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Most know of Cloudheight from tall tales and stories. "The town that travels the skies thanks to genius engineering and a touch of mad luck." To see the town approaching on the skyline is exciting to say the least, but to visit Cloudheight? It's a place like no other on the planet, a playground for the wealthy! Cloudheight has anything your heart or anyone's could desire...
Food and drink from all corners of the world.
Rare Items, exotic goods, merchandise, equipment and wares of all kind.
Entertainment that appeals to everyone! From wholesome fun the family can enjoy or various flavours of debauchery.
But of everything available in Cloudheight what it's most known for is high stakes gambling.
Three famous game halls call the flying town home.
The Golden Fox, A lavish casino with games of chance from across the world including some of their own creation. Here the payout is gold but patrons can wager anything of value. Just know if you lose something here you aren't able to win it back, you would need to purchase it.
The Sky-Arenas, Bet on games, bet on those playing games, bet on fights or bet on yourself in the fight. The Sky-Arenas game hall turns combat into a spectacle, betters and competitors can win or lose it all here including their life. Though there is less violent games available, also the food here is to die for... Some come here specifically for the Skewer lunch.
Lucky Phoenix, Luck isn't a lady who smiles or turns away on a whim, luck is a bird of fire that rises again and again no matter how many times it dies! At least that's what the staff say at the Phoenix.
Some call the Phoenix the last stop for the desperate, what with the buy in and services overall being cheaper then the other two halls. Don't listen to the chancers though as the Phoenix is just as fantastic as the other two halls. Infact its special events are often the talk of the town...
The Arenas and the Phoenix allow patrons to win more than gold, magic items and incredible weapons are usually what people are after. Here in Cloudheight the winners are rich and the losers? Well who cares about them? Let's move on.
"All well and good" you might think, "but how does this flying town get so many magic items?" You might ask. Well transactions of course! Visitors to the town often barter their equipment for new stuff or sell what they can to settle debts...
Though honestly it's mainly acquired by criminals. The many establishments of Cloudheight hire the thieves and no good sorts unlucky enough to call Cloudheight home. The losers go off to steal whatever they can from the surface, once their home is above or close to other cities and towns of course...
Those unable to pay what they owe often get put to work doing chores for these establishments. Chores is Cloudheight slang for dirty work such as thieving, murder, getting rid of the monsters that appear at night... you read right, monsters appear at night.
Not that any would admit it to the tourists, but once the sun goes down spirits seem to appear all around the town. This has been a problem for a fairly long time, as long as any locals of Cloudheight can remember. But the guards and losers deal with them you don't need to worry one bit, should you have the gold Cloudheight is a heaven mortals can reach in the sky.
For those that live here it's a town of corruption and sin where cunning and awareness is just as important as strength and magic.
The stars of this story are considered losers... Unlucky are those who live here solely to pay off debts.
Maybe your a visitor who got trapped here accidentally, forced into chores for food and shelter.
Maybe your a adventurer or noble who lost everything of worth, doing chores in a effort to get some of it back.
Maybe you were born and raised in the innards of Cloudheight and you've worked chores most your life.
Regardless the cast have something in common, they each paid the buy in price for the Phoenix's latest special event. The 1st place prize being exactly what they are after.
The Tears of Shanshilar. For when Shanshilar wept with joy, each teardrop produced by the Goddess resulted in a miracle...
Whatever the reason your character is desperate for a miracle, enough so to risk life and more at the Phoenix.
Win or lose the cast is dragged into a plot which can determine the future of Cloudheight and the lands below.
Should you want to play your character is a unlucky sort who has managed to save up enough gold to buy entry into the special event held by the Lucky Phoenix. All they know is that it's a random game chosen by the crowd and the prizes for placing 3rd 2nd or 1st is great. Though you definitely want those miracle drops...
You enter this special event like nine others have, these ten are tied together by fate. Or they might die, Cloudheight is like that.
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It's a medieval fantasy best suited for five or six players.
While its my own lore it is easy to grasp and we can adapt other ideas to fit said lore pretty easily.
Be a humanoid bird person, be a dark elf or deep gnome, im sure we can make it work.
(Read to the end)
Post requirements would be two paragraphs or more once a week. Or more if players want.
The way magic works would be a "soft magic system"
Think avatar bending or quirks, everyone is born with one mana type which allows them to use magic. For example...
Bob has fire mana he can do fire magic.
Sally has ice mana she can do ice magic.
Naza has warp mana so he isn't allowed to be apart of the main cast as starting with teleportation changes a whole damn lot.
Regardless of mana type one can perform other types of magic via artefacts or enchanted items. These items use mana as fuel, in the process mana is converted and changed to the items magic type.
So Bob's fire mana can fuel a dagger of ice to unleash ice magic. If that makes sense.
If you are interested in playing post below or ask questions in the ooc.
Know that I'm happy to brainstorm characters but I may refuse some. A example off the top of my head would be any sort of giant race. Hard to travel about Cloudheights alleys when one is titan sized.
