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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pacdidj" data-source="post: 5435366" data-attributes="member: 86793">Just started this guy out today over on the L4E boards, and so far I'm having lots of fun with my villainous gnome:Siveris Smythe - D&D 4E, Male Gnome Artificer, Lv 4Specializes in alchemy, specifically the creation and application of poisons.[sblock=background]Siveris always thought of himself as a good person. After all, his life's work was healing people with his potions, cures, salves, ointments and unguents. That all changed one day, when he happened to come home early and spot his wife Lucinnia cheating on him with Pyron Glasston, the owner of a rival apothecary, and a human to boot! Rather than barge in on his wife's illicit affair he surreptitiously returned to his shop instead, and began plotting the cold blooded murder of Lucinnia and her overgrown lover.He immediately tapped his one underworld connection--a smuggler, whose services he'd previously employed to occasionally circumvent tariffs when importing expensive herbs--to procure a specimen of fleshbane, a rare and highly illicit mold known for its uses as a reagent in processes of alchemical disincorporation. Then he set to work for an entire month distilling a poison so potent that a single drop administered by a wooden dart would almost instantly dissolve both its victim and the murder weapon. Two months later Lucinnia disappeared without a trace, and a year after that Pyron Glasston met the same fate.Having dipped his hands into the dark side of alchemy, and having nothing left to lose, Siveris then took the full plunge. He began procuring and concocting all manner of illegal poisons and narcotics to sell on the black market, and they sold so well that he soon found himself the owner of the most successful apothecary in all of Daunton. Not satisfied with having dispensed with Pyron Glasston though, and having no better use for the money, Siveris began feverishly plotting ways to use his new-found financial success to bring about the ruin of the wealthy and influential Glasston family, thereby completing his revenge.But then things started to go sour. Last month his import records were subpoenaed and his property seized under suspicion of trafficking in controlled substances, and he himself was very nearly sent to prison. Clearly someone on Daunton's ruling council knows what he did last summer, but who are they, and why don't they simply confront him openly?Now Siveris needs a quick way to raise money to pay his legal fees, and continue plotting the Glasstons' downfall. With his life worth far less to him at this point than his consuming desire for revenge, the foolhardy career of adventuring with its high risks, but even higher payoffs for the luckly survivors has begun to look very appealing...[/sblock]</blockquote>

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