PCs Still Kicking Puppies OOC [CLOSED, original players still welcome]

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Pretty much Lydia can have a connection to anyone who kills for a living. Preferably without too much mutilation, but she can fix a lot of that. So, Lydia might have been something of a "fangirl" for a while to anyone who left a lot of bodies in their wake. She always appreciates having a lot of "partners" to choose from. So while she may never have talked to that person directly, she would have always given subtle encouragement to any natural-born killer.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

My god, Gwyn has a groupy. Frightening, that.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

So while she may never have talked to that person directly, she would have always given subtle encouragement to any natural-born killer.

Cool, sounds like are characters have never meet but should get along well enough... He's of course skilled with the sword but if your talking of mass killings by constitution damage, and what better way for a mistress of the undead, then she should be a serious fan except for a] its a long time to wait, b] he doesn't really talk about carrier status.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

And it gives me a devious idea or two about future plots. I think Masque might have a major, yet majorly hidden, role in this campaign world.

Great! I love giving DM's ideas...

*Although the last time that happened, my rogue character ended up as the unwilling personal pet of Cyric... hmm...*

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

okay, more background information is up... This could be considered final if need be or as I wrote it very opened it could be expanded upon to include others.

Things of note I changed deity to Talona and I also changed alignment to reflect upon his “new found” faith.

As usually I’m stuck when it comes to surnames… Why or why I cannot pick one is beyond me. Anyhow any help on this would be appreciated…

Isida, does your evil genius provide any insight into this?

Power Attack is still there... I haven't decided what to with it.

Telsar, I shall email you the list of powers soon but I need to eat and such so it will be later tonight.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

Possible surnames (that I just made up):

Darcanda

Tash

Maldradorn

Relzak

Precando

Also, I have a question... You say that his powers killed the one woman he loved, but then he learned to relish that same power. It seems a very abrupt transition. Did he perhaps go a little nuts when he realized what he had done and now desires to disease and destroy everyone's love, whether it is fleeting (as with a whore) or ever-lasting (as with a wife or girlfriend)?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Possible surnames (that I just made up)

Great! I see more than a few of them there that I like.

Also, I have a question... You say that his powers killed the one woman he loved, but then he learned to relish that same power. It seems a very abrupt transition.

Yes, it does. It wasn't quite planed like that but in the need for openness I summed up more than a few years in a single sentence. (right now it sums 5 years but I will probaly make him younger.)

Once we figure if anyone, or anything needs to be added, I will expand upon that life.

Did he perhaps go a little nuts when he realized what he had done and now desires to disease and destroy everyone's love, whether it is fleeting (as with a whore) or ever-lasting (as with a wife or girlfriend)?

There's no doubting that his mind has been effected profoundly and most people will indeed see him as a little nuts but at the same time he can be quite grounded.

As for why, well his reasons come with faith, something he didn't discover in any of his background that’s already written but consider it very likely that its a desire to spread the disease that he his ill-fated with and not simply an attack on love. (if you check out his personality you see that he still holds some hope of finding someone but with his desire to see her live and survive the disease as he did its probably unlikely to ever happen but should give great insight into his mental state.)

Isida, anymore questions? Or other things you would like to see addressed?

Telsar, I just shot that email to you.

 

[Telsar]

Telsar, I just shot that email to you.

And I responded. In the email, I said I'd work up a more indivudalized power/god than Talona, and here's what I came up with:


Bubophis
Lesser Deity (Neutral Evil) Bubophis is the god of plagues, and of the devastation and stagnation that plagues can cause. He is often depicted as a swarm of disease-infected rats or bats, and his followers commonly revere these creatures. Bubophis doesn’t want all creatures to die from disease; diseases are a living thing that are constantly needing new hosts to survive. But he does desire a world crippled by plague, where sentient beings live in constant fear of contact with others, where progress, knowledge, and social development come to an abrupt end. A world where diseases are the dominant life, with the common creatures merely instruments for the diseases to travel.
Followers of Bubophis often allow themselves to be afflicted with minor diseases, particularly those that induce fevers, which they say produce visions of their deity’s desires. Bubophis is believed to be fond of the diseases of vampirism and lycanthropy, and more than a few of his followers have these afflictions.
Followers of Pelor (the Sun God) find the “cult” of Bubophis very offensive, and eradicate them when able, generally through cleansing fire.
Portfolios: Disease, the Night, Swarms, Regression
Cleric Domains: Darkness (FR), Destruction, Evil, Suffering (FR), Travel
Unholy Warrior Domains: Corruption, Darkness, Disease


What do you think? Could this be who your character venerates?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

And I responded. In the email, I said I'd work up a more indivudalized power/god than Talona, and here's what I came up with.

Yeah I got it a few minutes ago when I work up... Give me a few and I'll drop in the answer to the gift of darkness... I think you get both, but I could indeed be wrong as I think it's completely open to interpretation.

As for Bubophis he, it, looks awesome but I have questions though.

If vampirism looked upon as a disease then what of other undead types that spread in much of the same way?

To a lesser extent, how is the undead looked upon?

 

[Telsar]

If vampirism looked upon as a disease then what of other undead types that spread in much of the same way?

To a lesser extent, how is the undead looked upon?

Vampirism is generally only considered a disease by followers of Bubophis, and in fact it may have been vampires within the religion who promoted the concept for their own benefit. As for other undead who spread their curse, most are either too supernatural to be considered a disease (Shadows, for instance) or the effect leaves the target too mentally impaired (Ghouls, with their constant desire to feed on flesh) for a worshipper to think it's a disease he should take on himself. But they still see such creatures as a plague, one they wouldn't mind promoting if it left some people (especially themselves) still alive to spread other diseases.

They probably don't think much of other undead, except as they would all dead... their rotting flesh as a possible source of diseases for the living (Hmmm... wonder if Lydia has had to make some Fortitude saves against that )

Also remember... everything I've written about Bubophis is basically what the clergy teaches. Individuals (such as yourself) might have slightly different ideas about what Bubophis desires and represents.