Vessit the Spectre, Magistrate of Galadon

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Description

This older man's height is only around five foot ten inches. His hair is
thinning and hangs down in loose gray strands past his shoulders. His
face is set in an almost permanent half-scowl. His features have hardened
with age and begun to take on a sunken appearance. A light gray stubble
coats his face. His dark eyes often narrowed with a malicious gleam. He
is slender to the point of malnourishment and his pale and unhealthy pallor
only adds to the sickly appearance. His fingernails are yellowed and
black under the tips from layer upon layer of dirt and grime and gods only
know what else. A necklace made from the bones of giant fingers which
have been sun bleached stand out starkly around his neck.

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Score

Level	47	Sex	male	Race	human
Ethos	Orderly	Align	Evil	Class	necromancer
Practices	3	Trains	0	Hometown	Galadon
Exp	376300	To Level	20000	Sphere	Envy
Age old, 61 years old (300 hours)
Hit Points	455	Mana	876	Movement	592
Strength	17	Intelligence	23	Wisdom	20
Dexterity	16	Constitution	7	Charisma	14
Carry #	0/32	Carry Weight	0 lb 0 oz
Gold	4	Silver	44	Copper	14
Wimpy	0	Morale	Moderate
Hitroll	7	Damroll	0

Role

Chapter 3

Captive again
Added Sat Mar 10 08:46:53 2007 at level 27:

The boy traveled through the wilds for two days with no destination in mind,
only to keep moving away from the old man. He dozed in and out of sleep as
the lumbering giants strides rocked him from within. When he was awake he
ate what he could find, mostly the insect larvae that infested the zombie.
He had passed near some outlying farms and small cottages. He was too young
and too inexperienced to understand he was drawing near civilization, or that
he was being tracked. The only thing that saved him and his carrier from a
hail of arrows was the confusion by the woodsman of a zombie seeming to
travel of its own accord. It seemed to have no intention of harming anyone
or anything and the oddity of it made the man uneasy, so he left off his
chase as it neared the city of Galadon under the night sky. All he could do
was try to push the wonderment of it from his mind and go back to things that
made sense to him.

The boy was scared of the city, but it was dark and the gate did not seem to
be under any kind of high alert by the guards. He pulled the rib cage
shutters closed and peered between the cracks as he rode into town.

He was in town for all of ten minutes eyeing the delicious looking delights
in the various shop windows and almost missed the small group that were
arguing and gesturing towards him. They had to be talking about him and he
froze in terror. There were four of them, only two were actually speaking.
The other two were just staring at each other with obvious aggression in
their eyes. A great stout man, clad in shiny armor and another man of almost
equal height, but much more slender in black robes, each with a younger
person behind them. After another moment, the larger shinier man made one
last loud remark and a threatening gesture towards the boy before walking off
in a huff. The black robed man barked a quick order to his younger
counterpart and gestured also towards the boy before losing himself in his
thoughts.

The young man walked over towards the zombie and began to utter unsteady
arcane commands at the undead construct. The boy inside could feel control
being wrested from him and panicked. He closed his eyes tight and
concentrated on maintaining control. The apprentice could feel the zombie
fighting him for control, confused he stopped and peered at the still not
moving zombie. The boy inside felt the battle for control cease and opened
his eyes, he saw the young man approaching him even closer, cautiously and
studying the zombie from head to foot as he did so. He saw the young man
notice the "shutters". The boys body would not respond, the fear had
knocked the wind from him. When the young man opened the little doors the
boys instincts took over. The giants hands slammed together on each side
of the young apprentices head, as that happened the boy launched himself
repeatedly biting the face that was intruding into his home. There was a
loud grating pop like a chicken leg being bitten through and a squelching
sound as his head collapsed. The hands released and the body fell, the young
boy saw the man in black robes curse and utter an unfamiliar arcane word.

The next moment would create a memory that would never leave his mind despite
his young age. The sensation of everything around him being ripped apar

Role

Chapter 4

The perfect toy
Added Fri Feb 23 00:47:34 2007 at level 1:

Vessiti was a kindly old man. He had thin white hair, a crouched elderly
posture and matching old man shuffle. Always a warm smile on his face. He
had a small shop, he was a craftsman. A toy maker.

When the sun would begin to set, Vessiti would begin the process of closing
down his shop. Pushing a worn out broom around the shop, doing little than
moving a little bit of dirt around. Turning down the interior lamps.
Pulling the curtains across the little windows. If anyone had been peering
in a window through a gap in the curtains they would have seen elderly old
Vessiti shuffle over to the stairs that lead up to his small room, but
instead go into the cellar door that lead down to his workshop. However, no
one was peeking in and he knew it, you didn't last as long as Vessiti did if
you weren't cautious.

As he stepped through the slightly crooked door and turned on the landing at
the top of the stairs to close it, he stood a little straighter and his
stride lengthened noticeably as he descended the stairs. The warm smile
faded and left his face looking dour and tensed. He made the transition
without thinking about it. It was like taking off an overly itchy sweater
that he'd been forced to wear under the heat of the sun, but it was necessary
and it kept him safe. Much like the enchantment over the shop room that
negated the ability to detect evil. A spell of half subterfuge and half
cleansing, it made his skin crawl to stand in it, but a person could get used
to just about anything.

It was no accident that Vessiti's shop was so close to a graveyard. He
walked directly for the back wall with one quick scanning glance over his
shoulder, even though he knew no one was there. He hated that he did those
things, he hated even more how much his survival was dependent upon it. That
would all be over soon, he had been working for decades on a way to impress
that crazy priest in order to get his hands on The Elixir and he thought he
had finally found a way. Grumbling to himself, he casually waved his hand
over seemingly nothing. As he did so, the plain stone wall collapsed in on
itself allowing him passage. Once he was over the threshold the section of
wall reformed, the bones set in mortar on the other side of the stones
reassembling like a puzzle.

Over the years he had concocted a great many clever ways to make use energies
from the prime negative plane. His latest work was certainly his greatest
creation. Everyday he spent smiling and nodding, pretending to barely hear
or see the children coming into his shop to see his ingenious and clever
toys. He almost did not have time to despise them for their youth as much as
he longed to get back down to his real workshop and continue his efforts. He
rarely slept, spending the entirety of his nights down here in the earth.

The work space, as it was, was as large the main room upstairs. Bare earth
with a long work bench along one wall and an assortment of tools lining the
shelves underneath. There was a tunnel hole about six feet high on the side
closest to the cemetery. The two zombies he had set at the task of tunneling
under the cemetery plots had just re-entered the hole in search of more
graves to steal "materials" from. They had to work almost constantly, making
the tunnel, finding

Statistics

Experience Breakdown

Experience from Cabal raiding	1000
Experience from Skill improvements	11977
Experience from Exploration	4875
Experience from Quests	8450
Experience from Commerce	6385

Adventuring Statistics

Character Created	Fri Feb 23 00:39:13 2007
Quests Completed	12
Exploration Points Found	22
Bonus Experience from Immortals	8250
(WANTED) Criminal	0 times
% of lifetime in the wilderness	14 %
% of lifetime in the cities	40 %
% of lifetime in the Inn of the Eternal Star	0 %
% of lifetime caballed	95 %

Cabal Specifics

Cabal Statistics

# of logins with their cabal item	117
# of logins without their cabal item	14
# of logouts with their cabal item	109
# of logouts without their cabal item	6
# of times they lost their cabal item	5
# of times they retrieved their cabal item	2
# of times they took another cabal item	4

# of (WANTED) flags placed	80
# of (WANTED) flags removed	3
# of criminals killed	24
% of lifetime on duty	50 %

Timeline

Sat Feb 24 23:01:42 2007 at level 18 (11 hrs):
Inducted into TRIBUNAL by Eoal.

Sat Feb 24 23:05:29 2007 at level 18 (11 hrs):
Eoal assigned Vessit to Seantryn Modan.

Sun Feb 25 01:30:42 2007 at level 20 (11 hrs):
Vessit advanced to level 20 <PK: 0-2>

Sat Mar 10 10:19:30 2007 at level 30 (56 hrs):
Vessit advanced to level 30 <PK: 2-6>

Thu Mar 15 23:01:50 2007 at level 36 (97 hrs):
Kholav assigned Vessit to Voralian City.

Sat Mar 17 15:30:50 2007 at level 36 (102 hrs):
Kholav assigned Vessit to Hamsah Mu'Tazz.

Sat Mar 17 20:51:44 2007 at level 37 (106 hrs):
Kholav assigned Vessit to Galadon.

Sun Mar 25 04:04:01 2007 at level 40 (148 hrs):
Vessit advanced to level 40 <PK: 26-13>

Sat May 12 17:35:33 2007 at level 47 (296 hrs):
Hero Delete

Sun May 13 18:10:37 2007 at level 47 (300 hrs):
Hero Delete

Skill List

Level 1	dagger	98%
Level 1	sword	100%
Level 1	whip	95%
Level 1	scrolls	76%
Level 1	talismans	77%
Level 1	wands	92%
Level 1	recall	100%
Level 1	spellcraft	100%
Level 2	improved compare	83%
Level 7	meditation	100%
Level 9	haggle	86%
Level 10	wanted	100%
Level 11	inspect goods	1%
Level 12	judge	76%
Level 14	parry	100%
Level 14	trance	100%
Level 15	fast healing	100%
Level 15	guard call	88%
Level 15	vigilance	100%
Level 16	informant	70%
Level 19	embalm	88%
Level 20	hand to hand	77%
Level 20	lash	75%
Level 20	manacles	78%
Level 20	pen	75%
Level 25	second attack	100%
Level 27	repel undead	80%
Level 31	mystical armor use	85%
Level 34	bone armor use	79%
Level 35	deputize	72%
Level 38	speak with dead	75%

Spell List

Level 1	chill touch	100%
Level 1	detect magic	94%
Level 2	torment spirit	78%
Level 3	detect invis	100%
Level 3	ghoulish numbing	77%
Level 4	invis	98%
Level 5	armor of living bone	99%
Level 6	faerie fire	100%
Level 8	reanimate	83%
Level 9	infravision	79%
Level 10	sleep	96%
Level 11	weaken	100%
Level 12	blindness	100%
Level 13	teleport	83%
Level 14	dispel magic	77%
Level 15	identify	100%
Level 15	gravesight	86%
Level 16	corpse thrall	81%
Level 17	faerie fog	93%
Level 17	poison	100%
Level 18	cancellation	77%
Level 18	curse	100%
Level 19	energy drain	82%
Level 20	lesser golem	88%
Level 23	crimson scourge	99%
Level 24	wraithform	100%
Level 25	animate dead	93%
Level 26	disruption	100%
Level 27	summon	100%
Level 27	graft	78%
Level 28	vampiric touch	100%
Level 29	wall of putrid flesh	83%
Level 30	control undead	77%
Level 32	word of recall	90%
Level 33	greater undead	92%
Level 35	forget	76%
Level 36	invis to undead	72%
Level 38	greater golem	89%
Level 39	power word decay	75%
Level 40	power word kill	94%
Level 41	manifest shadow	80%

PK Statistics

PK Statistics

Total PK Wins	65 (31 at level 47)
Total PK Losses	44
Total Mob Deaths	30
# of Power Word Kills	5

PK Wins by Class
VS. transmuter	2
VS. thief	4
VS. warrior	31
VS. paladin	2
VS. anti-paladin	1
VS. assassin	4
VS. ranger	3
VS. invoker	1
VS. bard	5
VS. shaman	2
VS. druid	2
VS. conjurer	2
VS. berserker	2
VS. shapeshifter	4

PK Wins by Cabal
VS. None	22
VS. FORTRESS	10
VS. OUTLANDER	7
VS. BATTLE	19
VS. HERALD	1
VS. NEXUS	6

PK Wins by Align
VS. Good	26
VS. Neutral	29
VS. Evil	10

PK Deaths by Class
VS. transmuter	1
VS. warrior	23
VS. paladin	4
VS. assassin	2
VS. necromancer	2
VS. bard	6
VS. shaman	2
VS. conjurer	4

PK Deaths by Cabal
VS. None	11
VS. FORTRESS	9
VS. OUTLANDER	4
VS. BATTLE	13
VS. EMPIRE	1
VS. SCION	5
VS. TRIBUNAL	1

PK Deaths by Align
VS. Good	15
VS. Neutral	15
VS. Evil	14

PK Gank-O-Meter

PK Gank-O-Meter

Total PK Wins	65
Total PK Assists	17
Average Group Size Per Kill	1.39

Death's Gank-O-Meter says: Self-Reliant

Average Group Size Per Death

1.23

Death's Ganked-O-Meter says: Murdered By The Self-Reliant

Immortal Comments

Sat Feb 24 22:37:02 2007 by 'An Immortal' at level 18 (11 hrs):
An Immortal added 2000 exp for: Interesting role start. How did we get from here to where he is today?

Sat Mar 10 10:19:30 2007 by 'An Immortal' at level 30 (56 hrs):
An Immortal added 2500 exp for: More role updates and role contest winnering!

Mon Mar 19 18:40:25 2007 by 'An Immortal' at level 38 (120 hrs):
An Immortal added 2000 exp for: add Doing a job for me. (Marmaanth)

Sat Mar 31 11:33:26 2007 by 'Eshval' at level 46 (178 hrs):
RC entry: Won in Feb, so I passed them by. Were there entries between the Feb contest and the cutoff date, I would have considered them.

Tue Apr 10 23:48:57 2007 by 'An Immortal' at level 47 (213 hrs):
An Immortal added 1000 exp for: Nice interaction with the EHP.

Wed Apr 11 00:30:51 2007 by 'An Immortal' at level 47 (213 hrs):
An Immortal added 750 exp for: Nice ballsy showing against three Outlanders in the Pass. Fought smart, but tough foes.

Role

Chapter 1

On his own at last
Added Fri Apr 6 18:13:10 2007 at level 47:

In the ten years that Vessit had been a servant for Bristen, the boy never
needed to be shown more than once in any given task. Bristen was cautious
and was careful when he left the guild to protect himself with magical
devices before roaming around the city or even outside its walls. It had
saved him many times over, through this Vessit would escape yet again.

It was overly simple and took nothing more than replacing a potion of
protection with a concoction that would make even the strongest mind sleep
for hours. It was not as quick for Bristen as it was for old man Vessiti.
Bristen found himself on one of Vessits clever frame-like structures. His
tongue removed and his mouth crudely sewn shut.Vessit took a good long time
with this prize. He did not even notice when Bristen finally expired and
continued for hours after exploring the inner workings of a man before
donning the robes of his former master taking his place in the guild hall as
an initiate.

Role

Chapter 2

First days in the guild
Added Fri Apr 6 18:11:35 2007 at level 47:

With the old man Vessitis shop staying abnormally closed, it did not take
long for some of the more nosey townsfolk who assumed the old man had passed
in his sleep to rationalize breaking into his home and shop to check up on
him.

Word travels fast with the most watered down of rumors.Once the old mans
secret was discovered the news spread through taverns and guild halls of
necromancers like wildfire. It did not take long for the wizened mage who
brought the child into the guild to put the pieces together. He had his own
plans for the child.

He spent his childhood near and in the guild hall of necromancers in Galadon.
He became the charge of the dark mage that captured him like a little prize
on his first day within the city. Other children spent their days playing,
doing chores, and their studies if they were lucky enough to be educated.
His days were spent following after Bristen, cleaning and doing his bidding.
Much to the dismay of Vessit, what Bristen had dubbed him, the mage would not
teach him anything. The child did not know it, but some part of Bristen
feared him. Vessit watched when he could and spent any time he could get
alone in the shadows of alleys luring stray cats and dogs to him. He was
very careful not to let Bristen discover his hobby.

Vessit managed to build what looked like the frame of a painting. Which he
became very adept at pinning the feet of the pets he found to so that he
could further examine them in greater detail. He was very clever at
disposing of the remaining materials from his meticulous studies.

The boy was very clever and adept at making intuitive leaps. The fact that
Bristen had kept him around was reason enough to fear whatever plans he had
for Vessit. He would have to free himself from this one as well.