Sign Up Welcome to the War (M-VL, possible S)

[Beorhun]

[COLOR=Navy][FONT=Century Gothic][CENTER][B]Prelude: The Dark Hours[/B][/CENTER][/FONT]

[SIZE=1]The moon was blotted out by the inky black smoke that eminated from the smokestacks in the 3rd District. The fountains had stopped running, the streetlights had stopped glowing, no sound was on the streets, spare the unyielding click-click of the Clockwork Guardians, who protected the town. Outside the walls, an army moved, slowly and quietly through the night. The guardians stopped momentarily, and moved toward the walls. The moon pierced the smoke long enough to show the gleaming of rifles and arrows in the distance. A tall, imposing figure walked along the lines of soldiers, looking out at the city before him, calculating his final additions to the plan. He stepped aside, and gave the word.

"Fire!" A rain of arrows fell onto the town, and balls of flame sailed over the walls. The streetlights turned on like wildfire, and the sirens on every corner began to ring. The archers traded places, the cannons reloaded, and another volley was sent.

Inside the city walls, there was anarchy. Soldiers rushed to the gate, and to the walls. Guardians, their sleek metal frames illuminated, leapt off the walls with all the grace and speed of a cat, and made a charge to the front lines. A volley of gunfire rang out, and the first line of clockwork soldiers fell. Another volley. A cannonball struck the Chapel of Kathos, causing one of the towers to collapse, spraying rubble and dust into the air. The soldiers lined up on the walls, readying their rifles. A rain of arrows fell onto them, and many fell. Finally, they counterattacked, and the figure on the front lines fired a white arrow into the night, illuminated by the fragments of moonlight that fell sharply onto the field.

From out of the forest there came a set of siege towers, battering rams, and ladders. Another volley came at the town, another volley at the siege from the walls. The towers came closer and closer, a thick sheet of iron soullessly knocking cannonfire aside. The towers reached the wall, and a horde of soldiers, clad in red, swarmed over the Order Soldiers...

Morning broke slowly over Michel's Crossing, as the Goblins took in the remaining soldiers and civilians captive. This was the war, after all. For four hundred years this had been the war. This was not the first time the Goblins had taken Michel's Crossing, and what would follow would not be the first time that the Order would make a sweeping counterattack to retake the city. They would use their guardians, and their soldiers, and their pious faith in Kathos and his Brotherhood, and the war would continue. The figure, General Kyran, looked at the scores of musketeers the Guardians had wounded. He had seen Michel's Crossing taken before, and he had called a retreat from places like Michel's crossing too many times to count. He sighed as he saw his soldiers convulse and die from the poison darts of the guardians, thinking that maybe, just maybe, it would be different this time...

The City of Easterath, however, was already preparing to retake the city. Soldiers lined up in the chapel to pray to the brotherhood, the Guardians were being loaded up wth poison darts and ammunition for their guns. This was the war, after all. For four hundred long years of suffering, this had been the war. Kathos and the brotherhood of Seven would watch over them, they would assure them that the city would be retaken. The Order, however, was facing a war on two sides: on one there was the goblins, who eternally tried to take the river and get into Order Territory, and the Independants, who rebelled from the Order and were now trying to attack it from the west. They would survive, however, they would endure. Why? They had gods on their side, and that is what mattered. The soldiers walked, one by one, into the trains, ready for the long battle ahead of them...

If it was the will of Kathos, then they could not fail...

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Okay, so you can choose to be in the Goblin Army or in the Order (The story will start with the retaking of Michel's Crossing) or a member of the Independance, which has a base near Easterath, and they are helping the Goblin War effort.

[B]The Basics of Welcome to the War [/B]

Guardians: Four-legged mechanical constructs that are the brunt of the offensive war effort for the Order. Some have been hijacked and retooled to fit the needs of the Independance. They are armed with two rifle arms, a poison dart gun, and a bolas (spelling?) on the arm opposite the dart gun.

Kathos: The Head of the Brotherhood, crafted the world, lives in the Watchtower.

The Brotherhood: A Collection of Seven Legendary knights who served Kathos, revered as semi-gods, each one guards over an aspect of existance. Live with Kathos in the Watchtower

The Watchtower: A gigantic tower that can be seen anywhere on the continent. Stretches into the clouds, resting place of the Brotherhood. No mortal has ever reached it. It's surrounded by a series of tall, impenetrable mountains and a desert with ravaging dust storms.

[B]The Signup:[/B]

Name:
Age:
Side: (Order, Independance, Goblins)
Weapons: (Rifles, bows, swords, etc...)
Job: (Soldier, Medic, Tactician, oh, and you can't be a Guardian.)
Sex: (Male or Female, duh.)
Appearance: Pic or Description
Why They've Joined (Side): "Because he/she was bored" doesn't work.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[Lionheart]

[FONT=Arial]Name: Drizzt Fallen
Age: 21
Side: The Order
Weapons: A long sword with a metal shield
Job: Soldier
Sex: Male
Appearance: [URL=http://www.megkazul.net/lantiscrooked.jpg]Drizzt[/URL]
Why They've Joined The order: Doing the war, he had 6 loving companions. The goblins raided a nearby post as the company tried to fight the goblins. As they took down the goblins, a hijacked guardian came along and killed all of his friends. In rage he killed all of them, not leaving on to gasp for air. He swore that he would keep fighting for revenge of his fallen friends that where like family to him.[/FONT]

[Deadpool]

I'm in

Name: Rinak Chi
Age: 25
Gender: Male
Side: The Order
Weapons: Long dia katanna and two pistols
Appearance: [IMG]http://gamesplus.in.ua/img/news/021/21982.jpg[/IMG]
Why they joined the Order: He had always felt a strong sense of loyalty and to defend what is yours. When he heard about the Independnce trators it made him disgusted and sick at the sound of people fighting their families. He had already fought several goblins before and was now compelled to get rid of these traitor swine.

[Lafleur]

[COLOR=DarkRed]Nice. I like a blend of fantasy and modern tech.

Name: Dwayne Prusek

Age: 23

Gender: Man

Side: Independence

Weapons: High-power mechanical crossbow. Slow, powerful, and accurate. Dwayne is also known to carry a knife, hidden at the back of his waist but easily reachable.

Job: Crossbowman/Support

Appearance: [URL=http://hyung-taekim.org/displayimage.php?album=18&pos=12]Dwayne Prusek[/URL]

Why he Joined the Independence: Dwayne grew up outside of the Order-controled territory. His parents lived alone and cared nothing for Order religions or war or fighting. They traded with both sides of the conflict whenever they passed, but other than that they paid them little heed. Than, for whatever reason, the Order decided that the small hilly area the Prusek Family inhabited became of interest to the Order, and they moved in. When they found out Dwayne and his Family weren't followers of Kathos, they were told to convert. Now, The Prusek Family may not be the most fiery or tempermental clan, but they have they're principals. Stubborn as hell, too. So the Order slaughtered them and left the area for good. Slaughterd them all, except Dwayne, who survived because his wound had been unfatal.

Dwayne wasn't one to hold a grudge, but, by murdering his entire family, the Order had gone a bit far. For a while he, a 17-year-old drifter, made a living in crossbow competitions, winning some and making a decent living. Eventually, however, Dwayne became tired of this and felt his life needed more action. So, he combined his hate of the Order and his need for excitment and joined the Independence. He was a talented but unremarkable Crossbowmen, so the desperate Independence took him up. [/COLOR]

[Albel the Wicked]

He he he, you've made a very good RPG Beoruhn. Shame that you haven't posted your character yet. I planned on mine knowing yours, in which I still do.

Name: Joshua Isan
Age: 18
Side: Independance
Weapons: He's been known to use a longsword most of the time, but it has been said that occasionally he will use other various weapons.
Job: Soldier
Sex: Male
Appearance: He's about 5'5", 180 pounds, fairly skinny but well built. His hair is black and he has green eyes. The color of his skin is a whitish color. The length of his hair is fairly long. The clothes he usually wears is a very old Order uniform. It was actually the first form of the uniform and the current one if pretty different. The old one was a pine green on both the top and bottem. The top seemed pretty much like an army vest. It had pockets on the front with no sleves. The bottom was a bit baggy and had deep pockets on the sides. Under the uniform, Joshua wears a black T-shirt. He also wears some regular boots and covers his mouth with a piece of black cloth. Finally on the back of the old uniform, there is a letter in ancient text that means "Hate".
Why They've Joined the Independence: Joshua used to live in the Order and planned on fighting with them. He actually joined about when he was sixteen and fought along side of the Order. It wasn't until he was seventeen and he had well known (Insert Beoruhn's character's name here) that he had found out his whole family was killed in the cross fire between the goblins and the Order. He was enraged at both sides by this. This is why he joined the Independence, because he had no respect for either side. He wanted both sides to die. All that was left was his father's uniform from when he was in the Order. He took it and painted the symbol that meant "Hate" on it. He left the city and killed any goblins or those who worked for the Order. He and *Beoruhn's Character* are now a bit of rivals.