Murdoch Kin'rath

[Murdoch]

Just before our love got lost you said, "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constantly in the darkness? Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar." ~Joni Mitchell Basic Information Race: Human Birthday & Age: Unknown day, Spring of 482 AV. 28 years old. Gender: Male Physical Description Murdoch is both handsome and charming, with a winning smile that just reeks of mischief and cunning. Physically non-descript, he's not too tall and blends into a crowd well, dark haired and hazel-eyed and perpetually unshaven. Character Concept Murdoch is a smarmy sonuvabitch, and makes no bones about it. There's rarely a person he can't get to smile, a serving girl he can't woo, a gambling man he can't swindle out of a few mivas. He's not a bad guy, oh, no. No one would ever call him a bad guy. But that's only because they don't realize until far too late that he's cut their pursestrings, or cheated them at cards, or drunk the wine from their cups. Then they'd probably have a few choice words for him.

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Transcript from a Jamoura archivist in The Spires: I don't know why you'd want to know the story of little ol' me. You're not gonna use my name, right? A bit hard to ply my trade when you're in the storybooks. Better to just leave it at that. Hell, I'm not even sure why you're looking for some worthless theif's life story, but you're paying in gold so I'm not one to judge. I was born as so many are in Sunberth, in a garbage-strewn alley on the streets. What a shykehole that entire city is. Aw, don't look so sad, it's nothing to pity. It's just the way things are. No point giving me the big, sad monkey-eyes over it. Poverty makes a man stronger, yes? As does learning how to steal bread and fruit by age five, how to slit a throat before your balls drop. Good times. My mother? Who knows. No one really knows their parents in the stews, just whatever gang of brothers and sisters you grow up with. Most of mine were dead before I left, but that just sort of kept the competition down. A few of them are probably still around, but in the streets of Sunberth you stake out your territory and make sure you've a bad enough reputation to keep the rest of 'em far, far away. That's the good thing about Syliras, enough room for everyone. I came out here when I was, oh, I guess about sixteen? Got a nice little set-up now, well enough known that most people never suspect it's me that's scooping a gold or two from their pockets. And if they did ever get the balls to accuse me, I've always got a few people around who'll cry foul and proclaim my innocence. One of the great things about Syliras is that there is no ugly underbelly, no whisper-ridden underworld or even outright syndicate the way there is in Sunberth. Everyone's nice here. They live quiet lives and smile when they walk down the streets, secure in the knowledge that the Sylirian Knights will keep them safe. As long as I'm smart about it, I can make a decent living just on gambling and thieving alone. The trick to being a really good thief, see, is not to shit where you eat. You don't steal from the people you're going to be rubbing elbows with every night, or if you do you make sure it's small amounts, a miza here or there, something they won't notice when they're in their cups. Then you just make your money on the big hauls and make sure it never comes home to roost. Anonymity's the key, and a charming smile will get you farther than a blade every time. Hell, do you know how many rich wives in this town are just aching for a handsome rogue to climb out their window in the morning? And how many of them really keep tabs on every piece of jewelry on their nghtstand? Hell, I can live all year on a few good fucks. And the best part about that is no one gets hurt - the husband never finds out, the wife is better off for a night in my arms, and I get enough gold pieces to pay the rent. Now can you honestly tell me there's anything wrong with that? Oh, let's see... um, what've I stolen, hmm... I rolled a priest once and got this really nice collection of poisons that went for top dollar. Don't know what a priest was doing with 500 gold worth of deadly poison, but I sure as hell wasn't about to track him down and ask him. What else? I gakked a chest of copper mizas from the Mint - they don't track the coppers down as hard as they do the gold, and I still got a good bit of scratch out of it. Oh man, those Knights are a pain in my ass, man. Thank all the gods they're still human, though. Because human means greedy, and corruptable. Not that it's easy, mind, but there's always one. Always. Sucks when you get the one who's not The One, though. Got this scar right here when one caught me nicking silks in the market. Learned my lesson there, I tell ya. Anyway, I've been in Syliras for the last decade or so, don't have any plans to leave. I've got wine, women, gold, everything a man could want really. Why would I ever want to leave? What? HA! No, no wife, no children. Do I look like the kind of guy who'd settle down? Please. Besides, what's the point? I'd just break whatever vows I made anyway. Better to stay focused on me. I mean, I'm the most important thing, right? OOC Note: For more on his background, read this thread.

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Abilities: Survival in most environments Gnosis: Tyveth - Level 1 Skills: Larceny: 31/100 (15 pts RB, 10 pts from SP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP) Seduction: 20/100 (5 pts SP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP, 3 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP) Gambling: 16/100 (10 pts SP, 3 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP) Daggers: 15/100 (10 pts SP, 2 XP, 3 XP) Rhetoric: 15/100 (2 XP, 2 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 3 XP, 4 XP) Interrogation: 12/100 (3 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP, 2 XP, 2 XP) Climbing: 10/100 (10 pts SP) Stealth: 6/100 (5 pts SP, 1 XP) Negotiation: 6/100 (2 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 2 XP) Teaching: 6/100 (1 XP, 1 XP, 4 XP) Observation: 5/100 (1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP) Debate: 4/100 (2 XP, 1 XP, 1 XP) Persuasion: 3/100 (1 XP, 2 XP) Flirtation: 1/100 (1 XP) Storytelling: 2/100 (1 XP, 1 XP) Brawling: 1/100 (1 XP) Leadership: 1/100 (1 XP) Intimidation: 1/100 (1 XP) Drinking: 1/100 (1 XP) Investigation: 1/100 (1 XP) Wilderness Survival: 1/100 (1 XP) Flirtation: 1/100 (1 XP) Lores: Guard Movements: Syliras - The knowledge of when and where the guards go on their rounds, and what times the shifts change. Or are you just happy to see me? - The ability to identify when a person is carrying a concealed weapon Male Posturing Tour Guide for Syliras Golden Dragon Sincere Apologies Pushing Nel's Buttons Accepting Personal Weakness Comforting Nightmares Self-Torture Personal Angst Nel's Perpetual Cheerfulness Being Protective of Nel Botching a Robbery Changing Plans on the Fly NPC Relation: Tall Johnny [Minor] In Sunberth Nothing is Set in Stone Love Is Fickle, but So Delicious Familiar Feelings: Sunberth An Unwelcome Home Reluctance to meet a new friend Being judgmental Using your head the wrong way Naming Others Setting up newer players The Perfect Prey Fooling the Law How to Catch a Snitch Being Half Naked in Front of a Crowd Underestimating an Opponent Flirting While in the Middle of a Fight Taunting an Opponent Realization that Death May Be Imminent Staying Calm in the Face of Danger Being Generous to the Man that Just Tried to Kill Me A Woman's Touch Can Make Almost Anything Better Trying to play cards with strangers Failing to play cards with strangers Not letting failure spoil the mood He didn’t actually see that I was making fun of him, did he? Maybe I’m not the bigger man, but I am a lesser jerk Keeping your cool Trying to intimidate rude guests Provoked into being less than friendly Charming through and through Festivals of Riverfall Knowledge of Dog Breed: Jivatalus Ghost Dog Knowledge of Konti Origins Love of the game Silver tongue

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Equipment Starting Package: 1 set of city clothing 1 black cloak 1 pair high boots Leather belt Fancy belt buckle High boots Brown leather pants Wool cloak White cotton shirt Brown leather jerkin Brown leather gloves Brown leather knife sheath 1 Backpack: Toiletries, various dried foodstuffs, a small knife, flint & steel, and waterskin. Kept in his apartment. Thieves' tools Assassin's dagger Silver ring (stolen in Stormhold Citadel) Murdoch holds an apartment in Stormhold Castle in one of the more tawdry areas. Family heirloom: Murdoch still bears a dagger that was given to him by his first love, Ydretha Djelini. It is the same dagger he later used to kill his brother Rakess. Ledger +100 gm (Starting Package) -30gm: Thieves' Tools (Starting Package) -4gm: Assassin's dagger (Starting Package) -6sm: Ale, Rearing Stallion Sp15/510 +8sm: Larceny, Rearing Stallion Sp15/510 -1gm: Whore, Golden Dragon, Sp19/510 -38gm 5sm: Spring 510 Seasonal Expenses +200gm: Spring 510 Seasonal Earnings (Gambler/Thief) +2gm, 7sm: Larceny, Stormhold Citadel +150gm: Summer Seasonal Earnings (Thief) +20gm: Bout at Spinning Coin -45gm: Summer 510 Seasonal Expenses -5gm: Fall 510 Seasonal Expenses -29gm: Kulkukan Tavern - Room and Board -4gm 8sm: Clothing in Riverfall -2sm: Gift for Kavala -2gm: First Half Winter 510 Seasonal Expenses -23gm: Second Half Winter 510 Seasonal Expenses -45gm: Spring 511 Seasonal Expenses _____ 242 gm, 7 sm, 0 cm

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Thread List Current: Roll the Dice Sp40/510 Circling the World W1/510 Clash of Shiny Pointy Thing Sp55/511 Closed: Knowing Your Place (Flashback) W/497 Blood Bets W29/507 Wild Streets W45/509 Workless Day Sp12/510 The Great Hall Sp13/510 Old Acquaintances Sp15/510 The House Guest Sp16/510 Mechanical Marvels - More People Sp16/510 To The Festival Sp19/510 Linchpin Sp19/510 Amatuer Cartography Sp20/510 Dawn Breaks Sp21/510 Chowin' Down Sp24/510 Sharking the Cards (training) Sp30/510 life in death was she Sp40/510 Thieving Little Gyt Sp50/510 A Sunberther Never Forgets Sp77/510 Everything Right is Wrong Again Sp90/510 Fight For Your Right S1/510 Entering Riverfall W40/510 Resupplying in Riverfall W40/510 Stranger in a Strange Land W43/510 Drinks All Around W87/510 Welcoming In the New Year Sp1/511 You gotta learn somehow Sp11/511

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