Assallya

X-Men: The Divided

I swear... I'm in seven... SEVEN freaking threads and I haven't been able to post in any of them for nearly a week.

I am this close to just bailing on this entire site... *grrrrrrr*

Addendum: I should point out that the complaint wasn't specific or directed at anyone here. At least this one has a post every once in a while for me to read :) The others are all just stopped or refuse to start.

X-Men: The Divided

Well, I'm not sure who the last movie was made for. It certainly wasn't the crafted for the adults who watched the original series. It's a horrible, horrible, piece of fiction with an interesting premise that proves to be only a veneer. The entire movie just makes no sense. Optimus knows who the bad guy is... but doesn't know who he works for and doesn't know why he's wanted for betraying them. It's quite embarrassing.

When Wahlberg is the best part of the movie about giant transforming robots then you know something is very, very wrong.

X-Men: The Divided

So... shall we all gather and weep for the franchise that is Transformers? Behold, the worst movie series of all time. How it succeeds is beyond human ken.

D&D: Quest for the Dragon Staff

My apologies. I didn't catch that addendum. It appears my little five foot, ninety pound little woman is going to get a bit of a boost. In addition to being able to lift two hundred pounds. *lol*

D&D: Quest for the Dragon Staff

Assallya Kressair

Age: 87
Race: Elf
Class: Sorceress
Weapons: Jambiya Dagger
Other: Ring of the Unshod: a magical ring that protects one's feet as if they were wearing soft riding boots, Comb of Comeliness: Salon quality hair is only a few strokes of this comb away, a small selection of semi-precious jewelry that will suffice until she can get some real wealth, Vardo (Gypsy) wagon: A portable home!

Bio: Assallya Kressair was born in the autumn in a small village on the outskirts of Evereska. At the young age of 26 (aprox. 11 or 12 in human years) Zhentish slavers attacked and killed her entire village except for those taken as slaves. Assallya, her sister Saeliah, and several others were transported far across Faerun in order to avoid the elven wrath sure to follow. In the city of Calimshan Assallya and Saeliah were separated when Assallya was purchased be Pasha Alkiel. Head of a powerful group of rogues, Alkiel purchased her as a dancer and concubine for both personal use and for information gathering and blackmail. She then served in Alkiel's bedchamber for the next eight years while being trained in dance, seduction and other roguish arts in order to perform her duties.

She was treated as an object and was given to allies and employees of the Pasha who performed exceptional services. Soon enough, she learned about the many different types of power and discovered that even as a slave she was far from powerless. Succeeding in seducing one of the Pasha's magicians she bid him teach her magic. At first he balked until Assallya cast for him the only thing her father had taught her at that young age, a cantrip. A small thing, it changed the colour of his fingernails, but it was magic none the less. He agreed then, for he was a lonely uncomely man who rarely received a woman to his bed. However, he placed conditions on his tutorial; refusing to train her in combative magics and warning her that should he ever target him with her spells it would mean her death. She surprised all of them by inventing an inferior version of the invisibility spell which allowed her to sneak away from the Pasha's clutches and return undetected. In this way, by filching jewels and prostituting herself she built up savings with a money lender.

It was with the aide of the Pasha's son that she succeeded in poisoning the Pasha, planning on becoming a partner to the successor instead of a slave. With her manipulative mind behind him to advise his passionate power they were sure to bring their competitors to their knees. What she was not expecting was the Pasha's extended family to hire a necromancer to speak with their departed kinsman. He quickly named his murderer and Assallya regretted bragging as he died.

She ran, the Pasha's son giving her a few moments to escape, fearing that she would claim his involvement which would lead to his family asking him uncomfortable questions. The next few months she moved slowly north, the sands left behind her and the lands becoming more lush and green.

Strength 13
Dexterity 14
Constitution 13
Wisdom 14
Intelligence 14
Charisma 20
AC: 12 (+2 Dex)
HP: 50
Skills: Gather Information, Arcana. Assallya is something of a sage but unlike most wizened old white haired stereotypes has been known to disguise herself as a bard or dancer.

Star Wars: Duel of Fates

Name: Arlas'eon
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Race: Twi'lek
Known lightsaber forms: Her Lightsaber form does not exist. She uses two dagger sized lightsabers at once.
Force sensitive: Yes
Affiliation: Sith
Rank: Apprentice to Nox?
Bio: Arla grew up on Ryloth, having never seen the sun until she was sold into slavery. She was in a slave market when a Sith was walking through. He didn't pay for her, he simply took her and dared anyone say anything against him. She was impressed by this.

During her training on Korriban she was found to be strong in the ephemeral side of the force. Illusions and senses were her trade. What she is poor at is actual saber combat.

Urban Apocalypse - Reality TV reaches new heights of violence and a new low in the grim near-future.

It seems to me that cordoning off an entire city with police would be very cost ineffective for a corporation.

How about... instead, a series of automated sentry guns on poles. That would contain most of those within the perimeter. Now, knowing that many of those inside the perimeter are carrying or capable of producing improvised munitions capable of taking out a perimeter gun they would likely have a select group of competent military contractors on standby to contain the perimeter and insert via helicopter.

Borderlands 3 [Interest Check]

I think, note the supposition, that Cyanide was hoping for four to five participants. *bleah*

Golden Age of Piracy: Caribbean 1655 (OOC)

Click This is absolutely correct. There's a danger to being in a port when a big storm comes particularly in ports open to the sea. Ships can be bashed against one another, beached upon the shore, and occasionally foundered. However, salvage in a port is much simpler than at sea. Tortuga, according to the map, is an inland port so a storm front would be double impacted. First, the waves would strike the continental shelf, some miles off shore, stealing much of their height and power. Then they have to pass over a small slab of land to get to the port and further breaks the waves. Beyond that you're only worried about the wind so as long as you reef your sails completely you're pretty much fine.

As Click This said, most ships just prefer to get out of the damned way when they see a storm coming :) The good part is that there's plenty of wind in a storm front to help a ship move more quickly to escape the path of a hurricane :) Even aircraft carriers, thanks to weather radar, run from large storms for fear of being overturned.

Golden Age of Piracy: Caribbean 1655 (OOC)

Not only is it easier to repair a ship in Tortuga but the island has an inland harbour made accessible by two channels, the waves would lose a great deal of power once they hit the continental shelf and are further dispersed by the islet making the channels.