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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinthi" data-source="post: 1190139" data-attributes="member: 8272">Roach, the Beggar KingRoach, the Beggar KingMale Human Ranger 1/Fighter 2/Cancer Mage 9Alignment: Lawful EvilHeight: 5' 9'' (Hunchbacked)Weight: 190lbsHair: Brown, Stringy, and Falling Out.Eyes: Rheumy Reddish BrownAge: 29 (Appears older)Str: 14 (+2) [6 points]  Dex: 14 (+2) [6 points]Con: 14 (+2) [6 points] Int: 14 (+2) [6 points]  Wis: 18 (+4) [8 points, +3 levels] Cha: 8 (-1) [0 points] Class and Racial Abilties:1 feat at first level, 4 skill points at first level and 1 skill point at each additional level, Ambidexterity, Two Weapon Fighting, Favored Enemy: Humans, 2 Bonus Feats, Disease Host, Contagion, Cancerous Companion, Tatterdemalion, Poison, Children of the Night, Viral Agent, Infected Wound, Insect Plague, Insect Armor, Viral Ally, 3d6 Sneak Attack, BlindSight 30', 10th Level Uncanny Dodge, Evasion, 50% chance for Mind Affecting Spells to Affect Cancerous Companion Rather than Cancer Mage, Cancerous Companion Can Activate Cancer Mage's Spell Like Abilities as a Standard Action 3x/day Without Effort on the Cancer Mage's Part, Cancerous Companion Can Extend 1' Tendril to Make Touch Attacks With, Said Touch Attacks Can Deliver Poison and Contagion. Hit Dice: 3d10 + 9d6 + 24 + 6HP: 90AC: 22 [+2 Dex, +6 Armor, +4 Natural Armor]Init: +2 [+2 Dex]Speed: 30ft Armor Check Penalty: -1Saves:Fortitude +18 [+11 base, +2 Con, +2 Great Fortitude, +3 from cloak]Reflex +11 [+6 base, +2 Dex, +3 from cloak]Will +10 [+3 base, +4 Wis, +3 from cloak]BAB: +9/+4Melee Atk: +13/+13/+8 (1d6+5, x2, +3 Claws, 1d6+3 off hand)Ranged Atk: +11/+6 (None Usually)Skills:Climb: +25 [+13 Ranks, +2 Strength, +10 Enhancement]Disguise +24 [+15 Ranks, -1 Charisma, +10 Change Self]Heal +15 [11 Ranks, +4 Wisdom]Hide +30 [+13 Ranks,  +2 Dexterity, +15 Enhancement]Knowledge (Nature) +6 [+4 Ranks, +2 Intelligence]Listen +15 [+11 Ranks, +4 Wisdom]Move Silently +25 [+13 Ranks, +2 Dexterity, +10 Enhancement]Pick Pocket +15 [+13 Ranks, +2 Dexterity]Search +15 [+13 Ranks, +2 Intelligence]Tumble +7 [5 Ranks, +2 Dexterity]Wilderness Lore +8 [+4 Ranks, +4 Wisdom](Note: Two Ranks Each of Hide and Move Silently were bought at Cross Class Cost. 1st Level Ranger=28 skpts, 2 levels Fighter=10 skpts, 9 levels Cancer Mage=81 Skill points)Feats:Poison Immunity: Spider Venom (Human)Great Fortitude (1st)Weapon Focus (Unarmed) (1st Fighter)Dwarf's Toughness (2nd Fighter)Willing Deformity (3rd)Deformity: Clawed Hands (6th)Boost Spell Like Ability (9th)Empower Spell Like Ability (12th) LanguagesCommon, Goblin, AbyssalEquipment:Blessed Handwrappings of Disease and Decay (As Per Martial Gloves +3, Arms and Armor pg 42, 9,050gps), +2 Undetectable Tatterdemalion (Arms and Armor pg 74, 9,000gps), Ring of Chameleon Power (12,000gps), Ring of Climbing (2,000gps),  Sandles of the Sombre Step(as per Boots of Elvenkind,2,000gps), Trailing Array of Soiled Tatters (As per Cloak of Resistance +3 (9,000gps), 950 gps remaining(Note: Gloves, Armor, Boots, and Vest and all really part of the same item, Roach's Tatterdemalion. Each individual effect does take up different slots, just like usual magical items.)Appearance:     Roach is a human male of indeterminant age with a twisted build. His body is malformed in a number of ways. First, his spine is twisted and he has an enormous growth upon his back giving him the classic appearance of a hunchback. His arms appear longer and thinner than they should be, and his fingers are indeed longer than ususual, tapering into narrow points. His nails are trimmed haphazardly into barbed points. Roach's features are also mismatched, with one eye protruding slightly from it's socket and an obvious hairlip.     The misshapen man also displays numerous signs of illness. Foul colored mucus constantly flows from his nose, much like his eyes which are always watering. Boils and pustules cover his skin and occasionally pop audibly in sprays of yellowish bile. Dark rings surround his eyes, his stringy brown hair comes loose in clumps, and his remaining teeth are blackened with decay.     Roach dresses in multiple layers of mismatched rags and tatters, all of which are stained with filth and blood. He has rags wrapped around his hands and face, along with the rest of his lean form, giving him the general appearance of a malformed leper. He carries no weapons and displays no obvious wealth.     Looking deeper at this wretched display of subhumanity, the observant could notice a few more details. Although twisted, Roach's spine still supports him and gives him strength, a strength that has not been broken by his diseases. His bloodshot eyes are both alert and worldly rather than dimmed by pain and drugs. His shuffling movements contain both strength and grace. And his voice, for those who can bear his presence long enough to hear it, is a gravelly, grating whisper, full of phlegm and spite.Personality:     Roach's psyche is just as twisted as his body. In his own mind, all the homeless, miserable souls in Andeluvay are his children and he tries to be thier father. He provides them medical care and tries to look after thier needs. Admittedly, he has far too many children to be able to care for each individually, but he does what he can. Crippled and diseased beggars tend to draw more alms than the merely unforetunate, so he isn't above amputating a limb or infecting a child with an incurable disease. In his own warped perceptions, he's done them a favor. Also, he grows very upset when someone mistreats his children. Young noble rowdies who entertain themselves by abusing the disenfranchised are taking thier lives in thier own hands. A wealthy family that refuses to give alms may suffer sudden tragedy as thier youngest comes down with a fatal disease, or the patriarch is found partially eaten in his bedchamber. Roach is also willing to sacrifice a few to aid the many. Should the necromancers wish a few test subjects, Roach would likely be willing to provide, so long as the necromancers donate handsomely in food and clothing for the other homeless.      Roach is extremely vicious, but attempts to exercise his malevolence in ironic ways. There's a story whispered about burning dung pits at night about the Paladin who attempted to find and arrest the 'King of Beggars'. The Paladin searched the city from stem to stern, but simply couldn't place a face to the myth. One night while contemplating his quest on the privy, he felt a sudden, hideous, rending pain from below. The paladin tried to leap from the privy, but was held fast. After a wet ripping sound, he managed to fall away. Through his screams, he heard a rasping voice say, 'Stay out of my slums, sweetmeat.' The sound of noisy chewing would haunt the Paladin for years after clerics repaired the damage.Background:     Men like Roach aren't born, they are created. He began life as Darsan Eveningshade, the son of a farming family in the heartlands of Low'verok. The vast majority of his childhood was rather prosaic, with little excitement and no adventure. He was always fascinated by adventurers and soldiers going off to war. One year, the county was plagued by roaming goblins, and a bounty was placed on goblin heads. Mercenaries from around the kingdom came to his hamlet, hunting goblin ears. Darsan knew he one day wanted to be a wandering adventurer, getting money where and when he could. At 13, he ran away from home so he could apprentice himself to a travelling bounty hunter. The manhunter could see Darsan was fit and lean, clean of body and mind. He was also overeager and ambitious. Darsan spent 3 years with the man, learning woodcraft, tracking, even how to keep your mark alive after bagging them. Darsan felt he was ready for his first hunt.          He was wrong.          Darsan's first task was to look for a band of cultists that were supposedly sacrificing livestock to some dark god. He was to find them and report them to the watch for a reward. Finding them was easy...getting away not. He was discovered before making his retreat and with a few spoken words, was rendered paralyzed. Frozen in a body that wouldn't obey him, he watched as a woman with a horribly scarred face stalked forward and smashed a mace into his skull.     He awoke in a place of unspeakable horror. A dungeon, consecrated to Talona, where all manner of depraved and despicable experiments were performed on the inhabitants. In was in this dungeon that Darsan was transformed from a handsome, strapping young man to a foul monstrosity only distantly human. Normally those experimented upon are destroyed, but Roach (As his captors had deemed him) was remarkably adaptable. Although he was irredeemably insane, his body refused to submit to the various diseases warring with his flesh. Rather there seemed to develop a truce between his tissue and the parasitic infestations. He could contract and carry any disease, but suffered only cosmetic disfiguration. Obviously this man was blessed by Talona and could not be destroyed. The priests were not brave enough to keep this strange creature around though. Rather, they threw him from an moving carriage into a street in the slums of Andeluvay.     Lost, with only the enormous cancerous growth on his back for companionship, Roach set about finding himself a life. Knowing full well that he could never go home, or be acceptable in civilized society, he opted to throw his lot in with the path fate had set for him. He became a beggar. His physical deformities were so great that many good souls took pity on him. The ones that sought to enjoy themselves at Roach's expense...well they oftimes 'fed' him. Seeing the abuse that was regularly heep upon the homeless set Roach's soul to seething, causing him to launch a crusade against those who would harm the homeless. He styled himself as the King of Beggars and exactly bloody retribution on those he felt deserved his wrath.      The Black Butterfly recognized the worth of a Beggar King and at first thought to support Roach's efforts. He was disappointed to learn that Roach apparently had little interest in mining the vast web of information the beggars could provide. He was surprised to find such a good assassin and terrorist in such a twisted man. From time to time Roach has been contacted to perform services that require either a certain amount of finesse or a certain amount of horror. His abilities as an infiltrator and spy are considerable. Who pays attention to just another beggar? For his assistance in certain criminal endeavors, Roach has asked for medical supplies, items enchanted, and diseased blood. Spurred on by the alien voice of his disease, Roach continues to experiment with new diseases, both on himself and others. Unforetunately, it's just a matter of time before his experiements unleash a virulent plague amoung his 'children'. Then he'll have to find a new family.</blockquote>

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