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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirth" data-source="post: 840150" data-attributes="member: 5242">I'm afraid I have to concede this round. I've been working on this guy and it just isn't coming. I know the deadline is right on me so I'll post what I've completed. At the end I'm going to put notes about where I was headed with the concept. Sorry people. When the creative juices flow, they flow, but when they don't it seems like nothing can turn that faucet on for ya <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Round 1: mirthcard vs. DungeonKeeperUKKey Phrase: "A taste of your own medicine"Ingredients: a cairn on top of a hill, a foreign coin, "Blood is thicker than water"Halil is the 3rd generation of the prestigious Pepingo family to have lived in Mor's End. The matriarch of the family, Estefa Pepingo has recently passed away leaving Halil as the head of the family and in control of the estate, which encompasses a good bit of land swampside. Known for his "silver tongue," Halil has a reputation in Mor's End as a gifted mediator, often brokering peace ... at a price, that is. Utmost in his mind is the accumalation of wealth and status for the Pepingo family, which now consists of just he and his young sister, Kalia. In fact, it seems that no matter how hard he is pursued, Halil is determined to remain a bachelor at the ripe old age of 30.Unknown to the rest of Mor's End, in a remote part of the swamp attached to the Pepingo estate, lies a cairn on top of a hill. This death-mound holds the most guarded secret in the family and one which could bring about its downfall. Each member of the family is told the secret when they reach the age of 18. With the story of the cairn a strange and foreign coin is given. Now that Kalia is reaching 18, it is time for Halil to pass on his horrible knowledge.Halil Pepingo, male human Ari4: CR 3; ECL 4; Medium-size Humanoid (human); HD 4d8-1; hp 19; Init +0; Spd 30 ft; AC 11 (+1 amulet of natural armor); Melee rapier +3 (1d6/crit 18-20), or dagger +3 (1d4/crit 19-20); Ranged dagger +3 (1d4/crit 19-20); AL NE; SV Fort +0, Ref +1, Will +4; Str 10, Dex 11, Con 8, Int 13, Wis 11, Cha 17.Skills and Feats: Bluff +10, Diplomacy +9, Intimidate +5, Knowledge (local) +5, Knowledge (nobility) +5, Read Lips +8, Speak Language; Endurance, Skill Focus (Bluff), Toughness.Spoken Languages: Common, Draconic, Dwarven, Elven, Gnome, Goblin, Halfling, Orc, UndercommonEquipment: mw rapier, mw dagger, +1 amulet of natural armor, jewelry (100gp), noble's outfit, signet ring, 49pp, 8gp.That's as far as I got. The short plot idea is that Halil's grandfather murdered his way into nobility. He gave his former owner a "taste of his own medicine" as they were traveling to Mor's End, burying his body under a pile of rocks deep in the swampland and assuming his identity as the sole heir to the Pepingo family fortune. The grandfather kept one coin from his former master's holdings and passed on the secret to each descendent when they grew old enough. Now Halil wants to give Kalia a normal life. She is good of heart and knows nothing of the Pepingo family's muderous past. Conflicted, he has to decide if "blood is thicker than water." Should he tell her or not? What would would happen if he didn't and the secret was found out later? I could go on, but you get the gist of it. Good luck DKUK and sorry again for letting this one go.</blockquote>

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