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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ajanders" data-source="post: 834807" data-attributes="member: 3271">PostingI thought I was not quite late yet: I seem to have been wrong.  Submission is posted here, if I need to forfeit, I understand.Elements:Key Phrase: "Good things come in small packages"Ingredients: an orphaned twin, a midnight rendevous, "A picture paints a thousand words"Stat Block:Tessa Leyte, Female Half-Elf Cleric 4 CR 4Hp 28; Init +0; Spd Walk 30';AC 10 (flatfooted 10, touch 10)SA: Elven Blood,Immunity to sleep,save +2 vs enchantment spells,Spontaneous casting,Turn Undead 4/day; Vision: Low-light,Normal AL: NG; Sv: Fort +5, Ref +1, Will +7; Str 10, Dex 10, Con 12, Int 12, Wis 16, Cha 14Skills:Craft (Carpentry) +3, Diplomacy +4, Heal +15, Knowledge (Religion) +8, Listen +4, Profession (Cook) +5, Profession (Herbalist) +9, Search +2, Spot +4Feats:Armor Proficiency (Heavy) (1x),Armor Proficiency (Light) (1x),Armor Proficiency (Medium) (1x),Scribe Scroll,Shield Proficiency,Simple Weapon Proficiency,Skill Focus (Heal)Domains:  Healing, ProtectionDescriptionTessa Leyte looks like a tiny little blond blue-eyed girl, five feet tall and 100 pounds.  She is actually a thirty year old devout cleric of a god of healing and protection.  Tessa usually wears white robes with a holy symbol of her god embroidered on the right breast and a pendant consisting of a single large opal around her neck.She spends her time feeding the hungry, healing the wounded, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless, and teaching the ignorant.  She can usually be found at her hospice in Mor's End, where she preaches universal peace and love.HistoryTessa Leyte doesn't really know very much of her history, which saddens her greatly.Mother Leyte found a little half-elf baby on her doorstep one night wrapped in a wool blanket and an opal pendant.  There was no letter or any sort of identifying marks on the blanket or the pendant.  Mother Leyte promptly adopted the little child and cared for her as though she were her own.Tessa grew up helping Mother Leyte care for her adoptive brothers and sisters and wondering what her real parents were like.  It was, after all, pointless for Mother Leyte to pretend she was her own child, since neither she nor her husband were elves.  Young Tessa wrote stories about her mother and father: sometimes they were heroes tragically slain by their treacherous enemies, other times star-crossed lovers held apart by racial hatred.  She keeps perhaps a dozen pages of these stories still, passionately bodice-ripping descriptions of midnight rendezvouses written up as only an half-elven adolescent can.  They are safely hidden in a box under her bed with her supply of emergency healing scrolls.As she grew older, she became more aware of the gifts Mother Leyte had given her: shelter, food, and love.When she reached the age of majority, she became an acolyte at the local temple, working to help the poor.  She has continued to do so to this day.Now she has a small hospice in what used to be Mother Leyte's home, Mother and Father Leyte having died and her adoptive siblings having their own separate establishment.  She is well-loved in the area because she grants healing, food, and shelter to any who ask it, no questions asked.  Her nickname among the rougher folk of the area (which is most of them) has become "Small Package", "loike whut a good thing commen in."  None of them would lay a hand on her.Adventure Hooks1.  Adventurers can always go to Tessa for healing.  She does not charge for her spells or care, but has a way of looking at people that makes most of them feel guilty until they make some kind of donation.2.  Tessa always needs money for her hospice.  Anyone feeling inclined to make a charitable contribution is likely to be directed to her, where it is recieved with grateful thanks and a friendly hug.  (Tessa's hugs have been known to make paladins and monks rush off to take long ice-cold baths and think about combat tactics.)3.  One of the jewelers in Mors End offered to clean Tessa's opal pendant gratis and found out it is both more and less than it appears.  The immense opal is perhaps an inch and a half across, set in a heavy gold circle with a sturdy chain.  Tessa usually wears this inside her robe, because it's rather gaudy for her tastes.  But the opal is not really an opal stone:it's an opal triplet, a thin slice of opal covered by a heavy cabochon of rock crystal.  It's a fake.However, the pendant is actually a locket: it will open when a cleverly concealed catch is triggered.  Opening the locket reveals an enameled picture of an elven man, a human woman, and two babies.  One of the babies is undoubtedly Tessa.  The other baby looks like her twin brother and the family is perfectly identifiable -- indeed-- worth a thousand words of description.  The jeweler would like to surprise Tessa with a family reunion: he can spare a little money for expenses if someone wants to do a little detective work with Gather Information or Bardic Knowledge.  The status of the rest of her family is left up to individual game masters.Creative DM's may take this opportunity to give a character more family than they knew they had.4.  Tessa is a tiny half-elven cleric who has forsworn weapons and violence.  She has been known to give her own bed and meals to those that need them.  It's hard to imagine someone in Mor's End being nasty enough to come up behind her, beat her unconscious, and take her money, necklace, and emergency healing scrolls.It's hard to imagine, but someone was.  Even the criminal organizations of Mor's End are embarrassed.There's a substantial reward offered, so parties may want to go hunt the thieves.After they find the thief, a creative DM may make them stop the lynch mob that's forming.</blockquote>

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