Party dynamics...Forming!<br/><br/>By the way, Chula, is the 7 hex area centered around E11 considered 'fully explored?'<br/><br/>I’ve been having a little think about Pozhvim, because he’s so very, very out of my normal comfort zone…And yet I’m seriously looking forward to doing just, oh, everything with him.<br/><br/>It’s probably a side-effect of cute boy kobold in a dress syndrome or something.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoilered for people who don't want to know how I think this character's headspace works</div><div class="spoiler_body">I usually HATE dumping Int because…Well, heck, if you’ve read ten sentences of my writing you know I like to express myself pretty flamboyantly at times, and I’ve got a pretty broad vocabulary.<br/><br/>Also, possibly due to being nurtured on Tucker’s Kobolds (https://media.wizards.com/2014/downloads/dnd/TuckersKobolds.pdf), I tend to think of kobolds as pretty smart compared to most other minor-threat-level small monsters.<br/><br/>But Pozhvim has an 8 Int and a 10 wisdom. So he’s ‘average-wise,’ which (as I understand the stats) is to say he makes plenty of mistakes and probably thinks he’s wiser than he is…But he’s got about the normal levels of common sense, but he’s very short on education and he’s not loquacious…He hasn’t got the vocabulary for it. <br/><br/>This isn’t ‘Can’t tie your own shoelaces’ short on education, as I understand it, but it’s definitely something that can get in the character’s way and trip him up. Figure 5 out of 6 kobolds are better educated than Poz. Except he’s got that weird quirky point in linguistics! I figure Pozhvim can read and write Common just fine, but his Draconic vocabulary is pretty simplified, and his understanding of kobold society and reasoning is a few years shy of where it should be for his age…Which makes sense, given that he was raised by humans. He probably doesn’t understand a good chunk of Shriketongue’s poetry, but listens because <em>that’s what he does when around other kobolds</em>. He doesn't talk in the third person, but Draconic is a second language for him, and he has to think in Common, then translate it as best he can. So he's a little slow to speak. He can follow conversations more easily than he can participate in them, because it takes him time to formulate an answer.<br/><br/>But he's not 'foolish' in the sense of having low wisdom. Think of him as a well-intentioned, slightly below average high-school dropout. Not incapable of understanding complex thoughts, but may require them to be explained in simpler terms than other characters reflexively use.<br/><br/>(He also can do some pretty ornate weaving of flower crowns and he knows the etiquette expected of a young noble girl’s play tea party, you betcha. He’s coordinated and has some social graces, but his vocabulary and education as a kobold are a bit behind the times for his apparent age.)<br/><br/>Poz is friendly, and cute, but a certain amount of his attractiveness and appeal is that he’s a great listener. He doesn’t always understand what he’s listening to, but he’ll sit and patiently pay attention because for half of his life he’s been trying to become adequately competent as a kobold, and he has enough willpower to listen to people who he figures have more experience than he does, even if he doesn't agree with everything they say.<br/><br/>For this same reason (and possibly in part due to his upbringing), he’s generally subservient/submissive. He spent most of his young life being told what to do and deferring to adult humans and his playmate/owner. He doesn’t particularly think this is unusual, nor does he resent it as a rule. If someone asks him (or tells him) to do something, and he figures it’ll make them happy and won’t hurt him too much, Poz will dive right in. Plenty of kobolds take advantage of this, and this may increase Poz’s reputation as not being terribly smart…But I think, with his wisdom, Poz has an average person's chance of knowing when he’s being used in a negative or contemptuous way, as opposed to knowing when he’s being used by someone who just appreciates what he can do for them. Obviously, he’ll gravitate towards the latter sort of use, whether it’s physical/social/emotional or sexual. He’d probably feel somewhat unsure and awkward if he was in a relationship where he was expected to either take charge or to treat his partner as an equal.<br/><br/>...On the other hand, satisfying or helping someone who does appreciate his effort on their behalf will make Poz very happy indeed. Yup. He's subby.</div></div><br/><br/>TL;DR Poz is not well-educated as a kobold (but knows some weird human things quite well!), is generally submissive (socially as well as sexually) but has a reasonable degree of common sense, and is aware enough to know when someone’s being abusive of the privileges he gives them, and will probably choose to avoid that person rather than make a fuss about them. Pozhvim's behavior in the tribe is based on his awareness that without their protection he'd be alone and might get killed by something. So he tries to make other kobolds happy to have him around, even if it's just because he'll do what they want without fuss, and he listens in hope of learning to be a better kobold and more useful. He was only ever really alone for a short period in his life, between when he got kicked out of his original 'family' and moved in with the Sootscales, and he's more than a little scared of it happening again.<br/><br/>If this gives anybody thoughts about how their past or present relationship to (or with?) him might work, feel free to bounce it off me.