User:Modred/sandbox

Ahem... well, this story was invented a while back, the idea for it was a person who would essentially suffer more or less continually throughout his life. Obviously it was not intended to be a great literary work (though that idea could be made into a good story, it came from something Odysseus said about his luck). I first started it when I randomly came upon a site that had instructions on an idea used to sharpen your skills. Essentially the idea was to keep writing continually and not stop until you had finished an entire chapter. Furthermore, when I first started this story, I was intending to use it to make a D&D character, essentially just a really long and sad background which explains why the character would have an odd mixture of skills and classes. This idea was quickly dropped though, but I like the idea of naming the chapters in this style;  1st level history (rogue): I just now decided I liked the look of that. Though it might be changed to "1st Level of History (rogue-ish)" or some modification of that. Further, this story is just the plot outline of the story. Not the story. (see how all these facts are adding up to equal a bad article?); I believe there are more things I'm forgetting to warn about, but I'm hungry right now, so basicly; I'm just putting this here so I can try to get what I have of it into order and get rid of the random tidbits and stuff... After I get it to a reasonable level, I will give it it's own article (notice it's in a article called Sandbox right now?). Either as a story or as a game (it might be fun to just let everyone add whatever unfortunate events they can think of to it, but that would come later)

Remember: this isn't a story, yet, when it's a story it will have an article of it's own, right now it's just a note, pay it no heed...

Lieber Cadogan Keenan age 0-17

Eurig Sweeney Keenan was Lieber Cadogan Keenan's father, his mother was Carmina Brooke Igone who died at his birth. Eurig Sweeney Keenan tried to bring Lieber up as best he could, but he had great diffaculty. Eurig Sweeney Keenan was a Furrier (he made and repaired goods made of furs - especialy clothes), and he was also in his spare time an Astrologer (he studied the stars believing that they would reveal the future to him). Mr. Eurig Keenan gave his son to one Miss Llyr Colijn so that she could take care of him, however when he was older (5 years old) he sent young Mr. Keenan to Miss Llyr Colijn was not the proper person to bring up a young boy, she was Mr. Eurig Keenan's teacher, she taught him how to study stars and what they should mean. She was by no means kind, and she failed to even feed young Mr. Keenan, so he ran away from her house. And he went to the house of Mr. Alphaeus Du, who he saw walking around on the streets, and who looked very kind to him, and he saw the man eating and asked for some food, Alphaeus Du took young Mr. Keenan into his household and cared for him, Mr. Eurig Keenan came looking for young Mr. Lieber Keenan a few days later, and after Alphaeus Du showed Mr. Eurig Keenan that young Mr. Lieber Keenan had stayed with him, Mr. Eurig Keenan accused Alphaeus of kidnaping his son and he forbad his son from ever going to the house of Alphaeus Du again. Ever after this event young Lieber Keenan went to Alphaeus' house every few days, just for a short time during the day, never staying long, and always sneaking in the backdoor. It was good that he did, otherwise he might not have ever gotten anything to eat. Alphaeus Du soon went to visit Miss Llyr Colijn, and asked her about the boy, she explaiend the situation (she thought he had kept secret the fact that she and Mr. Eurig S. Keenan were Astrologers, but Alphaeus Du realised it almost at once). And so Mr. Du asked if he might make a suggestion, that perhaps young Mr. Keenan might be sent to live with Miss Alannis Radmila White, who took care of many children. Miss Llyr Colijn said she would consider it, but that in the end it was up to Mr. Eurig S. Keenan (she actouly had no intention of telling Mr. Keenan about Miss Alannis Radmila White, as young Mr. Keenan was supposed to stay with her and train to be a magician (a thing which she was wholely unable to teach him). Alphaeus Du was a retired pickpocket and small time burglar, however he had never been a cruel or heartless man, he had gone to prison once before and broken out, he had never yet killed anyone, even if it meant he had to drop loot and run to avoid it, he despised killing. Therefor, he was most affected by young Mr. Keenan's torments he suffered at his father's hands. And Mr. Du was already making plans to have young Mr. Keenan smuggled out of the city. He had gotten the stuff to make him and young Mr. Keenan to fit into a circuis so they could escape using a traveling circuis that was coming to the city soon. Alphaeus Du easily managed to smuggle young Mr. Keenan out of Highdale.

age 18 (21) Wears loose black clothing, nice, made of almost expensive silk-like stuff. the edges are embroidered in a gold color. The song sung by the minestrel Huutoff Once a lone-man stepped into the world, His back was bent with hardship, But his back was strong as stone! He was not strong as an oxe, nor willy as a fox, He was Just a Man! But what a man! Not born to great title was this man, Nor meant to attain them in his flight from foe, He was beaten by blows at every turn, No great warrior... Just a Man... [qieter]

He bore his place in this world from the moment of his birth, Never once a complaint was uttered by he, 1st level history (rogue): left East Blueriver (Homlet) heading west. went alone. had a longsword, and no other equipment. came up against a person wearing a monk's cowl and hood. the person had a staff. he and Mr. Keenan fought. the stranger won. and took Mr. Keenan's sword. he knocked out Mr. Keenan, and when Mr. Keenan awoke he found his sword to be missing (it had been given him by Alphaeus Du). when he awoke he found a cleric (who had taken a vow of poverty) helping him. They then traveled together (Mr. Keenan had to use a cane that "Tiernan Varlaam Nurzhan" made out of a stick he cut from a tree to help Mr. Keenan walk). Mr. Keenan and Vicar Nurzhan talked a little, and Mr. Keenan began to like Vic. Mr. Nurzhan. A short time later, they were attacked by kobolds, Mr. Keenan was hit first, and knocked-out by the first javlin. there were only three kobolds. and Vic. Mr. Nurzhan sent one running away with a inflict light wounds, and was knocked out by the other two kobolds. as Vic. Mr. Nurzhan resisted, (and seemed to show "Magical abilities") the kobolds killed him. and took Mr. Keenan prisoner.

Notes: Tiernan Varlaam Nurzhan represented The Reverend Damarcane Zelaren (who was a person of some import in the clerical temples around the area). Vic. Nurzhan was selected several times to reprepresent him. Vic. Mr. Nurzhan was sent by The Reverend Damarcane Zelaren to Greenmaple (a homlet larger then East Blueriver) and was passing through East Blueriver on his way, and thus he saw Mr. Keenan lyeing knocked cold and bleeding by the road and, being a cleric, helped him.

The Kobolds took Mr. Keenan Back to their camp. Total, there was one warg, six kobolds (the one that ran away went straight to the camp), and one kobold-lizardfolk creature that lead the group. the lizardfolk creature (Sharbam) was a slave trader, and sold Mr. Keenan to a mage (necromancer) named Shepakhsut Bakuayt Haphojuketeb, after about a month of living with the Kobolds. (the Kobolds were roaming so Mr. Keenan was now rather far from East Blueriver)

The Hero's Back Was Bent With Pain, But He Would Return One Day To Himself...

a year would pass under the Tyrany of Shepakhsut before Mr. Keenan would be free. and in that year he discovered a little of his master. there is a gnoll (2nd level in a fighting class in addition to his ECL) named Bakhgoth that leads a clan of gnolls that act similarly to a gang of ruffians. they make the people around them pay for "Protection" Shepakhsut paid for this. The Town guards (or at least that's what they looked like to Mr. Keenan) came once to the tower of Shepakhsut. They maltreated Mr. Keenan, thinking he "worked for that evil geezer". in their defence, they did think that Mr. Keenan worked willingly for Shepakhsut, not knowing that he was a slave. But had they not been drunk they probably would have realised their mistake. Shepakhsut watched the "Guards" beat on Mr. Keenan from a window of his tower. though the "guards" did not see him, Mr. Keenan did.

Other then these incidence the first year of Mr. Keenan's servitude can be passed over rather cursorily. (although Mr. Keenan did see snow for the first time in his life (though Shepakhsut (showing his sadisticness as always) kept Mr. Keenan inside during that day (though on hot days he would make him stay in the extreme heat without letting him go into the shade).

A Very Odd Thing happend on the second year of Mr. Keenan's captivaty by Shepakhsut, Jaropelk Radimir Ottavio, who's title is Lord of the Thunder, called out Shepakhsut for a Mage Combat, the loser would die. and the winner would gain everything the other owned. Shepakhsut had a staff of necromancy, Mr. Ottavio wanted the staff for it's powers. When Mr. Ottavio enter the tower, and saw Mr. Keenan, he questioned him as to who Mr. Keenan was. Mr. Keenan answered that he was the slave of Shepakhsut. Mr. Ottavio was distainfull of Shepakhsut for holding a slave, and he set Mr. Keenan free. and sent him off into the woods. (the tower was in a forest) And When We Take Into The Night, And We Take Upon Your Souls, And When We Trod Upon Your Blood, And We Fell You In The Wood, The song continued on with similar Lyrics for quite a while

Mr. Marvel is the leader of the Pariahs Mr. Keenan ran from the tower, and he ran into Auguste Marvel, after a day of travel in the forest. he and Marvel met well, and they became friends quickly. Soon enough, Marvel wanted to test his skills against Mr. Keenan. Mr. Keenan agreed. And Marvel gave Mr. Keenan his staff, and cut one down for himself. Marvel was far supperior to Mr. Keenan in skill with a staff, but he made it seem like they were more or less equal. and eventualy he decided to call an end to the match. And Mr. Keenan joined the Pariahs, a group of adventurous spirits who lived in the woods (living like robin hood), though they normaly would normaly live off the woods entirely, sometimes they would raid villages. Mr. Keenan learned how to use longswords more effectively in his twenty-three month stay there, along with bows, staffs, rapiers, dual short-swords, and daggers. He also learned how to fletch arrows, and how to track animals. at the end of this stay, Mr. Keenan was twenty-one. His stubburness and strong-willedness, earned him the title; "The Stiff" (or just "Stiff" sometimes, in replace of his name). Almost all of the Pariahs had nicknames like this, that were actoul words, descriptions of themselves. The Pariah have a number of ways of communicating, for one, they have a sign language, for another, they have a runic alphabet, it's a simple alphabet, able to be written with a dagger on a piece of wood. They also developed a long list of signals, such as leaving a tree branch cut off a nearby tree stuck in the ground, to mean there were people traveling the nearby paths, and to be wary so as not to run into them. They also developed a unique dialect of the language spoken around the realm. While with the Pariah Mr. Keenan met Iy (pronounced: ii') a peregrin hawk (merlin/falco columbarius) this falcon became his friend and companion. Orcs attacked the Pariah, the Pariah knew the orcs were coming a few weeks before the orcs arrived, and thus had time to make plans to defend themselves. Mr. Keenan and all the others were given the chance to leave if they so chose, all decided to stay. The orcs were well over a thousand strong, and they would have defeated the Pariah's with ease had they been fighting in the plains, but as they were in the forest the Pariah's easily evaded the orcs, and with a great show of guerrila warfair destroyed almost half of the orc regiment that came into the forest, though they were then overtaken, and almost all died. Mr. Keenan survived because he was shot by an arrow and incapacitated when running, and he fell into a river, where he was washed away from the orcs. He floated in the river for several days, nearly starving, drowning, almost freezing, and, of course, he came close to bleeding to death from his wounds in the battle. He was found in the river by a woman named Andreja Grusha, she took him into her house and treated his wounds, kept him alive. When he awoke he had an amount of amnesia, which would last at least for the first few days. Grusha was a strange person. When Mr. Keenan awoke, Grusha told him that he was her husband, and that he had been working outside when a branch had fallen on him and knocked him into the river, she said his injuries had been caused by his axe which he had been using to cut down trees.

later names for Keenan: Iapetos (lap'et'OO'ss) (to injure, to pierce.)