I initially rolled Oli with the sole intent to make him a support character whose purpose in life was to help other characters become renowned heroes. No minstrels were going to sing his name, no enemies would feel a need to prep against him. I fully anticipated being a punching bag to everyone I fought. Then strange things happened—I started killing mages (attained Butcher), some of our newer players were asking for basic advice, Thirisg started accepting my counsel, and seemingly before I knew it, I had entered into cabal leadership.

As for my roleplay, if you have not read Othello, let me introduce you to Iago's progeny. After Oliopterix entered the village, he quickly became a pragmatic, manipulative, conniving visionary. He had a dream on how he might reshape his corner of the world, and he applied every lever he could find in order to make that happen. I accomplished a great deal, but I had plans to do so much more, that this death left me feel quite incomplete. I will miss Oli a great deal.

As a young defender in the village, he realized quickly that Ghar and Thirisg were getting eaten alive by non-mages who would readily come fight them at the Destructor, and as necessary, fall back and heal to finish them off on a second run. From this came the notion of a trapper, but I quickly saw that there is just not enough umph to kill anyone as a trapper unless you are killing headless villagers, and so I purchased Devious Versatility as soon as I could and took thug to death strike. Traps that impale, boneshatter, poison, weaken combined with kidney strike and gut shot meant I could take pretty much take a weapon out of anyone’s hand who stepped into the wrong room. Although I knew a great number of trap ingredients already, thank you to those of you who found the occasional ingredient and taught it to me.