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I think that's a great and natural way to continue forth with the narrative!

I'd rather let someone else do a vow, Yorick's current status has him a more passive character until circumstances change. So it's more appropriate I feel if either of you instead pledge the vow.

Yorick and Grendel | Momentum: +4 (10/2) | Health: +5 | Spirit: +5 | Supply: +5 | Fails: 0 Following the rest of the crew, Yorick went to get a bailing bucket as well. He noticed, much to his surprise, that Haegoth grabbed the largest and had set out for the lowest part of the ship, where the water would pool the most. The others situated themselves evenly across the ship, and Yorick at the prow near Grendel. Stormward, the ship sailed, following the shadows of the other two ships, further out. Every creak and groan of the ship sent waves of unease and terror that tasted of salt water. The torrents of the heavens pouring harder than ever and the waves, like tormenting hands, pushed and pulled on the ship. In the distance, a punishment of the sea, a huge wave that could engulf houses was coming. "Grendel! Grendel! To the middle of the boat with you else the waves will tip the boat and the sea will swallow us all!" said Yorick. The monstrous beast awoke at the call of her guardian. It went bounding down the boat, miraculously avoiding knocking anyone back or spilling more water into the boat. The boat, with the wyvern at the centre, felt more balanced. It won't be enough to weather this coming storm. Secure Advantage: Move Grendel Secure Advantage(Heart+Animal Kin) Challenge Dice 1 Challenge Dice 2 Taking momentum

Alright sounds good, I'll hold off posting until afterwards then.

In terms of the major advantage, I think that makes sense.

Hector quietly stayed in the corner, patiently waiting for his turn to speak. He had a restless night, memories of his past failures resurfaced with the new addition to the list. In his mind, replaying different scenarios of what to say to Mrs. Gelman when he has to go visit her. Part of his anxiety and panic spread to other areas of his life, including what he'll say to the chief during the statements. "I hope no one was hurt in that accident," he says to the chief, "it would be nice if our worldly concerns were only relegated to chasing escaped chickens in the night. That would be nice." Spot Hidden

Hey, yes I'm still interested, I was waiting for TOM to post and have been busy lately, I will get to posting soon enough.

Elroy Lee, Rift of Don Quixote General Details Name – Elroy Lee Mythos – Don Quixote Age – 25 Occupation – Office Worker Hobbies – Reading, writing, visiting art galleries and watching movies. Or that's what he did before work consumed his life. Likes – Art of all sorts, passion in any manifestation of it, dreaming Dislikes – His job, corporations, the status quo. Backstory Elroy was always a creative child. At first this was a point of pride for his parents, pointing to his insatiable love of reading and talent for creative arts in general as their point of pride. However, as he became older and older, he only became more engrossed with his imagination. Meanwhile, his parents started to shift focus to more useful fields, the sciences and especially being a doctor. They'd settle for lawyer too. Instead he pursued an art degree, failing to become a curator, a historian or an artist in the process. He found himself slinking into a corporate job just to make ends meet, even as his family kept telling him "I told you so." Awakening Event It wasn't too dramatic. He worked everyday, even on weekends, for his company. Coming in early, leaving late, grinding his body into dust to help reach their bottom line. He hoped that he could be useful. They just fired him. That lead him down a depressive spiral, burying himself away from reality. Eventually he started realising that the world was speaking directly to him. He followed his instincts and found himself a higher paying corporate slave job. Now he wants more, he can be important for once. Divination - See the Giants "It is easy to see," replied Don Quixote, "that thou art not used to this business of adventures; those are giants." Mystery – What is going on beyond rationality? What hides in the hidden dimensions of reality? A) Unfiltered wellspring of imagination D) Everything is connected in reality G) Reliable gut feeling H) The world speaks to me A) Fact or fiction? C) The rational explanation Routine – Corporate Drone Identity – Just another cog in the corporate machine, that's all I am. A) Black company office worker E) Office Thespian I) Buried in books and paintings A) Crippling hollowness Personality – Major Arcana, The Fool Identity – I have so much potential, my horizons stretches far an wide; I can be everything. I am everything. A) Fantasy-prone F) Unconventional thinking H) Encyclopaedic knowledge of trivia A) A strange, strange man Training – Artiste Identity – They just don't get it, they don't get the deep commentary the banana taped on the wall is. A) Art degree C) The cultural zeitgeist J) Allusionary world B) Know-it-all anti-conformist Note: If this character is too whacky, I have a more serious character idea in mind as well.

It wasn't the first time the bodyguard laid his eyes on Grendel. Yorick remembered him clearly, a few years ago when he joined the secret projects conducted by his commanders, they hired mercenaries to fill the ranks. Some called the mercenaries evil, their loyalty so easily swayed by a bigger bag of coins. Others said they are the most loyal, since their creed was more tangible than mere patriotism. Unlike the others on the boat, the man never showed fear towards Grendel. He did help kill her mother after all. "Sidan, Sidan!" Lagon said to his bodyguard, "you've been all across the sea haven't you? Help me talk some sense into Vigo." Sidan broke his gaze from the wyvern and turned his body to face the rest of the people. For a moment no one spoke but there was no silence. The symphony of howling winds punctuated by the percussive hammering of crashing waves made Sigla groan with each movement. "Consider the fact that we're travelling through unknown waters, going into the storm will throw us off course and lead to us being more lost than we already are. If there are rock formations created during the Sunduring, we risk destroying the ship and being trapped in the middle of a storm. Both paths lead to blind luck but the amount of risk involved is not proportional." With each passing moment the five other ships were travelling further and further away, slowly getting obscured by tall waves and fogs. In either case their chances would be much greater if the ships were together rather than being alone in the open sea. From the corner of the ship, steeled by the mercenary's words, Yorick spoke up, "There's an unlikeness between having gone through a storm as a rider and as a lodesman. Lagon, you–" "No one asked for your opinion, scum!" shouted Hægoth, shoving Yorick into Egrim, "Just stay in your corner with your damn monster, you're lucky the war's over or you would've been executed the moment we saw you approach the ship." The sky morphed into haunted day for a brief second, but instead of the blue skies, it was that sickly green. One could only hope that it was a trick of the eye as lightning scored the sky and illuminated the storm-ridden clouds; one could only hope it was not the storm engulfing the firmament itself. The pattering of rainfall joined the soundscape, blanketing the world in its deafening cries and the cold, heavy bites of each drop. Yorick sat back down and huddled under his shield, ineffective as the winds carried the rain around it. While farmers in peacetime would always rejoice at rainfall, the superstitious folk, he remembered, always wept before rain fell. "Oh the rain! The rain! Beware of its foul smell and cold touch. Stay away from its petrichor scent, its corpse-like graze. In its shadow, oh misfortune, the cruel spirit stalks us all!" The worst still was yet to come.

, it looks fantastic, I'll hopefully make a post that matches your caliber. Happy Easter to all, or just a great day in general!

City locations thank you for doing this. City locations as follows: Tapaqli Kithka'aype Mangthenodir

Not quite, more like tables and procedures that help aid a narrative. For example, as an addendum to the location oracle found in Ironsworn, we could also toss in Wanderhome's location natures if we need a better understanding of the location. An example would be the "bridge" nature. This doesn't mean that the location is explictly a bridge, but takes the conceptual elements of one, being a place of passage from one to the next. It also includes moves that the bridge can do such as describe what's on the other side and push something off the edge. There are other tables that I have that offer more specificity and flexibility than those found in the oracle if we would like to roll and get some ideas as well. There are other procedures that exist, such as in Mythic GME, but may increase the overhead to an undesirable amount so I'll hold off on that until we actually start playing.

On the topic of the proposed archive, if any of you would like some resources external to what Ironsworn offers, I'll be more than happy to add them in. Just let me know if it's procedures, location tables or other tables in general.

I agree we should wait for TOM and see if they are ok with all the decisions thus far. I think the merit of it being collaborative is that we can also support each other with that, the pressure of it all is distributed between the 4 of us rather than the daunting task that GMing is for a new player. Furthermore, I imagine the scene facilitator's role is mainly for that starting post per scene anyway, setting the mood, ideas and questions. Afterwards it's all up to wherever we want the narrative to take us rather than them being the 'head' of the scene.

Yes, I was thinking of something like that. Combined with the higher food requirements and its propensity towards violence, I doubt many war weary soldiers, who probably at best tolerated the wyvern for its combat used, would tolerate it now when they want to get home peacefully. At least having it would help drag the boat to shore. Yeah that's the exact kind of ship I was imagining, I didn't realise it was a merchant vessel. I think we're ready to start, any other details can be ironed out through narrative after all.