DM Brainiac's War for the Crown: Table 1 (Inactive)

Game Master Brainiac

Mélodie d’Valois
Female Changeling Mesmerist (Vox) 1
NG Medium Humanoid (Changeling)

Init +2 (+2 Dex)

Senses: Perception +7.

DEFENSE
AC 13, touch 12, flat-footed 11 (+1 armour, +2 dex).

HP 8/8

Fort 0 (0 base, 0 Con)
Ref +4 (2 base, +2 Dex)
Will +5 (2 base, +3 Wis)

OFFENSE
Sword Cane -1, d6-1, x2.
Spd 30 ft

Space 5 ft.; Reach 5 ft.

SPELLS
0 (DC14): Daze, Detect Magic, Ghost Sound, Prestidigitation (∞/day)
1 (DC15): Charm Person, Ear-Piercing Scream (2/day)

STATISTICS
Str 8 (-1)
Dex 14 (+2)
Con 10 (0)
Int 12 (+1) (14 base, -2 racial)
Wis 16 (+3) (14 base, +2 racial)
Cha 17 (+3) (15 base, +2 racial)

Base Atk +0 (+0.75 Mesmerist)
CMB -1 (0 BAB, -1 Str)
CMD 11 (10, +0 BAB, +2 Dex, -1 Str)

FEATS
Point-Blank Shot [Level 1]: You get a +1 bonus on attack and damage rolls with ranged weapons at ranges of up to 30 feet.

TRAITS
Disgraced Noble? (Campaign): …
Switched at Birth (Racial): You were traded for another child in infancy and remained unaware of your origin as a changeling until some recent tragedy revealed the truth. Now the guilt of knowing you live because another child met a horrible fate haunts you and drives you forward in that child’s name. Once per day, you can attempt a Will saving throw in place of a Fortitude saving throw against a spell, effect, or condition.
Adopted (Social): You were adopted and raised by someone not of your race, and raised in a society not your own. As a result, you picked up a race trait from your adoptive parents and society, and may immediately select a race trait from your adoptive parents’ race. Innocent (Racial): When you make a Bluff check to tell a lie, your target always wants to believe you, granting you the standard +5 bonus on your Bluff check. This bonus only applies if the lie you tell is either believable or unlikely.
Hemophilia: Your thin, almost translucent skin is delicate and tears easily. You take 1 point of bleed damage from slashing attacks that deal at least 1 point of damage to you.

SKILLS
Bluff +13 (1 rank, +3 Cha, +3 class, +1 class, +5 trait)
Diplomacy +17 (1 rank, +3 Cha, +3 class)
Intimidate +7 (1 rank, +3 Cha, +3 class)
Knowledge (Arcana) +5 (1 rank, +1 Int, +3 class)
Knowledge (History)* +5 (1 rank, +1 Int, +3 class)
Knowledge (Local) +5 (1 rank, +1 Int, +3 class)
Knowledge (Nobility)* +6 (1 rank, +1 Int, +3 class, +1 trait)
Perception +7 (1 rank, +3 Wis, +3 class)
Sense Motive +7 (1 rank, +3 Wis, +3 class)
Spellcraft +5 (1 rank, +1 Int, +3 class)

Total Points: 10 [1x(6 Mesmerist + 1 Int + 1 fcb + 2 background)]
AC penalty is 0

LANGUAGES
Common, Celestial

EQUIPMENT
Entertainer’s Outfit (free)
Silken Ceremonial Armour (30gp) [4lbs]
Sword Cane (45gp) [4lbs]
Jewelry (25gp)
5 gold 0 silver 0 copper
Weight Carried: 8lbs.

SPECIAL ABILITIES
Darkvision: Changelings see perfectly in the dark up to 60 feet.
Hag Magic: Some changelings develop a gift for spellcasting instead of their mothers’ overtly fearsome traits. A changeling with this trait displays one or more stark white streaks in her hair as a child. The DCs of any saving throws against enchantment spells she casts increase by 1, and if her Charisma score is 11 or higher, she also gains the following spell-like abilities, usable once per day each: dancing lights, detect magic, disguise self, and pass without trace. The caster level of these spell-like abilities is equal to the changeling’s character level. The DC for these spell-like abilities is equal to 10 + the spell’s level + the changeling’s Charisma modifier. This racial trait replaces the claws and natural armor racial abilities. Agents of Evil.
Veil May: The Sense Motive check DC to gain a hunch about the changeling increases by 5.

Consummate Lair: A mesmerist adds 1/2 his mesmerist level (minimum 1) as a bonus on all Bluff checks. In addition, the mesmerist qualifies for the Improved Feint and Greater Feint feats, even if he doesn't have Combat Expertise or an Intelligence score of at least 13. He can also ignore Combat Expertise and an Intelligence score of 13 as prerequisites for other feats that require Improved Feint or Greater Feint.
Knacks: Mesmerists learn a number of knacks, or 0-level spells. These spells are cast like any other spells, but they do not consume any slots and can be used again. Knacks cast using other spell slots, due to metamagic feats, for example, consume spell slots as normal.
Spellcasting: A vox adds the following spells to his class list:
1st—ear-piercing scream;
2nd—cacophonous call, disrupt silence, distracting cacophony, piercing shriek, sonic scream;
4th—shout, sonic thrust, wall of sound;
5th—cacophonous call (mass), echolocation, resonating word;
6th—magnifying chime, shout (greater), sonic form.
Unlike most psychic spells, a vox’s mesmerist spells use both thought and verbal components; like a bard, a vox cannot remove the verbal components of his spells.
This alters the mesmerist’s spellcasting and replaces towering ego, the mesmerist trick normally gained at 10th level, and touch treatment (break enchantment).
Compelling Voice:A vox can focus the sound of his voice on one creature within 30 feet as a swift action, sapping that target’s willpower and rendering her more vulnerable to mind-affecting powers, rather than using a stare like other mesmerists. That creature takes a –2 penalty on Will saving throws. This penalty changes to –3 at 8th level. A vox can use his compelling voice even while deafened, but it has a 20% chance to fail, just like casting a spell with a verbal component. The target does not need to be able to understand what the vox is saying, but does need to be able to hear the sound of the vox’s voice (for instance, this ability cannot be used if either the vox or his target is in an area of magical silence). Otherwise, the vox’s compelling voice has the effects of the standard mesmerist’s hypnotic stare, and it gains further benefits as normal from abilities like the painful stare and bold stare class features.
The mesmerist can remove the memory of his stare from the target's mind; The creature doesn't remember that it was affected (nor does it realize that it is currently being affected) unless the mesmerist allows it. The hypnotic stare is a psychic effect, and relies more on the mesmerist's focus than the target's perception of his stare. It can't be avoided in the same ways a gaze attack can. The mesmerist can use this ability even while blinded, but must succeed at a DC 20 concentration check to do so. Staring at a creature requires the mesmerist's focus, so if he uses a gaze attack or similar ability, he must target the subject of his hypnotic stare or voluntarily end the stare. The penalties from multiple mesmerists' stares don't stack, nor do they stack with penalties from witches' evil eye hexes. This is a mind-affecting effect.
This ability alters hypnotic stare.
Painful Stare: When an attack that deals damage hits the target of a mesmerist's hypnotic stare, the mesmerist can cause the target to take an amount of additional damage equal to 1/2 the mesmerist's class level (minimum 1).
The mesmerist can use this ability as a free action, and can use it even if it isn't his turn. If the mesmerist uses this ability to increase his own damage, the additional damage increases by 1d6 points for every 3 class levels the mesmerist possesses. This damage is precision damage and is not multiplied on a critical hit. A mesmerist can trigger this ability only once per round, but a single creature can take damage from multiple mesmerists' painful stares in a round.
Mesmerist’s Tricks: A mesmerist can create hypnotic bonds with his allies, implanting magical suggestions in their minds that he can later activate. Each day, he can implant a number of these tricks equal to 1/2 his mesmerist level (minimum 1) plus his Charisma bonus (if any). He can have only one trick implanted at a given time, and implanting a new trick ends the previous one (the mesmerist still loses the use of this ability he spent on the previous trick).
To implant a trick, the mesmerist must take a standard action and either touch a willing creature or implant the trick in himself. A creature can be the subject of only one mesmerist trick at a time. The mesmerist can activate the trick as a free action when a triggering condition is met (as defined in the trick's description), even if it isn't his turn. The subject must be within medium range (100 feet + 10 feet per level) for the mesmerist to trigger the trick.
The mesmerist monitors for the trick's triggering condition through a subtle telepathic connection, so he doesn't need line of sight to trigger it—but anything that blocks telepathic contact prevents him from triggering tricks. An implanted trick lasts until the next time the mesmerist regains his spells.
Once triggered, a trick is no longer implanted, and can't be triggered again until the mesmerist implants the trick again. The duration of the effect caused by triggering a trick is either instantaneous or appears in the trick's entry. The DC for any mesmerist trick or masterful trick that requires a saving throw or skill check is 10 + 1/2 the mesmerist's level + the mesmerist's Charisma modifier.
Mesmeric Mirror: An illusory image appears near the subject to throw off attackers. The mesmerist can trigger this trick when the subject is attacked or becomes the target of a spell that requires an attack roll. One duplicate of the subject appears, and the attacker must determine randomly which it hits (as mirror image). For every 5 class levels the mesmerist possesses, one additional image appears, to a maximum of five images at 20th level. Each image lasts for 1 minute per mesmerist level or until destroyed. This is an illusion (figment) effect.

Melodie is of middling height, but very slender (detractors would call her skinny) and pale skinned. Her skin is, in fact, so pale that it is easy to make out her veins through the skin and Melodie uses this to her own advantage during grand occasions by painting her skin in a variety of colored lines to accentuate the natural effect.

Her hair is long and dark, apart from the thick white streak which falls from her right temple and has been part of her hair ever since it first grew. This, combined with how easily her skin tears, and her blood's extreme resistance to clotting has led some, less charitable souls, to whisper that Melodie is cursed but the young woman tries to rise above such whispers.

Melodies best feature is not actually visible. From an early age she was gifted with an enchanting voice. Her parents relate that, even as a baby, when she laughed others in the room could not help but do the same and when she cried she was immediately surrounded by concerned adults - even those not of her actual family. Learning to speak early Melodie has always loved music, singing and the spoken words, and although her private attempts at poetry are destined never to see the light of day, she often performs readings and songs at her parent's parties, or those of close friends.

The possessor of a disease which means even a paper-cut could be fatal if not quickly treated, Melodie is by nurture a very careful person - keen to avoid risks and not adept at combat or violence generally. She prefers to deal with conflict peacefully, and usually plays the role of mediator - encouraging both sides to talk out their differences.

Despite this necessary caution when in social situations Melodie is happy and confident. Naturally gifted at conversation, her powers of persuasion have grown as she ages and now Melodie is proud of her voice and her singing ability - pride which makes her, if not outright desirous of the spot-light, not unhappy when it settles on her. How much of this is simply youthful brashness is unclear but Melodie's friends and enemies alike all admit that, one to one, her voice can almost put one under a spell.

Sorel Taragate was born into a family of arcane casters blessed with divine blood housed on the outskirts of Oppara. The only problem was that, as far as the family could tell Sorel had no arcane ability and had only gained minor divine traits related to their bloodline. The only sign he was of the family was the silver sheen to his hair and eyes. He was however born with a strong wit and a silver tongue. Pushing for more power and hopefully bearded status, the family decided he would be perfect to train up as a negotiator and diplomat. His training included everything from simple diplomacy and languages to forgery and interrogation. As the years went by Sorel became more and more adept with his mind and his mouth, successfully overseeing many deals and negotiations despite his age. Though bitter that he did not have the arcane powers of his parents or siblings, he enjoyed his position in the family. If it were not for the crippling headaches, everything would have been perfect as far as he was concerned. Starting from a young age Sorel had been practically crippled with debilitating migraines and headaches. As he aged, they got worse and worse. By the time of his 15th birthday, he was bedridden almost constantly with pain. One day the migraines worsened until they built into a crescendo that he feared would finally kill him. Then like a damn bursting from too much water, the pain flooded out of him. A psychic shockwave raced through the building, knocking out almost every person in the manor. Once they woke up, it did not take long for the family to realize that the origin of the shockwave was Sorel. Delving into their archives and discreetly asking around the arcane and occult community, the Taragate’s were able to come up with an answer for what had happened. For whatever reason Sorel’s arcane and divine energies combined into psychic abilities. With a body more compatible for the arcane, the psychic abilities built up painfully in Sorel’s body until his mind had developed enough to handle the new and unusual ability. Seeing an opportunity for a trained psychic diplomat, the family sent Sorel off for training under the guise of finding a way to cure his now famously crippling migraines.
Excited about his new abilities, Sorel dove into his new studies hoping to return to his family in a few years as the best psychic negotiator and diplomat Taldor had ever seen. Sadly fate was not so kind as to wait for him to return. Intimidated by the rapid increase in power by a non-noble, unbearded family and the example they were making for other commoners, some upper members of the Senatorial colluded to take them down. Not long after leaving for his training, Sorel received the news that his family had all tragically died in a manor fire. Not wanting to watch him run back to Oparra untrained, Sorel’s teachers hired an investigator in Oparra to look into the obviously suspicious murder. With the death of his family fresh in his mind, his psychic training ground to a halt. Looking to pull him out of his stupor, his teachers began hiring him out to families and organizations to do what he does best: to convince people that his clients are right, the opposition is wrong and that the stupid deal is actually quite enticing. Though the death of his family was still painful, the focus that came from these jobs allowed him to continue on with his training. Years went by and slowly Sorel was able to master his mind powers and start incorporating them into his negotiations, with noone any the wiser that he was psychic at all. Along with his skills, his reputation as a go to problem solver and negotiator also began to grow.
With his powers under control and his reputation strong enough, Sorel finally decided it was time to return to Oparra. It was time to try and hunt down his family’s killers. Reports about the investigation came in from time to time over the years, but never seemed to contain any definite results. A recent report says that the case was being handed off to the investigators daughter, Maria. The weeks leading up to his return, he sent some letters back and forth with this Maria discussing the case and informing her of his imminent return to Oparra. Sorel’s reputation must of preceded him as no sooner had he found a room in Oparra, that a letter from the Lotheed family was delivered to him. Hmm a job involving the princess? Gaining allies like this would be important in finding and punishing his parents killers. Sorel decided he would need to talk with this Maria later after he gets more details on this job.

Serol stands 5'8" with 135 lbs of weight to him. His eyes and hair are both white with a sheen like polished silver. While not the most physically imposing person, he more than makes up for it with his quick wit and silver tongue. Not to mention his natural good looks and charm. Sorel keeps his spell casting hidden as an extra advantage in case of emergencies. Only those he trusts the most know of his psychic abilities.
Though he is no stranger to the occasional fight, as some negotiations can go off the rails, Sorel does everything in his power to avoid them. Trusting in his wit and charm is what has always gotten him out of even the tightest situations. While he does try and stay above the level while doing his job, he has certainly never been against being underhanded to get ahead.