Lift Horizon - Tengu - Owl
Jul 22, 2015 20:41:45 GMT -8
Post by Lift on Jul 22, 2015 20:41:45 GMT -8
Lift Horizon - lvl 18
Clan Name: TBD
Species: Tengu - Owl
Element: Earth Magic
Occupation: PCB Designer -Silicon Valley
Physical Appearance:
Gender: Male
Eye Color: Black
Hair Color: Gray
Hair Length/Typical Hairstyle: Short hair with bangs
Height: 6' 0"
Weight: 160 lbs
Skin color: Fair Skinned
Normally has wings that are used as a cape/coat with formal clothing underneath
History (Told in the 3rd person)
Lift was abandoned as a baby and found in a pile of feathers on the outskirts of a the small industrial town of Clacton. There was no note or anyone that ever looked like a relative of Lift in the surrounding area so Lift spent most of his early life as a quite foster child. For all the years Lift lived in Clacton, Lift never really connected to the people of Clacton and likewise the citizens of Clacton had no a way to fit Lift into the community. Lift would never played with the other child, he would constantly stare at rocks and arrange them in different patterns. Lift would also stare at mountains for hours and disappear into the forest for days at a time. Yet Lift always seemed to come back for food and a warm place to sleep so townspeople continued to feed and house Lift (bless their hearts) seeing he didn't cause any trouble in town.
When Lift was 16, he found a pile of tailings from the Clacton mine that came from very deep in the earth and that Lift had never seen before. Lift was deep in thought about what gave the rocks there profound colors,patterns and sharp edges when in the distance Lift heard a shout. "Hey! You aren't supposed to be here!" Shouted a burly Viking looking fellow walking towards Lift. Lift now realized that he somehow made his way to the bottom of an active mining pit and was now kicking himself for being caught in such a place during the day. Now right in front of Lift, the Viking looking guy exclaims "Hey! I'm talking to you!" Lacking any witty retort Lift went for the true and told the Viking "I'm sorry mister (not really) I've just never seen Soda lite this blue and with such a beautiful cubic structure.Normally such a minerals collected are collected as a gemstone and turned into jewelry so it's surprising to find Sodalite, in it's nature form, in a pile of discarded tailings." It's at this point that Lift realized what just came from his mouth. Lift knew most of the words that he just spouted but no clue how he just constructed those sentences out of nowhere. Lift's dumb struck moment didn't last long because little did Lift know, he just made his first friend.
"Oh my God!" the Viking exclaimed "How in God's name did Korhan miss these!Boy help me collect these." The Viking's name was Sorli, foreman of the Clacton mine, and runs the mine with his brother and second in command Korhan. Sorli and Lift spent the next 4 hours assorting through tailing sand finding a easily a $1000 worth of assorted gemstones. The whole time Lift got a crash course in gemstone appraisal, cutting and rating theories,mixed in with litany of tall tales evolving other "incredible" sums of valuable minerals coming from the Clacton mine. Once finished packing the gemstones for resale, Sorli offers a tour of the mine to Lift and let him see some of the precious metals and minerals that have yet to be extracted from the ore. Seeing no downside to touring a mine at the time, Lift agrees to going on the tour. Sorli, still riding on a high from finding nearly discarded gemstones and meeting a fellow geology enthusiast in Lift, grabs Lift by the arm and rushes them both to the mine.
As soon as Lift arrived at the mine, an inexplicably horrible feeling came over Lift upon witnessing the shadowy entrance in the Western Slopes of Clacton. It almost felt like the mountains were crying if that makes any sense. Before Lift was able to convey this feeling to Sorli, the foreman had already pulled Lift into the mine explaining how much Lift would like the cavern he was about to see. After running for what seemed like a few hundred feet of stairway, both Sorli and Lift arrived at a massive cavern studded with precious stones covered with scaffolding supporting mined out walls. Now standing in the cavern, Lift felt like he shrank to the size of a bug as this mountain seemed to be threatening to squash both of them given the chance. While Lift stands somewhat parallelized just after the entrance to the cavern, Sorli, still dancing around with elation, runs around the cavern pointing at different areas and explaining his grand plans to excavate and harvest the nature resources in the cave. After covering all the areas Sorli thought were important, with his last bit of excitement, Sorli dismounts (jumps off) from some scaffolding and lands in the middle of the cavern about 50 feet from Lift. Sorli then exclaims "what do you think?" Pausing for a moment, Lift watches the scaffolding that Sorli destabilize while dismounting, sway and start falling toward Sorli.Paralyzed by so much fear, it was all Lift could do to point behind Sorli at the scaffolding coming down behind him. Turning around, all that Sorli was able to say was "what the..." before being crushed by shear tons of rock and wooden scaffolding. All Lift could think about at that moment was"run" and run Lift did. Lift ran out of the mine, ran out of Clacton and just kept running. Next thing Lift remembers is waking up shore of a river with every muscle in his body hurting, determined to trust his instinct from now on and resolved to never return to Clacton again.
Such is how Lift became a wonder and person of the land during his early adult years. This was a truly rejuvenating time for Lift, providing the space to mourn the death of the only person Lift had some kind of connection with and resign to the fact that Lift would never have a normal life in this space and time. Lift felt to so deeply connected to the old parts of the world but so much of the recent additions seem so haphazardly thrown together and shallow. Lift always felt calm and at peace when with natural and exploring the mountains, lakes, rivers, caverns and plains of the world (among others). The natural caverns specifically are grand and beautiful examples of chemistry and geophysics. In contrast to the Clacton mine that had most of that stolen for it by naive explores that didn't know any better.
Yet despite how much Lift wanted to be an immortal spirit of the earth world, Lift was still very much mortal. To this end Lift began his reintroduction to humanity knowing that, if there is one thing that human shave excelled in more than mother earth did, it was protecting mortal things. To be truly loved by humanity provides a great deal of protection on earth. If Lift can at least be liked by humanity acquiring food and warm places to sleep becomes far easier. Lift's acceptance by humanity was brought to a level, he never thought possible, on one faithful day when Lift was 22.
Lift had just arrived at Clear Lake Reservoir in northern California and was setting up camp on the north side of the reservoir. Lift was avoiding the south side of Clear Lake as maps of the area pointed to the tourists areas being there and Lift was never fond of tourist areas. With night approaching, Lift was collecting firewood for the night when he heard crying and wailing in the distance that didn't sound like the local wildlife. Disliking the idea that something is out place and in pain, Lift grabs his pack and searches for a source. On the shore of North Clear Lake,Lift finds an overturned and deflating raft with two children inside. Both badly bruised, a young boy no older than ten was gripping his legs in pain and a young girl no older than seven was beside herself and by all accounts panicking about the situation. Lift surmised that these two where probably family that found themselves in a bad situation through happenstance and needed help getting out if they weren't going to die on this lake shore.Though not thrilled about the night trek that was now in store, Lift knew he couldn't fully stabilize these two on the lake shore and needed to get them to civilization. Even so, Lift offered the fresh water and food he had because they seemed hungry and they gladly accepted. Next he put splints of the boys legs with materials Lift found on the shoreline (Lift doesn't know how he got to natural materials to make a splints but it happened). With everyone as prepared as they were going to be, it was time make the hike around Clear Lake. Lift gives the boy steady look (as if to say everything is going to be ok) and slowly lifts him up and has the boy raps is arms around Lift's neck. This left a free hand that Lift offered to the young girl and she latched on to it. Lift then took a deep breath and started the long hike around the reservoir. Overall, the hike was taxing but successful. There was a mountain lion prowling lake shore, minding it's own business and Lift took a break and let the lion move on before continuing.There was also some drama when the young girl didn't want to cross a stream that was going into the reservoir. Though after some coaxing and support she made it through.
Early morning came and Lift finally made it to the clear lake campgrounds with the children. There was a surprising amount of activity and police vehicles around for being so early in the morning. Lift walked over to the nearest uniformed officer having a smoke looking over the lake and said"excuse me sir, could me get this boy some medical attention?" The next 48 hours went far too fast and were far to emotionally changed for Lift tore member properly. Lift was called a hero and hugged far more times than he was comfortable with but reuniting the children with their parents was still an amazing feeling. Lift was debriefed by the police investigator sand medical staff that were mostly impressed by Lift's lack of blisters or pulled muscles after making such a trek with about 100 pounds of dead wait.Lift had no real answers about he managed but told the investigators as much as he could about the state of the children when he found them. Lift was told that the Richardsons (apparently the children's family) were involved in a boating accident and that Lift just saved their children.Lift was still far too humble to accept praise but Richardson's gave a him Disneyland passes and a hotel reservation regardless. The Richardsons were going to go on a Disneyland vacation later that month but after almost losing their children their priorities had shifted some. Lift accepted the gift, not really wanting it but thinking it would be rude to turn down such a gift.
After hopping a bus to and arriving in Los Angeles, Lift was staring off to into a Disneyland resort fountain wondering how he was going to sell his gifted Disneyland passes when of all of the sudden...
(Now in 1st person)
Wait why is there a hole in the water?...
Oh my God tentacles why....!
Stats: Mystic Archetype
Charm: 1
Cool: 1
Sharp: 1
Tough: 1
Weird: 3 (+1 weird next game)
Stat Boost
- Magical Aptitude (Weird +1)
- Unfazeable (Cool +1)
- Natural Athlete (Tough +1) x 2
Special Moves:
- Battlefield Awareness (+1 armour)
- The Sight (see the invisible magic and energy)
- Oops! (Roll +Weird instead of +Sharp when investigating a mystery/searching)
- Charismatic (Roll +Weird instead of +Charm when you manipulate someone)
- Psychometry (whenever you handle or examine something interesting,roll+weird)
- Night Vision: (You can see in all but absolute darkness. However,this magical ability may mean that your eyes turn a different color or resemble cat’s eyes during the night)
- Direction Sense (You are rarely lost. You always know where North is and can orient yourself easily without any external cues)
- Often Overlooked (When you act all crazy to avoid something or someone, roll +Weird)
- Precognition (You occasionally have premonitions that foretell the future, or a possible future)
- Spooky intense (When you roll act under pressure you have the option of rolling your Weird instead)
Special Special Moves:
- Acute Sense - Hearing
- Healing Touch - when you put your hands skin-to-skin on a wounded person and open your brain to them, roll+weird
Special Special Special Moves:
- They Thought You Were Mad! (You get a reroll in times ofgreat peril where death, or loss of limb is on the line)
Species Bonuses:
- Unholy Strength (Roll+Weird instead of +Tough when you kick some ass)
- Flight: You can fly
Special Bonuses:
- Mystical Library (Harpeah)
- Magical Laboratory (Harpeah)
- Lore Library(Harpeah)
Total Harm (HP): 7 / 7 hp
Total Magic (MP): 10 / 10
Total Luck: 4
Total Exp: 89
Gear:
- Full set of Medical Herbs and Spices
- Rations
- Cooking Gear
- Backpack
- Bedroll
- Candles
- Flint and Steel
- Water skin
- Coffee Beans
- Chocolate Beans
- Treasure hunter's goggles (link) [image]
Weapon:
- Slingshot - Small (1 Harm) - tag Innocuous (This weapon doesn't draw suspicion)
- Long sword - Heavy (3 Harm) - tag Hand (This weaponis effective at a hand to hand combat range – within arms' reach)
Armor:
- Tower Shield
- Full Plate Armor (2 Armor)
Player Information
Player Name: Allen
Best Contact information for you? Skype Name:reactor89
