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Beholderbob 01-10-07, 04:53 PM	His Bio My current character is a Tibbets (from dragon compendium, a small humanoid who can turn into a housecat) gestalt Binder/Dread Necromancer. In the campaign, Tibbets are very rare and not generally known of, so his public name is a jest, sort of like a human traveling among humans using the name "Man". His real name (given to him by his parents) is Firelock (a reference to a red streak of hair). My family hales from a desert region, but the region was suffering political upheaval, forcing my parents to flee to a more European flavored region to avoid persecution. I was born in a crypt outside of a city and spent my days playing with the rest of my litter/siblings in the graveyard. I found a tunnel that led to an underground chamber with books, beakers, and other arcane tools. While there, a human came in, by the name of Berthold, a necromancer. As I was in cat form, he jokenly called me his temporary familiar. Thereafter he treated me as a pet. I spent more of my days below with Berthold then I did with my siblings, distancing me from them. I read over Bertholds shoulder, watched him cast magic, listened as he spoke to himself (and occassionally me), about his goals, problems, and ideas. I watched him animate the dead and summon creatures from far away places. Never did I show him my humanoid form for fear of wrecking our one sided friendship. One day he came home, chuckling to himself about his luck and skill. He had aquired a forbidden book, one he had sought for years. He drank wine to celebrate, and whooped and hollered, reveling in his success. Then he settled down to use the forbidden book of summonings. He commanded. He demaned. He swore. None of it worked. He tried every circle in the book, and each of them was a failure. He hurled the book to the corner of the room and stormed out of his hidden chamber, swearing revenge on the bookseller who tricked him. I stole the book and looked at the pictures. The next time I visited the chambers, my necromancer friend was gone - in his place were several inquisiters, searching the room. I watched as they gathered his goods and climbed out to the surface of the graveyard. There I saw Berthold, bleeding badly and strapped to a metal frame. The inquisitors began torturing him, demanding the book I had stolen. Luckily for Berthold, they were too enthusiastic, killing him within the hour.
Tjuk 01-11-07, 03:37 AM	Good story , though only problem i have with it, is why you did not do anything to stop it. does Berthold have to die? why not get enraged, freeing your master, to learn everything you could know about the magic he uses, i think it's rather stupid to let him die, he's a rather important part of your backstory. And i think learning magic is better to have a master in your backstory then actually having to learn everything yourself, you could also be amazed by the way he raised undeads. Wanting to do the same to keep yourself busy since well it's rather obvious that your PC is rather lonely since he's scared of losing the one friend he has.
Beholderbob 01-11-07, 03:09 PM	Berthold does indeed die. Mr. Tibbs is only 13 years old at the time. Not only is he too small (and completely unskilled), he is also petrified with horror. Afraid to move (since he may be heard), he is too terrified to act. Once Berthold dies of torture, the inquisitors raise his spirit for further questioning, only to still get the same answer that so infuriated them while he lived. Once the inquisitors left, Mr. Tibbs slunk back into the Berthold's chamber and hid within the small tunnel he usually visited Berthold by. He curled up halfway up the tunnel, alternating between shock, horror, and sleep. Once it was dark, he emerged into the graveyard and fled to the crypt his family lived in, only to find it, like all the other crypts in sight, had been broken into. There was no sign of his family. Their bedding, clothes, and other goods had been roughly gone through, though nothing seemed to be missing.
Beholderbob 01-11-07, 06:31 PM	Tjuk Berthold, being a necromancer, does return as a spirit – having been tortured to death over a book he spent countless hours tracking only to believe he’d been tricked, and then be caught and tortured to death by the inquisition for that self same book, left his spirit in a bit of unrest. The inquisitors burned his body and left it for the crows. Refused a consecrated burial, he does come back.
Tjuk 01-12-07, 02:56 AM	Sorry a little inexperienced with necro's , sounds good in that case. Good twist in the story i'd say, family disapeared, left out cold, and then he realises that his teacher isn't as dead as he thought. :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :w00t: :evillaugh