Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Added some Game Background to the OP. More details will be added as necessary and as inspiration strikes.
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[OOC] What Adventure Awaits?
- Thread starter Mark Chance
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Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Role: 'apprintintice to the juggling/tumbling act', with a side occupation as the go to man for neferious activities.
What do you all think? Mark, will this be alrighht for you? Can you make all this work out? Could get wide spread here and I think that we would not want to wear you out just makeing this thing work!
What do you all think? Mark, will this be alrighht for you? Can you make all this work out? Could get wide spread here and I think that we would not want to wear you out just makeing this thing work!
Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Aldern Foxglove
First Post
The Marvelous Zantalus
Appearance: A narrow anemic elf with silvery hair and a sharp face. Zantalus nearly always looks grave and serious - which often makes him an excellent straight man, especially since he can cast reduce person on his "tormentor". His eyes are gray and solemn, his nose long and slightly crooked from an age old break.
Personality: While Zantalus seems to be serious and humorless he actually has a dry sense of humor and loves slapstick. The Wizard is of course studious and enjoys nothing more than pouring over his spellbooks and devising new ways his magics can aide the troupes performances. Zantalus is also famed for his love of busty human women - possibly because they are so different to elven woman - and has sired more than one half elf over his years with the troupe.
Zantalus's stage outfit is a grand affair with a sinister black cape and a purple robe embroidered with various "eldritch" symbols in silver thread. When not performing he wears a simple sturdy outfit with dozens of pockets and a heavy gray cloak.
Circus Role: The elven Wizard plays the role of hypnotist, using various enchantments to befuddle volunteers from the audience to the amusement of their peers. He also aides other acts with carefully selected spells from his vast repetoire, enlarge person - for the worlds biggest halfling, ant haul to enable the strong man to be able to life three times the amount he normally could, etc.
Background: Zantalus joined the troup some thirty years ago and has been at its center ever since. When asked the elf spins any of a dozen tales of his origin, though they invariably involve a faithless woman.
In reality Zantalus was a minor nobleman whose fiance betrayed him and married his older brother. Furious Zantalus left elven lands and eventually found himself apprenticed to an elderly human Transmuter named Brolin Darff. In exchange for Zantalus's aide in crafting magical items for various clients Darff broadened the elf's magical understanding. Sadly the old Wizard had been near the end of his day and passed away. Zantalus delivered all of the remaining items and it so happened that the last few were to be delivered to the circus.
Zantalus mentioned his master's death and the wily Ring Master seized the opportunity to recruit the elven mage.
Appearance: A narrow anemic elf with silvery hair and a sharp face. Zantalus nearly always looks grave and serious - which often makes him an excellent straight man, especially since he can cast reduce person on his "tormentor". His eyes are gray and solemn, his nose long and slightly crooked from an age old break.
Personality: While Zantalus seems to be serious and humorless he actually has a dry sense of humor and loves slapstick. The Wizard is of course studious and enjoys nothing more than pouring over his spellbooks and devising new ways his magics can aide the troupes performances. Zantalus is also famed for his love of busty human women - possibly because they are so different to elven woman - and has sired more than one half elf over his years with the troupe.
Zantalus's stage outfit is a grand affair with a sinister black cape and a purple robe embroidered with various "eldritch" symbols in silver thread. When not performing he wears a simple sturdy outfit with dozens of pockets and a heavy gray cloak.
Circus Role: The elven Wizard plays the role of hypnotist, using various enchantments to befuddle volunteers from the audience to the amusement of their peers. He also aides other acts with carefully selected spells from his vast repetoire, enlarge person - for the worlds biggest halfling, ant haul to enable the strong man to be able to life three times the amount he normally could, etc.
Background: Zantalus joined the troup some thirty years ago and has been at its center ever since. When asked the elf spins any of a dozen tales of his origin, though they invariably involve a faithless woman.
In reality Zantalus was a minor nobleman whose fiance betrayed him and married his older brother. Furious Zantalus left elven lands and eventually found himself apprenticed to an elderly human Transmuter named Brolin Darff. In exchange for Zantalus's aide in crafting magical items for various clients Darff broadened the elf's magical understanding. Sadly the old Wizard had been near the end of his day and passed away. Zantalus delivered all of the remaining items and it so happened that the last few were to be delivered to the circus.
Zantalus mentioned his master's death and the wily Ring Master seized the opportunity to recruit the elven mage.
Mark Chance
Boingy! Boingy!
Good job so far with the characters and plot elements. I added a bit more detail to the OP.
Herobizkit
Adventurer
Quick question: there is a RPG site that allows you to create and save character sheets online from all sorts of different genres and games. I have a membership on it but I can't remember then name of it for the life of me. Sound familiar to anyone?
Aldern Foxglove
First Post
There are several, but the only one I know which has a Pathfinder sheet is DnD Sheets, that is the site I used for Zantalus's sheet. Otherwise there's Myth-Weavers - Powered by vBulletin and www.roguepenguin.com are the others I know of.
Herobizkit
Adventurer
Myth-Weavers, that was it. Thanx Aldern. 
Herobizkit
Adventurer
Shalaye
Appearance: Shalaye is an olive-skinned half-elf of wild elf descent. Her black, wavy hair is shoulder length and often kept neat by ribbons or a bandanna. She normally stands tall and walks with purpose, but she always seems to be carrying some unseen burden.
Personality: Shalaye's mood is generally difficult to discern. Her fortune-teller persona is warm, gregarious and endearing. When off-stage, however, she is quiet, often staring blankly into the sky as if always in thought. She has no highs or lows in her general demeanor - she is chillingly even-tempered. As to which is the act, and which is the real Shalaye, no one can say for certain. She has a keen sense of loyalty and family, but prefers to keep their feelings at arm's length. She feels that Desna is leading her somewhere for some monumental task, and guides her to the people and places she needs to complete this task.
Circus Role: Shalaye uses a variety of trinkets and cards in order to put on a good show for the entertainers. She does not use her connection with Desna for these shows, however. She uses her keen insight and arcane knowledge to 'read' her clients and uses the props to tell a visually interesting story, or her feminine charms on her male clients.
For the family, she is a caretaker, tending to the sick or wounded and helping with the hunts when necessary.
Shalaye's stage outfit is revealing, often a low-cut blouse with a full-length skirt with slits up both legs to her hips, and a corset in any combination of white, violet, pink or burgundy. She has no qualms with showing her feminine gifts if it brings in the coin necessary to support her family.
Background: Shalaye knows little of her childhood outside of the circus troupe. She does know that one of her parents is a Wild Elf, and from what she knows of that culture, it is surprising that she was not killed as an infant. She was discovered in a forest by one of the woodcutters in the circus, and raised by the whole troupe.
Around age 15 she was introduced to a young outsider named Berm. She felt an unusual and immediate attraction to him, and they spent many of their days as an inseparable pair. Four years later, they were asked to perform a daring robbery which failed utterly, and were separated. She returned to the camp and begged her patriarch to rescue him, but the patriarch refused. In tears, she fled the camp to look for Berm, but could not find him. And when she dejectedly returned back to camp, the circus had mysteriously vanished as well.
During her time alone in the woods, she grew weak with hunger. This weakness brought odd visions and strange voices, voices that she started to listen to and follow. The voices led her to an recently abandoned campsite where scraps of food lied strewn about. Once out of immediate danger, she knew that it must have been the work of Desna, the troupe's guardian deity. From then on, she dedicated her life to serving Desna and interpreting her message for her people. Desna eventually led her back home. Shalaye was changed by her near-death experience, who has foregone living a carefree life and staying hyper-vigilant for Desna's next message.
Appearance: Shalaye is an olive-skinned half-elf of wild elf descent. Her black, wavy hair is shoulder length and often kept neat by ribbons or a bandanna. She normally stands tall and walks with purpose, but she always seems to be carrying some unseen burden.
Personality: Shalaye's mood is generally difficult to discern. Her fortune-teller persona is warm, gregarious and endearing. When off-stage, however, she is quiet, often staring blankly into the sky as if always in thought. She has no highs or lows in her general demeanor - she is chillingly even-tempered. As to which is the act, and which is the real Shalaye, no one can say for certain. She has a keen sense of loyalty and family, but prefers to keep their feelings at arm's length. She feels that Desna is leading her somewhere for some monumental task, and guides her to the people and places she needs to complete this task.
Circus Role: Shalaye uses a variety of trinkets and cards in order to put on a good show for the entertainers. She does not use her connection with Desna for these shows, however. She uses her keen insight and arcane knowledge to 'read' her clients and uses the props to tell a visually interesting story, or her feminine charms on her male clients.
For the family, she is a caretaker, tending to the sick or wounded and helping with the hunts when necessary.
Shalaye's stage outfit is revealing, often a low-cut blouse with a full-length skirt with slits up both legs to her hips, and a corset in any combination of white, violet, pink or burgundy. She has no qualms with showing her feminine gifts if it brings in the coin necessary to support her family.
Background: Shalaye knows little of her childhood outside of the circus troupe. She does know that one of her parents is a Wild Elf, and from what she knows of that culture, it is surprising that she was not killed as an infant. She was discovered in a forest by one of the woodcutters in the circus, and raised by the whole troupe.
Around age 15 she was introduced to a young outsider named Berm. She felt an unusual and immediate attraction to him, and they spent many of their days as an inseparable pair. Four years later, they were asked to perform a daring robbery which failed utterly, and were separated. She returned to the camp and begged her patriarch to rescue him, but the patriarch refused. In tears, she fled the camp to look for Berm, but could not find him. And when she dejectedly returned back to camp, the circus had mysteriously vanished as well.
During her time alone in the woods, she grew weak with hunger. This weakness brought odd visions and strange voices, voices that she started to listen to and follow. The voices led her to an recently abandoned campsite where scraps of food lied strewn about. Once out of immediate danger, she knew that it must have been the work of Desna, the troupe's guardian deity. From then on, she dedicated her life to serving Desna and interpreting her message for her people. Desna eventually led her back home. Shalaye was changed by her near-death experience, who has foregone living a carefree life and staying hyper-vigilant for Desna's next message.
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Scott DeWar
Prof. Emeritus-Supernatural Events/Countermeasure
Wow, almost enough to bring tears to the eyes. *sniff*
