Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Telsar" data-source="post: 1565384" data-attributes="member: 18837">Hey Vindicator, after I posted Gribbler's (my familiar) stats, I thought he could use a background.  Feel free to ignore this bit of fluff, if you want.And I'm assuming player's dictate the actions/thoughts of their animal companions or familiars.  If that's not the case, and you want to decide things the Gribbler does in game, that's fine with me.Background/Personality:  Gribbler was born.  Gribbler grew legs.  Gribbler ate flies and slugs and mosquitos.  Gribbler avoided bigger creatures.  That was pretty much Gribbler’s life, and one day, he failed to avoid a large snake, and figured his time was up (he was pretty practical about such things).  But before he could be gobbled up, a crossbow bolt skewered the snake in the head.  And then a larger creature scooped up Gribbler and he wondered if it made much difference what the size was of the thing that was about to eat him.  But, oddly enough, the larger creature didn’t eat him, instead taking him to it’s home, where it wiggled it’s appendages and made weird lights, and suddenly something... changed.Gribbler felt stronger, healthier, smarter.  And he also felt something else; the emotions of this larger creature.  It wanted Gribbler to help him.  How he could help more than providing nourishment, he hadn’t a clue.  But he clearly needed help... all these emotions made no sense.  The larger creature was lonely.  Well, Gribbler had been alone as long as he could remember, and it was no big deal.  And the larger creature felt persecuted and feared those around him.  Even before getting smarter, Gribbler knew we are all going to get eaten by something bigger some day, why feel bad about it?  Yes, this creature definitely needed help.  And since this creature could keep things from eating Gribbler, at least until something came along big enough to eat them both, it was worth hanging around.  Now if he could just teach Rhodhan (the larger creature) to calm down and take life more easily...</blockquote>

Verification