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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MightyBob" data-source="post: 4095208" data-attributes="member: 61532">The CharactersI play Tasmia “Ironfist” Vætildr (Swordsage 4/Warblade 2), an exotic looking and highly tattooed former gladiator currently employed as the Master-At-Arms on the trading vessel Taskers Drift under the seemingly bi-polar Captain Mervermars.  Raised since a child in the arena of Dae Bo Darren by her adopted dwarven family, Tasmia was trained by them how to fight to save her from her slated fate of being a 'reward' for other gladiators.  She is torn between seeking where she is really from and returning to the family that raised her.  Does not react well to being treated as a 'weak woman', leading to certain... conflicts.Bargier (ECL 10, classes unknown), a pale and totally hairless human, was, not to long ago, just a man with a good number of addictions, primarily to dosalis, the local weed of choice, as well as ale, womanizing and gambling.  Ended up as the sacrifice demanded by the Queen of Shatterhold Island when the group trespassed (was shipwrecked, I believe).  He got better.  However, he also contracted a case of vampirism from the incident.  Somehow he is able to go out during the day, so the rest of the group hasn't found out yet, though several suspect his condition.  His main issue with the change is that all his former vices have no affect on his undead body.Magnious (level 9, fighter/legendary commander) is a proud solder of Arane, where men are SPARTANS and women are property.  Skilled with both sword and shield and a talented commander, in spite of his lack of interpersonal skills, every battle is a chance for both personal and national glory.  However, his battle ready mentality has twice lead him to attack his other party members in combat.  And that's before Tasmia arrived on the scene...Hoskol (fighter), another Aranian, serves under Magnious, though lacking the other's skill and valor in battle, he'd much rather be drinking.  He obeys out of both respect and fear of the fact that Magnious has a history of decapitating large monsters.Barier (cleric?, and I'm certain I've got his name wrong), the third Aranian is a more upstanding solider than Hoskol, though his primary devotion is to the Gods rather than to personal glory.Aleyna (half-elf wizard), is the current object of Magnious's affections.Illdrill (assimar druid) <ok, I'm drawing a total blank on her... she's a druid and has a wolf... yeah, that's all I got...>Quin (human ?cleric?) an exile from a small island protected by a magical storm, who seeks a way to depose the current tyrant who rules it.Djorn (human rouge) was unlucky enough to have been suck on a ship whose crew was taken by a plague, lucky enough to be the only survivor, unlucky enough to be adrift at sea with no food, lucky enough to ground on an island before starving to death, unlucky enough for it to be Shatterhold Island, lucky enough to be found by the party, unlucky enough to be considered to still have the plague by Magnious, lucky enough to wind up in bed with the Queen of Shatterhold Island and unlucky enough to have been affected by a spell which caused him to try to hit Magnious and proceeded to fall down a pit.  Magnious proceeded to pour oil and drop torches on him.At this point, I should also mention that the 'Queen' is a Silver Dragon.  What most of the party does not know is that she is a Vampric Silver Dragon.  Some time before I joined she asked the party what each of them most Wished for (note the Capital W on Wish, though, at the time, none of the pcs had a clue about what they were getting into).Maginous:  “I wish to die in glorious battle for Arania!”  That's not going to end well.Aleyna wanted an array of spells unknown to her - and got a new spellbook, sans her previous spells.Quin wanted the power to return home and restore the island, causing his grandfather to die and the power to control the magical storm to pass to him (the former holder of the power has to die to pass it on, so the current ruler had imprisoned the grandfather and faked the mark of power on himself).I don't know what the others wished for.</blockquote>

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