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phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
phantasmods) wrote2018-01-17 08:32 am
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Character name: Pidonus Marasia
Character canon: Original Character
Canon point: Post-canon; the primary villain defeated, and Pidonus is now epic level (and still useless)!
Physical Description: (Reference image: https://imgur.com/PnmH3qJ - picbase is the Succubus from Mabinogi)
Pidonus is 5'7" (5'11" with her usual high-heeled boots) and appears to be in her early 20s at most. While she would like to hope her general hotness and sizable bust would be the first things noticed about her, her wings probably stand out a fair bit more. Fluttering off of her back, they're usually very small, but can expand out to functional scale (or disappear if she's trying to pass for human). Notably, she does not have any sort of tail.
Her outfit is probably the next most noticeable thing about her. She usually dresses in what she refers to as her uniform, designed by her queen to highlight a Succubus' charms without being so crass as just going around naked. Not that she's much better than that in some places - like her skirt.
Unfortunately, her Queen's outfit tastes include a hat that is supposed to resemble devilish horns, but mostly just looks a little silly. Pidonus refuses to accept the fact that the hat sort of ruins the effect of her outfit (though it does match somewhat to her short haircut and distinct red eyes).
Pidonus's outfit doesn't really allow for a proper backpack - she has a single sword at her belt, but no other pockets or anything. (She will probably adjust that soon enough...)
About the Character: Pidonus comes from a rules-aware Pathfinder-rules planar sphere - large dragons, demonic threats, and the like abound. Unfortunately for her, she's not the hero - she's one of the villains.
Pidonus Marasia can't remember her human life much. She knows she was an innocent girl from a village that was invaded by an Orcish army, servants of the mighty Demon Lord of Wrath; that everyone she ever loved or even considered a friend was killed, with her only escaping thanks to an artifact that invoked the aid of the Demon Lord of Lust - and that she chose vengeance, selling her innocent soul, the artifact, and even her name to the Demon Lord of Lust to gain the power of a Succubus and the game-changing potential of getting to level in two classes (on top of the Succubus racial class) at once, and the promise of a chance to destroy the Lord of Wrath and get her revenge.
Granted a new name and severely inadequate training, Pidonus had to quickly learn to combine her existing talents as a Bard with her inherent magical power as a Succubus - enhanced by the dark pact she had undertaken to transform in the first place - to get to work manipulating potential enemies of the Lord of Wrath and his earthly domain into the right direction to fulfill her wish.
Unfortunately for Pidonus, her "Queen" didn't give her much of practicable advice on how to make effective use of her powers, nor how to run a decent scheme. This was actually intentional, in part to guide the actual heroes - including the other remaining survivor of Pidonus' former hometown - in the right direction, and in part because seeing Pidonus constantly get defeated, beat up, and humiliated was hilarious in her view. (It really was.)
Ultimately, the heroes were successful in defeating the Demon Lord of Wrath - Pidonus even actively aiding them for the last few encounters. But very little time has passed since then, and the Succubus is now aimless. What a convenient time to be pulled out of the only situation she can remember and forced into a situation where she has to be a hero - which she definitely does not like.
With no memory of her past, no training for her present, and no plan for her future - indeed, she hasn't even had the time to develop any proper hobbies beyond her music - the succubus known as Pidonus is, in one word, lost. She knows it is her kind's nature to be Chaotic and Evil, but her sense of those words borders on being abstract - a disrespect for law and order, putting oneself over others (except her generous and wise Queen, who is absolutely not letting her bumble through everything for useful-ish amusement!), and lacking qualms for using her powers to her advantage all make sense to her - but true malice tends to fail her, as does trying to come up with any plan of significant scale, or even trying to be deeply perverse and depraved. She's the kind of person who would sincerely decide a volcano lair is a good idea, and has inspired out-and-out pity from people she's enspelled to her ends more than once.
Frankly, Pidonus is a dweeb who somehow managed to survive despite being totally out of her league through a combination of awareness of narrative structures, occasional bouts of cleverness, and her admittedly-strong array of abilities. She's the Diet Coke of Evil, and with no higher objective, very little self-esteem, and almost none of her stuff, she's going to at least kind of try this whole 'being a hero in a multiversal crossover' thing - at least halfheartedly. Her best hope of progressing as an individual is escaping from under the Demon Queen of Lust's thumb - an opportunity she does not realize she has now, thanks to some 'extra' orders her Queen has placed in her mind to keep her loyal even as she realizes that her Queen might kill her for excessive consorting with heroically-inclined individuals.
She's secretly hoping for a very good magic item shop, the money to get items from it (she's pretty sure trying to steal stuff would go badly), maybe a girlfriend or harem, and preferably a way to ensure that any heroism she does while out here doesn't get her horribly murdered by her Queen. (Maybe she'll realize said Queen has never exactly had her best interests in mind someday, if someone can help her get past those mental blocks!)
Character Abilities:
The speed version for those who play Pathfinder is this: Pidonus is a Succubus//Bard/Sublime Chord//Avowed. She's using an expanded, 20-level Succubus progression, a third-party class, and a straight conversion from the previous edition that was houseruled into reality. (She's a couple of levels into Epic, but she hasn't done a lot of examining on the details of that yet.)
Pidonus comes from a rules-aware world, and thus thinks in the defined numbers and mechanics of Pathfinder as much as anything else… Which of course, makes things difficult when dealing with people who aren't from such worlds, which is basically everyone. The power of being able to progress in multiple classes at once was granted to her by her corrupt deal with the Demon Queen of Lust - though that only specifically granted her the Succubus racial class and the Avowed class, meaning her primary source of skill development has remained Bard.
Pidonus' extended Succubus progression comes with the standard Succubus powers - including basic flight, teleportation to places she is familiar with, damage resistance, and of course magic for influencing the minds of others - and allows her some additional tricks, including claiming the souls of those she has deals with, and even charm insufficiently-strong-willed people who so much as look at her. (She'll be leaving that last one off usually.)
As a Bard, Pidonus has a knack for many weapons, some lighter forms of armor, and most importantly, magical music. She has also thoroughly trained in the Sublime Chord Prestige class, allowing her to cast a small number of upper-level spells beyond what a normal Bard can manage, and use some magic songs with more dramatic effects. Pidonus has also specifically learned a special technique that lets her channel lightning into her allies' weapons ("Abyssal Lightning Inspiration", an adaptation of the Dragonfire Inspiration based on her kind's innate resistance to electricity). However, the most important power she has (or at least she'd say so) is a strong sense of narrative structures and tropes, occasionally bordering on being able to prod the metaphorical fourth wall. Normally, Pidonus favors a lute for her music… But she is a good enough singer in a pinch to use her powers that way.
Finally, as an Avowed, Pidonus has access to aetheric combat techniques. Unlike her bardic training, these techniques are reusable with little limit, being formed from a psychic potential unlocked by her deal with her dark Queen. She views them - not entirely accurately - as a mere extension of her Succubus powers. The most essential techniques she can use with this are blasts of red energy that can take an array of chosen shapes, known as Aether pulses, along with some selected other spell-like abilities known as clauses. The biggest advantage of these abilities over her Bardic magic is simply that they are reliable - not requiring any limited resource to cast, nor having a use limit per day. That said, they also tend to not be as powerful, and some come with their own limits.
Outside of Pidonus' class abilities and the predictable requisite skills, she… Honestly doesn't have much. Like basic social skills not centered around manipulating people towards a dark end. Or a developed sense of morality. Or one of immorality even. She knows how to use all her abilities and what they do from a mechanical standpoint, but she's rather poor at turning them into a larger scheme.
Inventory:
-Pidonus' outfit is a design of her Queen's - not particularly magical, but able to shift with her shapeshifting powers, or even be transformed into other outfits (though only of cloth and leather, with a small amount of metal and no higher technology.)
-Other than that, Pidonus only has one magic item she was toying with when the Rift took her: A Ring of Magnificent Mansion, providing six hundred square feet of slightly organized, prefurnished lair (complete with food and water, but no semireal maid staff), and the ability to place the portal leading in or out of the lair anywhere she pleases - and specify who's allowed in or not.
She intended to put all of her stuff inside this lair in case of an incident like this! She hadn't done so yet.
-She managed to grab a basic sword - a silvered, high-quality rapier with no magical properties other than being good at hurting werewolves and devils, and also good at being very shiny.
Samples: Sample 1, a thread
Sample 2, a tagout!
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Additionally, if you use a secondary journal for icon space or other purposes, please respond to this comment with it so that we can get it included!
For your participation in the Test Drive, your character also receives the following items of loot;
-> Four (mostly) empty boxes from various game consoles. One of them contains a package of durian-flavored gummies.
-> I can't believe RNG did this to me (NSFW)
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