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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BigTom" data-source="post: 2345301" data-attributes="member: 16366">I am torn between two characters, so here they are.The first was Tarl son of Tarl.  Tarl was a dwarven warrior with a bit of piety thrown in.  To Thor.  So basically you had a fighter/cleric heavy on the fighter.  Tarl was brash in the way only a stoneheaded young dwarf can be.  He had absolute faith that he could find a way to defeat any opponent, and he was not afraid to try it even when caution said otherwise.  His headlong charges often got him into deep trouble, but a combination of skill, toughness, luck and inventive companions somehow got him through.  Tarl used the power Thor gave him to make himself last longer in combat and to smite those not willing to get into melee with him.  Thor seemed to approve.  Tarl actually survived over a year of campaign time until the game ended with the DM moving out of town.The conversation that immortalized Tarl went something like this:Villager: The tower of evil lies an hour from town!Tarl: Good, then we can vanquish evil before breakfast.Villager: But there are thousands of creatures there!Tarl: Hmm, then it may take a while.  We better have breakfast first.Villager: Are you insane?Tarl: (to companions) Ok, so lets have a good breakfast then go vanquish evil.  Who's with me?The thing to remember is, as ridiculous as that conversation sounds, Tarl would say those things with absolute seriousness and believe he could pull them off.  Occasionally he did too.The other was Wallaby Jones, Crypto-zoologist.  Wallaby was an Aussie with something of a maverick attitude in a CoC world.  He was famous for the discovery of the Red tufted Wallaby, thus the name.  Wallaby eventually got to be a Crypto-specimen after a rather shocking encounter with a weretiger.  He got bitten, survived, killed the attacker, and contracted lycanthrope.  Thus, Wallaby became the first lycanthrope to work for Delta Green.  Wallaby went between serious therapy to maintain his humanity and dabbling in Bast worship after that, but he never really lost touch with his humanity.  Delta Green was desperately afraid of him because of his bestial nature, but his sheer ability in combat and his willingness to use it on their behalf made him an ally they couldn't lose.  Wallaby eventually retired when the strain became to great, and lived to a ripe old age before the Great Old Ones returned to destroy the world.</blockquote>

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