Name: Arapegol
Spoiler: body
age: 26
race: Human, mantype mostly, a trace (a quarter at most) elf by descent
gender: male
description: tall and slim, with muscular arms and agile legs with strong feet that would never need footwear if they are not available
racial abilities (limit-4): perceive things in dim light almost twice as well as the usual mantype humans, hides much more easily than the other human people, great agility at climbing beyond normal ability, highly dexterous
Spoiler: mind
age: around 25
skills (anything not general. limit-3): highly proficient at archery, charming easily with skillful songs, knowledge to thrive traveling on water, with devices or vehicles or needing to swim
Personality: shy at first but bonding with others after exposure to those who are trustworthy
dislikes: any food not from plants, including fungi like mushrooms, offensive people, and aggressive wild carnivores among the wildlife
likes: any sweet fruits, nuts of various kinds, salads, vegetable soups, good social times, or solitary time, good music, also gentle animals which he likes to befriend
backstory: A gang was hired a couple of years ago by a wizard who meant to have the control of one main city continue, in the wake of divisive challengers causing instability to it. Those in the gang had passed tests, that limited their membership to the most agile and athletic in the community. When that was found to not be enough, that wizard selected those most trusted to his cause to carry small powerful artifacts, orbs, or rods, each with defining ability for those using them. And they were trained for supernatural activity. But lately there was more trouble heard of abroad. Some would have to be sent off from that community, for dealing with these things, including Arapegol.
equipment: Arapegol carries a medallion of exotic metal on him which identifies his order, that appointed gang. He carries a rod, with a glowing tip, freshly acquired and useful for alteration, and an orb, freshly acquired and useful for teleportation. He has his bag of coins on his belt, and carries the bag with the orb, the rod, a few food items, and a blanket adequate for comfort wherever he might stop.
other: Arapegol is useful for recognizing edibles which grow around the land. He can sing well, skillfully charming others. He can commune with spirits, and know things about places, and things about the past, and have limited ability to know some things yet to come.
Arapegol left that main city mostly under control with the supervision of that wizard, commissioned by him and accompanied by another of the appointed gang, a slightly younger though large and wider man, in their travel out to where the main road went by the primal forest of deep dark spaces where no people had ever gone. Here there had been disappearances lately, and they were actually the second two sent out from the wizard this way. They would both need the devices they were trusted with, to deal with whatever danger they found in that area.
"Arapegol, we are close enough. We can stop here and watch for what we would see, if it is anything from the forest."
"Eyriconer, we are still a couple of dozen lithian feet from the nearest trees. We are not here to confront what comes from the forward when any others come this way from the city and pass by closer. We need to do that ahead of them. We both have devices for dealing with this, which we have been supplied with. Let us have the rods out, to be ready, and draw closer."
They both had the rods with the glowing tips out, ready for what they might find. They came close by the outer trees of this primal forest. Very suddenly a great tentacle whipped out and around Eyriconer, and he was promptly pulled in to the dark spaces among the closely growing trees before either of them could do anything. Arapegol quickly aimed his rod, waving it just before aiming as he called out, "Etera! Fonalonchar! Everon! Carazaam!" He aimed low right where he had seen the tentacle that held his companion withdraw into the space there. A fiery missile shot out into that space. There was a gasp like a noise. Then he noticed movement in the darkness there within, and there was noticeable smoke.
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