Vermil|ion
...............|gnoble
.........~The Vnsightly~
CONTENTS
1) General Information
-Type, Gender, Level, Abilities, Finances, Personality, Strengths and Weaknesses, Likes and Dislikes-
2) Statistics and Inventory Information
-Enemies Dispatched, Enemies Killed, Possessions, Acquaintances-
3) Realm Information
-Current Realm, Realm History-
4) Biographical Information and Summary
-Known Relations, Biography, Summary of Activity in Heavenarius, Quotes-
1) General Information
Creature Type: Rogue
Gender: Male
Approximate Age: 26
Level: 5 (as of Oct 2012)
Abilities:
Level 1: Melee Attack
Level 3: Sight (Passive) (Suppressed greatly by attempted possession by external Consciousness)
Level 5: Invisibility
Level 8: Freeze
Level 1E: Rebound
Personality: Slightly Unhinged, Somewhat Psychotic, Creepy, Very good at making enemies, Finds strange pleasure in being unseen, Tendency to talk to himself, Has a weird habit of speaking in third person, Slob-like disregard for dirt & disgusting things, Overly dramatic and Untactful, Unconcerned about random allies, Hubristic and Hedonistic, Swings wildly between utter incompetence and inspired hyper-competence, Almost always attracts the ire of his superiors,
Strengths: Scared appearance often unsettles foes, Unlikely to starve in prisons, On rare occasions not quite as idiotic as he pretends to be, Sight gives him a powerful grasp of his current situation and surrounds, Good with locks generally - or at least lucky - and doors won't hold him in a fix, no concept of honour; fights like a wild thing; crazy and unpredictable,
Weaknesses: Bad People Skills, Overreacts to even the slightest bit of pain, Tends to faint/react badly when slapped, Unsettles people, Has a habit of making a lot of enemies, Sometimes disgusts people, Makes ill-advised choices, Often Incompetent - though it is counterbalanced
Likes/Loves:
-Ice & Cold (Voice was the opposite)
-Being Alone
-Violence
-Skeletons , a nostalgic reminder of his youth
-Being unseen
-The Prison
Dislikes/Hates:
First and foremost, Vermillion hates Wizards. They killed his younger brother, the skeleton of Vex, and left his face disfigured - which went a long way to screwing him up mentally as well. To a lesser degree this also applies to Warlocks - not helped by the fact that Crystice keeps on attacking/freezing him. A side-effect of this fear of Wizards/Warlocks is his fear of fire and fireballs.
Vermillion has had violent run encounters with quite a number of creatures over his dungeon life. A fiery set of encounters with an ancient Dragon, Drell, have left him with a profound fear of Dragons and worsened his hatred of fire. Being hunted by the Suria has earnt her his loathing, but this wasn't generalised to other Demon Spawns. Being tortured badly by Flyrayas before his first escape from Northland have left him with no small loathing and hatred for flies - better because he doesn't necessarly feel the need to be scared by them. He dislikes and fears Orcs after being repeatedly and badly crushed by Arnold in the Northland Combat Pit.
Whilst he likes Prisons, having spent most of his youth growing up in one - he hates hunger, harking back to the traumatic days before he discovered he could eat rats when everyone had been dying around him.
2) Statistics and Inventory Information
Enemies Dispatched (Non-Lethal): 1
"KEEPER HANNIBAL"
Rogue - Level 1 - Mutrick (See Post #378, Northland Iceland)
"KEEPER ELYON"
Maiden of the Nest - Level 7 - Shiyzhi (See Post #143, Faircoast Caverns) [Finished Off]
"SIR CEDRIC'S HEROES"
Enemies Killed: 1
"HOSTILE NEUTRALS"
Tentacle - Level 5 - Unknown (See Post #441, Page 45 Northland Iceland) [Finished Off]
Possessions (On Hand Items):
- 1 Parrying Dagger (Battle Trophy)
- Flashy Helmet (Brilliant Silver normally and Matte Black when sneaking)
- Old Sachel
- Blackened Breastplate
- Bloody Trousers
Aquaintances: Vermillion keeps to himself mostly and doesn't have many friends. Unfortunately he attracts enemies far more easily....
___CLOSE___Crystice, the Warlock (Old Nemisis)
Suria, the Demon Spawn (Enemy, Antagonist)
Admortis, the Goblin (Compatriot)
Ribs, the Skeleton (Compatriot)
___FAMILIAR___Flyrayas t, the Fly (Evil Torturer, Antagonist)
Skios "Spider", the Spider (Comrade)
Krua "Other Spider", the Spider (Comrade)
Shaylum, the Archer (Former Prisoner, Fellow Creature)
Matthew, the Rogue (Fellow Rogue)
Emmra, the Warlock (Fellow Creature)
Voro, the Vampire (Fellow Creature)
Valkoth, the Tunneler (Fellow Creature)
Barthus, the Orc (Fellow Creature)
Pel, the Rogue (Fellow Rogue)
Ithique, the Dark Elf (Fellow Creature)
Kar'thus, the Black Knight (Fellow Creature)
Zael, the Dark Elf (Fellow Creature, Fellow Researcher)
Marteal, the Orc (Fellow Creature)
Wernslow "Firefly", the Fly (Fellow Creature)
___OTHERS___Black Jade t, the Mistress (Vague Presence)
Hayta, the Dark Elf (Vague Presence)
Xerina, the Dark Elf (Vague Presence)
Ouroboros & Ragnarok, the Hellhound (Vague Presence)
Dranton, the Beetle (Vague Presence)
Ivan, the Spider (Vague Presence)
3) Realm Information
Current Realm: Faircoast Caverns
Realm History:
Faircoast Caverns - Keeper Animus
Northland Iceland - Keeper Tesonu
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Crystalbarrow Catacombs - Keeper Larquidos
Northland Iceland - Keeper Tesonu
4) Biographical Information and Summary
Known Relatives:
- Vexatious 'Vex' t (Long Dead Younger Brother )
- Westrel t (Long Dead Elder Brother )
- Bastain (Wayward Father )
- Vergo (Paternal Half-Uncle )
- Gnaeus t (Maternal Great Grandfather )
- Gervaise t (Paternal Distant Relative )
- Hector t (Maternal Great Uncle )
Aliases:
-Vervex, the Oft-Mistaken
Appearance:
Brilliant green eyes & unkempt shoulder-length black hair
Left-Side of his Face heavily scared/burnt.
Expressive Face.
Short but heavily built.
Biography/Summary:
History & Summary Realms
EARLY YEARS
Vermillion’s earliest memories are of being locked up and tortured in the prisons below the dungeon of a powerful Keeper. When the dungeon was taken over and then abandoned he was forgotten about and left to die. (7)
After the last of the other prisoners died or turned into skeletons he discovered a novel and completely original source of food in the dungeons rat infestation. He found the hunger period one of the worst in his existence. But he actually enjoyed the following two years of his incarceration. He was trapped alone in the dark with only a few skeletons for company, who don't really classify as living anyway. For most this would perhaps have been hell, but for Vermillion it was heaven and the only home he knew.
YOUTH
After a couple years he grew curious about the dungeon beyond his small cell and he accidentally locked himself out, separating himself from the skeletons he had forged a bond with. There was one skeleton outside with him at the time, however. His "brother", Vex, had been with him. He had also had an elder brother, a rogue called Westrel, but he had died early on in their incarceration and hadn't come back as a skeleton. (9)
They eventually left and spent several years wandering across several realms before they were ambushed by a small party of Wizards when they strayed into the crossfire of a large battle over control of a realm. Vex was killed and he was knocked unconscious and taken in by a Keeper. He ended up with horrific burns to the left side of his face. (12)
After being thrown out of various dungeons for the next decade and a half he ended up in Northland... (26)
NORTHLAND
Since Vermillion came to Northland, he engaged in several dungeon skirmishes beneath the banner of Keeper Tesonu, actually winning. He made enemies with Crystice, the sole researcher, and friends with Admortis. He ranked to level 3 for the first time ever, unlocked Sight and discovered he had a voice who had long been lurking at the back of his mind.
He annoyed other creatures, stole, argued with himself, messed things up and consistently got reprimanded for all this by Keeper Tesonu. He even helped destroy the Library on one occasion where he came to loggerheads with Crystice. This culminated when he accidentally caused a prison break after a misadventure with Crystice and got dropped in the torture chamber. It was perhaps for the better because he had just also pissed off Suria the Demon Spawn immensely, getting drunk and vomiting on much of her gold before stealing it. She began trying to hunt him down, but being reassigned to torture chamber put her off the scent. He escaped from that too, laying low before deciding to make a bid for freedom down the portal.
Whilst being petty, cowardly, ugly, disgusting, idiotic and incompetent amongst his other legion of faults and vices, Vermillion also exhibited loyalty, the occasional gem of sense and the occasional lucky streak. Maybe, just maybe, he improved himself a little.
CRYSTALBARROW
Vermillion entered the realm of Keeper Larquidos, fearing Tesonu's torture chamber. He was almost immediately sucked into the dungeon-shaking battle with Drell, an ancient dragon. He initially proved promising, taking on the terrible foe on his own (coercion notwithstanding), but typically erratic he soon set himself on fire after the attempt to trap the dragon in the Combat Pit failed.
During the ongoing battle, revelation happened. The annoying smart-alec Voice which Vermillion had discovered back in Northland, thought to be a product of his warped pysche, was revealed to be a parasitic magic leech which had ended up somehow attaching itself to his brain at a young age. The "Voice of Leech" saw opportunity and literally jumped ship. It tunnelled into the wound in Drell's leg in a bid to take control of a new, better host.
The migration of the Voice allowed a certain surpressed, latent talent to surface. Unlocking the full potential of his Sight ability, the Rogue discovered that he had inherited 'the Gift', apparently prominent amongst his family line closely accompanied by sheer bloody madness. He feinted soon after, leaving Drell battering on Keeper Larquidos's Dungeon Heart.
With this new power, granted by the Leech's exodus the madcap rogue would later set up a correspondence with one of his long-dead ancestors, the Oracle of Iceport, also known as Hector. His great uncle had similar abilities to his own which made this possible.
As the battle-progressed and Vermillion had almost nothing more to do with it, he discovered a side effect of his expanded Sight. Rare memory blackouts, according to some of his ancestors caused by 'Temporal Radience', which leave him with no memory of what had transpired in the intervening time since onset. They also negatively effect his sight over the time-periods/places they shroud regardless of whether he is personally experiencing them.
His time in Crystalbarrow came to a close he as made friends with Ribs the skeleton and caught up with the Leech, squashing him. He also stole a book labeled Self Improvement for Minions and vowed to study it.
Knowing that Crystice had left Northland, he headed back that way. Unbeknowst to him, however, the Leech survived and followed Vermillion out of the realm in the form of a rat.
MEANWHILE...
In the time that Vermillion had been gone from Northland, Crystice had left... but Suria still held a mighty grudge against him for nicking off with her gold. Futhermore Ithique, a Dark Elf around at the time of the prison breakout, was back and more brutally pyschotic than ever.
More than that, however, he had started investigating the cause of the Prison breakout. Even in his absence, Vermillion caused controversy when Ithique brutally slew the rogue Verack with the Keeper's approval, thinking him to be the one responsible for the prison breakout due to a string of misunderstandings. With this, Ithique metaphosed from a mere psychopath who thought nothing of killing into a fanatically devout follower of Tesonu, and not someone Vermillion would want to meet.
Crystice then returned with her sister shortly before Vermillion arrived, completing the trifecta of people Vermillion would not lightly wish to meet. Vermillion's father was also in the realm but he was expelled just before Vermillion arrived.
NORTHLAND
When Vermillion did arrive he was almost immediately thrown into the combat pit to face off against Suria at the demon spawn's request. He lost and was immediately after chucked in the torture chamber. The Rogue broke out of the Northland torture chamber for the second time (or second and third times if you count the fact he broke out in his sleep earlier to retieve his daggers, helmet and pick up some booze from the Casino) and in the process indirectly helped the archer, Shaylum, free herself and stole a large portion of the gold Ithique had been awarded by the Keeper for his earlier killing of Verack.
Soon after, Chuckles the Knight lead a heroic force against what he believed was the remnant of Tesonu's forces. During the battle Vermillion lost an order of magnitude more of his sanity, flipping out pretty nigh completely. After the day was won, Vermillion once more found himself the target of Tesonu's wrath - delegated to the combat pit to face the proudly ex-eunuch Level 7 Orc, Arnold - an imprisoned creature previously in the employ of Keeper Hannibal.
Vermillion was eventually released and sacked.
FAIRCOAST
Vermillion then entered the dungeon of Keeper Animus.
Quotes
Quotes from the Realms:
NORTHLAND ICELAND
“Greetings, fellow creature! Vermsy was just... looking for a book. Yes, a book. A book to read, you see. And help advance our mutual lord Silaroniu in booky-things!”
~Vermillion attempting to keep a low profile whilst spying on an 'enemy' dungeon.
"Don't hurt him!! Vermsy knows no third person. He knows nothing! Let him go!!"
~ Vermillion to Crystice, confronted in a stressful situation
->Who are you and why are you swimming in Vermsy's head?<-
~ Vermillion to Voice, upon Voices first appearance
"Meeting, Ice? He doesn't recall this... He's sorry if he's forgotten you but he just can't recall ever meeting. He's, uhhhh, Ver... Vex! Yes! He's Vervex, the oft-mistaken. He has one of those faces, you know? Anyways..." "Small misunderstanding, yes? No harm done... Vervex will be on his way..."
~ Vermillion to Crystice, pretending to be someone else
-->Ohhh very good, I wouldn't have thought you capable of a subtle display of wit. Soon the chickens will be writing great works of literature, if they haven't already begun several hours ago. Still, my very presence seems to be having an influence on your idiotic conscious.<--
~ Voice to Vermillion, on the subject of Vermillion's intelligence
"Ohhhh warlock is right of course, very right. Vermsy could be replaced by anyone. Fly definitely knows how to pick locks, and Vermsy he is sure, that Crystal knows too even if she doesn't let on, beneath her yes, but if she was locked in enemy prison she would be much more useful to Keeper than poor Vermsy. Woe is rogue."
~ Vermillion to Crystice, on the subject of being expendable
"Greetings again, Tesonu Keeper... Vermillion, he is back! He knows you is happy to see him again, but the Rogue, he gets the impression you were less than not completely happy with him when he left. After what She-Demon did... he can understand your doubts in him, but the See-er of Vermsy can assure you that Crystice won't do it again. Not if he has no lack of say in it!"
"Admits it, Great Keeper-man... was Vermsy not usefulness to you? He was slinky and he fought and even took care of youse's ratsy problems free of charge. Vermsy he is better and more experienced nows. Did he mention he helped slay a dragon named Drell? Well Vermillion, he did! Vermsy was all... Stab, Stab, Stab... and lizard was like 'RAAAAAAAAAOOOOOHHHIE!' Yes, that happened. Anyways, Vermsy will see you round Keepers."
~ Vermillion being Vermillion, back in Northland after his first stay in Crystalbarrow
"Vermillion would follow the orders... if he received piles of gold, a crate of tasty rats and an entanglement with a fair lady-rogue... he'd be following the orders as he was slinking away with a big smile on his face, he would."
~ Vermillion on following orders
Vermillion Post Key:
Narration or later Narration
"Speech" or later "Speech"
->Thoughts<- or later ->Thoughts<- or later ->Thoughts<-
Flashes of Prophecy.
-->Leeches Thoughts<-- or ->Leeches Thoughts<-
->Leeches Hidden Thoughts<-
"Hector's Speech"
VERMILLION SUMMARY_________________
Creature Profile
Health: 100%
Level: 1
Gold: 0
Mood: Neutral.
Status: Doing Stuff.
Keeper Approval: 0 (Neutral)
Summary: Does Stuff.