http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/ 2021-06-03T14:25:26+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/ http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2011-09-25T22:28:44+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/attributes?rev=1316989724&do=diff In End of The Line, your character's abilities are defined by three particular things; their skills, their motivations and their traits. Those with preternatural talent can succeed at everything they put their hand to, but even novices may win out when what they most desire is on the line. You will have three motivations, one key skill, and two other skills that you have focused in. Unless your traits say otherwise, you can expect to be competent at any of these skills at base, but you will have… text/html 2012-09-26T11:02:03+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/characters?rev=1348657323&do=diff Note: Most PCs who made it to the end of the game have had their bio moved to the eternity page. text/html 2011-10-06T19:19:37+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/chargen?rev=1317928777&do=diff Useful Reading * The Worlds of EOTL details the wider universe that End of the Line is set in, giving you an idea of where you character may have come from. * The City Today tells you about the City, the dark metropolis where End of the Line takes place. * Power Sources and Attributes describe the different ways in which your characters may be supernaturally capable. text/html 2012-02-28T00:29:56+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/city_map?rev=1330388996&do=diff Key * Light Brown: The Pantheon of Discord * Red: The Glorious Equation * Pink: The Union * Green: The Renaissant * Blue: The Contrite * Black: The Darkness in the City * Purple: The Fettered District * Yellow: The Circle * White: Unclaimed/Destroyed * Yellow Circle: The Hall of the Gods text/html 2012-03-06T11:35:57+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/contents?rev=1331033757&do=diff Start Introduction News Characters Eternity ---------- The City Today City Map A Short History of the Universe ---------- Character Creation Sample Characters Power Sources Divinity Magic Technology Talent ---------- Attributes Motivations text/html 2011-09-29T17:09:01+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/defense?rev=1317316141&do=diff All player characters are assumed to have some level of skill in defending themselves (unless a quirk renders them otherwise), roughly equivalent to a standard skill pick. This does not necessarily represent fighting ability, and indeed probably doesn’t (unless the character has the Aggression skill), instead representing, for example, shielding spells, quick reactions for dodging, or the ability to escape by flying directly upwards at high speeds, flummoxing an earthbound aggressor. You should … text/html 2011-09-30T22:49:19+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/divinity?rev=1317422959&do=diff Would you believe that I am a god? You wouldn't think it to look at me would you? A humble blacksmith but then again, everyone needs a job and a good blacksmith is hard to find. I used to forge lightning and my hammer sounded like thunder against the anvil. Its not really important how I ended up here. You'd do well to remember that not everyone wants to recall their arrival to this place. Either way I like to keep my nose clean and my head down. It's remarkably easy to do - just make sure you'r… text/html 2011-09-25T22:38:07+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/elluvia?rev=1316990287&do=diff It has been a long time since an accurate count of the number of gods, godlings, demigods, anthropomorphic personifications and other assorted divine (or semi-divine) beings which call the city their home could be made. At a best guess, thousands now roam the place, each attempting to carve out a niche of worship lest they shrivel and fade away. For many, this means abandoning whatever purview the belonged to in their own world, and attempting to find one more in line with the zeitgeist. Elluvia… text/html 2011-09-27T13:19:03+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/escapologists?rev=1317129543&do=diff An extract from the journal of Caleb Forster's, the previous head of the guild who unfortunately lost his life in an attempt to catapult himself through the barrier. ”the power generated by dropping a bomb on the artefact lifted from the museum has had no effect on the barrier surrounding this world..... The barrier seems impenetrable by brute force, yet there also appears to be no weak spots or gaps, perhaps an illusion that makes us appear as the barrier might let us sneak through.....god … text/html 2012-03-06T17:45:30+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/eternity?rev=1331055930&do=diff Eternity News Character Eternities text/html 2011-09-25T23:37:33+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/fettered_district?rev=1316993853&do=diff There is a region of the city where every building is tethered to the ground by large chains of every kind - iron, steel, gold, silver, and spiderwebs. The chains are anchored firmly into the ground around the buildings, but the binding is imperfect; occasionally, one structure will slip its tethers and sail off into the city. This region of the City hasn't always been like this; the chains apparently started growing there 20 or so years ago. This region of the City is distinct in being one of t… text/html 2011-09-25T22:37:03+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/former_adventurers?rev=1316990223&do=diff The city is host to many people with various different motives for being there, ranging all the way from those who seek power and respect, to those who were simply unfortunate enough to blunder their way from their world into this one. And then there are the adventurers. Explorers looking to map the unknown. Heroes in pursuit of their foes. Glory seekers struggling to find their next great deed. They come with straightforward motives. Some would even call them heroes. However the title “hero” … text/html 2011-09-26T10:47:59+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/lake_of_acid?rev=1317034079&do=diff The Lake To the west, where the river empties, there is a great lake, so vast that the distant shore is barely visable but something appears to be there. unfortunatly something turns this lake from freshwater to acid, perhaps by the people on the outside of the city pouring there waste into it does this or maybe the bedrock of the lake is mineralised HCl. Whatever happens walking into the lake causes agony of an unprecedented scale as your skin is dissolved off your flesh, shortly followed by … text/html 2011-09-27T11:44:57+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/luxury_points?rev=1317123897&do=diff “The invitations told me the soiree was to start at 9 in the evening, and that I should bring a guest. What they did not tell me was the extravagance Lady Ghiselain had gone to in preparing for this event. The central plaza of the city had been covered over with ice, and sleds and skates provided. Servants glided around carrying platters of fine canapes and exotic liqueurs, while great beasts inexpertly capered on the ice. A string quartet, suspended from the Canopy above on harnesses of spider … text/html 2011-10-07T15:36:08+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/magic?rev=1318001768&do=diff “Once upon a time I was new to the City, as you are now, with nothing but the wizard's robes I stood up in and a broken wand, but now look around me, at the Great Hall we stand in, and the numberless books on its walls, at the staff I wield and the crisp point of my hat. Look at my amulets and talismans and tell me I am not a Great Magician now. Tell me I am not powerful and near invincible.” text/html 2011-10-17T15:45:53+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/mail?rev=1318866353&do=diff As part of the game, you can send in-character emails to the other players via the addresses on their individual biographies. These emails will be sent through our wiki software and formatted so that they appear sent by your character to their character, and the GMs will receive a copy of the message. If you belong to one of the game's factions, you will also be able to communicate with the others in that faction by sending a message to the appropriate address from those below: text/html 2011-09-30T23:01:23+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/motivations?rev=1317423683&do=diff I have often been accused of senseless, occasionally even pointless violence. I find this grievously offensive. Once you understand that violence is both an art and its own reward, you can achieve heights of slaughter inconceivable to a mere murderer. - Brant the Destroyer text/html 2011-10-17T21:40:32+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/mountains?rev=1318887632&do=diff Looking to the south of the City a vast mountain range can be seen stretching for hundreds of leagues in each direction. It is hard to get a sense of scale however and most assume that even the lowest member of the range must be several kilometers high. When the rain eases from a torrent to a trickle it is even possible to make out white snow on the peaks. The strange thing however is that no one has ever visited them - or at least no one has returned claiming to have reached them. Many have … text/html 2011-10-22T14:04:36+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/new_to_roleplaying?rev=1319292276&do=diff Welcome to The End of the Line! End of the Line is the Society game running from Michalemas 2011 to Hillary 2012 on Tuesday evenings from 7.30 to 10.30 at St. Catherine’s college (TBC). But what exactly is a society game? If you’re new to role playing, (and even if you aren’t) it’s not something that you’ll have necessarily have come across before. The basic premise of the game is that you are a mover and shaker in the world of The End of the Line – A dimension that you can enter but neve… text/html 2011-10-16T15:44:45+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/news?rev=1318779885&do=diff * Turn 1 * Turn 2 * Turn 3 * Turn 4 * Turn 5 * Turn 6 * Turn 7 * Turn 8 * Turn 9 * Turn 10 * Turn 11 * Turn 12 * Turn 13 * Turn 14 text/html 2011-11-01T00:52:36+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/pantheon_of_discord?rev=1320108756&do=diff Without the Gods you are nothing. You cannot draw forth your food from nothing. We can. You cannot find the metals you need for your devices. We can create them. You cannot fashion your buildings unless you use the stone we give you. Your wood, your glass, your spices, your silks, your luxuries, your gold... All of it is created by us and without us all would be as dust. - Tarveth, God of the Glowing Embers text/html 2011-10-17T01:49:10+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/people?rev=1318816150&do=diff It has been a long time since an accurate count of the number of gods, godlings, demigods, anthropomorphic personifications and other assorted divine (or semi-divine) beings which call the city their home could be made. At a best guess, thousands now roam the place, each attempting to carve out a niche of worship lest they shrivel and fade away. For many, this means abandoning whatever purview the belonged to in their own world, and attempting to find one more in line with the zeitgeist. Elluvia… text/html 2011-10-07T15:36:47+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/power_sources?rev=1318001807&do=diff In End of the Line, you may play a great variety of heroes, villains, renegades and champions. No matter their reasons for travelling to the End, however, each one of them is far above the average mortal person. How they have achieved this varies; one may have practiced for years in a remote temple to develop prodigious talent, while another simply jumps into the steam-driven tank she built last night. A third wields arcane power to twist the air and lend her words supernatural force, while a fo… text/html 2011-09-25T22:32:11+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/redcaps?rev=1316989931&do=diff “Of late I find myself suffering an alien compulsion that grabs hold of my will and drags me down towards their grottoes and lairs. Their habitations are certainly not a place one of my station should ever be seen to visit; they are squat-houses and the underside of canals and bridges, filled with detritus human and otherwise. And yet these devils are the only people in this damned City who produce the tincture I require. Without it I suffer chills and most profound listlessness, yet with just o… text/html 2011-10-10T13:29:33+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/sample_pcs?rev=1318253373&do=diff Delores LeFarge - Goddess of Silk Power Source: Divinity Motivations: * For Others * With Love * Impulsively Skills: * Rhetoric (Primary Skill) * Observation * Coordination Traits * + Competent Minions - She has many followers (so many people are slaves to fashion) but she has a small entourage of competent assistants who are incredibly good at networking and observing people. They're at all the parties, talking to all the right people and saying all the right thing… text/html 2011-09-27T20:21:15+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/sessions?rev=1317154875&do=diff What do sessions represent? Sessions of End of the Line represent a regular meeting between some of the more influential individuals within the city. The first has been called together by Niobe Riette, Guildmistress of the Renaissant, and is being held at her mansion in the canopy. Later sessions may take place at different locations. Your character will have received the invitation visible on the front page of the wiki. This will have been accompanied by a much less grand card covering some o… text/html 2011-10-19T21:20:31+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/skills?rev=1319059231&do=diff All player characters in End of the Line are exceptionally talented individuals, and can be assumed to be reasonably competent at whatever they turn their hands to. Your characters is intelligent, capable and powerful, and would probably equal or best the average human at any field of endeavour save the most specialised (unless hampered by a negative quirk). text/html 2012-01-15T20:24:59+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/start?rev=1326659099&do=diff My warmest greetings. Many of you will know me. Most who do not will know of me. My name is Niobe Riette, and I love this city. In the years I have lived here, I have experienced life in such a fashion as I would never have believed possible within the humble world from whence I came. Many whom I have come to know in my time here think this place a prison - even some within mine own guild choose to see the bars of a gilded cage. I choose to think differently. This is no prison, no cell. Th… text/html 2011-10-05T18:31:57+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/talent?rev=1317839517&do=diff “Look at me? Do you like what you see? I am perfection, I am a ghost in the night, I am a being of my own creation. Gods need their worshippers, cog-heads need their devices and mages? Pcha, they are nothing without their books. But me? Everything you see is what I am, and you can never take that away from me.” - Serenta Tacete, Master Thief. text/html 2011-10-14T18:23:03+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/technology?rev=1318616583&do=diff Let me tell you of true power. True power is not gained by right of birth, as the so-called Divine would have you believe. The Mages may tell you that it is found by poring over dusty old tomes, seeking for long forgotten nonsense and half-truths. Nor is it gained simply by repetition, the dull practice of those who claim to be Talented. No, true power is of the mind, of ingenuity and innovation, of strength of will and purest vision. It is I who has the spark of genius, I who create my own powe… text/html 2011-10-02T18:23:04+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_canopy?rev=1317579784&do=diff In the centre of the City the buildings become taller and larger. In a place where land is forever sought after, it only made sense to look upwards. And thus the Canopy came into being, a level far above the City centre where the buildings are connected by bridges and aquaducts. Being seen as one the more grand districts, the Canopy is renowned for its luxurious and regal archetecture, and for being a place fit for persons deeming themselves both metaphorically and literally above the petty squa… text/html 2011-09-30T20:57:42+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_city_today?rev=1317416262&do=diff The City Today The city today is a far cry from the temporary shelters amidst the ruins that the first arrivals built. It is a sprawling metropolis to rival any found in the multiverse. It has grown chaotically out from the centre of the ruins, near completely covering them, leaving only the great river that spirals out from the centre, and the great canals that cross this at various points, as evidence that there was anything here before. Built as it has been by representatives of thousands o… text/html 2011-09-30T23:03:53+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_contrite?rev=1317423833&do=diff In a world where gods rub shoulders with people, it is inevitable that religious sects will rise and fall, as one deity manages to gather sufficient worshippers to gain serious spiritual momentum or as one charismatic leader decides to form a cult around himself or a figure head of his choosing. Although some revel in their new homes in The City, many see our presence here as a punishment for wrongs done either by ourselves, our leaders or our ancestors. People looking for meaning in why they ha… text/html 2011-09-25T22:42:05+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_darkness_in_the_city?rev=1316990525&do=diff Just past the fourth circle of the canal near the north viaduct there is a place of utter darkness. No light can shine there and any torch brought in illuminates nothing more than the flame. It is said that those who step into the darkness rarely return and those that do are changed. Some say that there was once a time without the darkness but nobody claims to remember a time without it. text/html 2012-03-06T13:01:22+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_fate_of_the_planet?rev=1331038882&do=diff Above the planet something intangible springs into being, a barrier that prevents all entry. Several explorers over the years pit their wits against it but none succeed, most finding themselves at the point they started after several hours or even days of attempting to break through. They report back that it appears to be some kind of shifting invisible spatial maze that shunts you out at all opportunities. Still some rare individuals manage to break through and visit the world below, including … text/html 2011-09-25T22:53:35+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_floating_market?rev=1316991215&do=diff The river runs a spiral from the centre of the city out to its edges and beyond. It flows through all the quarters and the districts - often more than once. Upon it sits the floating market - a collection of Junks and barges owned by a variety of traders. Everything is bought and sold at the floating market, it’s just a matter of knowing who to ask and where to look. At the centre of the market sits a large barge called the Jade Tiger - the heart of the market. From its decks rises a pagoda f… text/html 2011-09-25T22:39:07+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_forest?rev=1316990347&do=diff On the outskirts of the city there is a forest. Those who have dared to venture in bring back tales of twisted trees that grab you and canopies that block all light, ivy tendrils that try to entangle unwary explorers and strange monsters that attack without warning. Some explorers have brought bake tales of beasts 10ft tall with tusks as long as quarterstaffs and flesh eating insects that can consume a man’s leg in 30 seconds. However there are a couple of explorers that would swear blind that i… text/html 2011-10-17T22:25:57+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_glorious_equation?rev=1318890357&do=diff Why do I do it? Because I can. Because we can. Because our minds and the pursuit of pure science are not restricted by the dimensional walls that hold us here - learning is an infinite frontier upon which ever greater riches can be found. Forget your petty squabbling over a few months at the top of the yapping pack that is this insipid place's politics. True greatness can only come through study, ingenuity and academic perseverance. Now, you'll note that this time the rod you're holding is m… text/html 2011-09-30T21:09:25+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_inheritors?rev=1317416965&do=diff The Inheritors are not a guild as such. Guilds are upstart new fangled things with which they perhaps condescend to engage when it is convenient to them. They represent true class and stability, the kind that cannot be gained through merely working one's way up. Some people are just born to lead. text/html 2011-09-30T21:17:35+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_renaissant?rev=1317417455&do=diff The play is the thing. We sit here in bounteous isolation, freed from the rigeurs of that pestilentially complex life in our former home. Here we have all we need. We have the greatest players, honed by a focus that would be unachievable without this glorious city. We have an audience with tastes more varied and refined than once we would have believed possible. And last, but not least, we have streets in which the people may proclaim our glory. Here, we can make Art. -- Ari Folah, Scriptwriter … text/html 2011-09-25T22:54:28+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_spider?rev=1316991268&do=diff The spider is a strange creature and those seeking his/her (it's hard to tell) aid are usually at their wits ends and the spider is their last resort. The spider is usually human in appearance. As far as anyone can tell the spider seems to always occupy three dimensions at any given time... however these three dimensions are not always the same three that you're occupying. This leads to some very strange interactions with a creature that only exists in one or two dimensions that you can see - ev… text/html 2011-09-25T22:42:41+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_underground?rev=1316990561&do=diff Beneath the City are many tunnels and caverns and buried buildings and streets that have accumulated over the centuries that the City has been in existence. As new layers are added to the City, the old ones are buried and added to what is collectively termed the underground. The upper levels contain buried streets that have been built over – lost cellars and ground floors with low ceilinged streets paved over to make room for new buildings as the people who live in the City change. Some of th… text/html 2011-10-08T09:56:40+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/the_worlds_of_eotl?rev=1318067800&do=diff Across The Universe The Universe is a big place. Worlds, planes, realities - whatever you want to call them, there are uncountably vast quantities of them, almost as infinite in their variety as they are in number. Within a tiny fraction of these, quirks of fate, impossible coincidences and one-in-a-million chances have given rise to intelligent beings. Fractions once more of these beings rose to dominate their own worlds, and to begin to shape existence around them. Finally, on a proportion o… text/html 2011-10-13T23:21:00+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/traits?rev=1318548060&do=diff At the End of the Line, there's no-one who's truly normal. All are unique and deviate from the norm in some way; perhaps they are preternaturally blessed, or defined by their sicknesses and weaknesses. All characters get one free Advantage, and may get up to an additional three through choosing up to three Flaws. text/html 2011-10-14T00:01:52+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/turnsheeting?rev=1318550512&do=diff Each week you may submit three actions saying what you want your character to do in the two weeks that pass between sessions. There are three different types of action you can take - one of each of the following: * Main action: This is a free action with which you can do whatever you want with whoever you want. This action lets you go out and do something yourself, get stuck into a problem or deal with a problem with the personal touch and allows you to enlist the help of other PC's. This … text/html 2011-10-02T12:40:20+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/union?rev=1317559220&do=diff There is a spire in the heart of the City where even the most powerful tread lightly. Its inhabitants are not people of great note; they did not come to this City of their own accord, instead dragged by loyalty or terror along with their overlords and masters. But do not make the mistake of ignoring them. They were formed in violence and liberation. They have rejected the tyranny of masters and found themselves new family. Their skills are their own to use, and their services are available to th… text/html 2011-09-25T22:38:30+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/vendetta?rev=1316990310&do=diff Vendetta is one of the city’s best sword makers, nothing magical but if you want a good sturdy weapon that is unlikely to break she’s the one to go to, there are rumours that she does other things too, but no-one has the courage to confirm this. After all, everyone has heard about the unfortunate people who have got on vendetta’s bad side, there was the man who managed to spill red wine over her favourite shirt who ended up drowned in the same vintage then strung up in the centre for all to see.… text/html 2011-09-27T19:59:54+00:00 http://endoftheline.chaosdeathfish.com/waterways?rev=1317153594&do=diff The waterways of the city are used by many people for many purposes. Some travel along the rivers as it is quicker, or apparently safer, than the roads. Some use it to trade while others live on it such as those who comprise the floating market. They are however a vital part of the city and were the waterways to become unusable there would be a lot more than just thirsty people to worry about.