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DF Community Games & Stories / Re: The Outpost: Illustrated Community Game
« on: November 17, 2017, 02:28:39 pm »
Character Submission
Name: Kiam
Race: Green Tree Frog Man
Profession: Ex-Adventurer
Age: 25ish
Description: An optimistic adventure who once lived in the mountain home, but left because they felt like they weren’t treated as well as the dwarves they grew up with. They came to the fortress when they heard a leech man became mayor, in hopes of finding a place where nobody cares about species. They think werecreatures are cool, since, as they would put it, “They aren’t stuck in one form.” That werecreatures are vicious monsters hasn’t really occurred to them. They aren’t used to being ordered around, but they are loyal to people they believe deserve respect. They use the word “they” as a singular genderless pronoun to refer to everyone unless told not to. Including themselves (they are male). They don’t think species really matters for anything except dietary and climatary needs. They tend to fight by jumping at their enemies and then hitting them with their weapon (which is typically whatever they grabbed off their foes that looked the best). They are kind of oblivious to what others are thinking, especially since they barely talked to anyone in their 7 year adventuring career. They did learn how to speak several languages, even if it was just so they could shout, “I don’t want to fight in the relevant language.
Edit: Responses to questions about character:
I doubt they can use their tongue as a weapon (unless large insects attack) or to wield a weapon (except maybe a light dagger), but it could likely be used to hold lighter items. Since they lived their whole life either adventuring, and they and their family came from the mountain home (mountains are pretty cold), they are a little more cold resistant than average (yes, plot excuse). They wear clothes that don’t get dirty easily and are easy to clean, or just scraps they found, and that leave a fair amount of skin to breath through. They probably need to keep damp skin all the time, so I suppose they’ll need to melt some snow (frozen ocean is too frozen). Inside, they don’t wear covers on their feet or hands, but outside, they wear shoes and socks and fingerless gloves. Their clothes are made from whatever scraps of cloth they took from the enemies they fought (or ran away from). They like trees, but they also understand that tree cutting benefits the fortress, and they don’t believe that trees are super important like elves do.
They also have a pet praying mantis that, because it is a rare cavern variant, is about the size of a cat. It cannot speak, and they aren’t hyper intelligent, just like as intelligent as a dog. They chose it partially because they would stereotypically eat insects, so they got a pet one instead, and largely because they thought it was cool. It can hunt vermin, but otherwise isn’t super useful.
Sorry if that is a bit specific.
Name: Kiam
Race: Green Tree Frog Man
Profession: Ex-Adventurer
Age: 25ish
Description: An optimistic adventure who once lived in the mountain home, but left because they felt like they weren’t treated as well as the dwarves they grew up with. They came to the fortress when they heard a leech man became mayor, in hopes of finding a place where nobody cares about species. They think werecreatures are cool, since, as they would put it, “They aren’t stuck in one form.” That werecreatures are vicious monsters hasn’t really occurred to them. They aren’t used to being ordered around, but they are loyal to people they believe deserve respect. They use the word “they” as a singular genderless pronoun to refer to everyone unless told not to. Including themselves (they are male). They don’t think species really matters for anything except dietary and climatary needs. They tend to fight by jumping at their enemies and then hitting them with their weapon (which is typically whatever they grabbed off their foes that looked the best). They are kind of oblivious to what others are thinking, especially since they barely talked to anyone in their 7 year adventuring career. They did learn how to speak several languages, even if it was just so they could shout, “I don’t want to fight in the relevant language.
Edit: Responses to questions about character:
I doubt they can use their tongue as a weapon (unless large insects attack) or to wield a weapon (except maybe a light dagger), but it could likely be used to hold lighter items. Since they lived their whole life either adventuring, and they and their family came from the mountain home (mountains are pretty cold), they are a little more cold resistant than average (yes, plot excuse). They wear clothes that don’t get dirty easily and are easy to clean, or just scraps they found, and that leave a fair amount of skin to breath through. They probably need to keep damp skin all the time, so I suppose they’ll need to melt some snow (frozen ocean is too frozen). Inside, they don’t wear covers on their feet or hands, but outside, they wear shoes and socks and fingerless gloves. Their clothes are made from whatever scraps of cloth they took from the enemies they fought (or ran away from). They like trees, but they also understand that tree cutting benefits the fortress, and they don’t believe that trees are super important like elves do.
They also have a pet praying mantis that, because it is a rare cavern variant, is about the size of a cat. It cannot speak, and they aren’t hyper intelligent, just like as intelligent as a dog. They chose it partially because they would stereotypically eat insects, so they got a pet one instead, and largely because they thought it was cool. It can hunt vermin, but otherwise isn’t super useful.
Sorry if that is a bit specific.