Fantasy RPG Forum - Standing Trials

Thread Name: Madness, Part One
City/Area: Rynmere University, Andaris, Rynmere
Notes/Warnings: Practice training thread post-Pythera attack on Zi'da 52nd. Caius is angry.

Requested Rewards:
Skill Knowledge:
Strength: Using your whole body in melee
Blades (Saber): Low guard position
Blades (Saber): High guard position
Blades (Saber): Upward parry
Blades (Saber): The power is in your wrist
Blades (Saber): Using your free hand for leverage

Loot: -50gn for private lesson with City NPC Garren Volhad
Injuries/Overstepping: Ripped stitches. Will probably scar.
Fame: Reviewer's discretion!
Collaboration: No.
Magic EXP: No.

Thread Name: Excuse me, do you have mutants?
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: -
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:

• Business Management: Do not recommend a competitor
• Business Management: Efficient time management
• Surgery: Recognizing the flesh of people
• Cooking: The old stuff, a restaurant's longevity
• Business Management: Provide quality service regardless of customers
• Business Management: Never ever cause a scene

Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Fame: -
Collaboration: -
Magic EXP: -

Thread Name: What Makes Them Tick?
City/Area: Scalvoris Town, Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: Cleaning up old threads from Saun. No real violence.

Requested Rewards:
Skill Knowledge (8):
Elithem: Mesmerize: Audience of one despite the crowd
Empathy: The color of regret
Empathy: Enhancing Elithem's Mesmerize by strumming specific emotions
Empathy: Cutting negative threads to find the positive
Detection: Picking up on a false accusation
Detection: The subtle signs of untruth
Persuasion: Offering to pay for perceived damages
Socialization: Commanding a disorderly crowd's attention with music

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Fame: Reviewer's discretion! (Stepping in to defend, swaying a crowd, etc.)
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Thread Name: Healing
City/Area: Scalvoris
Notes/Warnings: None
Requested Rewards:

Knowledge: (6 posts = 11 knowledge)
Discipline: Restraining yourself when you wake
Endurance: The pain of fracturing
Endurance: Hitting your head
Endurance: Extended periods of pain make you pass out
Endurance: Mortalborn scars
Rhetoric: Explaining things beyond the Mortal realm
Rhetoric: Explaining what you don't fully understand
Rhetoric: Analogy
Rhetoric: Explaining a fracture scar

Loot: None
Injuries/Overstepping: None
Fame: Nope
Collaboration: Yes

Knowledge: (5 posts = 10 knowledge max)
Leadership: Give clear orders
Meditation: A hypnogogic state
Surgery: Scars can give clues to what caused them.
Surgery: Mortalborn scars as a pulse point

Loot: Nope
Injuries/Overstepping: Nope
Fame: Helping Kura?
Collaboration: Yes

Thread Name: Archery 101, Part I
City/Area: Desnind
Notes/Warnings: Just the first part of a memory thread in which Ellen learns to shoot.
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge: 6 max
Ranged (Shortbow): How to string a bow
Ranged (Shortbow): How to hold a bow
Ranged (Shortbow): Don't dry fire
Ranged (Shortbow): Three finger draw, pinch draw, and thumb draw techniques
Ranged (Shortbow): Common anchor points
Strength: Repetition and practice makes you stronger

Loot: None
Injuries/Overstepping: Soreness
Fame: None
Collaboration: No
Magic EXP: No

Note: Thread was already reviewed but I didn't submit my request at that time.
Thread Name: The Etzori Heel Shakes The Rust Off
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: Minor corporal punishment
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Acting: Lying To The City Guard
Tactics: Not Pressing Your Luck With The City Guard
Stealth: Eavesdropping Through A Door
Endurance: Taking A Beating

Gangui: Agressive Bastard
Nauta F'Mos Geey: Impersonating A Black Guard
Nightshade Eld: Fopdoodle
Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Fame: depends on your POV. Finn slanders Gangui's name, but his slander comes from a patriotic motive. Up to the reviewer to decide.
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Note: I couldn't bring myself to wrap this up, unfortunately.
Thread Name: Actions Speak Louder Than Words II
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: Some violence.
Requested Rewards:
Knowledge:
Stealth: Hiding Under The Table
Running: Rushing Toward The Second Story Inn
Endurance: Almost Being Crushed By Fridgar's Weight

Location: Second Story Inn
Fridgar: Eager To Get Into A Fight
Alistair: Fridgar's Handsomely Rich Friend
Loot: -
Injuries/Overstepping: -
Fame: -
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Thread Name: Chaotic Good
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: Violence is becoming a common theme in our threads lol.
Requested Rewards:

Skill Knowledge:
Discipline: Having Patience With Frustrating People
Etiquette: Apologize When You’re In The Wrong
Etiquette: Defend A Woman’s Honor
Negotiation: Start By Having A Plan
Negotiation: You Can’t Win Them All
Negotiation: Knowing When To Walk away
Tactics: Regroup With Trustworthy Allies
Tactics: Never Stay In One Place Too Long
Tactics: Align With People In Positions of Power
Unarmed Combat: Catch Opponents By Surprise
Unarmed Combat: Disrupt Their Equilibrium In The First Swing

Non-Skill Knowledge:
Navyri: Gets Under Warren’s Skin
Navyri: Has A Nice Butt
Navyri: Doesn’t Like To Follow Other People’s Plans
Navyri: Is Defensive About What She Is
Navyri: Will Journey With Warren
Lianna: Doesn’t Trust Navyri, Doesn’t Like Navyri

Loot: Simple dress for Lianna.
Fame: Defending a woman's honor +2
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Skill Knowledge:
Seduction: Buy Your Date’s Meal
Seduction: Holding Hands
Detection: How to Notice Uncharacteristic Details
Discipline: Having Patience With Frustrating People
Etiquette: People Don’t Like Being Called Stupid
Logistics: Calculating Travel Costs
Persuasion: Try Not to Insult The Other Party
Deception: Use Implication to Find Out Truth
Intimidation: Threaten To Slit Their Throat
Unarmed Combat: Strike Before They Scream
Deception: Hide Your Evil From The Eyes of Others

Non-Skill Knowledge:
Etzos: The City of Intolerance
Etzos: Full of Ignorant People
Warren: A Beautiful, Frustrating Man
Warren: Quick To Defend Someone’s Honor
Warren: Has Black Fingernails
Warren: Says “Woman” Far Too Much
Warren: Quick to Anger, Quick to Forgive
Warren: Has Friends in Ne’haer
Loot: -4 GN for buying breakfast
Fame: N/A
Collaboration: Yes
Magic EXP: No

Thread Name: Rumor Has It
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: Mature Themes
Requested Rewards:

• Philosophy: Standing Ground When You've Something To Prove
• Discipline: Putting Duty Before Urges
• Negotiation: Making Bets You Can't Lose
• Strength: Carrying A Broad To Bed
• Etzos: The Cow and Corset
• Etzos: New Territory
• Foster's Landing: South of Etzos
• Quest: The Excavation

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Fame: Up to you
Collaboration: No
Magic EXP: No

Thread Name: The Expert on this Shindig
City/Area: Etzos
Notes/Warnings: Explicit Language (yuuuuum) and also mayhem (also yuuuuuum)
Requested Rewards:

• Endurance: Taking Blows To The Head
• Deception: Pretending Your Part of The Crowd
• Intimidation: Threatening Innuendos
• Strength: Taking Hostage of A Person
• Acrobatics: Jumping Through Windows
• Acrobatics: Vaulting
• Endurance: Swimming In Cold Waters
• Personal: The Expedition to Orimar
• Crowley: Is Alive But A Hostage?
• Philosophy: Good Drinks and Bad Plans Go Well
• Raimeus Madeus: The Man In Charge
• Raimeus Madeus: Willling To Sacrifice For The Expedition
• Raimeus Madeus: Has The Crystal Chalice Hidden
• Kleo Rimat: Raimeus's Partner
• Kleo Rimat: Knows About Orimar Also
• Kleo Rimat: Is Expendable to Raimeus
• Orimar: A Lost Bastion
• Orimar: Located Somewhere Between Etzos and Ne'haer
• Orimar: Can Only Be Found In Cylus
• Quest: The Excavation - Completed
• Quest: The Race For Orimar

Loot: N/A
Injuries/Overstepping: N/A
Fame: Up to you
Collaboration: No
Magic EXP: No