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		Name: Rory Shanahan
Gaelic Name: Ruaidhri O Seanachain
  
Rolls As/At: Rory Shanahan @ invisiblecastle.com
Class: Charismatic
Race: Half-Elf
Size: Medium
Gender: Male
Occupation: Hedge Wizard
Occ. Skills: Craft (Chemical), Decipher Script, Research
Str: 10 +0 ( 2p.)     Level: 1        XP:     0
Dex: 13 +1 ( 5p.)     BAB: +0         HP:   6 (1d6+0)
Con: 10 +0 ( 2p.)     Grapple: +0     Dmg Red:  0/---
Int: 14 +2 ( 6p.)     Speed: 30'      Spell Res: 0
Wis: 10 +0 ( 2p.)     Init: +1        Spell Save: +0
Cha: 15 +2 ( 8p.)     ActPts: -6      Spell Fail:  0%
             25 Total Pts.
                   Base  Armor Shld   Dex  Size   Nat  Misc  Total
Armor:              10    +0    +0    +1    +0    +0    +0    11
Touch: 11              Flatfooted: 10
                         Base   Mod  Misc  Total
Fort:                     +1    +0          +1
Ref:                      +1    +2          +3
Will:                     +0    +0   (+2)   +0 (+2 Enchantment FX)
Weapon                  Attack   Damage     Critical
Languages: Common (read/write), Elven (read/write)
Abilities:
Charm: +(lvl) bonus to all Cha-based skills when attempting to influence  females.
Feats:
 1 Simple Weapon Proficiency [free]
 1 Archaic Weapon Proficiency [bonus half-elf]
 1 Magical Heritage (haywire, magic ID, prestidigitation) [bonus occ.]
 1 Two-Weapon Fighting
Skill Points: (6+2)*4=32       Max Ranks: 4/2
Skills                   Ranks  Mod  Misc  Total
Craft (Chemical)    Int  p 4    +2    +0     +6
Decipher Script     Int  p 4    +2    +0     +6   
Diplomacy           Cha  p 4    +2    +2     +8
Gather Information  Cha  p 4    +2    +2     +8
Know.(Arcane)       Int  p 4    +2    +0     +6      
Know.(Theo.&Phil.)  Int  p 4    +2    +0     +6    
Listen              Wis u  0    +0    +1     +1
Perform (Sing)      Cha  p 4    +2    +0     +6  
Research            Int  p 4    +2    +0     +6
Search              Int u  0    +2    +1     +3  
Spot                Wis u  0    +0    +1     +1
u = Can be used untrained
p = Permanent class skill.
Wealth: [URL="http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/2448467/"]2d4+2 = 8[/URL]
Equipment:               Cost  Weight
Total Weight:
                           Lgt   Med   Hvy  Lift  Push
Max Weight:                 38    76   115   230   575
Age: 24
Height: 5' 8"
Weight: 155 lb
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Skin: Pale
	 
 [sblock=Half-Elf racial summary]
Size: Medium.  Half-elves have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size.
Ability Modifiers: None.
Base Speed: 30 feet.
Elven Blood: For all effects related to species, a half-elf is  considered an elf. Half-elves, for example, are just as susceptible to  special effects that affect elves as their elven ancestors are, and they  can use magic items that are only usable by elves.
Spell Immunities: Half-elves are immune to sleep spells and  effects, and they gain a +2 species bonus on saves against Enchantment  spells or effects.
Low-Light Vision: Half-elves can see twice as far as a human in  starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor  illumination. They retain the ability to distinguish color and detail  under these conditions.
Skill Bonuses: Half-elves gain a +1 species bonus on Listen,  Search, and Spot checks. They gain a +2 species bonus on Diplomacy and  Gather Information checks.
Bonus Feat: Half-elves gain the bonus feat Archaic Weapons  Proficiency.[/sblock][sblock=Background info]Rory Shanahan was born to  Deirdre and Finn Shanahan in South Boston, Massachusetts. Rory’s  official birth name is Ruaidhri O Seanachain; his mother wanted to keep  ties with her Gaelic roots.
Rory grew up well-to-do in a decent Irish neighborhood.  Deirdre was an  attentive and lovingly strict stay-at-home mom, and Finn worked at a  public relations firm.  His mother had high hopes that Rory might become  a Catholic priest.  As soon as he was of age, his mother enrolled him  in the South Boston Catholic Academy, then to Boston College High School  and Boston College itself.  
At first, Rory wanted to please his mother and embraced the Catholic  lifestyle.  He became a member of the school choir and dedicated his  time and energy to his studies.  As he progressed into his teens, he  began to question the universe and his place in it.  By the time he  reached university, he grew tired of the Catholic “programming” and  wanted to experience life outside of school walls.  He began to spend  more time in the local pubs than in school.  During his nightly forays,  he encountered a local Celtic Rock band who called themselves “Primal”.   Celtic bands were a dime a dozen around Boston, but this band had a  rainbow-haired bassist named Twilight who looked like a Gypsy on-stage.   Rory was immediately smitten, and like a school boy with a crush,  followed the band around the city.  Each night, he would try to strike  up a drunken conversation with Twilight, but the lead singer Donovan  would always intervene and turn him away.
One night, Rory noticed some tension between Donovan and Twilight,  tension that carried over into the band’s performance.  Midway through  their set, Donovan surprised everyone by angrily throwing his microphone  on the stage floor and storming out of the pub, uttering a string of  expletives as he left.  The band looked confused.  With a rush of  adrenaline, Rory hopped up from his bar stool, jumped on stage, and  picked up the mic.  Before anyone could stop him, he began to sing one  of the band’s songs a capella.  The band looked at each other, shrugged,  and one by one began to accompany Rory’s singing.  By the end of the  show, the bar was cheering and chanting for an encore.  Later that  evening, the band thanked Rory and asked if he wanted to come on  full-time.  
Twilight warmed up to Rory, and in short order they became an item.   Twilight soon revealed to Rory that she was a Wiccan, which provided  Rory some insight into a new (yet very old) religion that refreshed his  mind and rekindled his interest in learning.
Donovan appeared one afternoon during a rehearsal with a chip on his  shoulder.  He “thanked” Rory for holding his place and shoved a fistful  of bills in his chest.  He then took his usual place on stage and  commanded the band to start playing.  Twilight confronted Donovan and  told him that he was no longer welcome in the band.  Donovan threw a  fit, then cautioned Rory to “watch out for dark alleys” before leaving  in a huff.
As the band toured the city’s drinking establishments, Rory began to  start noticing odd things happening around him.  He would often see a  flicker of movement, or a twinkle of light, or hear soft, unintelligible  voices out of nowhere.  He asked Twilight about it, hoping that he  wasn’t going crazy.  Twilight suggested that it was possible that  faeries may be trying to communicate with him.  Although he himself did  not believe in faeries, Rory knew that Twilight took her craft  seriously.  Together, they delved into the college library and the  Internet for whatever they could find regarding faeries.
During her research, Twilight discovered that the Shanahan family had a  legacy of wealth passed down from generation to generation, presumably  from Irish royalty.  The wealth was recorded as being a gift of the Fey  folk, but there were no factual references to the source, or in what  form the wealth existed.  Rory knew nothing of this legacy.  He  approached his parents with the story and received the shock of his  life.  His father's form appeared to ripple and waver.  Rory blinked his  eyes, and when next he looked upon his father, he did not see the man  that raised him, but a tall, slender creature with pointed ears!
The creature talked with Finn’s voice, but it was clearly not human.   Finn explained that he was, in fact, an Elf.  He did not originally come  from this world.  There existed, somewhere, a whole other realm full of  fantastic creatures and races and magic.  Finn used to live there, or  at least, he believed he did.  He explained that Elves had an unusually  long lifespan and the event recorded in the library’s journals happened  some four hundred years ago.  He originally appeared in Ireland with a  large chest of gold coins that he “liberated” from a faerie wood.  His  voice became grim as he noted that the gold was cursed somehow; he had  no way of returning the chest to the original wood, and the Fey had long  memories.  Rory shared his odd experiences with Finn, who confirmed  that Rory’s Elven blood made him sensitive to Fey Folk, among other  possible gifts.  Finn did not know for certain how said gifts would  manifest in a largely non-magical world, but hinted at feats of magic.   Deirdre added that she hoped, by becoming a priest, Rory might find a  way to break the curse once he became wise and educated enough to  understand it.
Rory renewed his studies with a fervor unseen since his younger years.   With the guidance of his father, Rory found that he could in fact  manifest a few simple tricks in short quantity.  Rory shared all of this  new information with Twilight.
Twilight confirmed that she already knew of his Half-Elven heritage  because she could see the same world to which he had previously been  blind.  She added that she knew of a group of people who dedicated their  lives to ensure that which is hidden remains hidden.  Perhaps there,  she advised, he could further his magical arts, or learn more about the  cursed gold.  She gave him directions to a contact with the group.  With  sad farewells (and apologies to his mother), Rory jumped on the first  bus out of town and made his way towards his destiny.[/sblock][sblock=Face]
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