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[Trashed] Jarvis - Jericho - 02-04-2014
WIP!!! Work in progress!.
In Game Name(IGN): Jericho2D
Why do you want to join?
Looks like a fun and interesting role play experience. Thought it'd be a fun thing to try.
Do you have any RP'ing experience?
Allot of forum role play as well as a little bit of messaging style role play.
Tell us a bit about yourself:
A decent enough guy. American. :3 I enjoy role play and video games as my outlet and way to pass the time.
Your Character Biography:
Name: Jarvis Verus (Jericho)
Gender: Male
Age: 28
Height: 5'11
Weight: 182
Race: Mesalian
Appearance:
Jarvis Verus is a lightly rough looking individual. Not to say not easy on the eyes when his face is seen but a scar on his cheek and sometimes his rough joking and drinking can leave some want in his personality. His body is well toned and has a few light scars from some misadventures here and there.
His clothes reside of a dark hooded coat that covers a simple cloth shirt. Light leather shoulder pads for modest protection the coat doing fine to keep off the elements. His pants made of thick leather as are his boots. He wears a face mask at times as well. Carrying a rather worn look to the whole apparel.
Personality:
Slightly distant to most taking a bit to warm up too. He prefers to gauge a person before making a starting assumption on them but first impressions. He's a hard worker when he needs to be but prefers to the easy route to life when its available via opportunity. Sometimes it includes partaking in a rather large amount of ale.
Sometimes coming off as rough around the edges once he's accepted someone and become close he's loyal to the core. Willing to do anything to keep himself and those close to him safe. Violence and murder being just another set of tools if needed. Preferring to make his own rules at times when the law doesn't suit whats needed. The ends justify the means sorta way of thinking at times.
History:
Young childhood-
Born to a young gladiatorial town in the mainlands Jarvis found himself on poverty's doorstep when he was just a wee babe. Famine for the poor while the rich lived lavishly as it were. The young boy was from peasant stock and didn't have hope or relatives to rely on. Orphaned at a early age from simple disease left him on a dark door. Turning the boy into a pickpocket and thief to survive when he was of toddler growing into young boy. Stealing food and warm clothing when chances have present itself and more then a few time tasting the whip for such crimes from local guards. The whip being more of a influence to learn not to get caught then working as a deterrent to keep him away from such activities. He picked up a few ways to learn to fight at least modestly from some of the local fighters that were willing gladiators.
Many of them had also lived through such a hard upbringing and chose the conveniently placed entertainment route by the rich to make a living. Now and then spreading a little knowledge to the young lings was a way of helping those like themselves in the past. It was a great feeling to receive a couple lessons or so from a gladiator. He was perhaps twelve when he approached them personally. Desiring a lesson or two himself wanting to have a better chance of surviving in this world. Realizing as a street urchin he had to take care of himself.
However pick pocketing alone and a few lessons weren't enough to keep a child alive. His father had a few old traps and hunting equipment that used to keep them fed before his passing. It would be something else the boy would tinker with in young life. Trying to learn the goals he'd need to survive as he fought of despair with action and learning. Trying to figure out the tools he'd need to survive in the world.
Teenage years-
At the age of fifteen He found himself working in a salt mine not far out of town for stealing from the wrong pocket one day. It was between practicing with hunting and trying to learn to better make his traps and thievery he was making a living at the time. It was only luck for him he had been stashing his stash of goods and nest egg away in a hidden place so he wouldn't have to worry about it while he worked off his crimes. But that one wrong pocket put him in a whole lot of trouble. However after around three months of mining for such a small purse he began to think it was perhaps time to pull up roots and move on faster.
Waiting till late one night when the guards were sleeping he was able to work the bolts loose on the old shackles and make a break for it. Most weren't worried for escapees given they were poor and often had nowhere to go. Chances are many would stay in such conditions just for the meager rations they were given each day.
He'd grab his belongings and satchel in which he kept his belongings. He would slip a few coins to a wagon driving spice trader to help sneak out of town as it were.
Late Teen-Early Twenties
At eighteen he'd be moving from place to making work usually only upping the thieving when he knew he could get away with it or was planning on moving on again to rebuild up a egg of cash to help supply the movement. Taking up work in a tavern in one village for a about a year then moving on again. Usually making use of his ability to hunt and fish as well in the towns where game was a plenty. Selling food and even finding some areas where honest work suited him trading hides and leathers.
It was however when some areas and the gladiator fighter arena's seem to spark up when he'd feel the need to press on once more. Worried if anyone would try and seek old debts just for one more free set of hands to be forced back into labor. Even as he aged he was still a wanted man in some areas and when it came to free work and even a tiny debt many people wouldn't be so merciful as turn a blind eye.
At twenty one head out once more careful with his supply and movement lucking have gaining at least minor education as he moved through towns from kind scholars who would trade a lesson or two for a bit of meat from a hunt. Using his skills he'd get work on a ship sailing off to sea figuring he'd find some other land to live and breathe perhaps lose the worry of ever being a wanted man. Find somewhere safe to set up work and live and make a real life. IF worse came to worse he always had his thief skills to fall back on. Sea life would be one of the most interesting experiences in his life.
Learning the angles of deep sea fishing as well as a bit of info on trade on a merchant vessel. Even picking up the skill of learning a few sailing songs along the way. Some smuggling too but nothing a thief would care about if he was involved in. It was fine with him since it put a little bit more coin in the pocket of all the crew. For awhile he would begin to think he would be able to make a life like this. It was a free feeling to go place to place sailing the sea work each day food in your belly and a bit of ale each night. Or in his case allot of ale. Not to mention most ports always had interesting women ready too easy a sailors strain and people wanting to hear stories of other lands. For awhile it was a good life. It kept him busy for a few years celebrating his twenty fifth birthday on the ship itself no less.
Mid twenties - Present
at twenty eight However things would turn lightly grim as they often do. Smuggling illegal wares at one point would gain bad notoriety as they moved illegal arms causing military vessels to seek after them on the high seas. Being as many of the crew had come from shady pasts the captain himself they all prepared to run and seek the winds of a storm to escape. A chase that lasted nearly two days and a night in a storm that wouldn't let up. Wind and storm breaking away at the ship as the war vessel kept to their tail better built to withstand harsh conditions.
In the end the high winds were too much as well as the waves and splintered areas that were hit by occasional canon ball. The ship itself was lost Jarvis himself only hazily having memories that lead to a black out.
He awoke on shore in a small boat. One of a few they had on the ship. His bag clinging to his hip in the satchel he often wore. The boat had light water in it and looked as they it barely made it to shore before it would have sank. No signs of any others besides light debris that seemed to be from the ship that was washed up on various areas of shore. He'd decide after awhile of reflection he had no choice but to pick up and move on again. Lights from a village not far off. It appeared he had a fresh start once more. Just not how he wanted to get it. It was perhaps a little more weary on his heart when he found out he had crashed in the forbidden lands. But at least if you were gonna make a fresh start where better then the edge of the unknown.
Specify your character's skills:
Music - Novice
Combat skill - Competent
fishing skill. -Competent
Stealth - Advanced
Survival - Competent
Mining - Novice
Sailing and Sailor work - Competent
Do your character bring anything to the setting (part from clothes)?
small coin purse. -tied to his hip under his coat-
rusty iron dagger. -hidden inside his coat-
couple lock picks.
An old Leather Journal.
A few rations.
Small charcoal rocks for writing.
All secured in a leather satchel.
Anything you'd like to add:
If you have any comments or questions, you can make them here.
RE: Jarvis - Spitfire333 - 03-04-2014
Psst, type "[WIP]" in front of your title. This will let the whitelisters know it's a WIP.
Like this: [WIP] Jarvis
RE: [WIP] Jarvis - Jericho - 03-04-2014
>.< oops sorry about that.
Trying to figure out lore and stuff to create meh character. x3
RE: [New] Jarvis - Jericho - 03-04-2014
Bump!
RE: [New] Jarvis - Hutchy - 04-04-2014
Hello, Jarvis. I'm Hutchy, and I'll be helping you through whitelisting.
- Your backstory needs more detail and relation to the server lore, which can be found here. Lore relation helps us judge how well they character will fit into the setting, and the overall backstory lets us gauge if they are a believable character and, again, how they fit into the setting. I recommend that you take a look at previous, accepted applications and/or character sheets, a large list of examples can be found here, to help you get a better idea of how it should look and read.
- In addition, we need a more detailed path through the backstory, the character’s age at certain events being an example of this.
- Your character’s backstory doesn't do a lot to explain personal growth over his life. The backstory needs to show more description of how he was as a child, how he was through adolescence and then into adulthood. It is necessary that we see how the character has changed over the years before arriving in the setting. Please work on this.
Additionally, your application requires a personality section that describes them as a person. This lets us know that you know the character. When you add further detail to the backstory, it can help you accomplish this.
- Finally, your character's backstory must conclude with their arrival in the Forbidden Lands, where the RP setting is located.
That's all for now, please bump the thread when you're done and we'll continue from there.