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In This Fine Town of Arkham - A Tale of Lovecraftian Horror

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And there is a post from me, it may not be the prettiest but its a good set up for Okubo.

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Deadsnows | Uktar 5th | 1495 DR

The sound of the inn could be heard all the way outside as Okubo casually walked up to the building through the dwindling snow. As he peered from under his straw travelers hat he couldn't help but notice the awkward glares and the gazes of the disillusioned as a foreigner traveled into their town, to be fair he couldn't blame them too much. He was a strange sight in this part of the world. His attire was normal in Wa but here in the Silver Marches it was definitely strange to see; a worn and tattered hakama just barely leaving his feet covered with thick wrappings and straw sandals. His torso was garbed in an earth toned tunic underneath a dark blue travelers gi with his right arm in a thick braided leather sleeve. His arms both have worn and beaten gauntlets from his home and over all of this was straw rain cloak. At his waist were two swords, one long and one short. This would be an interesting look into how these people deal with new comers in this part of the world.

Pushing his way in the door Okubo glanced around the room to get a survey of the place around him, hand resting on his sword hilt. The locals had mixed reactions upon seeing him, some gawked and stared and others went about their business carrying on with their conversations. There was not a lot of room with most of the tables filled and many occupants opting to standing and milling about the room with their drinks. Thankfully a pair had decided to leave leaving an open table for Okubo to take advantage of. As he sat roughly in the middle of the room, closer to the back wall of the establishment, he removed his longer sword and ate some of the leftovers from the previous occupants and observed the room. Many were locals looking for warm food and something to drink, some were local guards and few more looked like they were passing through. The mention of an attack caught his ears and he turned a side eye towards what he heard and saw the two that were engaged in conversation.

One of the knife-eared residents of this side of the world seemed to be asking questions about said attack. This person caught his eye more than the others in the area, soldiers recognize soldiers. Everything from her attire to her mannerisms gave an air of war and she had seen the worst of it, he knew what that was like. Flashes of his time as a retainer-soldier flashed through his mind as the world around him faded into memories. Okubo still had vivid visions of the blood on his fathers hands, his body going limp and cold, the anguish of knowing that one act of disobedience caused the loss of all that he loved and held dear. The sound of harsh tones in front of him snapped him back to the present and with instinct his hand flashed to his side and drew his wakazashi, the light from the room gleaned in his blade as the half-woman began visibly shaking from terror. His eyes grew wide in the anguish and relief as he quickly placed his sword back in its sheath and bowed in forgiveness placing two gold coins in her hands as he bundled the remaining leftovers and began to leave the building, not wishing to cause any other commotion in the business.

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Okubo

Character Name: Okubo

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Height: 5'6"

Race: Human

Class: Fighter (Samurai)

Alignment: True Neutral

Deity: The Eight Million Gods (Specfically General Yoshibei)

Character Appearance

History

The tale of Okubo is one that spreads the breath and length of a poetic sonnet. Born amongst the many vassel warriors of the Emperor Okubo was taught in the ways of war from an early age be it training in weapons to learning the history of Wa from beginning to end. Life was a rigerous routine filled with drilling loyalty and teaching about honor through displine and he grew into a fine samurai. By the early age of eighteen he was sent as a courtier to the other lords and a commander on the battlefield.

He spent many years under a neighboring lord who was particularly cruel and unforgiving to his subject but honor, however, dictated that he follow his lords command to the letter. In the province samurai's were seen as bullies and less than common thugs due to the disposition of their lord and thus they came to fear Okubo in kind. He was good at his job essentially running what would be the city guard in the capital and punishing those responsible. One day, on behalf of his lord, he was tasked with the apprehinsion of an individual. This would be the beginning of the end.

Upon further investigation this man was a noble that was in direct oppisition to the lord and he was brought in to give swift "justice" to his compettitor. On the day that was supposed to be his execution Okubo brought his katana to through his swing but could not bring himself to finish the swing. The lord roared in command but his words fell on deaf ears, Okubo refused an order. As the lord sentenced him to be put to death his father, who happened to be visiting to improve relations, chose to die in his place. Okubo was banished from Wa to never return.

Okubo spent the last several years wandering the Realms and found himself in the Silver Marches. He heard about the town of Deadsnows and decided that if he was going to be a wander in this world he would need to occupy himself some how.

Personality

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Okubo is a very quiet individual prefering the silence of the world around him than the noisy world of people. He is very intense in his observations and both judges and acts upon what he sees often giving him the apperance that he is flippant or indecisive of others. When he finally does interact with people it is often met with his hand on the hilt of his sword due to his general distrust in the other sentient races.

There is a deep sadness within him, he holds a heavy burden due to the events of his past and harbors unresolved issues about the death of his father. In this regard, Okubo defenitly has tendencies to due good and the desire to be a good man but his rigerous training about how honor and disipline causes him to surpress these tendensies for they are what got his father killed.

Weapons & Armor

Weapons: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/13/df/f4/13dff4d36fcffb0601a893dda47416ad.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/56/86/69/5686693dd6d11b4868871dd7d2d70795.jpg

His armor is the same as his Description picture.

Accessories & Miscellaneous

Okubo doesn't carry much in the way of extra things. He has his supplies and everything nessacary to survive in the wild, some materials to make a makeshift shrine to the Eight Million gods, and an old banner that he keeps wrapped around the sheath of his sword that is his families crest so that he never forgets where he came from.

Skills and Abilities

Okubo is a master swordsman and skilled in the art Iaijutsu or quickly drawing and killing in one strike. He was also very accomplished with the short bow in quick styled combat. Beyond combat he is a skilled courtier, a caligrapher, and diplomat due to his training.

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Okubo

Character Name: Okubo

Age: 29

Gender: Male

Height: 5'6"

Race: Human

Class: Fighter (Samurai)

Alignment: True Neutral

Deity: The Eight Million Gods (Specfically General Yoshibei)

Character Appearance

History

The tale of Okubo is one that spreads the breath and length of a poetic sonnet. Born amongst the many vassel warriors of the Emperor Okubo was taught in the ways of war from an early age be it training in weapons to learning the history of Wa from beginning to end. Life was a rigerous routine filled with drilling loyalty and teaching about honor through displine and he grew into a fine samurai. By the early age of eighteen he was sent as a courtier to the other lords and a commander on the battlefield.

He spent many years under a neighboring lord who was particularly cruel and unforgiving to his subject but honor, however, dictated that he follow his lords command to the letter. In the province samurai's were seen as bullies and less than common thugs due to the disposition of their lord and thus they came to fear Okubo in kind. He was good at his job essentially running what would be the city guard in the capital and punishing those responsible. One day, on behalf of his lord, he was tasked with the apprehinsion of an individual. This would be the beginning of the end.

Upon further investigation this man was a noble that was in direct oppisition to the lord and he was brought in to give swift "justice" to his compettitor. On the day that was supposed to be his execution Okubo brought his katana to through his swing but could not bring himself to finish the swing. The lord roared in command but his words fell on deaf ears, Okubo refused an order. As the lord sentenced him to be put to death his father, who happened to be visiting to improve relations, chose to die in his place. Okubo was banished from Wa to never return.

Okubo spent the last several years wandering the Realms and found himself in the Silver Marches. He heard about the town of Deadsnows and decided that if he was going to be a wander in this world he would need to occupy himself some how.

Personality

:
Okubo is a very quiet individual prefering the silence of the world around him than the noisy world of people. He is very intense in his observations and both judges and acts upon what he sees often giving him the apperance that he is flippant or indecisive of others. When he finally does interact with people it is often met with his hand on the hilt of his sword due to his general distrust in the other sentient races.

There is a deep sadness within him, he holds a heavy burden due to the events of his past and harbors unresolved issues about the death of his father. In this regard, Okubo defenitly has tendencies to due good and the desire to be a good man but his rigerous training about how honor and disipline causes him to surpress these tendensies for they are what got his father killed.

Weapons & Armor

Weapons: https://i.pinimg.com/564x/13/df/f4/13dff4d36fcffb0601a893dda47416ad.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/564x/56/86/69/5686693dd6d11b4868871dd7d2d70795.jpg

His armor is the same as his Description picture.

Accessories & Miscellaneous

Okubo doesn't carry much in the way of extra things. He has his supplies and everything nessacary to survive in the wild, some materials to make a makeshift shrine to the Eight Million gods, and an old banner that he keeps wrapped around the sheath of his sword that is his families crest so that he never forgets where he came from.

Skills and Abilities

Okubo is a master swordsman and skilled in the art Iaijutsu or quickly drawing and killing in one strike. He was also very accomplished with the short bow in quick styled combat. Beyond combat he is a skilled courtier, a caligrapher, and diplomat due to his training.

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Hello, I am very interested I just wanted to ask if all available classes and races were available?

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

@Sigil I edited both the picture and the color.

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

@Lewascan2 Oop my bad easy fix.

@Sigil Lewa helped me understand the math of how it works and I used his example. I misunderstood and thought what he showed me was pre-racial mods and it was not. I will fix that and the hex-code ASAP

Avonshire - D&D Based Adventure

Ok this is my sheet, the racial modifiers have been added the character sheet is finished and it is awaiting judgement. Also I was told that we were allowed extra gear within reason so I was requesting Studded Leather armor. I bolded it in the description of the character so that you could know that it was the piece of equipment I was requesting @Sigil

Barkom Starkdelver

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Barkom Starkdelver

Mountain Dwarf Fighter (1) / Bladesinger (2), Level 03

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STR: 16 (+3) DEX: 14 (+2) CON: 16 (+3) INT: 18 (+4) WIS: 10 (+0) CHA: 08 (-1)

HP MAX: 25 Armor Class: 14 Movement: 25 ft Spell DC: 14

Alignment: Lawful Neutral Defenses: Advantage on saving throws against poison, Resistance against poison damage.

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Barkom Starkdelver

Description

Barkom is a very uptight dwarf from his demeanor to his stature. Standing roughly five feet even his deep auburn hair sits somewhat neatened flowing down to his shoulders which meets his thick chest length beard. His attire mainly consists of a thick leather trench coat over his STUDDED LEATHER ARMOR which his atop his mining pants that he keeps tucked into his boots.

Upon his person he usually keeps a leather satchel that he keeps most of his go-to items in, mostly spell components, his coin pouch, various potions, and raw ingredients to create said various potions. On his hip he keeps any documents he needs which includes different research notes and dwarven to common translations. On either hip are two dwarven made hand-axes and on his back is his family's axe Dalozzurum

A fine dwarven battle axe made with a dark wood handle wrapped in old worn leather straps. The head of the axe is slightly worn black iron and engraved with dwarven runes that line both ends of the blade. The runes are newer than the rest of the axe due to Barkom's delve into the arcane, in lieu of carrying around a traditional spell book he chose to engrave his spells onto his family axe and use it as his arcane focus.

Dalozzurum

Personality

Barkom is a no nonsense dwarf who takes his military training to heart. Always keen to follow orders despite what those order entail, there are very few times if any that there are reasons to follow orders. Among others he tends to keep people at a distance, holding people to their word and exacting the appropriate "justice" for the situation.

His only driving force is to return home to his people and find a way to overturn his exile by way of proving his worth through arcane studies. He strives to correct the mistakes of his youth and return to his people a proper dwarf.

Backstory

Barkom began his life as many other dwarf children within the mountain, born to a moderately wealthy family of soldiers, he was trained from a young age in the art of war and trained with an axe and shield. His formative years consisted of training, studying and learning the layout of all known tunnels surrounding the city. Life in the early years was great, he had the love and support of his family his master respected him and he was in line to join the next scouting party for a newly discovered tunnel in the mountain. Life was good.

The expedition was longer than anticipated and the dwindling resources caused a need for a return back to the city. In the face of overwhelming opposition, Barkom managed to convince a small group to follow him farther to chase down glory and riches. A half of days travel the group was ambushed by goblins which the team fought off bravely but slain all but Barkom who managed to escape and make his way injured back to the city. The entire city was in an uproar and the ruling council decreed that due to his arrogance he had to be exiled.

Years passed and Barkom wandered the topside completing jobs around different villages and trying to make a life for himself as an adventurer. Along his journeys he took up the study of magic learning how to harness the arcane to enhance his combat prowess. His time learning helped ease him into the life of a solitary adventurer and he honors his family by using his family axe, given to him the day that he was exiled, and used it as his spell book.

Bestiary

He has riden his share of horses but he has never kept to close compainions with them.

Extras

LIKES:

• Rules
• Tea
• Solitude (Mostly)

DISLIKES:

• Overly Loud People
• Thieves
• Green Vegetables

HOBBIES:

• Playing Cards (Plays by himself mostly)
• Whittleing/Carving (Stone/Wood etc.)
• Singing