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ummyeah 10-12-05, 03:26 PM

Ok, my first shot at a detailed character background/description. Let me know what y'all think. Bumtiddle Turlnock leads a band of mercenary adventurers aboard the airship Spectre. He is quite intelligent and charming with an insatiable curiousity. Born and raised in Korranberg, he spent much of his formative years at the great Library. Bumtiddle has always had a fascination with magic and its workings. He briefly contemplated becoming a mage or a cleric, but found both the arcane and divine institutions too narrow and restrictive. Three and a half years into his mandatory four years at the Library, he got himself into a bit of trouble involving his charming wit, good looks, obvious intelligence and the twin sisters of a head librarian as well as said librarian's wife. After spending the remaining six months working as a janitor, it was made very clear to him that he would be doing himself a favor by getting out of Korranberg and exploring the world. He left, but not before stealing a few minor texts on the fundamental principles of magic. He eventually found himself in Trolanport working for a shipwright and studying the texts at night. He found working on the ships to be enjoyable and easy. Eventually, he managed to unlock a few secrets of magic and started on the path to becoming an artificer. Unfortunately, Bumtiddle -or Tiddlypooh, as the shipwright's wife was fond of calling him- found himself in a spot of trouble yet again. He was again run out of town, although a bit less subtly this time. Bumtiddle found himself homeless and wandering the wilderness of Zilargo. He eventually fell in with a good-natured band of con artists and thieves, where his ability to figure out and use the various magical trinkets and items they "aquired" made him quite useful. This, along with his wit and charm, led him to be recruited by Bregan. After working with Bregan for a year and a half, Bumtiddle was approached by him to lead a band of "privateers". He accepted and the group was formed. Bumtiddle is very charming and intelligent. Although he has no trouble fitting in with a court of nobles, he would truly prefer to be in his laboratory, plumbing the depths of magic and tinkering on new magical items. Bumtiddle loves gadgets, and has pockets, both magical and mundane, all over his clothing so that he may carry an absolutely astounding number of gadgets and gizmos. In combat, Bumtiddle prefers to stay in the back, allowing his stronger and more melee capable comrades do the dirty work. This allows him to utilize whichever gadget, wand, potion, etc. is most appropriate for the situation. To say that Bumtiddle's sense of fashion is eccentric is to massively understate the situation. He wears a large, wide-brimmed black hat with many feathers of different colors in the band. He is a fan of white shirts with long, billowing sleeves and golden buttons, on each button is different arcane symbol some common, some obscure. He wears this tucked into a set of loose, utilitarian black pants with golden embroidery of various arcane symbols running up the side of each leg, held up by a wide, black belt with a large golden buckle. These pants are tucked into knee-high, black leather boots with a low heel. Over all this is a black leather harness of his own design. Over the harness is a black vest golden embroidery matching the pants. Finally, he wears a black longcoat with matching embroidery around the collar, cuffs, shoulders, hem and alongside the buttons and buttonholes. Bumtiddle's harness consists of black leather straps. There is a strap running horizontally across his chest and another around his waist. There is a strap running vertically over each shoulder, rather like a set of suspenders. There are three straps running vertically down the front, back and outside of each thigh from either side of the waist strap to a strap wrapped around each of his upper thighs. There is a strap along his upper back that connects the shoulder straps. From each shoulder strap is a set of three straps that run the length of his arms, connecting to straps around his upper arm, above his elbow, below his elbow and around his wrist. Every strap has reinforced holes every half-inch along its entire length, creating a nearly infinite combination of attachment points. Along with the basic harness, Bumtiddle has a variety of black leather pouches, sheathes, tool-holders, bracers and straps that he can attach to the harness. The pouches range in size from tiny pouches capable of holding a few coins to large backpack sized ones. He will wear a combination of accessories based on what he thinks he will need for a task, what he desires to carry that day, what he thinks looks interesting for the occasion or just what he feels like when he wakes up.