User:Ahalosniper

"He was the chivalrous ideal embodied. As comfortable in battle's din as he was in quiet reflection. He treated beggars with the same respect he showed lords, yet was first to speak against an unfair judgement. His efforts in pursuit and name of virtue did not burden him with arrogance, but offered all a glimpse of the honor they could aspire to. He was a knight as seen in the eyes of a child. Courageous in the face of strength, a balm upon all weakness, and the truest friend."

"He is a boy, I won't deny it. Yet, I think, that is the reason I serve him. When he speaks of honor and righteousness, he believes in them. Believes in a way which I have not for a very long time. He is a king and a knight as glimpsed through the eyes of a child. I do not know if this is for the better. I do not know that I shall live long enough to tell. But I know because of this he is different than all the grasping old men who have sought kingship since Uther's end. Serving Arthur gives me hope the future of our land will be different than what it is today."

- A knight on serving the boy king.

Story Names

 * Halo: The Shadow Exchange
 * Halo: Fire and Forget
 * Halo: Guns and Recrimination

Idea Sets

 * Edge of the Empire Game
 * Age of Rebellion Game

Fantasy Setting

 * Small town in a setting where the Orc horde has already won and forced a human kingdom to surrender. Realities of the occupation are mixed.
 * Former Lieutenant in the Orc army was rewarded with a lordship. After throwing the human lord's family out of their home, quickly found power doesn't make everything go his way and has tried to settle in good faith. Took a human wife against her will, but tried to treat her well. Their half-orc children are loved. Wife passed in childbirth? An attempt is made against his child's life, and he hires the PCs to find the conspirators. Possible conspirators:
 * Townspeople living under the careless rule of Orc army turned town guards.
 * The old lord and his family who've started a resistance in a dungeon.
 * Orc Sergeant who hates how humans despise them, and possibly hates half-orcs, frames humans for the attempt to make the lord exterminate the humans.
 * Tavern whose staff hate serving orcs vs. a tavern happy to make money serving the new clientele. Communities gravitate around them.
 * One orc in particular is head-over-heels for the barmaid, but is rejected.
 * The most desirable young man in town, a bard in training, is in love with an orc girl.
 * A jealous young woman hires a PC to find out who the new song he's written is for.
 * Nobles' dragon hunt.
 * Shock in how easily every strength it has is accounted for.
 * Only once its helplessness is established let arrogance doom the effort.
 * A nervous guardsmen calls on a mercenary band for help springing a witch from the duke's dungeon. In the course of the conversation, he happens to reveal it's not the witch he fears for, but the idea she'll blow her top and kill the idiot duke, destroying the whole castle in the process.
 * A grove of wild fruit trees in particular rows marks the site of an ancient monastery orchard, with the cellars intact below.

Magic

 * A basic magical lock requires the same eye to be scanned by ten different scanners at the same time, requiring the entrant to be a mage who's mastered the basic illusory cloning spell--but can also be accomplished with time and careful mirror placement.
 * Library maze with golems made of books as guards.
 * Minotaurbrarian?

Why I Like Socially Awkward Spartans
I think I may be somewhere on the low end of the autistic spectrum, and I state that not as a reason in itself, but because growing up I always felt there was something I didn't get about social situations, and thus was uncomfortable with them. So seeing these maladapted supersoldiers, skilled as they are in so many other fields, flounder at simple things like making friends and yet being forgiven and accepted for any mistakes is heartwarming for me.