Celest Slyblade's page

Oh well, TTFN all. See you on the site.

"You didn't see anyone refreshing the page." Waves hand vaguely.

Yuck! Typos!

Issi: ;)

"--Heheh! So-so while it is true that a soldier's loyalty to his master must be unshakable in the face of the other side's enticements then how limber must a diplomat be to be able to bend his or her thoughts to go both ways? And who among us do you suppose has such flexibility?" She smiles deviously at Rok barely containing her laughter.

"And I'll say this as a warrior through and through Mr. Golka, I have seen more than a skirmish or two and accounted myself most expertly in each engagement. I've lain low a score of men and have always been left wanting for a duelist who might be my equal."

"--Heheh! So-so while it is true that a soldier's loyalty to his master must be unshakable in the face of the other side's enticements then how limber must a diplomat be to be able to bend his or her thoughts to go both ways? And who among us do you suppose has such flexibility?" She smiles deviously at Rok barely containing her laughter.

"And I'll say this as a warrior through and through Mr. Golka, I have seem more than skirmish or two and accounted myself most expertly in each engagement. I've lain low a score of men and have always been left wanting for a duelist who might be my equal."

Celest looks back and forth between the two handsome (almost beatiful) men, one of their hands still locked on the other's shoulder and busts out laughing.

Evan Rivers wrote:

"As for where I'm from... Well everywhere and nowhere all at once I guess. My mother and I are... were rather, travelling around from place to place. Though I was born in Brevoy. So here I am getting back to my roots sort of. I don't know much about my father sadly, or what happened to him..." Evan's words trail off. It's difficult for him to talk about his family situation. At the same time he feels like if they share their stories and get to know each other better it can only be a good thing.

Kryolani, hoping to relieve an awkward moment, grins widely and claps the taller man across the shoulders, "Well! Let me be the first to welcome a native son back home, even if only for a short time before you go traipsing off back on your travels. Who knows, maybe luck will be with us both, and we'll travel together. Whereabouts in Brevoy? You don't quite have the look of a lakeman, unless I'm mistaken..."

"Figures." Celest says, accidentally bumping into Sorry was it? "All the good lookin' ones are fighting for the other kingdom."

Evan Rivers wrote:

" Have anyone of you been in the Greenbelt or knows what awaits us there? Knowing what is there could let us prepare better."

"Oooh, now that is a good question. I've never been so far out from civilization myself. Anyone else?"

Bored as the talking continues and doing does not Celest answers automatically before noticing the person behind the last voice. "Yeah, I've been aroun--oh, hey! You're a bit fit yerself."

Evan is quite shocked about the suggestion that he should pay. Is this the kind of woman I am dealing with? But she initiated this. Though I guess that's how they get customers. He is still aroused by the woman clinging to him, but mentally he's not interested at all. He once again tries to break free, but is twarthed by her superior wrestling technique. Evan turns to reply to Issi, hoping to also cause Celest to lose interest in him for the moment. "No, of course we aren't mating here. That wouldn't be appropriate. I'm sorry to ruin your fun, but I'm not looking to put on that kind of show."

"Aww, yer no fun anymore." She says uncoupling from him. "Maybe when were alone on watch together in wilds." she says with wink.

sleight of hand: 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (19) + 8 = 27

"Oh, and here you may need these." She publicly hands Evan back some potentially embarrassing article of clothing he may have been wearing moments before. Or whatever victim's choice.

”Might, maybe. Solder, bites, faith, government and mating rituals.” the last one with a careful look at Evan and Celest condition.

"Don't worry kid. In a few you years you'll develop a figure and someone might notice you too--in the right light of course...." She elbows Evan.

"And the rest of you, I wouldn't get any high-minded ideas about ruling a place we're being chartered to map. Maybe we should be concentrating on--I dunno--geography, rather than picking who's gonna be in the imperial senate?"

Heh, I guess we'll show them who's alpha female!

"Do you prefer the eyes on everyone upon you for things like this?" He inquires, showing his interest in getting to know her better.

"That usually cost's extra in the River Kingdoms." Suddenly more interested.

She still haven't released him right? What is Celest actually wearing? It's somewhat relevant to the situation. Her dress or armor?

Left it ambigous. She's armored for business.

"No Shiroz! Stop!" Evan shouts out and holds out a hand to stop his companion before it can attack the woman. "She doesn't mean harm." His flattered blush turns to a look of worry and he goes a bit rigid in her grip, stopping his fighting. A few beads of sweat appear on his forehead. The half-elf is worried about Celeste. He knows how strong Shiroz' protective instincts are. In the heat of the moment Evan have forgotten that he can communicate mentally with Shiroz. The connection is after all quite fresh to him.

"You're no fun. Rigid in all the wrong places...."

Well this is full of the tall folk and the wee one puffing their chests to seem important. If this was an all dwarven expedition, would be far less debate and far more drinking. Bandits, bah, would never be a problem if a proper dwarven town was near by. I wonder if there is some ale somewhere

Speaking to himself and as no one has seemed to be particularly talking to him, Kordrek reaches under his cloak and pulls out his traveling companion, Suori. "Well, do you want some ale?

As quickly as the assault begins Celest pauses and shushes Evan's possible protests. "Shhh. Shhh. My love, did you hear something?"

Roksana rubs her jaw, considering Serolt's question. Brows furrowed, her response is slow to start, as though she's still unsure of what she's saying.

"The Law exists to protect the people. So the first thing should be to set principles. Guidelines that all agree to live by, like the Six River Freedoms. A new settlement won't be large at first, so you don't need a hard set of laws, just something to keep the population in line. Like a group of newly joined soldiers, they have common ground so even if they don't get along, when the fires start, they fall in line. Let those guidelines influence the laws you set."

"Dear gods what a bunch of useless prattle. She doesn't even know what she's talking about." Celest says drunkenly to Evan Rivers leaning heavily against the reedy Adonis.

"'Courts are fer kings' is one of the Six River Freedoms! It's six right?" She complains to him, her breath about thirty proof. "The king makes the rules and you gotta follow them no matter what."

She finally looks up into his ridiculously beautiful face. Celest smiles mischievously and her voice turns husky. "Unless there's a queen."

She strokes Evan's long silky hair and brings her lips closer to his. "If there's a queen you gotta follow her rules too."

CMB (unimproved grapple): 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18

I suppose there are consequences for high "soft" stats like charisma and weak "hard" stats like strength too. Like fer instance when an amorous drunk wrestles you to the ground in an attempt to remove most of your clothing.

"Pharasma makes cradles for us all eventually.", Serolt mumbles to himself.

A blood thirsty lot, ready to kill for king and country, firm in their convictions. He holds Regin close.

Turning to the group he says, "So you've slaughtered, driven off, or, maybe, saved all the bandits, pushed the wild back into the wilderness, and brought civilization to some small group of settlers."

"Now what? How would you rule? What would be your first edict or declaration? What law would you find most appealing to lay down before your people?"

"Hey buddy, I'm just lookin' for a paycheck." *hic* "And a refill."

Celest looks about the crowd and sighs audibly. Why is this taking so long. She toys with the idea of secretly starting a brawl amongst the participants to increase her own chances of being selected. Hmm....

"I don't think any person is inherently evil. My cousin Lorenzo was mean and tried to cut my hair but he wasn't evil, just jealous. Lots of people are like that, if you have nice things then they want to have them too." She pauses, and her hair becomes darker and darker, the colour of dried blood. "But no-one should be allowed to hurt other people. If someone tried to hurt my friends I'd hurt them back! And I'd keep hurting them until they stopped!"

Issi takes a deep breath and seems to realise that she has been shouting the past few moments. The spectators notice that her shouting voice was curiously deep with a slight hissing aftertone. She looks around again, suddenly shy. "I'm sorry... was I too loud?"

"Nah.... Just a little psycho 's all." Celest takes a big swig of her drink.

Jacobus just cannot contain himself, "Who said anything about attacking? I am not here as a mercenary."

Celest looks at the man's holy symbol and smiles.

The bandits might not be all bad, or at least some of them were just drawn to the life unwillingly. It would be smart for us to not attack immediately, maybe they could help. I believe if we are to retake the stolen lands we will need more than just law, we will need one who knows the lands as they are now. She says aloud to the group.

Great. Just great. "That's so... inspiring." Just beam and find the wine. There's gotta be some wine somewhere. "You got anyone in mind?"

"What's with you wilderness types and not carrying waterskins?"

"Yeah." Note to self....

Kryolani then addresses the mercenary, "By all the hells, something more interesting than the miserable burg I've been stuck in for the last few years. If my little corner of the family is ever going to return to prominence, it won't happen in a small town where all the opportunity got sucked out years ago." The sorcerer's tone turns vaguely bitter, but then he brightens right back up, waving to another distance face in the crowd.

"That's great." Celest says not having processed a word of what Kryolani said. "Where'd you get your drinks?"

Perhaps she processed one word.

Reknar, it is possible to be a relatively clever fighter, without too much trouble, though perhaps being some variety of ranger might be more your cup of tea (say the skirmisher if you want to avoid spell casting and it mixes pretty well most other legal archetypes).

Sticking with fighter though, you could simply give him a an INT of 14 which combined with being human, and your favored class bonus give you a very respectable 6 skill points per level for Climb, Swim, a Knowledge, Survival, Intimidate and Ride (or some version of that, maybe with Profession (soldier)). You can expand your class skill choices via your traits which can give you greater access to non-class skills along with a small one time bonus. Maybe Perception, Acrobatics, Bluff, Diplomacy, a different Knowledge, Sense Motive, or Use Magic Device depending on the kind of fighter you want to play. There are a number of legal archetypes that might further help you define your character from the Advanced Player's Guide.

I personally love playing smart fighters.

@Celest: It is on the list, try to search the document? I'm curious, what are you getting from there?

Ah, page 2! What won't they think of next? She's getting the pickpocket's outfit of course.

I've kinda prioritized working on my character rather than roleplaying, I'll join in shortly.

Good, because you still haven't answered Our (imperial 'our') previous question. We (imperial 'we') would like to hear it before We have you (commoner 'you') executed.

GM, please give my concept in this alias a look-over (particularly background), and let me know if you think the fit would be appropriate.

Criticism welcome from GM and players alike.

Not sure that the Negotiator archetype is allowed given the legal sources listed for the game. I'll try to get to everyone's backstory in the next day or three.

Character sheet complete.

"Yeah, tell us all about it girl." She says playfully.

I don't see Adventurer's Armory on your list of sources though it initially came out in April of 2010, the same time as Kingmaker: Rivers Run Red. Can we use it? Celest would love to steal a few things from it. ;)

Celest had been minding her own business on the 26th of Abadius in the market when a passing purse caught her eye. She had been minding her own business because she had been laying low. Laying low had been her primary job these last few days after after she had come to town from the River Kingdoms she had run afoul some of the lord mayor's thuggish city guardsmen and played them for a week's pay in a game of cards. They had been sore losers and had only gotten sorer after she was forced to stab one to make her escape.

Eluding them and over indulging in the local ale had left her wanting for money and purse seemed to call to her, so she followed, furtively looking over her shoulder as she did. She followed the purse and its owner--an fit, regal-looking man in his fifties surrounded by a nattering entourage of hangers on and yesfolk who clung to him like flies to horse manure through the muddy winding streets and into the main square. It was there as she contemplated relieving the man of his terrible monetary burden that she noticed the posted invite to explore the wilds to the west of the city, the Stolen Lands. Lands she had briefly passed through the autumn before hoping to elude her past in the River Kingdoms. One could be paid to lay low? I am so in.

She promptly submitted an application filled with fictions she imagined might look good on a Pathfinder's resume but would be hard to verify. And then she waited. And waited some more. And cheated the night guards at cards too. And hid out some more until finally a month later she was standing here among the other possible applicants and-and wouldn't you know, that half-orc was here....

Around the River Kingdoms half-orcs were nearly as common as half-elves were in Falcon's Hallow. But a goody-goody like this one would have stood out in anyone's mind in the River Kingdoms and gave the subspecies as a whole a bad name.

You can't outrun your past. You can only stab it a few times and leave it bleeding in some gods forsaken back alley. Celest stood there pondering her options. They hadn't formally met. She might not even recognize her.

"Of course I have what it takes. All of us do, we wouldn't have been summoned to witness the final selection if we didn't have some measure of competence."

Celest actually flinched at the pronouncement. No doubt about it. It's her. Still even if she does recognize me it's not like she can have any ill-will. I mean she obviously survived after all.

@Celest: The ruler position is mechnically keyed of charisma. If you intend to be Queen it might be a good idea to have a higher score.

"And what exactly are you implying about your queen?"

Please do create an alias for your submission. After you have created your alias, please make sure to include his vital statistics under your forum name. If you don’t know how to do it, check my profile.

I don't think that works on the recruitment threads.

"Gods it's dark in here. Where the hells are we? Nidal?"

"So what do we know about this marshal and clergyman?" Clergymen and marshals always seem to give Celest grief. "And I don't mean their job descriptions."

Celest Slyblade
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Player - The Great Green God

Race - Human (Kellid)

Class - None (Rogue/Fighter)

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Leadership Roles - QUEEN of Course! (everyone else can be my consorts!) Failing that Thieves' Guild Master (What that's not a role?), Royal Enforcer, Spymaster, Warden (That way I don't have ta run from any of them.), Treasurer ;) Viceroy (My own little parasitic paradise?), Diplomat (Sorry, I had ta kill everyone and take their stuff.) or Consort. Basically any task involving a high benefit to low work output ratio.

Combat Roles - You ever have ta wrestle a feral cat? Going for a rogue/fighter (caddish) build--lots of dirty tricks, acrobatics, sneak attacks and general underhandedness. I got your freakin' Sword Pact right here baby! Celset fires her hidden crossbow at her dueling opponent aiming for his sword arm. When he charges (they always do) she'll toss it at his legs to trip him up.

Out of Combat Roles - You ever have ta live with a feral cat? Sleep, sleep around, drink, gamble, sometimes not cheat, curse like an imaginative sailor, instigate situations that require her combat role, attempt not to care about stuff. Token disruptive party member.

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Time Zone - EST (currently GMT-5).

Player's Introduction - I play. I play lots (about 3,400 posts since March). I GM Kingmaker in real life and I took over a game here on the site when a previous GM dropped out. I've written for Goodman and Dungeon and Dragon and Wizards and other places I can't quite remember. I once shot a man for snoring.

I may have ego problems....

Resume Skip to the 'about me' section for the heart of the matter. The rest is general info on my online Kingmaker game.

Post samples
Goblin charades anyone?

Faeria the now formerly mad, after the NPC's capture in the Narlmarches.

Breakfast with Celest and Lily Another Celest in another (much slower) game. Honestly the whole exchange is pretty funny. This Celest is so much fun to play I'm basically rebuilding her for this game (just have to update/downgrade her copy). All the background info is basically the same. The crunch will change slightly.

Request
I do have one request. Please use a different tag line format. All the OOCs and colons just make the thing too complicated to read or easily make adjustments to on a phone. There's no apparent upside (pretty colors?) and all the color changing format serves only to hurt my sense of style and make the lines so long that at later levels you can't fit all the pertinent info, buffs and statuses in the space provided. Even at lower levels it can be an issue--some GMs like to see a character's knowledges listed for easy access since they are reflexive rolls like perception or sense motive.