Jarl Coolgruuf

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@Enzayne


space book also says you have big gay

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Ayden Newport

Docks - Evening

A bright, cloudless day shone against the water as Ayden strolled along the docks, counting buildings and scanning signs as he went. He breathed the salty air and sighed contentedly as he thought back to his days working aboard that pirate ship. For all the scurvy and near death experiences, he still enjoyed his time out on the open ocean. He internally shook the memories away and resumed his brisk walk past the rows of vendors and docks. There were things to do before night fell so reminiscing would have to wait.

He didn't have to walk much farther before he found the building (more of a upscale shack really) that he was looking for. Rather than walk in the front door, he glanced over his shoulder before squeezing into the narrow alley between two structures. Ayden made his way around to the back of the building and casually glanced around once more before reaching into his shirt and producing a small roll of cloth. Opening the package revealed a set of lock picking tools and he set to work without hesitation.

A cheap building had complementary cheap locks which Ayden made short work of. He eased open the door just a crack and peered inside. Fortune favored him that day as the back room was vacant. Satisfied with his solitude, he closed the door behind him and took in his surroundings. The room he found himself in was some sort of records room packed with documents, letters, and held only a single desk in the way of furniture. A single door was positioned on the opposite wall and he could just make out soft humming from beyond the other door. Provided nothing went especially wrong, Ayden would have little trouble acquiring what he needed without detection.

His eyes swept over the room and locked onto a large chest sat in the corner. A smile spread across Ayden's face as he silently crept toward the chest with tools in hand. This lock was of a notably higher quality than the door lock and gave him a bit of trouble both due to its complexity and the added trouble of working extra quietly. Eventually the lock would yield with a muffled click and he returned his tools to his shirt as he opened the chest. It was filled with dozens of small holding various amounts of gold coins and silver bits... much to Ayden's disappointment. He closed the chest, replaced the lock, and was about to move away when something caught his eye. The grain of the floorboards changed drastically just under the edge of the chest. "That was almost clever," he thought to himself with a smirk.

Ayden took a near-silent breath as he gripped the chest and hefted the container up and to the side. The softest tap of wood against wood deafened him and he cringed, waiting for the inevitable "Who's there!?" but it never came. A soundless sigh of relief escaped him as he carefully pried open the trapdoor almost entirely concealed by the chest. He reached inside and retrieved a wooden box just big enough for a cat to curl up in. The contents of the box appeared rather mundane, just more documents and odds and ends. However, Ayden shifted through these diligently until he came across a letter sealed with wax. A grin spread across his face as he pocketed this and returned the box to its hiding place.

He nearly lost his grip on the chest as he set it exactly back where he found it, but just managed to stop it from dropping. Other than that, a rather mundane break in. Still, he whistled happily to himself as he made his way down the street toward the slums with his prize safety in his possession. He had need of a quiet place to work away from prying eyes and the inns there were at least the latter if nothing else. The cheap prices were also a welcome upside provided he was not robbed on the way there.

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@Enzayne
we don't take kindly to knife ears 'round these parts

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@Atrophy Not intentional but a funny coincidence. It won't come up often if they work together because he saves it for people other than allies and clients but when it does... oh buddy

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Ayden Newport

Currency: 42 bits
Ammunition: 0
Status:

”You can tell an awful lot about a person by the way they write a letter.”

Ayden

Gender: Male
Age: 25
Origin: A small fishing town on the southernmost tip of the continent
Attire: Nondescript, very plain.The sort of bland clothes with muted colors that allow one to seamlessly blend into a crowd or the back of a room at a moment’s notice.
Demeanor: Mischievous, Cocky, and Adventurous

Flaws:
For The Fun Of It - He lacks professionalism at times and will often forsake higher paying jobs for those he deems to be more entertaining. Other times he might not take any paying jobs at all simply because he wouldn’t have time for the sort of impish fun he enjoys.
You Almost Had Me That Time! - Ayden is very skilled at his craft, nearly as good as he thinks he is. Nearly. He has a bad habit of taunting those he believes he's gotten the upper hand over and purposely almost letting them beat him only to (usually) come out on top at the last moment. He can't help himself sometimes and it's landed him in hot water on a number of occasions.

Skill Set

Make It To Fake It [5] - Forgery. The art of counterfeiting a number of different things from letters to licenses, from seals to signatures and everything in between. Rolls when attempting to copy handwriting or wax seals, writing a fake letter and signing it with someone else’s signature, etc.
Smooth Talker [4] - Charisma. All the forgery in the Empire won’t help if the forger appears untrustworthy and “proper” paperwork is only half the con. Other times paperwork won’t work at all and every good crook has a fallback; he prefers words over blades. Rolls exactly when you think it would.
Careful Fingers, Sharp Ears [5] - Lock Picking. Forging a document often requires a copy of the target’s handwriting and acquiring these samples often necessitates a little Bn'E. Again, rolls exactly when you think it would.
Cloak and Dagger [4] - Stealth. Being able to pick a lock is all well and good, but ultimately useless if the one picking the locking isn’t discreet. Also saves him a great deal of money when he doesn't have to hire a burglar to do the job for him. Rolls to avoid or evade detection.
Wheel N' Deal [3] - Barter. Ayden has been in the forgery business long enough to know how to keep himself from being ripped off when selling his product. Rolls when negotiating deals of the monetary and social kind.
​

Background:

Ayden was born to a boring family who lived in a boring house, with boring neighbors, in a boring town not worth naming and by Jove it was so damn boring. Everyone had such a hangup about “honest work” and “community values” and other nonsense of that sort. Ayden made his escape at the ripe old age of 13 by getting himself hired as a cabin boy aboard a pirate ship. Scurvy and lice aside, it was a wonderful three years but they eventually came to an end when he met a veteran forger by the name of Hugo Masterson at a port-side pub while the ship was docked. He was soon fascinated by Hugo’s tales of crafting whole identities with quill and parchment and how entire economic empires could be toppled in an afternoon with the right letter sent to the right person.

Hugo took Ayden on as an apprentice within the hour and set about teaching him valuable forgery skills such as how to read and write before moving on to more advanced techniques. Within six years, the cabin boy was now a grown man and a skilled forger to boot. Feeling confident in his skills, Ayden thanked Hugo for all his teachings before setting off on his own for Guillan. He would go on to make a living in the capital’s underbelly selling his talents to a wide range of clients from black market suppliers needing Very Really Real™ royal shipping licenses to fellow crooks who’d bitten off more than they could chew and needed a way to disappear or lay low. His most profitable ventures have him brush shoulders with Lord Vargas himself and his suppliers. A constant stream of contraband requires a constant stream of Very Really Real™ paperwork to keep such a large operation under the nose of the law. Ayden has become one of several regular forgers Vargas employs to cover the tracks of his operation.

Personal Effects:

> Set of lock picking tools
> A small pack holding forger’s tools including multiple types and colors of ink, a magnifying glass, a number of uncarved wax stamps and blank signet rings with tools to carve them, sealing wax, a variety of parchment, quills, etc.
> Cheap dagger
> Commoner's clothes
> Coin pouch

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@Arkitekt gotcha lemme crack open my laptop and do that

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@Arkitekt Thanks! But I haven't the foggiest idea how to shrink a picture and I can't find any formatting for it

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sorry that took longer than I thought it would, but there he is, that smug ass clown

~ Winds Of Fate - A Thief's Adventure ~ (1.0)

Ayden Newport

Currency: 42 bits
Ammunition: 0
Status:

”You can tell an awful lot about a person by the way they write a letter.”

Ayden

Gender: Male
Age: 25
Origin: A small fishing town on the southernmost tip of the continent
Attire: Nondescript, very plain.The sort of bland clothes with muted colors that allow one to seamlessly blend into a crowd or the back of a room at a moment’s notice.
Demeanor: Mischievous, Cocky, and Adventurous

Flaws:
For The Fun Of It - He lacks professionalism at times and will often forsake higher paying jobs for those he deems to be more entertaining. Other times he might not take any paying jobs at all simply because he wouldn’t have time for the sort of impish fun he enjoys.
You Almost Had Me That Time! - Ayden is very skilled at his craft, nearly as good as he thinks he is. Nearly. He has a bad habit of taunting those he believes he's gotten the upper hand over and purposely almost letting them beat him only to (usually) come out on top at the last moment. He can't help himself sometimes and it's landed him in hot water on a number of occasions.

Skill Set

Make It To Fake It [5] - Forgery. The art of counterfeiting a number of different things from letters to licenses, from seals to signatures and everything in between. Rolls when attempting to copy handwriting or wax seals, writing a fake letter and signing it with someone else’s signature, etc.
Smooth Talker [4] - Charisma. All the forgery in the Empire won’t help if the forger appears untrustworthy and “proper” paperwork is only half the con. Other times paperwork won’t work at all and every good crook has a fallback; he prefers words over blades. Rolls exactly when you think it would.
Careful Fingers, Sharp Ears [3] - Lock Picking. Forging a document often requires a copy of the target’s handwriting and acquiring these samples often necessitates a little Bn'E. Again, rolls exactly when you think it would.
Cloak and Dagger [3] - Stealth. Being able to pick a lock is all well and good, but ultimately useless if the one picking the locking isn’t discreet. Also saves him a great deal of money when he doesn't have to hire a burglar to do the job for him. Rolls to avoid or evade detection.
​

Background:

Ayden was born to a boring family who lived in a boring house, with boring neighbors, in a boring town not worth naming and by Jove it was so damn boring. Everyone had such a hangup about “honest work” and “community values” and other nonsense of that sort. Ayden made his escape at the ripe old age of 13 by getting himself hired as a cabin boy aboard a pirate ship. Scurvy and lice aside, it was a wonderful three years but they eventually came to an end when he met a veteran forger by the name of Hugo Masterson at a port-side pub while the ship was docked. He was soon fascinated by Hugo’s tales of crafting whole identities with quill and parchment and how entire economic empires could be toppled in an afternoon with the right letter sent to the right person.

Hugo took Ayden on as an apprentice within the hour and set about teaching him valuable forgery skills such as how to read and write before moving on to more advanced techniques. Within six years, the cabin boy was now a grown man and a skilled forger to boot. Feeling confident in his skills, Ayden thanked Hugo for all his teachings before setting off on his own for Guillan. He would go on to make a living in the capital’s underbelly selling his talents to a wide range of clients from black market suppliers needing Very Really Real™ royal shipping licenses to fellow crooks who’d bitten off more than they could chew and needed a way to disappear or lay low. His most profitable ventures have him brush shoulders with Lord Vargas himself and his suppliers. A constant stream of contraband requires a constant stream of Very Really Real™ paperwork to keep such a large operation under the nose of the law. Ayden has become one of several regular forgers Vargas employs to cover the tracks of his operation.

Personal Effects:

> Set of lock picking tools
> A small pack holding forger’s tools including multiple types and colors of ink, a magnifying glass, a number of uncarved wax stamps and blank signet rings with tools to carve them, sealing wax, a variety of parchment, quills, etc.
> Cheap dagger
> Commoner's clothes
> Coin pouch

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@Atrophy Christ in a crosswalk Prudence is an absolute savage out here with chill around 2000°

I adore her