<div class="floatleft">(http://i66.tinypic.com/2diegso.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 24pt;"><strong>Mia Lin<strong></strong></strong></span><br/>Human Monk of the Four Elements<br/><hr/><strong>Armor Class</strong>15<br/><strong>Hit Points</strong>23/23<br/><strong>Ki Points</strong>3/3<br/><strong>Speed</strong>40 feet<br/><strong>Proficiency Bonus</strong>+2<br/><hr/><strong>Str</strong>9 (-1)<strong>Dex</strong>16 (+3)<strong>Con</strong>14 (+2)<strong>Int</strong>12 (+1)<strong>Wis</strong>14 (+2)<strong>Cha</strong>14 (+2)<br/><strong>Saves</strong>Strength, Dexterity<br/><strong>Trained Skills</strong>Acrobatics, Athletics, Medicine, Religion<br/><strong>Weapon Proficiencies</strong>Simple Weapons, Shortsword<br/><strong>Armor Proficiencies</strong>None!<br/><strong>Tool Proficiencies</strong>Herbalism Kit<br/><strong>Languages</strong>Common, Elven, Primordial<br/><hr/><strong>Abilities</strong><br/><strong><em>Unarmored Defense</em></strong>When wearing no armor or shield, AC = 10+Dex mod+Wis mod (already included)<br/><strong><em>Martial Arts</em></strong>Use Dex instead of Str for attack and damage rolls of unarmed strikes and monk weapons, and can use d4 for damage.  When you attack, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.<br/><strong><em>Hermit Feature: Discovery</em></strong>You have access to a unique and powerful discovery.  Needs GM discussion.<br/><strong><em>Deflect Missiles</em></strong>You man use your reaction to reduce damage from a ranged weapon attack by 1d10+dex mod+monk level.  If it is reduced to 0, you can catch it.  If you do so, you may spend 1 ki point to make a proficient ranged attack with it as part of the same reaction.<br/><strong><em>Monastic Tradition:  Way of the Four Elements</em></strong>Gain Elemental Attumentent, plus more as you level<br/><strong><em>Water Whip</em></strong>You can spend 2 ki points as a bonus action to create a whip of water that shoves and pulls a creature to unbalance it. A creature that you can see that is within 30 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 3d10 bludgeoning damage, plus an extra 1d 10 bludgeoning damage for each additional ki point you spend, and you can either knock it prone or pull it up to 25 feet closer to you. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage, and you don’t pull it or knock it prone.<br/><hr/><strong>Combat</strong><br/><strong><em>Dart</em></strong>ranged (20/60) +5, 1d4+3 damage<br/><strong><em>Quarterstaff</em></strong>melee +5, 1d6+3 damage, 1d8+3 damage (2 handed)<br/><hr/><strong><em>Personality Traits</em></strong>What a strange, exciting world there is outside the monastery walls; is this really what things are like?<br/>Satisfaction comes from within, not from without.<br/><strong><em>Ideal</em></strong>Self-Determination -- Everyone deserves the chance to find their own destiny.<br/><strong><em>Bond</em></strong>The monastery.  I can never go back, but it is still a part of me, and I learned everything I know there.<br/><strong><em>Flaw</em></strong>How much did a life spent in martial and spiritual training really prepare me for the real world?<br/><hr/><strong>Equipment</strong><br/>Quarterstaff<br/>10 Darts<br/>Herbalism Kit<br/>Scroll Case filled with Mantras<br/>Explorer's Pack (backpack, bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, 10 torches, 10 days of rations, waterskin,50 feet of hempen rope)<br/>Common Clothes<br/>Winter Blanket<br/><br/><strong>Trinket</strong>A fragment of a beautiful song, written as musical notes on two pieces of parchment.<br/>During her travels, Mia encountered a dying elf.  She did her best to treat him, but there didn't seem to be any injury on him, and he couldn't speak.  Then, with great urgency, he thrust these sheets into her hand.  She's been carrying them ever since, hoping she can unravel what was so important about them.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">background</div><div class="spoiler_body">Mia Lin doesn't remember how she came to be in the monastery.  If one of the other monks there was her mother, she never knew.  Her earliest memory is of sweeping, but that's not really a surprise.  She spent a lot of time sweeping.<br/><br/>Even as a youth, there was no denying Mia's gifts.  She was skilled both physically and spiritually, overcoming her fellow students in every possible way.  Unless one counted discipline.  She was given extra chores again and again for arguing with her teachers or fighting with other students so often it was a wonder that she kept up on her studies.  But she did, and continued to excel.<br/><br/>On her eighteenth birthday, she was supposed to spend the night in meditation, and test to become a full member of the monastery the next day.  As she meditated, however, a vision came upon her.  She could feel a male presense, perhaps more than one, hands running all over her supple nude body.  A voice whispered to her, telling her that she had nothing more to learn at the monastery.  She felt the hands teasing, tugging, her shapely legs gently spread... and then her eyes opened.<br/><br/>Strange as the vision was, she knew she had to act on it.  She slipped silently over the wall in the night, leaving the monastery behind forever.  She's been travelling ever since.</div></div>