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 Posted: Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:30 am
--you guys, Erika and Raincrow. xd
And another thing, he's a D&D character, so it's hard to write up a story for him. @-@ I'm at the DM's mercy and can really only choose how he reacts to things. xD
But he's been sufficiently battered in the past, so I'll give you an up-to-date profile on where he's coming from~
And since his past description is SO long, you can either read the whole thing...or skip to the "unfortunate" parts, which I'll have colored in red. XD
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Name: Thax F'anore (Yes, someone raped a keyboard with their forehead to get THAT last name xD)
I think it's important to here state that Thax is not short for ANYTHING. His name is NOT actually "Thaxamus", as certain paladins would seem to be convinced.
Thax: Don't call me Thaxamus.
Moving on. X'D
Age: He started the campaign at 19, is currently 23.
Hair: Warm brown, maybe with a bit of reddish here and there. @w@
Eyes: Due to a coloring mishap that I decided I like, one is a cool brown, and the other is warm brown and a shade or two darker. Hey, no one's eyes are symmetrical. :3
Height: 6'2"
Race: Human
Class: Hexblade
Family: He had a mummy and a daddy :3 More on them later!
Weapon: He prefers a Greatsword, is aiming for a Mercurial Large Fullblade, is absolutely HOPELESS with a crossbow, and occasionally attempts magic. He is the Great Decapitator; fear him.
Appearance:
Numnumnum, I need to put more thought into this. The boy is tall enough, that's for sure, and pretty muscley. After all, he DOES spend a lot of his time twirling a giant sword around and otherwise being a monkey.
He keeps his hair short enough to be practical, but long enough to not bore him. :3
There are really two Thax's you might see --
BATTLE THAX >:O (Fully poseable, just $19.99 with shipping!)
Due to a nasty tendency towards bad luck, his friends refused to let him continue charging into battle with nothing but a chainmail shirt. He also ran into combat arse naked, once...but now they're forcing him to wear full armor. He opted for the least armory-armor he could find, however, and wears no helmet.
E's too pretty for that. :'D
And...
Dundun.
SEXYTHAX biggrin
He USED to just run around in just adventurer's clothes. But then, one fateful day, our dear Thax met a tailor.
...he left with...*Checks item list*
Black leather belt
Black leather jacket with removeable sleeves
Leather gloves
High boots
Cotton pants
Cotton shirt
Broad-brimmed hat
As well as various other cloaks and capes for when the situation allows.
Ladies, with all that leather, you KNOW he's gotta be a beast in bed. ;O
*Gets the hook*
Although I don't mean to say by this that he's a prissy girlboy. He likes dressing up and looking snazzy, hellyeah, but he's not afraid to get down and dirty if the situation should require it. cool
Personality:
By nature, Hexblades are supposed to be kind of selfish, self-centered, and power-hungry.
Thax originally lived up to this. He was all, "MEMEMEMEMEMEMEEEE..." and his greatest thrill in life was...decapitation. xd
Well, that and picking on the paladin and cleric. "Religious p***k." I swear he made the poor paladin cry. The cleric knew how to take it like a man. XD
But then he had his little "accident", and is now MUCH more considerate of the party. He's rather coldly fond of the cleric (he doesn't abuse him anymore...just in a friendly fashion xD), and has stopped mocking the paladin (to his face).
Other than that, he's very bull-headed. If he gets an idea, he WILL execute it, logical thought processes be damned. This gets him into trouble. Often. xd
He'd like to think he has a noble side, especially given that he's now technically a knight, but...where it counts, he doesn't really care enough about his lands. xD His opinion is just that they're there, they're nice, so NOW what? (Spring break getaway for the elf girls from the local magic school, wooo! biggrin )
Past:
Now, getting down to the nitty-gritty. AKA, why Hexblades are MADE for the CAA. xd
Hexblades are known for giving off auras of HORRIBLE luck, from pretty much birth, until whenever the feck they learn how to control themselves. As such, Thax's mummy died birthing him :'O His dad managed to survive the series of ridiculous mishaps that seemed to surround his son, although Thax was never directly affected by them.
After awhile, Thax's dad decided it would be best to move out of town (good on him -- the villagers could finally sleep at night, and all of Thax's little kiddy friends got to breathe easy for the first time in their lives xD), to a lumberjack camp (...wtf was he thinking?! DX).
So when the party (made up of Thax's childhood buddies :3) came around to investigate rumors of dragon attacks in the woods, they were reunited with their old friend Thax, whose father had just been dragged off and killed by the dragon.
Gee, surprise surprise. xD
Anyway, it wasn't so much that he was out to avenge his father's death as that it seemed an interesting prospect at the time, but Thax decided to join them in the slaying of this dragon that was plaguing the lumbercamp.
This led to his first clue that he should probably not take up adventuring.
They got to the swamp where the dragon was residing, and Thax had the brilliant idea to go 'bobbing for dragons'. By which I mean, he wanted to tie the halfling up and dangle him down into the swamp. Go fishing, essentially.
When he wasn't allowed to try that, he wanted to dive in for himself.
When he wasn't allowed to do that EITHER, he decided to go and take a nap.
The party agreed that this was appropriate, and most followed suit. During the night, the dragon attacked...
And in the confusion, tackled Thax into the water and nearly ripped him to bits on the spot. xd Our dear swashbuckler killed it just before it accomplished its goal, however.
And Thax, being somewhat of an idiotic soul (or perhaps just a masochist), decided that he was going to stay with the party and go adventuring.
There was some insignificant chaos in the worlds' major town, stuff happened, and basically the "religious p***k" paladin signed them all up to work for the church. Thax bitched and moaned about it, but in the end, went along.
Training occured, then they had to prove themselves by stealing a statue out of a town without being noticed. XD Long story short, this led to four naked men running through a town in the dead of night, stealing a statue, then running the hell away.
Then they had to return it, but did so with their clothes on. Although Thax had disguised himself as a paladin and scared the crap out of everyone. xd
Then they got shipped off to investigate suspicious happenings in a town.
This is where it starts getting good, people. XD
They arrived at the town, which was actually situated in a bit of a canyon, accessible only by two lifts -- one at the south end, one at the north end. On the way down, the lift stuck...and Thax, being a bloody genius, gave the rope a hearty yank.
There was a snap, and the lift gave...or rather, broke. xd Everyone had to make a mad scramble to not be crushed by falling hardware. And at the bottom, they found out why it was stuck -- there was a body all jammed up in the gears.
Suspiiiiiiiiiicious.
With no one else anywhere in sight, and a creepy mist shrouding the town, the party decided to declare a headquarters and hide until they figured out just what had happened here. No sooner had they made camp in the upstairs of an abandoned smithy, than the explanation became QUITE obvious as hordes of zombies showed up to welcome them to town.
They fought, and eventually ran back to the upstairs of their hideout as soon as they realized that this was MOST OF THE LARGE CITY, in undead form. XD Thax and the swashbuckler busied themselves knocking out the staircase and barricading windows, while the halfling went on a crazy mission to find survivors.
After a day or so, provisions were needed, and it fell upon Thax and the paladin to go out and try to muscle their way to food. The going was far too easy -- not a single zombie in sight. Unfortunately, there was no food, either.
But just to make the trip eventful, a small group of zombies made an appearance, one of which gave Thax a good old bite on the arm. He and the paladin ran back home with their tails between their legs...
...and Thax began the process of dying.
The bite turned necrotic within hours, bringing with it a nasty fever. The cleric did everything he knew how, until the arm went cold and immobile, and Thax started trembling. The paladin was asked to please amputate before the infection spread.
...fortunately, the fever broke, and over a period of time, the wound healed (read: I rolled high xD).
Unfortunately, the halfling was returned to the party in similar condition -- but he died of his injuries, after having a pretty ugly seizure.
Around this time, the decision was made to get the hell OUT of the town. The first attempt was bad -- they went the wrong way and ran into something slightly worse than zombies: armored skeletons.
Thax tried taking them on first, and for his effort, suffered. The one he engaged grabbed into him with its claws, and pretty much ripped his torso open. The skeletons were handled by the rest of the party, and as the cleric wasn't strong enough to do extensive healing at the time, they just strapped the defeated skeleton's armor onto Thax to hold him together.
(By the way, that armor is the same that he fights in, currently xD)
There was some chaos, they found survivors, discovered vampires, and somehow managed to escape. The army was called in to firebomb the entire town.
Now, it just so happened that one of the survivors was the son of a duke. xd As such, the party was rewarded, and Thax's share was a title and significant amount of property.
Thax: Lord Thax, to you, thanks~
On this note, the party retired for a year or so, until they got together one day and decided that they were bored.
...so they just adventured back to the major city and tried to whoop local badguy a**.
...the town guards politely asked them to stay home, after that one. xd
So they decided to go on an excursion to a nearby city to enjoy a festival they were throwing.
As this never ends well, I'll just skip ahead and say that were-rats showed up, and were promptly dealt with. One mysterious creature managed to escape into an old warehouse.
And being an idiot, Thax followed, up and through the window...into the pitch-black building. He tried to light a lantern, and burned himself in the attempt...it was magical darkness. gonk
The swashbuckler followed him in, then quickly decided that they HAD to leave. This led to the rest of the party using the paladin as an anchor for the rope they threw down for Thax and Marius to grab onto. Unfortunately, the falling rope hit Thax's lantern and broke it, setting fire to the warehouse.
Undaunted, Marius continued trying to escape, while Thax decided it was a**-kicking time, and ventured off into the darkness to fight the monsters that he KNEW were there.
There was some awesomeness where he walked directly INTO one, then took a step back and ran it through. Things died, lots of things. xd Then the cleric fell in through the window, and the paladin and wizard began trying to knock down the front doors.
Thax decided it was time to get going, and made his way towards the cleric and swashbuckler (forgetting along the way that he was supposed to reply "Polo!" to Marius' "Marco!"). As a result, he walked directly into Marius, who startled, whipped around, and stabbed him through the lung.
Thax went down gasping, and it was quick-thinking on the cleric's part that saved him. Around this time, the paladin managed to kill the doors, and the trio was making their way to the exit via their high-stakes game of blind man's bluff.
Just then, a sound!
The ONE monster that Thax and Marius hadn't realized was there swooped down, hitting the both of them -- Marius' back was seared, and Thax immediately dropped dead.
The swashbuckler and cleric FREAKED OUT, and Marius made a panicked run for the door. The cleric (Ederick) had the presence of mind to get a good grip around Thax's body before launching himself towards safety.
They made it to the road, when something swooped out of the warehouse and seized Thax's corpse back inside. Ederick swore and charged back in, and the paladin ran inside with smiting in mind.
There was some bumbling around, some friendly fire, and not much achieved. Then the monster decided to charge for the outside, dragging Thax's partially-eaten body with him. There, Marius scored a lucky shot and dropped the beast.
The paladin grabbed Thax's body in short order and hauled a** to a church, where he was resurrected.
Two days later, they went out to investigate what had happened -- all signs led to the local belltower.
To keep this brief, it housed a LOT of dire rats and were-rats, several of which got good stabs and bites in on Thax. Fearing lycanthropy, he tried to alert the party to his condition -- he needed wolfsbane within the hour, or he was doomed to be a were-rat at the next full moon. XD
Unfortunately, they had their own troubles at the time, which ended with the tower collapsing (wizard used fire spells -_-), and everyone making a mad scramble outside with gargoyles on their heels.
Arriving outside the tower, they were promptly kicked out of town for their role in the destruction of the building.
With that area off-limits, and the nearest town a week away, Thax's fate seems to be sealed...
...and this is as far as we've gotten. 4laugh
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:53 pm
I'm not going to critique anything because there's really no point to constructive crit on a D&D character -- so much stuff happens to them and they die and then come back and their fates can be changed by a high roll ... it's an entirely unstable enviornment, which makes for some kick-a** gameplay but typically results in characters with a lot of stuff going on that wouldn't hold up well in a story.
(To be honest, though, the only thing that even slightly bothered me about him was I was confused as to his relationship with his father. He doesn't seem to care when he dies, although I can see you probably did that to avoid the "I SHALL AVENGE MY FATHER'S DEATH!" stereotype. In any case, he's one of the most nicely made strictly-RP characters I've seen in a long, loooong time.)
But, even so, I LOVE THAX. I'm going to start a fanclub!
*makes an "I HEART THAX" button and sticks it on her shirt*
*makes "I HEART THAX" stickers and sticks them all over the place*
*makes complimentary "I HEART THAX" coffee cups and drinks hot cocoa*
*wears an "I WANT YOUR BABIES, THAX!" shirt*
4laugh heart
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:20 pm
X'D Yeah. Hexblades are SUPPOSED to be out for themselves, and in general...really emo.
But I didn't want to play an emo character, so Thax is sort of like, "s**t happens, and then I get over it biggrin "
Yeah, he spazzes when things look bad for him, or gets all depressed...but afterwards, he's like, "Eh, no big deal."
And oh god. xD Considering the other characters I've posted here were the work of several days, versus Thax being (out of necessity) a spur-of-the-moment creation...xD I'm surprised.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 7:46 pm
He's a hot guy that gets cut up a lot and all in all is consistently in pain.
I CAN'T NOT LOVE HIM! gonk heart
*clings to Thax's legs* TAKE ME WITH YOOOU. I CAN FIT IN YOUR INVENTORY! I'M GOOD LUCK! :DDD
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:21 pm
Thax: Find me a Bag of Holding, and sure. Otherwise, my horse might have a fit.
...true, true. XD Although it's kind of nerve-wracking not knowing whether or not he's going to die for GOOD. D:
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:27 pm
*zips self into a plot-hole in Thax's pocket* ninja
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:39 pm
That would be awesome.
If Thax randomly went into combat, reached for a weapon...
...and pulled out a person.
gonk xd
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Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:55 pm
Then I'd be all, "I love you! *glomp*"
And then he'd probably get killed due to the distraction. Oops.
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Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:52 am
I think Thax is a rather interesting and very entertaining character. The Lobster Queen, I must comment on your way of writing.
It keeps me reeled in, it's entertaining and keeps me amused. I liked reading that post and I enjoyed knowing more and more about Thax's character. He seems to be a pretty strange guy at first but you learn to appreciate him as you read on. I find it funny, the stunts he pulls I mean. Good job. biggrin
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