Web of the Spider Queen

Reemos · 9:06pm

Character info
Name: Faral Militella
Race: Elf
Gender: Female
Class: Vampire
-Theme: Escaped Thrall
Age: Unknown
Weight: 90 lbs
Height: 5'3" tall

statblock
Faral, Elf Vampire
Init +5 HP22 /22 Bloodied 11 Healing Surge (0 used 2/2)
AC 17 Fort 11 Reflex 17 Will 13 Speed 6
Str 11 (0) Con 10 (0) Dex 20 (+5) Int 10 (0) Wis 10 (0) Cha 14 (+2)

Bark Beckoning
At-Will * Standard Action
Ki Focus: +4 vs Will, 1f6+4 damage
Ranged 5 Target: One creature
Keywords: Charm, Implement, Psychic, Shadow
Attack: Charisma + 2 vs Will
Hit:1d6 + Cha modifier [sychic damage, and you will the target up to 3 squares.

Bark Beckoning,

Taste of Life
At-Will * Standard Action
Ki Focus: +5 vs Fortitude, 1d8+7 damage
Melee 1 Target: One creature
Keywords: Implement, Necrotic, Shadow
Attack: Dexterity vs Fortitude
Hit: 1d8 + Dex modifier necrotic damage, and you gain temporary hit points equal to 2 + your Cha modifier (+2).

Taste of Life,

Vampire Slam
At-Will * Standard Action
Ki Focus: +5 vs Reflex, 1d10+7 damage
Melee 1 Target: One creature
Keywords: Implement, Shadow
Attack: Dexterity vs Reflex
Hit: 1d10 + Dex modifier damage, and you can push the target 1 square.
Special: You can use this power as a melee basic attack.

Vampire Slam,

Blood Drinker
Encounter * No Action
Personal Target: The triggering enemy
Keyword: Shadow
Trigger: You hit an enemy with a vampire melee at-will attack power.
Effect:The target takes 1d10 extra damage from the triggering attack, and you gain a healing surge.

Blood Drinker,

Swam of shadows
Daily * Standard Action
Ki Focus: +5 vs Fortitude, 3d6 + 7 damage
Close blast 3 target: Each enemy in the blast
Keywords: Implement, shadow, Teleportation
Attack: Dexterity vs Fortitude
Hit: 3d6 + Dex modifier damage, and ongoing 5 damage (save ends)
Miss: Half damage
Effect: You teleport to a square in the blast and are invisible until the end of your next turn.

Swam of shadows,

Elven Accuracy
Encounter * Free action
Trigger: You make an attack roll and dislike the result.
Effect: Reroll the attack roll. Use the second roll, even if it's lower.

Elven Accuracy,

My Mind Is My Own
Encounter * Immediate Interrupt
Keywords: Augmentable, Psionic
Trigger:You are hit by a charm or a psychic attack.
Effect: You gain resist 5 psychic until the end of your next turn. Also, you gain a +2 power bonus to saving throws against charm effects and psychic effects until the end of your next turn.
Augment 1
Effect:As above, and you can make a saving throw against any charm and psychic effect at the start of your turn, instead of at the end, if a save can end the effect. This benigit tasts until the end of the encounter.

My Mind Is My Own
Notes Gain combat advantage against enemies with no other creature adjacent to it. - Disciple of Torment
+2 shield bonus while wearing cloth or no armor - Vampiric Reflexes
Resist 5 necrotic
Vulnerable 5 radiant
Rengeneration 2 while bloodied
Non elf allies gain +1 bonus to perception
ignore difficult terrain while shifting

"I can remember the feeling of the tenticles caressing my skin. I can remember the day I was first bitten, the bitter winter cold, then all the feeling going away. The one thing I can't remember what my life was like before them."

When people say that when you become a Vampire, you lose not just your soul but everything you've ever worked for up until that point. For Faral, this was literally the case. She can not remember what life was like before that fateful winter day, nor had she remembered what her name was. The name Faral was the name given too her by the by man who had bitten her after seeing her tear into her first meal in the life as a vampire and the desire for blood. She was his servant and Thrall, having been his creation, and did what ever his whim was whenever he wanted it.

He led her slowly and ever delicately into the Underdark, until they were surrounded by darkness. She liked the darkness, ever surrounded by caves walls there was no fear of burning up in the bright light of the sun. She soon found out what her purpose was, why she was created in the first place. The Aboleths were in need of servants that did not need for food, or sleep or die in a few mere decades. She was to be their eternal servant in the caverns, in the unending darkness of those caverns.

She can not remember how long she was a Thrall to her new master, nor can she remember the exact details as too what she did while enslaved. She can remember, how ever, the slimy touch of their tentacles, grasping when ever and where ever they wanted. She can remember the unending hunger and never being able to feed on the blood that she so dearly desired and weakened her both physically and mentally. Ironically it was during her weakest moments that she was able to escape. She had become so mentally weak that she didn't even register as alive or even useful to their mysterious purposes.

She ran. She ran from them as fast as she could. But by then she had already became nothing more than a feral creature, feeding on any scource of blood she could find, be it Duegar, Drow or any poor soul lost near the surface. That was, until some one came that changed her life. She had attacked her just like she had attacked anything else, in the desire for blood. But she was easily beaten, but instead of being destroyed she brought Faral back to the surface and helped her find her true self again.

It was hard, but in the end she finally regained a sense of self and civility. It was then that the woman introduced herself. She was Kethara, a priestess of Sune. She kept Faral sheltered from the sun, and showed her an amazing amount of compassion and willingly donated a little blood at a time, just enough to keep Faral fed but not enough for herself to die, in order to keep Faral's hunger sated. Faral still had nightmares about what had happened to her while under the control of the Aboleths.

With Kethara's encouragement, she has come to the area to see about trying to put those nightmares to rest, and find some clues as to who she was before being bitten.

Tila · Oct 29 '12, 4:21pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by weregeek85

Wow, a game opening where any race published by WoTC is welcome? Rarity, that. Count me interested.

How much fluff are you looking for regarding justifications for who/what our characters are in these apps? I am toying with the idea of a Deep Delver/Deep Wastes hybrid Ranger|Cleric of Moradin that's not a Dwarf. I've got all sorts of fluffy goodness I can throw into the app to explain him, but if you don't want to read it I'd rather not waste your time.

I am looking for a moderate amount of fluff. Enough to show me your story telling ability. There really isn't that much opportunity for rol-playing, BUT I will do my best to inject some into the plot. I am interested in giving players the opportunity to be part of the major plot of FOrgotten Realms.

Secret Agent Cow · 9:31am

Name: Sir Auron Bright; aka "The Patchwork Knight"

Race: Dragonborn

Class: Paladin

Theme: Treasure Hunter

Background: Shadowdale

Character History: Auron was an orphan of the streets of Shadowdale. He has no memory at all of his parents, though he supposes that they were descendants of the slaves once kept by the Drow when they ruled this region of the world. Taken in at the age of six by an order of Knights known as the Lightbringers, they have been the only world and the only way of life which Auron has truly ever known, or needed. Worshipper of Pelor, the Lightbringers were dedicated to the protection and education of the world’s forgotten and despised peoples’, namely the most destitute. They shun the idea of material gain and power, each having taken an Oath of Poverty; to carry only what they need to do their jobs and nothing more; everything else that they acquire they give up when they return to their abbey; the House of Light. If it is of value it is then sold and the money used to fund the various charitable endeavours that the Lightbringers run and oversee; if it is knowledge however, the Lightbringers keep it in their hands to use and spread through their schools. It is a strong belief among their Order that education is the key to helping the impoverished to escape their demeaning and painful existence.

Auron is a devoted disciple of this philosophy, and has earned more than a few scars over his life defending these ideals. Over the last three decades he has lived the lives of the teacher, preacher, healer and soldier but now he returns to the place that he was born burdened with a mission, a secret quest given to him by the Grand Master of the Lightbringers personally. It is a duty only the most trusted knights of the Order are aware of.

A month past, while Auron and many of the Lightbringers were away a thief came to the House of Light; a thief with worryingly intimate knowledge of their home. They stole into the Order’s most secure and secret rooms, before making off with an item of terrible power that the Order had discovered decades ago in the Underdark; a magic relic of great Evil potential that the Lightbringers realised no one on the outside could ever be trusted with: the Chalice of Lolth.

Auron and a handful of the Order’s most trusted Knights were recalled and assembled. Their mission was simple: seek the Chalice and find it at all costs. As the relic was of Lolth and was originally acquired by the Order in the Underdark, Auron reasoned that Shadowdale might be a good place to begin his search. He could ask around to see if the Chalice had been spotted here and, failing that, if he could find no clue above as to where it may have been spirited away to, it would not be difficult to descend into the Underdark and continue his sacred task there.

Character Description: Auron is at heart a kind man and possesses enormous reserves of patience which have been built up through more than a decade of dealing with hordes of small, loud children. The only things which are guaranteed to get a rise out of him are displays of stupidity, wanton cruelty and hypocrisy. He never judges others and prefers to make his own mind up about things and people rather than trust to the opinions of others. Despite all this though he is relentless; once he has fixed his eyes on a goal, nothing short of death will stop him.

Appearence: Auron Bright is in his mid thirties and stands at six foot, two inches in height and weighs three hundred pounds and some change. His body speaks of great strength, though it is clear it is the kind of power possesed of the naturally large rather than the athletic. His skin is dark, shadowy green with a darkened ochre belly. He has very bright and kind grey eyes and a warm, kindly face. He has earned the nickname of 'The Patchwork Knight' due to the haphazard condition of the armour he wears; not one piece of the plate matches another; it is instead a roughshod and random collection of old and rusting iron rubbing alongside bright lacquered green or yellow steel. This is due to the way the Lightbringers equip their warriors. As they have taken a vow of poverty, it is against their beliefs to hoard any gold for weapons or armour which could be put to better use aiding the poor and the destitute. So the Order accepts donations for its soldiers: all of their weapons and armour come from people the Order has helped or those who wish to be seen doing good for the community. As such, very few full suits of armour are passed out among its warriors, who instead must rifle through the piles of smashed, scarred or ill-fitting metal their Order recieves to provide themselves with any kind of protection. Because of this, no one can ever mistake a member of the Lightbringers from any of their compatriots.

SoulLegion · Oct 29 '12, 9:13pm

Thanks Tila. I've updated my first post on the first page of this thread with some basic character stats, and will update on Wednesday after I finish my draft.

Tila · Oct 30 '12, 1:00am

I have explained the Themes and Backgrounds. Hope it helps.

Fortive · Oct 30 '12, 7:58am

Tila, how would you feel about a Pixie? Someone sent forth from the feywild to scout out the underdark? Would probably have the Underdark Envoy theme, and the Shadowdale background with those that you listed.

Mechanically, I am thinking a hybrid Sorcerer|Rogue

If there are no objections, I should be able to get the character up relatively soon.

Celtic Guardian 7 · 11:31am

*COMPLETE*

Name: Nathan Harper
Race: Human
Class: Fighter
Theme: Escaped Thrall
Background: Myth Drannor
Description: As a young man that stands of average height and is slightly underweight, Nathan's muscled body appears surprisingly strong for his size. This is noticeable only when he is not wearing his armor, which is rare when he is traveling. The heavy suit of red armor does little to hinder Nathan's skillful wielding of his halberd. His blonde hair stays straight even with his lack of brushing or care for it. The bangs fall just short of his blue eyes, which are open books to whatever Nathan is feeling at the time. A silver earring with a charm of the sun on it hangs from his right ear. Though his left ear is pierced, he has no partner for it.

Personality: Nathan is an emotional young man who has a hard time hiding his feelings. If he gets angry, he tends to strike first and think later. This is especially true if friends or loved ones are hurt, as Nathan holds them at a higher priority than himself. Battles do not frighten him, nor does he worry about getting injured himself. He actually prefers being the one to take the blows in place of his comrades. Outside of combat, Nathan has a more friendly personality. His lack in manners is apparent, but it is due more to how he was raised rather than desiring to be insulting.
Backstory:

Born in a small village to his seamstress mother, Nathan never had a chance to meet his father. He had left to continue his job as a mercenary to support his wife and child. Whether he was killed, somehow became lost, or decided to abandon them, he never returned. Nathan grew up with mixed feelings to his unknown father. Part of him yearned to find and be accepted by his father, while the other was angry and bitter at him never returning. Though he did not know how he would react to his father if he found him, Nathan set off at the age of fifteen to search for him.

His searching turned out to be fruitless for the next year. It did lead to a significant change in his life in spite of that. When staying in a town for the night, monsters attacked the location. Since there were not many town guards, Nathan did his best to help out. He managed to take out a few of the creatures before falling unconscious from blood loss. When he woke up, he was being tended to by one of the town healer's apprentices. This girl, Lian, instantly captured Nathan's heart. As he recovered, the two became closer. By the time another year had passed, Nathan still had not left the town, and the young couple was talking about future plans to live together.

It was soon after this that a group of mercenaries came through the town. They were headed to the Underdark, and one of them mentioned that a previous expedition had been there. One of the men he spoke of had the same name as Nathan's father. Nathan could not tell if it was the same man, but this was the only lead he had received. He told Lian that he wished to check this lead, and that whether he found his father or not, he would return to marry her right after the trip. Lian worried for him, but she did not want him to regret passing up one of his only chances to find his father. She vowed to wait for him as he set off with the group.

The expedition did not get far before it met with disaster. A group of drow ambushed the group, and in the end, only Nathan survived the slaughter. He was promptly taken back to their city as a slave. Soon the House of Dergan bought him. His life would have been completely miserable if not for one drow in the house. Heath Dergan was a quiet and sensitive drow who had always felt like an outsider amongst his own kind. Never had he thought of opposing them, but speaking to Nathan seemed to change the drow. At first, Nathan only spat insults at him, hating him like every other drow. It came to a peak when in a future conversation, Nathan exclaimed that he had left his fiance to enter the Underdark on a mission that was futile. He said if he had another chance, he would have never left her side. He did not expect Heath to understand the love that drove him to such words. To his shock, while Heath was unsure of what he was talking about, he asked to be told more. From then on, Heath would come to speak to Nathan of the world above the ground, where emotions such as kindness and friendship existed in abundance.

As the year came to an end, Heath came to Nathan one night to free him from his chains. He said he wanted Nathan to be able to return to the world above, where he could find the love he missed so much. Nathan knew what a risk Heath was taking with this action and asked him to come with him. Heath agreed to at least accompany him to the exit of the Underdark and then make his decision. On the way there, Nathan gave Heath one of the only two items he had managed to keep. They were a pair of silver earrings he had bought in the first town he had traveled to on his own. The one he kept had a sun charm, while the one he gave Heath was in the shape of a crescent moon. He knew Heath had been fascinated by the moon when he spoke of it, so he gave him the earring as a way of welcoming him to a life above the ground.

When they got near the exit, a few drow saw and attacked them. When Nathan was wounded, Heath used the terrain to his advantage, slamming a shaky wall to create a cave in. It blocked Nathan off from the drow, and from Heath. He could only listen helplessly as Heath was subdued and, apparently from what the drow said, dragged away to take his place as a slave.

After all that Heath had done for him, Nathan could not bear to leave his friend to such a life of cruelty. But he would be breaking Lian's heart to not return. In the end, he went back to town to explain the situation to her. They were swiftly married. Nathan then left to find a group that he could accompany back into the Underdark. This time, he was determined to keep them all alive. His vow to save Heath was stronger than his conviction to find his father had ever been. So he went forward with far more strength than he had last time.

Stats:

Posting Rate: At least once a day, usually more if it works with the DM and other players posting.

weregeek85 · 11:09am

APPLICATION COMPLETE

Race: Minotaur
Class: Hybrid Cleric|Ranger
Theme: Deep Delver
Background: Deep Wastes

The minotaurs of Shadowdale are descendants of slaves held under Old Skull by the Drow in ancient days. Liberated when the sun-landers overthrew their Drow overlords and descended into the earth to drive them to the far reaches of the Underdark, the minotaurs chose to remain underground. The natural labyrinth of the Underdark was more ‘home’ to them than the half-remembered tales of their ancestors’ time in the sun-lands.

Freedom and contact once more with the surface world brought about changes, however: such upheaval is never without great consequence. Out of a mixture of gratitude to their liberators and hatred for their former masters, the minotaurs adopted numerous sun-lander gods, chief among them being the Dwarven Lord Moradin. As a god of protection and earth, the minotaurs found his teachings most in line with their own ways of thinking.

Marius grew up a ward of his settlement’s small church to Moradin, his parents lost on an expedition into the depths of the Underdark when he was only 6. He was groomed for a position in the clergy, and the settlement’s proximity to the edge of minotaur territory meant that his lessons included both liturgical and martial aspects. It was not uncommon for his teachers to accompany the hunter foraging parties to serve as healers and, when the need arose, combatants themselves.
At age 12, Marius began squiring for acolytes of the church who went out with the foragers, learning to put his training to practical use. This proved to be the beginning of the end of Marius’ time as merely an acolyte of the church, for the youngster discovered a love of the hunt and the camaraderie shared around the campfire by the hunters—not to mention the thrill of the fight. Marius began devoting more and more time to the more martial aspects of the faith.

When Marius reached the age of majority, it was clear to both himself and his teachers that the life of the clergy was not for him. All the same, he was unwilling to abandon Moradin completely: the teachings of the church had been his life for the past decade. After some deliberation, the high priest agreed to a minor ritual of investiture, granting Marius a minor blessing of Moradin’s protection and access to a modicum of the power wielded by the proper clerics of the church.

That was six years ago. Since then, Marius’ life has been defined by the cycles of the hunters and their prey. He has splinted broken limbs and bandaged wounds aplenty, but he has also learned the art of sizing up a foe to strike for maximum effect, and to competently (if not expertly) wield just about any weapon that might come into his possession.

Rather more recently, Marius came to learn that the expedition his parents were a part of was not lost in its entirety. Marius’ parents had been hired on as guards and guides, as the expedition itself was mounted by sun-lander historians. They sought to locate the site of the final battle of the ancient war against the Drow and repatriate the remains of several important lords and lordlings who fell there. A handful of sun-landers, mostly porters and one or two smart (or cowardly, depending upon one’s point of view) guards escaped whatever disaster befell the others. Marius is aware that the odds of finding his parents alive after all this time are slim to none, but the knowledge that someone out there knows where they fell has spurred a desire for closure in the minotaur. He’s ascended from the caverns he has called home and emerged into the alien realm of Shadowdale seeking the expedition’s survivors and whatever information they have on his parents’ fate. Of course, as the saying goes, “Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.” Moradin only knows what Marius will find there in Shadowdale...

Marius Stoneborn, Minotaur Cleric|Ranger
Init +1 HP 24/24 Bloodied 12 Healing Surge 6 (0 used /8)
AC 19 Fort 15 Reflex 11 Will 15 Speed 5
Str 18 (+4) Con 12 (+1) Dex 12 (+1) Int 10 (0) Wis 18 (+4) Cha 8 (-1)

Melee Basic Attack
Quarterstaff: +7 vs. AC, 1d8+4 damage

Melee Basic Attack,

Ranged Basic Attack
Throwing Hammer: +6 vs. AC, 1d6+4 damage

Ranged Basic Attack,

Battle Cleric's Weapon Mastery
At-Will Divine, Weapon
Requirement: You must use this power with a simple weapon.
Standard Action; Melee Weapon
Target: 1 creature
Quarterstaff: +8 vs. AC, 1d8+8 damage
Special: Gain a +1 bonus to the attack roll and a +2 bonus to the damage roll. If you're wielding your weapon with both hands, gain an additional +2 to the damage roll.

Battle Cleric's Weapon Mastery,

Marauder's Rush
At-Will Martial, Weapon
Standard Action; Melee Weapon
Target: 1 creature
Quarterstaff: +7 vs. AC, 1d8+8 damage (+1d6 damage if the target is Hunter's Quarry)
Special: Add your Wisdom modifier to the damage roll. When charging, you can use this power in place of a melee basic attack.

Marauder's Rush,

Goring Charge
Encounter
Standard Action; Unarmed
Melee 1
Target: One creature
Unarmed: +8 vs. AC, 1d6+4 damage and you knock the target prone.

Goring Charge,

Healing Strike
Encounter Divine, Healing, Radiant, Weapon
Standard Action; Melee Weapon
Target: 1 creature
Quarterstaff: +7 vs. AC, 2d8+4 damage
On hit: You mark the target until the end of your next turn and you or one ally within 5 squares of you can spend a healing surge.

Healing Strike,

Healing Word
Encounter Healing
Minor Action
Close burst 5
Target: You or one ally in the burst.
The target can spend a healing surge, regain an additional 1d6 hit points, and gets +2 to attack rolls until the end of your next turn (Battle Cleric's Lore)

Healing Word,

Subterranean Survival
Encounter Martial, Personal
Free Action
Trigger: You make a Dungeoneering check and dislike the result.
Effect: You reroll the Dungeoneering check.

Subterranean Survival,

Nimbus of Holy Shielding
Daily Divine, Radiant, Weapon
Standard Action; Weapon
Close burst 1
Target: Each enemy in the burst.
Quarterstaff: +7 vs. Will, 1d8+4 radiant damage.
Effect: Each ally within 2 squares of you gains a +2 power bonus to all defenses. The bonus lasts until the end of the encounter.

Nimbus of Holy Shielding
Notes

Gain proficiency with scale armor. Target of Healing Word gains +2 power bonus to attack rolls until the end of your next turn.

Battle Cleric's Lore,

Gain a +2 power bonus to Dungeoneering checks and the Subterranean Survival power.

Deep Delver,

+2 to AC against OAs provoked by charging

Heedless Charge,

Designate the nearest target as your quarry. Once per round when you hit your quarry with a Ranger attack power, you may choose to deal 1d6 additional damage to the target.

Hunter's Quarry (Hybrid),

Gain a +1 feat bonus to the attack rolls of two-handed weapons and holy symbols. In addition, while you wield a two-handed melee weapon, ranged and area attacks made with your holy symbol do not provoke opportunity attacks.

Mighty Crusader Expertise,

Gain 1 healing surge.

Vitality

Tila · Oct 30 '12, 12:58pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fortive

Tila, how would you feel about a Pixie? Someone sent forth from the feywild to scout out the underdark? Would probably have the Underdark Envoy theme, and the Shadowdale background with those that you listed.

Mechanically, I am thinking a hybrid Sorcerer|Rogue

If there are no objections, I should be able to get the character up relatively soon.

No objections. Anything goes character/race wise.

Drunken Zombie · 11:25pm

Posting an interest - you have some good players applying already Tila

Character info
Name: Varan Wiisper
Race: Human
Gender: Male
Class: Warlock, Infernal Pact
Theme: Bloodsworn
Background Shadowdale
Age: 24

Character Sheet to Come

Fomatting 'borrowed' from Reemos