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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 5393573" data-attributes="member: 16069">Zoran, ahem- that's Jebediah, asked me to post this, the backstory he sent me-"Why am I alive?""I can sense my fingers....the tingling sensation that goes throughout my body..wait, yes, I can move my foot...I am naked and floating in an endless see of Astral Plane, broken shell of a creature...I feel nothing..I cant  tap into the collective conscience of my unit. She drained me...she took everything....why not my life?The eyelids are so heavy...I want to sleep...I want to never wake up..out of the corner of my eye I can see them coming...Devilish creatures that enslaved my people so long ago....they are coming on their black ship, darker then the pits of Tiamat...fitting end for a soulless man...."Hence, the story of Jebediah...broken ghityanki swordmage. Jebediah  doesn`t remember much about the first years of his life. As a standard child he was soon enlisted in a military unit that was responsible for guarding the inner walls of Trem-zhtull. Good with sword, bad at psychic warfare. In the first years they tough that he will develop his connection  to collective and join the ranks of defenders, cause without the perfect psychic symbiosis of the unit, the strength of it will dwindle. 2 years have passed and the only thing that improved was his deadly art of swordplay. Finally he was summoned before mighty Vlaakith to determine his fate. When he stood before her, she sensed that he was damaged and beyond repair...his psyche was ruined as if some defect has happened on his birth. Vlaakith saw this and not even bothering to take his life or his soul, she feed on his life energy and ordered him tossed over the city barrier into the Astral See.Left there for dead, his future got even bleaker. Not long after, Illithid slave ship picked him up from water and fed him just enough to keep him alive so he can work in mines on Material Plane.Years have passed in darkness and despair...Jebediah was more dead than alive. Walking corpse of a creature. Not interested in anything..he spent his days under the torment of slavers boots. ( mind control and psychic torture seamed to have less effect on him than the others, so the whip and steel boots seamed like a good alternative).Life had no meaning for Jebediah..he worked and slept, chained to whatever humanoid that stayed alive more that 2 weeks in the mines...He didn`t bother to pay any attention to his `brother(s) in arms`..one after the other, they changed..some of them dying, some of them pleading to him to be killed...not one of them receiving any retort...One day...(he can`t remember how many days, weeks, years) his arm was chained to a creature darker than night itself, but bright with light of fire in his heart. He was restless, full of energy..he couldn`t be tamed nor shackled. This spark of life, this...will to live, to escape..was so powerful, that if Jebediah was a lesser creature, he would succumb to this energy...Days have passed and Jebediah was intrigued. Even with the power of Illithids, who took the mind of this..Human..he could still feel the hatred, the sheer power of personality this human possessed.. He wandered how he kept his spirit even in the face of total mind control...Soon he realized...Explosions and carnage erupted that day like something from the Outer Planes. Blurry characters were dashing left and right. Fighting on every step with the Mind Flayers....and in the midst of this fighting, the full control of the slavers lessened and allowed the slaves to regain their senses for a while...and that was enough for the human.With the force of a hurricane and the determination of a unstoppable object, he yanked Jebediah arm and jumped at the action. With a single move he darted towards the first Mindflyer and propelling himself from the wall,  made a noose around the creatures neck formed of the chains that held Jebediah and him together. With a sadistic smile he broke the creatures neck while simultaneously strangling it... Next thing that Jebediah remembers is a series of movement left and right and again and again throughout the darkness, what seamed like the endless maze of caverns and passageways. He followed the human blind, he didn`t care if they lived or died..nothing mattered to him...and after the darkness and running came another darkness, one that you find when you don`t look anymore...Jebediah woke up in a strange place..his eyes hurted and he couldn't feel his arm anymore. Slowly he opened his eyes and saw something that he didn't see for who knows how long.....it was bright and strange..it was daylight.Next thing he saw was his left arm free of shackles and his body laying on a mattress of straw. Looking around the room, he saw another body lying broken next to him...it was that human, bruised, battered, but with a steady stream of inhales and exhales..Notable characters : Frago Steelcup- dwarven priest of Amaunator. He took Jebediah and the human in, and showed them compassion and the way of belief. He gave Jebediah the reason to live and aspire to something more.Runa Rift -when Jebediah regained his strength and use of his left arm, Runa found out that he was exceptional talented sword fighter and had some innate understanding of magic. After consulting with mage Rowan Stargazer, they both started instructing him in an art of fighting known as  swordmaging.Allain- The human that made Jebediah `s new life possible. The only character in Jebediah `s life that he trusts (albeit barely). Jebediah is most suspicious with strangers and he shares (with Allain) the closest thing possible to military unit bond. (Githyanki have no family, so their unit is most sacred to them )I asked each of the players to provide a bit of backstory and include a few notable characters for me to play around with.Cheers Goonalan, and thanks for XPing Zoran (Ressurectah), he's excited to 'one of us...'</blockquote>

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