<div class="floatright">(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/689220636480110605/1018905756562636900/pally_lady_2.png)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Ionli (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=345576.msg16288973#msg16288973)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Aasimar<br/><strong>Age:</strong>20<br/><strong>Class:</strong>Cleric<br/><strong>Status:</strong>Adventurer<br/><hr/>Ionli had been going to just get her gear and move to join the others, but then she heard Alana say something about soap on her way out of the tent, forcing her to realize she didn't have any.  How embarrassing was that?  So, she got a couple of bars for herself, more than able to afford the simple luxury.  Hells, she could even heat water in the iron pot her parents had insisted she take along on her journey, if she had time to anyway.  What was she doing?  Worrying about bathing, now, when they had a mission to accomplish.  How vain could she get?<strong>(Two bars of soap purchased for 4cp)</strong>.<br/><br/>"Get it together, Ionli," she muttered to herself as she shoved the soap into her pack.  Then Mephis brought her master to introduce them and get their adventuring company founded.  The Heroes of the Banner?  It had a certain ring to it, she supposed.  She looked at the contract, making sure to actually read it first, then signed her name to it once she had assured herself there was no funny business involved.  She would then offer Mephis a warm smile and say; "I look forward to working with you."  As if she was talking to Balebrook, but she wanted his slave to understand she meant with her instead.<br/><br/>The time had come.  Together with Cain's battle slave, Katarina, and her impressive timbre wolf companion, they tracked the bugbears to their camp, where Ionli stopped and stared, eyes wide, at how they were "celebrating" their victory.  She remembered being forced down onto the skin of some beast, her face pressed into its fur as he took her, again and again.  The visceral nature of the flashback caused her skin to heat and her loins to burn, while shame and nausea roiled through her gut.  She had to stop and close her eyes, biting down hard enough on her lower lip to draw blood as she fought not to howl and unleash the storm of emotions sweeping through her on these beasts for making her relive that time.  There were lives at stake, damn it!<br/><br/>"(Celestial)Keep it together, damn you," she hissed to herself, her eyes having gained an odd, golden sheen to them as she wrestled with the past.  "(Celestial)You're not there anymore."  She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, then wiped the blood from her chin and focused, the gold sheen leaving her eyes as she forced the memories down back where they belonged.  "Let's not waste time.  I can attack at range with spells."  This said quietly to the others, hoping they'd ignore her reaction for the time being.  Anyone that would look at her now would see steely determination and a barely restrained fury as she glared at the camp.  "I'm ready."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Stealth Check</div><div class="spoiler_body">Did pretty well, actually, with a 26 (https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=161361)</div></div>