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Romeo strides confidently into the room, looking for someone new and exciting that he hasn't met before. The uninteresting world is such a bore...

He looks around the room for a sign of intelligence, hoping, though not necessarily expecting.

Well, it beats being underneath the sewers of Cheliax... he thinks to himself.

But don't worry, he won't be played disruptively at all, he just doesn't have the gift of gab. He is usually succinct and straight to the point (as he wants to be.)

So he wouldn't be the one trying to talk people in circles in a dilpomatic tango... Now, a debate about logic and sciences, that is a different thing altogether.

Ah ha. Thanks Tavi.

I am currently tweaking my character a little...

I am moving him more towards Sherlock Holmes super smart and not as "tactful" shall we say with words, and less towards a chivalrous dude.

In thinking about my character, I really wanted to play him this way, as I almost always play the chivalrous smooth talker dude, and I wanted something different this go around.

Also I think there will be less overlap like this, so bonuses all around.

As to knowing you all, I'm not opposed to it, as I'm from the area. I would probably know all of you by face, I think, and then anyone my age, especially those that sneak out after night, I would be knowing personally, I think. Upon hearing his last name, many will know - or at least wonder - if he is the child of the famous actress that had the rise and subsequent fall. His mother is a confusing topic, even to himself still, so it is a conversation that he likes to stay away from as much as possible.

Romeo has been a "secret meeting," kind of guy for the last 3 or 4 years. He listens to all voices of opposition and is wondering the best route out of Cheliax's current dirge of goodness. He has already decided that some of the anarchist preachers at night aren't quite where he wants to go... but he knows a change needs to happen in this nation, he just doesn't want to supplant a government and it's rulers with absolutely nothing.

Here here is, ready for review.

The only thing that needs special approval is his choice of Oracle Curse. I chose Legalistic, which is described here. It was originally designed to reflect an infernal patron for an Oracle, but it seems to me that having Iomedae as my patron may also fit. She is, after all, a deity of honor and duty, not to mention the patron of paladins. I think this would fit the character well and would require little re-imagining for it to work.

@Romeo - Who is your patron deity?

Shelyn. If fit into the character nicely, and it is also nice not to have to hide your religion for fear of being trounced upon in the good deity absent nation of Cheliax . That is always an added bonus.

Oh cool. So it sounds like I might be perfect the way I am, because we have melee, albeit a teensy bit squishy melee (no offense of course. I am -1 STR, haha. I be the squishiest.) So we might be healbotting all over the place.

My domain is "defense" too. So any allies within 20 ft of me get a +2 to their AC once per day. I'm all about the setup, just as long as we get a nice spike in.

Sorry I'm so noob at not switching my icon. I've only GM'd on the paizo site, and I have 3 games, so I'm very used to not switching it. I'll get it down sometime before 2013...

So who do we have that is full on melee in the group? So far Lucon, and Enko the monk?

I would offer myself up as a finesse fighter if that will help the group... You would be missing out on the "knowledge:everything" skills that I currently have though.

Thoughts?

@ Amon - Gotcha. I will tweak a little.

Stats are posted. I will be tweaking a little, based on my mini conversation with Amon.

@ everyone. How would everyone feel about me being a little better ranged attacker, with a pinch of divining on the side, since our WONDERFUL CLERIC seems to have us covered there? Or should I stay as is?

Here. The "click here" link takes you to the paizo home page, fyi GM. Luckily, I am smart enough after 3 tries to click on the tab next to recruitment.

I will stat up my Inquisitor tonight (I left it blank in case I was going to be moved over to TWF or rogue or something.)

Very excited to play this character. HOPE YOU ALL LIKE SHAKESPEARE!!! I am going to attempt to post everything my character says in Iambic Pentameter. Wish me luck! :)

Romeo is confident that when called upon by the Pathfinder Society to rid the nation of Cheliax of evil that he will be ready.

As a side note, GM, if you caught this, Romeo works equally well as a Inquisitor, Rogue, TWF finesse fighter.

I like him *more* as tool monkey, but there are some wonderful submissions there, too.

I do not wish to trade places with GM Mug at this point. Well... Yes I do, because then I would pick me. But then I would do "trade backs." :)

Good luck to everyone, and happy gaming.

@ GM mug - aha. I'll get on that.

I submit to you Romeo Visurrian.

Romeo has been raised by his father his entire life. His mother was a famous actress, and she left the family for months at a time touring the various countries of Golarion with the most famous play-actors guilds of the time. Eventually she fell in love with one of her co-actors, and left the family for good. The last thing that he can remember of his mother was sneaking in to a play when she was in town (his father strictly forbids plays of all types) and watching his mother light up the stage.

That was 7 years ago, before the drug problems started. His mother, Ariana Visurrian, got into an on stage "accident," where someone had swapped out a prop knife for a real one (it was actually a jealous understudy that never got caught) and with no magic healer in the small town they were traveling to, she was attended to by hand, and given flayleaf, by a "concerned" understudy. The drug was magical, and - to make a long story short - started her on a downward spiral into harder stuff. A few short years later, his mother having been kicked out of even the lowest local guilds because of her habit, decided to move to Cheliax and be "the mother she never was" to her only son. She however, didn't have the strength to tell him that she was his mother, and her face and features, so horribly twisted by years of hard drug use were unrecognizable by her son. She would watch him from afar, and write in her diary the things that she one day hoped to say to him face to face. She never got that chance, as one day in a terrible despair, she lost her 3 year battle to the drug and took her entire stash, and ending what was left of her life.

She was eventually found, and the the guards summoned. When it became public who she was, Romeo was visited by an official from Varisia. Apparently she had set aside some funds for him, and locked it in a trust that she couldn't touch, so that those funds couldn't go to her habit. Upon the widespread news of her death, this chain of motion kicked in. (Child of Infamy trait)

Romeo was unsure of how to handle the news of his mothers death at the young age of 17, and the news that eventually came out that she had moved from Varisia to Cheliax, but had not wanted to contact him for some reason.

With no mother to raise him, and a father that flew into his own kind of depressed dejection, losing himself in his work (he was a chemist) he turned to the street, which isn't hard to in Cheliax. He wanted answers. Hell, he'd even settle for questions that he could find the answers to. He had nothing. Then he heard whispers of a society and an old building... a Path-finding one, that once upon a time challenged the authority of this drug ridden place. He dropped a couple messages here and there, half hoping they would be found by the authorites. But instead he was contacted by someone in the country, and told that the right questions and some of the answers lie in Delvehaven. He knew the place, and he spent the next few years training himself and getting whatever information he could absorb to set out on his own and rid cheliax of it's corruption once and for all. He has recently made contact with the subject again, and told his unknown contact that he is ready to help the pathfinder society in what he can, starting with Delvehaven (the pathfinders exile trait from the PG)

Now at the age of 21, eager to get out on his own, his father has given him the deed to his wealth, which was set to be given to him at the age of 21, along with the letter from his mother and the journal.

He is about to read it, as the story starts. He has figured out a few things in the last 4 years since he heard of his mothers death. She was so beautiful and full of life, to be destroyed by drugs.

That, and someone needs to pay...

Character Stuff - how it will be most likely played:

Embarrassed by his mother, he only goes by the name Romeo (unless he feels like adding her name to the conversation will get him somewhere with someone). As the name would infer, he is quite the charmer. I plan on playing Inquisitor, but Rogue or FIghter would both work equally well. He will be the stat monkey as inquisitor or rogue. He is the type to not get himself into fights he can't finish, if he can help it - preferring ranged combat, or attacking from the backsides. He will be very charismatic and intelligent.