Skyrise - An adventure above the clouds

Welcome to Skyrise, a quest about airships, flying cities, and life above a giant cloud of toxic gas! I am Manticore, and I will be your QM. Anyone wishing to make the main character for this quest can fill out the form below to submit their character. Before you make a character or playing the quest, be sure to familiarize yourself with the lore and race/class guide provided below. I will pick a random character from the submissions tomorrow morning (April 29th, EST) and the quest will start.
About Manticore: I am an experienced Dungeons and Dragons game master that has worked with 3.5e, 4e, and 5e as well as many home brewed games. However, this is my first Quest thread and I am new to the 4chan community. If anyone has any advice for me concerning the thread, feel free to post out of character on this thread.

Character Sheet. To submit a character, fill out the following:

Name:

Age:(Anything 18+)

Sex:Male/Female

Race:Human, Ghoul, Rudra, Elementia, Android (Descriptions provided in class/race information)

Alignment: Greygear Empire/Crestpoint Federation (Descriptions provided in lore)

Class: Greygear aligned classes: Magician, Monster Hunter, Scavenger.
Crestpoint aligned classes: Synthetically Augmented Organism (SAO), Technician, Juggernaut. (Class descriptions provided in class/race information)

Appearance: Give a general idea of what your character looks like, you need not be overly specific. A good description would include character height, build, hair/eye color, and clothing (No hooded figures please).

Class information: Both alignments have 3 classes that can be chosen.

Greygear Empire aligned classes:
Monster Hunter- A warrior trained in the ancient arts of combat against non-human foes. The monster hunter is versatile and can use most melee weapons (very large weapons such as great hammers are excluded), pistols, and some weaker level magic. Basically imagine if there was a Witcher in world war 2.

Magician- A disciple trained in the art of magic. Magicians have the potential to learn all forms of magic, ranging from destructive attack spells to defensive healing spells and various illusions and everyday use spells. However, magicians are not trained in close combat and rarely know how to use weapons other than clonking the enemy with a staff or firing a pistol.
Scavenger- A sturdy, hardened rogue with much experience around machinery. Scavengers are very knowledgeable about machines made in the Graygear empire and tend to also be experienced mechanics. Scavengers can use almost any gun including pistols, sub-machine guns, carbines, and shotguns. Really the only guns they can't use are rockets and grenade launchers. In a pinch, scavengers also tend to carry a survival knife for close quarters combat.

Crestpoint Aligned Classes:
(Quick lore related vocab lesson before we start. Pseudomagic- A technique of creating effects similar to magic using advanced technology)
Synthetically Augmented Organism (SAO)- An experimental weapon made in the labs of VerTech or GiroCorp. Only Androids can be the SAO class. SAO are androids made for both front line combat and covert operations. SAO can use all guns including rockets and grenade launchers and have internal systems allowing limited use of defensive pseudomagic. In close combat they can also use their android bodies for hard hitting martial arts.

Juggernaut: A hulking mass of metal and anger. Juggernauts are a fairly simple class. They where heavy power armor and use any melee weapon to smash their enemies in direct combat. However, the armor makes it near impossible to accurately aim guns and they have no access to magic or pseudomagic.

Technician- A pseudomagic specialist. Androids can not be technicains due to self-risk. Technicians can use a variety of pseudomagics similar to a magician, but technicians tend to favor offensive pseudomagics for disrupting and damaging androids, robots, and machines. Technicians can also use most one handed weapons including pistols, some smgs, knives, and short swords.

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen scheduling, I will most likely not be able to post the race information or lore tonight. I will be sure to post that early in the morning tomorrow and the main character will be chosen later in the day. Sorry for the delay!

You need to read more threads here.

>>1410719
Given that you certainly have more knowledge of this setting than we do, have you considered creating several choices of main character yourself for us to vote on?

I figure this lets you as a QM write from a point-of-view that you are more comfortable with, and also conceptualize the character and the narrative simultaneously and as a pair (rather than being forced to fit the world and story around an unfamiliar premade character).

For players, this would also mean that we get to be introduced slowly to the world through the means of the narrative rather than having a massive wall of text dumped on us.

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Name: Aegar Torin
Age: 27
Sex: Male
Race: Human
Alignment: Greygear Empire
Class: Juggernaut
Appearance: A tall, heavy-built man with a scarred body from extensive combat. He has pure white hair, and a slight gray stubble across his face. His eyes are a dark brown, and he typically wears a light tank top and jeans underneath his armor.

There's a starting character, just in case anyone needs one

>>1410713

http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pub/web/Waylight.Waylight.html feel free to use any of this stuff.

>>1411257
That link doesn't work for me, here's a fixed version
http://emlia.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Waylight.Waylight

Thanks for the advice. I'm new to this and will constantly try to improve my performance as a QM. Tomorrow morning I will post a few pre-made characters for you to vote on. I will make one character of each class unless you can reach a general opinion on any classes you don't want to try.

Good idea

>>1411820
Sounds better

This is Manticore posting one last update before I turn in for the night. I will most likely drop the Rudra, Ghoul, and Elementia Races from the game and only keep the Humans and Androids to make the lore more basic and greatly lessen any needed background. You can ignore any prior reference I made to those races.

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Name: Archibald Greyhound

Age: 55

Sex: Male

Race: Human


Alignment: Greygear Empire

Class: Scavanger

Appearance: Archibald stands around 190 cm and has a strong build with wide shoulders. His hair is almost completely white and grey and you can see a hardened look in his brown eyes. He wears a black poncho over his leather jacket and linen shirt. He also wears a pair of working trousers and a utility belt on which he wears two of his revolvers and tools for tinkering. (ignore the mechanical arm or not )

Good morning. I am back and ready to post some pre-made characters (That Archibald Greyhound guy would work too). Just before I do I'll tell you the quick facts you need to know:
Skyrises are giant flying cities that allow people to live above the giant cloud of toxic gas that covered the world.
The Greygear Empire is a monarchy that favors old fashioned values and tries to perfect steam and oil driven Machinery.
The Crestpoint Federation is a Plutocracy (rule by the wealthy) controlled by a group of corporations. They prefer to develop more futuristic technologies and more powerful energy sources.

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(Disclaimer: All pre-made character portraits taken from Baldur's gate)
Name: Chris Talenti

Age: 32

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Alignment: Greygear Empire

Class Scavenger

Appearance: Chris has groomed brown hair and a short goatee. He stands at 5'10'' (177cm) and has a lean build. He wears a brown leather jacket and slacks usually associated with pirates who fly the skies in airships. He starts with a semi-automatic pistol and a pump action shotgun.

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Name: Amialat Dunekor

Age: 43

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Alignment: Greygear Empire

Class: Monster Hunter

Appearance: Geriat is bald and has swirling purple war paint on his face. He stands at 6'2" (188cm) and has a muscular build. He wears heavy nomadic clothing including a large cloth scarf, a metal and leather chest piece, and leather pants all worn to protect him in combat. He carries an two antique short swords and a revolver.

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Name: Feather Montagro

Age:18

Sex: Female

Race: Human

Alignment: Greygear Empire

Class: Magician

Appearance: Feather is a smaller, young girl with brown hair she keeps in a bun. She stands at 5'5"(165cm) and has a skinny build. She carries a metal staff with a green crystal on it for spell casting and has two sets of clothes she can wear: a hoodie with jeans or a set of black witches robes with a pointed hat from her old magic academy.

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Name: SAO-892; Wraith.

Age: Built 9 years ago (resembles a woman in her 30s).

Sex: Female

Race: Android

Alignment: Crestpoint Federation

Class: SAO

Appearance: Wraith was built to resemble a woman with long blonde hair. She stands at exactly 6 feet tall (182cm) and has a muscular build. She wears a light combat suit enforced with Kevlar and carries a semi automatic carbine and two machine pistols. She also has a pseudomagic attachment to her arm that allows her to deploy a kite shield made of plasma-like energy.

I'll go for Wraith

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Name: JGN-467; Tower

Age: Built 16 years ago (resembles a man in his 20s).

Sex: Male

Race: Android

Alignment: Crestpoint Federation

Class: Juggernaut

Appearance: Tower was build to resemble a male with short blonde hair and a beard . He stands at a hulking 6'6" (2m) and has a very muscular body. He wears a set of white power armor with a red GiroCorp (Wealthy Armor Company) insignia on the chest piece. He carries a heavy two handed war hammer than most humans would have difficulty holding. When not wearing his armor he has a white shirt with the GiroCorp logo and a pair of khakis.

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Name: Satio Mulberg

Age:29

Sex: Male

Race: Human

Alignment: Crestpoint Federation

Class: Technician

Appearance: Satio has black hair tied in a ponytail and a beard. He is 5'8" (172cm) and has a lean build. He wears a light set of armor made from scale-mail and carries a catalyst for powerful pseudomagic. He also carries a revolver and a war pick for physical combat.

Well, those are the pre-made characters for you guys to vote on. If none of these sound fitting just say so and I can make a new batch if needed.

>>1412325
Archie for the win

>>1412342
I vote for this

>>1412337
Vote for this

>>1412325

while the premades are cool and all, I want a guy with a mechanical arm. Voting for Archi.

It seems that Archie has 2 votes, and Chris, Feather, and Wraith each have 1 vote. If you guys want I can settle this by picking a random one with Archie having twice the chance of getting chosen

>>1412382
Oh, btw, will Archie have the mechanical hand?

Well, in the character description for him the poster said "ignore the mechanical arm" so I would say probably not unless you guys really want him to.

>>1412382
I'll go with Tower for my vote

>>1412391
Eh, I put 'or not' in spoilers. Didn't know if it was lore appropriate but if you don't mind I would like him to have the mechanical arm.

>>1412396
Yeah he'll have a mechanical then. It's lore appropriate.

Okay, so how about I roll a D6, and the main character will be decided as follows:
1-Feather
2-Chris
3-Tower
4-Wraith
5 or 6- Archie (because he got 2 votes)
Is this good with you guys?

>>1412404
Eh, normally the choice with the most votes gets picked but I guess this will work.

Well, I rolled a d6 and huge coincidence, it was a 6. Looks like the popular vote wins and Archie will be the main character

>>1412410
Can't go wrong with revolvers and a mech arm lol

Okay then, let's get started!
You're not normally one to enter a lottery, but you had a good feeling about this one. The "Lucky Leave Lottery" was a yearly contest with the winner earning their very own airship. While you have left Kali, your home skyrise, many times over the years on other people's ships for scavenging runs, you have never owned your own airship. The afternoon of the contest you are sitting in your home by the radio, intently staring at the numbers at your ticket as the announcer speaks a perfect match: "8207636171." You've won the lottery! You eagerly jump out of your chair and hastily grab all your gear and head to the shipyard where you can cash in your ticket. As you arrive at the shipyard at the edge of the skyrise, you can see over the edge. A couple thousand feet below you can see the toxic cloud of gas that has enveloped the world. You've been down there multiple times and know that without a gas mask, entering that cloud will kill you in minutes. As you approach the shipyard you see a tall, burly man standing in front of the door. He looks at you and says "Welcome to Cap's Shipyard. You got business here?"
>Wave your ticket over your head. "I've won the lottery! Where's my ship?"
>Hand your ticket to the man."I am here to claim what's rightfully mine."
>Don't immediately show your ticket. "Oh I have business here alright! Big business!"
>Flaunt the ticket. "Out of the way, meathead. I won a ship."
>(Other) Enter your own response "and words"

Also if you guys have any general questions about the game or lore or if I don't explain something well enough feel free to ask away

>>1412426
>Hand your ticket to the man."I am here to claim what's rightfully mine."

>>1412426
>>(Other) Enter your own response "and words"
>Hand over your ticket. "I'm here to redeem this ticket."

>>1412426
>I've come to collect what I'm due friend. (hold off on showing ticket right away)

>>1412436
Changing my vote to this.

>>1412426
>>1412435
>>1412436
Also switching. If they aren't the ticket masters, they might try stealing our tickets instead.

>I've come to collect what I'm due, friend. (Hold off on showing ticket right away)
The man looks you up and down. "You saying you won the lottery? You can go in, but I'm going to have to take any weapons you're carrying and put them in that safe right there," He points over his shoulder with his thumb at a drawer in the wall. There's a barred window allowing you to see into the room. The room has a man in a suit next to multiple safes. Above the window is a sign that reads "Weapons Drop Off."
>Hand over all your weapons
>Hand over your revolver but try to conceal your knife
>Refuse to hand over your weapons. "I don't see why you have to confiscate my weapons. I'm not going to do anything."
>(Other)

>>1412461
>Hand over all your weapons
I don't think we will get into major trouble in there, so why not?

>>1412464
Voting for this. We have no reason to assume anybody is gonna fuck us over.

>>1412464
Seconded

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>Hand over all your weapons
You give the man your weapons and he puts them in the weapons drop off. The man in the suit on the other side collects the weapons and locks them in a safe. The bouncer says "You're good to go. Head on in."
You go through the door and find yourself inside a huge building that is sort of hybrid between a dock and a hangar. Multiple Airships of all types sizes line the walls of the shipyard. Some seem rather plane, others have company paints and decorations all over them. You can see a kiosk labeled "Appointments" with a woman standing inside it. You also see four other people walking around the Hanger. The four people include a woman in her mid 30s wearing illusion-school mage robes, a man in his 20s wearing metal armor, a woman in her 20s wearing a trench coat and top hat, and a man in he 50s wearing destruction-school mage robes. The four of them seem to each be separately moving around the shipyard and inspecting the ships.
>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.
>Approach and talk to one of the people (Specify which one).
>Further inspect on of the people from a distance. (Specify which one)
>Get a better look at the ships around the hangar.

>>1412480
>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.

>>1412480
>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.

For now, we are interested in a ship. Not other people.

>>1412480
>>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.
Redeem ticket before it gets stolen, get ship, proceed to other pleasantries.

>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.

We want our ship!

>Head over to the appointments kiosk to turn in your ticket.
You head over to the kiosk and give the woman your ticket. She looks at the ticket and checks a clip board on her desk before nodding and saying "It's genuine. Congratulations." She turn on an intercom and says into it "Mr. Halmond, the lottery winner is here to see you."
After a minute a man comes down a stair case and walks over to you. He bares a striking resemblance to the monopoly man, complete with tux, top hat, monocle, and beer belly. He says "Congratulations good sir! It takes a lucky man to win your very own airship and only price you pay is for the ticket! I'm assuming you want to receive your ship immediately?"
>"Yes, sir. May we go see my new ship?"
>"A lucky man indeed, I almost didn't enter the lottery!"
>"Cut the chatter, I want my ship!"
>"So how exactly does this work? Do I just get a ship on a silver platter?"
>(other)

>>1412503
Give him a small nod and say: "Aye, that would be good."

>Give him a small nod and say: "Aye, that would be good."
You and the man head over to a corner of the hanger. There you see 3 ships all in a line of various sizes. Each one of them has a sign labeled "Reserved for lottery" The man says "Now, we have 3 available ships for your choosing. The Interceptor class ship is small and has little firepower, but it is definitely our fastest model. It comes equipped with a canon on each side and a grappling hook launcher on the front. Second is the Breaker class ship, this ship is medium sized and made for direct combat. It's even all around and is suitable for most situations. It comes standard with 2 canons on both sides and I more powerful Hi-Velocity cannon on the front. Last up is the Dreadnought class ship. This is one of our biggest models but definitely also one of the slowest. It has thick metal armor that is very hard to penetrate and a lot of cargo space for you to store supplies or re purpose into other rooms. It comes equipped with 2 cannons on each side but no frontal weapon. The ship's performance isn't set in stone. You can find some skyrises that have mechanics suited for modifying your ship or adding weapons. You'll also have to pick a name for your ship!"
>Please agree upon which ship class you want to start with and what it will be called.

>>1412533
>Voting for Breaker class, good all around and proably costumizable enough later (we might even be able to do it ourselves as a scavenger) to fit our needs.
>named Betty

>>1412533
The Breaker Class would be good and we should name it "The Vulture's Beak"

I'll vote on the Dreadnought

UPDATE: I'm going to be gone for a few hours (like 3 or 4). Please have a name and ship class decided on when I get back.

Dreadnought, let's called it "The Compensator"

>>1412641
I have the feeling this is a dick joke

I can get onboard with Dreadnaught if we call it something other than "The Compensator". We are badass. Nothing to compensate.

>>1412853
The Behemoth?

>>1412865
Works for me.

>>1412896
Alright. so I will change my vote to the Dreadnaught and we can call it "The Behemoth".

This is agreeable

>>1412533
c'mon OP we want that ship!

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>>1412533
>Voting Dreadnought
>Name: Hermes
I'm aiming to make it big in the world and for that, we'll need a big ship. Also considering other names like Bonaventure, Victory, Warspite, Hood, Centurion, Valiant or Ramillies. Rule Britannia.

I happen to know the QM irl. Let me go revive him

Sorry, I'm back. So you guys want a Dreadnaught called the Behemoth. Mr. Halmond says "A great name choice! I'll have some men paint the name on the hull and you can take her out for a spin!" Some men with paint buckets come over and start to paint the name on the side of the ship.
>Wait for the ship to be painted
>Go talk to one of the people around the hangar

>>1416917
thanks anon

>>go talk to one of the people around the ship (Metal Armor Man)
Might as well, we've got nothing better to do

>>1416928
>wait for the ship to be painted.

As much as I think we'll need some friends sooner or later and this would be a good opportunity, for now all Archi wants is that ship.

>>1416928
>Go talk to some people around the hangar
>>Man in his 50s
An older person is usually more experienced so we can get tips and stuff. Maybe even recruit him. Otherwise, I'd try the 20 year old because she might be new and therefore not recruited by anyone yet.

You guys seem pretty divided on whom to talk to

I'm willing to go with 50 year old dude

If we talk to someone then I vote 50 year old dude. Our age, just fits better.

50 year old dude it is! You go over to the older man. He's looking a pair of tiny ships both labeled "Gemini Model, Not For Sale." He has a notebook out and on approach he pockets the notebook and turn to you. He has grey hair and a massive bald spot. "C-Can I help you?"
>"What was with the notebook? Practicing your drawing?"
>"Hello, may I ask what you are doing?"
>"Greetings, I am Archibald, and you are?"
>(other)

>>1416979
>"What was with the notebook? Practicing your drawing?"

>"Howdy there, old man. Whatchya got thar?"
(Heavy Western Accent)

Western accent or point out the notebook, which is it gunna be?

>>1417016
The notebook one is friendlier and more casual. So I'm sticking to it. Plus
>old man
We're already pretty old ourselves.

>>1417036
i'm with anon

>"What's with the notebook? Practicing your drawing?"
The man's face reddens a bit and he says "Y-yes, I guess you could call it that. Anyway, what are you doing around here? I assume you're the guy who won the lottery. I'm Carlos, and you?" He reaches for a handshake.
>Shake his hand. "Archibald, nice to meet you."
>Don't shake his hand. "I don't exactly trust you. What's in the book?"
>Don't shake his hand "My name isn't very important."
>(Other)

>>1417082
>>Shake his hand. "Archibald, nice to meet you.
>"Drawing airships a hobby of yours?"

>>1417082
Archi, nice to meet you. I'm the winner, yeah. Just picked my ship. What's your business here?

So are we bragging or asking politely? I have a hard time picking when it's a 50/50 split

>>1417156
I go with asking politely.

This one wins because it had the same guy voting for it twice.
>Shake his hand. "Archibald, nice to meet you. Drawing airships a hobby of yours?"
The man licks his lips a little. "Yeah, I dabble in the art of sketching. Magic is more my forte though. I've been practicing since grade school. I came here to look at ships because I'm in the market to purchase one."
>"If you're in the market to purchase a ship, then why are you spending time around the ships labeled 'Not For Sale'?"
>"You know, I just got my own ship and I'm looking for some crew to join along. You willing to tag along with a fellow experienced old man?"
>(End Conversation) "Well that's interesting. Good luck on your purchase."
>(other)

>>1417274
>>"You know, I just got my own ship and I'm looking for some crew to join along. You willing to tag along with a fellow experienced old man?"

>>1420295
+1

>>1420295
Yep, this one sounds good

>>1410713

Carlos bites his lip and seems to think about it quite hard for a minute before responding. "I guess it wouldn't hurt if I traveled with you, as long as you stay out of legal trouble that is. Do you have anyone else traveling with you at the moment?"
>"Nope, just you and me, pal."
>"I may be looking into hiring more people to join along if you're okay with that."
>"Well, there will be other people on the ship, but not by their will."
>"By the time I'm done, the crew will be so big we'll set a record!" Laugh heroically.
>(Other)

>>1421514
>>"By the time I'm done, the crew will be so big we'll set a record!" Laugh heroically.

Carlos seems to get a slightly despaired look. "Ah, I see. I'll stick around with you for now, but if the crowd starts getting too big I'll have to start looking elsewhere." The owner of the hangar comes over and tells you that your ship is ready for departure whenever you are ready. As you board your ship for the first time, you realize that you actually have little experience navigating the ship. Throughout your life you were used to having someone else pilot the ship while you rode along. Carlos walks onto the deck of the ship with you. "So, what's our first stop?"
>Head back onto the skyrise before heading out in order to obtain maps, information, and rumors.
>Approach another one of the people strolling around the hangar.
>Just head out now. Adventure, ho!
>(Other)

>>1423604
>Head back to get some maps/info/rumors. Tell Carlos to do the same. Set a time to meet up again.

>Head back to get some maps/info/rumors. Tell Carlos to do the same. Set a time to meet up again.

>>1423604
>>Head back onto the skyrise before heading out in order to obtain maps, information, and rumors.