Lady Calista Lisia Da Romano's page

She dove off the cliff, her pursuers ground to a holt as she feel away,
flipping over she feet came to the side of the rock and she slowed, then jumped again, falling lower down and repeating the rock hop. As the ground came up to meet her, she pushed away form the rock and hovered across river to land genily on the sandy and rocky river bank. She stood and looked up at the traintess now some 240' feet above.

She shouted up to them.

"IF YOU SET A TRAP, BE CAREFUL THE TARGET DOES NOT HAVE A MEANS TOP GET OUT OF IT AND TURN THE TRAP ON YOU!! NOW YOUR TRAPPED UP THERE AND I WILL BEAT YOU TO CAMP."

The cadets looked miffed, they thought they had at long last got hwer trapped but she had outwitted them once again.

As she walked back to cam she thought about how she would drill them the next day.

She was crouching behind a wall, as spells and shells flow past, She looked at the constable next to her.

"You do know I am not a fighter right, I'm more your desculation type of officer."

The constable stood and fired off a shot then decked back down again.

"Well that was the plan, then the second gang boss showed up and all hell broke loose. They seem to be fighting us and each other"

She snuck a peek around the wall. Yes he was right, the docs ware house now seemed to have a group of gang members behind bales, shooting at a group up on a higher deck. While both shot there way. She ducked back into safty. And took out Shotgun and checked it, then fired a shot around the wall, more for effect than use.

"Is it always like this down here?"

The custible nodded firing his own gun.

"More or less"

She steelled herself this was no way for a lady to make a living, but someone had to do it. Standing back up she fired once more.

Detect magic spell-like ability constant.
You detect magical auras. The amount of information revealed depends on how long you study a particular area or subject.
1st Round: Presence or absence of magical auras.
2nd Round: Number of different magical auras and the power of the most potent aura.
3rd Round: The strength and location of each aura. If the items or creatures bearing the auras are in line of sight, you can make Knowledge (arcana) skill checks to determine the school of magic involved in each. (Make one check per aura: DC 15 + CL3, or 15 + 1/2 caster level for a nonspell effect.) If the aura emanates from a magic item, you can attempt to identify its properties (see Spellcraft).

Magical areas, multiple types of magic, or strong local magical emanations may distort or conceal weaker auras.

Aura Strength: An aura’s power depends on a spell’s functioning spell level or an item’s caster level; see the accompanying table. If an aura falls into more than one category, detect magic indicates the stronger of the two.

Can use your dancing lights, deeper darkness, faerie fire, feather fall, and levitate spell-like abilities at wil

Dancing Lights = Dancing Lights
You may create a glow effect without the need for a creature or object. This allows you to create a floating ball of light that may fly up to 60 feet per round and may be directed as a free action. You may give these lights simple commands, such as following a creature you can see or traveling in a specified pattern.

deeper darkness = Greater Darkness At Will
When creating an area of darkness or blot. This allows you to create a sphere of darkness with a radius of up to 20 feet + 5 feet per caster level. If combined with the Wall Of Darkness talent, this allows you to create six 10-foot cubes, +2 cubes per caster level.

faerie fire = Fenestrate (light)
You can create bright light that makes everything and everyone within the area of the bright light translucent enough that they can be seen through. This includes creatures, objects, structures, and even the ground itself. Objects are not invisible, however, and seeing through them is difficult. Objects that grant cover still grant concealment, but any creature using such an object to hide receives a -10 penalty to their Stealth. Magical fog effects are countered by this Light talent the way magical darkness can be countered by Light talents. Effects based on light (such as most Light sphere abilities) can pass through to affect other objects, but other effects are still stopped by solid objects. This light can be placed on a single structure to make it translucent. If the structure is larger than the area of the glow, then only part of the structure is made translucent.

feather fall = feather fall
The affected creatures or objects fall slowly. Feather fall instantly changes the rate at which the targets fall to a mere 60 feet per round (equivalent to the end of a fall from a few feet), and the subjects take no damage upon landing while the spell is in effect Self only. (including gear and carried objects up to each creature’s maximum load) or objects, or the equivalent in larger creatures: a Large creature or object counts as two Medium creatures or objects, a Huge creature or object counts as four Medium creatures or objects, and so forth. This has no special effect on ranged weapons unless they are falling quite a distance. If the spell is cast on a falling item, the object does half normal damage based on its weight, with no bonus for the height of the drop. Feather fall works only upon free-falling objects. It does not affect a sword blow or a charging or flying creature.

levitate = levitate
Levitate allows you to move yourself, another creature, or an object up and down as you wish. A creature must be willing to be levitated, and an object must be unattended or possessed by a willing creature. You can mentally direct the recipient to move up or down as much as 20 feet each round; doing so is a move action. You cannot move the recipient horizontally, but the recipient could clamber along the face of a cliff, for example, or push against a ceiling to move laterally (generally at half its base land speed). A levitating creature that attacks with a melee or ranged weapon finds itself increasingly unstable; the first attack has a -1 penalty on attack rolls, the second -2, and so on, to a maximum penalty of -5. A full round spent stabilizing allows the creature to begin again at -1.

The rain came down and the street was almost empty, Sitting on the cobles was a brute of a man, his arms and legs now bloody from the fight. Shackles where on his wrists and ankles his head bowed down. Around him stood come nine, R.H.C. Garda Síochána, two of which where been tended for severe injuries the rest had cuts and bruises from the take down.
One of them now looked at the Shackled man, Sargent Willkes
as one of the R.H.C. Garda came to him.

"She is here Sargent"

He looked back and saw the dark skinned, Eladrin. He walked over to her.

"Officer Da Romano, nice of you to come over our way."

"Not at all Sargent Willkes, what do you need me to do?"

"See that big feller there, well he was paid to kill and merchant and his family, Father, mother and daughter, Father, mother we found, dead, but the daughter is missing. We don't know what he has done with her, she was due to be married next month, so she is no child. We think he took her and sold her. But to who."

"And he is not talking"

Sargent Willkes nodded.

"Right then best get started"

She took off her raincoat and hat, and handed them a young R.H.C. Garda . Then she walked up to the Shackled man sitting on the street cobbles.

"Hello there I hear you in a bit of bother. Well I am here to help. See we know you killed two persons. And I have no doubt you will hang for that. But you see, they had a daughter and it looks every much like you took her. Now for that you may have a few things happen to you."

As she talks her let her mind reach out and feel around his, hard nut this, he was angry and for some reason, resentful, of her and the R.H.C. but something more, a deep feeling of guilt.

"You see Garda Tillmen over there, well he wants to break every bone in your body, one by one. Very painful. And Garda Glen wants to shoot you full of holes and see how long you last before you talk. Again very painful. And Sargent Willkes well he would just nail you to a door and beat you to death. Again very painful"

Also most there...

Will save 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (1) + 5 = 6

Got ya

"But you know they all had to wait for me to get here, and do you know way Mr Feiller"

A look now on his face as he tilts his head to look into her eyes.

"Yes I know your real name Jack, they all waited for me because, I am the real horror. See I know you can take pain, all that anger, range, growing up on the street everyone looking down at you. That time you took a grr fruit and got beaten for it."

Now fear crossed his face.

"You can feel me now can't you, in your head, yes I am there, see, remember that street 20 years ago, look is that me standing there."

Then he spoke

"GET OUT, THIS ENT RIGHT GET OUT!"
He shook his head but it was to late.

"This last job, You broke in around the back, 1st sneaking into the parents room, killing him quite not a sound, arr but taking your time with the wife. That's when the girl walked in, she lunged at you and you slapped her, out cold, but what to do, so like your own dear sister, so rapped her up in bed sheets, slunger her over your shoulder, and off into the night"

"GET OUT! GET OUT! IF MY HEAD!!!"

He screams now.

"Some place you can enjoy her later, relive that time with your sister, but how? then Arr the street with the ladies if the night, there is one place you like to use, and its owner, all too happy to buy of you a sleeping girl. Let you use her later cheap, dress her up like sister"

He was looking at her, panting, real fear in his eyes,
What she said next, she said so only he could hear.

"You will get up and you will take Sargent Willkes and his men to where you sold the girl, you will admit to this crime, and lose your life for it, you will do all this or I will tell the city what you did to your sister"

Intimidate 1d20 + 13 + 1d6 ⇒ (18) + 13 + (5) = 36

Now real fear was in his eyes,
She waited a moment, then stood back up, looking at him once more, she turned and walked back to Sargent Willkes,

"He will cooperate now, the girl is alive, just in a brothel."

She took back her coat and hat, put them on and then with a nod, walk away back down the street she had come,.

The Sargent looked at the young Garda.

"Pray to the gods you never cross that one, she puts the fear of them in me so she dose"

And he turned to the broken brute of a man, now sobbing in the rain filled street.

My idea is others have fighting and killing down, I want Calista to be know as a interrogator, some one with a set of skills, the R.H.C would want to explicit.

GM this just hit me,

I'm starting to see a shape in the guild ideas.
Whats coming up is a sudo-underground Guild? A mix of neutral thieves/Assassins with detectives and some magic crafters and fighters[body guards] to add to the three already talked about.

There is also talk of a espionage/detecting guild. So I'm thinking on this, every City needs a means of defiance, Fighters, magic weaves, Clerics,thieves, Assassins,spys. In a city like this one, full of add balls and misfits, this would need a deep state force.

A group linked who work to protect there home city. Unseen, undercover, working in the shadows.

I secret service, Magic carft'ers = Q branch. The fighters = Troops. The Assassins its 007's. The Psioics its Interrogates. The thieves its detectives. Its bards its infiltrators.

There would be some overlap but as a team it would make for a very cool City wide secret service with all manner of aliments and mixed disciplines.

This way, picked players could have a "Branch" as their guild build, the GM could start the game as the 'Spy master' [NPC PC] and send a picked team off for a 'mission' as a group and then tell them to start building there "Branch". With the idea that we will be building up an underground defense for the city. You could also have the last one mysteriously falling apart or disappearing. And have the players uncover how and why as the game of on. Plot hook etc.

What ya think? just an idea of how this could be done.

Calista was not born on the Prime living most of her life in the city of Kaer Maga, the City of Strangers. Her mother a respected elf cleric had had trouble conceiving children. So Divine magic was used how ever there was a side effect. The temple seer told her she would have triplets, all girls and it would be a hard birth. Help would be needed with the birth. The cost a great deal but aid from outsiders was got and after 2 days, three girls come into the world. All three sisters where Aasimar. Talain, Lillira and last one to be birthed Calista. The other two had a hard but fine birth how ever with Calista there was a complication, the her new born mind was unfixed, shifting from those around her it could was not be held in its own body. The wise of higher planes placed a gem stone on the child’s forehead to stabilize her mind, After this she found focus and peace, but the side affect was the implanting of her mind-mage powers. Powers that would come to life later in her life.

As a child to a respected noble family of Eleves, Calista and her two sisters spent most of their time with servants. The three where all but inseparable as children and where always known for getting in trouble. Talain the eldest by 5 mins, had a gift with plants, and to her was given then craft and skills of the Druidic arts. Lillira the middle sister was strong and arm and blade, to her was given the training of the bow and blade. Both elder sisters had a future of respectable roles in the Noble house Da Romano. But poor Calista showed no ability's as such, her mind powers just seem to limit other things, she had little gift for the bardic crafts, cleric arts where not for her, nor magaery, she understood magic she just could not do it. Alchemy then, no, all she did was make her hair green for a while, the fighting arts, again no, she was good with a dagger but not much more, she also hated wearing armor and use of the larger blades.

It seemed that she the younger was destined to be just wed off to some halfwit noble’s son. Meetings where held but each time the boy involved would blurt out so reason he could not marry Calista, a few times to great comic affect. Her mother started to suspect that Calista had a hand in this. Her suspicions where raised when she noted how Calista always seemed to know how others felt around her, it was more than hard to keep secrets from her in fact. Calista was needed to be talked to. This suspicion lead to a fateful meeting, with once again the Temple seer, the very one that advised she be born on the higher planes.

The meeting

She sat waiting and the old elf seer, blind came into the room. With her stick she found the table and sat across from Calista. She lifted a set of cards from her bag and placed them on the table.

”Well young elf it’s been a while, last time I was with you, you were no bigger than a fox cub. Now look at you, all ready to have a family of your own. But I can tell that is not what you wish. So let’s see you fate then.”

She took a deck of harrow cards and placed them in the form for prediction.

”The big sky, adventure awaits you child. The Crows, there will be evils and dangers to face, The Dance, grate forces will be in play, The Forge, you must train your skills and talents but what are they, I was told child you had none hum.”

She turned over the last two cards, and sat back an odd look on her face.

” The Unicorn, you will seek to undo something, and, arr this is unexpected”

::”The Mute Hag, so you’re a mind mage, well that I did not expect”::

Calista was shocked as the old elfs words came to her mind without being spoken.

::”But, how??, what? Err can you hear me my thoughts”::

The old elf seer nodded.

::”Its more you can hear mind, I am using magic, but you, your doing this all on your own, Yes?. It seems the powers that be have plans for you my girl. You have a destiny, so the cards you see in front of you say, one that is linked to your mind. So now we know what you need training in mind-mage.”::

Calista had no idea what that meant but when this old seer talked of talents she was all ears.

She was sent for training it was sparse and mostly from books. When she came back to the city she had a plan, she would find and train others like herself. Mind mages where seen with stigma, and that had to change. She would make a guild, a training school and collage. They would test children and find the gifted. They will work with the powers that be in the city and make themselves respected. Having a mind-mage in the family would become a thing of pride. Until then as an asset to the family she would be given tasks aliened for her skills. Being a noble family meant all of them worked to keep its name and interests safe.

Nurob was happy; he had just fenced some more gear and was heading down to see Maka to do a nice blackmail on some out of town trader. Make him some real cash from a noble City of Strangers's fat-cat. He slipped in to Old Beekys Bar and grill and make his way to the booths at the back. Maka used one as his office to keep the laws eyes away. Nurob popped the door open and backed in checking he was not seen. Once he had the door closed he turned around says.

"Maka have I got as sweet deal for you..."

He stopped, where Maka normally sat there was now a white haired Elf. She could be one of Maka's girls.

"Err where Maka girly?"

She took a moment to look him up and down, and then said in a clear voice.

"Mr Makadreen decided to give up his life of crime and has gone the local Temple to confess all."

It took a moment, then he burst out laughing after a while he stopped.

"A Joker, funny but no really where's he gone?"

She looked him hard in the eyes.

"As I said, so now Mr Nurob Alfeen Gib and please take a seat, I would like some words with you."

Now he looked shocked, The law? city watch? Who in the the hell's was this elf, All this ran through his mind, she even knew is real full name, She has got to be the law, ye they wanted him, must be, yer now he was going to be in the big time. Deal with her then off to bigger things. He sat and looked at her, she poured him a drink of lemon tea she had in front of her. He did not take it, but she had a sip of hers. As she did he felt his leg under the table, felt for his poison tipped dagger there.

"Now Mr Gib you have come to my attention in regards to some documents you stole a few days ago from the Boyle Grand Inn, from room 10, the ones that you’re now thinking about in your top breast pocket and ones that belong to others."

He looked at her shocked,

"Mind reader!"

A crime here about's, So she's not local law, then what? free agent, someone hire her? or... the trader, he hired her, that's who this girl was, right him, need them back a, so girly now they would talk money.

What he had in his pocket was a trade deals worth 1,000s.

"You come alone?"

He asked her.

"Yes, I did not see the need for others."

Shot back her reply.

"Right, here is the offer, 4,000 in uncut gems, that's the price, pay and the papers are all yours. Any funny stuff and ill gut ya."

She sipped her tea again studding him.

::"No Mr Gib, I think you like me, in fact I think your a good pal and as such why not just hand the papers to, I think you would feel that would be a good idea"::

His mind was weak, she had no great difficulty, as a criminal she was free to use her full powers now. She held her hand out and before he knew it he had done just that, taken them out and handed them to her. He had really wanted to, really. She slipped them into a small case she had with her.

"Err, what the hell's just happened"

He shook his head,

"WHAT THE...!!"

He went for his dagger pulling it out and then froze. He could not move his hand out with the blade in it just inches from her head. She had not moved but still sat sipping her tea looking at him as if thinking what to do.

"Thank you Mr Gib, I have strict rules what I can do to others, but now you have tried to hurt me with poison no less, I don't feel bad about what I have to do, you’re an evil man and evil things are going to happen to you."

He was frozen as she stood and walked round the table to his side. She was tall over 6' but slim, but there was something very worrying about this Elf. She was to still to focused she had no fear of him at all. He could only move his eyes, so looking to the side he could see her come close, she pulled the dagger form his hand. Spinning it around she cut his arm with it, Still he could not move.

::"That will be painful soon, contact poison can be so painful, you really should not use it"::

She put the dagger back in his leg sheath, then he was free of her, but so weak, he fell to the floor shivering. The poison starting to work.

::"Now you made a number of mistakes, you should have checked your mark, you should have fully read the papers I now have and you should never have thought about blackmailing us."::

She looked down at him.

::"So with your mistakes I am sorry to say I have been ordered to set example of you. Your do understand, this is not at all personal it’s just business. They use me when they need things done out of sight."::

His mind raced
O O^#&& *#^#&*! the Noble's, the f^#& nobles!! O my god!!, The @&@& Da Romano's!

::"Yes I can see it in your mind, you just worked it out, now please try not to..."::

Too late he had messed himself.

::"O well, it will wash out, now then, as I was saying, the Nobles of this city need to as an example. You know for others of your kind who may be thinking of doing something like you. So a short distance from here is cities main witch keep."::

Now he was whimpering as fear and his own poison had taken him.

::"Your time is short and if you run there fast, and ask for healing I think they will try and keep you live for the reward that has just been on your head. I also think you may want to tell them all about the bad things you have done, get it all off your chest you will feel a lot better. You will not tell them about me."::

He crawled, when they arrested him and he told all. He had no idea why, he just knew he had to, that he must. There was a lot of pain and crying and evil things done, dead families, dead children but in all he told them he never said a word about letter or a strange elf he had just meet. They hang him two days later.

The trade deal was signed the same day.

1: contacts/Relationships
Her Family She has a drawback linked to them, Mother, Father and two sisters and servants.

1: Rivals/Enemy's
Piplin Coush A petty crime boss who was fingered by Castista after an interview with Lord Riffingdale and her, he is now awaiting judgement. He was sword revenge on them both.

1: One other player she knows and has links with.
1: As yet an unknown other player.

Calista was not born on the Prime but on the plain of Elysium, her mother a respected elf cleric had been told by a seer that she must for the sake of the child she was to have. It cost a great deal but she got there and with the aid of outsiders had. Calista. There was a complication, the young elfs mind was unfixed, shifting from those around her it could was not held in its own body. The wise of Elysuim placed a gem stone in the child’s forehead to stabilize her mind. After this she found focus and peace.

As the youngest child to a respected noble family of Eleves, when she and her mother retuned home, Calista meet her 2 sibling sisters. The three became inseparable and where always known for getting in trouble. Talain the eldest, had the fit of plants, and to her was given then craft and skills of the Druidic arts. Lillira the middle sister was strong and arm and blade, to her was given the training of the bow and blade. Both elder sisters had a future of respectable roles in the Noble house Da Romano. But poor Calista showed no such ability. Nor did she show such in the bardic crafts, cleric arts where not for her, nor magaery. Alchemy then, no, all she did was make her hair green for a while, the fighting arts, again no, she was good with a bow, yes. But she hated wearing armor and use of the larger blades. Yet she had gifts a sharp mind, cold did not seem to harm her as it did others, everyone liked her, even animals but she was so Hapless at magic, the family was at a loss.

It seemed that she the younger was destined to be wed off to some halfwit noble’s son. Meetings where held but each time the boy involved would blurt out so reason he could not marry Calista, a few times to great comic affect. Her mother started to suspect that Calista had a hand in this. Her suspicions where raised when she noted how Calista always seemed to know how others felt around her, it was more than hard to keep secrets from her in fact. Calista was needed to be talked to. This suspicion lead to a fate full meeting, with a card seer, the very one that advised she be born in Elysuim.

She said waiting and the old elf seer, blind came into the room. With her stick she found the table and sat across from Calista. She lifted a set of cards from her bag and placed them on the table.

”Well young elf it’s been a while, last time I was with you, you were no bigger than a fox. Now look at you, all ready to have a family of your own. But I can tell that is not what you wish. So let’s see you fate then.”

She took the cards and placed them in the form for production.

”The big sky, travel and adventure awaits you child. The Crows, there will be evils and dangers to face, The Dance, grate forces will be in play, The Forge, you must train your skills and talents but what are they, I was told child you had none hum.”

She turned over the last two cards, and sat back an odd look on her face.

” The Unicorn, you will seek to undo something, and”

::”The Mute Hag, so you’re a mind mage, well that I did not expect”::

Calista was shocked as the old elfs word came to her mind without being spoken.

::”But, how, what? Err can you hear me”::

The old elf seer nodded.

::”Yes I can and it seems the powers that be have plans for you my girl. You have a destiny one linked to the very cards you see in front of you. There maker seems to be in need of your talents.”::

Calista had no idea what that meant but when this old seer talked of talents she was all ears.

::”So talents, like…”::

The old seer talked to her then, mind to mind, it was a long day, after it was agreed with the family that she would get training in the ways of the mind. This would mean travel to collages and academy’s that did such training. That was some 50 years ago, the small amount coin her family gave her had long ago been spent. But she found ways to get more, Bounty Hunting was the one she liked the best. Finding the lost child, hunting the criminal, having skills of the mind helped. She had rules on using her powers; she would only uninvited read evil minds. She would only use her powers and gifts for good. Helping others where she could and doing ‘good’ in the world. Her family was happy with this, from time to time she went home. She and her sisters would talk of their adventures and what they had seen.