Name: Doctor Nikolas Miron Ramada
Male Deep One Hybrid Alchemist (Vivisectionist) 1
NE Medium Humanoid (deep one, human)
Init: +0; Senses: Perception +5, Low-Light Vision
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DEFENSE
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AC: 15, touch 10, flat-footed 15 (+1 natural, +4 armor)
HP: 11
Fort: +5, Ref: +2, Will: +1
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OFFENSE
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Speed: 20 ft, swim 30 ft
Melee: Dagger +3 (1d4+4 P or S)
Ranged: Dagger +0 (1d4+4 P or S)
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STATISTICS
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Str: 16, Dex: 11, Con: 16, Int: 17, Wis: 12, Cha: 8
Base Atk: +0; CMB: +3; CMD: 13
Traits: Ship's Surgeon, Precise Treatment, River Rat, Skilled Surgeon, Power-Hungry
Feats: Medium Armor Proficiency, Brew Potion, Throw Anything
Skills:
Craft (Alchemy) - 1 rank (+7, +1 to create alchemical items)
Craft (Carpentry) - 1 rank (+8)
Heal - 1 rank (+9)
Knowledge (arcana) - 1 rank (+7)
Knowledge (engineering) [Background] - 1 rank (+4)
Knowledge (nature) - 1 rank (+7)
Linguistics [Background] - 1 rank (+4)
Perception - 1 rank (+5)
Survival - 1 rank (+5)
Swim - 1 rank (+16)
Languages: Common, Aklo, Varisian, Polyglot, Aquan, Abyssal
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SPELLCASTING
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Formula Book: Cure Light Wounds, Shield, Enlarge Person, Crafter's Fortune, Spirit Share
1st Level: Cure Light Wounds, Shield
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SPECIAL ABILITIES
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Slow, Low-Light Vision, Natural Armor, Final Change, Sea Longing, Take to the Water, Alchemy, Sneak Attack +1d6, Brew Potion, Mutagen, Throw Anything
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GEAR/POSSESSIONS
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Carrying Capacity
Light: 76 lbs or less; Medium: 77-153 lbs; Heavy: 154-230 lbs
Current Load Carried: 47 lbs
Money: 8 GP
Dagger
Armored Coat
Formula Book
Iron Holy Symbol (Cthulhu)
Alchemy Crafting Kit
Healer's Kit
Backpack
Bedroll
Belt Pouch
Flint and Steel
Ink Vial
Inkpen
Iron Pot
Mess Kit
Soap
Torches (10)
Trail Rations (5 days)
Waterskin
Appearance:
Tall and gangly, with long limbs, Doctor Nikolas Ramada has the unmistakable 'Illmarsh look' about him, with his stringy black hair, grayish skin, too-wide mouth, and pointed teeth marking his heritage to those familiar with the nation of Ustalav. From behind a pair of thick spectacles designed to compensate for his poor eyesight, a pair of bulging black eyes peer out at the world, their lidless surfaces moistened by his long, slimy tongue when the need arises. His fingers and toes are heavily webbed, and he is quite a powerful swimmer despite his lanky appearance. He can pass as an exceedingly ugly human at a glance, but most with more than a passing knowledge of the horrors of the deep can identify him as bearing the blood of the deep ones. He generally dresses in the fine clothes of a Sincomakti doctor, girding himself with a reinforced coat when it becomes necessary.
Personality:
Like many of the people of Illmarsh, Nikolas Ramada is an unpleasant person by nature - the brusqueness and self-reliance instilled into him by the marsh folk has not been diminished by his time at Sincomakti, and while he is more than willing to work with others in pursuit of a shared goal, he rarely says more words than are needed, even to his close allies. On a topic that interests him, however, he can prove quite verbose, and he eagerly chatters at his patients about the intricacies of their condition as he treats them. In his youth, he was inducted into the worship of the dark god Cthulhu, and while he temporarily shunned the 'superstitions' of the marsh folk while at Sincomakti, his time traveling the seas has reawakened a fervor in him, and he is a zealous devotee of the Dreamer in the Deep - alongside modern medicine, matters of faith are an exception to his usual taciturn nature, and he readily raves about the glories of Great Cthulhu if the topic arises.
Backstory:
Hailing from the exceedingly damp swamp village of Illmarsh, deep in the backwoods of Ustalav, Nikolas Miron Ramada was always drawn to the pursuits of a scholar - as a boy, he would occasionally help in his father's shop when the need arose, but just as often, he would hide away in some dark corner with a book of stories, fascinated by tales of the world outside of his backwater village. When he came of age, he could very well have had a stable job following in his father's footsteps, but instead, he left the town in the dead of night, hoping to see the world outside of Illmarsh. With a keen mind and an insatiable appetite for knowledge, the young man sought out an education in Rozenport, spending years learning the secrets of modern medicine at the Sincomakti School of Sciences before graduating a full-fledged physician.
Shortly after graduating, the dreams began - in his sleep, he would explore vast cities beneath the waves, wandering amidst cyclopean monuments or navigating maze-like trails in the depths of the sea. Fascinated by these tantalizing hints of another realm, Doctor Nikolas Ramada ran away for the second time in his life, this time leaving behind a fledgling career as a Caliphas physician to seek out the source of these dreams. Within months, he had spent his life savings buying passage to Cassomir aboard a riverboat, and from there, he signed aboard a merchant vessel, the Vigilant, as the ship's doctor.
As Ramada travelled southwest, the dreams intensified, and the piscine scholar eagerly followed them, jumping from ship to ship in pursuit of his strange dreams. As the campaign begins, he is currently serving as the ship's surgeon aboard the Myrmidon, a trade carrack out of Haigui Wan, but during a stopover in Port Peril, he was set upon by thugs and knocked unconscious as he left the tavern...
