Blai Bonesnapper
Blai is a male hill dwarf fighter/assassin from Tieli.
Description
Blai is strong and stocky and has an aura of "don't mess with me or you're dead". He has leathery, warty, reddish brown skin, and dark brown eyes. He looks gnarly and weathered, with not many teeth, large strong warty hands and a wrinkled face. His mousy brown beard is long and bushy, as is his wavy, matted hair.
Personality
He has a great love of drinking profusely and taking drugs, especially hallucinogens, which he prefers to take at sea alone on cold, calm days in the hope of encountering some dwarven mermaids. It is his desire to one day find the fabled Rake of Iron associated with the Finnish mythology.
If challenged or involved in any sort of bar dispute, he will offer to play 'fingers' with his challenger. It is from his skill in this activity that he has become known as The Bonesnapper as he has broken numerous fingers and wrists of his opponents in his over-zealous joy of causing pain to those who would challenge his opinions.
Blai is professionally grumpy, bad tempered, irritable and confrontational. He is normally quiet, unlikely to ever trust or believe anyone, usually only speaking to criticise or insult. He is highly suspicious of others and his treachery is such that he will bide his time, perhaps for years, before taking his revenge on those who would cause him insult. He is inclined to do as he says he will, sticking to the literal truth of his words rather than what others may think he implied. He will certainly steal from the party's treasure stash if he can get away with it, although generally he prefers his own company as nobody will insult him or disagree with him then.
His tendencies are to be moody, aloof, pessimistic and cruel. He is greedy, hard hearted, harsh, deceitful, mean, stingy and selfish. Blai's intellect and piety are average, as is his general bravery, though he can tend towards the foolhardy at times, especially if his passions are raised. He is an energetic character, always on the go from the time he wakes up until he goes to sleep, although he won't usually speak to anybody about what he is actually doing, however mundane.
Blai has a remarkable memory for precise details (INT check). Besides being bad tempered (WIS check or becomes angry) and irritating (WIS check or will deliberately cause irritation), he is also colourblind, and doesn't believe in colour. Everything is black, white or grey.
Background
Blai has always been a rather sour dwarf. After killing his wife for insulting his beard, though all she did was suggest he comb it before going to work one day, he was ostracised by the rest of his clan and fled from them before he was brought to justice.
He decided that the best place for him to be was the last place anyone would look for a dwarf - at sea. Before long he had changed his identity and his name from Baylyn to Blai and found work as a crewman on a coasthopper.
Blai continued to work the boats for several years as crewman, docker, and eventually as petty officer. After a few years and one particularly violent storm, he settled in Tieli, far from his clan, and there he set up a home in the dwarven quarter of the city. Blai became a fully paid up member of both the mercenaries' and assassins' guilds there.
Right now he feels as if he has come a long way from his tribe and his roots in the north of Darfuria. Also he is feeling a little old, having just turned 90, and wants to make enough money to achieve his full potential of levels, before embarking on some journeys to fulfill his ambitions. He would especially like Condo to accompany him on those journeys as they both workship Loviatar.
Racial Abilities
- +4 vs. P/RSW/S
- 6" darkvision
- Detect grade or slope: 75%
- Detect new stone construction: 75%
- Detect sliding/shifting walls/rooms: 4/6
- Detect stone traps/pits/falling blocks: 50%
- Determine depth underground: 50%
- +1 to hit orcs, halforcs, goblins, hobgoblins
- -4 AC bonus vs. ogres, ogre magi, trolls, giants, titans
Assassin Abilities
- Assassination on surprise, normal dmg on fail
- Backstab +4 to hit, dmg x 3
- Disguise and spying
- Pick Pockets 50%
- Open Locks 52%
- Find/remove traps 55%
- Move Silently 40%
- Hide in Shadows 31%
- Hear Noise 20%
- Climb Walls 80%
- Read Languages 25%
Unique
Has a black dragon companion called Fth, 29 hp.
Uses a +1 Shield of Spell Rebounding, works 2/day when spells cast directly at him.
Was befriended by Cawsrath, and Fisps, a little girl with no tongue, who help him with various tasks.
Expert 'fingers' player.
Languages
Darfurian (00), Alignment (00), Gnome (94), Goblin (81), Orcish (67), Dwarvish (00), Halfling (54), Kobold (48), Gnoll (61).
Second Skill
Sailor.
Non Weapon Proficiencies
- Fighter (4): Seamanship (DEX +1), rope use (DEX), mountaineering (n/a), direction sense (WIS +1).
- Assassin (4): Gem cutting (DEX -2), appraising (INT), reading/writing (INT +1), disguise (CHA -1).
Weapon Proficiencies
- Fighter (THAC0 14): Double handed sword, battleaxe, warhammer, morning star, shortbow, javelin.
- Assassin (THAC0 18): Dagger, spear, catapult, garotte, blowpipe.
Saving Throws
- PD: 10
- P: 6
- PP: 11
- RSW: 8
- BW: 12
- S: 8
Luck Points: 7
Money
PP: 1822 | GP: 46598 | EP: 1348 | SP: 39174 | CP: 5487
Costs: 1400gp / month
Equipment
Weapons
+3 battleaxe (2-24/3-36)
Shortbow - arrows: 20
+2 dagger
Concealed dagger
Armor
Bracers of Defense AC6
+1 small shield of spell rebounding (2/day)
Studded leather armor
Great helm
Soft low boots
Magic Items
Pipes of the Sewers
Egg of Shattering
Potions
Heroism: 1
Invulnerability: 5
Oil of Fumbling: 2
Scrolls
Protection from magic missiles
Trappings
Thieves' picks and tools
Cloak, ivory
Robe, white
Black leather belt
Several spare cloaks, robes, hats, caps, bandanas for disguises
Adventures
When a Star Falls (3/6)
The Wizard and the Lemure (6/6)
The Assassination of Banaavik Rinikulikrilic and Ristilla (1/1)
The Assassination of Flemshoth
Knows
Stagl Abadag (-1), Slellal Carlellon (-1), Cawsrath, Condo (+6), Hirus Darblake (-2), Druskin (+3), Fingers (0), Fisps, Galzai of Larsha (-3), Nugmil (-2), Slurb (-2), Felquis Slywils (0).
Gallery
- Blai Bonesnapper
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