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<blockquote data-quote="JollyDoc" data-source="post: 5620116" data-attributes="member: 9546"><p><strong>Jack Clyde</strong></p><p></p><p>Selena Naevar began her career as a sacred prostitute in the temple of Calistria in the city of Magnimar, in the frontier region of Varisia. There she honed her skills as an informant for the Savored Sting, gaining valuable information and gossip on any and all of her lovers. She was on a quest to rise to power within the temple, and she was well on her way to doing so with the secrets she’d learned and her skills as a healer. </p><p></p><p>Captain Sammael Clyde came to Magnimar due to the few restrictions they had on trade. Clyde began to frequent the Temple of Calistria after his long and lonely voyages, and that was where he first met Selena. She was everything he needed… beautiful, smart, and without attachments. Clyde, however, was not without his own secrets and Selena was determined to find out what they were. Captain Clyde would always pay extra gold and bring her exotic gifts from around the world, which seemed a bit extravagant to her for a merchant vessel captain. As it so happened, Captain Clyde was not just an ordinary merchant seaman… he was a Free Captain that hailed from The Shackles aboard his ship, the Ocean's Lust, a light and fast sloop. Selena used all of her many contacts to keep track of Sammael, which ultimately led her to the truth of his pirate ways. On his last visit to the Temple to see her, she confronted him about his piracy. Sammael promised her that he had a plan to go legitimate, and join the governing body of the Shackles, which he thought would be a safer environment for Selena and himself. He had decided to sail in the Free Captain’s Regatta for a spot on the Pirate Council. After he won, he would be able to take care of her forever. As luck would have it, however, Clyde did not win the race due to a particularly nasty skirmish with a giant squid. He and his crew were able to push the mighty beast back and escape its clutches, but the battle cost the captain an eye. It was after this that he came to be known as One-Eyed Clyde. Clyde never returned to his love Selena after his disgrace of losing the Ocean’s Lust on that fateful night. He also never met his son Jackson either, the child who was conceived on his very last visit with Selena.</p><p> </p><p></p><p>Despite her best efforts, Selena found very little information about One-Eyed Clyde. Mostly she would hear tales of his insatiable lust to find another boat and hunt down the monster that had taken his eye, and cost him his love. Some sailors believed he had gone mad. Others said he was still seeking a spot on the Pirate Council through more nefarious means. Only time would tell.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Determined to raise Jackson herself, Selena put him in one of the best schools Magnimar had to offer. She also gave the boy his father’s last name. Though she wanted him to be proud of his elven heritage, she also wanted him to be aware at all times of his human side. She would tell him bed time stories about his father, and all of the great adventures he was having out at sea. Only she knew which ones were true and which ones she had created for the benefit of her young son. It wasn’t until much later in Jackson’s life that he found out the truth about his father. He had left school early one day, as he often did, and wound up at the docks where he sat and watched the gulls fly around the masts of the great ships that lay at anchor. He overheard a group of merchants talking about the loss of half their cargo to a pirate with one eye. Jackson caught the name One-Eyed Clyde. He ran back home as fast as he could to ask his mother if this could be the same man she had been told him stories about. Selena admitted that it might be, and from that point on Jackson was determined to learn everything about his father. </p><p></p><p>Every day after his classes, he would wind up at the docks, listening to the stories of the sailors of their travels. Jackson would always keep an ear out for any word on his lost father. After Jackson finished school, Selena used her contacts to secure a job for him as a junior Paige for the Council of Ushers. Jackson spent most of his time wandering the city on errands given by the Council, who used him mostly as a gopher for the more dangerous parts of town, sending some message to a guild leader, or delivering packages to a council supporter. </p><p></p><p>When he was done with his errands for the day, Jack, as he’d taken to calling</p><p> himself, would usually end up at the Besotted Kraken, his favorite watering hole. The place looked like any other bar, but when one looked beneath the grime the elegance of its earlier days could still be seen. The tavern sat near the docks, and sailors fresh off the boats would come in frequently, and tell their stories of their adventures at sea, and their battles against mermen, sea dragons, and pirates. Jack would sit at the bar and listen to these stories for hour upon hour, hoping for some word about his father. Captain Clyde’s name would come up every so often, but the stories never really panned out. Usually the last anyone had heard of him was that he had been lost at sea while competing in the Free Captain’s Regatta. On one particular night, there were no stories of adventure, only talk of a poker game aboard the merchant ship Jenivere. The host of the game, a sailor they called Nessalin, looked to be an easy mark, so Jackson decided he would ask to join. ‘Why not,’ he thought? He could use some coins for the next night’s rounds of beer. </p><p></p><p>That night on the Jenivere, Jack sat at a small round table across from five other shifty looking characters. The ante started low, but the game was no-limits. By the end of the first hand, there were several gold coins gleaming on top of the table in small pile. Jack’s eyes glowed with greed and pride at the bluffing techniques he had learned from the members of the Savored Sting. </p><p> Looking down at his cards, he realized that the only way out of the hand was to go all- in and hope that would be enough to scare away the other players. His gamble worked, fortunately for him, for he’d risked all the coin he had. They played well into the night until, finally, it was just Jack, Nessalin and a man called Drake remaining. It seemed as though the cards always fell in Drake’s favor. Jack’s stack of coins began to wither to almost nothing. ‘Now or never’, Jack thought to himself. All- in again. That was when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Drake’s left sleeve held what looked to be the tip of a playing card. Jack leaned over and whispered to Nessalin that they may have a cheater at the table. Nessalin</p><p> politely excused himself from the table for another glass of ale, but when he</p><p> returned, he was accompanied by a hulking half-orc named Gorak. The last thing Jack remembered was the table being tossed in the air and fists flying. It seemed that when Gorak got upset, he would proceed to beat everyone around him to a pulp. </p><p></p><p>Jack woke to the sound of waves and salty sea water misting him in the face. He was still on the boat and it seemed they were n where close to land. Captain Korvak approached Jack and stood glaring over him.</p><p>“Get to work, boy, or get off my ship,” the captain said.</p><p> Jack chose the former, and from that point on, he became a member of the Jenivere’s crew.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JollyDoc, post: 5620116, member: 9546"] [b]Jack Clyde[/b] Selena Naevar began her career as a sacred prostitute in the temple of Calistria in the city of Magnimar, in the frontier region of Varisia. There she honed her skills as an informant for the Savored Sting, gaining valuable information and gossip on any and all of her lovers. She was on a quest to rise to power within the temple, and she was well on her way to doing so with the secrets she’d learned and her skills as a healer. Captain Sammael Clyde came to Magnimar due to the few restrictions they had on trade. Clyde began to frequent the Temple of Calistria after his long and lonely voyages, and that was where he first met Selena. She was everything he needed… beautiful, smart, and without attachments. Clyde, however, was not without his own secrets and Selena was determined to find out what they were. Captain Clyde would always pay extra gold and bring her exotic gifts from around the world, which seemed a bit extravagant to her for a merchant vessel captain. As it so happened, Captain Clyde was not just an ordinary merchant seaman… he was a Free Captain that hailed from The Shackles aboard his ship, the Ocean's Lust, a light and fast sloop. Selena used all of her many contacts to keep track of Sammael, which ultimately led her to the truth of his pirate ways. On his last visit to the Temple to see her, she confronted him about his piracy. Sammael promised her that he had a plan to go legitimate, and join the governing body of the Shackles, which he thought would be a safer environment for Selena and himself. He had decided to sail in the Free Captain’s Regatta for a spot on the Pirate Council. After he won, he would be able to take care of her forever. As luck would have it, however, Clyde did not win the race due to a particularly nasty skirmish with a giant squid. He and his crew were able to push the mighty beast back and escape its clutches, but the battle cost the captain an eye. It was after this that he came to be known as One-Eyed Clyde. Clyde never returned to his love Selena after his disgrace of losing the Ocean’s Lust on that fateful night. He also never met his son Jackson either, the child who was conceived on his very last visit with Selena. Despite her best efforts, Selena found very little information about One-Eyed Clyde. Mostly she would hear tales of his insatiable lust to find another boat and hunt down the monster that had taken his eye, and cost him his love. Some sailors believed he had gone mad. Others said he was still seeking a spot on the Pirate Council through more nefarious means. Only time would tell. Determined to raise Jackson herself, Selena put him in one of the best schools Magnimar had to offer. She also gave the boy his father’s last name. Though she wanted him to be proud of his elven heritage, she also wanted him to be aware at all times of his human side. She would tell him bed time stories about his father, and all of the great adventures he was having out at sea. Only she knew which ones were true and which ones she had created for the benefit of her young son. It wasn’t until much later in Jackson’s life that he found out the truth about his father. He had left school early one day, as he often did, and wound up at the docks where he sat and watched the gulls fly around the masts of the great ships that lay at anchor. He overheard a group of merchants talking about the loss of half their cargo to a pirate with one eye. Jackson caught the name One-Eyed Clyde. He ran back home as fast as he could to ask his mother if this could be the same man she had been told him stories about. Selena admitted that it might be, and from that point on Jackson was determined to learn everything about his father. Every day after his classes, he would wind up at the docks, listening to the stories of the sailors of their travels. Jackson would always keep an ear out for any word on his lost father. After Jackson finished school, Selena used her contacts to secure a job for him as a junior Paige for the Council of Ushers. Jackson spent most of his time wandering the city on errands given by the Council, who used him mostly as a gopher for the more dangerous parts of town, sending some message to a guild leader, or delivering packages to a council supporter. When he was done with his errands for the day, Jack, as he’d taken to calling himself, would usually end up at the Besotted Kraken, his favorite watering hole. The place looked like any other bar, but when one looked beneath the grime the elegance of its earlier days could still be seen. The tavern sat near the docks, and sailors fresh off the boats would come in frequently, and tell their stories of their adventures at sea, and their battles against mermen, sea dragons, and pirates. Jack would sit at the bar and listen to these stories for hour upon hour, hoping for some word about his father. Captain Clyde’s name would come up every so often, but the stories never really panned out. Usually the last anyone had heard of him was that he had been lost at sea while competing in the Free Captain’s Regatta. On one particular night, there were no stories of adventure, only talk of a poker game aboard the merchant ship Jenivere. The host of the game, a sailor they called Nessalin, looked to be an easy mark, so Jackson decided he would ask to join. ‘Why not,’ he thought? He could use some coins for the next night’s rounds of beer. That night on the Jenivere, Jack sat at a small round table across from five other shifty looking characters. The ante started low, but the game was no-limits. By the end of the first hand, there were several gold coins gleaming on top of the table in small pile. Jack’s eyes glowed with greed and pride at the bluffing techniques he had learned from the members of the Savored Sting. Looking down at his cards, he realized that the only way out of the hand was to go all- in and hope that would be enough to scare away the other players. His gamble worked, fortunately for him, for he’d risked all the coin he had. They played well into the night until, finally, it was just Jack, Nessalin and a man called Drake remaining. It seemed as though the cards always fell in Drake’s favor. Jack’s stack of coins began to wither to almost nothing. ‘Now or never’, Jack thought to himself. All- in again. That was when he noticed something out of the corner of his eye. Drake’s left sleeve held what looked to be the tip of a playing card. Jack leaned over and whispered to Nessalin that they may have a cheater at the table. Nessalin politely excused himself from the table for another glass of ale, but when he returned, he was accompanied by a hulking half-orc named Gorak. The last thing Jack remembered was the table being tossed in the air and fists flying. It seemed that when Gorak got upset, he would proceed to beat everyone around him to a pulp. Jack woke to the sound of waves and salty sea water misting him in the face. He was still on the boat and it seemed they were n where close to land. Captain Korvak approached Jack and stood glaring over him. “Get to work, boy, or get off my ship,” the captain said. Jack chose the former, and from that point on, he became a member of the Jenivere’s crew. [/QUOTE]
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