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Unlucky
01-04-08, 11:56 AM
Name: Sylvia Mirea
Age: 27
Race: elven
Hair Color: black
Eye Color: green
Height: 4'7"
Weight: 127 LBS

Personality: Always depressed, She shys away from all her friends and stays close to her enemies. After reading more about her, you will understand the reasoning behind this a bit better.

Appearance: She dresses in rags in order to look like a street bum. After all, not many people will even approach a street bum nowadays.

History: Ever heard the saying "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong"? That is her life, and her curse, in a nutshell. When she was born, her mom died from giving childbirth and her dad took her in to raise her. When she was one year old, her father met and married another woman. At the time, the marraige seemed like a good idea, but a year later, Sylvia's father realized his wife was dabbling in forbidden magic and divorced her. Not one to be scorned, his wife cast a curse on Sylvia that wherever she went, bad things would happen.

Sylvia lost her father to a fire that started up out of nowhere the very next day. She survived unscathed. she was picked up off the street and raised in a nunnery until the age of 7 when her curse struck again, this time even worse than before. A demon of the underworld came from the depths of hell and destroyed her entire hometown, including the nunnery. She survived without a scratch.

Yes, everytime an unfortunate incident occured do to her curse, she was forced to survive unscathed. When she realized this and the fact that her curse was killing everyone she cared about, she tried to commit suicide multiple times, but whenever she tried her curse would prevent her from going through with it.

When she reached twelve, she gave up on her attempts to kill herself and decided to never become close to anyone ever again.

She has lived her life in solitude ever since, every once in a while being forced to move to a different location because of her curse. When she reached 20, she learned to use the curse to her advantage. by staying nearby her foes, she could get her curse to force bad luck upon them.

Sylvia is now 27 and has decided to search out a way to rid herself of the curse as well as the person her cursed her in the first place.


Skills:

Sylvia never got close enough to anyone to learn any magic or skills from them. All she has on her side is:

Her curse: Wherever she goes, bad things always happen. She is not allowed to die due to the unfortunate events her curse causes, nor is she allowed to rid herself of the curse by killing herself. It is possible for other people to kill her, but her curse has a mind of it's own and will attempt to destroy anyone that tries to kill her. The amount of damage that it causes is directly related to her foe's level. The higher the level, the less damage it causes. Unfortunately, because the curse has a mind of it's own, around 50% of the time her plan to use the curse against other people fails, and sometimes even ends up working against her.


Equipment: Living under the assumption that if she entered a store, the entire store would collapse, she currently has nothing to her name but the rags she dresses in.

Special request: I see no way that Sylvia could have earned money do to the fact that she can't interact with anyone without having her curse kill or injure them, so please start her out with at most 10 gold. (She likely picked at least that much money off the street.) thank you.

Karuka
01-04-08, 08:19 PM
The curse is worded really vaguely, and could be powergamed pretty easily. I'd like you to put some limitations on it; i.e., how high level a character it will work against, and that it can only do moderate damage to PCs. Your own NPCs are fair game, though.

As for the money, just pretend she doesn't have it. It's what I did for this character when she first started out. ;)

Unlucky
01-05-08, 03:44 AM
Well I tried to set limits, but it's hard to do when the curse is supposed to be as bad as it is. So instead, I set limits on how well she is able to wield it. let me know what you think. I hope we can come to a decent compromise here.

Karuka
01-05-08, 11:35 AM
All right. Approved.