Arkus Balin's page

No hard feelings; life comes first. work and family aren't to be ignored just for fun and games. I'll keep a bookmark here and check in for good news periodically, but I'm not too bummed about it. the good thing about PBP games is that there's no rush. when you have time again, so will we.

Take care of business and get life sorted out; the game will still exist when you return. I for one, will happily welcome you back at the first opportunity. Till then, hang in there, buddy.

to the mill!

"not a baby, I just can't bandage more then one person at a time, even if I get em to my house. Just sayin, let's be careful."

dunno who else is with me and Tomid right now, but feeling like we should kinda gather up.

Arkus follows along with Tomid out the back, slightly concerned.

"startin to worry bout these centipedes. that logger said they're big as his forearm, and his arm's a fair bit bigger than mine or yours. Hope we don't find em all at once..."

"Yeah, and don't worry, we're not there to kill em. we just need a few. And thanks for the tip, we'll watch our step."

knowledge(local)1d20 ⇒ 3

"Can't think of any haunted places in town. don't remember seein anything weird around. Might have to ask around."

Arkus checks with Tomid on who spoke of it, and decides to get some info from the loggers.

"Scuse me, sir? My friend heard you mention centipedes. Where'd you say you found those big ones at?"

nothing like "she's gonna be fine" to fix up your day, huh?

heh. should take more than a little stroke to stop dedicated gamers. I should know, I know a couple...

"Hmm, guess they'll be big enough to hold a couple in each bag when we catch em. We got any string to tie em closed once they're full?"

Moms come first. Mine's dealing well with her breast cancer, so I can relate. Forum posts aren't going anywhere; We'll be awaiting your return with best wishes.

"I guess we should find some things to put the bugs in first, right?"

Arkus starts looking around for what might be empty sacks, jars with lids, anything that could be a closed container.
perception: just gonna take 10, otherwise 1d20 ⇒ 6

"OK, let's go!"

"Well, I said I'd be chairman, but I wanna go along to make sure no one gets bitten too bad. And I can probly help you talk the innkeeper into lettin us in. We should probly leave a couple people here at least, so it's not just one person sitting here gettin bored. Hmmm...anyone want to stay behind while we go find these bugs?"

"Yeah, we should try to get as many as we can tonight, so we have time to put them in Gerad's stuff before he leaves. if we wait till morning, we won't have much time. I think we all need to get to our homes in teams maybe, and try to grab any ones we find there. we'll be cleanin our houses of pests, gettin to know each other's parents, and gettin paid for our time! Plus, if we get stuck doin chores instead, two can do it faster together!"

"Ooooh, then we'd be gettin paid twice!"

Arkus folds his arms in thought.

"But then, if Gerad hears we're cleanin out centipedes around town, you think he'll figure out what we're doin? Hmmmm..."

"hmm. Well, I think we'll be able to manage somethin, Joanne. We'll take the job.

Maybe we should have groups? i mean, it shouldn't take all of us to catch one at a time, right?"

"hmm...big enough to bite? you're not worried about them hurting him? That's gonna be a weird first job, but with all of us, I'll bet finding em's gonna be tougher than catching 'em."

"Wait a second. if we can't catch any big ones, wouldn't a whole bunch of little ones do it too? I mean, anything's pretty scary when there's like a hundred of em in your bags."

Arkus glances around the room doubtfully, but stands and dusts himself off.

"Well, I guess we can always change titles later if people want. I'll give chairman a try, but we might have to have more than one. Dad already has me doing some chores at the forge and mom makes sure I practice my first aid lessons, and I try to keep up my sword practice too when I can." Arkus scratches his head thoughtfully.

"Ok, so you said you're willing to pay, how much? Oh and you still didn't say what kinda prank you want to pull."

"and more importantly, why you wanna pull a prank on Gerad, and even more important, what kinda prank is it?"

perception +0 bonus
1d20 ⇒ 6
1d20 ⇒ 4
1d20 ⇒ 14
1d20 ⇒ 8
1d20 ⇒ 17
1d20 ⇒ 12
1d20 ⇒ 13
1d20 ⇒ 16
1d20 ⇒ 12
1d20 ⇒ 11

Arkus receives the boot, standing a bit taller then most of the crowd.

"Um, I'm Arkus Balin. My dad's the blacksmith, and he's teachin' me stuff about smithing, and my mom showed me a thing or two about takin' care of cuts and bruises and stuff, so I can help if anybody gets hurt. I'm learning how to fight pretty well, so I can watch out for everybody if things get rough or something. Umm, I guess that's it. I just hope we all get to do some great things and have some fun."

Arkus sets the boot down on a nearby crate and takes a spot sitting near a wall to watch.

Arkus's mom has healing/first aid skills of some sort, so I imagine she's somewhere between herbalist, cleric, adept, or just a commoner who took ranks in heal. Pop's a blacksmith for the town, so he's always poundin out horseshoes, nails, fittings, tools, that sort of thing, occasionally working on a sword and shield he one day hope Arkus will be strong enough to wield. Oh yeah, and arrows too, good point.

Side note: PFSRD/PRD really needs an easier way to look up the deities. I'm more familiar with 3.5 pantheon than this one, and its like 3 pages deep to get to the listing unless I wiki it or something.

As for where everyone fits in, well, that I'm not sure about. haven't had to think like a kid in about 20 years or so, lol. I can adapt to established ideas though. Throw em out there and I'll see where I can squeeze in.

looking forward to playing or following along; this campaign will give me insight into future plans either way.

true, its a pretty normal layout, but given the scenario, its actually probably beneficial. Given the setting, it actually kinda makes sense.

nah, I hear the old Naruto theme. kids gonna go be awesome and save the world or somethin before they all hit puberty. (well, mine might have already, I dunno.)

character relationships, now we're gettin somewhere. I like where we're going with all this.

side note: I notice a lot of people playing tieflings on these boards, in general. curious.

Arkus balin, submitted for approval. Interested to see where this goes.