Llyr the Leg-slayer
Experience: 15 no magic
Knowledge:
[*] Politics: Being Owed Favours Gives You Power.
[*] Politics: Your Role Defines Your Countenance.
[*] Politics: Who Are the Pawns.
[*] Politics: Risks are inherent in political manuevers.
[*] Tactics: You cannot reason with an unreasonable man.
[*] Tactics: Choosing friendship over convenience or safety.
[*] Tactics: Eliminating a political threat through assassination.
[*] Teaching: Implicit lessons for subconscious learning.
[*] Sociology: The power structure of a city.
[*] Deception: Knowing far more than you let on.
Non-Skill Knowledge:
Dreamwalking: Being the interrupted dreamer for once.
Kasoria: Killing is a Habit that Never Dies.
Kasoria: Shouldn't Be Alone with His Plans.
Kasoria: Shadow War Against Sintra.
Personal: I agreed to help Kasoria assassinate a Marshal in Etzos.
Renown: none
Skill Usage: Appropriate to level.
Loot/Losses: none
Injuries/Conditions: none
Consequences: Plan to kill Marshal Webb
Comments: I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when Llyr started ripping off the legs of that poor tarantula. He was so casual and eager about it, does he know no shame? In all seriousness, this was a fine conversation on the political game that's unfolding in Etzos. Something that Llyr is really beginning to get a good grasp of. I still don't know how he managed to wrangle the loyalty of a blackhearted killer like Kasoria, but that's a damned useful thing to have.
I thought that Llyr's reflection on what exactly fuels the fire of Kasoria's hatred was interesting. It gave me pause to wonder what would happen if the source of Kasoria's passion were to shrivel into dust? Would he lose his fire? Would the Spark take over?
Anyway, hopefully nothing happens to disrupt the sense of loyalty Kasoria feels toward Llyr, or perhaps Llyr may find himself on a list.
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Kasoria
Experience: 15 no magic
Knowledge:
Discipline: Staying True to Your Principles (even in the face of logic and reason)
Discipline: Willing to be Hated and Reviled to Protect That Which You Love
Etiquette: Afternoon Tea
Intelligence: Speaking Only in Private Locations (where possible)
Psychology: Hiding Keen Intelligence Behind Eccentricities
Psychology: The Odd Concept of Unconditional Friendship
Rhetoric: Puns
Rhetoric: Using the Shock of a Statement to Hammer Home a Point
Tactics: Considering Your Actions May be to an Enemy's Favor
Tactics: Surgical Strike vs. Outright Slaughter
Non-Skill Knowledge:
Dreamwalking - Brand: Using a Brand to Find the Marked in the Emea
PC Llyr: Idalos' Answer to Liberace
PC Llyr: Eccentric, Eclectic, Ridiculous... and Lethally Cunning
PC Llyr: One of the Few Living Souls that Can Casually Dismiss Kasoria
Renown: none
Skill Usage: Appropriate to level.
Loot/Losses: none
Injuries/Conditions: none
Consequences: Plan to kill Marshal Webb
Comments: What can I say about Kasoria and your writing of him? It's just so fantastic the detail you put into every post, bringing every important impression, feeling, though, and motivation to the forefront without fluffing your text. It's an amazing talent.
Kasoria is as always, Kasoria, albeit now with a very strong Spark that perhaps influences his thought patterns now. His paranoia was well played, and I enjoyed the call back to other stories where he was given pause with what to think of Llyr, even though he could dismiss such things as an external ploy. Or can he, really?
Excellent writing and enjoy the rewards!
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