Post by Gamemaster on Aug 23, 2007 4:28:25 GMT -5
The Yostan scenario is intended to test some ideas for the 3D graphic MMORPG version of the game. Players who have characters at Yostan will be allowed to play those same characters in the 3D graphic MMORPG version of the game.
To play, post a message on this thread saying which character you want. You can play any character on a temporary basis unless someone else is already playing that character. You will earn karma points by playing a temporary character. You can then use the karma points to bid on a permanent character. You may be able to make your temporary character permanent or your permanent character could be a new person.
There are other ways to earn karma points. Post a message here to ask what the current opportunities are for getting more karma points.
Here are the characters currently available for the Yostan scenario:
Original Settlers:
Name: Altook
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 47 doveko, clothes, bow and 20 arrows, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 2 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 22 chickens, 5 pigs, 2 sheep and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and founded Yostan settlement which he calls "Altookan", named after himself. Married Teelinat and has five kids with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 17,900 points
Name: Quagganuk
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 22 doveko, clothes, axe, spear, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 10 chickens, 7 pigs, a cow and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and helped found Yostan settlement along with his older brother Altook and his friend Sarman. Married Jandit and has two kids with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 12,800 points
Name: Sarman
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 52 doveko, clothes, axe, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 19 chickens, 4 pigs and a horse.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and helped found Yostan settlement along with his friends, the brothers Altook and Quagganuk. Married Lilit and has one child with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 14,500 points
Name: Teelinat
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 47 doveko, clothes, bow and 20 arrows, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 2 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 22 chickens, 5 pigs, 2 sheep and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Has known Altook since she was a child. Married him nine years ago. Went east with him to live in the house he lived in in the wilderness with his brother Quagganuk and their friend Sarman. Eventually, Quagganuk and Sarman built houses of their own and married and started families. Teelinat is the first woman to have lived at Yostan and is sort of the matriarch of the settlement despite her young age. This is partly because she is married to Altook, who played the main role in founding the settlement and is the elder brother of Quagganuk. Teelinat has five kids with Altook.
They are:
Eldest son named Gamuk, born 34th day, 4th month, 32nd year, age 7 1/2
Daughter named Janit, born 19th day, 5th month, 35th year, age 4 1/2
Son named Arman, born 40th day, 2nd month, 37th year, age almost 3.
Daughter named Helganit, born 16th day, 9th month, year 38, age 2
Youngest Son named Raskanmuk, 24th day, 4th month, year 40, age 7mos.
Minimum Karma Bid: 9,500 points
Name: Jandit
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: Clothes, blankets, cooking pots, knives and dishes. Her husband owns 22 doveko, clothes, axe, spear, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 10 chickens, 7 pigs, a cow and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Wife of Quagganuk, who helped found Yostan settlement along with his older brother Altook and his friend Sarman. Jandit has been married to Quagganuk for four years and has two kids with him. One is a son named Balmuk, born on the 1st day of the 2nd month of the 38th year of the current reign who is now almost three years old. The younger one is a daughter named Jilit, born on the 39th day of the 6th month of the 39th year of the current reign who is now about a year and a half old.
Minimum Karma Bid: 6,400 points
Name: Lilit
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: Clothes, blankets, cooking pots, knives and dishes. Her husband owns 52 doveko, clothes, axe, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 19 chickens, 4 pigs and a horse.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Wife of Sarman. Lived on a farm in eastern Kast Vyloresh province. Has known Sarman since she was a child. Married him and went to live with him in Yostan last year. Has one child by Sarman, a baby girl named Elanit born on the 20th day of the 7th month of the 40th year of the reign of Emperor Cledman VI and now about four months old.
Minimum Karma Bid: 7,250 points
Refugees:
Name: Yokh
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 7 doveko, clothes, walking stick,
Disabilities: arthritis
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east. Stayed with a farmer in one of the eastern settlements named Gamukan. Became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Yokh was separated from the others and wandered in the wilderness, heading eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 12 points
Name: Marganit
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: 3 doveko, clothes, blankets, hat,
Disabilities: flu
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including her husband and four children, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to Gamukan where she was one of the refugees who benefited from the rebellion of the refugees against the farmers, but she was not a participant in the rebellion. Three weeks later, Ralban barbarians attacked Gamukan and massacred most of the people. Marganit fled eastward along with another woman named Gilit until they eventually came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 30 points
Name: Gilit
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: 0 doveko, clothes,
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including her husband and five children, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to Gamukan where she was one of the refugees who benefited from the rebellion of the refugees against the farmers, but she was not a participant in the rebellion. Three weeks later, Ralban barbarians attacked Gamukan and massacred most of the people. Gilit fled eastward along with another woman named Marganit until they eventually came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 41 points
Name:Terivanit
Age: 11
Gender:Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions:Hat, clothes, doll
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province near Crooked Creek. Being so far east, they were not attacked in the initial invasion, but recently, barbarians from the South attacked, killed her parents and entire family, and destroyed the farm. She ran away from the barbarians and survived for many days in the wilderness until she came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 23 points
Name: Sharnyva
Age: 51
Gender:Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions:Hat, walking stick, clothes,
Disabilities: post traumatic stress disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province that was farther to the east than most and therefore was not attacked in the first wave of the barbarian invasion. A month after the invasion began, barbarians from the South attacked and killed Sharnyva's entire family including his wife, eight children, son in law, two daughters in law, four grandchildren his two brothers and their wives and children, his sister and her husband and their children and his aunt and uncle and seven cousins. The barbarians burned down Sharnyva's farmhouse, stole his seed grain and slaughtered his livestock, effectively destroying the farm that he had worked his whole life to build. They also destroyed the farms of all his relatives and neighbors. Sharnyva and his family were not killed right away. Instead, most of them were captured alive and tortured to death. Sharnyva was also captured and tortured by the barbarians, but managed to escape. By the time he got away, all his family members were dead except for two of his cousins who the barbarians were still torturing and were near death. There were barbarians to the west and south, the river was to the north so Sharnyva fled east and came to Crooked Creek where the soldiers under Ekanor Konigak gave him food and let him stay with a local farmer. Sharnyva volunteered to join Ekanor Konigak's soldiers, but he was still recovering from wounds inflicted by the barbarian torturers so Konigak told him to rest and recover first. In the meantime, the barbarians attacked again and Sharnyva fled. He has been running and hiding ever since until he came to Yostan. His wounds have now healed and he is obsessed with getting revenge at any cost.
Minimum Karma Bid: 21 points
Name: Heravit
Age: 68
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: senile dementia, arthritis, hard of hearing, cataracts, stab wound from spear in back, post traumatic stress disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. They were overrun with refugees, but her son Varnyva and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as Varnyva had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked, killed almost everyone including Heravit's son Varnyva who she lived with and his wife, children and Heravit's entire extended family who all lived in Gamukan, then destroyed the farm. Heravit was stabbed in back with a spear by barbarians and left for dead. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so she managed to flee east and came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 1 point
Name: Lano
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. He is of Zekresh ancestry, but his name comes from an ancient tribe called the Marsh People. The Marsh People lived near what is now the Imperial capital city of Zekran. Their lands were colonized by Frayeth settlers about 2,000 years ago. Over time they intermarried with the Frayeth and became assimilated. The city of Zekran was originally a mixed settlement that included people from various tribes of the ancient Frayeth Empire on the South Peninsula and also people of the indigenous tribes of the North Peninsula. The tribes from the South Peninsula included of course the Frayeth, but also others such as the Cliff People and the Seagull People. These people fled the collapse of the ancient Frayeth Empire and came to the North Peninsula. There they lived among some of the indigenous tribes of the North Peninsula such as the Shell People and the Marsh People. The city of Zekran was founded on the tip of the North Peninsula by this mix of people. Over the centuries, as Zekran became an independent city-state and later an Empire, its people came to consider themselves to be Zekresh, people of Zekran, rather than Frayeth or Marsh People or anything else. Some families adopted Zekresh-style names which are essentially Frayeth names, but others continued to use names handed down from other origins. Lano is from one of those families. His name is now considered a Zekresh name, but it originates with the Marsh People, not the Frayeth. His family, however, includes many Frayeth ancestors, not just Marsh People.
Lano’s ancestors had lived in and around Zekran for centuries, but his paternal grandfather, Varnok, left there and came to settle in the Overseas Provinces. He originally settled in Falanalish province, but then moved south to Kast Vyloresh. Lano’s father, Marno, was born and raised on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. He married a Zekresh woman named Jeelanit who had recently immigrated from Yormukan Province (also near Zekran). Lano was the oldest of five children. He had two brothers and two sisters.
Lano worked on his father’s farm, but was saving up money to start his own farm when Ralban barbarians from the South attacked. Lano’s family was warned by fleeing refugees that the barbarians were coming and immediately fled. Barbarians caught up to them. Lano sprinted ahead and was able to save himself, but the rest of his family and most of the other refugees could not run as fast and were caught. Lano doesn’t know what happened to them, but he assumes they are dead. He fled East and eventually came to the Eastern Settlements. He stayed with a farmer in the eastern settlement that is named Gamukan. He became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. A refugee named Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses. Lano was also one of the refugees who participated in this. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Lano again outran the barbarians, but was separated from the others and wandered in the wilderness, heading eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 29 points
Name: Torimuk
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: bad reputation
Backstory: Born and raised on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Was a problem child. Ran away from home at age 14. He has drifted from place to place since then, hiring himself out as a farm hand and for odd jobs. At other times has been a beggar or has obtained food for himself by hunting, fishing and eating edible wild plants.
He heard about the approach of the barbarian horde from refugees and fled eastward before they arrived. He came to the settlement of Gamukan and stayed there for a while. He became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. He ran away from Gamukan in the middle of the night. He came back later after learning that the refugees had taken over the place. A refugee named Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses.
Under the new system, Torimuk worked as little as possible and ate as much as he wanted. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Torimuk was the first to run. He headed eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 38 points
Name: Balek
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: post traumatic stress disorder, stab wound to the left arm, concussion, skull fracture.
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. Gamukan was overrun with refugees, but Balek’s father, Guvalnuk and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as the farmers had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked while Balek was outside chopping up firewood that his twin brother, Razamuk, and some refugees were gathering from the forest. Balek fought the barbarians with his axe and killed two barbarian warriors, but then Balek was stabbed in the left arm with a spear and dropped the axe. He ran away, but a Ralban warrior chased him and struck him in the head with a warclub. Somehow, perhaps because the barbarian was having trouble catching up to him, it was not a killing blow, but it did give Balek a concussion, a fractured skull and knocked him unconscious. The barbarian left him for dead.
Razamuk returned from the woods and carried Balek to safety. As Razamuk considered how to obtain weapons to attack, he noticed smoke coming from their home and realized that the barbarians had set it on fire. Razamuk saw his family members and some of the refugees come out of the burning house only to be murdered by the barbarian warriors. He lost his father, mother and sister. He saw that the barbarians were destroying the entire settlement of Gamukan and killing everyone. Razamuk carried Balek farther into the woods and when he regained consciousness, the two of them made their way east.
Minimum Karma Bid: 1 point
Name: Razamuk
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: none
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. Gamukan was overrun with refugees, but Razamuk’s father, Guvalnuk and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as the farmers had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked while Razamuk and some refugees were gathering firewood from the forest. Razamuk returned to see barbarian warriors all over the settlement attacking people and his twin brother, Balek, lying wounded and unconscious in a field near their house.
Razamuk carried Balek to safety. As Razamuk considered how to obtain weapons to attack, he noticed smoke coming from their home and realized that the barbarians had set it on fire. Razamuk saw his family members and some of the refugees come out of the burning house only to be murdered by the barbarian warriors. He lost his father, mother and sister. He saw that the barbarians were destroying the entire settlement of Gamukan and killing everyone. Razamuk carried Balek farther into the woods and when he regained consciousness, the two of them made their way east.
Minimum Karma Bid: 49 points
Characters that are already taken:
Name: Trafanin (character is already taken)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Nationality: Verronese
Possesions: quarter staff, clothes, hat
Disabilities: flu
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including his parents, two younger brothers and three younger sisters, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to a settlement of farms along a river they called Crooked Creek. ("Shasy Kligit" in Zekresh.) There, he befriended a local farmer of Ilanian ancestry named Tever and lived with him, eventually falling in love with his sixteen year old daughter, Tremainia. Tever spoke boldly about the idea that since the Empire had proven itself unable to defend the settlers from barbarian attack or to maintain control of the province, that the local people should be free from imperial rule. Trafanin began to agree with this and so did some of the other farmers along Crooked Creek. Then, a group of twenty two soldiers from the 2nd Kantora Kast Vyloresh arrived, led by a man named Lieutenant (Ekanor) Konigak. Ekanor Konigak began giving orders to the local farmers and insisting that as a military officer in the middle of a war, he had unlimited authority over all civilians and any soldiers of lesser rank. As refugees continued to stream into the area, Ekanor Konigak drafted the men into the army and ordered the local farmers to take care of the women and children as well as provide food and other supplies to the soldiers. There were several confrontations between the soldiers and the farmers, especially between Ekanor Konigak and Tever. At one point, Tever refused to provide any more food to the soldiers. Ekanor Konigak had Tever captured, bound and flogged. Then he drafted Trafanin into his military force even though the only weapon they could give him was a quarterstaff which is basically just a long stick. Inspired by the things Tever had told him, Trafanin ran away and fled eastward, eventually reaching Yostan. He does not know yet that barbarians attacked the Crooked Creek settlement after he left.
Minimum Karma Bid: Not Applicable. This character was already auctioned off for 68 points, which was the minimum bid.
To play, post a message on this thread saying which character you want. You can play any character on a temporary basis unless someone else is already playing that character. You will earn karma points by playing a temporary character. You can then use the karma points to bid on a permanent character. You may be able to make your temporary character permanent or your permanent character could be a new person.
There are other ways to earn karma points. Post a message here to ask what the current opportunities are for getting more karma points.
Here are the characters currently available for the Yostan scenario:
Original Settlers:
Name: Altook
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 47 doveko, clothes, bow and 20 arrows, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 2 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 22 chickens, 5 pigs, 2 sheep and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and founded Yostan settlement which he calls "Altookan", named after himself. Married Teelinat and has five kids with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 17,900 points
Name: Quagganuk
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 22 doveko, clothes, axe, spear, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 10 chickens, 7 pigs, a cow and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and helped found Yostan settlement along with his older brother Altook and his friend Sarman. Married Jandit and has two kids with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 12,800 points
Name: Sarman
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 52 doveko, clothes, axe, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 19 chickens, 4 pigs and a horse.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Went east and helped found Yostan settlement along with his friends, the brothers Altook and Quagganuk. Married Lilit and has one child with her.
Minimum Karma Bid: 14,500 points
Name: Teelinat
Age: 25
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 47 doveko, clothes, bow and 20 arrows, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 2 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 22 chickens, 5 pigs, 2 sheep and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Has known Altook since she was a child. Married him nine years ago. Went east with him to live in the house he lived in in the wilderness with his brother Quagganuk and their friend Sarman. Eventually, Quagganuk and Sarman built houses of their own and married and started families. Teelinat is the first woman to have lived at Yostan and is sort of the matriarch of the settlement despite her young age. This is partly because she is married to Altook, who played the main role in founding the settlement and is the elder brother of Quagganuk. Teelinat has five kids with Altook.
They are:
Eldest son named Gamuk, born 34th day, 4th month, 32nd year, age 7 1/2
Daughter named Janit, born 19th day, 5th month, 35th year, age 4 1/2
Son named Arman, born 40th day, 2nd month, 37th year, age almost 3.
Daughter named Helganit, born 16th day, 9th month, year 38, age 2
Youngest Son named Raskanmuk, 24th day, 4th month, year 40, age 7mos.
Minimum Karma Bid: 9,500 points
Name: Jandit
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: Clothes, blankets, cooking pots, knives and dishes. Her husband owns 22 doveko, clothes, axe, spear, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 10 chickens, 7 pigs, a cow and a donkey.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Wife of Quagganuk, who helped found Yostan settlement along with his older brother Altook and his friend Sarman. Jandit has been married to Quagganuk for four years and has two kids with him. One is a son named Balmuk, born on the 1st day of the 2nd month of the 38th year of the current reign who is now almost three years old. The younger one is a daughter named Jilit, born on the 39th day of the 6th month of the 39th year of the current reign who is now about a year and a half old.
Minimum Karma Bid: 6,400 points
Name: Lilit
Age: 19
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: Clothes, blankets, cooking pots, knives and dishes. Her husband owns 52 doveko, clothes, axe, hunting knife, farm tools, farmhouse, about 1 square talong of farmland, a smokehouse full of dried and smoked meat, seeds for planting next spring, food of various kinds stored up. Livestock: 19 chickens, 4 pigs and a horse.
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Wife of Sarman. Lived on a farm in eastern Kast Vyloresh province. Has known Sarman since she was a child. Married him and went to live with him in Yostan last year. Has one child by Sarman, a baby girl named Elanit born on the 20th day of the 7th month of the 40th year of the reign of Emperor Cledman VI and now about four months old.
Minimum Karma Bid: 7,250 points
Refugees:
Name: Yokh
Age: 41
Gender: Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: 7 doveko, clothes, walking stick,
Disabilities: arthritis
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east. Stayed with a farmer in one of the eastern settlements named Gamukan. Became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Yokh was separated from the others and wandered in the wilderness, heading eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 12 points
Name: Marganit
Age: 35
Gender: Female
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: 3 doveko, clothes, blankets, hat,
Disabilities: flu
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including her husband and four children, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to Gamukan where she was one of the refugees who benefited from the rebellion of the refugees against the farmers, but she was not a participant in the rebellion. Three weeks later, Ralban barbarians attacked Gamukan and massacred most of the people. Marganit fled eastward along with another woman named Gilit until they eventually came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 30 points
Name: Gilit
Age: 29
Gender: Female
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: 0 doveko, clothes,
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including her husband and five children, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to Gamukan where she was one of the refugees who benefited from the rebellion of the refugees against the farmers, but she was not a participant in the rebellion. Three weeks later, Ralban barbarians attacked Gamukan and massacred most of the people. Gilit fled eastward along with another woman named Marganit until they eventually came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 41 points
Name:Terivanit
Age: 11
Gender:Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions:Hat, clothes, doll
Disabilities: n/a
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province near Crooked Creek. Being so far east, they were not attacked in the initial invasion, but recently, barbarians from the South attacked, killed her parents and entire family, and destroyed the farm. She ran away from the barbarians and survived for many days in the wilderness until she came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 23 points
Name: Sharnyva
Age: 51
Gender:Male
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions:Hat, walking stick, clothes,
Disabilities: post traumatic stress disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province that was farther to the east than most and therefore was not attacked in the first wave of the barbarian invasion. A month after the invasion began, barbarians from the South attacked and killed Sharnyva's entire family including his wife, eight children, son in law, two daughters in law, four grandchildren his two brothers and their wives and children, his sister and her husband and their children and his aunt and uncle and seven cousins. The barbarians burned down Sharnyva's farmhouse, stole his seed grain and slaughtered his livestock, effectively destroying the farm that he had worked his whole life to build. They also destroyed the farms of all his relatives and neighbors. Sharnyva and his family were not killed right away. Instead, most of them were captured alive and tortured to death. Sharnyva was also captured and tortured by the barbarians, but managed to escape. By the time he got away, all his family members were dead except for two of his cousins who the barbarians were still torturing and were near death. There were barbarians to the west and south, the river was to the north so Sharnyva fled east and came to Crooked Creek where the soldiers under Ekanor Konigak gave him food and let him stay with a local farmer. Sharnyva volunteered to join Ekanor Konigak's soldiers, but he was still recovering from wounds inflicted by the barbarian torturers so Konigak told him to rest and recover first. In the meantime, the barbarians attacked again and Sharnyva fled. He has been running and hiding ever since until he came to Yostan. His wounds have now healed and he is obsessed with getting revenge at any cost.
Minimum Karma Bid: 21 points
Name: Heravit
Age: 68
Gender: Female
Nationality: Frayeth
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: senile dementia, arthritis, hard of hearing, cataracts, stab wound from spear in back, post traumatic stress disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. They were overrun with refugees, but her son Varnyva and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as Varnyva had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked, killed almost everyone including Heravit's son Varnyva who she lived with and his wife, children and Heravit's entire extended family who all lived in Gamukan, then destroyed the farm. Heravit was stabbed in back with a spear by barbarians and left for dead. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so she managed to flee east and came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 1 point
Name: Lano
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. He is of Zekresh ancestry, but his name comes from an ancient tribe called the Marsh People. The Marsh People lived near what is now the Imperial capital city of Zekran. Their lands were colonized by Frayeth settlers about 2,000 years ago. Over time they intermarried with the Frayeth and became assimilated. The city of Zekran was originally a mixed settlement that included people from various tribes of the ancient Frayeth Empire on the South Peninsula and also people of the indigenous tribes of the North Peninsula. The tribes from the South Peninsula included of course the Frayeth, but also others such as the Cliff People and the Seagull People. These people fled the collapse of the ancient Frayeth Empire and came to the North Peninsula. There they lived among some of the indigenous tribes of the North Peninsula such as the Shell People and the Marsh People. The city of Zekran was founded on the tip of the North Peninsula by this mix of people. Over the centuries, as Zekran became an independent city-state and later an Empire, its people came to consider themselves to be Zekresh, people of Zekran, rather than Frayeth or Marsh People or anything else. Some families adopted Zekresh-style names which are essentially Frayeth names, but others continued to use names handed down from other origins. Lano is from one of those families. His name is now considered a Zekresh name, but it originates with the Marsh People, not the Frayeth. His family, however, includes many Frayeth ancestors, not just Marsh People.
Lano’s ancestors had lived in and around Zekran for centuries, but his paternal grandfather, Varnok, left there and came to settle in the Overseas Provinces. He originally settled in Falanalish province, but then moved south to Kast Vyloresh. Lano’s father, Marno, was born and raised on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. He married a Zekresh woman named Jeelanit who had recently immigrated from Yormukan Province (also near Zekran). Lano was the oldest of five children. He had two brothers and two sisters.
Lano worked on his father’s farm, but was saving up money to start his own farm when Ralban barbarians from the South attacked. Lano’s family was warned by fleeing refugees that the barbarians were coming and immediately fled. Barbarians caught up to them. Lano sprinted ahead and was able to save himself, but the rest of his family and most of the other refugees could not run as fast and were caught. Lano doesn’t know what happened to them, but he assumes they are dead. He fled East and eventually came to the Eastern Settlements. He stayed with a farmer in the eastern settlement that is named Gamukan. He became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. A refugee named Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses. Lano was also one of the refugees who participated in this. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Lano again outran the barbarians, but was separated from the others and wandered in the wilderness, heading eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 29 points
Name: Torimuk
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: bad reputation
Backstory: Born and raised on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Was a problem child. Ran away from home at age 14. He has drifted from place to place since then, hiring himself out as a farm hand and for odd jobs. At other times has been a beggar or has obtained food for himself by hunting, fishing and eating edible wild plants.
He heard about the approach of the barbarian horde from refugees and fled eastward before they arrived. He came to the settlement of Gamukan and stayed there for a while. He became part of a group of refugees who were treated almost like slaves by the local farmers because they were so desperate they would do anything for food and shelter. He ran away from Gamukan in the middle of the night. He came back later after learning that the refugees had taken over the place. A refugee named Yokh and some others led the desperate refugees in a confrontation with the farmers in which they demanded, and got, equal treatment, the right to sleep in the farmhouses instead of the barns and for food, blankets and other supplies to be divided according to need regardless of who had previously owned them. The farmers only agreed to this because the refugees outnumbered them five to one and threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses.
Under the new system, Torimuk worked as little as possible and ate as much as he wanted. Just three weeks after this arrangement was set up, Ralban barbarians attacked and massacred most of the people in the Gamukan settlement. The survivors are the ones who fled. Torimuk was the first to run. He headed eastwards until he came to Yostan.
Minimum Karma Bid: 38 points
Name: Balek
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: post traumatic stress disorder, stab wound to the left arm, concussion, skull fracture.
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. Gamukan was overrun with refugees, but Balek’s father, Guvalnuk and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as the farmers had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked while Balek was outside chopping up firewood that his twin brother, Razamuk, and some refugees were gathering from the forest. Balek fought the barbarians with his axe and killed two barbarian warriors, but then Balek was stabbed in the left arm with a spear and dropped the axe. He ran away, but a Ralban warrior chased him and struck him in the head with a warclub. Somehow, perhaps because the barbarian was having trouble catching up to him, it was not a killing blow, but it did give Balek a concussion, a fractured skull and knocked him unconscious. The barbarian left him for dead.
Razamuk returned from the woods and carried Balek to safety. As Razamuk considered how to obtain weapons to attack, he noticed smoke coming from their home and realized that the barbarians had set it on fire. Razamuk saw his family members and some of the refugees come out of the burning house only to be murdered by the barbarian warriors. He lost his father, mother and sister. He saw that the barbarians were destroying the entire settlement of Gamukan and killing everyone. Razamuk carried Balek farther into the woods and when he regained consciousness, the two of them made their way east.
Minimum Karma Bid: 1 point
Name: Razamuk
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Nationality: Zekresh
Possesions: clothes
Disabilities: none
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province in the eastern settlement of Gamukan. Gamukan was overrun with refugees, but Razamuk’s father, Guvalnuk and other farmers put the refugees to work gathering edible plants and fishing so there would be food for everyone. This worked for a while, but then the refugees ganged up on the farmers, threatened to beat them up and throw them out of their own houses and took over their farms. Instead of carefully rationing food so it would last until next harvest as the farmers had done, the refugees had a feast and then continued to deplete the supplies as if there were no tomorrow. Then, three weeks after the refugees had taken over the farm, barbarians from the South attacked while Razamuk and some refugees were gathering firewood from the forest. Razamuk returned to see barbarian warriors all over the settlement attacking people and his twin brother, Balek, lying wounded and unconscious in a field near their house.
Razamuk carried Balek to safety. As Razamuk considered how to obtain weapons to attack, he noticed smoke coming from their home and realized that the barbarians had set it on fire. Razamuk saw his family members and some of the refugees come out of the burning house only to be murdered by the barbarian warriors. He lost his father, mother and sister. He saw that the barbarians were destroying the entire settlement of Gamukan and killing everyone. Razamuk carried Balek farther into the woods and when he regained consciousness, the two of them made their way east.
Minimum Karma Bid: 49 points
Characters that are already taken:
Name: Trafanin (character is already taken)
Age: 17
Gender: Male
Nationality: Verronese
Possesions: quarter staff, clothes, hat
Disabilities: flu
Backstory: Lived on a farm in Kast Vyloresh province. Barbarians from the South attacked, killed entire family including his parents, two younger brothers and three younger sisters, destroyed the farm. Barbarians were to the west and south, the river was to the north so fled east and came to a settlement of farms along a river they called Crooked Creek. ("Shasy Kligit" in Zekresh.) There, he befriended a local farmer of Ilanian ancestry named Tever and lived with him, eventually falling in love with his sixteen year old daughter, Tremainia. Tever spoke boldly about the idea that since the Empire had proven itself unable to defend the settlers from barbarian attack or to maintain control of the province, that the local people should be free from imperial rule. Trafanin began to agree with this and so did some of the other farmers along Crooked Creek. Then, a group of twenty two soldiers from the 2nd Kantora Kast Vyloresh arrived, led by a man named Lieutenant (Ekanor) Konigak. Ekanor Konigak began giving orders to the local farmers and insisting that as a military officer in the middle of a war, he had unlimited authority over all civilians and any soldiers of lesser rank. As refugees continued to stream into the area, Ekanor Konigak drafted the men into the army and ordered the local farmers to take care of the women and children as well as provide food and other supplies to the soldiers. There were several confrontations between the soldiers and the farmers, especially between Ekanor Konigak and Tever. At one point, Tever refused to provide any more food to the soldiers. Ekanor Konigak had Tever captured, bound and flogged. Then he drafted Trafanin into his military force even though the only weapon they could give him was a quarterstaff which is basically just a long stick. Inspired by the things Tever had told him, Trafanin ran away and fled eastward, eventually reaching Yostan. He does not know yet that barbarians attacked the Crooked Creek settlement after he left.
Minimum Karma Bid: Not Applicable. This character was already auctioned off for 68 points, which was the minimum bid.
