<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Deluna Dolor</div><div class="spoiler_body"><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/L9Rtnha.jpg)<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/2fpNvbC.png)</div><strong>Name</strong>: Deluna Dolor<br/><br/><strong>Race</strong>: Cursed Human<br/><br/><strong>Class</strong>: Healer/Caster<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 24<br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: She has the shape of a human, but she certainly isn't colored like one! Her skin is not just white, it's practically iridescent in the correct light! This is due to the nacre her body is secreting. While a beautiful effect, the layers are starting to build up and form patch scales on some parts of her skin. Despite the growing defect, she proudly shows off her skin which is covered in tattoos; it's her way of celebrating each new experience she receives. Easily visible on her neck and shoulders are a serpent that coils from her left to right shoulder along her back, a branch of blossoms, a butterfly, a geode, and a flask filled with some gaseous material. She is pear shaped with some squish to her belly and thickness to her thighs. <br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: A compulsive liar and gambler, Deluna always seems to be getting herself into some sort of trouble. While her heart isn't made of gold, she's an avid supporter of helping those who need it when it's convenient and compensated. She is deeply embarrassed by her first 16 years of life where she was raised as a Cultist for the Buried Gods and has an aversion to discussing the topic. She's a believer, but she doesn't want anyone to know that.<br/><br/><strong>Background</strong>: She will outright share a brazen lie that <em>might</em> have some truth sprinkled in. People will comment that her previous iteration of the story <em>greatly</em> differs. She will laugh and agree with them.<br/><br/>What she's not sharing is that she was born and raised in Sekhar Ghol with a dearly devoted Gravekeeper as a father. It was a total downer; her childhood was spent learning to adhere to the Book so that she could follow in the footsteps of her father and become a highly respected priestess. Her life revolved around upping the body count for the Buried Gods and that was it. No friends. No fun. No freedom. She spent her youth watching her father enlighten all blasphemers he crossed paths with through whatever means necessary. Sometimes it was long lectures. Other times, it was the messy business of releasing people from their mortal coil. Her father said that sometimes, people needed to make their journey a spiritual one to meet the Gods and he was happy to unburden them from their meat sack to do so. It was a bleak path to walk, narrow in scope, and mighty in expectation. It was crushing the life out of Deluna so when she saw the opportunity to do so, she stole everything of value she could from home and escaped in the night at the age of 16 to find a new life. <br/><br/>Away from home, Deluna learned about the thrills of the wild world and that living in it was expensive. Luckily, part of her education involved healing. To her father, healing the sick was an easy way to catch a convert! To Deluna, it was a way for her to make coin, which she immediately learned to reinvest through gambling! While the majority of what she 'wins' at the tables is debt, there are two notable things to come from her gambling.<br/><br/>The first is her curse. She had every intention of exploring the Spice Isles, but spent a night in an inn rolling dice with an old man. When she couldn't repay what she owed in a timely manner (for he was shipping out in the morning), the salty sailor laid a curse on her with a promise to come back for his <em>pearl</em> later. <br/><br/>The second is her pet lizard called Wizard. The 5-inch tall creature is a bipedal lizard who spends most of his time hidden by Deluna's hair. He does not speak, but when it suits him, he does cast little parlor-trick spells. These spells seem to be purely for aesthetics. She still isn't sure if she <em>won</em> Wizard, or if he simply was ready for a new traveling companion. <br/><br/>She did learn from the curse and now she ensures that her skills can be wagered. There always seems to be a loved-one in need of a pick-me-up, a sordid 'businessperson' with cronies who need a medic, or an underground fight club who needs their ringers repaired. Those underground fight clubs are how she met the love of her life, a half-orc named Lashgob. She was a force to be reckoned with and her name made the lesser beings she was pitted against quake in fear of what she'd do to them! For Lashgob, it was easy money with a goal to get <em>out</em> of the ring and get the gear necessary to become a respected adventurer. Their whirlwind romance led to a very quick engagement and after Lashgob's last fight, they got married! Deluna still speaks very highly of her wife, but there seems to be a disconnect from reality. While their engagement was fast, their fall-out was even faster. They made a dynamic team - fighter and healer - but Deluna gambled the money as fast as they received it causing some major arguments. Although Deluna will deny it, they are no longer together and Lashgob has gone on to pursue her dream of being a famous and respected adventurer. <br/><br/>Deluna is currently telling people that she's waiting for her wife to return back <em>'from a quest of epic proportions'</em>. The details of the quest are different every time she shares it. She's doing odd-jobs here and there to pass the time. That is when she saw the sign: Wanted! Big damn heroes.<br/><br/><strong>Skills</strong>: <br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Healing - An easy way to gain a convert is to heal the loved one of a desperate person. Deluna is skilled in both medicinal and magical methods of recovery </li><li>Herbalist - She often collects plants to make salves and tinctures to aide in non-magical methods of recovery</li><li>Lying - Her bedside manor is the stuff of legends; she can make a man feel like his dying breath will be the turning point to recovery</li><li>Connections - A healer for hire with low standards and a <em>small</em> gambling problem has put her in touch with many different types of people - most of them of dubious repute.</li><li>Well Traveled - She's been to many places and can tell you all of the basic tourist information. She's never been anywhere that requires a boat, though.</li><li>Utility Spells - <em>Skilled</em> isn't really the correct word. She can cast a number of base level non-healing spells that provide minor utility or convenience, such as repairing minor damage to clothing or heating water for tea. Combined with some bravado she can deter the average rabblerouser. </li></ul><br/><strong>Language(s)</strong>: She fluently speaks common. She brokenly speaks Orcish. She can understand and speak a few key phrases in most languages, but nothing that would pass for conversation. She can request food, drink, lodging, help, identify herself as a healer, and curse colorfully.<br/><br/><strong>Extras</strong>: Potential plot hooks are below. I am highly interested in tweaking these to better align with other characters.<br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Another player character, one who had been captured and was in the process of 'being saved' by cultists, was Deluna's ticket out of Sekhar Ghol.</li><li>Her dad, objectively a really good guy, misses his daughter. He lies and says that his daughter is spreading the good word out in the wider world to create more converts for the Buried Gods. In secret, he has a bounty on her to bring her back home so that he can set her back on the <em>correct</em> path of following in his footsteps in the family business of worship and conversion. </li><li>When coming across Cultists in the world, Deluna has an uncanny ability to get them off the back of the party! </li><li>She knows the seediest people! You need something that isn't readily available to the general populace? That is of questionable moral repute? That will cause short term bliss and long term pain? She doesn't deal directly, but she always seems to know a guy who knows a guy.</li><li>Encountering Lashgob in the world will be a humiliating and humbling experience.</li><li>She avoids the ocean to avoid the old sailor who cursed her, but she feels the call to the sea.</li><li>She <em>swears</em> she can understand what's being said and that everything is alright. Spoiler alert: she is mistaken.</li><li>Your character and my character know each other through some misadventure, gambling scene, or she previously healed for a party you were in.</li></ul></div></div>