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== Early Life == | == Early Life == | ||
| − | Little is know of Roc-Grot's early life. As a disturbing monstrosity to behold, Roc-Grot is of the opinion that he might in fact be a unique race. A horrible, terrible mistake of a race, but one just the same. As a cosmopolitan configuration of races put poorly together, Roc-Grot has spent most of his life shunned and abused. His earliest memories are of other children attempting to burn away the webbing between his slimy, scaled feet in the dark holes of Mante Putria. He would often dive into the | + | Little is know of Roc-Grot's early life. As a disturbing monstrosity to behold, Roc-Grot is of the opinion that he might in fact be a unique race. A horrible, terrible mistake of a race, but one just the same. As a cosmopolitan configuration of races put poorly together, Roc-Grot has spent most of his life shunned and abused. His earliest memories are of other children attempting to burn away the webbing between his slimy, scaled feet in the dark holes of Mante Putria. He would often dive into the coastal waters to give himself relief, and here would find he had a natural affinity for it. During one of his treks into the ocean to find relief from the bigotry of land, Roc-Grot was one day hauled into the nets of a local fishing vessel; his subsequent sale into bondage would thus begin a several year stint as a galley slave aboard the Flaming Tongu. |
'''Escape and Introduction to Psionics''' | '''Escape and Introduction to Psionics''' | ||
| − | Around the time Roc-Grot was the age of five, the Flaming Tongu took a commission to take a band of adventurers known as Relith's Rash Band to | + | Around the time Roc-Grot was the age of five, the Flaming Tongu took a commission to take a band of adventurers known as Relith's Rash Band to assail a mysterious island to the north forever guarded by magical torrents of cyclones. A foolish endeavor for any amount of gold, the Flaming Tongu was capsized almost immediately. Roc-Grot, who took to tending his oar alone (for even slaves where disgusted by his mere presence, in a tense moment as the ship all but was submerged, somehow managed to pull his arms through the chains that bound him, much to his amazement and the amazement of the other slaves frantically trying to keep their heads above water. Before escaping through an oar port, Roc-Grot would give himself the satisfaction of the strangling of the worst of his tormentors to death before departing to safety. |
| − | Clutching to a piece of floating wreckage, adrift at sea for how long he did not know; Roc-Grot eventually awoke on the shores of a small island. Armed with only a crudely sharpened stick, Roc-Grot used his natural affinity for concealing himself to patiently wait and ambush prey to sustain himself. After about a month of this, Roc-Grot one day came across a small dwelling hidden up the rocks. It was he found the first person who was not immediately repulsed by him, meditating upon the ground. At first Roc-Grot confused this man with a priest of some sort. At length, the man identified himself as the most humble Bahi Bata, a priest who worshiped no vain deity to gain his power, but instead marshaled the potential of his own will to impose change upon the world. | + | Clutching to a piece of floating wreckage, adrift at sea for how long he did not know; Roc-Grot eventually awoke on the shores of a small island. Armed with only a crudely sharpened stick, Roc-Grot used his natural affinity for concealing himself to patiently wait and ambush prey to sustain himself. After about a month of this, Roc-Grot one day came across a small dwelling hidden up the rocks. It was here he found the first person who was not immediately repulsed by him, meditating upon the ground. At first Roc-Grot confused this man with a priest of some sort. At length, the man identified himself as the most humble Bahi Bata, a priest who worshiped no vain deity to gain his power, but instead marshaled the potential of his own will to impose change upon the world. As he had realized Roc-Grot's potential as soon as he washed upon the shore, Bahi Bata decided to take the young mongrel man under his wing and teach him to truly unlock his mental prowess. |
== Description == | == Description == | ||
| − | Rock-Grot is a mongrel man, a truly hideous construction of many bipedal races. He stands a towering 6'8", and is composed of a mishmash of different parts. From his right arm socket protrudes an almost insectoid arm with bone spurs that raise several inches above the shoulder, a | + | Rock-Grot is a mongrel man, a truly hideous construction of many bipedal races. He stands a towering 6'8", and is composed of a mishmash of different parts. From his right arm socket protrudes an almost insectoid arm with bone spurs that raise several inches above the shoulder, a vestigial second joint just below the elbow which does not bend, and a hand that ends in three short knobby fingers with half inch claws. His left arm is basically human looking, but the shoulder is less pronounced giving him a slight hunch on his left side. The right arm is also noticeably longer on his right side and ends in a childlike four fingered hand. |
His legs both appear to be of the same make; fatter, powerful looking reptilian thighs with a hint of scales in patches. Somewhat below the knee the skin becomes clammy and fish-like, culminating in a set of oafishly large six and seven toed webbed feet which give him a move rate of 18 when swimming. Other notable characteristics are a completely bald head, a protruding pig-like snout, and a set of uneven jagged teeth which protrude from his mouth on the left side, cutting him viciously whenever he speaks. His skin on his torso is an unhealthy yellowish green tone of rather suprising hardness. He also has an enormous horse cock, which for some reason is circumcised. | His legs both appear to be of the same make; fatter, powerful looking reptilian thighs with a hint of scales in patches. Somewhat below the knee the skin becomes clammy and fish-like, culminating in a set of oafishly large six and seven toed webbed feet which give him a move rate of 18 when swimming. Other notable characteristics are a completely bald head, a protruding pig-like snout, and a set of uneven jagged teeth which protrude from his mouth on the left side, cutting him viciously whenever he speaks. His skin on his torso is an unhealthy yellowish green tone of rather suprising hardness. He also has an enormous horse cock, which for some reason is circumcised. | ||
Rock-Grot is exclusively a carnivore and almost never consumes cooked food. | Rock-Grot is exclusively a carnivore and almost never consumes cooked food. | ||
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'''Shipwreck''' | '''Shipwreck''' | ||
| − | Of the numerous | + | Of the numerous vessel hired to brave the perpetual storms, only the Jamile al'Fear would make it to land on the mysterious island. The ship however has badly damaged, and the entirety of the crew were rendered immobile or unconscious. Upon waking, Roc-Grot and the other members of the crew found that giants had pillaged the stores of the ship, and buried the several members of the crew up to their necks in sand along the shore of the beach. As the tide began to come in, it seemed inevitable that the crew would drown, Roc-Grot used his ability to change his body into ghostly form, thus freeing himself and several others. The giants took notice of this almost quite soon, and the crew began a heated race to the treeline in a frantic attempt to outrun boulders hurl from on far. Roc-Grot managed to elude capture with two of his companions, one of which wore heavy armor. During the retreat said companion fell into a river flowing from the mountains, and was forced to shed his armor to avoid drowning. Subsequently, Roc-Grot was separated from these two, never to see them again. |
| + | A while later Roc-Grot would come across the a surprisingly good creature upon this island; a two tailed fox with a golden nimbus of energy surrounding it. It innately had the ability to determine whether a being was good or not, and Roc-Grot definitely failed in this regard. Roc-Grot dropped his idiot's persona for once, and accused the fox of being unduly biased against him because he was hideous to behold and hence monstrous in the fox's eyes; secondly, Roc-Grot had spent a lifetime being made evil by the evil actions of others. Roc-Grot's words fell on deaf ears, and the fox attempted to drive him from the forest. Without weapons and very desperate, Roc-Grot did something he had never attempted before; he invaded the very mind of the fox and attempted to subdue it. This ultimately fail, and Roc-Grot was forced to jump into the river. There he was attacked by giant manta rays and was nearly skewered. After nearly drowning, something would know Roc-Grot unconscious. | ||
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Revision as of 22:56, 23 January 2015
Roc-Grot
- 1st level fighter/1st level pyschometabolist S:16, D:8, C:18, I:16, W:15, Ch:11(1) HP 8
Contents
Early Life
Little is know of Roc-Grot's early life. As a disturbing monstrosity to behold, Roc-Grot is of the opinion that he might in fact be a unique race. A horrible, terrible mistake of a race, but one just the same. As a cosmopolitan configuration of races put poorly together, Roc-Grot has spent most of his life shunned and abused. His earliest memories are of other children attempting to burn away the webbing between his slimy, scaled feet in the dark holes of Mante Putria. He would often dive into the coastal waters to give himself relief, and here would find he had a natural affinity for it. During one of his treks into the ocean to find relief from the bigotry of land, Roc-Grot was one day hauled into the nets of a local fishing vessel; his subsequent sale into bondage would thus begin a several year stint as a galley slave aboard the Flaming Tongu.
Escape and Introduction to Psionics
Around the time Roc-Grot was the age of five, the Flaming Tongu took a commission to take a band of adventurers known as Relith's Rash Band to assail a mysterious island to the north forever guarded by magical torrents of cyclones. A foolish endeavor for any amount of gold, the Flaming Tongu was capsized almost immediately. Roc-Grot, who took to tending his oar alone (for even slaves where disgusted by his mere presence, in a tense moment as the ship all but was submerged, somehow managed to pull his arms through the chains that bound him, much to his amazement and the amazement of the other slaves frantically trying to keep their heads above water. Before escaping through an oar port, Roc-Grot would give himself the satisfaction of the strangling of the worst of his tormentors to death before departing to safety. Clutching to a piece of floating wreckage, adrift at sea for how long he did not know; Roc-Grot eventually awoke on the shores of a small island. Armed with only a crudely sharpened stick, Roc-Grot used his natural affinity for concealing himself to patiently wait and ambush prey to sustain himself. After about a month of this, Roc-Grot one day came across a small dwelling hidden up the rocks. It was here he found the first person who was not immediately repulsed by him, meditating upon the ground. At first Roc-Grot confused this man with a priest of some sort. At length, the man identified himself as the most humble Bahi Bata, a priest who worshiped no vain deity to gain his power, but instead marshaled the potential of his own will to impose change upon the world. As he had realized Roc-Grot's potential as soon as he washed upon the shore, Bahi Bata decided to take the young mongrel man under his wing and teach him to truly unlock his mental prowess.
Description
Rock-Grot is a mongrel man, a truly hideous construction of many bipedal races. He stands a towering 6'8", and is composed of a mishmash of different parts. From his right arm socket protrudes an almost insectoid arm with bone spurs that raise several inches above the shoulder, a vestigial second joint just below the elbow which does not bend, and a hand that ends in three short knobby fingers with half inch claws. His left arm is basically human looking, but the shoulder is less pronounced giving him a slight hunch on his left side. The right arm is also noticeably longer on his right side and ends in a childlike four fingered hand. His legs both appear to be of the same make; fatter, powerful looking reptilian thighs with a hint of scales in patches. Somewhat below the knee the skin becomes clammy and fish-like, culminating in a set of oafishly large six and seven toed webbed feet which give him a move rate of 18 when swimming. Other notable characteristics are a completely bald head, a protruding pig-like snout, and a set of uneven jagged teeth which protrude from his mouth on the left side, cutting him viciously whenever he speaks. His skin on his torso is an unhealthy yellowish green tone of rather suprising hardness. He also has an enormous horse cock, which for some reason is circumcised. Rock-Grot is exclusively a carnivore and almost never consumes cooked food.
Personality
Roc-Grot is only nine years old, but due to the quirks of his racial heritage he seems to age much more quickly than others around him. Throughout his life he has sought to find something beautiful and take it as his own. Whatever form this thing of beauty might be, a song, a piece of art, a person, he has not determined. Years of abuse, xenophobia and slavery have taken their toll on Roc-Grot's psyche. He for the most part has kept this to himself due to circumstance, but given the opportunity Roc-Grot would relish the opportunity to inflict grave harm upon others. His outward projection of a lumbering, dimwitted oaf (exacerbated by the difficult he has speaking) makes those around him mostly wary but ultimately dismissive of him. His robust intellect and years of hard use has taught him hiding the range of his full capabilities is probably the safest course. But indeed, long and hard has Roc-Grot been ill used, and it is beginning to catch up with him. If it were not for the robust discipline necessary to facilitated his mental training, Roc-Grot would already have succumbed to a murderous rampage induced end. Without ever having a true companion or friend to call his own, the only true delight Roc-Grot ever truly knows in his pain wracked body is the joy of composing simple Thanion sailing melodies. Such melodies are universally considered by its audience to be nothing but awful.
Adventures
Sometime after he completed his tutelage, Roc-Grot crossed paths with a psionicist named Maha Prada Vendu, who almost immediately recognized him as a fellow psionists. As a warrior and a trained sailor to boot, Vendu recommended him to the captain of the Jamile al'Fear, Abu Zofar. Zofar had been commissioned to lead an expedition of ships through the same dangerous maelstrom that had marooned Roc-Grot four years earlier, Zofar having been the only man know to have successfully accomplished this feat before. Had Roc-Grot know this was to be the destination beforehand, he most certainly would not have agreed to go.
Shipwreck
Of the numerous vessel hired to brave the perpetual storms, only the Jamile al'Fear would make it to land on the mysterious island. The ship however has badly damaged, and the entirety of the crew were rendered immobile or unconscious. Upon waking, Roc-Grot and the other members of the crew found that giants had pillaged the stores of the ship, and buried the several members of the crew up to their necks in sand along the shore of the beach. As the tide began to come in, it seemed inevitable that the crew would drown, Roc-Grot used his ability to change his body into ghostly form, thus freeing himself and several others. The giants took notice of this almost quite soon, and the crew began a heated race to the treeline in a frantic attempt to outrun boulders hurl from on far. Roc-Grot managed to elude capture with two of his companions, one of which wore heavy armor. During the retreat said companion fell into a river flowing from the mountains, and was forced to shed his armor to avoid drowning. Subsequently, Roc-Grot was separated from these two, never to see them again. A while later Roc-Grot would come across the a surprisingly good creature upon this island; a two tailed fox with a golden nimbus of energy surrounding it. It innately had the ability to determine whether a being was good or not, and Roc-Grot definitely failed in this regard. Roc-Grot dropped his idiot's persona for once, and accused the fox of being unduly biased against him because he was hideous to behold and hence monstrous in the fox's eyes; secondly, Roc-Grot had spent a lifetime being made evil by the evil actions of others. Roc-Grot's words fell on deaf ears, and the fox attempted to drive him from the forest. Without weapons and very desperate, Roc-Grot did something he had never attempted before; he invaded the very mind of the fox and attempted to subdue it. This ultimately fail, and Roc-Grot was forced to jump into the river. There he was attacked by giant manta rays and was nearly skewered. After nearly drowning, something would know Roc-Grot unconscious.
The Almost Giant Stew
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