Nikolia settled once more at a table where he could watch the others throwing darts. He grabbed his tankard of ale and asked, "Are you two from Sandpoint? I don't remember seeing you around town all that often."
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Nikolia rolls his sleeves up and approaches the board, pulling Teras's darts out one by one. He then steps back to the line and throws them one at a time.
Two darts miss the board completely, but the final one strikes true to a bulls-eye. Nikolia shrugs with a sheepish grin on his face. "So maybe I fibbed a little on how good I am." He waves to Ameiko and says, "Go ahead and buy each of them a round on me."
Nikolia nods to Ameiko when he finished his story and fell into silence. The story was sad, but it was even sadder to him. He missed his mother deeply. He sat looking down at his food and taking a bite every once in a while. This was probably to longest he'd been quiet for a while. Finally, another walked into the tavern and offered a game up. Titus was quick to accept the challenge. The idea of a friendly game caused Nikolia's mood to change rapidly. He looked up from his food with a smile on his face again and said, "I'll take the winner! I love a good game of darts, and if you're as good as you say, sir, I may finally have found a challenge!" at the last part he gave a slight chuckle.
The wait is fine with me.
Nikolia blushed heavily when Ameiko told him that she hadn't been in yet. He had hoped it wasn't as obvious who he was asking about, but apparently it was. And apparently he wasn't that good at hiding his feelings in general if Ameiko could pick up on them so easily. He only hoped that Shalelu herself never noticed. THAT could be a disaster. He finished his stew in silence while listening to the others converse. He heard Ameiko say she might want to visit the home land and chipped in, "That would be a great adventure! Traveling all around the world, you'd be bound to run into brigands, dragons, and maybe even worse!" He was standing with a big grin on his face by the time he finished this exclamation. For a moment, he was reliving the stories of glory his mother told him when he was younger. A moment later, he realized that he was standing with his spoon held up high and a dumb grin on his face. He quickly sat down and the blush returned to his face.
Nikolia sat quietly eating his stew and listening to both the two veterans converse over wine and other things and Ameiko playing her instrument. He smiled slightly when the topic of Cydrak came up. The theater owner was known to scour the town for anyone who would let him sweet-talk them into joining one of his plays. He suppressed a chuckle at the thought of either of these two veterans up on the stage in one of his plays.' As Julen headed for the door, Nikolia called after him, "Tell him you know me! He may part with the wine then!" He had helped with the theater in small ways since he came to call Sandpoint home and even if Cydrak was a little too pompous for Nikolia some times, the young varasian liked his work in the theater and Cydrak always paid well for the help. Nikolia looked around the room and since no one else had come in or out he called out to Ameiko, "Do you have anyone else staying with you other than these fine gentlemen these days?" He tried to hide the real question that he wanted to ask beneath this vague question, but he wasn't sure how well of a job he did.
Nikolia had just sat down when Lou came into the room bringing him a bowl of stew. Other than searching for Shalelu from time to time, Lou's cooking was the reason Nikolia stopped into the Rusty Dragon often. He nodded in thanks to the cook and turned to the other man at the bar. "That I am, sir. Nikolia Guaril, pleased to meet you," he extended his hand to shake the man's own and continued, "I like it there and the people are nice enough. Plus you don't always want to stay where you work. Your views tend to be less crowded that way." he gave a small frown to the man and said, "I'm sorry to hear 'bout your family. Things like that could bring a man to drink anytime a day." He turned again to face Lou and said, "Sadly, no. I haven't seen her since the giant attack nearly a month ago. I'll keep an eye out for her, though, and let you know if she turns up." He liked Lou's sister when she was here, and even though she could be a bit of a brute some times, she was always nice to Nikolia. He envied her bravery during the giant attack along with her companions. Yes, it has been whispered that she had less than legal associates, but Nikolia still believed that she was good somewhere inside her. Nikolia became incredibly interested in his stew when he heard the man say that Lou would be better without her. He knew how close Lou was with his sister, and didn't know how he would react to the man. He hoped he wouldn't have to take his lunch to a corner away from an argument because there were still a few things he would like to ask Ameiko first.
Nikolia had already been up for an hour by the time the others got themselves up and moving. He cleaned the Hagfish's floors and tables, making sure that they were ready for when the few people who actually came in for lunch. The work wasn't enjoyable, but it gave him time to think through the day ahead of him. He had a few errands to run before his work tonight, but other than that the day was his for the taking. He took his leave of the Hagfish and took out into the just dawning day. The sun was barely over the horizon and already people were bustling about the streets of the sleepy little town he had come to call home. He smiled and waved to people as they all started to move through their day. Merchants began moving their goods out where passer's could see them, a few hunters brought back the few kills they were lucky enough to bag early in the day, and a few children were already running through the streets chasing each other in small games that Nikolia hadn't played in years. He said hello to almost everyone he passed and while not everyone returned his warm smile, he wasn't deterred from continuing it. He walked down to Market Street towards the Rusty Dragon. His other chores could wait for a bit. As he passed down the street, he noticed a small poster put up on one of the buildings. Apparently, Sheriff Hemlock was starting the bounty on goblins again. Nikolia pulled the poster off the building and deposited it into his belt pouch. He might have use of that later. He continued down the street until he came to the Rusty Dragon. He headed for the door, just as a man was coming out. He didn't recognize the man, but he smiled and said, "Good morning, Sir." just the same. He walked in the front door and immediately saw Ameiko behind the bar. He smiled and waved to her before looking around the room. He gave a small frown when he didn't see Shalelu there. Apparently she was still out in the wild. He whipped the frown off his face headed towards the bar to sit down next to another man he had never seen before. He chuckled and said, "It's a little early in the morning to be drinking, don't you think?" He adjusted his scimitar on his hip so he sit at the bar and took the seat next to him.
Still here! I've just been twiddling my thumbs and waiting for the go ahead. I did have a thought on our waiting time, though. Would you be against us holding just some social rp'ing while we wait? Maybe it will give our characters just a little more incentive to work together once the actual campaign starts. If there's a problem with it that's fine. I've just been itching to get Nikolia here moving a little bit. His dancing legs get sore after not being able to dance for an extended period of time.
It was a number of things that made her "rich" one was because she was a real harrower, a trait he never inherited. The second was because of the value of the items his father left them. The inheritance (the 900 gp) he gained was all she had. So she was rich in the original sense of the word. If that's a problem, I guess I can change it.
Ok, finished up the edits on his story. If there is anything else you want changed let me know. I'm pretty pumped too. The group I game with irl played through the first book of the path (we didn't have enough money to buy the rest) and we had a lot of fun. I always wanted to see what the rest of the story was.
That's fine with the age thing, that'll just take a bit of tweaking. As for the Dawnflower Dervish thing, though. I'm not using the Dawnflower Dervish Bard, I'm using the dervish dancer bard archetype from Ultimate Combat. I've heard the Dawnflower can be better (especially at early levels since you get Dervish Dancer feat for free), but I liked the overall stuff you got from the straight Dervish Dancer. If you aren't familiar with it, it's right here If you still want all the extra fluff, I guess that's fine. I'm just trying to point out that he is not a dawnflower dervish.
Ok, got the background up. I think I'm ready to go XD
Ok, I fixed his crunch. I'll get the background up later today once I write it. @ Rauno Klan: That's fine, I already have a lot of the leg work done on him and I think a dancing bard whose mother was a harrower in a varisian caravan adds some nice flavor. Plus I've been wanting to make a dervish since I found this archetype. XD
Ok, that's fine. Here we go.
I explained it wrong. Blood of Angels allows you to take alternate abilities to the Standard Spell-like abilities including things like detect pregnancy and +2 bumps to different ability scores. I choose +2 to Dex over having the glitter-dust spell-like ability. So abilities actually come out at +4 to Dex and +2 to Cha. So I do have enough to buy 19 with the dump, barely , but enough XD Also, I'm fine with the repercussions of dumping Wis, I was planning on making him naive and bull-headed anyway lol. If you still have questions about it, let me know. I'll be more than happy to answer them.
+2 to Cha and Dex (plus an additional +2 to Dex as an Aasimar Ability Alternate skills are Diplomacy and Perform and Spell like abilities: able to cast glitterdust as a spell-like ability Basically it just makes for a better bard, more flavor, and more fluff.
This is Raven, here's my charry. I still need to write up his background and find a pic for him, but here's the stats. |