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Ingtar17 11-14-03, 05:11 PM	Does this make sense for a level 1 Cleric. I couldn't find any specific "possession spells" so maybe it couldn't really happen. Any advice would be welcomed. Ing Kolaivo the Cleric - Level 1 ________________________________ Description Kolaivo is a tall and lanky man. He has short brown hair and a gotee. Despite his lankyness, he does have some muscle definition in his biceps. His height makes him seem to dominate his surroundings. Personality Kolaivo is a thoughtful and determined individual. He is very good at staying focused on what is important. He also is able to socialize and have a good time when the time is right. He tries to do the right thing when he can. Background Kolaivo grew up in a small human community. When he was twelve years old, he was playing hide and go seek with his brother, Bolo in the fields near his villiage. He was hiding in a cornfield when a figure in a dark cloak came riding through. Bolo, who was looking for Kolaivo, ended up in the path of the horse. When the rider was almost upon him the horse was startled as it was not expecting to find Bolo in his path. The horse managed to buck the rider during it frieght. Kolaivo could see the injured rider saying some unfamiliar words to his brother, before mounting the horse and riding away. The next thing Kolaivo knew, his brother was upon him trying to strangle him. Kolaivo looked into his brother's white face and did not recognise it. Bolo's eyes were bulging and red. Kolaivo fought his brother off, strangling him back in turn and ended up killing him. The last memory Kolaivo has of that day is of him crying over his brother's dead body. That was when Kolaivo turned to Pelor, his god. He went to the local temple and prayed. He prayed and prayed until the local cleric, Truse asked him what was bothring him. Truse guided him to peace through prayer. After several years of prayer, he learned that the rider had cast some sort of possession spell on his brother. He is bothered by the fact that he killed his own brother, but he does not blame himself. He sees himself and his brother as victims. He has since decided to dedicate his life to learning about possession so he can help those who have had an evil thing like this befall them. He has recently become a cleric of this temple at the young age of 19. His dream is to become a Sacred Exorcist and help people get rid of thier loved ones posessors, but he knows he has a lot of training and praying to do before that happens. Deep down he wants to find this dark rider and exact revenge for his brother's death, but he deny's it to himself. (Especially the revenge)
Yen-Lo-Wang 11-14-03, 05:40 PM	Seems fine to me
Morka 11-14-03, 07:53 PM	I was going to suggest you a spell of Blood Rage, but since you want to play a Sacred Exorcist, your brother need to have been possessed. Perhaps the Man In Black gave him a cursed item that take possession of him. Or the MIB could have some outsider cohort with fiend of possession class. This way, you have 2 villains to hunt: the MIB, and the fiend who possessed your brother.
LiXinjian 11-21-03, 12:29 PM	If your DM is using the Book of Vile Darkness, it might be possible for the rider to have dropped something in his haste to get back on his horse. That something could have been an object of some kind (say, a nice ivory cup) posessed by a fiend. From there, you can explore many different avenues. 1) Perhaps the lone rider wasn't *THAT* mad at Bolo. It was really a mistake that he happened to lose the posessed object. And if so, perhaps the rider wanted to get rid of the posessed object in a safe way, being thus much like your character will become. 2) Perhaps the lone rider willingly offered Bolo the object, as a "friendly gesture" to show that he held no grudge towards the little fellow. 3) Perhaps the rider didn't know the cup was posessed. It would show how senseless life can be sometimes. Also, all of the above can give yet another sense of direction to your character: he wishes to cure the ailments of the posessed, yes, but he also would like to find out who the rider was, what was his business, who was the fiend that posessed his brother (after all, the fiend was merely delayed when Bolo died), what the fiend wants/wanted, etc. There's just one thing about your background as currently written: How did the rider knew there was another kid around? And if he did know you were there, why didn't he target you with that anger spell? Wouldn't that make more sense, if you wanted to punish the little bugger? Turn his brother against him, not turn him against his brother. But that's just me. It can also work out just fine as it is, really. I'm always itching to scratch ever deeper. (oops, just noticed the above reply from Morka. Some of my comments are redundant, so feel free to overlook them)
Morka 11-21-03, 04:07 PM	Originally posted by LiXinjian There's just one thing about your background as currently written: How did the rider knew there was another kid around? And if he did know you were there, why didn't he target you with that anger spell? Wouldn't that make more sense, if you wanted to punish the little bugger? Turn his brother against him, not turn him against his brother. The rider never need to know that Kolaivo was there. He only have to curse Bolo so he attacks the next person he mets. However, I like your idea that the rider was not evil, that he was carrying a possessed item to get ride of it.
LiXinjian 11-21-03, 07:47 PM	Still seems a bit odd that he would curse the little kid in this fashion. Curse him so that all food he picks up rots and grows thick with grubs within seconds is a suitable punishment, but to curse the kid so that he attacks the next person he meets.. although, if he cursed the kid so that he would hate/attack those he hold dearest or could not tell friend from foe, well, that would certainly be appropriate. Perhaps, also, it would be possible to include some sort of long-lasting disease of the mind that culminates with the aforementioned attack by Bolo. Say he infected the kid with some sort of sickness that had to incubate. I'm suggesting that so Kolaivo could have had time to reflect on his brother's illness a little while longer on his brother's bedside, before Bolo, in a fit of maniacal rage, attacks him. I find it lends credit to Kolaivo's desire to cure all those similarly afflicted. If Bolo spends seven months in a comatose state, Kolaivo simply has more time to suffer, pray and go through all those states people who suffer a trauma experience. Again, though, the background is perfectly acceptable the way it is. Also, as a player, you don't have to think too much about game term justifications. You can just leave that up to the DM if you want to. What spell the rider cast isn't as important as the consequences it had on your character's life. If the DM later wants to build on that and have Kolaivo meet the rider, he'll do the job and come up with something appropriate to his campaign. Perhaps he'll rule that the rider had simply devised a new spell called Soul's Betrayal or somesuch.
Mr. Rankine 11-30-03, 05:21 AM	See...the thing is that if he is a cleric of pelor, he is going to have some moral quarrels about having...you know...KILLING HIS OWN BROTHER!!!!!!! It really doesn't matter whether it was in self defense or not, or if it was his brother under a possesion spell. He is going to be torn up inside, mabye deep down inside, but none the less, he is going to be torn up inside, or Pelor doesn't need to be his god.