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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!
flamebringer! what a tool
Name: Asher Kariv
arknights is going to one day drop his real name in front of me and i'll have to retcon this (coping for fb lore in tyool 2025)Place of Birth: Overseas™ is what I wrote last time, I'm glad I'm soooo good at plotting this out lmfao.
Reasons for Joining the Grove: Life sucked and he needed to simply get away from it.
History: Asher moved across the sea to the Grove to get the fuuuuuck away from home, which was pretty bad all things considered. He was an adult when he showed up, and arrived with a handful of children between the ages of 9-16, which in order of youngest to oldest were Popukar, Shamare, Lisa, and Podenco. His four daughters :') all adopted of course, and man he arrived fucking exhausted because of the journey overseas. It was here that he met Lena, another castmate I am banking on never getting, and they bonded over a love of gardening. He wound up moving in with her, and they're jointly raising the kids in a QPP situation.
Eventually Asher would decide to lean into the artsy side since things are calm here (haha), which is where his tattooing/piercing business comes into play, when he isn't helping the other flower-lovers raise the flowers and such anyway. He keeps himself busy. Unlike his current life where he's a merc, he's not doing that here, he is literally raising his kids and watering his flowers and drawing on people.
Eventually he adopted Mayoi too, so now he's got four daughters and one son. He will steal Mafuyu too if her mom sucks enough watch out—
This does not mean he wasn't something of a punk-ass bitch though. Due to how he was raised and his shitty hometown, he's got big "street thug" energy despite trying to be generally pretty calm. If anyone wolf-whistled at Lena he'd deck them, and he's prompted several fights with the town guards because he doesn't know when to not stick his foot in his mouth. Aside from his family in his home, he was pretty aloof and didn't make friends easily, but at the same time you'd see this man climbing trees to rescue cats and then falling out of them after the cat was safe, or climbing the side of a building because the ivy must be trimmed right at the top here, etc etc. He usually had some sort of injury going on.
He has a dumb little crush on Ezell and honestly the fact that Ezell would stop to look after him made his reckless climbing-shit-and-getting-injured behaviour worse. Like oh nooo look he got in a fistfight with the town guards do you think he's hot can you clean the cut on his cheek etc. It was gross and embarrassing. Please make fun of him.
These two ALSO never hooked up. Unfortunately the death came first! During the big monster throwdown, Asher took a hit meant for Ezell to save his life, and as he was dying, confessed to him. Yaaaaaaay :)
Role: Local florist/tattoo guy/piercing guy/punk ass bitch/he has four kids so he's a "single father"
Looking for: 18 more children... but also more gardening pals. Friends? People to fistfight with? If you were ever in the town guard you know he had it out for you at some point.
Wants and Wishes: N/A hit me with whatever
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Updates from plotting with folks!
- Asher and Wolfwood were Married (and now they hate each other in their current lives) (whoops)
- Asher regularly tried to flirt with Ezell and drag him into said marriage too
- When The End came, he and Ww tried to escape with their kids and kids from the orphanage, but Asher realised Ezell and his daughter Cecelia were missing and turned back to get them. This is what led to his ultimate demise where he jumped in front of Ezell, and confessed as he died in his arms. And there was probably a "tell Nicholas what happened" in there :')
- rip