Galava

A text-based medieval/fantasy empire-building game. Created in 2008

Works sort of like Cybernations except it's medieval and had a few features Cybernations didn't have.

Stylesrj used to go to the forums of that particular site for roleplaying. It made him contribute less comics to DYOS than usual as he had another time-waster.

The community was small and the admin had trouble at times raising funds to keep his sites going. Until one day, everything changed...

Shutdown

Somewhere in late 2009, Galava was hacked by a hacker called "Sn@ke" and the admin shut down the website for good, as he had planned on shutting it down at a later date, but the hacker had accelerated his plans. This naturally caused much grief to Stylesrj who now had more time to make DYOS comics...

However, he got in touch with some of the people he roleplayed with and eventually found a new forum to migrate to before he could use the extra time. He's been there ever since.

Not any more! - Stylesrj 21:15, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

DYOS references

Galava has been referenced on DYOS as a planet/website that Stylesrj visited a lot to waste time roleplaying.
It was first mentioned when Pul Wat Aa mentioned the Hacker had attacked Galava with a HAAAX! device known as a Sn@ke, causing the place to be shut down.

This eventually lead to the destruction of the planet, as Aa showed his true colours, turning on Stylesrj and allowing the Hacker to deliver a Site Killer Bomb to Galava, rather than to his favourite website, YTMND.

Galava was again referenced when a delusional being, most likely created by the Hacker informed Stylesrj that the website was still alive, thanks to a "Nano-backup something" and needed further protection, while also remaining online forever. Easily fooled by paper-thin disguises, Stylesrj left to defend it.

Galava was not referenced ever again after that... so far.

Galava Narrations

Recently, Stylesrj has decided to bring his favourite Galava characters into DYOS, serving as a secondary narrator group. There still has been no opinion of their activities.

Galava Characters used

Here is some info behind certain characters. Most of them don't need their own page though due to minor roles and the information being more about them in Galava than DYOS

Ave Eyila

A typical Forest Elf who likes nature. Due to living near humans and dwarves though, she has learned to accept deforestation as a part of their nature. She helps out by teaching efficient logging techniques to reduce waste and replanting trees.
She lives in a glade that is full of oversized plants.

In DYOS, Ave serves as the main leader of the team, but is very lenient in her team mates, due to all of them having remarkable leadership abilities on their own. She also is one of the most intelligent (or just wise) of the team, having some semblance of sanity when it comes to a dangerous situation. It has also been revealed that she used to be married several times, but only one of her husband's fates have been revealed.

Juline Sane

A kleptomaniac Ascendant woman. She's very agile and deadly with her knives due to being trained as a surgeon. While she does and has eaten a lot of food, she considers herself to not be a glutton and usually only eats once every few months.
She lives with Gnowel in her temple on a mountain as her High Cleric.

In DYOS, Juline serves as the other leader of the team and enjoys making plans for them to follow. However, her personality is more selfish towards others as she makes plans that distract the rest of the team while she and her friend Qara get the job done properly.

Cara Rift

A 3000 year old woman who looks like she's in her 20's. Cara came from another plane of existence where everyone was highly promiscuous and loved everything and everyone. She tended to carry a lot of money around, but first tried to pay for everything with sexual favours. She made claims to have "done everything" possible and carries the title of "Prostitute" with pride.
Her other interests though include making money, and using her alchemical abilities, usually to make soap to sell around Galava.
Cara lives in a tower somewhere near the Batman Empire, surrounded by a forest made of stone trees.

Cara Rift's species (Phasivi) could phase in and out of reality for a short period of time, the length determined by age. Cara could perform it for 3 minutes before she would be unable to phase until her next sleep cycle. A Phasivus could stay awake for three days before being forced into a deep sleep which took 12 hours. It was also found out later on that Phasivi were a bunch of demons who left the hellish planes to seek a better life that wasn't full of fire and brimstone. Their society sort of turned out like Brave New World, with parents not caring about family and only pleasure.

In DYOS, Cara was modified into a wingless fairy. Let's just say she's trying something she's done before, but liked.
Her promiscuity has been toned down to be more of a prankster. She also has a Bag of Holding in a classy location

Gnowel Lawgiver

See: Gnowel Lawgiver

Chell Hunter

A huntress who's twice the size of the average person. She's more agility-focused than strength, even though some would think that weighing half a ton would put a damper on things. Chell is very quick and very agile as if she weighed as much as a normal person. Sometimes though the terrain below her does not realise this and she is prone to falling through unstable ground
Chell lives with her husband Tarathe Lari (a forest elf who's good with a longbow) in a wooden house (scaled to her size) in the main city of the Xah Thran Empire.

Chell was the first Galava character Stylesrj had created and was based off the Chell from Portal. Later on though, she evolved into a proper character, retconned into a giantess and then having an immunity to low-level magic.

In DYOS, Chell serves as the team's tracker, being able to hunt down a person from very little, and being able to set up traps to catch them. She doesn't speak as much as the others either.

Qara Avethokastar

See: Qara Avethokastar