Lucius Cypher

Disney & Dragons 5e

Lies that turn into truth
With cunning and courage he knew
Though not the dragon he claims to be
Perhaps a hero is what he needs

Name: Shi Long

Character Sheet: myth-weavers.com/sheet.html#id=2801779
Stat/Dice Rolls: roleplayerguild.com/campaigns/717

Appearance:

Personality: A bit two-faced and a schemer, Shi Long seems to have a hard time acting honestly and feels far more comfortable living a lie and posturing than revealing how much he cares about others and how he can help them. Having lived a long life providing strength and wisdom for others he's gotten a bit too used to being highly respected, but also carrying the stress and burden of shouldering everyone's problems onto his own shoulders. The type of person who feels responsible for things he had no clue about, for many he can seem self-centered and like an egomaniac. But if you can look past his negative traits, you'd find a friendly spirit who really just wants to help. He may claim to be a smart and cunning dragon, but his heart is bigger than his brains.

Backstory: Shi Long is the guardian of the Fa family, long ago when their ancestors were still nomads hunting and gathering.He was curious about these humans and watched them. Most fight among themselves, stealing and hurting one another, but the Fa family were kind even to those who had less than them. They took care of each other and even total strangers, but were not afraid to fight even against bigger and stronger foes, and often still somehow scrap by. Seeing their valor and honor up close, Shi Long decided to help them. But back then, he was naught but a spirit who didn't even have a physical form. But learning from the Fa family, Shi Long learned how to use his smarts over his strength.

Having a primordial knowledge of nature, he would accompany the Fa clan and helped them in minor ways, such as making sure their fires didn't go out or keeping their food safe from bugs and vermin. When trouble would arise instead of fight, he would provide a helpful light that would show the Fa family safe passage, or ways to reach their enemies weak points. Over time the Fa family grew bigger and gained more esteem, eventually gathering more spirits who would come to their aid. When the Fa family's ancestors became spirits themselves, they offered their gratitude to Shi Long, ensuring their descendants honored him as much as they honored their dead. But there was one small detail the Fa family misunderstood.

They thought Shi Long was a dragon. He was not. He was a Xian, a fey spirit who's power were leagues below that of a dragon. Yet the Fa Family treated him with as much veneration as a dragon, something that certainly made Shi Long happy, but worried that he could not do more for the clan than what he already has done. But not wanting to disappoint these people who looked up to him, Shi Long embraced the role of a dragon, and had the Fa family create an effigy of him: the Great Stone Dragon.

For the humans, this was little more than an art piece, meant only to symbolize who he was. But for Shi Long, he had helped the masons gather the stones he needed to turn this stone statue into a vessel for him to inhabit, so that when the Fa family needed him most, he could help them not just with minor chores, but through his actions as well. For many generations to come whenever the Fa family or their ancestors needed aid, the Great Stone Dragon was there to help them, ready to provide guidance or protecting as needed. The Fa family of course were still as strong and brave as they were since ancient times, so they did not need his help often, but when they did Shi Long did everything in his power and more to help them.

For many generations, Shi Long has watched over the Fa family, protecting them in times of peace and war. But recently, something... Strange was afoot. A sense of dejavu, familiarity as if he had seen what has happened in a dream of sorts. And after meeting some long lost acquaintances, Shi Long knew something was amiss. Something that would no doubt affect the Fa Family, and possibly in ways that he cannot solve himself. Driven by fear and worry, Shi Long suddenly departed from his ancestral home, even leaving behind his stone vessel, to investigate this strange feeling and hopefully, prevent it from ever reaching his family.

Disney & Dragons 5e

Aye aye. My cs is more or less done, just got to amass the backstory together. Been a busy last few days.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

@Zeroth

Btw what's the results of the sling Gren attempted to make from the coil bone? You didn't mention it me thinks.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

@Unkown58

Welcome back! I already started cooking the tazelwurm so ask sweet cheeks about what you might get when ya eat their parts.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Gren will be eating a mix of the good and organ meats. They'd need to be cooked if Lola was here anyways, so it's just a matter of which one he eats. I would hope not to worry too much about sicknesses or diseases or chances are most of us might be dead from an infection or diereaha long before we reach adulthood.

I don't imagine a tribe of orcs who still use stone tools to have a very well developed medical or sanitation level that isn't "slap magic paste on all your wounds" and "clean all the dishes, laundry, and bodies in the same river we drink, cook, and shit in". I just assumed orcs are naturally more resistant to those sorta diseases than contemporary humans are, or else we'll find out real fast why plague is a horseman of apocalypse.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Gren

Location: Forests
Quest: Hunt for Food!
Current Activity: Crafting and cooking with Vola @Unkown58, talking to a group of orc runts @King Cosmos@Kazemitsu@ERode@Crusader Lord.

Gren looks at the group who was just about ready to leave. While Gren can't stop them, maybe he could convince them to hold their horses for just a bit. Putting some tazelwurm meat over the fire to cook, Gren speaks. "Well if y'all are going in, I ain't gunna stop ya. But you lot still dressed in yet baby clothes with sticks and stones. Oh I'm sure you all a capable sort, but if what I hear about them caves to the north is true, runts like us ain't even suppose to be near there. It's rough enough for proper hunters, let alone is squirts who don't even got a knife ta share between em."

Taking out the tazelwurm claws, Gren uses his sharp rock to carve a groove in his stick, one big enough to fit the claws into. He would do this for each claw and tooth until he had a sort of spiked club. More importantly, he would have something that could likely cut and skin better than a rock, and a back up weapon to his hatchet. "What I'm saying is that you all could use some kit. Lemme tag along with ya and I can help ya not just inna fight, but also getting some gear together for ya. Bits of armor so you don't get hurt when the monster goes clawing your arms, or a proper axe or spear so you ain't throttling beasties to death. Of course this stuff takes time, but better too careful than unprepared."

Taking any cooked tazelwurm off the fire, Gren helps himself to any cooked meaty bits, still talking whilst his mouth is full. "Even something as simple as a torch can help ya. A light inna darkness, a flaming club if need be. I can make stuff like that fer ya, if ya just give me a moment to get that sorta thing together." The last thing he would do is take that coil bone, the weird fatty rope spine, and fashion it into a sling. He tied the center into a sort of basket and used the tungem leaves to fill the gaps, then demonstrates the weapons pote tial use by slinging a piece of rock or wood at a tree. Certainly more dangerous than just chucking things by hand. He finishes off whatever tazelwurm he has cooking before looking at the crew.

"What say ya then? Just let me know what you be wanting, and I'll work me magic putting it together for ya. All I ask in return is that ya take me with ya and help with me hunt too."

Items/Equipment

• Swaddling Pelts - Equip, Clothes - Old animal skins used to keep an Orc baby warm as they sleep. Once the Runt is old enough to start hunting, these are usually just enough to cover the parts that need the most covering.
• Wooden Stick - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A wooden stick. From a tree. That's...that's all there is to it. Can be thrown.
• Sharp Rock - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - A rock with a slightly sharp edge. Useful as a primitive knife or chisel. Can be thrown.
• Stone Hatchet - Equip, Weapon/Tool - An axe with a blade made of stone.
• Tungem Branch x4 - Equip, Weapon/Tool, Material Component - Branches from a Tungem tree.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Yeah, ultimately that's what's going to happen. I just want to try and get some food and gear together before rushing into the next scrap.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

True but it also has continuity issues. Lola has some of my stuff and if there ghosting what happens to it? And what if they come back? Stuff like that. Either way I'll just be posting with the assumption she's still here but might have to move forward as if she stays behind.

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

@Zeroth

Sorry for double posting but I also wanted to ask, what's a coil bone? I'm guessing it's suppose to be like a springy bone used by the Tatzelwurm to do cat-snake acrobatics but what does it look like exactly? Or is it just a fancy way of saying g it's skeleton?

Why Were We Reincarnated as Orcs?!

Hmm. With Unknown MIA for over a week, I might have to have Gren go solo. Or at least do a lot of things all at once. Cooking, crafting, prepping. Such as it is of course. Worse comes to worse I might just have to assume Lola is effectively dead and take their stuff.