Character introductions

Dec 29, 2022 1:49 am
This place will be to give a brief introduction of your character.

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Appearance
Background
Mannerisms/quirks
Personality
Dec 29, 2022 2:56 am
Introduction:
My name is Veronica Crane. I am the Great Granddaughter of the Legendary Schoolteacher Ichabod Crane who unfortunately fell to the hands of the headless horseman. Those of us borne to his surname are cursed. My life changed forever when I was brutally attacked by a female vampire at age 16 because I stole her jewels being of the nobility. Now I hunger for the life energy of others, trying to get what I want and to take revenge on anyone who tries to enslave me.

Now 29, I have been trying to survive while living on the streets by stealing what I can and was unfortunately captured by an orc raiding party who seemed to be enraptured by my beauty. I don't know what they plan to do to me but I fear enslavement to one of them, torture and more. I do not want to be a slave to these savages but will try my best to escape with whoever joins me.

Appearance: I have yellow eyes that shines in the moonlight, long silver hair is covered by a dark hooded robe that hides my beautiful slender form which also hides my weapons. Under my robe I wear a tattered white ruffled shirt, and a long periwinkle blue skirt and long black high heeled boots adorn my feet.

Personality: I am very bold and a braggart who laughs in the face of danger though secretly I am a coward and my fiesty temper often gets me into trouble. I am also a virgin maiden and fear the touch of men.

Mannerisms: wrinkling her nose when she lies and when her ears wiggle. She blushes when embarrassed or complimented. A very outgoing person.

Background: Criminal pickpocket

Character Picture: https://i.imgur.com/LAaBLKc.png
Last edited December 29, 2022 5:06 pm
Dec 30, 2022 1:37 pm
Ok Veronica, here are your three questions. These are purely hypothetical (no bearing on the game) but hopefully will flesh out some priories or reactions.

1. You are approached by an old woman in colerful scarves who, unprompted, says she can cure your vampirism; but the procedure is long, tortuous, and you might not survive. What do you do?

2. You have been a captive for years. Suddenly your captor leaves your cell open and stabs your closest friend and ally. You only have time to do one thing as many guards are coming. Do you: bite and kill your captor, save your friend from dying, or escape to freedom and why?

3. While pickpocketing in the city you discover the plans to assassinate the tyrannical king. Most of the signees are good upstanding people, however a couple are known acquaintances of the headless horseman. What do you do with the plans/knowledge?
Dec 30, 2022 1:51 pm
1. I go up to the woman, laugh in her face and say "I've never felt so alive though. I don't have to breathe anymore and can climb up walls and can heal myself through the life force from others. Who would want to give up that? Nay, keep your cure. I'll have your life instead for wasting my time." Veronica will then grab the woman by the neck and plunge her long Vampire incisors into her neck and suck the life out of her. Once she's killed the woman, she grabbed her rainbow scarves and throws it around her neck with a smile.

2. Seeing that there is no way to save my friend, I grab my oppressor who captured me and stabbing him through the heart, biting through his jugular vein I suck the life out of him. Once he is dead, I place two coins over the eyes of my dead friend before going invisible and running to freedom placing the bloody knife in my hand.

3. I turn that information into the thieves guilds because all information is good information and then decide whether I want to do something about it or let other experienced assassins in the thieves/assassins guild to deal with it.
Dec 31, 2022 7:33 am
Okay here's mine:

Dennan is a woodsman/hunter with a rather acute connection to the wild and its beasts. As a child, he was the sole survivor of a raid/massacre on his village. The members of his village were either killed or taken captive. Alone at the age of fourteen, he found ways to survive for a year in his razed village, hunting and gathering, until eventually orcs began to cover the area, forcing him to flee.

The forest simultaneously became his home and his veil. He developed an unlikely relationship with a lone wolf who he saved from a bear. Since then, the wolf has never wandered too far from Dennan and has come to his aid a number of crucial times.

Dennan is generally mistrustful of humans, seeing most as no different than the slave traders who destroyed his village and captured his people. He ventures to towns and cities as rarely and cautiously as possible, preferring the raw purity of the wilderness. On the other hand, he has made some connections in the villages of halfings. Spending a considerable amount of effort policing the woodlands, on a number of perilous occasions he was forced to ‘reroute’ orcs and other nefarious bands of humans to keep them far away from the peaceful lives of the halflings. An army of one, at home in the forest, using it as his weapon against those disconnected from its nuances.

Dennan has no love for raiders or slavers and has vowed to one day locate and deal vengeance to those who killed his family and abducted his people. BUT perhaps that day won’t occur. Because in his latest attempt to keep an orc raiding party away from the pristine areas of the forest and off the trails that lead to the cheerful fields and warm holes of haflings, Dennan was finally overtaken by the orcs while he was allowing himself to be tracked away from the forest. Now captured and combined with other abducted prisoners, he is being delivered to an unknown fate.


Dennan is now 22 years old. He’s weathered and sturdy, about 5’ 9" with rusty hair. He wears furs and a cloak. Quite reserved and mistrustful, he doesn’t waste words and prefers quiet, solitude, and the company of beasts, over the loud baggard behavior of other humans. He is willing to risk himself to protect others, especially those who either cannot protect themselves or are naive to the dangers of the world.

https://i.imgur.com/kEqjcc3.jpg
Dec 31, 2022 10:35 am
Layla is a human girl who grew up in a little village. It was just her and her mother. She had no siblings and didn't know who her father was. She and mom were very poor.

Layla discovered she had magical powers she didn't understand. A touch of her hand healed injuries or gave people a bit more confidence to do what they needed to do... or just set things ablaze.

When she was a teen, her mother told her that her father was an angelic being. A creature of good and kindness. Layla didn't buy that story of good and kind. He left her, abandonned her to live without father didn't he?

She gained some local fame as the village healer/blesser.

But the creatures from the underworlds had noticed Layla, the daughter of an angel, too. The village was invaded and stood no chance. Layla barely escaped... alone. If her angelic father had only been here.

Now she is 19, determined to be the spirit of good and kindness that her loser of a father never was.

(I have selected art, but it is on my PC and I am away from home at my phone now. It's a human female cleric/mage like in a pure white dress with red hair walking in a forest. I shall post it asap)
Dec 31, 2022 4:50 pm
I gotta say I'm excited to be in such company. I'm just a typical human ranger (albeit with a magical connection to a wolf). I've never been in a party with a vampire (of legendary lineage), and a healer of angelic descent. This is gonna be fun.
Dec 31, 2022 4:52 pm
I'm excited too. Can't wait for us to start.
Jan 1, 2023 12:39 pm
Happy New Year all.

After the New Years Eve, I am back online properly now.
Gonna finish up my character right now and I still owe you the art I am using :)

https://i.imgur.com/nGPGMMP.jpg
Jan 1, 2023 3:39 pm
Wow. That's amazing art!
Jan 2, 2023 5:07 pm
Quick question. What would Dennan have heard about Ichabod Crane?
Last edited January 2, 2023 5:08 pm
Jan 2, 2023 9:28 pm
Well, Veronica has been told by others that he was a schoolteacher who after trying to woo the daughter of a noble Lord named Katrina
Von Tassel that a town bully and friend of the family a Duke named Brom Bones tried to scare him saying that if you travelled the roads on a blood full moon night and encountered a creature known as the Headless Horseman, you could easily outrace him by horseback. Ichabod didn't believe that such a creature existed and after attending a All Hallows eve party at the Home of the Von tassels, rode home alone and that night was a blood full moon. He encountered the Headless Horseman and tried to outrace him on horseback not knowing that the ghoul rode a Nightmare horse and the monster sliced off his head and Ichabod fell to the ghoul. Now anyone bearing the Crane Surname is cursed and people know them to be unlucky.
Last edited January 2, 2023 9:29 pm

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