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[Ismaels-Legacy]

New stuff posted. Talyn and Jen, I'm going to keep your posts limited to shorter interactions as a means of keeping you in pace with the rest of the group, while I make their interactions a bit lengthier and in depth. This way we can all start the actual game at the same time. By then we should have our final players: Marcus and Stik.

[Jenara]

Np we sort of steamrollered didn't we?. Well i did

I'll give Marcus his access later.

[Talyn]

Yeah, it doesn't bother me. I know the two of us are kind of powering through, eh?

Things are very interesting so far.

[Jenara]

Marcus has now been added...

[Jenara]

Marcus has now been added...

[Marcus]

I am really excited about starting with you all. I've read the stories up to this point, and there is some fun stuff.

[Breila]

- Background info for the offer Hedra makes to the trader -

In Germany*, in a mass during the twelve days of Christmas, chalk is consecrated and given to youths. They dress up as the three kings (or three magi) and go from door to door, singing a song and collecting money for children's charities (and sweets for themselves). With the consecrated chalk, they write a code of blessing on the door lintel. This year, that woud be 20*C+M+B*11.

If this reminds you of halloween trick-or-treat, you're not wrong. A local custom in Cologne inspired the Archbishop there to use it as fund-rising means in the years after WW2, when many children were undernourished. Nowadays, the funds raised go to a different country every year, and the children and youths involved get information about the country (last year, Senegal, this year, Cambodia).

*I've seen the chalk-written blessing in Austria and Northern Italy, too, but don't know if the custom involves fund-raising there

[Ismaels-Legacy]

[Ismaels-Legacy]

I have to apologize for being delinquent in posting recently. I've been a bit under the weather with a winter cold. I'll post as much as I can, though don't expect it to make much sense! lol

[Marcus]

Hey Tiger, I know that my character's name is awesome, but really, your character is already calling himself Gus after me? I am just playing around and referring to the beginning of yesterday's post.

[Breila]

Are there seasons in Everdark? Or is the growing of foodstuffs possible any time of the year, just hampered by the lack of light? How is the weather right now (expected temperature range, likeliness of rain/snow/fog)?

[Ismaels-Legacy]

There are seasons in Everdark, though the lighting conditions make the growing season very short. The longest season is technically 'winter' simply because it snows for a LONG period of time. Spring and Fall are the second longest seasons with Summer bringing up the rear. Summer is really a season of mud, rain, and fog. Not many people look forward to summer since the dead are arguably more active at that time.

Another little fact that I decided to add into the game while I was writing everyone's preludes: I think I'm going to have Everdark be set at the precursor to an Ice Age for this world. As if things couldn't get any worse, eh?

On the bright side, your characters are currently in the Fall season, and winter means that you'll get to deal with fewer and fewer undead. Of course that also means you're in the season where harvesting crops, cutting and gathering firewood, and other pre-Winter chores must be done and done under armed guard!

[Kafen]

Ah, I had no idea that Dee was known. Whoops...

[Talyn]

My character is going through culture shock, he has led a sheltered life as a Mage apprentice...

[Stik]

I was hoping for a little background info, please, just some things that will impact the personalities of the PCs.

What's the history of the undead situation? How long have things been "bad"? I mean, I know that the phenomenon isn't brand new, but did it hit thirty years ago? Ten? Two?
Are the characters of the generation that watched this happen, or did they grow up after?
How did society handle it in the beginning? Was there a major collapse at the start? A long gradual decline? A steady state?
How do people view the situation? How have funeral rites changed in response?