The I AM thread. (The 4-day rule applies!)

[chrisalec]

I am a rich mercenary, who is looking for someone to share his riches with.
I am a deprived one eyed man, looking for something to do.
I am a head knight, in arguably the most peaceful town in the world.
I am in love with a woman who doesnt understand what love is.
I am lost in a fountain of misery, with only one possible person to pull me out of it.
I am admiral of a fleet, a 1 ship fleet perhaps., but a fleet that shall conquer
I am a strong woman, capible of taking care of herself
I am a woman, who is just looking for some tlc

[trexdino]

I am a young Macgregor
I am a new Imperial Lad Guard
I am a worker
I am trying to help rebuild my spawntown after the Blackrocks left it devestated
I am a traveler
I am a young man trying to get passage on a boat to sail the seas
I am a young guardsman of a town, working on a building
I am an employee working for iron and steel
I am a nobody, nobody knows me and I go from one town to the next
I am a miner for silver
A pretty boring list I think.

[psymann]

I am...

• [Was:
  -Determined to go home as promised some years ago, but afraid about what I might find there. Chopping wood in a friendly environment until I feel it is safe and desirable to return.
  -Returned home, built a home, now trying to furnish it and help the town.
  Now: Still the same - trying to furnish my new home (furniture takes _ages_ to make!)
  
• [Was:
  -Trying to start a small business, but still working for others to afford to set it up. Gradually feeling less frightened and more confident as I get used to people and the local community, but worried about accepting help when I have nothing to offer in return.
  -Business up and running, mainly due to generous donation from a friendly old man who I am indebted to. Offered to pay for people to bring me raw materials and have, thank goodness, found a customer in time for me to be able to pay them. If they turn up. Things are still hard but getting better!
  Now: Business very slowly continuing (would have failed long ago if it was a real business, but fortunately Cantr business have no ongoing costs), and gradually becoming more of a senior figure in the town.
  
• [Was:
  -Having a laugh and being part of the local organisation. Happy to do what's asked, but secretly hoping for something exciting to happen.
  -Got bored of waiting for something to happen, so went exploring. Optimistically expecting things are a bit more exciting on my return.
  Now: They weren't more exciting, until part of the organisation split from the other part. Went with the split, and now waiting to see what will happen next.
  
• [Was:
  -Sitting around doing very little, my brain capacity not up to much other than doing what I'm told, and no-one's ever told me to do anything yet. Could turn out as a great law-enforcer or a dangerous criminal depending on who gets to me first...
  No change. Now sort of second-in-charge in my area because there are so few people and I've been here second longest, despite not having much of a clue what to do. Still waiting for someone to brainwash me into doing something exciting, good or evil.
  Now: Still no change. Just sitting around, clueless that the world has more to offer... until someone comes to offer it...
  
• [Was:
  -Enjoying surprising fortune, the world opening up in front of me. Some work to do yet before my dreams are realised, but recent events have conspired to assist me.
  -Working hard to make the most of what I've got.
  Now: Not far off being able to build a big boat and travel as I've been planning for ages.
  
• [Was:
  -Confused by people who don't act or speak the way they should, so am walking somewhere else.
  -Walked away, making a map of some deserted places. OOC: computer crashed so I lost the map, grr! Now chosen a good place to call home, so wandering around nearby area trying to collect useful resources and make a new map. Haven't met a single person in years, but I like it that way (because people are confusing and OOC because I'm hard to RP correctly esp with the lag!)
  Now: Dead from wolf attacks on Omeo while only a few resources short of being able to make an iron shield. At least I met a friendly young lady before I died.
  
• [Was:
  -I just help people. I have no ambition, so as long as people treat me nicely, I will work for them without expecting payment other than food.
  Now: On my way back, returning with stuff I've kindly collected for people.
  
• [Was:
  -I am trying to trade goods for a profit.
  Now: Have traded enough for my first vehicle which should help a bit.
  
• [Was:
  I am becoming religious.
  Now: Still religious. Just collecting food before setting off overseas as a missionary.
  
• New: Tried to join an organisation but my independent spirit caused problems, so I moved on. Came to a busy town, at which point I suddenly felt sleepy and haven't woken up since, except to murmer ramblings at strangers. Should be starved except someone gave me food when I murmered. (OOC: Life and lag take too much time, so decided to kill this one off)
  
• New: Can't speak the language, but not letting that stop me being part of things.

As a player, I am...

Just ticking over. Down from 11 chars to 9, and making sure at least two or three are in quiet areas or travelling at any one time so I have time to play them all. Avoiding RPing in almost any busy towns as the lag pisses me off whenever I try to do things and I haven't got time to keep up with the busier places, so just collecting what I came for from those, and going somewhere quieter. Probably would drop down to about five chars, except I can't decide which ones to keep, and the ones I would probably get rid of are the ones that are so much quicker to play that there's not much point, so just keeping them all going at the moment.

psymann

[Kev Milsom]

Once exciting business plans have fallen by the wayside somewhat, and I’ve found that I’m most happiest when working for others. Perhaps I’m just not cut out for the role of trader after all. It would have been all so different if he hadn‘t died.

Totally sick of people. Miserable, ungrateful morons who deserve nothing but a crossbow bolt in the neck, especially those sad idiots in the mountains. Just wandering endlessly and looking for work and a new home that never seems to come. Returning home and starting again seems the best option now…if only it wasn’t so far away across the desert.

Life is simply the best, because she is with me and we are just perfect for each other. Even with all the tension and uncertainty around us, I now know that we‘ll always be together.

Life is boring and lonely beyond words but really it is all I know now, which is a painful reality for me as I near forty years in age. Rare chances of conversation are music to my ears although they only happen once every few years. I could leave but there is nowhere to go and no-one to share anything with...not since he went away and left me here.

My confidence is growing immensely and I’m finding that I’m getting better at finding important trade options for my town. We could really make some huge changes and differences in this entire region and I’m right at the centre of it. Best of all, being busy keeps the voices at bay for which I’m grateful.

Life was so wonderful until she died. Now I can never dance again. My heart fell to pieces but I can never show how I feel; not when there is always so much to do. If only I had told her how I felt, maybe then she wouldn’t have gone. At least there is someone new in my heart now, although I don’t know what to do. If I tell her how I feel then she might think me silly and leave me. If I make the same mistake as before then she could slip out of my life also.

Why the hell did I get on this boat? These people are never going to achieve anything, not in a hundred years. All I hear is talk. Maybe I should have stayed where I was. I was unappreciated there but at least I wasn’t just stood around looking at this damn water for days on end while they snore their heads off.

I’m in charge of an outpost. I feel important at last. The bears and lions are trying to rip my head off on a daily basis but at least I have some responsibility, and my natural strength seems to keep me safe from harm.

The people here are just super and have made me feel welcome although I do wish they would talk more. I’ll never find my purpose in life if they don’t talk. I’m sure it’s something really important.

I’ll gather enough food and then head off to answer that job offer. I know I’m destined for good and great things, if only I can meet the right people.

[Leo Luncid]

I am screaming the hell out of this damn desert.

I am sleeping beyond comprehesion, unable to talk straight.

I am oblivious to whatever's beyond my eyelids as my eyes been behind them for years.

I think I'm depressed, being a metaphorical time capsule years into the future, unable to realize what has happened all this time.

I am Dirgorvin... Yeah, as if anyone's going to remember.

_________________
So far away we wait for the day,
For the light source so wasted and gone,
We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days,
Through the fire and the flames we carry on!

[chrisalec]

Update

I am going to be a pirate with a pretty woman, lucky me ^^
I am taking the piss out of a woman, which I love doing
I am the heir of a small town, hoping my responsibilies wont grow
I am drunk out of my head, having fun with my girl
I am sleeping again, after waking up for a bit
I am finally back home, I hope they dont think Im a thief
I found gold and feel awesome, now to just find people.
I am a happy person on earth just to help others

[frenchfisher]

I am...

• no one in particular. Walking to nowhere. You don't know me. ((I'm only keeping this character alive because I love his name, so I'm trying to search somewhere where he might be interesting))

-Trying to endear myself to this new village; hopefully that will be more effective than barging right in and making my allegations without knowing anything.

-Recuperating from being a hostage in a new town. I feel like I'm missing a chance to gain power, but don't really care.

• being a general nuisance, albeit a rather cheerful one.

-Going to somewhere exciting! We're getting copper! I love my sister! YAY!

Going back home! Hunting is fun! I want to stay out longer!

-Make stuff. Daddy busy.

Protect home. Turtle bad.

-Wondering where all these strange people came from.

Waiting desperately for my hero to return, so I can get orders.

-FINALLY getting the answers I NEED.

Spreading the holy word of a religion of about two people.

New:

Falling in love with one of the three men I've ever known.
Trying to find an interesting personality (he's new and boring).
Trying to get some sense of agency, and looking in the wrong places. (very new, description tentative)

[Phalynx]

I am:

an upright citizen, immensely strong, armed and equipped, good at everything I turn my hand at but stuck in the sleepiest corner of the forest possibel and increasingly thinking of crime....

an adventurer, a hunter but essentially a kept man with everything I could wish for including the woman I love. Living life on the edge but I love it, bit I wish a recent death hadn't complicated things somewhat,

a hopeless incompetant failure, given responsibility at far too young an age, starving myself and hurting myself on the road and hoping it will end soon, it's a little island and there are no second chances,

a hard worker on a mission, hoping I can get back to base before the boat is finished and my future shipmates leave, although if I miss them I know people can always use someone like me,

blood thirsty and motivated by base instincts but the woman I love is pure and virtuous so I am behaving for the time being... some time in the future she will have to choose between her job and me. My freedom is the most important thing to me, I learnt that incredibly young.

overconfident perhaps, but I know what the boys like and I know what I am capable of. I may be young but I am going places..

[Voltenion]

I am a dude who wants to see his home town happy and in peace, and doesn't know what he his going to do with his life.

I am a trader, walking arround towns trading and writting a book. Altought at the moment i am in a small town with the woman I love.

I am a lucky thief that still thinks that a certain city is being slaved by a ditactor

I am a man who loves his forest but had a dream and is determined in acomplishing it


I am a dude who love his sabre and dreams about being a famous sailor

I am a guy that is the most annoying person without a weapon, but with a weapon on my hands I become somewhat nice and i'm abble to fall in love...Wich I did

[MikeH]

I am a quiet but upright fellow, easily led, finally starting to find his calling.

I am a joyful and happy man, enjoying his first travels from home, but also missing the people he left behind in the forest.

I am a machiavellian man, perfectly friendly and helpful on the outside, but patiently maneuvering quietly behind the scenes.

I am a laconic miner, laid back, often quiet, but not afraid to speak up when I feel the need.

I am a bouncy carefree girl who enjoys everyone in her town, and is in the throes of her first love.

I am a quirky hyperactive guy who can't stop asking questions and possibly sticking his nose in where it doesn't belong.

I am a strong but distraught woman who's fleeing a town of unfriendly and paranoid people, praying that she'll find kindness and acceptance in the next town.

[hEarty]

I am a woman who thought she had found love but as the years go by, she is starting to wonder what would have happened if she hadn't moved to her new home...

I am a woman on a new island, trying her hardest to stay awake as she trades with the locals. She fears that if she sleeps all the time, her love will continue to move farther and farther away from her even though he sleeps most of the time on their boat.

I am a woman who has finally had the love of her life confirmed in a town on the brink of war that hasn't arrived yet. She wishes it would be over so she could marry her love but shows nothing but patience, something she has in abundance.

I am a disgraced leader, forced to leave the town she loved so much, fleeing with her hard work. She wonders if she will ever be able to return to her home, to finish working on the dream of the man she loved when she was younger but knows that at this point she has no hope.

I am a woman happy to be at home but still lonely and lost. Her only dream is to find someone to spend the rest of her life with and she is getting the feeling it won't happen in her home. Her thoughts of leaving are getting stronger and stronger...

I am a woman running away from her past with her daughter. She wonders if she will ever find a safe place for them and if she will ever love again...

I am a woman who is finally in charge. She still hates every moment of it but her desire to do what is right overcomes her objections every time. She keeps herself surrounded by the two men she loves dearly in life, one as her lover and partner, the other as her dearest friend. Her only desire is to be able to live in peace again and not have to worry about everything any more but until she fixes all the problems, she knows that will never happen.

I am a woman who has lost her dearest love shortly after they were married. She runs the business by herself after everyone else has died but has managed to get herself lost far from home. She wants someone to travel with and to mend her broken heart but it's not her top priority.

I am worried about the man in charge of the forest. He's never slept this long and know that if he should die, she would have to step up with the other senator and take the reins.

I am a woman lost in her sadness after her companion died suddenly. She doesn't know where to turn or how to pick up the broken pieces and wonders if she will ever be able to love again.

I am a woman in love in a quiet little town.

I am a woman unsure what to do with her life. She has left the place that she has called home for so long and is now working in a building with a thief that she chased years ago, sleeping quietly while she decides what to do with herself.

I am a woman who is barely hanging on to her sanity by a thread. She feels trapped and needs to escape but doesn't know how...

I am a woman that sleeps most of the time, waiting for her partner to return to her...

I am a woman that has spent most of her early years working hard for silk clothing and has nothing else to show for it.

[ceselb]

I am

a member of a small community, out to map parts of this empty island. Buring old corpses at every stop, infact we've only met one other living person so far.

home again, returned with a map and much needed resources. Trying to expand and keep everyone busy.

a guy with big plans that worked out even better than expected. Planning a stellar trading career, by leveraging untapped markets. I need something big to haul all this goods in.

stuck inside since a couple of years, making goods people wanted on his last trip while making plans for the next big thing.

continuing as nothing happened. Lost a partner, but got a boat. Fair trade? Only time will tell.

not sure why I ended up back here again. Oh well, I've made the best of it for now, I hope they'll let me stay here doing what I was meant to do.

a tough and dedicated mountain man. Almost starved to finally get that axe made, but after that things only picked up. Eager to once again get to swing my axe.

sidetracked, but atleast swinging something even if a sabre isn't teh same as an axe. Soon I shall return to my original plans.

not known by my real name anymore. I should probably be more paranoid, as I've not exactly been keeping a low profile.

still running but feeling more confident now, half a world away. Salvage may be my future.

an intelligent, hard worker that got promoted. Trying to learn as much as I can. We need a vehicle and radios, so we can get what we need!

amazed at how much work goes into making things. I thought we were well stocked, but stores are once again low. I hope we can finish this soon.

amazed at the progress. These five years habe been incredible. We went from mud huts and bone spears to pickaxes, crossbows and smelters.

still working on improving things, but at a slower pace. Excercise makes you stronger.

a resless traveller. Last place was nice, but dull. Improving roads is very slow work. Maybe I can get a lift someplace interesting in a car.

a suprised and reluctant leader. I wish the cars would stop here sometimes, instead of only wizzing past. Oh well, someone will come along sooner or later and be interested in what we have.

singleminded. Work, work and more work. So many have been lost to the sleeping sickness. Atleast I'm halfway done with my bike.

fed up, I tried to be helpful. But being indoors working is a thankless task. I'm going for a trip, anywhere qould be more interesting than here. Mountain air is fresh.

an impatient, but good hearted guy. So, I have a tandem, but now what? This place feels small.

preparing to leave, I hope I have enough healing food, the trip could be very dangerous.

a sleepy leader. I did better than my boss, so I got the job while he did other things.. But now I'm just as bad as he was.

alone again, nobody stays alive for long. Atleast things are looking up now. I have a goal in sight.

a daring industrialist. Going to make a fortune making and selling this stuff. Haven't actually sold anything yet, but already planning on having employees.

frustrated, keeping employees working is hard, keeping them alive is even harder, making them stay seems impossible.

a disgruntled sailor. They wanted someone to go, so I did. Twice! They better pay me well on my return.

a fugitive, nobody cared when I came back. I left, she came with me. We're trying our luck in this new land.

a silent worker, planning my next move and collecting a nice salary. Will I be able to make as much on my own? I'd better stay and get better equipped.

still working, but planning to go. But where, doing what?

curious, will this community make it? I will stay and help.

very happy with how my job changed. The wind in my hair feels great, it makes the heat bearable.

[Talimn]

I am:

a brave hunter and wise savage. I also am a young man with a kind heart that keeps others with a full belly.

a sleeper that works hard on what he's been told to do for six years, but doesn't see the point.

a helper who's just happy using his hands and being used.

someone that speaks silently, works hard, a shop runner, and has a courageous streak.

a flute player that has worked hard and is hoping a little more will finally get things moving. I hate restrictions and am glad I'm out of that place.

a builder, thinker and philosopher. I will hopefully set up plans for food shelters all across the nearby areas.

a wanderer who's searching for more meaning in life and wishes the first person he met hadn't asked him to betray his morality and harm others.

a dedicated person who wishes he could speak up more and help get things going, but is only able to do very little.

a builder, a maker, and a loyalist to his homeland, even if there are very few people that call that place home.

a mover and a scavenger who has seen too many empty places and is becoming paranoid around people.

a traveler who's constantly wondering, usually out-loud, why everyone thinks he's a thief.

an untried warrior who believe's he's found his place with his family and never wants to leave them or be without them.

[SekoETC]

I am trying to keep the only other person in my location from running away, since everyone else died.

I am finally going home. Wait, I don't have a home. I've never had a home. But at least it's a somewhat familiar place.

I am annoyed that people don't answer my questions. I'm supposed to return to my old position but how can I do that when everyone is ignoring me and I don't know half of these people?

I am listening to the radio, exhausted by the flood of information. Can't they really convey the main points with less words?

I am wondering if it's possible to get my spawn town back on it's feet. If only people would stop dropping like flies.

I am gathering wood for a longboat even though the body of water I found is only a lake, but I hope it will take me to some place interesting.

I am gathering stone to upgrade a road. I finished my sloop but I don't feel like sailing anymore.

I am repairing some tools. I should go out.

I am nearing a shore. This is the first time I've seen water.

I am just standing around.

I am sailing.

[psymann]

I am:

• Been flitting in and out of laggy consciousness for some time and will die in seven hours as a result of starvation despite just having harvested 16000 grams of rice.
  
• Stressed, with business plans to think about and now town issues to deal with too. Business plans are fine, but town issues are difficult to deal with and it's amazing how much has to happen just to get simple things changed.
  
• Flitting in and out of laggy consciousness. Only thing keeping him alive is the fact that he's 33% of the community so would seem cruel to die.
  
• Flitting in and out of laggy consciousness. Only thing keeping her alive is a wish to protect her friends.
  
• Unconsciously working to make iron in laggy silence.
  
• Trying to be helpful again. Last time that involved a ten-year adventure far away. Wonder what the next one will involve. Hopefully a little quicker!
  
• Happily trading goods to try to make a profit.
  
• On a boat, finding new places to spread religion or even set up a new religious dictatorship of some sort. Sadly just drifting at sea slowly running out of food. Or maybe that's a good thing - no lag to deal with.
  
• Drifted into a laggy unconscious state some time ago and since no-one in the community has noticed is now just slowly starving to death.

Last report, I was down from 11 characters to 9. It'll now be 8 later on today, and 7 once the last of those has starved. Of the remaining 7, one is adrift on the ocean, one is being a hermit in a building on his own, and two have barely said or done anything for a month. So really, I'm down to 3 active and 4 inactive characters at the moment. Shame, really.

psymann