Strings

[Strings]

Strings Appearance Race: Symenestra Gender: Female Age: 24 Birthday: 8th of Spring, 489 AV. Birthplace: Kalinor Appearance: Scrawny, even for a Symenestra, Strings is all skin, bone, scar tissue, and maybe a bit of muscle. It‘s as if all softness has been cut out of her. She smiles a lot, and her smile is permanently lopsided due to a missing fang. Her eyes are yellow, and she has a rather nasty scar over her left eye that speaks of a very near miss. Ask her about it sometime. It‘s a hell of a story. Scar-wise, Strings is a walking textbook of injury. Burns, manacle scars, cuts of all shapes and sizes. The most prominent ones are the aforementioned eye scar, manacle scars, and a nasty one around her neck. Remarkably, her hands seem largely unscathed compared to the rest of her. She's missing a couple of toes, though, and the tips of her ears. She dresses all this up in clothes worthy of a low court. Worn, but clean, Strings goes for bright colors, flaring capes, high boots, and tight cuffs. She cuts a sharp silhouette, and the slightest movement carries some dramatic flair or billow. Plenty of hidden pockets, too. She favors reds, blues, and yellows. Character Concept Slightly mad, Stringsis a flamboyant soul. Intimately familiar with invisibility and visibility alike, she is growing adept at switching between the two. She has an understanding of individual and group thought processes, and the mechanics of attention. She has a bard‘s tongue and an artist‘s hands. Combine these and you have one smooth operator and social chameleon. Usually honest. Usually. Speaks in third person, as if narrating herself. Loudly. It doesn't take much to make her happy. She‘s happy to be alive, really. She doesn't show negative emotion easily. Her biggest stressor is her race. She hasn't been to Kalinor in so long she can barely remember her own language. Does her family still live? Do they remember her? She‘s afraid that if she returns to Kalinor she‘ll be a foreigner. On top of that, anyone outside Kalinor is more likely to give her a kick than the time of day. Character History Born with a mind like a knife, Strings was a perspicacious child with a voracious memory. Her family spared no effort in educating her, and she took to it eagerly. Her imagination was captured by stories of artifact hunters and adventurer archeologists, wandering Mizahar in search of pre-Valterrian treasures. Six-sided dice that could roll sevens, living stone, the Anvil of Souls, the stories were endless. So, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, Strings set out to make some stories of her own. She was full of confidence in her own intellect and dreams of glory and the wonders buried beneath Mizahar. So, naturally, it wasn't long before it was all taken away from her. It sounded so simple. Cross Alvadas, get to the harbor, find passage to Zeltiva. She got lost, of course. She got lost for years. When she finally found herself again, Alvadas had changed her. She had learned many things. She could take a beating without breaking every bone in her body. She could make herself heard over a crowded room, play the lute, and do things with a deck of cards that left people open-mouthed and screaming. An encounter with a mad Leecher in the throes of the Sweet Whispers left her mind and her djed damaged from overgiving so that she could no longer identify herself with her self. She could run, jump, tumble, juke, gyre, gymble, and occasionally snooker, but only on a good day. She could speak Common flawlessly, with various accents. One day, she found the harbor. One day, she found a ship. One day, she left. Language Fluent: Common. Basic: Symenos. Skills Skill EXP Total Proficiency Legerdemain 26 26SP Competent Play Instrument: Lute 9 9SP Novice Brawling 10 10SP Novice Leeching 5 5SP Novice Acrobatics 10 10RB Novice Lores Lore of Alvadas Culture Lore of Alvadas Underground Possessions Travel Garments -Simple Shirt -Simple Pants -Simple Undergarments -Simple Cloak -Simple Boots Public Outfit -Jacket, Bells (Simple), Silk, Dyed, Good -Shirt, Silk, Dyed, Lace-trim, Good -Undergarments, Silk, Dyed -Boots, High, Leather, Buckled -Pants, Silk, Dyed, Good -Cape, Half, Dyed, Mohair Wool, Fur-Lined (Myrian Tiger) -Hat, Broad-brim, Dyed 1 Waterskin 1 Lute 1 Lute Case, Extravagant 1 Bag of Glass 1 Backpack which contains: -Comb -Brush -Soap -Razor -Balanced Rations (1 Week’s Worth) -1 eating knife -Flint & Steel 363 Gold Mizas 8 Silver Mizas 8 Copper Mizas Heirloom: A very fine deck of cards. Housing Location: Kenash House: Forfeit. Ledger Purchase Cost Total Starting +100 GM 100 GM Sold Housing +500 GM 600 GM Jacket, Bells (Simple), Silk, Dyed, Good -16GM, 5SM, 3CM 583GM, 4SM, 7CM Shirt, Silk, Dyed, Lace-trim, Good -2GM, 2SM, 9CM 581GM, 1SM, 8CM Undergarments, Silk, Dyed -2GM 6SM 5CM 578GM, 5SM, 3CM Boots, High, Leather, Buckled -6GM 572GM, 5SM, 3CM Pants, Silk, Dyed, Good -15GM 9SM 562GM, 6SM, 3CM Cape, Half, Dyed, Mohair Wool, Fur-Lined (Myrian Tiger) -86GM 5SM 476GM, 1SM, 3CM Hat, Broad-brim, Dyed -6GM 470GM, 1SM, 3CM Lute -55GM 415GM, 1SM, 3CM Lute Case, Extravagant -41GM, 2SM, 5CM 373GM, 8SM, 8CM Bag of Glass -10GM 363GM, 8SM, 8CM Thread List N/A

[Poison]

Hello, Strings!

I’ve read your Character Sheet and noticed a few things:

1) How does String know about „Tallshade’s artifacts“? Knowledge of such things is hard to come by.
2) Why does Strings only have basic knowledge of Symenos when she is a Symenestra who was born in Kalinor? It would make more sense if she were fluent in Symenos and had basic knowledge of Common.
3) Why exactly did Strings leave Kalinor? You don’t explain it anywhere. I can’t help but wonder.
4) You should make Strings a bit less of a prodigy. Give her a weakness besides fragile bones. How was her mind damaged by a mad leecher?
5) As a Symenestra you get 60 XP – the standard 50 XP and 10 XP bonus to Acrobatics. You have 65 XP.
6) Why does it say „Location: Lhavit“ under „Housing“? To my knowledge the people of Lhavit don’t like Symenestra.

Let me know if you have any questions about what I just wrote (and please think about it). Also PM me once you have editted your Character Sheet so that I can remove my post and verify it.