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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6301279" data-attributes="member: 63746">Welcome aboard Isida. *waves back* <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Re badges and such: Ah, I knew I forgot something in that second PM! Here's the whole thing, pasted (with modifs) from the last background discussion we had (correct me if I missed anything in there guys):Doghead: The characters are in the service of, or owe a debt to a reasonably powerful member of the 'monster kingdom' (the Fae world). Who is this person: the Winter or the Summer Princes, Witching Troll, the Grandmaster of Flowers, or some other entirely?- GlassEye: The Witching Troll- Binder Fred: Who is a hulking, hill-sized mass of animated graniteDoghead: How did you come to owe this bond or service?Everybody:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Brier, Slice and Trickle were a bunch of lawless, hardened rogues. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They were hired as muscle for a punitive raid on Earl Tahnurson's holdings. Another in their large raiding party was Artur, a Norse cleric in service to the raid's sponsor, Earl Eogan.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The raid turned bad and they ran, fellow raiders falling around them like flies.  (It's been suggested that exact memories of the rest of the night could start to diverge from here, this being a Fae situation, although this hasn't been established IC yet.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">They would have been wiped out just then if not for the help of a Witching Troll agent named Khirynnax who called them out from under an avalanche of blades and torches and into a secret, magical place where they hid for the night.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Witching Troll was waiting there for them. He WAS the hill.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Not only do they now owe the Troll for their lives, for which they swore loyalty to him for a year and a day, but he also secretly whispered fantastical promises in the ears of each of them in turn, promises which would surely come true if a few, trivial events happened to fall his way... He promised Slice power enough to take his bloody revenge ten times over, Brier introduction to the court of his kin, Trickle the endless formulas of masterful Fae poisons and Artur (?).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Not satisfied with just that, the Troll also set one of his pets (the very Khirynnax who rescued them) in the group with them -- to watch them and report no doubt. Seeing as he's the one who rescued them, it's difficult to argue too loudly about it too...</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Finally, he gave each of them a seemingly ordinary white stone as a symbol of their bond, telling them to keep it on their person, always.</li> </ol>So, basically at the beginning of all this Hawthorne could be part of Slice et al's little group of scruffy rogues ((would be?) Girlfriend/fiance to one of them? Relative? Something else?) or she can have been in service to the Witching Troll from before, like Khirynnax, or she can have been on Earl Eogan's raiding party for some other reason (service to the house of Eogan, like Artur?), something else entirely?Hope that clears things up a bit. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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