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Paynne openly scoffs, both at Lord Marcus' plans and at the Necromancer Fostian's desire for a show of loyalty. She first address the mage. "Ill manners is an ill guest, necromancer hailing from Geb. An' you had intent to prove, the wise man would choose the guest before inviting him to table. I think you have already made your mind up, and now seek to humiliate us further. But so be it! If you must needs play Lord Marucs' tune, I'll dance to it, without mind for song or step. The Tyrant has my service to cast away as he wills it for services rendered. It matters not that you play the merchant to draw upon the bill." She turns her gaze to Lord Marucs. "And what backing have you to prove that such a titan task can even be done? Have you gathered all 12 pieces of the shield to your bosom? Or do you claim powers enough to rend the Great Seal inert? I should think that a show of good faith on both sides is in order afore I pledge the last drop of heart's blood to some flight of fancy."
Paynne speaks up, her hands encrusted with mush that once was flesh. "Suffice for what? With so impressive a host arrayed, what need would one have for 'rabble'? Indeed, to inhabit so sumptuous an abode but to resort to anything you would think so poorly of, indicates a weakness. Or even a desperation of sorts." She smiles, her caked-over hands remaining motionless, her gaze returning the necromancers stare. Death held no fear for her. "Or perhaps you shouldn't insult before we've agreed to anything. Now, let us begin at the beginning. I am Paynne." Whether she intends it simply as her name or not, it's pronounced as the phonetic clone of the word 'pain'. Or at least that's how it sounds.
From the non-space a woman enters. Her dress is of a good cut, but quite threadbare, possibly from too-long on the road, or even deliberate intent. Her steps are hesitant, as if forced to walk by a mind distracted by many things with little power left for locomotion. She advances on the table and takes a seat, not really close to the others but neither deliberately far way--she simply doesn't weigh others in her choice of seat. She takes a goblet and fills to the brim with wine, drinks it down in an uninterrupted gulp, fills it again, sets it down. She takes a pork chop hold it in her hands. She tears it apart. Then twists the sections. Then tears those into small pieces, then tears those pieces down. When there's nothing left but pig-mush she takes another one and repeats the process. At sometime in the middle she looks up, seeing the others for the first time. Her expression doesn't change. "Are we supposed to kill each other now?" Her face brightens into an embarrassed smile. "No, wait, sorry. I think we help each other. Oops." The smile is full, embarrassed, playful. "I'm new to this." The smile melts away. She returns to torturing the meat.
@Dm Thron: Hi there! Terribly sorry, I was playing around with the build. For you, I should really bring my best, so while a Magus has better numberz, the cleric-->sorcerer--> Mystic Theurge has the best RP potential. I'll keep this unchanged now for this Alias. ^_^ (Unless we're caster heavy and melee-light, then the Magus would be better for the party. But her personality would remain unchanged. =]) You are correct, sir! True story: I originally wrote the backstory when I came across an old copy of the BoVD. I thought about "What makes someone not intrinsically evil, turn evil?" And this story all but wrote itself. =)
Yes, while she has been driven insane unto being both sadistic and masochistic, her primary goal is to get revenge on Lord Borak. And the whole Iron Hand orc tribe. And all orcs. But him specifically. =)
And, of course she's Neutral Evil, not Evil Stupid. So long as she's with a party, she'll enjoy killing the things that the party wants killed, and one of the hooks might be for the party to try and reel her back (wacky hijinks to ensue). On a personal note, I really like the ideas that go behind "evil" campaigns. That is, we're all in campagins where we play heroic characters and we do nice things in a nice way like the reasonable, respectful people we are, and I like that you're trying something different. For however "dark" you'd like this game to go, I'm completely with you.
Feel free to post more questions. I really like this character, and I like just talking about the brain-thoughts behind her. =-]
In instances like this an often-used tie-breaker is usually to look at the players' RP/post history. It's easy to tell that I'm an active poster with some excellent RP skills and I'm quite good playing to the theme, enhancing the experience for the others around me, and often have my posts Favorited. Then it might also be a good idea to check out Felyndiira's campaigns and see how her characters are.
Abbreviated stat block: Magus/Warrior 1/2| AC 12/12/10| F:+6 R+2 W+1| HP 30/30| 1st: 3/3| Atk: +4| Init: +2|CMD: 18 | Perc: +2| FX: none Abbreviated backstory!: Brought up to be rational and good, her small village was destroyed by raiders, and she was tortured unto insanity for many days and finally killed. As she journeyed to the Afterlife, she was seduced and resurrected by Asmodeus. She travels now, indulging in her insanities and sadism whenever conditions warrant, carrying out Asmodeus' will in whatever manner her unstable mind deems prudent.
Alright! Okay, I've read the guide Isabelle put up (thanks HotLanta!), and I researched the lands therein. There are only two foibles that I see, and both have remedies. 1) On it's face the backstory is still plausible. We need only look at the northernmost tip of Caer Bryr, and we could imagine raiding bands of Burabar crossing the water in primitive boats, circumventing Castle Tarholde, and causing mischief on some small community. Therein Payne's story begins. 2) The visitor with the sexy sword, obviously ol' Asmo himself, has so corrupted her that she filtered into more populous areas and was caught red-handed trying to sacrifice some noble citizen. For the crime of attempted MURDER she was sent away. (Obviously I can spin a three-page yarn out of this if you desire specifics and embellishment, but I think the framework is solid.) How's that? =)
Hi there! Character submission from Atals2112, a hexcrafter Magus that will, after a fashion, like to put people to sleep in the middle of combat an' den kill dem. I shamelessly read the first part of your discussion thread, and, as sort of demonstrated in this character's backstory, if you advertise your game as "evil" then it's fair that we know what to expect. Current Campaign
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