Derm points his wand at one of the logs and gesticulates wildly.
Derm: 1
A ray of golden light bursts from the end of the wand facing Derm and collides with his hand. Where it hits, a small golden rune in the shape of a sword driven through a skull is formed.
The logs remaining unmolested by Derm's sorcery,
Billy picks up one about the same length and thickness of his leg and tucks it into his knapsack.
Kel also grabs a log, and starts to carve at it with one of her knives.
Kel: 2
Between the hard wood and the soft copper, Kel hardly even manages to put a scratch on the log, let alone carve it into torches.
Jase decides to look around the corridor a little bit, paying close attention to the logs. What's this? One of them seems to have a message carved into it:
"FUCKING HARDWOODS"
Beside it is a little etched face that looks remarkably like... wait a second, this is the log Kel was carving, isn't it? Somewhat disappointed, he heads down the corridor with
Pang, and the two cautiously poke their heads around the corner.
Jase: 4
Pang: 3
Mikklemakkle: 6, 3
WHAP! SWISH! Jase pokes his head out first, and is immediately met with a wooden club to the face, which not only stings like the dickens but also puts him into a daze, causing him to stumble back down the hall, clutching his head in agony. Pang, who sticks his head out a split second later, manages to barely avoid a second swing of the club and get a look at its wielder. It's a small creature, about the size of a child, with bright green skin, long ears, and a mouth full of crooked teeth. Its mouth twists into a grin when it spots Pang's crowbar, and it swings its club again as if in warning.
"You drop shinyshines now! Droppitydrop the shineyshines, and Mikklemakkle no clubbyclub the the facetyface."The creature swings its club again, brushing dangerously close to Pang's nose, widening its grin so much that it appears to be straining itself.
Name: Billy Snow
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Appearance: A young man with brown hair, a white and gold minstrel outfit, and some medieval instruments.
Backstory: A slightly popular singer who's lyrics and singing style evoke weird looks from more elderly people who believe Gregorian chants are the best thing in the world, Billy Snow is a minstrel who seeks the djinn in order to be world famous, more talented musically, and able to win over any girl through a romantic love song. He has some skill with a spear, do to being forced into the military during the Wheatfield War.
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Rapier (1 handed piercing weapon, wins ties in combat)
4x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
1x Big Stick (2 handed weapon, -1 to speaking softly)
Name: Jase Bladeheart
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Appearance: A tall, muscular man. He has brown hair and eyes, and a full beard. His skin is tan.
Backstory: Jase was raised on a farm, and spent many hours working outside to help his family. The farm has been through a long drought, and Jase left home for a life of adventuring to earn enough money to support his family. A wish for rain or wealth may be Jase's only way to restore his family's livelihood.
Health: 13/15
Dazed (1 turn): 50% chance for action to be replaced with blind stumbling
Inventory:
1x Copper Pike (2 handed piercing weapon, +2 damage against steeds)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Pang The Wise
Age: 67
Gender: Male
Appearance: A leathery, swarthy-skinned man with a large head and a small, scrawny body. Has a small lump of nose, a thin mouth with just a few teeth remaining but which still forms a large smile quite easily, and just a wisp of fading grey hair on his scalp.
Wears a robe that was once a fine garment of blue silk, embroidered with dragons and other fantastical beasts in gold thread, but now hangs off his body in a mass of tatters and loose threads, a battered leather satchel filled with odds and ends, and a pair of wood-and-string sandals that he made himself. Despite his apparent decrepitude, his blue, almond-shaped eyes are large and bright, staring out of his wrinkled bald potato-like head with a boundless curiousity.
Backstory: Pang, known to those in his distant homeland as The Wise for his near-endless knowledge of the flora, fauna, myths, history, traditions and geology of the area, has worked many trades in his long (by the current standards, given how much war there is, not to mention crazy magicians and hungry monsters) life, from scholar to scoundrel, hunter to healer, tanner to trader, alchemist to alcoholic, bard to barman, fisherman to fistfighter, and woodcarver to wanderer- and the latter profession has spanned to most years of his life, for sure.
Having grown tired of teaching the same old knowledge of the same old land (called Qunz, by the way), Pang set off a short while before his 45th birthday, taking little more than his fine robe, a bag of foodstuffs, a carved wooden smoking pipe and the wooden clogs on his feet. He promised his children (some of whom were having children of their own) and the other people in his village that he would be back before long, before next winter for sure, that he just needed to see what lay over the horizon, past the border of their kingdom.
Unfortunately (for his kin, anyway, who had come to rely on the old fart's knowledge), exploration proved rather addictive to the ever-inquisitive Pang, who found that once he'd seen what was over that horizon he needed to study all the trees, smell the flowers, learn of the creatures that lived there and speak to the people... and once he'd done all that, the next horizon called to him.
And so he went, travelling for many years, seeing many wondrous things and wild places, speaking to many people and smoking many poppy seeds, until his head was so jammed-full of knowledge that he could hardly access any of it in a hurry. In fact, so much so that he could never quite remember how to get back home, or quite why he wanted to- heck, as he aged he tended to even forget what he was doing in the middle of doing it.
Nevertheless, the old man still thirsts for knowledge, and has an undying curiosity and amusement at the things he finds.
This Shimmerstone Grotto both fascinates him with the mysteries and legends surrounding it, and offers him a chance- a chance to ask its resident Djinn to restore his ailing memory. That, that he can remember. The old man would love nothing more than to remember the faces and names of his children again, or his parents, or, admittedly, to cram more knowledge into his overstuffed head.
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Crowbar (1 handed blunt weapon, +1 to opening things)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Kel Dragonscratch
Age: 23
Gender: Female
Appearance: She is tall and thin, with pale skin and short, lifeless black hair. Her nose is sharply hooked while ears are flattened against head. Always bearing a mirthless grin on thin lips, she looks rather creepy despite quite decent looks.
Backstory: After a bandit raid on her hometown, Kel was picked and raised by a cult of demon worshippers - not a decent lot in any way, but quite helpful and reliable otherwise. Years passed and she became full-fledged initiate. Now, she is on a mission of becoming full member of the cult. As for the wish... It could be that it is secondary to the initiation by dungeon itself. Or it might be the primary task given to her by the cult leader. Or even her own dark secret... After all, one can wish for anything...
Health: 15/15
Inventory:
1x Copper Flail (1 handed blunt weapon, ignores blocking)
2x Copper Throwing Knives (1 handed ranged weapon, can be used for melee)
Name: Derm
Age: 24-ish
Gender: Yes.
Appearance: Probably clothed, and with skin of some sort. Some hair, too.
Backstory: In all honesty he just kind of appeared out of thin air. Maybe he wished to delve the dungeon again? But then, from whence did he come originally?
Health: 15/15
Golden rune of a sword through a skull on palm
Inventory:
1x Carved Bone Wand
1x Copper Revolver (1 handed ranged weapon, can fire twice per round, reloads every 6 shots)
30x Copper Bullets
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