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The Unpublished Notes of James D. McKillinghall November 3rd, 1879 It started five years ago. The murmurings of drunkards. A group of men from somewhere to the east of Europe. They spoke of monsters. Ghouls. Creatures of the night. I paid it no heed until they spoke more solemnly, not with the sort of wild boisterous ravings of men enjoying themselves over mugs of ale, but of men speaking of something which should not be spoken about. A few more drinks and they spilled everything. I met them a dozen more times after that. They set me upon this path. I am the hunter of truth. Tomorrow I venture into the lair of the wolf, a wolf whi

Name: Viscount Edmund Blackwood Aliases: Edmund "The Seducer"/Magister of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn/Knight of the Rosicrucian Order Background: Privileged Youth: Believer Focus: Reputation Road: Skyward Path Life Changing Event: The Veil Parted Priority: Performance Modus Operandi: The Arcane Way Motivation: Yourself Identity: The Heriophant Values: D4 Honor (Dishonour will not trouble me when I am dead, why should it trouble me when alive?) D10 Glory (All glory begins with daring) D10 Passion (Lust is a thing of the blood. It heeds neither head nor heart) D4

Millicent Gerenhart/ Millie Gearhart Background: Privileged Youth: Outsider Focus: Invention Road: Backroads Life changing: Reckoning Priority: Work Modus Operandi: The Tinker's Way Motivation: Self Identity: The Specialist Values d6 Honor ("People can't be trusted. Sooner or later, they all let you down.") d6 Glory ("They're all just cogs in a machine. I can't accept that.") d8 Passion ("No one understands me. I want someone to... it doesn't matter. Back to work.") d6 Justice ("The law's just a suggestion when some p

Ok. I think I've done this correctly? Missy Fisher should be fully set up in the character thread.

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Fairly cliff notes version of the character I am going with right now cause a lot of details about them could change while we set things up: I've decided to do it as a journal entry because I felt it kinda of fit with the inspirations which includes y'all. Obviously my ability to write in the style of the time is very limited please don't hurt me I'm just having a little fun and getting a feel for the mood. Hope the details are clear. From the Journal of Kojo Amankona PhD also known as Carlo Amankona PhD. July 1876 (4 years ago) "Thirty years ago I was granted two names. The first of my names was given by more

A place for everyone to keep their characters.

It's under 'Roleplays' not 'Discussion'. Here

I've been thinking about the early Ashborn. I think they started out a a loose-knit group of disenfranchised individuals, but quickly took on roles to help others. Some became healers, nurturers, keepers of safe houses - the Hearthkeepers. Some became fighters, saboteurs, defends who tip the scales by force, the Firebrands, following in Prudences' footsteps in the way they imagine to be most direct. The violence they visit on misogynists who refuse to accept free women loving other free women earned them the name The Widowmakers. But the group that ended up truly walking close to the same path as Prudence were the Ashwalkers, wandering adhere

A thousand apologies work is very busy today I'll setup a character ASAP.

Millicent ‘Missy’ Fisher Background: Outlandish Youth: Rebel Focus: Reputation Road: Backroads Life-Changing Event: The Reckoning Priority: Performance Modus Operandi: Smoke and Mirrors Motivation: The Innocent Identity: The Mirror Values d6 Honor (Caveat emptor. Contracts are like gravity: they’ll break your knees the second you forget they can.) d8 Glory (Everyone who’s brushed me aside is going to see how wrong they were.) d10 Passion (If I’m not having a good time, what’s the point of any of it?) d6 Justice (When we’re both holding iron, we can talk about what’s fair.) d6 Power (Ev

Kojo - Carlo Amankona Origin: Prodigy Youth: Apprentice Focus: Reputation Road: Skyward Life-Changing Event: The Prophecy Priority: Performance Modus Operandi: The Arcane Hand Motivation: The Innocent Identity: The Champion Values d8 Honor ("Promises are the only chains you put on yourself. They are not to be broken.") d12 Glory ("This tale will become an eternally resounding ballad.") d6 Passion ("Life, like any performance, is meant to be enjoyed to its fullest.") d8 Justice ("Even evil may receive a Requiem. Ready for yours?") d4 Power ("I live every d

Alicia von Vulf Origin: Prodigy (Scientific genius on the run!) Youth: Outsider (Nobody trusted me, everyone feared me.) Focus: Invention (What greater path in life than the path of knowledge?) Road: The Backroads (Sometimes the safest path is the path within the shadows.) Life-Changing Event: The Invention (Eureka! This shall change the world! Or at the very least, my world.) Priority: Work (My newest discovery proves that there are still many more to unearth!) Modus Operandi: The Tinker's Way (Science is my everything, including my shield and my sword!) Motivation: The World (Science belongs to the world and scientific progr

Ok, so Millie has a sister and a father in her past. I'm actually going to create a character with a negative connection in the town, if that's acceptable? Willis Sloan is as close to an outlaw as you can get while still balancing on the right side of legality. He owns and operates a trading post in (town name), but is involved in shady dealings. Millie was forced to borrow money from Willis a few months back, and the interest is piling up. Of course, she could pay him back in a heartbeat if she were still at home, or with the help of her family, but fuck that. And as months tick by, so too does his patience tick down. I'll post the

OKAY!! It's time! Go to the Character Creation section of the Cortex Rules Reference thread, and copy out the template for a character sheet. Then scroll down to the Pathways section and follow the instructions for Step 1: Origins. Select one of the five origins. Before you add things to your Character sheet, head over to the Game 1 Miro Board. You'll find your name on a square and all the arrows already drawn to connect you to the other PCs. Add your character name to the square. Just click in the square and type. There's already a circle attached to your square with an arrow - add a name to it. This is an NPC that's important to y

I think the influence of the established churches might fill in nicely there. The New Church might haul them to the dias for Judgement using the dame kind of enforcers Prudence was. The Old Church might try to get the Unbound run out of town. Push either hard enough and they might call for a trial for heresy - which generally ends badly.

Thanks!

I'm a little lost- where did the character sheet thread go? Sorry

I'll hold off on my relationships to others for now then @IsabellaRose And I'm VERY afraid of Willis's possibilities :o

@IsabellaRose Where is the link to the Miro board? I tried searching for it but failed to find it. Never mind I found it

Oh... and you probably want to wait to write Relationship statements until later. As the game goes on, relationships might form a little more naturally based on the way the system works, and it will be easier to see how your PCs relate to each other based on the way we build the setting and NPCs through Pathways.

I'm about half way through step 1 but I'm stymied by a Distinction and a Resource. What I have so far is from Outlandish: +2 Power (power seems crucial to an Ashborn Missionary, but framed as "Power is required to fight oppressive power") d6 w/ Ashborn (She made me what I am) My thought for Distinction is something connected to being one of the Unbound - I live the idea of pushing this toward a Shaolin style monk, but don't have a clear vision of what that would look like. There's definitely a "Wanted" element to it - the Unbound are heretics to the New Church and a populist new schism to the Old Church - but I feel like i

I went ahead and added a Characters thread for the game.

This is perfect. Keep in mind, just because they're not on the sheet, doesn't mean they don't exist in the fiction. Family members, past lovers, etc. can and do all exist, even if they're not on the pathways map. The ones on the map are going to be connected to other locations, PCs, NPCs, and events placed on the map, often in ways you did not expect. You addition of Willis is pure gold. He's an NPC I can use, and I can't wait to see if and how he gets connected to others.

I read the same but wanted to confirm I hadn't missed anything! Thanks!

I think it's just one to start? That's what it says in the pathways step in the Rules thread

When you add your NPC to the Miro board, click on the arrow and type your relationship to them. Something like "in love with" or "needs me to protect them" or whatever you think. Also, post here and let us know who that person is to you, and what things you've added to your sheet. If there's not a Distinction, Ability, or Heritage that fits what you have in mind listed, mention it here and we can custom-make one for you.

I'll see eventually about getting at least a little more in on Azreal's thread too at some point. Ought to let him have a little fun before he gets stopped.

Okay started my character sheet and did the Miro board, will do abilities/traits etc...later. @IsabellaRose I made my relationship with an automaton that serves as my character's butler and servant, if it has to be character with autonomy I can just make her a cute maid.

I think the Unbound are still forming in this time period... there is no formal church yet. Prudence likely still walks the plains. She was set in the wild west. I think this movement is just picking up steam and different forces are influencing it as it solidifies into the codified religion it becomes later. I think there are a variety of people trying to honor what she did for them in their own ways, and many different views on what her legacy should be, and what her actions mean. I like the idea that there is a core set of beliefs, as outlined in The Manifesto of the Unbound, but that different individuals and groups have different takes o

At this point, adding this as a Heritage Distinction doesn't change anything, does it? What do we need to define, the Ash-Walkers or the Unbound (I can see a strong argument for both)? Do we want to see if any of that comes out in the rest of the Pathways? Oh, and since Resource starts at 2d4, does it step up to 2d6 Hearthkeeper? And what kind of specialties are we thinking, Healer and Safe House?

I like the more tightly focused one. I was also thinking we could make it a Heritage distinction. Even though it's not a "species" or anything, it has broader implications and could have a set of connected abilities you could learn over time. I think maybe adding more to the definition/description would help, too. Something like "you know pressure points and can use them for hands-on healing as well as nerve strikes" to cover that. The idea should be that, even without the need to mechanically heal a PC, you should be able to help an NPC with minor injury as a matter of course because it's something you do. The Hearthkeepers would not b

Can we soften the focus to: Ash-Walker You are one of Ashborn's wandering adherents, providing succor and guidance when possible and protection when necessary. d4: Earn a Plot Point when you choose the harder road or refuse comfort that would be easier to accept. d8: Spend a Plot Point to step into a scene and immediately intercept harm meant for another. d12: Spend a Plot Point to Reroll a die when you turn your healing skill into a weapon (nerve strikes, pressure points, improvised defenses). [I could see taking this as an act of healing too] I hate that it's so scatter-shot, but I think configuring it th

You can leave them for now. You might just want to double-check them once we're done and make sure your first thoughts are still what you're thinking once Pathways is done.

Hopefully I've done this right. I've added NPC Kirsa Autenrieth a hard-nosed German aristocrat from an old and very very entrenched house, current operator of the Autenreith Talent Agency, and...cultist. She bought and holds Kojo's contract years ago after an incident at one of his concerts and helped control the rumors around it. She ensures he still has shows to play while vehemently refusing to release him out of "a great respect" effectively making sure he is stuck under her employ no matter what he does. She happily plays the part of a dutiful and well connected sponsor while furthering the cults own ends for The Other Theory.

For Alicia's starting relationship I chose the following: Aldert Helsink Current heir to the Helsink noble clan. A large man in peak physical condition, only a little older than Alicia. He doesn't take 'no' lightly and tends to get his way one way or another. Of decent intelligence. Courageous, albeit with some hesitation when it comes to monsters. He was raised to believe the von Vulfs as monsters. Taught skills to bring low the last 'Vampire' of the east. He has people at his disposal. While he seeks justice for the death of his grandfather and the debilitating injuries of his father, he is an honorable man who keeps his word, and no

Yes, that works perfectly. It's really not super critical which one you choose, unless you're building an automaton, in which case you'd need to select Constructed. Otherwise it's just semantics, and the only difference is what options it gives you to build the character. You could have an Common-Born origin and still end up Wealthy, or vice versa. It's mostly just to try to help give you inspiration to create the character and think about their origin.

So I am having a bit of issues with deciding on an Origin. Privileged works on paper but it isn't really what defines her, and she lost that status very early. At the moment she keeps up appearances of still holding that sort of status, but little more than that. Prodigy sort of works. She has always been scientifically gifted. But it hasn't been what has fully defined her either. If anything it has been what has kept her alive, but also gotten her into trouble. She has been on the run most of her life, never quite sticking to one place long enough due to misfortune and people attempting to track her down for any number of reasons.

Oh, and don't forget to add each of the other PCs as a d4 Relationship to your character sheet. I didn't include that in the instructions.

From the initial post in this thread: 1. Start with the basics of worldbuilding. Working from that original description (in the very first post): Write down anything that YOU WANT to be in this game, concepts, set pieces, species, tech, etc., for you to enjoy it. If you want there to be Automaton's write it down. If you just think they'd be cool, but you don't really care one way or the other, don't write it down. This is the list of "I want this to be in the world!" Write down anything that you DO NOT WANT in the game. If zombies will ruin the setting for you, let us know. Once we get input from everyone, we set the

question; should I be adding ONE person to my character's miro, or more than one if other appropriate folks from the past?

HEWWOOOO!!! So excited to meet another person that likes the show!!!!

Jumi had not ignored Mitsuko’s previous mention of the paws, she of course intended to give Mitsuko’s things she wanted as well, but her mind was focused at the moment. Hard not to, at such an unusual opportunity, to feel something special and as she previously mentioned, what might even be something that had never happened before. Since Mitsuko seemed to like the idea, that only fueled it more. No reason as far as she knew to worry about it. Still a small chance of convincing Mitsuko to agree with her idea of asking Maxim, more likely checking with Shinigami later. Less likely to work, but Jumi tried to be optimistic about it. “Wel

I love the art for your character! I do use AI a good bit, but in this case, I was just flipping through Pinterest. You can still find good stuff on there if you tack on 'character art' or 'concept art' to whatever you're looking for.

It was nice knowing Mitsuko could trust Jumi with her thoughts, as embarrassing as they were. She was not ready to just make it obvious yet, especially as she always tried to hide them when on her own. As the discussion turned back to Jumi's thoughts and she was teased physically about it, Mitsuko let out a small gasp. Could they really have a way to do this later? She knew that the only reason Jumi was being curious about it was because of what Shinigami had done to her. Would it feel the same with her friend? Only one way to know, perhaps. "I... think there would be good. I never tried with the back. I never did think about the question bef

That works for me. I know the Elie, Exzel and Diamond storyline is slow at the moment but it should pick up soon. I can try to get Kari out here into other posts.

I'm a 5'5" brunette with pale skin and perky DD breasts. My cute little pussy is waxed in the summer and natural in the winter. I've been extra horny lately and I'm willing to be a cumdump for any horny cocks. Reference pic looks kinda like me but much more tanned than I am