Grats on the ones picked.
I'm gonna assume it's because of the half-elf to non elf/half-elf ratios.
Have fun gaming guys.
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Ooh extra skill points. Getting Intimidate and knowledge arcana up. Gives me 1 extra hp as well.
GM: I was indeed veering into enchantment based magic. Seemed most appropriate for a seduction/alluring based character.
My first concept of Lanya was to be able to convince people to read a note with Explosive Runes on it. I've never been able to achieve that though, but the idea was too fun to not at least try it.
Here's Lanya's overhaul ready for submission. Only need to decide on what to spend the extra money on. What I also imagine her doing on later levels is intimidate people by adding magic. For instance casting Flesh to Stone, then convince anyone who has seen it that she is an ancient medusa and far more powerful than she is.
Heya, I'm playing in the World of Darkness with you guys. I've played this character before in a Kingmaker but it died down somewhere in book 2. She was aiming for diplomat or consort then. Trying to seduce the paladin there too.
As much as it pains me to say, I think I have the same problem with the game as Bej and Vors have/had. It feels too big and too many subplots to follow. I just can't find the time to read and post responding to everyone.
If you want you can use Lanya as an NPC, either for the kingdom or against or let her disappear all together. If any smaller Kingmaker campaigns come up, keep Lanya in mind, I'd be happy to reuse her.
Sanita: Most of the information about people would be hearsay, things they have said themselves to you and the rest or just plain gossip. There are parts of Lanya's background that only people in Lastwall or Vigil would know and perhaps not even then. She has skeletons in her closet alright, but you'll have to dig really really deep to get that information. People might not even recognise the name Lanya Beladon as she would have lived under an alias.
If you want Lanya's secrets you'll have to give it your best shot and work long on it.
Background Check: Identity: Lanya Beladon, affiliated with House Medvyed, but doesn't carry their name. Family: She still has two living parents Karga and Melisiriel (or Melissa to most), her father a human lumberjack, her mother an elf, but Lanya doesn't have any siblings. She doesn't speak too much about them, but she has very fond memories of living on a farm in a small community close to the woods. Early Life: Lanya has mentioned Lastwall before as her homeland, the farm she grew up on lays close to the Fangwood. She also mentioned living in Vigil, the capitol city of Lastwall, but hasn't gone into any details. The only other person inside the company in the Stolen Lands who knows more details about her early life is Wilhelm. When she eventually moved out of Lastwall, she travelled the world, eventually coming up in Restov and met Alexei Medvyed there, a middle-aged minor noble of House Medvyed, but with enough power and influence that he arranged and brokered trade agreements with the other Houses. He quickly saw the potential in Lanya's past and also the need to get out of Vigil and Lastwall. He offered her a position as a courier and maiden of the house in his residence. Eventually her charms and gifts for persuasion and telling half-truths made her stand out at parties and she was often sent as an envoy if Alexei himself couldn't make a meeting or party. She has been in his employ for over 5 years now up till this point Political Ideas: She thinks there should be rules, but not so much as to constrict people. People should have the freedom of having little indecent pleasures, as long as both parties consent Lanya has no problems with gambling, whores and such. If things need to be done behind the scenes, she will not hesitate to employ certain tactics or ways to acquire information. How far she goes with that, no one in this group or Brevoy can say for sure.
Draekh: Lanya's familiar, an above-average intelligent viper that was offered to her as a gift from Yarkali. Draekh finds his own way more often than not and seems to pick up on Lanya's feelings, helping her from time to time even without her knowing it. Nudging Wilhelm to approach Lanya more, is one of his main contributions in this manner. Yarkali: Though not one of her close associates, Yarkali is apparently one of her ancestors. The appearance of Yarkali varies and the way she has met her first was in the form of a female serpentesque troll. Her other forms of note are a giant snake and a large four-armed, dark-skinned humanoid with jet black hair. Yarkali is presumably serving the Green Lady.
Mdt, Leinathan: I'll gues I'll take the gold one then, if Leinathan agrees. 2,5 weeks to fabricate it.
Gozran 29th (I believe this is still correct)- Lanya, Wilhelm and Montiff:
"An opportunity was it? An opportunity for what exactly Wilhelm?" She smiles broadly at Wilhelm with another of her playful gazes. "In due time, I need to fix my proper accessories with it. It won't take that long though to acquire those. See it as a sort of holy symbol if you will." Mdt, Leinathan: Lanya will check if there's a necklace with a certain holy symbol (Calistria) to be obtained through Oleg's, she's got a wish for a little modification though. Seeing as she wants to do homage to the things that have shaped her life, she wants a snake crawling on the circle that hold the blades together. How fast could I get that and how expensive would that be? It's just for RP purposes though.
Well some of us would use certain types of people for information. Lanya would also work behind the screens from time to time, but she has to present a face towards other kingdoms so mostly she'll stay out in the open. I'm guessing from time to time, Sanita's contacts might also work for me/report back to Sanita with some of my actions.
Gozran 29th, 1 week into the future: Lanya grins as Wilhelm mentions him not being afraid of one particular woman. "Perhaps not. Perhaps it is unwise for you to not be afraid. Let me know which one it is when you see me in my new dress, alright Wilhelm?" Lanya helps Wilhelm undress and puts his clothes onto a neatly stacked pile, shaking her head smiling as Wilhelm tries to impress her with his muscles.
As Lanya helps Mlle. Montiff take Wilhelm's measurement, she can't help but let her fingers slip over his naked back, unseen by the old woman's eyes. Giving Wilhelm all the more difficulty to keep his composure. Whenever she makes eye contact with him, she grins wickedly and winks at him. This game is mine Wilhelm, you're just a rookie. I am a master in these games and you'll know it. When they're done for the day, Lanya picks up her dress and thanks Mlle. Montiff again.
When Mademoiselle Montiff asks her to help her with tailoring Wilhelm she bites her lip in obvious amusement.
"I have no qualms with that at all Mademoiselle Montiff, though I'd think milord Orlovsky might want his uniform fitted first though." She says as she steps back into the wagon. "You're not afraid of two women are you Wilhelm?" She mentions as she extends a hand to get him into the wagon.
In relation to the old topic of WBL: Lanya only took the Beguiling Bangles (worth 11k) from the loot we found and gathered. The rest is still her own equipment from the start. Sorcerers don't need much. Also the 2325 gp I got as a share from the sold loot. I'd need to payback Sanita still, how much do I still owe you for the dress Sanita? I should see what I want to spend the remaining gp on.
"I'll tell him, that uniform will probably look very good on him when it's all fit for him. Though I should probably also tell Sanita that she shouldn't creep up on Wilhelm as he's sleeping, it can't be very healthy." Lanya dresses herself in her regular clothing and heads out of the wagon again, looking around Oleg's for Wilhelm.
"Greetings milord Wilhelm," she says with an obvious amount of sarcasm in her voice, "How are you this fine day?" She can't hide her smile about what she's going to say though she will listen in earnest to his reply. "Your presence is requested on a clothing matter. Will you follow me?"
"Mademoiselle, I've brought Wilhelm to you for the readjustment of his new uniform." She looks with a playful look at Wilhelm as she moves away.
"Of course I'd be willing to help." Lanya smiles wily at the old woman.
Despite her answer, Lanya still stand to model and help for the old woman to finish the green dress.
Lanya will happily invest the time to make the dress be fitted to her size, it's something she's been waiting on for some time now. "No worries Mademoiselle, the dress looks perfect, just as I imagined. You've done a great work even if it's not your best. I'd gladly order a new one at a later date." When Mademoiselle Pontiff asks about the green dress and her beaus she smiles a secretive smile.
Lanya looks up surprised as the guard calls her.
She heads over to the guard to check upon what he might have to say and then notices the familiar golden scales.
"How have you been all this time? It's been too long my friend." She then turns to the guard. "It's alright she's one of us, apparently you haven't heard the legend or the stories." She takes Felix back inside Oleg's and introduces him/her to Mademoiselle Montiff.
Lanya smiles as the old Madame Montiff ushers the driver away to box-stacking duty. She then turns to the seamstress. "Oh, we're not planning on going anywhere anytime soon. Like I said we're just setting up our base of operations now, doing all the things that are necessary and expected of us." She looks around to see and check that none of the men are within earshot.
Nice pics indeed, though the dress Lanya's going to wear will be quite different than what she's wearing there.
Lanya shakes hands with Evelynn. "A Baronessa? I should've heard about you I reckon, but I can't say I've ever seen you before." Lanya looks pleased to see Mademoiselle Montiff and laughs at her joke.
Lanya appears shortly after on the grounds inside Oleg's as she wonders who would be calling on her. "Greetings to you milady, or am I being to forward with that title?" She asks smiling of the newly arrived redhead.
Still here.
I agree with all of those above. Also please excuse me for my silence, many things about the laws were already said and I couldn't find the time or energy yet to post a long post about them myself. To be fair, most of the suggestions were in line with my own thinking.
I can vouch for Dareon's/leinathan's DM-ing style. Still loving the Curse of the Crimson Throne AP he's running and Dareon brings as much to the table as he does as a DM.
Lanya has been mostly silent during the whole debate and goes through the motions of listening, nodding and looking questioningly as other voices chime in to let themselves be heard. "It seems you bring up very important matters regarding our new neighbours, both Sanita and Roan. Though these matters are important, I agree with Rowan that rigorous actions to raise an army or get to the full extent of a spy network should have to wait until our infrastructure is built up. Else we would have all the costs of doing such without the needs to sustain it." She shifts in her seat and gazes at the others present and then to Wilhelm.
Thank you for holding out as long as you did Kertuffle. I'm up there with Dante to say that it was a pleasure to play in your game, still hope to continue if we were given a chance. Best of luck with your work, I understand it can take a lot out of you.
Lanya hears the back and forth and looks a bit bored with the same old argument between Sanita and Anastacia.
"I think Sanita would make a good Master of Espionage and Dante also brings up a good point. We don't need to know all the ups and downs about the spies you employ and how you got to know things Sanita, we will need to trust you judgment in those matters. But I would like it if you could notify Wilhelm if something has gone wrong, we don't want a scandal or accusation of something we didn't even know that has been done. I would condone fear and bribes, but physical injury is more difficult to talk straight if you catch my drift." She looks to Bej and nods.
"He actually still needs to set up and his first order of business would be getting rid of the boggards in the immediate area. As long as that hasn't finished he might not get ahead of us in settling the river plains."
"Well met mister Just Holbrecht." Lanya smiles as she shakes hands with Holbrecht, delighting at the quip of the dwarf's own words. "All joking aside, it's good to have another pair of able hands around Oleg's to help us." She then turns back to Sanita and Fhârn.
Lanya looks around to make sure that none of his followers remained in the room.
Lanya walks up to Sanita smiling as they announced they were back and her dress would be done reasonably quickly. She lays one hand on Sanita's shoulder.
"We have some news of our own, perhaps you would like something to drink before I or we blurt out everything?"
Lanya nods as Drelev mentions his plans.
With that she leaves to get back to her own dinner.
Lanya looks back as Wilhelm calls her, stopping to let him catch up.
She pauses and looks up at the night sky and the stars.
"Good night Wilhelm. Sweet dreams." She says with a mysterious smile before getting into her sleeping bag.
Lanya joins dinner and sits at Wilhelm's side. She watches and talks smalltalk with whoever is opposite or next to her. "These Stolen Lands are a good opportunity for people that seek a second chance. A new beginning as one would say, are you out for a new beginning, seeking glory and riches or just following your lord? Whatever the case it must get lonely from time to time, we've seen the same problem with those bandits actually. No women at all..." "Your party's goal to expulse the boggards is a fine one, but I'm concerned for you. We have Oleg's as a place of operations and means to get trade in more easily. I can't seem to remember something like that at the other side of the east Sellen River."
Roan: Lanya's main vice now is Wrath, usually it's hidden deep but it's flaring right now. Lust would be minor.
Roan:
Careful there Roan, incitement against Lanya might not be a good thing, she can hold a grudge. You'll know when Sanita, Fhârn and Holbrecht come back to us ^^ Lanya's eyes shoot daggers at the two men behind their backs. Just you wait Drelev, just you wait. She walks with a courteous smile after them as they enter Oleg's but she seems wary of anything that might happen and calls Draekh to her shoulder, concealing him beneath her cloak. Hmmm.. I might have a way to get rid of them. But not here, not now, but soon.
Well we should, or at least Wilhelm should, have plausible deniability. A snake killing them would look natural and wouldn't give him much/any cause to go righteous justice on us.
Actually Lanya and Draekh could bite some of the men, dying from snake poison also seems like a natural way which wouldn't draw too much attention. If we really need to get rid of Drelev...
Lanya looks at Wilhelm with a gaze of disbelief.
Lanya stands up brushes off her clothes and bows to the two fae.
"And here you are." Lanya says on a cheerful tone, hiding her sarcasm.
She adds in a whisper to Wilhelm as she makes a gesture to the others to the group to go around and enter.
"Yes you are right, it was a black unicorn. I guess meeting her alone was impressive enough that I almost forgot about the unicorn." A giant snake? now that explains everything. I already thought it strange I'd descent from a troll-like creature. "I'm not gonna tell her anything. The one time we met she warned me of her master and that the next time we would meet we would be enemies. I'll keep this conversation a secret if you can keep it too." She says with a wink to the two fey.
Lanya looks down at Dreleve and his men in cool disdain. She then calls out to the men in a clear voice.
She awaits to see how the man reacts, then continues.
Lanya chuckles at Rowan's mention of her new form. "I'd have to say you're right on that, though it's definitely not a wedding dress." Lanya looks a bit taken aghast when she hears that the fey fear Yarkali. No wonder, she does serve the green Lady. Though i'd better keep quiet about my heritage I think. She smoothes her clothing to take any looks away from her expression.
Lanya looks up as Wilhelm determines that the two fae were actually scared of her transformation. It's good to have someone close to me that's able to read people's faces and intentions. I lacked the more observational skills because I focused on hiding my own. "If Wilhelm is correct, I'm wondering that myself as well. I only want my enemies to be afraid of me and not my new friends. You have nothing to fear of me Perlivash and Tyg-Titter-Tut. If I can do anything to prevent this from happening again, please tell me."
Roan:
I like what you did there, at first I had built Lanya to go for the leadership role, now she looks to be more like a temptress/seductress trying to claw her way into power. I must admit that could be a danger to a Paladin and how people view us. It's good to see someone else also noticing the implications. It will give us great roleplaying opportunities in the future. Lanya searches the main buildings for Dante and Wilhelm and calls them out to get outside. That is if she doesn't see them outside. She then returns with them quickly to the top of the walls.
"Intoxicating? I'd think people could get addicted to transforming, though this form actually doesn't suit me that well. I can understand if people like to see what the possibilities are."
"Sorry Svetlana, I'll be back later. I think we have something to attend to." She leaves the kitchen and Oleg's main building jogging up the palissade wall.
She then sprints back down and goes to look for Dante and Wilhelm to inform them of the approaching riders if they haven't already heard.
When she's done talking to the masses she walks back in, to just see Wilhelm playing chess with Bej and losing. Looks like Bej would also be a good general, he's got a sound mind for tactics that one. Draekh is wandering off on his own again, inside Oleg's he knows he can do such a thing, most have seen the snake with Lanya and know he is hers. Draekh slithers over to Wilhelm's feet and tries to get up his leg to take a close look at the chessboard. Lanya in the meantime was busy keeping a journal, sitting alone against the trading post's wall basking in the sun, her fiery red hair almost blazing. She notices some men stop and stare at her, but she gives them no notice. The attention is nice, but I'm not looking for anyone at the moment. I've already got someone to toy with.
Looking around she notices the new face talking to Wilhelm. I wonder who that could be. Seeing how he is dressed he could be another lordling. I wonder... more Orlovskys? Then Anastacia joins the group around Wilhelm and Lanya makes up her mind to barge in as well. She'd want to talk to Anastacia again after all and hadn't found the time yet. She walks up to the group from behind and lays a hand on Wilhelm's and one on Anastacia's shoulder. "Welcome back Anastacia!" she says as she moves to the other side of her, giving Wilhelm a glance and a wink as he looks up.
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