Dungeons and Dragons

IC: "Fierce determination, decisive striking bolstered by agility and wisdom..." The words of the master still come to you precisely as memorized. You hail from a secret monastery along the Sword Coast. It is three days of monk-speed-marching towards Baldur's Gate from here.

You have spend one decade of your lifespan in this monastery. You learned asceticism, martial arts and the wisdom of the written word. You know vaguest basics about planes of existence. At least you know that certain portals can transport anybody into another world. That and the secret magic of your monastic order.

While some hate you for your race, or your artful way of evading extra-duties, you are actually a pretty well-trained disciple of the order. Your competences having been tested through the years. Be it field-working, brewing, scripture and copying, religious chant, unarmed combat or crafting and wielding your magical quarterstaff.

You know every routine sound in the monastery. You recognize most smells and even blindfolded you would find your ways within these walls. Many black eyes and blueish to purple blotches were the price, yet after just eight years of practice you had earned the rank of a disciple.

Today was a day like many others. A clear weather had encouraged work outside the monastery for many monks and nuns. The physical labor was not simply hard and strenuous, actually it was a welcome form of workout for shaping your body into a martial artist ideal!

You had joined the afternoon exercises, the evening prayer and the occult teachings later. Finally you had entered the tiny room where you laid yourself to rest. But you arose with a disturbance felt and sensed, a violation of the spiritual equilibrium which you knew as normalcy within the monastery walls.

The smell of bloodshed was in the air, the sounds of skirmishes all around you. Other novices and disciples on their way to leave the building and find out what was going on already.

OOC: IC means In-Character and OOC means Out-of-Character. We are OOC here, as some choices, like gender, or alignment, should be made.

Know this, dear reader: Your alignment will decide, what kind of magic is available to your character. Based on AD&D and D&D up to 3.5 edition it was ruled that monks had one other class within which they could level without penalty. The most famous Monks of the Old Order could level as Monk&Thief, the most notorious Monks of the Dark Moon could level as Monk&Sorcerer.

The three possible Alignments will be: Lawful Good, Lawful Neutral or Lawful Evil. That is because Monks&Nuns must be lawful by rulebooks.

As it is faster for now, lets just decide gender with the next click.