<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=302138.msg14763733#msg14763733">Quote from: Tamhansen on 19-03-2019, 11:35:49</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">If she was sold to one of the pleasure houses, I'm sure Antonio would have seen her in passing while escorting his master's son. He wouldn't have been allowed her services, but maybe they talked? <br/><br/>Also, if she escaped from the same area he left from, perhaps she found passage on the same ship? That would be her link to the others, who are crew there.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I like that!   Let's go with that!  :-)<br/><br/>*******************************************<br/><strong>I finally have my sheet done!  </strong><br/>Here are the links for her, and I'll paste a recap of her vital information here as well!<br/><br/><ul class="bbc_list"><li>https://drive.google.com/open?id=17JRxEWgDwVsl-DFDyUcMiAPG9_HKLT-t</li><li>https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Fr0F5-KcR98DfyAME98T2gsWkKvZ0wEB</li><li>https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ugaxdw8oDuKYtLXbuSrc_cd_MCo3Y7Ib</li></ul><br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.gyazo.com/53650a8f385f6943610df8b7ce507065.jpg)</div><strong>Shar-Ming-Fu <br/>Female Human<br/>18 years of age<br/>Bard (Buccaneer)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">TRAITS</span><br/></strong><ul class="bbc_list"><li>Touch of the Sea</li><li>Maestro of the Society</li><li>Trap Finder</li><li>(Drawback) Mark of Slavery</li></ul><br/><em>Filled with hazy dreams of a past she cannot quite remember, Shar-Ming-Fu went to sleep in Port Peril with only the memories of three gold pieces pressed under her tongue, clutching a tarnished copper piece with a hole punched in the center, and a monkey perched on her shoulder while holding aloft a bowl of coi fish.  Now she had awoken with none of those things save their lingering presence in reminiscence.  Someone was going to pay.  She had really taken a liking to those coi... </em><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong><br/>History</strong></span><br/>The girl who would become known as the pirate Shar-Ming-Fu came from unknown parts of the far realms of Tien-Xia.  Taken from her family as a young child by slavers, she knew only the depravities and cruelty of the lawless men that ravaged the tropics and coasts.  From the moment she was placed on the auction block, criers declaring her a beauty in the making even at the tender age of six, she found little love or tenderness, only powerlessness and exploitation.<br/><br/>Growing up as a flower-for-coin in the tawdry pleasure houses that dotted the coasts, she was named and renamed several times, each house that traded upon her flesh creating her anew for each sailor's fantasy.  But she never gave up her birth name inside her heart; seizing upon her faint memories of family, of home, of her people, as her only birthright and source of identity.  And when desperation finally brought her opportunity in the form of an idle and inattentive guard, a close harbor, and a ship about to make sail, she broke for her sanity and fled.<br/><br/>Stowing away on the ship bound for Port Peril, she hid in the hold with the livestock, stole food from the scraps left for the animals, and coins from the sleeping sailors that she dared to cross upon the deck under cover of darkness.  When she finally was discovered, it was by a friendly and familiar face, a fellow slave named Antonio.  Swearing him to secrecy, she took solace and succor in his generosity, for he had been freed and was beginning a new life with food and coin to spare.  Vowing to repay his kindness, she made ready to swim out of the ship's final port of call, Port Peril.  Her hopes were to find a Tien vessel that might be willing to bring her home, when Antonio cajoled her to come celebrate their arrival with some new friends...