Distant Lands NPCs

[Doubar]

Here you can find a list of already existing npcs and a collection of faces to choose from* when you need such a character to interact with.

As soon as you have created a npc please let me know so that I can add them to the existing minors.

*Please note that of course you are always free to choose another actor/actress to portray your npc, given the same one is not already playing an existing figure. The compilation is merely meant to help in case you don't want to spend much time searching

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Already existing npcs

Asim

- up for grabs -



Asim is a merchant who once lived in Bagdhad but moved to Basra later on. He's got many friends amongst other merchants and amongst the sailors that ship his goods. Kalani he got to know quite a while ago and has every now and then traded with her, too. Asim and the young woman are good friends.


Majid

- A regular character in the play now, and taken over by Beth. -



Majid is a young merchant who also owns a crew and a ship. Often enough he, himself, sails the seas in order to find new places to trade at and new and exquisite goods to sell. He usually is rather secretive - prefers to observe and learn.
There are only few other merchants he trusts, but Asim is one of them.

Majid descends from a desert tribe and as it is common amongst his poeple, he keeps a barbary falcon.


Connor

- up for grabs -



Connor is one of Majid's few friends and captain of the merchant's ship - the Desert Rose.
Having the freedom to choose on his crew, possible passengers and the route he takes to his destination ports, Connor works rather autonomically.
His character matches that of his friend in regards to him being rather secretive about his past, and cautious when it comes to strangers. The latter doesn't reach the same level as with Majid though so that people will have an easier time getting in touch with the captain than is the case with his merchant friend.
In general Connor can often come across as rather gruff, but if in the right company he can be quite a fun and relaxed person to be around.


Hakit

also known as: Baldy



One could say Hakit is the epitome of a ruffian: He's rude, smug and has no respect for women. If something doesn't please him, he's quick with drawing his sword and starting a fight. His quite impressive statute unfortunately gives him quite some advantage in such quarrels provoked by him.
Hakit will usually be seen together with some friends, most of whom see him as their leader.
Location: Basra

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Avatars to choose from

female



male










Avatars: Courtesy of Teti

[Guest]

That's a great idea

btw, is the man who is Majid, is it Ardeth from the Mummy films? *has a bit of a crush*

[Doubar]

Thanx, Thea.

Hehe, and yup. It's Ardeth.

*has a bit of a crush*

Welcome to the club! ;D

[Firouz]

Loves the guy too!

[Fireland]

What is NPC ?

Sorry still learning !

[Guest]

No worries It means Non Player Character

[Sinbad]

Yep. For example when we need a small character like, whatever, a merchant, some soldiers, someone who will show up in the game just once, then we can use the npc account.

[Fireland]

So before, if ever you wanted to add a character to the storyline, it HAD to be played by someone on the forum ? You couldn't go like ''Firouz asked *this lady* about blabla ...'', since no member actually played the lady ?

[Doubar]

Oh no, you can also do it like you just said. Especially when it's just about a simple question or anything. And we did that quite a lot already to be honest. So that's perfectly fine as well. But sometimes the member in question would want to interact with someone rather than write it all out themselves. That's the case with Asim and Majid for example. Kalani - who is one of our merchant characters - asked whether someone of us could give her another merchant as an npc because she wanted to write together with someone rather than do it alone (it's more fun this way, too ) so I agreed to help her out - hence why those two NPCs were invented.

It basically is a question of personal likings and the length of the planned interaction. If you just want to ask a random person for the way then it'd be kind of superfluous to take the npc for that one, but if you, for example, want to ask for further information and will have a longer conversation with them, then it's better to ask another player to help you out with an npc.
Gosh, I hope I could get the idea across. x)

[Fireland]

Thank you for the explanation

Still reading about the working here and don't understand everything yet, but I must say I haven't had time to read in the RPG section, I will understand better then

[Doubar]

My pleasure.

And sure, take your time. And you can always ask when something isn't clear.
Oh, for reading a bit in the rp-section I recomment you to have a look at our timeline:

distandlands.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=plot&action=display&thread=94&page=1

It might make things easier. Because there you can see in what order the threads are and which belong together.

[Firouz]

Yea, don't sweat it, hun! It takes sometime to learn, but once things get going and you start to interact (will you?) or watch things clear up fast.

[Doubar]

Please feel invited to check on the new outline of this thread's first post. We now have a neat compilation of possible npc avs to choose from whenever we don't feel like spending hours searching for a fitting face.

The avs are courtesy of Teti. Thanx again, dear!!!!!

[Eric/Deamus]

Great works and choices Doubie
i'm so happy you liked them and find them useful
Well done,,, and you are welcome always

[Doubar]

Glad you like them. ^^ And I'm sure they'll come in handy.