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![]() Freehold DM wrote:
Won't you think about the octopi? ![]()
![]() Freehold DM wrote:
Arrrrghhh my secret is out! I'm a doppelganger who's eaten up the kitty cat. Yum-yum! ![]()
![]() *slides in, leaving a slime trail behind* Crunch:
Damien
Traits Methodical Mind(Knowledge skill focus – Knowledge History), Trait bonus History, Arcana, Planes, Vagabond child Feat plan:
May switch Phalanx formation with Lingering performance also. Alternate racial traits: Dimdweller Gear: Studded Leather Armor, Thieves Tools, Shortbow, Cold Iron Dagger, Longspear, Rope, Grappling arrow, Journal, Ink, Backpack, Belt Pouch, Waterskin, Spell component pouch, Explorer’s outfit, Ink Pen, 40 arrows, Quarterstaff, 24.99 gp leftover Background: Damien and Bella lived next to each other, their parents poor farmers. Damien used to ridicule Bella, pulling her pigtails, saying that only boys had the brains to study. Bella soon proved him wrong by beating him in science and mathematics, though he still got topped the school for literature and history. Once he realized he was faced with serious competition, he started treating Bella with grudging respect for her academic skills. Realising that she was better in mathematics and sciences, while he was her better at the Arts, they both came to an agreement that they would help each other so they could both get their tickets from rags to riches in getting a scholarship from the Lepidstadt university. They both did well in their examinations and he was offered a place in the faculty of history and her, a place in the faculty of chemistry. Bella blossomed from a little girl in pigtails to a beautiful young lady(which Damien didn't seem to notice), until one day, he saw a group of rich students looking down on her, saying that poor peasant girls had no place in the establishment. Fierce protective feelings welled up from within him and he punched their leader on the nose for his insolence, breaking it. Since they outnumbered him, the result was fairly predictable. The rest of them jumped on him as a group, kicking and punching him until he passed out. The next memory he had was waking in the infirmary with a broken arm and a sore head, and a very anxious and concerned Bella by his bedside. She had stood up against the bullies, shamed them off him by chiding them for their cowardly behaviour (of ganging up on a single person), before dragging him off to the infirmary. He realized all these years what a gem had been under his nose all the time that he had missed. She helped ask his coursemates for notes, tried to sit in his classes(when she had time off), to understand his curriculum and try to explain it to him. Daimen was touched by her efforts, despite that her explanations often just confused matters.The notes were definitely helpful, though. When he recovered from his injuries, they began to go out together, and take self defense lessons together, mindful that they might run into that gang of bullies again. Where he proved, with some training, to be fairly handy with fists, she proved to have hand and eye to turn everyday objects into thrown weapons. They ran into that group again, one night when they were returning from a play, Daimen dropped the first person with two swift blows, and Bella started pelting the group with broken pottery fragments from the nearby dump, the rest fled. They finished their studies and were offered tenure in the university. They wed soon after their graduation, and bought a cottage near the university. Damien became a professor of history, while Bella worked on her alchemical projects in the universities laboratory, and meeting on campus and of campus when their schedules permitted.They lived this blissful, martial life for several years, their only regret was that they were not blessed with a child. Parts of the Gap
After the funeral, in the night, he secretly dug up his wife's coffin and carried it to the basement in his cottage.He arranged for a priest(of a dubious god) to have Bella's body preserved. He had read in some books that there were ways to bargain with powers from Beyond...and they could grant anything, as long as one was willing to pay the price... For GM to fill in. I expect he started contacting other entities, pleading with them to restore Bella to him - he would have done anything they asked |