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Helena Headsplitter
Jan. 20th, 2014 12:53 amIn her first session of play Helena Headsplitter
- managed to get hired with a group of adventurers investigating what so far seems to be an out-of-control summoning by a now-mostly-ex cult of Yog-Soggoth
- finds her lowly 10 Charisma to be one of the highest in the party.
- failed the first of her attempts to tumble -across- a combat to the other side, landing un-dignifiedly under the dwarven inquisitor and had to be rescued by the human-in-plate-with-greatsword
- nearly contracted ghoul-fever (reroll granted by the Ki-master monk)
- deal some decent damage to ghoul with her greataxe
- temporarily acquire two magic rings and a cloak (the latter currently too filthy to be worn just yet)
- not find her missing friends
- hasn't found reason to mention the 5th PC a human Investigator in this list yet
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Helena Headsplitter Pathfinder Half-orc Fighter 2 / Rogue 3
Urban variant of concept (mostly affects skill point distribution)
Helena (to those who know her well) Headsplitter (to everyone else) spends most of her time serving, bouncing and occasionally dancing at a low-life dive downtown. (Half-orc bouncers are not uncommon, half-orc dancing girls have a more specialist (or inebriated) demand).
On the side she is not adverse to the occasional bit of larceny particularly breaking and entering and second-story work as long as no-one gets hurt enough that the town guard get involved, and adventuring when a suitably profitable or personal opportunity arises.
Those who meet her are usually struck (sometimes literally) by the way she moves like a predator stalking - poised, alert, and ready. Those who are unlucky enough to draw her full attention quail and hesitate, implictly understanding that this is not a person to be crossed lightly.
Most of the time her greataxe is near at hand - casually wrapped with ribbons and the black-metal head often concealed by a gaudy, flimsy card sheath. For about-town ostensibly a "prop" used in her dancing closer examination will reveal it to be a well crafted traditional orcish axe, the apparent notches and chips in the edges deliberately added for appearances sake. Her armour (when geared up for adventuring) also displays uncommon traits - seemingly absorbing the light and almost shifting away whenever anyone tries to look at it.
Normally quiet and reserved, even polite, when angered or combat starts Headsplitter will usually rush straight to the middle of the fray, born to dance to the primitive tune of her weapon passing through flesh, bone, protoplasm or anything else that gets in its way.
Helena worships Sheyln - Goddess of art and music, beauty and love, good luck and protection. Every dance a prayer; every blow a tribute.
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- managed to get hired with a group of adventurers investigating what so far seems to be an out-of-control summoning by a now-mostly-ex cult of Yog-Soggoth
- finds her lowly 10 Charisma to be one of the highest in the party.
- failed the first of her attempts to tumble -across- a combat to the other side, landing un-dignifiedly under the dwarven inquisitor and had to be rescued by the human-in-plate-with-greatsword
- nearly contracted ghoul-fever (reroll granted by the Ki-master monk)
- deal some decent damage to ghoul with her greataxe
- temporarily acquire two magic rings and a cloak (the latter currently too filthy to be worn just yet)
- not find her missing friends
- hasn't found reason to mention the 5th PC a human Investigator in this list yet
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Helena Headsplitter Pathfinder Half-orc Fighter 2 / Rogue 3
Urban variant of concept (mostly affects skill point distribution)
Helena (to those who know her well) Headsplitter (to everyone else) spends most of her time serving, bouncing and occasionally dancing at a low-life dive downtown. (Half-orc bouncers are not uncommon, half-orc dancing girls have a more specialist (or inebriated) demand).
On the side she is not adverse to the occasional bit of larceny particularly breaking and entering and second-story work as long as no-one gets hurt enough that the town guard get involved, and adventuring when a suitably profitable or personal opportunity arises.
Those who meet her are usually struck (sometimes literally) by the way she moves like a predator stalking - poised, alert, and ready. Those who are unlucky enough to draw her full attention quail and hesitate, implictly understanding that this is not a person to be crossed lightly.
Most of the time her greataxe is near at hand - casually wrapped with ribbons and the black-metal head often concealed by a gaudy, flimsy card sheath. For about-town ostensibly a "prop" used in her dancing closer examination will reveal it to be a well crafted traditional orcish axe, the apparent notches and chips in the edges deliberately added for appearances sake. Her armour (when geared up for adventuring) also displays uncommon traits - seemingly absorbing the light and almost shifting away whenever anyone tries to look at it.
Normally quiet and reserved, even polite, when angered or combat starts Headsplitter will usually rush straight to the middle of the fray, born to dance to the primitive tune of her weapon passing through flesh, bone, protoplasm or anything else that gets in its way.
Helena worships Sheyln - Goddess of art and music, beauty and love, good luck and protection. Every dance a prayer; every blow a tribute.
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