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08-25-06, 03:13 PM
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Name[s]: Grimoir Dirgeon, Aneb Baneshade, Lark Tsen`Kazka
Aliases: “The Cerberus”, “Grim”, “Larry”
Race: ?
Physical Age: 32
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 145lbs
Eye Colors; Eye color changes depending on the currently occupying soul.
--Grim: Light blue
--Aneb: Vermilion, with a strange blood-red ambiance during nighttime.
--Larry: Broken green.
Physical Description: Despite there being three souls occupying his body, Grim’s physical appearance (other then eye color) does not change when his soul switches. All throughout his personalities, he is a tall well-built man with an inch-long ragged gray bear around his chin and long gray hair that comes down to his shoulders. He has an intelligent and calm face that is handsome yet makes him look older then he truly is. His eyes are perfectly fine, yet he wears small circular glasses for reading and examining. Upon close inspection, these glasses are actually magnifying glasses used for studying. As for apparel, he wears a black long coat that is lined with black raven feathers around the bottom edge and on the upper coat edge and shoulders. Under the coat a dark red nobleman’s vest and fine pants garb him, with a strange amulet handing down to between his collarbones. The charm appears to be a figurine of a fairy holding a small vial. The vial changes color depending on which soul is occupying the body. Grim wears long black gauntlets that look like simple gloves when covered by his coat, but there is metal braces at his wrists. At the back of his coat there is a cut so that the sheath of a blade can come up from its location under his coat.
Weapon: Aneb’s Sword. Whenever Aneb is in control, a sword that is summoned with Aneb fills the sheath slot in Grim’s coat. It is a simple long sword but Aneb’s father crafted it and he finds special significance in it. The metal of the blade is steel, yet it appears to be a dark blood red in color, with silver designs on the blade. If Aneb dies or is forced out of control the sword will return to being meld with his soul and will disappear from Grim’s body.
Items: The only item that is physically on Grim’s body at all times is the satchel of gold tied to his belt under the coat.
Grimoir Dirgeon
General Personality: Grim is a scientist and doesn’t hide it. His curiosity drives him to almost be apathetic to all else except studying subjects. He is blind to emotions more often then not and cannot truly understand other people but simply pretends to. He is strangely optimistic and but never really smiles unless he makes a discovery. With the quill pen tucked behind his ears, he is constantly writing in his enormous tome and jogging down notes that seem nonsensical to anyone else; very unpredictable, however. Grim believes he has control over his other two souls but doesn’t truly. If he becomes severely angry, Aneb will often gain control, and if he becomes sorrowed or depressed, then Lark will gain control. When waking from a deep sleep, it is a toss up on who gains main control for the day.
‘Potential’: These are abilities that Grim knows are possible but does not yet know how to perform. Study and knowledge can only bring this information to him, and he must have good reason for obtaining them.
Death-Craft: [Rank 0] Grim has the ability to summon life into a deceased body’s skeleton. If it has any muscular tissue left he will have to clean it before animating it, because he has only learned how to animate skeletons, not zombies. When the skeleton is animated, it will stay with him until he commands it to die, or if it is decapitated. If it is still active at the end of a thread, then it will stay with him for the next thread. The skeleton is not intelligent and can only do things when ordered to, but acts as a good guard for the weaponless scientist. Only one skeleton can be held at a time currently.
Knowledge: Grimoir is a scientist and he doesn’t hide the fact. His goal is to study and discover new abilities hidden in his psyche. Curiosity pursues him to greater knowledge, but he already has a more then average understanding of a lot of lines of study. [Sections with an asterisk next to them grant him some sort of active skill]
*Chemistry: Grim is most active in his study of chemistry and has a great understanding of the world because of it. Magic doesn’t come under scrutiny in Chemistry however, so he does not often dabble with magic when trying to further his knowledge of chemistry. Due to his knowledge in chemistry, Grim can often use chemicals and reactions to cause various minute effects. Mostly, he has to dabble to figure out what does what. Grim knows various materials that when put together will explode, but knows very little about using chemicals to cure or help others. Mostly it is a study and very rarely he can create a minor explosive if he finds the correct materials.
Physics: Grim has a less then adept understanding of physics.
Planar Physics: This is the study of physics between different planes and dimensions. Grim only has a rudimentary understanding of this science.
*Biology: Grim has an adept understanding of Biology and because of that he can often find out what is wrong with a creature but seldom can fix it unless it is a very basic problem.
Alchemy: Grimoir has very little understanding of Alchemy.
Mana Craft and Control: This is the science of controlling and summoning mana flows. Grim has almost no understanding of this science.
Active Abilities:
Never-ending Journal: Grim has the ability to call upon a special line of magic in his blood and summon the Never-ending Journal, which isn’t actually a journal. It is simply a book that has no limit on pages. There are many bookmarks in it to section off where one area begins and another stops. He writes down all the information that he finds important to remember in this book. Other then being able to be summoned and dispelled by will and having no limit on the number of pages, the book is ordinary leather-bound and burnable. A normal pen must be used to write in it. {Cannot be Sold}
Pushing the Line: Due to the experiment that Grim and his partner performed, he has obtained a line of ‘beyond consciousness’ in the back of his mind. He can forcibly push his will over the line and his soul will shift, giving control to a different personality. However, the personality is random and it is dangerous to do for he may weaken himself enough that he won’t be able to regain dominance again for a while.
Items: Item’s that are particular to Grim.
Glasses: These are simply magnifying glasses, which he wears on his nose and can look through to see something in 6x magnification. It helps when studying small inscriptions or small objects. Like real magnifying glasses, they only work when the object is up close, else it will be too blurry to make anything out. They cannot be sold or used as binoculars.
Aneb Baneshade
General Personality: Aneb Baneshade can be described in one sentence; cold-blooded apathetic blood-hungry mass murderer. It is true in all it’s aspects. He has no friends and finds no comfort in other beings except to kill them and chop up their bodies. He is an artist, however, and uses the bodies to make sculptures and strange totem-like figures in the sites where he kills. Whenever he kills in a town once, he will often return to that town to kill again. If Aneb draws his blade he instantly goes into a rage and will destroy any living thing he sees until he drops it, sheathes it, or runs out of things to kill. Very little is understood about Aneb except his kill-lust.
Swordsmanship: Aneb has nothing but his swordsmanship and bloodlust. His only passion is to kill, so he has become an average swordsman even though he has no training. Though he is only one person, his frenzied fighting can often defeat someone his own caliber and possibly two people at the same time below his caliber simply because he is pure offensive and it frightens opponents.
Age: 17
Lark Tsen`Kazka
General Personality: Lark is a creature of angst. To say the least, he is always depressed and sorrowing over his lost love. He only truly does anything if he has to, and is perfectly contempt with sitting in the dark and staring at his amulet. The amulet was his addition to the Cerberus, and he did not enter the body willingly. In fact, he had committed suicide and considers this his punishment for taking his own life. Nothing is truly known about his past or why he took his life, but it is known that everyone who knew him thought him the happiest person in the world until his love died, then he was never seen again. A very quiet and introverted person, Lark hates when he is called ‘Larry’ but most people call him it anyways and he never defends himself.
Shade; Lark, despite his deep depression, is able to do things that the other two souls cannot. Summoning the darkness from inside his soul, he can perform dark arts that require a sacrifice of blood.
Spite: Summoning forth the anger and hatred from deep within his soul, Lark slices both his palms and paints a circle in blood around him. Anything within the circle will not be damaged, but after he closes the circle, the blood will burst into black flames and burst upwards to act as an offensive defense for a post. Anything that touches the flames will receive minor burns, and running through it may burn them enough to cause serious damage. If anything or anyone is pushed through, the flames will die away after they are through. The flames only burn living beings, and an arrow or sword could pass through as if they didn’t exist. The flames die away if Lark raises his hands or after 1 minute. They reach 10 ft into the air and Spite can only be cast once in a battle and twice in a quest.
Age: 48
Grimoir Dirgeon’s Story
Chapter 1; ‘The Cerberus Awakens’
“Grim…grim…wake up. It’s over, and I think it worked!”
The grogginess was beginning to wear off, but a thin lining of fuzzy vision lingered as he opened his eyes. Testing his range of motion he quickly found his arms and legs were still strapped down to the table. An amulet hung on his bare chest, resting between muscles in all its silver glory. It was unorthodox to see as straps and cords ran out of his form all around it, making him seem like a pincushion as he was attached to the mana-controlling units. The bald fellow standing over him, slowly removing mana lines from key points in his body was the fellow scientist who worked with him on this project. It had reached a climax and still received no volunteers, so he had given himself to the experiment. So far, there were no signs of either success of failure, except that the two large vat-like chambers on either side of him were empty.
“So, their entire forms disappeared when they were combined? Interesting, I would of thought a shell or an after shadow of some sort would have been left behind. There is one hypothesis shot down. Now, finish removing me from your unearthly contraption and let us find what results this project has put out!”
With a laugh, Grimoir flexed his arms and legs, ensuring that there was no loss of control. In the back of his mind he felt something that wasn’t there before, it was like a barrier, a line. Nodding to his partner to watch the monitors, he reached back in his brain and began pushing the line. In a few seconds, after a lot of mental willing, he found out he could cross the line. With a laugh, his will leaped over the line and a dramatic change came over him. His eyes drained of their blue hue and became gray, then slowly glowed back into a red ambiance.
Suddenly the harsh barking laugh became a smooth sadistic laugh. A blade manifested in Grim’s hand as he stood, pulling it from the sheath and still cackling insanely.
“No…what are you doing? What’s happening? Your soul…it…it’s not in control anymore. Oh my god, what have we done?”
Those were his last words, however, as the blade hummed through the air and severed his throat, sending him sprawling to the floor. Grim’s form, now occupied by something else, moved to the shelf and clothed itself before sheathing the sword and reaching for the door. As he touched it, a memory of Grimoir’s flashed though his mind and the color drained from his eyes once more. Returning to blue, he turned and looked upon the corpse of his colleague.
“Mmmm…I guess it worked.”
Name[s]: Grimoir Dirgeon, Aneb Baneshade, Lark Tsen`Kazka
Aliases: “The Cerberus”, “Grim”, “Larry”
Race: ?
Physical Age: 32
Height: 6’2”
Weight: 145lbs
Eye Colors; Eye color changes depending on the currently occupying soul.
--Grim: Light blue
--Aneb: Vermilion, with a strange blood-red ambiance during nighttime.
--Larry: Broken green.
Physical Description: Despite there being three souls occupying his body, Grim’s physical appearance (other then eye color) does not change when his soul switches. All throughout his personalities, he is a tall well-built man with an inch-long ragged gray bear around his chin and long gray hair that comes down to his shoulders. He has an intelligent and calm face that is handsome yet makes him look older then he truly is. His eyes are perfectly fine, yet he wears small circular glasses for reading and examining. Upon close inspection, these glasses are actually magnifying glasses used for studying. As for apparel, he wears a black long coat that is lined with black raven feathers around the bottom edge and on the upper coat edge and shoulders. Under the coat a dark red nobleman’s vest and fine pants garb him, with a strange amulet handing down to between his collarbones. The charm appears to be a figurine of a fairy holding a small vial. The vial changes color depending on which soul is occupying the body. Grim wears long black gauntlets that look like simple gloves when covered by his coat, but there is metal braces at his wrists. At the back of his coat there is a cut so that the sheath of a blade can come up from its location under his coat.
Weapon: Aneb’s Sword. Whenever Aneb is in control, a sword that is summoned with Aneb fills the sheath slot in Grim’s coat. It is a simple long sword but Aneb’s father crafted it and he finds special significance in it. The metal of the blade is steel, yet it appears to be a dark blood red in color, with silver designs on the blade. If Aneb dies or is forced out of control the sword will return to being meld with his soul and will disappear from Grim’s body.
Items: The only item that is physically on Grim’s body at all times is the satchel of gold tied to his belt under the coat.
Grimoir Dirgeon
General Personality: Grim is a scientist and doesn’t hide it. His curiosity drives him to almost be apathetic to all else except studying subjects. He is blind to emotions more often then not and cannot truly understand other people but simply pretends to. He is strangely optimistic and but never really smiles unless he makes a discovery. With the quill pen tucked behind his ears, he is constantly writing in his enormous tome and jogging down notes that seem nonsensical to anyone else; very unpredictable, however. Grim believes he has control over his other two souls but doesn’t truly. If he becomes severely angry, Aneb will often gain control, and if he becomes sorrowed or depressed, then Lark will gain control. When waking from a deep sleep, it is a toss up on who gains main control for the day.
‘Potential’: These are abilities that Grim knows are possible but does not yet know how to perform. Study and knowledge can only bring this information to him, and he must have good reason for obtaining them.
Death-Craft: [Rank 0] Grim has the ability to summon life into a deceased body’s skeleton. If it has any muscular tissue left he will have to clean it before animating it, because he has only learned how to animate skeletons, not zombies. When the skeleton is animated, it will stay with him until he commands it to die, or if it is decapitated. If it is still active at the end of a thread, then it will stay with him for the next thread. The skeleton is not intelligent and can only do things when ordered to, but acts as a good guard for the weaponless scientist. Only one skeleton can be held at a time currently.
Knowledge: Grimoir is a scientist and he doesn’t hide the fact. His goal is to study and discover new abilities hidden in his psyche. Curiosity pursues him to greater knowledge, but he already has a more then average understanding of a lot of lines of study. [Sections with an asterisk next to them grant him some sort of active skill]
*Chemistry: Grim is most active in his study of chemistry and has a great understanding of the world because of it. Magic doesn’t come under scrutiny in Chemistry however, so he does not often dabble with magic when trying to further his knowledge of chemistry. Due to his knowledge in chemistry, Grim can often use chemicals and reactions to cause various minute effects. Mostly, he has to dabble to figure out what does what. Grim knows various materials that when put together will explode, but knows very little about using chemicals to cure or help others. Mostly it is a study and very rarely he can create a minor explosive if he finds the correct materials.
Physics: Grim has a less then adept understanding of physics.
Planar Physics: This is the study of physics between different planes and dimensions. Grim only has a rudimentary understanding of this science.
*Biology: Grim has an adept understanding of Biology and because of that he can often find out what is wrong with a creature but seldom can fix it unless it is a very basic problem.
Alchemy: Grimoir has very little understanding of Alchemy.
Mana Craft and Control: This is the science of controlling and summoning mana flows. Grim has almost no understanding of this science.
Active Abilities:
Never-ending Journal: Grim has the ability to call upon a special line of magic in his blood and summon the Never-ending Journal, which isn’t actually a journal. It is simply a book that has no limit on pages. There are many bookmarks in it to section off where one area begins and another stops. He writes down all the information that he finds important to remember in this book. Other then being able to be summoned and dispelled by will and having no limit on the number of pages, the book is ordinary leather-bound and burnable. A normal pen must be used to write in it. {Cannot be Sold}
Pushing the Line: Due to the experiment that Grim and his partner performed, he has obtained a line of ‘beyond consciousness’ in the back of his mind. He can forcibly push his will over the line and his soul will shift, giving control to a different personality. However, the personality is random and it is dangerous to do for he may weaken himself enough that he won’t be able to regain dominance again for a while.
Items: Item’s that are particular to Grim.
Glasses: These are simply magnifying glasses, which he wears on his nose and can look through to see something in 6x magnification. It helps when studying small inscriptions or small objects. Like real magnifying glasses, they only work when the object is up close, else it will be too blurry to make anything out. They cannot be sold or used as binoculars.
Aneb Baneshade
General Personality: Aneb Baneshade can be described in one sentence; cold-blooded apathetic blood-hungry mass murderer. It is true in all it’s aspects. He has no friends and finds no comfort in other beings except to kill them and chop up their bodies. He is an artist, however, and uses the bodies to make sculptures and strange totem-like figures in the sites where he kills. Whenever he kills in a town once, he will often return to that town to kill again. If Aneb draws his blade he instantly goes into a rage and will destroy any living thing he sees until he drops it, sheathes it, or runs out of things to kill. Very little is understood about Aneb except his kill-lust.
Swordsmanship: Aneb has nothing but his swordsmanship and bloodlust. His only passion is to kill, so he has become an average swordsman even though he has no training. Though he is only one person, his frenzied fighting can often defeat someone his own caliber and possibly two people at the same time below his caliber simply because he is pure offensive and it frightens opponents.
Age: 17
Lark Tsen`Kazka
General Personality: Lark is a creature of angst. To say the least, he is always depressed and sorrowing over his lost love. He only truly does anything if he has to, and is perfectly contempt with sitting in the dark and staring at his amulet. The amulet was his addition to the Cerberus, and he did not enter the body willingly. In fact, he had committed suicide and considers this his punishment for taking his own life. Nothing is truly known about his past or why he took his life, but it is known that everyone who knew him thought him the happiest person in the world until his love died, then he was never seen again. A very quiet and introverted person, Lark hates when he is called ‘Larry’ but most people call him it anyways and he never defends himself.
Shade; Lark, despite his deep depression, is able to do things that the other two souls cannot. Summoning the darkness from inside his soul, he can perform dark arts that require a sacrifice of blood.
Spite: Summoning forth the anger and hatred from deep within his soul, Lark slices both his palms and paints a circle in blood around him. Anything within the circle will not be damaged, but after he closes the circle, the blood will burst into black flames and burst upwards to act as an offensive defense for a post. Anything that touches the flames will receive minor burns, and running through it may burn them enough to cause serious damage. If anything or anyone is pushed through, the flames will die away after they are through. The flames only burn living beings, and an arrow or sword could pass through as if they didn’t exist. The flames die away if Lark raises his hands or after 1 minute. They reach 10 ft into the air and Spite can only be cast once in a battle and twice in a quest.
Age: 48
Grimoir Dirgeon’s Story
Chapter 1; ‘The Cerberus Awakens’
“Grim…grim…wake up. It’s over, and I think it worked!”
The grogginess was beginning to wear off, but a thin lining of fuzzy vision lingered as he opened his eyes. Testing his range of motion he quickly found his arms and legs were still strapped down to the table. An amulet hung on his bare chest, resting between muscles in all its silver glory. It was unorthodox to see as straps and cords ran out of his form all around it, making him seem like a pincushion as he was attached to the mana-controlling units. The bald fellow standing over him, slowly removing mana lines from key points in his body was the fellow scientist who worked with him on this project. It had reached a climax and still received no volunteers, so he had given himself to the experiment. So far, there were no signs of either success of failure, except that the two large vat-like chambers on either side of him were empty.
“So, their entire forms disappeared when they were combined? Interesting, I would of thought a shell or an after shadow of some sort would have been left behind. There is one hypothesis shot down. Now, finish removing me from your unearthly contraption and let us find what results this project has put out!”
With a laugh, Grimoir flexed his arms and legs, ensuring that there was no loss of control. In the back of his mind he felt something that wasn’t there before, it was like a barrier, a line. Nodding to his partner to watch the monitors, he reached back in his brain and began pushing the line. In a few seconds, after a lot of mental willing, he found out he could cross the line. With a laugh, his will leaped over the line and a dramatic change came over him. His eyes drained of their blue hue and became gray, then slowly glowed back into a red ambiance.
Suddenly the harsh barking laugh became a smooth sadistic laugh. A blade manifested in Grim’s hand as he stood, pulling it from the sheath and still cackling insanely.
“No…what are you doing? What’s happening? Your soul…it…it’s not in control anymore. Oh my god, what have we done?”
Those were his last words, however, as the blade hummed through the air and severed his throat, sending him sprawling to the floor. Grim’s form, now occupied by something else, moved to the shelf and clothed itself before sheathing the sword and reaching for the door. As he touched it, a memory of Grimoir’s flashed though his mind and the color drained from his eyes once more. Returning to blue, he turned and looked upon the corpse of his colleague.
“Mmmm…I guess it worked.”