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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yangnome" data-source="post: 1348519" data-attributes="member: 7413">Meet Dobber HornswallowName: Dobber Hornswallow Sex: Male Height: 5'10" Weight: 160 lbs Hair: BrownEyes: BlueAge: 32  STR 10   +0DEX 14  +2CON 13  +1 INT 12   +1 WIS 8      -1 CHA 16  +3 Template: Criminal Defense Option BAB +2Fortitude +5 =  (+4+1)Reflex     +6 =  (+4+2) Will        +0 =  (+1 –1)HP:  23  = (6+1)=7 + (5+1)=6 + (5+1)=6 + (4+1)=5 AC: 12Sanity: Current: 40 Starting: 40 Max: 99   Skills: [9*4=36 +9+9+9=  63] Bluff  [Cha]                     12 (7+3+2) Diplomacy [Cha]             10 (7+3)Escape Artist [Dex]           3 (1+2)Forgery [Int]                       6 (5+1)Gather Information [Cha] 10 (7+3)Hide [Dex]                          5 (3+2)Intimidate [Cha]                12 (7+3+2)Move Silently [Dex]           5 (3+2)Open Lock [Dex]                3 (1+2)Psychic Focus [Wis]            6 (7-1)Sense Motive [Wis]             6 (7-1) Sleight of Hand [Dex]  9 (7+2) Feats:PersuasiveSensitiveMind Reading Savings: (2-1)=1Starting = 500 poundsYearly= 100 pounds Equipment:Clothing:In his shack, Dobber has a number of different outfits, some are daily wear, others are for disguises, anything from a sailor suit to a lady's dress.  He's been collecting these for over 10 years, though obviously he doesn't have room for too much stuff.  Some of the children he runs take care of laundry and other chores around the abandoned building they live in.  Despite being semi-transient, he generally manages to stay relatively clean.Knife: Dobber hate's violence and generally doesn't resort in it unless his life is in danger.  For those types of circumstances, he carries this knife.   He's also been known to occasionally use the knife to mug pedestrians, generally bluffing that he'll cut them.Backpack.  Dobber generally carries his backpack with him.  Inside you might find his knife, maybe an extra pair of clothes, a bit of rope, some handkerchiefs (generally stolen from passerbys, and other odd bits.When in his normal clothing, Dobber often wears a crumpled brown leather hat that has a brim around it.Background:Dobber Hornswallow is a bit of a peculiar fellow.  Due to his charming personality and wit, most who truly know him tend to overlook the fact that he isn't quite all there in the head.  Dobber lives on the streets of London, using various ploys to earn his next meal, drink or whore.  A charlatan at heart, Dobber will do anything from begging and pick pocketing to setting up intricate ruses to coax victims out of their money or in times of need, strong armed robbery.  He's been known to pose in disguise, playing upon people's sympathy for change.  He also runs a somewhat elaborate scheme, letting children beg for him.  It seems every week or so, sometimes even more often, Dobber is concocting some new scheme.Dobber, originally Edward Tallowhaven, was born to an upper middle class family in London.  As a child he lived a very comfortable life.  Even then though there seemed to be something wrong with his mind.  From as early as age three, Dobber was plagued with horrible nightmares.  Dreams filled with evil visions plagued his sleep filled hours, keeping him from getting any real good rest.  Dobber's parents were afraid to talk about the issue outside the house.  While it is normal for children to have nightmares, Dobber had them constantly, and the things he would describe after waking were not the normal dreams of a child his age.  Though Dobber's parents worried, they didn't want to see him found insane and locked away in a sanitarium for the rest of his life.  Instead, Dobber's parents urged him to try to combat the horrid creatures that plagued his dreams.  They figured that if he realized he had control of the dreams, he might be able to gain enough control to make them go away.Though Dobber's parents likely meant the best for him, their decision to keeps his nightmares a secret was a big mistake.  At the age of six, while sleepwalking, Dobber killed his parents in their sleep.  It wasn't long into the investigation that the detectives found out about his dreams and had him committed to the Beckenshire Sanitarium.  Dobber never fully understood the reason he was went to the sanitarium.  He is unaware that it was he who killed his parents.  Inside the sanitarium, Dobber was poked and prodded, both physically and mentally; his dreams continued to plague him though.  While he never was able to gain contol of his dreams, or fully recover from the bloody death of his parents, Dobber did begin to grow in other ways.  At the age of 14, he began to realize that he had an interesting ability.  If he focused hard enough, Dobber was able to read the thoughts of those around him.  It first started with one of the doctors that dealt with him.  One day while the doctor was checking up on him, he brushed up against the doctor's hand. For a brief moment, he realized what the doctor was thinking.Dobber learned to harness his new ability.  Initially, he practiced with the sanitarium staff.  Later, he was able to expand his ability and read the thoughts of other patients as well, even some that lived in the other wing.  Always an enterprising fellow, Dobber decided to put this ability to use.  With recent drawbacks in funding for the sanitarium, Dobber realized that he might be able to make the necessary changes to be released from the institution.  He paid close attention to the Doctors that worked upon him and realized it was his dreams that they were investigating.  Dobber soon pretended that he was able to gain control over his dreams as his parents had suggested.  After months of this, he pretended that the dreams had ceased altogether.On his sixteenth birthday, Dobber was released from the Sanitarium.  With no family to turn to, and no place to go, Dobber eventually took to the streets.  Initially he had to rely on begging for scraps and coin, barely able to feed him a couple times a week.  It wasn't long before he began to develop some skills and stories that played on the hearts of those he begged from.  He was generally able to get enough coin to keep his stomach full and enjoy some other luxuries, mainly ale and women.  It was at this time, he took on the name Dobber Hornswallow.  One of the patients in the sanitarium couldn't pronounce his name and had called him Dobber since he arrived there.  It grew in popularity and eventually became his nickname.  Wanting to cut all associations to his past and the possibility of going back to the sanitarium, he chose the last name Hornswallow, leaving his old name and life completely behind him. He continued his life on the streets with great success.  He recruited others, including a number of children to work under him.  In turn, he offered them security and a place on the floor in an abandoned building he found.  Dobber was extremely adept at winning people's emotions, both through his charming way and with a little help from his ability to read thoughts.  He could quickly determine if his ruse was working or not.  This allowed him to focus his efforts, and push the limits of his "clients".Today, sixteen years after his release from the sanitarium, you'll still find Dobber on the streets of London.  Amongst the criminal element of the city, he's a somewhat prolific person.  He's in tune with what happens around the city and is always looking for another sham to pull, or a new client begging for the wool to be pulled over their eyes.</blockquote>

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