Assilsa Curare

[Assilsa Curare]

Assilsa Curare

Race: Symenestra
Gender: Female
Age: seventeen
Birthday: Sixteenth of Fall 497AV
Birthplace: Kalinor

Profession: Hunter
Current Housing: Sunset Quarters Sunberth

Fluent: Symenos
Basic: Common
Poor:Pavi

Appearance

A cascade of the deepest of black hair frames a face of ashen white. Eyes the colour of shining rubies and her teeth at sharp points. Assilsa Curare was a Symenestran woman, a woman who could kill you with a simple bite, standing she was 5 foot 7 and her slim figure held a weight of 90 pounds. Her delicate white frame was spider webbed in some places with grey veins. The only two pieces of jewellery she owns is an elaborate chain earing that she wears in a hole that an arrow had caused and a simple green ring that was her mothers.

A ghost of her former self the bruised and battered Symenstra bears the marks of recent years of pain. After a long journey Her long hair was cut into a shaggy, fluffier short version and none of her clothes fit. Assilsa still bares her moon coloured skin and blood coloured eyes. She is never seen without her chains in her ear. Standing at the height of 5 foot 7 Assilsa walks with pride holding her head up high so that people can't see the sadness glint in her eyes.

Personality

Assilsa’s personality is that of an innocent sort, However she still manages to fill the hearts of men. Assilsa is always looking for a sense of belonging, somewhere she can call home with that is with people or a place that is her own Assilsa does not know but she is always searching. There are two distinct personalities to Assilsa, her predatory and the one to cover the inner preditor , the cover is that of a socially awkward, stuttering nervous. No one would suspect the preditor beneth, cruel, relentless confident and above all it only comes out to certain people. Some people say that this is Assilsa’s true personality however she believes that she is just a nervous teenager that struggles with the darker side of herself.

History

Assilsa was a run away. Running off into the distant lands that would probably kill her. She was only younge when she left her home and as she traveled she began to wonder why she didnt just stay put in her happy home with her happy family. But it is too late Assilsa ended up in ravok running away from their form of leadership and hoping they wouldnt find her amoun the roof tops. Her living quality wasnt every desirable in Ravok however she was happy as she watched the locals and attempted to mimic their movements their temperment. After failing to make any friends or remotely any human contact at all Assilsa traveled to Nyka. Her living quality was increased, she lived in a room with walls and doors and she remained there doing her newly required job as a hunter, she even made a friend on her first day there. That was until she Met Erosynielissave, Assilsa felt kindly towards the Dhani.

Knowledge

 

Physical

Skill	Experience	Total	Rank
Acrobatics	10sp+10rb+	21	Novice
Wilderness survival	15sp	15	Novice
UnArmed combat	5sp	5	Novice
Running	2	2	Novice
Climbing	1	1	Novice
Weapon: Symenestran Lash	1	1	Novice

 

Mental

Skill	Experience	Total	Rank
Reading	1	1	novice
Observation	5	5	novice
#	-	-	-
#	-	-	-

 

Social

Skill	Experience	Total	Rank
Singing	2	2	Novice
Socialisation	1	1	Novice
Teaching	1	1	Novice
#	-	-	-

 

Trade

Skill	Experience	Total	Rank
Medicine	1	1	1
Herbalism	1	1	1
Hunting	20sp+ 1	21	Novice
Escape artist	1	1	Novice

 

Lores

Being Shot
The Use of Birch Laves
The Use of Geranium Oil
Recognizing Yarrow Blossoms
Recognizing a Goldenseal Plant
The Use of Goldenseal Plant Roots
Recognizing the Curare Plant
Ravok floats
Rhysol is most gracious
Ravokians aren't all bad
Leaving Home At Night Is Attempted Suicide
Nyka Is Just Too Darn Noisy
Kill All The Bugs, That's What I'll Do
Symenestra Are Supposed To Be Clumsy, Right?
Three Bells, One Bunny.
Amelia Cross (acquaintance)
Places of Ravok (Locations)
Attacked By Slavers
Leaving Ravok

 


Possessions

 

Equipment

Back Pack:
Comb
Brush
Soap
Razor
One week’s worth of rations
One eating knife
Flint & Steal
Preserving Kit
Blanket, Winter
Bedroll

 

Personal

Silver Necklace Chain times 2(in Ear)
Symenestran Lash
A simple white undershirt (stained)
A pair of Black breeches (small rips)
A red lace vest
One purple Corset (stained)
Simple black coat (Gift)

 

Heirloom

A jade ring made for ones thumb. This ring had been passed down through the female side of Assilsa’s family. Every woman that it is passed to is said to be blessed by the past of their heritage.

 

Housing

Assilsa lives in various taverns and hostels throughout Mizahar, making her away through all the cities. Assilsa keeps a small scrap of paper with all the cities she has been to

Ledger

 

513AV

Summer…

Name	Credit	Debit	Total
Payment, the Spot	100	-	114GM 4SM
Ale, Gallon(times 2)	-	2SM	114 2SM
Rent, Apartment, Poor(2 Days)	-	1GM	113GM 2SM
Silk vest	-	7GM 5SM	105GM 7SM
Velvet Corset	-	6GM	99GM 7SM
Undershirt, wool superfine	-	6GM 4SM	93GM 3SM

Fall…

Name	Credit	Debit	Total
living expenses(Poor)	-	5GM	88GM 3SM
Safeheaven(double room, one season)	-	24GM	64GM 3SM
Boots, high, leather	-	1GM	63GM 2SM
Breeches	-	8SM	62GM 6SM
Undershirt, wool superfine	-	6GM 4SM	54GM 2SM
Necklace(Silver)	-	5GM	49GM 2S
ring Silver	-	3GM	46GM 2SM

 

514AV

Summer…

Name	Credit	Debit	Total
Living Expenses(Squalor)	-	5GM	41GM 2SM
Travel to Sunberth	-	25GM	26 2SM

Fall…

Name	Credit	Debit	Total
living expenses(Squalor)	-	5GM	36GM 2SM

 

Creation

Name	Credit	Debit	Total
Starter Package	100gm	0	100gm
Silver Necklace Chain times 2(in Ear)	-	10GM	90GM
Symenestran Lash	-	70GM	20GM
Preserving Kit	-	5GM	15GM
Blanket, Winter	-	5SM	14GM 5SM
Bedroll	-	1SM	14GM 4SM

Relationships
WIP....
Threads

 

Summer 513

1st:The spot
1st: An Easy night?
2nd: The Spot
2nd: Maybe one More?
3rd: A cross of pathways
4th:human,human...spider?
5th: Fragile...Oh Fragile spider.
6th: Far From Home
25th: A cracking of the Whip

 

Fall 513

1st: The gates
1st: No…No… No… Okay that hurts
2nd: Employment building
3rd: A costly mistake
10th: Take a walk with me
24th: A matter of Murder
29th Growl like your prey
30th:Yum!Yum! Fried Spider?
35th: Many things can be deduced
39th: Training in Company?
42nd: Childs play
51st I see loneliness in your beautiful eyes

55th The crackling of the fire[/tab]

 

Fall 514AV

3rd: The depressed Almost cadaver
16th :It started with......a Kidnapping..
26th: Wolveriens? You mean those things actually exist?
35th: What is at the bottom of a doctors Tankard?
68th: An Attempt to Train

 

Pre-Creation

30th day of Summer 504 AvIs this the last time I will see your walls?
66th of Winter, 505AV One is Company, Two is Trouble

 

Dream

A night lost at sea
A web that burnsA feast or a tea party
The Night of the Living Nuit

[Twister]

Hello there, Assilsa. I'm Twister, DS of Sunberth. Upon reviewing your CS after a few issues were brought to my attention, I must ask you to cease any and all posting with this PC until the issues have been sorted out. The issues are, as listed below:

 

Ledger

Let's start with addressing this issue. In your ledger, you are overall extremely unclear with how you have divided living expenses and when you actually pay for what. During Summer of 513, there appears to be nothing about paying for housing beyond paying for an apartment for 2 days. Is that supposed to account for housing for that entire season? In Fall of 513, you say that you pay Poor expenses but you have only subtracted 5 GM, which is Squalor. Which season are you paying for, there? Summer, or Fall? Remember that you have to pay for every season you thread in, and the way it looks without specification is that you haven't paid for Summer whatsoever.

 

Traveling History

I want to introduce you to the Travel Times lore page. Peruse it while you read the stuff I have put here. The spoiler below does well to explain the initial issues as presented to me personally:

Travel Issues :

This is the breakdown for the quickest and easiest route to travel from Kalinor to Sunberth based on the travel times:

[Kalinor to Alvadas (land)] 124 + 15 [Alvadas to Syliras (Sea)] + 30 [Syliras to Zeltiva (land)] + 10 [for not being a knight traveling from Syliras to Zeltiva] + 63 [Zeltiva to Sunberth (land)]= 232 days minimum!

This does not include all the discrimination of simply being a Symenestra (expecially in Sylira) that would slow her down or put her life in danger. This does not include the extra 30 days added on if she goes with a caravan (10 days extra for each overland route), which she will have to have, based on the fact she has no mount, or a single point in Land Navigation (although she does have 15xp in Wilderness Survival, that won't get a PC across Mizahar). This trip would cost her 348 gm minimum, and to do it all living consistently on Squalor LE, which by definition means she is sickly, starving, weak and nearly dead. Frankly its impossible, she would die a few days out of Kalinor if she was lucky to get that far.

On top of that, what purpose does she have going to Sunberth. How does she even know anything about Sunberth past its name and the fact it is on the direct opposite side of the continent from Kalinor. It doesn't match up IC, which has been stressed multiple times by multiple storytellers as necessary for travel.

Now, I know that you didn't travel straight to Sunberth from Kalinor. However, your history implies that your character, somehow, managed to get by to Ravok from Kalinor all on her own, and considering the fact that she is extremely young even at creation... How could she possibly have survived this? I made my own calculations below:

History:
Kalinor > Alvadas, 124 days (land).
Alvadas > Syliras, 15 days (sea).
Syliras > Nyka, 50 days (land).
Nyka > Ravok, 27 days (land).
= 216 days, minimum. That's two and a half seasons.
+ 30 days, traveling with caravans. Not counting sea travel.

Post-creation:
Ravok > Nyka, 27 days (land).
+ 10 days, traveling with caravans.

Upon recent return:
Nyka > Zeltiva, 68 days (land).
Zeltiva > Sunberth, 63 days (land).
= 131 days, minimum. That's a season and two thirds.
+ 20 days, traveling with caravans.

And that's assuming you could travel at maximum speed with a mount, 8-10 hours travel per day, and it isn't counting potentially travelling during the Winter season (which would double the time for travel during Winter). Considering Assilsa's lack of mount, lack of Wilderness Survival (her current level is not nearly enough; not to mention she was a "runaway", in your own words) among other things mean her getting out of Kalinor on her own and still live is highly unlikely. It's most likely she'd be traveling together with a caravan, which would add 10 days per travel route by land (like shown in the calculations above).

You started out in Ravok and later moved to Nyka. Then you vanished for a while. After moving to Nyka, you assumed you had moved to Sunberth after a one-year absence. The travel between Nyka and Sunberth checks out well enough time-wise. See the next tab for my issues in this area. The prior travel arrangements, however, especially the one in your alleged history... There is a huge issue here. It's nigh on impossible for Assilsa to have survived that journey. You will have to explain it in further detail and make sure you have your back covered to make sense of it. One doesn't simply "run away" from Kalinor as a youngster and somehow find themselves in Ravok. That's across the continent.

 

Travel Expenses

Travel is not cheap. You can find this in the travel times lore, as well. But, consider for a moment. To be able to travel, you first need to have access to the Travel Package, which costs 470 GM. In addition to this, you have to buy rations for every day on the road, which amounts to 1 GM/2 days of travel. Your journey from Nyka to Sunberth, for instance, would cost you 470 GM + 151/2 = 470 + 75 = 545 GM. Even if you don't travel on your own, you are going to need large parts of the travel package in order to travel together with a caravan. A mount, tent etc is a good start to be able to travel. Only experts and masters in Wilderness Survival would be able to accomodate for their lacking equipment in the wilds, so being properly equipped is absolutely necessary or you are going to die, plain and simple. If you travel by boat, it's a lot cheaper (and faster), but the lore available on travel times by sea is currently limited.

 

Living Quality

And now, I return to your seasonal expenses for a bit. Beyond being poorly recorded, they are also entirely unreasonable. Living in Squalor would mean your character is weak and sickly and barely feeding herself. It's living below the existential minimum and living like this for more than one season at a time means you're very likely to starve, and that means you won't be traveling anywhere at all. It usually requires ST approval to be permitted to live your life in Squalor on the first place, Poor (45 GM) being the recommended substitute for those who want to live below the line in poverty. Squalor is much worse, and after looking over your SS thread I don't see anything about permission for this sort of thing. A character living in Squalor is weak, hungry, sickly and underequipped. They barely possess clothing to keep themselves warm or the money to pay for rent. Hence, living in Squalor is out of the question unless you get express permission.

Unfortunately, due to the very problematic issues this CS is faced with, I'm at a loss for suggestions on what to do. I'd suggest a complete revision of your character's background and the alleged travel, and that you sit down and really map out your character's movements so you know exactly how and when they got from point A to point B. How you're supposed to pay for your travel to Sunberth is also something I'm at a loss for, since travel was never supposed to be easy or cheap. The only thing I could possibly suggest would be slavery, which would change the premise of some of your present-time threads and would also berieve you of possessions and remaining money.

If you have any suggestions, feel free to PM me. Likewise, if you are interested in working something out involving slavery, send me a PM. The only other option I see to make this work without retcons is to simply close down the character altogether since your ledger is going to be so far in the red what with your lack of income. I'm surprised none of this has been discovered or addressed previously.

Love,
Twister
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