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A NEW YEAR, A FORGOTTEN YOU
Once upon a time, in the continent of Ostorn, there was a town called Haven. After a deadly plague had ravaged the lands, a man decided to strike out and pave a new trade route to cities barred by a lack of roads and an abundance of natural blockades...
Welcome to the first past life plotting post of 2025! Sticks and Bones is a setting where player characters are the reincarnations of previous residents of the town that Aldric founded within the woods as a midway stop between cities on his new trade route. The continent of Ostorn and the world of Sticks and Bones is a magical land inspired by the Tales of series, among other games. Below in the comments are some explanations, locations and pre-existing NPCs who can be referenced!
Players with dropped characters are encouraged to include their dropped characters if only for potential backstory purposes for others, but it is not a requirement.
While we don't want to restrict things a lot, we must ask you keep the following in mind!
When you're ready, please use this form and then tag out!
Name: it u
Place of Birth: where u from
Reasons for Joining the Grove: why u here
History: whahappun (also how did u die)
Role: what u doin
Looking for: what are you most interested in having for your past life cr?
Wants and Wishes: anything else!
Welcome to the first past life plotting post of 2025! Sticks and Bones is a setting where player characters are the reincarnations of previous residents of the town that Aldric founded within the woods as a midway stop between cities on his new trade route. The continent of Ostorn and the world of Sticks and Bones is a magical land inspired by the Tales of series, among other games. Below in the comments are some explanations, locations and pre-existing NPCs who can be referenced!
Players with dropped characters are encouraged to include their dropped characters if only for potential backstory purposes for others, but it is not a requirement.
While we don't want to restrict things a lot, we must ask you keep the following in mind!
- Although this is a magical setting where plant-animals and beasts like the Guardians exist, characters must be human in their past life, with few exceptions. Please speak to the mods if you feel something else is better for your character.
- The level of technology was a bit skewed, but largely it was very basic electricity that just... happened to be magic. Light bulbs, the magic of indoor plumbing.
- Speaking of magic, while there are forms of magic such as enchantment and standard RPG mechanics, the Celestial magic that's been included in the game plot is not open to characters in their past lives.
- You are more than welcome to include new locations or expand on current ones, though if it is noted to reach out to a specific player about it, please do that. Ostorn is a large continent, and there is an even bigger world out there.
- The Goddesses are known, but very distantly as ancient history. Religion depends on the region, but Guardians, being demigod animals, are frequent objects of worship.
- Your past life should not be a 1:1 parallel to your current life! Things change, situations change, and the new reincarnations got off very badly actually.
When you're ready, please use this form and then tag out!
Name: it u
Place of Birth: where u from
Reasons for Joining the Grove: why u here
History: whahappun (also how did u die)
Role: what u doin
Looking for: what are you most interested in having for your past life cr?
Wants and Wishes: anything else!
Merlot and co
A.B.A
Place of Birth: Roseroot
Reasons for Joining the Grove: Alice was brought into the Grove as a child by her father, who was looking for somewhere a little less hustle and bustle for his sickly daughter to thrive. It worked, and Alice was able to grow into adulthood until eventually meeting her fate.
History:
Alice was pretty much the opposite of A.B.A personality-wise. Despite it all, she was very happy and friendly, able to do amazing things such as socialize and not scare people off. She also looked much more like A.B.A's earlier appearance, having striking red hair in a shorter cut. People may have a hard time recognizing her in old photos right away, but if you look close enough, they definitely have the same face.
Like mentioned before, Alice was brought into the Grove by her father, who was already interested in going anyway to help its development. He was a man of science and offered to help on the technical front, but also wanted to use this opportunity to study the forest. Her parents separated for reasons unrelated, all that's known is that Alice's mother did not join them.
As Alice grew, she became much more optimistic of her future. She was old enough to get married! She might be able to get a home of her very own! She might make it to old age! Sure, she was weak, some days were spent bedridden inside, but she had no reason to believe her life was going to be cut short. (haha whoops)
Speaking of being inside, though, Alice's father desperately wished she would stay inside more often. It was not uncommon for her to sneak out and explore the Grove. Much like A.B.A, she had a strong sense of curiosity and hated to be contained. Having a bubbly Alice come up to you and see if you needed any help was just a part of life. She wanted to be useful, although some people may have found her bothersome.
The person who would've found her the most bothersome would be the Grove's version of Paracelsus. Did you know Paracelsus has a canon human form, even though it's from a noncanon ending? There you go, there's what he looked like. That's the love of her life. Anyway, a lot of Alice's outside time was used following him around like a lovesick puppy. Since Paracelsus's real name is Flament Nagel, past Paracelsus's name was probably something stupid like Nigel. Much like Paracelsus, Nigel was very tsun about Alice's advances. He acted annoyed, and a lot of times he was, but deep down he liked the attention. He was a scary looking guy, after all. Quiet, shy, people didn't come up to him as much.
Part of what made him so scary was his love for the occult. But unlike someone cool who might join an actual cult, Nigel was just a dork who was interested in demons and monsters, he never stuck his toes into the real deal. Instead, he and Alice would run off to his little hideout in the woods where he would show her his diagrams, skull masks (goat skull in honor of Paracelsus's Moroha mode), and talk about his demonsona. All while Alice stared at him with hearts in her eyes. She thought it was cute when he got excited about the things he liked, since he's normally such a quiet guy. There was no doubt in her mind that she was going to marry this man someday.
But it never happened. As well as she was doing, there was no way someone as weak as Alice was getting out of that fire. It's very likely she was an easy victim and didn't get much father than her bedroom door. If anyone tried to get her out of there, it was probably her not-lover, and they died together tragically. Alice died cursing her weakness, wishing she was stronger.
Role: Man, great question. As much as I love to blab about what she did, I really can't think of anything that would make her important. I'm okay with her just being a background character if it comes to it, but if anyone has any ideas, I'm so open. I'd love to have her at least stumble on something.
Looking for: Anything and everything! So far, the only connection she has is with PV and Lily, which I adore. I'd love to know if she had more friends, annoyed anyone, some other third thing.
Wants and Wishes: If I can work dragons into this somehow, I will. Don't test me.
A.B.A Plotting