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VioletValentine870
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- 5 years, 9 months ago
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- VioletValentine870
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Profile
Hiss
HP
Basics
"I'm surrounded by idiots... But they're my idiots, and I'll shoot anyone who tries to hurt them."
- New people
- Guns
- His friends
- Fire
- Rules
- Rude people
- Threats to his friends
- People trying to take his guns
Character
Strengths
Very loyal
Enjoys helping people
Very good at doing a given task
Curious
Flaws
Overly trusting
Not aware of social standards
Doesn't care for rules
Curious
Skills & Abilities
Expert Forgery
You can duplicate other creatures' handwriting and craftwork. You have advantage on all checks made to produce forgeries or duplicates of existing objects.
Mimicry
You can mimic sounds you have heard, including voices. A creature that hears the sounds you make can tell they are imitations with a successful Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by your Charisma (Deception) check.
Second Wind
At first level, on your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.
Action Surge
Starting at second level, on your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.
Firebolt
Make a ranged spell attack against a creature you can see. On hit, the target takes 1d10 fire damage. A flammable object hit by this spell ignites if it isn't being worn or carried.
Inventory
Eyeglass
A roughly-created glass eyepiece that is used to enhance one's sight. This one, however, is just glass, it has no benefits.
Palm Pistol
A small pistol, more of a prototype than a fully-built pistol, has gears and mechanisms open and visible. 1d8 piercing, 1 lb., (40/160), Light, reload 1, misfire 1
Light Crossbow
A crossbow that you've had for a long time, but you've seen how to care for it, and so it is still in great condition. 1d8 piercing, 5 lb., (80/320), Loading/Range/Two-Handed
Leather Armour
Armour that you managed to scavenge for somehow during your small in-city adventures, it does its job. AC 11
Arcane Focus (Small Purple Crystal)
An arcane focus taken off a corpse! You should be proud!
Curse Exchanging Sceptre
A sceptre that supposedly exchanges curses between two cursed individuals if both focus on the staff for 10 minutes. Intended use is to get rid of the Kenku curse, should they find a cursed person.
Spellbooks
You own two spellbooks; one taken from the now-dead Compassion the Tiefling, who threatened to murder a child, and one given to you by Itzu, your Yuan-Ti Pureblood friend who defiled the corpse of a good man to get it only to get you the cantrip 'Gust'. That's it. Two spellbooks from dead people. Congrats!
Summary
A curious and friendly kenku with a love of firearms and meeting new people, finding out new information, discovering things he's never seen before. He has a tendency to go with the flow of adventures and events, as that tends to be where the most interesting information could be found. His curiosity, as vast as it might be, is both a blessing, and a curse, as he shall soon find out.
Backstory
The basics of Hiss's backstory is that he was an orphan kenku, living on the streets with his brother, Windchime, stealing to survive, the stereotypical backstory you'd expect from a criminal-type, but his story takes a bit of a turn when he and his brother try to steal from a building that they really shouldn't have. Still young, probably in their teens, they tried to steal from a rather large building with a ram's head symbol painted onto the door, not really knowing who or what might be in it, but confident in their abilities.
In the middle of their invasion of the building, however, they were discovered, and in their efforts to escape, sadly, only Hiss made it out. Dejected and mourning, he wandered the streets, thinking about what had just happened, when he heard voices. Ever the curious and eager-to-listen kenku he was, he'd huddled closer to listen. The voices mentioned payment if they could find a hideout, a building with a ram's head symbol, he heard mention of it being someone important's enemy. Perking up at both the opportunity of payment and revenge, he quickly approached them and convinced them to follow them, bringing them to the building. Pleasantly surprised at the fortunate occurrence, the individual paid Hiss, and told him that if he had any more important information that he'd gladly pay for it, and told him ways to find him. Keeping note of this info, Hiss continued his usual lifestyle of stealing to survive when necessary, but also kept a sharp ear out for any interesting info. He became quite familiar with the human man, who he learned was called 'Adrian', and whenever he heard something that he thought Adrian might like to hear, he went and found him, and more often than not got paid for it. Hiss continued life like this, growing more and more ambitious and adventurous in his lifestyle and search for information, and began to consider even leaving the city he lived in to find even more interesting things.. and that's where he is this day.
Relationships with the Group
Avis
[ Friend ]
A kindhearted human aasimar female with a love of fist-fighting and action, that Hiss has come to appreciate and respect as a good friend during their newfound quest to kill their three piratelord quarries. He'll protect this one.
Grotto
[ Friend ]
A rather interesting, but friendly-seeming goblin that Hiss respects the charisma of; this goblin can seemingly talk them out of anything! Hiss definitely considers him a friend, and shares the solidarity in being the two youngest constantly patronized as being 'children' by the others of the group.
Itzu
[ Friend ]
The Yuan-Ti Pureblood who, despite possibly doing evil magic for a patron demon somewhere, helped Hiss get rid of his curse, saved him from almost dying at the hands of a giant undead whale, and has both listened to and given advice to and from Hiss, so he, despite their previous uncertainties, would consider him a friend, especially since they've both saved each other's lives before.
