05-10-2013, 12:34 PM
This is my first real test of RPG Solo, after a couple of failed attempts. I wanted to keep things simple, so I am using Fate Accelerated Edition, which I am just dying to try out. I’m doing everything else from scratch to stretch the whole thing to the limit.
I guess I’ll get started with the button that says ‘Get Started’.
The setting is molten bridge involving very high quality coins and fantastic auction house. Your quest is to fire the rocket located at the sewers. Trying to stop you is the traitor skilled in hunting. You are currently at the mutated magic shop.
Okay, that’s weird. I’ll try to work this out. My first thought is fantasy – a dwarven kingdom. The bridge isn’t molten. Instead, it’s suspended over a lake of molten lava. It’s not just one bridge, either, but an entire city, living off the heat and light given off the lava. This being fantasy, no one is being cooked or dying of poisonous fumes due to ingenious dwarven engineering.
Because these are the typical fantasy dwarves, they have excellent metal work, including coins – they may well be the realm’s bankers, as well as the preeminent engineers and craftsmen. This city of bridges lies in the middle of a great trade route, the only real pass through a vast mountain range, making this dwarven city more cosmopolitan than most. One of the most popular destinations is the great auction house, where some of the finest examples of craftsmanship from all over the known world are bought and sold every day.
The city gives the dwarves great power and influence, which makes it not particularly safe. Other nations would like to have that power and influence. Therefore the city is not without its defenses. Its greatest is a wonder – a battery of rockets secreted in hidden tunnels, which seek out and destroy enemies of the city. These have never been used, because no one has ever tried to take the city. If it is to fall, it would have to fall from within. Unfortunately, there is now a traitor in the city.
So, who is our protagonist and why is she at the ‘mutated magic shop’? Let’s find out.
Indispensable servant who is as strong as you and whose motivation is to promote vigilance, hinder faith, and advocate religion; who speaks of inquisitive difference and is focused on your parents.
As this is not an NPC, we’ll have to interpret this a little differently. For instance, I was going to assume a dwarf, but since she is a servant, maybe not. It could be, but I’m going to get further information from the randomizer, after switching genres to classic fantasy, which is where I will remain for the duration.
Reasonable mage.
Well, nothing that says she can’t be a dwarf, still. But a mage who is a servant must be a servant to someone fairly high up.
Is she an attendant mage to the nobility? (Very Likely)
Yes.
So, I think I can get started on fleshing out the character.
First, she is a dwarven mage who tends to think things through rather than go off half-cocked. In fact, she is very focused on keeping the people of the city safe. She may even be in charge of the security systems – the magical portions, at least. Whatever the case, she is very security-minded. She’s also religious-minded, a philosophical sort of person. On the one hand, she is very much a believer in doing things herself, but on the other she believes the gods watch over everyone. She has two great loves in life – her work, which she sees as indulging in scientific curiosity, and her clan. She comes from a rather lowly clan, but her magical talent and skill have brought her up in the world. There are those who would use the fact of her low birth to bring her down, however. No matter how great her power, she will never be more than a servant, even if she is an indispensable one.
Here’s the character.
Rakel Breakstone
A young dwarven woman with neutral brown hair, braided into a single long plait, and slate-colored eyes. She is usually dressed in robes embroidered with arcane symbols.
High Concept: Dwarven Apprentice Mage of the City of Bridges
Trouble: In Service to the Mage-Protector
Additional Aspects: Scion of the Breakstone Clan
Approaches: Careful +3, Clever +2, Flashy +1, Forceful +2, Quick +1, Sneaky 0
Stunts:
• Indispensible Servant: Because I am an indispensible servant, once per game session, I can call upon a city official to assist me.
• Meticulous Mage: Because I am a meticulous mage, I get a +2 when I Carefully overcome obstacles when using magic.
I’ll supply additional aspects for her in the first session. The religion thing just isn’t enough to go off of, nor is her scientific curiosity. When I think of something, I’ll add it in. Time for the first session of actual play.
I guess I’ll get started with the button that says ‘Get Started’.
The setting is molten bridge involving very high quality coins and fantastic auction house. Your quest is to fire the rocket located at the sewers. Trying to stop you is the traitor skilled in hunting. You are currently at the mutated magic shop.
Okay, that’s weird. I’ll try to work this out. My first thought is fantasy – a dwarven kingdom. The bridge isn’t molten. Instead, it’s suspended over a lake of molten lava. It’s not just one bridge, either, but an entire city, living off the heat and light given off the lava. This being fantasy, no one is being cooked or dying of poisonous fumes due to ingenious dwarven engineering.
Because these are the typical fantasy dwarves, they have excellent metal work, including coins – they may well be the realm’s bankers, as well as the preeminent engineers and craftsmen. This city of bridges lies in the middle of a great trade route, the only real pass through a vast mountain range, making this dwarven city more cosmopolitan than most. One of the most popular destinations is the great auction house, where some of the finest examples of craftsmanship from all over the known world are bought and sold every day.
The city gives the dwarves great power and influence, which makes it not particularly safe. Other nations would like to have that power and influence. Therefore the city is not without its defenses. Its greatest is a wonder – a battery of rockets secreted in hidden tunnels, which seek out and destroy enemies of the city. These have never been used, because no one has ever tried to take the city. If it is to fall, it would have to fall from within. Unfortunately, there is now a traitor in the city.
So, who is our protagonist and why is she at the ‘mutated magic shop’? Let’s find out.
Indispensable servant who is as strong as you and whose motivation is to promote vigilance, hinder faith, and advocate religion; who speaks of inquisitive difference and is focused on your parents.
As this is not an NPC, we’ll have to interpret this a little differently. For instance, I was going to assume a dwarf, but since she is a servant, maybe not. It could be, but I’m going to get further information from the randomizer, after switching genres to classic fantasy, which is where I will remain for the duration.
Reasonable mage.
Well, nothing that says she can’t be a dwarf, still. But a mage who is a servant must be a servant to someone fairly high up.
Is she an attendant mage to the nobility? (Very Likely)
Yes.
So, I think I can get started on fleshing out the character.
First, she is a dwarven mage who tends to think things through rather than go off half-cocked. In fact, she is very focused on keeping the people of the city safe. She may even be in charge of the security systems – the magical portions, at least. Whatever the case, she is very security-minded. She’s also religious-minded, a philosophical sort of person. On the one hand, she is very much a believer in doing things herself, but on the other she believes the gods watch over everyone. She has two great loves in life – her work, which she sees as indulging in scientific curiosity, and her clan. She comes from a rather lowly clan, but her magical talent and skill have brought her up in the world. There are those who would use the fact of her low birth to bring her down, however. No matter how great her power, she will never be more than a servant, even if she is an indispensable one.
Here’s the character.
Rakel Breakstone
A young dwarven woman with neutral brown hair, braided into a single long plait, and slate-colored eyes. She is usually dressed in robes embroidered with arcane symbols.
High Concept: Dwarven Apprentice Mage of the City of Bridges
Trouble: In Service to the Mage-Protector
Additional Aspects: Scion of the Breakstone Clan
Approaches: Careful +3, Clever +2, Flashy +1, Forceful +2, Quick +1, Sneaky 0
Stunts:
• Indispensible Servant: Because I am an indispensible servant, once per game session, I can call upon a city official to assist me.
• Meticulous Mage: Because I am a meticulous mage, I get a +2 when I Carefully overcome obstacles when using magic.
I’ll supply additional aspects for her in the first session. The religion thing just isn’t enough to go off of, nor is her scientific curiosity. When I think of something, I’ll add it in. Time for the first session of actual play.