<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/9/94/Coco_monochrome.jpg)</div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Ventura Wray</strong></span></span></div><br/><strong>Class/Level:</strong>Warlock 3<br/><strong>Background:</strong>Rakdos Cultist<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Half-Elf<br/><strong>Alignment:</strong>Lawful Evil<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/5/52/Classy_halfelf.jpg)</div></div><br/><strong>Age:</strong>27<br/><strong>Height:</strong>5'8"<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>Secret<br/><strong>Eyes:</strong>Red<br/><strong>Skin:</strong>Pale<br/><strong>Hair:</strong>Black/Red/Pink<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Stats</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Armor Class:</strong>14<br/><strong>Initiative:</strong>+3<br/><strong>Speed:</strong>30'<br/><strong>Passive Perception:</strong>11<br/><strong>Hit Point Maximum:</strong>24<br/><strong>Hit Dice:</strong>3d8<br/><strong>Proficiency Bonus:</strong>+2<br/><br/><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Attributes</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Str:</strong>10 (0)<strong>Dex:</strong>16 (+3)<strong>Con:</strong>14 (+2)<strong>Int:</strong>12 (+1)<strong>Wis:</strong>8 (-1)<strong>Cha:</strong>16 (+3)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Saving Throws</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Proficiencies:</strong>Wisdom, Charisma<br/><br/><strong>Str:</strong>+0<strong>Dex:</strong>+3<strong>Con:</strong>+2<strong>Int:</strong>+1<strong>Wis:</strong>+1<strong>Cha:</strong>+5<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Skills</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Proficiencies:</strong>Acrobatics, Deception, Perception, Insight, Investigation, Performance<br/><br/><strong>Acrobatics (Dex):</strong>+5<strong>Animal Handling (Wis):</strong>-1<strong>Arcana (Int):</strong>+1<strong>Athletics (Str):</strong>+0<strong>Deception (Cha):</strong>+5<strong>History (Int):</strong>+1<strong>Insight (Wis):</strong>+1<strong>Intimidation (Cha):</strong>+3<strong>Investigation (Int):</strong>+3<strong>Medicine (Wis):</strong>-1<strong>Nature (Int):</strong>+1<strong>Perception (Wis):</strong>+1<strong>Performance (Cha):</strong>+5<strong>Persuasion (Cha):</strong>+3<strong>Religion (Int):</strong>+1<strong>Sleight of Hand (Dex):</strong>+3<strong>Stealth (Dex):</strong>+3<strong>Survival (Wis):</strong>-1<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Languages:</strong>Common, Elven, Abyssal, Giant<br/><strong>Weapon Proficiences:</strong>Simple<br/><strong>Armor Proficiencies:</strong>Light<br/><strong>Toolkits:</strong>Lyre<br/><br/><strong>Features and Traits:</strong><br/><br/>Dark One's Blessing - Gain level + cha mod temp HPs when you reduce a hostile creature to 0 HPs.<br/><br/>Pact of the Tome - You have a spellbook with 3 extra cantrips, which can be from any class list.<br/><br/>Invocation: Book of Ancient Secrets - You can cast rituals from your Tome of Shadows. Any class' rituals can be inscribed into your Tome of Shadows for 50GP per spell level.<br/><br/>Invocation: Mask of Many Faces - You can cast Disguise Self at will.<br/><br/>Fearsome Reputation - People recognize you as a member of the Cult of Rakdos, and they're careful not to draw your anger or ridicule. You can get away with minor criminal offenses, such as refusing to pay for food at a restaurant or breaking down a door at a local shop, if no legal authorities witness the crime. Most people are too daunted by you to report your wrongdoing to the Azorius. .<br/><br/>Fey Ancestry - You have Advantage on charmed saves and are immune to sleep magic.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Spells</strong></span><br/><br/><strong>Spellcasting Ability:</strong>CHA<br/><strong>Spell Save DC:</strong>13<br/><strong>Spell Attack Bonus:</strong>+5<br/><strong>Levels/Slots:</strong><br/>2/2 2nd level spell slots<br/><br/><strong>Cantrips:</strong>:<em>Shillelagh, Eldritch Blast, Prestidigitation, Message, Minor Illusion</em><br/><br/><strong>Spells:</strong><br/><em>Hex, Charm Person, Suggestion, Scorching Ray</em><br/><br/><strong>Rituals:</strong><br/><em>Alarm, Illusory Script</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Attacks/Spellcasting:</strong><br/><br/><em>Discipline (Shillelagh)</em><br/>+5 to hit, 1d8+3 bludgeoning damage. Melee.<br/><br/><em>Eldritch Blast</em><br/>+5 to hit, 1d10 force damage. 120 ft range.<br/><br/><em>Light Crossbow</em><br/>+5 to hit, 1d8+3 piercing damage. 80/320 ft range.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Equipment:</strong><br/>Dapper Costume<br/>Common Clothes<br/>Leather Armor<br/>Rakdos Insignia<br/>10 GP<br/>Dagger<br/>Small Knife<br/>Light Crossbow<br/>20 Crossbow Bolts<br/>Nightstick (Club)<br/>Hooded Lantern<br/>10 ft chain<br/>Book of Shadows<br/>Locked Secret Book (shh)<br/>Wand<br/>Ink Pen<br/>Parchment<br/>Bag of Sand<br/>Tinderbox<br/>10 Torches<br/>Backpack<br/>Lyre<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>Backstory:</strong>Ventura was one of the host of the lost and desperate picked up by the Cult of Rakdos every day. She quickly became inured to both the grandest and most depraved of sights, and even as a child was just as comfortable elbow-deep in pig guts and lighting off pyrotechnics (hopefully not at the same time, but the demand for novelty is a harsh mistress) as she was at the grandest of state affairs. Although the Cult tried its best to teach her to live in the moment and forget her time in the gutter, she couldn't help but seethe and plot revenge against the ones who had put her there in the first place.<br/><br/>Her grand dramatic act was one of revolution - she led a project to firebomb the front of a magically-driven train. The front, where the respectable and well-to-do enjoyed their luxuries in comfort and safety. For would it not be more demonstrative of the absurdity of life to show that all their security was nothing against the wiles of chaos?<br/><br/>The plan ended with her on the back of that train, packed in like sardines with the poor. It was only when everything exploded around her and she was buried in rubble and metal that she discovered that her mentor had disagreed. No, killing the respectable was<em>expected</em>.<em>Banal</em>.<em>Unworthy</em>. What was<em>truly</em>transgressive,<em>truly</em>surreal was to kill the<em>poor</em>.<br/><br/>And apparently Rakdos agreed, as the great one himself not only watched the performance, but granted a tiny sliver of his power to the broken mess of a half-elf that crawled out of the wreckage.<br/><br/>Ventura gritted her teeth, took her time to heal, and added the Cult of Rakdos to Her List.<br/><br/>She maintains the air of refinement and rarefied tastes that one would expect of the best of Orzhov, and has restyled her act (when she must display it) to satire. She is charming, respectable and even soft-spoken when the situation calls for it - when people spend fifteen minutes working up the nerve to ask you to leave and you answer them with a smile, a handshake and a butt pat, the looks on their faces are just priceless!<br/><br/>Ally: Rakdos himself viewed one of my performances. Yeah, that fuckin' worked out great, didn't it?<br/>Rival:<strong>Stefica Petri</strong>, my old Master of Ceremonies, tried to kill me to make a point. I'm not over that, and for that matter she hasn't stopped trying to teach me the proper way to think for myself. She... doesn't<em>get</em>irony, I don't think. Or I don't. Not sure which. Clearly the solution to that conundrum is to try to kill her.<br/>Non-Rakdos:<strong>Yochanon Kleio</strong>of the<strong>Boros Legion</strong>has decided that my newfound interest in respectability is thanks to his influence, and every now and again checks in on my "progress." He's a useful man so I don't mind cultivating that impression (even if his taste in art is<em>awful</em>), but I can't help but feel he's not quite the naive meathead he comes off as.