âShe is the Queen of distractions. She can find ways to occupy her mind all day long if it means getting out alive. She has paper cuts on her finger tips from turning the worn out pages of so many books, playing make believe and taking a break from her own tragedy. Her voice aches from screaming the same lyrics over and over, until she has memorized the entire album. And when she has? On to the next. This girl will lay curled up in a ball, staring at the TV with empty eyes, wishing that she had a remote to control her life. How beautiful it could be to fast forward to the better years. Her mind turns and searches to find the proper words to get her feelings out, because God knows she must. She focuses so deeply on each and every syllable, as if writing this all down will change things. She is the Queen of distractions. She will find ways to occupy her mind all day long if it means getting out alive.â
I am completely fascinated by this abandoned home some urban explorers came across in Belgium. Itâs covered in moss, which only adds to its charm, but look at the Plexiglas sunroom.Â
âTo Pick a Rose, You Ask Your Hands to Bleedâ (Clyde Caldwell cover painting for The Vampire Players Guide, 2nd ed, for Vampire the Masquerade, White Wolf, 1993)
Iâve been on the road for the past 37 years. Iâve seen both flora and fauna that are beyond the comprehension of man. I have traveled both the cursed river Styx and, itâs holy counterpart, Oceanus. I have healed dragons on the brink of death and I have delivered kings to their doom. I will be damned before I let my aching joints keep me from the life I love.
Backstory: Though he is perpetually hunched from years of hauling around a pack the size of a small pig, this tabaxi still stands an imposing 7 feet tall and has clawed hands big enough to palm watermelons. Despite being 73 years old, Silvioâs feline features hide his age well. The only indications that he might be reaching the end of his life are the greying fur around his mouth and ears and his gruff, perpetually hoarse voice.
Silvio became an alchemist early in his life, and took to the craft like a kraken to water. By the time he reached 36, he felt as though there was nothing more he could learn behind the walls of a city. This led him to a life of adventure. For the past 37 years, Silvio has spent his life exploring not just the world but also other planes in order to find new ingredients with which to experiment. This life of research has led to him being regarded as one of the best alchemists in the world.
Roleplaying Silvio
More than anything else, Silvio desires to advance his skills in alchemy. He will do this through any means necessary.
Life on the road is lonely, especially for someone who grew up with 13 brothers and sisters. Any chance Silvio gets to have a good conversation is a chance he takes. This includes keeping the company of dragons, deva, and devils.
The only thing Silvio likes more than telling tales of his adventures is hearing tales from others. He has more than 30 years of fantastical adventures to regale players with, but he will insist they spin a story of their own.
The past few years have been hard for the aging Tabaxi. His body has been worn down by time, but his spirit insists that he keep going. He does his best to ignore his limitations, and will be visibly and verbally disturbed by those who try to cater to him due to his age.
Example stories from Silvio
Sailing the river Styx after finding an antidote to its amnesia inducing properties.
Saving the life of the ancient silver dragon Drameneraz who was cursed by a hag to have her teeth fall out at dawn each day.
Curing an entire town of lycanthropy with the help of a unicorn and an unnamed archfey.
Adventure Hooks
One of the players has contracted lycanthropy, and they have heard that a traveling alchemist might have the cure. The source of this information also comes with his last known location. When the players find Silvio, he will be willing to help them for a fee. His supply of lycanthrope saliva is low, and, since this ingredient needs to be collected during the full moon, it is difficult to acquire. In exchange for a few vials of saliva during the next full moon, Silvio will either cure the player or give them a recipe for the cure.
The players stumble upon an old, crumbling wizardâs tower and find the elderly tabaxi camping nearby. Silvio will inform the players that a beholder has claimed the tower as its lair. He came in an attempt to barter with the creature for a vial of tears from each of its eyes, but it was not in the mood to trade. Silvio will claim to have escaped without any problems, but the majority of his left arm is still turned to stone. He will ask the players to deal with the beholder for him. If they return with either the vials of tears or the creatureâs intact eyes, the tabaxi will reward them with rare potions.
Silvio has been working on a new potion that supposedly will greatly prolong his life and allow him to pursue his passion for many more years, but the ingredients are rare. In addition to his current, exotic stock he needs the rib bone of a lich, the breath of Auril the Frostmaiden, and the soul of a unicorn. In exchange for these ingredients, Silvio will split the potion with the players, giving them 3 doses.
portrait of a PCâs mother - Fleet Admiral Tethys Ingemar, a renowned arcane researcher specializing in conjuration magic (and a water genasi!). she is so stressed - someone help her.
NPC: Baron d'Avariss, Aristocrat of the Unseelie Court
"Few of the Unseelie Fey are as well-known as Baron d'Avariss, nobleman of that cursed Court, patron of collectors and the affluent. His warlocks know him as an intelligent, although self-indulged and egocentric being. But below the guise of bestowing magical abilities on those who worship him and helping the rich expand their hoards, the Baron has a secondary purpose. His place in the Court is that of High Treasurer, and he expands his influence upon the Material Plane, too - placing the sin of endless greed and desire upon the hearts of mortal men, twisting their desire into materialistic wishes until they rot to the core, forever tainted by the Baron's cursed touch."
Father of greed. The Baron started as a simple fey - a changeling boy left to steal on the streets. He owned nothing for many years, but upon the acquisition of his first gold piece, picked from the pocket of an unnamed god posing as a man, something changed. A certain desire was lit within his heart, and even as he grew and expanded his glimmering hoard, it could not be enough. When another urchin stole from him on the street in an act of pure luck and courage, the changeling condemned the child, and promised his Fey ancestors that he would give anything immaterial for the return of his possession. The Seelie Court refused, but the darkness that had already grown within him did not go unnoticed by the Unseelie Fey, who accepted his bargain, and raised him to the status of archfey, and he became the Baron.
Impostor amongst men. The Baron, now in charge of inciting eternal greed in the non-fey, does not seek out his targets, but simply waits for the right person to pass by him. He travels to the Material Plane, where he poses as a rich noble, parading his wealth until covetous eyes find him. Convincing his targets that wealth is the answer to all their problems is easy, and he bargains with them until they agree their never-ending servitude in exchange for riches beyond measure in this lifetime. The gold provided by the Baron is cursed, and infects the owner with gold-sickness, each coin disappearing eventually, until nothing but empty promises, lies, and cobwebbed vaults remain.
Archfey patron. As a warlock's patron, the Baron ever bargains with his warlocks. Their powers always come with a prize, and the Baron no longer covets only gold and riches. Each of his followers has something to offer them, and he lures them with promises of power and magic to attain what he desires.
Special equipment. The Baron wears a robe of stars and carries a wand of enemy detection. He also always carries a bag of holding filled completely with illusory gold, gems, and other treasures that look, feel, and smell real to anyone other than the Baron. His magic items aren't included in his stat block.
Friends and companions. The Baron is loyal only to the Unseelie Court and the Queen of Air and Darkness, although each of the Court's members schemes against each other Court representative. The Baron allies himself with his warlocks, as their patron, but is fiercely paranoid and does not trust any of his allies.
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