Hot shot sailor boy.
The black mako, a fine tall-ship, cut through the waves, those tumultous waves. Sprays of salt water shot over the edges. The captain, a graying man of a name no one was certain of, just called Captain, barked out orders. It was a commisioned run, they were transporting King's shipment, and here in the storm, they were assured no pirate's were daft enough to chase them. Faileas, as he repaired a slick rope high on the second mast, thought they weren't to bright themselves. His quarterstaff has on his back as usual, the dagger in his hand slipped often, cutting into the flesh of his hand, and as it often happened, his blood and sweat and life went into the task. To ride a ship in a storm required such sacrifice. He yelled down as the sheet was opened again, catching the wind with a snap. The repaired rope holding fast.
He looked down at Captain, the man who had taken him in, and behind him, a deck-hand. In a flash of lightning he could see the blade the man carried, as he snuck upon the old man. Faileas eyes widened, then narrowed into slits. The knife in his hand was flicked upwards, and he caught it by the blade. In a throw that surprised faileas, the knife bore down on the mutineets body, falling him. Captain looked back in surprise, and drew his cutlass. Faileas fell from rope to rope, as he came closer to the deck with practiced swings and jumps. As his barefeet touched the ground, men that were once loyal, drew out their swords, and the still loyal men drew against them.
The thin, iron shod staff came from his back, and he neared Captain. The fight had not yet erupted, it held balanced, as one man's sword waited to rise, to start the attack. The man had shrugged on a long black coat, and a wide brimmed hat. His sword was not an ordinary one, a handle that sported a blade from either end. Its long, heavy length raised into the air, and the sound of steel clashed against the storm. The man in black was once thought a friend of Faileas, but obviously he had sinister ideals. While they had laughed and joked while going about their chores, Aodian had thoughts of Mutiny and gold. Well, so be it. Faileas ran out to meet him.
"Well there, Faileas, you've killed one of my men, good job. I won't hold it against you, you can join me still." Aodian's voice had changed. "Dont be foolish, you won't get anywhere this night, for I am your foe this night." Faileas said, then added, "I expect no quarter, nor shall you receive any!" With that, the duel had begun. The staff and double sword clashed against each other, the wood surprisingly resilient to the swords attack, as it deflected all that attempted to close.
It was obvious that Aodian was the agressor, with Faileas focusing more on deflecting the attacks, and he did so well. They wind had picked up, and the stars were covered by black clouds, only lanterns illuminated the battlefield. They had to yell to be heard, "Why are you doing this! You will never have a life, from this point on, all you can do is run, and hide!" Faileas yelled, after pulling an acrobat dodge, where he used his staff to flip over the blade, and land under the weapons range, his barefeet bleeding from the splintery deck they fought on. "Better that than to be a Sanctimonous whore! Why do you hang on to your buried father's antiquated teachings?!" Aodian spun and brought his blade down at the crouched faileas, but the blade met only a staff. Faileas rolled away, popping up to a stand. "My father was an honourable man, so to will i be!" He jumped back, away from a swing, and jabbed his staff forward, hitting only the mans chain armor, but the outstretched attack was an easy target, and Aodian struck the staff from underneath, out of Faileas's grip. "Your father was a lowly fisher!"
Faileas ran towards the aftcastle, aodian followed. Their body sizes varied largely, Aodian larger, stronger. Faileas smaller, more suited to the tumbling and dodging he did with the staff. Aodian realized to late what the staff fighter planned to do, and as they reached the wall, Faileas jumped, and kicked off the wall, over aodian's head, a tumbling land and running back towards his fallen staff.
The fight raged above and below deck, parts of it starting to burn as some of the lanterns were knocked down. Captain was fending off attackers, but his old frame was wearing out. He watched, in amazement, at the fight between Aodian and Faileas, they had moved from anywhere a normal duel would be held and were now fighting on the rope ladder on the sides of the ship. He had found the white haired boy among a bunch of rabble and sailor-trash. He was green then, new to the ways of the world, he had took him in, him and Aodian, and taught them the ways of the sea. Both were adept seaman, but Aodian never seemed so enthusiastic as Faileas. Both had already know how to fight, and both could have piloted a junk in a gale, he had just tried to show them how to survive on the seas, against pirates. But it seems one of them already knew all about pirating ways.
Aodian hit the deck hard, he had been kicked off the rope ladder, when faileas grabbed onto the side and swung under the net-like ladder, kicking his frame off the other side. He looked up in time to see the white-haired boy fall on-top of him, in time to raise a concealed dagger. It hurt him to do this, he had actually become friends with this fella, he knew how to have fun, and his emotional green eyes always brought the old stone heart to life with a smile. Now, stabbed with a dagger, he saw those emotional, vibrant dots of green turn to anger, as the boys red blood spilled from the wound.
They both got up, and drew their weapons from the ground, but Aodian was a few moments to late, passion stirred in faileas, and he was moved to great speed, scooping up the quarterstaff and bringing it up against Aodians chin, then again at the side of his head with the other end. The man in black stumbled back, towards the rails. Faileas ran at him and with a mighty swing of the staff, threw down his enemy, into the black maw of the sea.
He coughed as his eyes slowly drew open. He was in Captain's quarters, his stomach bound, along with a few other minor cuts he had received to the legs, arms, and chest. His feet was raw from the rough fight, and he was sore all over. He looked over to see a bottle of rum and a pipe. Captain's remedy for just about everything. It seemed he had lost an awful lot of blood from that wound(can anyone say, critical?) and had feinted after throwing down Aodian. He stumbled onto deck, with the pipe in his mouth and rum on wetting his lips. He looked to the Helm, and to the sky, to see the bright sky, and seagulls, and sun. And then around on the deck to see the small amount of men that ran the vessel. One of them, a thin man with glasses, came up to Faileas. "Im sorry, me lad, Captain has fallen, and a small lifeboat was taken, with some of the King's Gold..."
As the seagulls suggested, they were close to land, and soon the shipment was brough to harbor. Faileas seemed to live ina dream for those few days, he had gotten paid handsomely, as the normal fee was split between so few men. THey had offered him a spot as the Captain, but he refused, and the ship went to the bespectacled man. He mourned for several days, but he seemed to recover easily enough, he knew Captain would've had it no other way, to die on the sea. And so, he started his Adventuring career, because, well. Not much else to do.
Code:
Faileas Aethean Lacrymae
Male Human
Rogue 2/Ftr4
AL: CG
SPEED: 30 ft.
HEIGHT: 5ft. 10in.
WEIGHT: 148 lbs
EYES: Dark Green
HAIR: Blonde/White
LANGUAGES: Common
XP: 15,000/21,000
Str 14
Dex 16
Con 12
Int 13
Wis 12
Cha 14
HP: 42
AC: 10 + 3 + 4 + 2 = 19
BAB: +5
INIT: +3
FORT: 4 + 1 + 0 = 05
REF: 4 + 3 + 0 = 07
WILL: 1 + 1 + 0 = 02
SKILLS RANK ABIL MISC TOTAL
Balance 5 + 3 + 2 = 10
Bluff 5 + 2 + 0 = 7
Sense Motive 5 + 1 + 0 = 6
Hide 5 + 3 + 0 = 8
Jump 5 + 2 + 2 = 9
Listen 5 + 1 + 0 = 6
Move Silently 5 + 3 + 0 = 8
Profession
(sailor) 5 + 1 + 0 = 6
Spot 5 + 1 + 0 = 6
Tumble 5 + 3 + 2 = 10
Climb 8 + 2 + 0 = 10
Ride 2 + 3 + 0 = 5
Swim 4 + 2 + 0 = 6
Speak Language(Valduni Sign) 2 ranks
FEATS
Ambidexterity
Two Weapon Fighting
Parry
Expert Parry
Improved Parry
Expertise
Combat Reflexes
COMBAT
Quarterstaff(+1/+1) +8 1d6+4 x2 Bludgeoning
Quarterstaff(+1/+1) +6/+6 1d6+4/1d6+2 x2 Bludgeoning
Grappling x-bow +7 (attack on object to latch on)
Bomb +7 2d6 (5ft radius) 10ft. range.
INVENTORY
10 lbs 01 Mithril Chain-Shirt +2
04 lbs 01 Quarterstaff +1/+1(with custom grips[+5 against disarm])
-- lbs 01 Ring of Sustenance
01 lbs 01 Side bag(strap is potion belt)
-- lbs 06 CLW(on potion belt)
01 lbs 01 Bomb
01 lbs 02 Smokebombs
-- lbs 06 Tindertwigs
-- lbs 04 Sunrods
01 lbs 10 PP
08 Gp
12 Sp
04 Cp
12 lbs 01 Crossbow, grapple-firing
08 lbs 10 Bolts, Grapple
Total: 39lbs(14 without bag)
LOAD: Light [58/116/175]