kingdoms, Horace is also a broken down Khadoran deserter with half a face and a contract to kill an oil tycoon. With a swig of whiskey, he rose his revolver to the back of the crying and pleading man's head, and had a revelation: he didn't want to kill anymore. He smashed the whiskey bottle over the man's head, "Message delivered."

Twenty years later he lives out of a cabin he constructed in a forest outside of Cygnar, doing occasional work in a port near his home.

Abilities and equipment: Precision marksmanship and extraordinary sight. These, as well as his hearing, are now hampered by the loss of his right eye and most of the right side of his face, which is now made up of iron. He is also more than proficient in the fighting style of Khador, proficient in the use of most existing firearm, and is a demolitions expert.

Weapons: Scoped Khadoran rifle, four blunderbuss pistols varying in shape and size.

Alright, the IC is up: tales-the-iron-kingdoms-t21949.html

Sorry it took a bit longer then I originally said it would, but we're ready to go now!

EDIT:

I would like to mention that the RP will begin to move at full speed Friday afternoon. If your character has not posted by then, or if you seem to not be posting regularly, then we will continue without you. I realize that this seems a bit harsh, but I plan on the RP moving at a decent clip once things begin to move on. Also, once we leave Caspia, it will be hard for anyone to join up with the group.

Cheers,

TheWalrus

Hopefully it's not too late to join, please PM me if you have any problems with the character and I'll work them out.

Name: Thomas Vanis Luthro

Age: 52

Gender: Male

Race: Human

Class: Tinkerer/Mage

Native Kingdom: Cygnar

Appearance:
Height: 5'0
Weight: 280 lbs
Hair: Shaved head, but otherwise graying brown.
Eyes: Dull Grey
Clothing: Thomas wears a grayish-blue vest over a white pressed shirt. The shirt is tucked neatly into his black slacks. Over all this he wears a dark red, twin-tailed longcoat, the inside of which is lined with tools, pockets, and small devices of his own design. His outfit is completed by a pair of expensive black dress shoes and a black bowler hat.

Past: Thomas used to work in the creation of steamjacks, creating the intricate 'brains' of the massive machines. However, feeling his abilities wasted on the massive, inefficient constructs, he left this line of work and delved into learning the art of the mechanist, as to create his own devices. In twenty years he has become a self proclaimed master of clockwork devices, though his skill with other mechanical devices is lacking, due to a lack of interest. He is now capable of creating small clockwork devices and constructs with very simple minds.

Abilities and equipment: Thomas carries several small clockwork constructs, the largest of which being the size of a small lapdog, all of his devices folding up to a small size when not in use. He also has a sack of ammunition on his hip.

Spells: Thomas is capable of only minor offensive magic, though he is moderately capable when it comes to healing, his real area of expetise lies with his enchantments he can place on his constructs.

Weapons: A clockwork revolver of his own design, the clip extended to require fewer reloads, capable of holding up to twenty rounds in a clip. Although it has a tendency to jam and even break from time to time, when it does work no weapon can match it's rate of fire. Thomas considers it a work in progress.

Alright everyone, I'd like to make an announcement. Luke recently contacted me and has informed me that he will be dropping out of the RP completely. I'd like to know what the rest of you think we should do, as Mina has also not shown her face in the IC, so I assume she is out too. Wed can go with what we have so far, or do a reboot, it's really up to you all.

As for you rhyse, your character is approved, sorry I didn't get back to you sooner about that. You need to change your pistol though, as there are no clip-based weapons in the Iron Kingdoms. Also, a clockwork revolver wouldn't have a clip, as you've combined three different types of loading mechanisms. I understand what you are trying to do, but it won't work. A clockwork pistol that holds a larger than normal amount of rounds is fine though.

Let me know what you all think we should do, and rhyse, please respond in this thread so we all know you are joining us permanently. I really want some input on this situation, so the IC thread is on hiatus until we get things worked out. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.

Cheers,

TheWalrus

I'm still in, and say we could continue from where we are.

I agree with Phidius.

With the gun, I just had a hard time explaining what I was thinking. It's sort of a spring loaded system replacing the revolvers round cylinder with an upside down U-shaped one, that ejects cartridges after they're shot, the clockwork being why it shoots fast, pulling the trigger releasing the gears that fire, load, and eject bullets. I only called it a clip for a lack of a better term if that's alright. It's overly complicated, thus the problems it has with jamming. I'd love to discuss it with you to get it's design and stuff hammered out to make more sense.

And yeah, I'm in for the RP how it is, I think it's shaping up pretty well so far.

Alright, the IC is open again, I wanted to give the weekend for anyone else to join (I contacted a few people) and for anyone who wanted to say anything to get it out there. I'll be posting in the IC very soon, and feel free to post as often as you wish. I really want to get things moving quickly and get the story off the ground: but I need everyone to post to make that happen.

Just to refresh:

TheWalrus: Genevieve Haley, Royal Gun Mage
Phidius: William Gale, Battle Mage of Cygnar
Jermain: Jason R. Finch, Rifleman
Conquerer_Man: Dr. Fredrick Hallon, Master Mechanist
Weaver: Noxukmdamt, 'Nox', Gobber Alchemist
Allonsus: Horace Deering, Sharpshooter
Rhyse: Thomas Vanis Luthro, Tinkerer/Mage

Also, I don't know if Allonsus is still with us, but if he is not then he will be forgotten (anyway I think he is a solo) by Wednesday.

I apologize for all the delays, but the game is indeed afoot now.

Okay everyone, we've hit another snag. My computer is currently KIA, and without access to my notes, I can't keep the story flowing. I have limited access to another computer, so I can't keep up with a proper GMship. When I get the $200 dollars to fix it, then the RP can continue. If someone wants to take control, then I give them my blessing. I realize that things have been very difficult with this RP, and I appreciate that you all have hung in there though it all. However, this seems to be the death blow. Let me know what you all think.

Cheers,

TheWalrus