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About Jack Churchill

Jack has a problem, well Jack has a lot of problems. Problem 1, size. Jack is small, and when you are small, bigger people want to pick on you, and then problem 2 arises, Pride. Jack loves a challenge, and Jack will not turn one down. Anyone who wants to fight Jack he will fight. It doesn't matter if they are big, or small, or bigger than the big guys. If you want a challenge, go find Jack. Problem 3 is drink. Jack doesn't go looking for a challenge, unless he starts drinking, then Jack will find a fight. For example:

Jack was in a Tavern one day and drank that one drink. Not any specific drink, but just the right number of drinks to make him want to fight, so he looked at the man next to him. Fisherman, big, strong, perfect, so Jack hit him in the head with his mug, shoved him into the guy next to him, and kicked a third guy. The bar erupted in a brawl and when it ended, there was Jack and a Half-Orc still standing. “I’ll rip you limb from limb little one!!” bellowed the half-Orc.

Calmly Jacks hand reached for his weapon. “It’s all fun and games until someone loses an ear!” Replied Jack with a smile. Before the half-orc could react, Jack was upon him and buried his knife in the side of the man's face. “Then it’s even more fun!!” yelled Jack, as suddenly he became everyone in the bars target. A massive brawl broke out. No one knowing if it was man or drink that eventually took Jack down, but eventually he fell to the floor, joining the twenty or so men he had put there first.
When Jack awoke, he was in jail, but instead of waiting for trial or sentencing Jack just walked out. He grabbed his gear and just walked out. No one stopped him. A Halfling just beat up a bar of twenty men, no one is going to stop him, no one.

Oh, I forgot Jacks biggest problem, Ameiko. He met her one day when he wandered to Sandpoint. The Rusty Dragon was famous, as was its owner. At first jack thought she was quite a woman, she was pretty, she could entertain, she had a quick wit, she even owned a bar. She was almost the perfect woman to Jack. Then she challenged any takers to a drinking contest. What a fool Jack thought, I’ll win with ease. After the first 3 dinks Jack was sure he would win, after 7 he was pretty sure, after 12 he began to question if he could win. On drink 15 he looked at her and thought “is she an angel? She can’t be real, no girl is this perfect.” By Jack thought, I really meant Jack drunken mumbled before he passed out on the table while trying to reach towards her to see if she was real.

He awoke this time still on the table, with a large bill under him for the drinks from the previous night. Jack hauled himself off the table, his head pounding he dragged himself up to the bar, and paid his rather large tab. Ameiko walked by and picked up her winnings, gave Jack a wink that said “You should try that again”, and walked away.

Ever since then the sight of her just melts his little Halfling heart. When she is around he can’t stop glancing at her, when she talks Jack is enthralled, when she talks to him he is mesmerized, and when she expects a response from him, he always manages to say something stupid. He doesn’t even know what it is about her. The free spirit, the light on her face, her attitude, the fact that she can drunk him under the table. For some reason she turns a strong, smart, witty Halfling into a small pile of weak, dim dull mush.

Jack Churchill is free. To most this statement is confusing. Free from what? Why do I care? Who the f%&& is Jack Churchill? All valid questions.

Jack Churchill is free because he escaped slavery. Jack Churchill escaped slavery because he and his best friend Yorick Vanzanthad the skills to escape. The daring to do so, the intelligence to plan the escape, the charm to pull of the act, and the combat prowess to fight when they needed to.

Once they escaped however their stories took different turns. Yorick headed north to Varisia. There he met a group of adventurers, and traveled all over Varisia, gaining fame and riches. Not only playing at theaters ranging from the Sandpoint theater all the way to sold out shows in Magnimar. All the while adventuring around Varisia, saving cities and towns from Giants and evil wizards.

Jack on the other hand headed south for the shackles. There he found work but no fame. All the while hearing news of Yorick Vanzant: the great performer, Yorick Vanzant: Hero of Sandpoint. Yorick Vanzant: The most famous halfling in all of Varisia.

Finally he had enough, Jack quit his lousy job on a ship and went to see his own fate and fortune. However instead of ending up on top of the world, he currently resides on the bottom. Passed out under a table.