Edgar the Ritualist

[Manart]

Player Name: Tran Ha Nam

-- Character --
Name:Edgar (the Ritualist)
Gender:Male
Age:20 (or so he claims)
Height:6'9'' (really, realy tall)
Weight:152 lb (slightly thin)
Deity:Ioun (and the Primal Beast)
Alignment:Unaligned (True Neutral)

Quote: "Power INCONTINENT!!!"

Race:Human
Class:Druid
LV: 4

-- Attributes --
STR:8
CON:11
DEX:14 (13+1)
INT:12
WIS:21 (18+2+1)
CHA:10

Point Buy Array: 8,10,10,12,13,18

-- Skills --

Acrobatics 2
Arcana 10
Athletics 0
Bluff 2
Diplomacy 2
Dungeoneering 7
Endurance 1
Heal 12
History 3
Insight 12
Intimidate 2
Nature 12
Perception 12
Religion 3
Stealth 3
Streetwise 2
Thievery 3


-- Feats --
1] Ritual Caster (Druid)
2] Implement Expertise (Staff) (human)
3] Expert Ritualist (lv 1)
4] Action Surge (lv 2)

-- Powers --

At-will

1] Fire Hawk
2] Swarming Locust
3] Grasping Tide
4] Savage Rend (human)

Encounter

1] Thorn Spray
3] Predator's Flurry

Daily

1] Summon Giant Mantis

Utility

1] Skittering Sneak

-- Worn Equipment --
Head Slot:Radio Helmet (Allows radio contact to each another up to a distance of 25,000 feet (5000 squares). Able to monitor each other's health.)
Neck Slot:
Waist Slot:
Hands Slot:LORTEK Gauntlets (+1 AC)
Arms Slot:
Feet Slot:Duty Boots (Speed +1; Init +1)
Armour Slot: Wyvernhide Hide Armour (resist 1 Lightning)
Weapon Slot: Ealdfeorhcyninggeearnung (aka Bob) (sentient weapon)
Ring Slot:

-- Other Equipment (Weight: XX/XX) --
1] Ritual Book 3 lb
2] Combat Kit
- 2 x Flashbangs
- 1 x Stimpak
- 5 x Wardstone
- Plus standard adventuring stuffs (sleeping bag, ration, etc.)
3]
4]

-- Background Story --

The story of Edgar the Ritualist begins in a humbled village, deep within a nameless forest, long since forgotten with time. When he was born, an omen from the gods ravage through the sky: a tornado of unprecedented scope descended upon the small community. When the morning came and the wind settled, huddling together inside their houses, the villagers received an unexpected boon: a pile of book, taller than any trees in the surrounding forest and wider than the village square. Still astonished by the wealth of knowledge literally dumped on their feet, they are visited by a strange artificer. He explained that the storm of knowledge was the mark of Ioun, god of knowledge and the Primal Spirit working in tandem as mark of the duality of this place: part civilization and part nature. Thus begins their reverence for both gods.

Growing up as a scholar, foretold by the circumstances of his birth, Edgar has always found life in that ideallic village a dull existence to grow up in. He fill part of it by working as an apprentice to the local wiseman, who is rumored to have been blessed with both primal and arcane powers. However, even that wasn't enough to fulfilled his wish to understand the delicate balance between nature and man. Thus begins his rebellious act in running away from it when he was 18, just a few weeks after his admittance into the local druid circle. At first, he found work in a nearby military outpost tending to their food garden and meat stock. Though he quickly grew used to the hard work required, he secretly despise the expansionist mindset of those who live in the border, thinking them shallow and greedy. However, destiny called when a call for recruits to the EPIN military college came to the outpost. Believing that it is a chance to change things from between, he signed up the next day.


Edgar has been working for the Engineering department for 2 years, accumulating knowledge on the shaping and creation of items (hence his knowledge of the rituals).

Now, as a soldier of EPIN, he would have the means to one day access the powers necessary to create his idealized version of paradise.

And so our story begins...

Background Effect: Occupation: Scholar (+2 Arcana)

[glow=red,2,300]Story:[/glow]

Lost within the ancient lores, the secrets of the rituals are waiting to be found.
Each day, my journey brings myself closer to attaining them, through both civilization and the wilderness.
I have sworn myself to be Ioun's eyes and ears in exchange for knowledge far and wide.
I have also sworn onto the Primal Beast my aids and worship in exchange for a fraction of its forms and powers.
I have learned under a sage of immense knowledge.
I would learned to call on guardians of nature and spirits of the Wyld for favor.
I seeks knowledge as well as balance.
Will you aid me on my quest?

Edgar is mischievous and ambitious (though he would claim that is synonymous with being self-motivated). He doesn't deny that he is somewhat lax in his duty for nature's causes. However, he is greatly disturbed by the casual destruction and desecration of nature by his fellow men. Because of that, he vows to find a way to help them co-exist peacefully with nature... or else.


[glow=red,2,300]Appearance:[/glow]

Edgar usually wears an odd assortment of items, the most frequent of his is an oversized-scarf that also doubles as a shirt (that somehow also counts as hide armor - and insulate electricity)

In combat, he is in constant flux between his humanoid shape and his beast form: a mixture of praying mantis, bumblebee and a lion's head (don't ask).

[glow=red,2,300]Persona:[/glow]

Edgar has a special bond with mantises, believing them to be that utmost greatest form from the myriads of guises of the Primal Spirit. He is cowardly but not afraid to make his stance known, easily excited but sometime contemplative and for some (ironic) reason, very coy by the appearance of "aesthetically pleasing" automatons.

[Manart]

I will post a list of rituals that Edgar currently have in order for everyone to have a definite knowledge of what he is capable of (and maybe post an order for a ritual to be done for them, for a reasonable prize of course )

- Animal Messenger (Druid)
- Banish Vermin (Free 1st ritual)

[Oshi]

I do like the numerous broken sentences. Like you were in the middle of writing a sentence, and then decided to start a new one.

Note, Create Magic Item is NOT engineering; though logically it would make sense to combine the two 'technologies', The mechanics the DM has set up intentionally makes you know what, muffins sure are tasty.

[Manart]

I was going to say that he was apprenticing under them for while but quit, following with the "bored with life and lack commitment" personality I envision he has. That plus selling his services for anyone who has the money.

Hopefully I will be able to finish writing this before this Saturday's game.

[Dungeon Master]

i can imagine you wanting to change all the rituals after the first mission. lol. Hint given

[Manart]

Uhm, is there any other notes that you would like to give me on the price and availability of rituals in this setting? Something like that should be common knowledge for a career ritualist like my character right?

Also, can my character make money while in town using his ritual? Something like a 50% extra charge on the ritual's component cost to get rid of someone's pests or help scholar scribe stuffs faster or whatnot. I want him to have something to do while not fighting instead of just laying around (like my last character).

[Manart]

Can I switch Grasping Claw for Savage Rend and Faerie Fire for Lightning Arc ? (just for better combat options)

Also, how many rituals can I have at the start of the game?

[Oshi]

your last character didnt just lay around!

He stayed in haunted houses and doesnt afraid of anything

[Dungeon Master]

Everything as per character creation rules.
No excess rituals.

I will be loading each character into my character builder.
Please have your character up as soon as possible

[Manart]

On that note, can I use my starting money to buy some rituals?
And components too, these are costly, at least until I can start making a profit out of this that is.
Can I receive the starting weapon as residuum? Or maybe get an artificier to disenchant it for me? Is there any beginner's discount for rituals? (or sale off, these PHB1 rituals are beginning to get old you know, the company should sells these off ASAP or the new PHB3's shiny new stuffs are going to make them obsolite. (Maybe a 50% discount? ).

[Dungeon Master]

components are issued upon officer approval.
ask ur officer in the game for them with valid reason.

no u may not start with more rituals and there's no ritual u can get with 50gp.

the sentient weapon / implement choice is a choice made available ONLY in the beginning after which it's good luck getting a sentient item.

rituals are not 'sold'. they're taught. in Terrun.
What your character knows, is because s/he learnt from those who underwent the same training to be their character class.

No one starts with magic weapons. Hence nothing to disenchant.

On the note of obsolete, i beg to differ. I have the newest updates. I know.

EPIN offers engineering and enchantment. They all come with 'fees'

And know this. You are LEVEL 1.
Giving sentient objects are already a game breaker. Don't ask for the world.

Your backstory is incomplete too btw. it's broken in pieces.



Certain things to amend.

EPIN does not hire low level ppl to do rituals. They're all paragon and above, you're just an assistant if you want to go that route.
Alternatively, you can opt to be an experimented object like kAI. Your choice.

Humans have just about the same respect levels as most other common races.

The main 2 respected races are Devas and Eladrins, for their unearthly 'grace' and beauty and calm and posture in solving problems. (most can curse and swear at you with such grace, it doesn't sound vulgar)

The main respected class are Wizards followed by Invokers, for their multitude of magi-technological provisions.

Druids are rare in the world of Terrun but not non-existant. (Think of the Amish, they're somewhat like that)

[Oshi]

"multitude of magi-technological provisions." yet the class whose entire shtick are magical items (artificer) are somehow valued less than these two...

Personally I'm against the whole concept of "class" existing in the game world... A character can do what a character can do, 'class' is just a meta-game label.... but im not the DM lol so what i think doesnt matter

And you know I am just WAITING to see your comments on his sentient weapon...
Needlessly complex...though somewhat interesting

[Dungeon Master]

Artificers are in a league of their own. There is a key position held by a key NPC that's an artificer.

on Edgar,
the story bit: "Will you aid me on my quest?"
Erm... it's your backstory, you're playing your character

[Manart]

There ARE 2 rituals that I can afford with 50 gp, which are up there. About the components, you weren't clear about whether they are free or not.

"components are issued upon officer approval.
ask ur officer in the game for them with valid reason."

So I can ask for them if it's relating to my quest but have to pay for them if it's for profit? (At least, that's how I read the lines)

[Dungeon Master]

yes.

as for rituals, you will be trained in them (basic starting), thereafter no excess purchases.
Additional training on personal request is available. those require payment.

All characters start with the barest basics in rituals thereafter no spending of the 50gp for rituals, yet.