Instance #1 - Welcome to Erde

[Piper Juunanagou]

Story Guide: Piper Juunanagou

Setting: The town of Eisenhardt and its surrounding forests.

The Pull: The above town, a primarily human settlement, has experienced a string of murders and thefts in the recent weeks. Some claim foul beasts are afoot, while others claim the acts are those of brigands living in the nearby 'Green Sea' (a poorly mapped forest). The Player Character, either a resident of Eisenhardt or someone living nearby, is drawn to this drama. Whether they are attracted to see justice or by the thought of finding the stolen goods, we do not know.

Limitations: All PCs must be locals to the area. Preferred that all PCs are 'Humans

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Please post only character sheets in this thread, there will be a separate thread for discussion/questions.

(This is intended to be an introduction/test run for this. It will last no longer than 14 days. If it is not resolved by then, due to inactivity/laziness, the story will be ended. If it is still 'going strong,' I will let it run its course).

[King B]

Name: Jamie Sickert
Species: Human
Age: 22

Home: Eisenhardt
Occupation: Hunter In-Training

Physical Description: Short brown hair, brown eyes, ever-lasting five o' shadow. Draped with hide and fur.
Additional Information: Father was a victim of the recent hostile attacks and mentor. No mother.

[Valora Crow]

Name: Tobias Downey
Species: Human
Age: 14

Home: Eisenhardt
Occupation: Fletcher's Apprentice

Physical Description: Dirty blonde hair cut to the top of his ears, brown eyes, scrawny. Clothes are patched.
Additional Information: Orphaned since the age of 10. Can wield a bow well enough.

[Jonathan Meer]

Name: Karen Eiffel
Species: Human
Age: 54

Home: Eisenhardt
Occupation: Housewife

Physical Description: Short, frizzed hair, dyed an overreactive black to hide the gray. Rather chubby, enough to hide facial wrinkles. Her cheeks are round and rosy, but her eyes are small, black beads.

Additional Information: Has five grown children of her own, as well as three step-children, with a new grandchild every few months. Her and her husband are largely disconnected emotionally, one from the other, though they still live in the same place and have found a stable living relationship, based upon neither affection nor hatred for one another.

Poor, but maintains as many pretensions of luxury as possible. She means well, but is prone to petulance. Recently, her social circle caved in, as a result of one too many childish tantrums. In response, she hopes to paint herself a selfless matron through her participation in this investigation. She has no true sense of the consequences of her actions, or of the very real threats that may accompany this investigation.

[Maruset]

Everyone's the nub sometime, eh? I'll try this if I'm not too late:

Name: Jeremy Shabrist
Species: Human
Age: 34

Home: Eisenhardt
Occupation: Thug

Physical Description: A hefty wall of a man, Jeremy has blue eyes framed by dirty black hair. A perpetual scowl does nothing to improve a face best described as "homely"

Additional Information: Generally regarded as a useless layabout, Jeremy spends his nights in a barn owned by a local farmer eating the man's crops in exchange for "guarding the farmstead," which mainly consists of Jeremy pummeling anyone who looks at him sideways on the premises and, rarely, driving off predators seeking to make a meal of the livestock.
As the murder spree situation escalates, the farmer has pressed Jeremy into doing actual work for the first time in a long time. Irritated, but with refusing the orders not an option, the bruiser picked up a heavy club and made ready.

[Undrask]

Name: Karl Gaefumadr
Species: Human

Home: Gifrvidr (Within the Green Sea)[originally taken of Eisenhardt])
Occupation: Clansman

Physical Description: Very tall at about 6'6" and lean, weighing about 14 stone. He wears very bright blonde hair and soft green eyes. A thin beard follows his jawline and runs from his chin in a tangled line. A small fur-lined cap sits on his head. He wears now a long sleeve dark green tunic with dark patches of fur upon the shoulders, horizontally bound by thin strips of leather down to the waist, flaring out as it extends to his knees. A thick belt with a long tail wraps about his midsection, threaded through a wooden buckle. His legs are wrapped in thick fur-lined leather that is bound in thin dark straps. Thick leather boots are upon his feet.

Additional Information:
Karl was the son of a man and woman in Eisenhardt, though he would not be raised by them. Instead he was exchanged for an ugly changeling by a family of trolls who took him home with them to their forest of Gifrvidr. Many boys and girls are eaten, put to work till dead or used for their components, but Karl came in a time of plenty. He was fed and clothed (for there was surplus for him to have), and indeed lived in the home of his new surrogate family deep within the woods. After many years that he managed to not die, he became a Fostri, a foster-son to the people of the wood.

It was upon this year however that the trolls suffered a single murder, such a rare occurrence within the wood, and his clansmen were taken aback. Cold-iron, it was said, was found within the kerling's chest. Iron? Cold-iron? Within the wood? Certainly it was the work of menskr, for none else could lift nor even stand to be near the blighted metal. Karl then, the only one amidst them able to pull the iron free, laid the old woman to rest and was sent to seek revenge.

[Jarka]

Name: Marie Shepard
Species: Human
Age: 17

Home: Eisenhardt
Occupation: Seamstress/Shepherd

Physical Description: Hasn't quite grown comfortable in her 5'11" frame. Her ears stick out a bit too much and her limbs are a tad too long. Waist-length light brown hair is alternately pulled into a ponytail or let loose to the mercy of the wind, depending on whichever she thinks makes her look more mature at the moment. Her homemade woolen clothes often match the shade of her timid grey eyes.

Additional Information:
Family works together on a successful sheep farm. As the youngest child and the only daughter, she spends most days spinning the wool and making cloth for trade. Whenever one of her brothers or parents is absent, she is expected to fulfill their duties. A certain young adult in the village makes her weak in the knees, but it is not clear if he has noticed her swooning.