The Steeple of Pavorford RP | Session 1: Skin

EccentricEremite • 10/6/24 9:51 am history

12/9/2024 8:16 pm

Intro/Premise

In a riverside meadow, surrounded by forest and isolated from most civilization, is a village called Pavorford. No one of quiet Pavorford dare speak or weep, for fear they be heard. No one of frightened Pavorford dare look out in the night, for fear their eyes be met by crueler eyes.
No one of grim Pavorford dare find hope, for fear it will be lost again.It is when travelers happened upon the obscure town that its oddity became renowned. Stories spread of the town’s terrorized and mute residents, of spirits and beings from other worlds and realities haunting and residing in the village’s wilderness, and of the giant, hideous ogre roaming its woods. The ogre is the first terror of the people; too much noise or if the beast gets bored, and this abomination, having dubbed itself the “Boggleman,” will take villagers as food.
Tourists, travelers, and foreigners have begun flocking to the town for its seemingly supernatural nature, laughing in the face of the Boggleman’s danger, and finding and spreading more rumors as the crowd grows: stories of hills and graves singing in the foggy meadow; gossip of a man living in the local chapel for over a hundred years; sightings of bizarre beings and creatures roaming the meadow’s fields and the woods, their rules and purposes equally strange and arbitrary. One rumor remains ever-present: that something is pulling and yanking on the strings of every puppet in Pavorford. That something slinks and crawls deep beneath it all, hidden and ever bent on a goal yet unseen. All who whisper of such possibilities can never shake the feeling that they lie in the closing hands of a mad god, inexorable and ever-marching, spinning some unseen wheel to keep the cycles moving.

Nothing ever really stops moving.
Not even in death.

What happens when the dance is interrupted?

This is a branching storyline of TheMountaineer's PMC Kingdom role-plays and Scarlamagne_Lunar's Fantasy World role-play.

This connects to storylines I've built up in all the role-plays mentioned above.

This is the first session forum, being the first of three parts of this overarching campaign.

Beginnings

Before we start, there are a few things I need you as the role-players to do:

1. Please decide which path you enter Pavorford from: the Western path, or the Southern path? There are no other direct roads into Pavorford. You will see them both on the map below. If you'd like to enter through the woods, you may choose that.

2. Please begin with one of the following numbers and their connection:
1 - Annihilation
2 - Evocation
3 - Affliction
4 - Identity
5 - Duplicity*
6 - Accommodation
7 - Aberration
These numbers are the "rumors" that you'll be investigating in Pavorford. Each one must be investigated by at least one of you for the story to progress. 1, 2, 3, and 4 may be explored by any number of players, though the first one to investigate will be the "first come, first served" in terms of anything gained from it. 6 and 7 may be explored by any number of players without consequence, and everyone would gain something from investigating. *5 is an active disadvantage, and only one player may investigate it; I would suggest you guys discuss among yourselves who would be interested in choosing it. Anyone who chooses the same rumor at the same time will be investigating it together.

Tell me your choices for both decisions above in your first reply.

Rules and "Heads-Up"s:

Please have access to an online or physical D20 dice. If you need an online one, you can google "d20 dice roller" and it'll give you a roll. This is because, for certain actions or situations, I will ask you to roll a dice to determine how successful you are. Please be honest and fair, because not all "good rolls" will have good results, mostly because of the next rule. Please do not immediately jump to "and then I cut off his head" after rolling a 20; instead, tell me your intended action and your roll, and I will describe what happens and how it goes. I will try to be fair with this; back to the 20 example, I am not gonna make a character suddenly impervious to your attack even if you rolled a 20- there will be an impact.

There will be times that I will have you call a coin-flip, with me being the one to flip the coin. These will usually be after certain dice rolls, for if you call it correctly, the dice remains as it was rolled (eg. you roll an 18 and call heads, I flip heads, and the roll remains 18). But if you get the flip wrong, then the dice roll will count as the opposite of what you originally rolled (eg. roll 15, call tails, I flip heads, the roll becomes 5 or roll 2, call heads, I flip tails, the roll becomes 18). Please keep in mind, the switch goes both ways as shown with the example, meaning calling it wrong can be useful if you rolled pretty low. This is an actively unfair rule, and if it bothers you, please tell me.

Please ping everyone involved in reply-chain when you respond, and always ping me with every response. For example, if Voktorka and BlueBoyBuilds decide to role-play with one another, Voktorka would ping both BlueBoyBuilds and me at the end of every reply, even if one's the one being replied to. This is so that everyone can keep up with what's happening.

I am going to be the one describing all settings and side characters. Please be careful when assuming what a setting may feature or what a side character says, as these are the things that I am in control of. Simultaneously, I have no control over you or your character's thoughts and actions. There may be times where I will ask you privately about changing or stopping something, but this would only happen if something is being disruptive or is an unexpected wrench in the flow of the story and campaign.

Map:

(I am so sorry about the poor quality of this map. This one's just a substitute so that you guys can know where you're going until I can make a nicer, more readable one.)

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