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I'm gathering interest as well as accepting candidacies from the experienced 4E DnD Real Adventures Group Forum players and DMs to participate as NPCs and Villians in a game structured introducing and teaching PbP DnD to table players.

This PbP tutorial campaign will be run here at the Real Adventures Forum and I'm asking the resident group members are they interest in participating by making guest appearance, role-playing NPCs and villians found in the adventures' modules. All adventures scheduled for this tutorial campaign can be found in the WotC's DnD Dungeon Magazines' Archives.

What I'm asking for are volunteers from the Real Adventures Group Forum's membership with plenty of PbP DnD experience to play, micro-DM or/and role-play in their own way and style for a short duration in this tutorial game filled with first time PbP DnD players.

The NPCs available for the guest's appearances includes some of the bad guys can be found with the adventures for this tutorial game from Dungeon Magazine adventures.

(And it's a Yes and No, to those who might wish to TPK the newbies meaning you can try by changing tactics but you can't re-position the combat encounter group starting squares and it the scenarios. This geared for the new PbP adventurers who have visited this site and didn't have the time to find a comfortable little corner to engaged us on a in character role-play level nor as story nor join in the frays.)

Your job will be to initiated these newbies into dephts of fun and challenges we all found more easily to indulged into while playing 4E DnD by post.

I will be using this thread to recruited by audition for you celebrity guest(s) of the week and use either a voting system or fairness system to selected the guest player or guest (micro-)DM from among the candidate's sample performance submitted here.

This voting system follows these guidelines: 
1.  Only candidates can vote.
2.  Each candidate isn't allowed to vote for self.
3.  Candidates with the most votes is selected.
4.  Tie-breakers are broken with each tied candidates are issued 4 sides of a die then all sides are rolled together once at the InvisibleCastle.com.
4b. In case of two-way ties its who called even or odd on a 1d8 roll otherwise its the sequence on four consecutive numbers chosen by a first come first served and roll when last sequences issued by default.
5.  Fairness Rule Default: If a candidate submits a reasonable amount of role-playing performance without securing a role-playing position then that candidate can be exempted from this formality of this thread and be declared the next celebrity guest by default via pm.
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Now lets get started with these two roles:

We need a player to role-play Denek, Caretaker of the Orphanage
Denek is a half-elf cleric of Avandra (and a retired adventurer) well into his nineties. Gentle and generous, he has shown nothing but care and love for the generations of children under his protection.

Key Traits:
Gentle, passionate, and obsessive about his quest.

Goal:
To send his most promising pupils to rescue the imprisoned aspect of Avandra, trapped in the Elemental Chaos.

Motivation:
Blind love for his goddess and an irrational longing to reestablish her more temperamental essence in the world.

Fears:
The aspect of his goddess might not be freed before he dies of old age.

Weaknesses:
His advanced age, although it has not affected his mental faculties. Also, his obsession has blinded him to the dangers that the quest puts before his pupils. He downplays the risks of the mission if he is asked for details.

Mannerisms and Physical Characteristics:
A soft-spoken, white-haired, beardless grandfatherly type. He gets passionate and energetic whenever he refers to the quest or his past. He becomes tired and distracted whenever the subject veers away from his obsession.
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For a candidate to obtained this primarily role in this tutorial game, he or she must posted a role-played ending of the following comments as Denek in this following scenario: 

Denek’s was in his office at the lighthouse in which he operates an orphanage office when a middle aged tiefling paid him his orphanage a visit. The tiefling is known to him as one of his young orphans with two brothers a while back yet with the two brothers, the three moved away in the middle of the night and now only this one has returned with enough gold to buy land and raised a family.
As children these three tiefling was nortorious and always under suspicions by the local merchants but always avoid and escape blames of any wrong-doing yet Denek knew them better. 

All three was exceptionally clever and when the day came when all three secretly packed their belongings and left the orphanage, Denek's knew that unlike the other older teeanagers whom left the orphanage in this manner, these three he may not see nor hear from again. 
He was happy the day when one of them returned to the area, nearly secretly with a guarded true hidden from all including Denek self on how this young tiefling became so rich in a period of less than a decade.

Denek who is a gentle soul who has dedicated his whole life to the service of Avandra, goddess of luck and adventurers didn't pry about the wealth even though the now middle-aged Tefling have told him that the gold was a gift from his brothers whom upon giving it him sent him back to their hometown's region to buy land and build a home for all of them to raised their family in.

Denek can professed that the children that live at their mansion has all the features of the brothers but the children comes and goes with no sight of the other two brothers ever seen by him or the other townspeople in the area. 

Denek also always recieved donations and offerings from the mansion but couldn't shake the feeling that the brothers will also bring ill-tidings to the town.

Today Denek fears became true for looking at the one brother and the five now strong and intelligent near-adult teenage tieflings in his office. he saw that their souls was been taxed from somewhere he couldn't see and knew that the obvious in hiding brothers has found themselves in trouble with a dark force they couldn't defeat.

Denek thought he would listen teifling's stories and excuses for amusement first as he secretly cleansed the strong dark energies that was at unrest within them and in front their's, and his propers, but he knew by the type of evil taxing them that this time this will be last escapades of the two brothers moving abroad.

Denek also knew that the young tieflings and the last brother with them will have to find where the two brothers are, in order to defeat what has invaded their estate or delivery what the two brothers has fortfeit to the dark sources.
 
Either way the young tieflings will need more guidance and power than he can offer them to survive what was coming their way.

As Denek looked fondly at the offsprings of the best results and the worst mistakes his orphanage assisted in bringing up into the cruel word, he thought. "Maybe I will live to see the release of the aspect of Avandra." He hid a smile while thinking "They do have what I have taught worth saving from the world in them even though they learned this unwittingly from their father's love. And they are more exceptional than my two failures that escaped my judgment and repaid my charity with guile and an adept tempest.

Yes, I must get them to try for they will be lost to all anyway if I sent them away to their fate like they are now. Yes this rescue mission is their only hope."  

After allowing the teifling family the requested audience, allowing them to sit down in his office and explained their nightmares they all was experiencing and the strangeness that harrassing them during their awaking hours he said to them

“It’s time we talk, my young, impetuous ones. I can sense you are in need of my assistance in order for you to find peace inside of you but all I can see by my hand for your future is darkness unless..."

Finished this by role-playing Denek and be a candidate for the guest player/coach that will role-play the NPC Denek throughout this tutorial game for only new group members without pbp experience only.
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The candiates that submit the most impressive words for Denek to use to manuever the tieflings to attempt a rescue of an aspect of a goddess Avandra with those candidates that would submitted the opening challenge of the scene below will be the only ones who gets to to vote and claimed either the Denek role or the following first micro-dm and villian roleplay positon for this game

In order to be considered for this micro-DMing and role-play as villian during a combat encounter you must submitted an opening challenge as this character:

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I need a DM to role-play Drogto, Captain of the Blood Raiders. A proud goblin whose cunning and survival instincts made him rise to infamy on the seas.

Key Traits:
Quick-witted, charming and persuasive.

Goal:
Leave the Elemental Chaos, at whatever cost.

Motivation:
Drogto has amassed a sizable fortune in the world and wants to live to enjoy it. He intensely dislikes being someone else’s lackey.

Fears:
Death and remaining stuck on the island.

Weaknesses:
He’s too quick to make deals when his life is in danger.

Mannerisms and Physical Characteristics:
An affable, if cruel, pirate. He grins and nods constantly. He wears several scars proudly.

This following scenario is when Groto and the adventurers first meet.
Grotto was arguing in goblin around a campfire with a bunch of other goblins next to a wrecked ship about a mutiny that they was doing. All the goblins at the campfire are desperate in finding anyway to escape the island when the adventurers approach him and Groto and his friends knew by the way the adventurers approach that they held reservations toward him based mainly by his and his motley crew's appearances.
Groto must immediately gained the adventurers' trust until they show him how to get off the island so as his first interaction talking in broken common, the goblin pirate attempt to befriend the adventurers.

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Using no more than three paragraphs and talking in broken common, let's see how you would role-play Groto greeting the adventurers in order to gain their trust.

As like the NPC Denek's vacancy positions all the candidates that submit a draft for Groto's attempt to make fast friends with the adventurers with those candidates that would submitted drafts for the scene for Denek are the only ones who gets to to vote and claimed either the Denek role or Groto's role in this pbp tutorial game.

If you are interested fell free to submit a draft for voting.
You can also simply ask questions about this process but please pm me questions about the tutorial game as an prospective adventurer.

Thank You, VoyRager.

 "Approved by seTiny"