Zelen Holosol

[Vincent Hack]

Name: Zelen Holosol
Race: Urallithid Paragon
Classes: antipsion (25) baromancer (20) Black mage (40) blue mage (40) chaos wizard (30) dark huter (10) death walker (50) illusionist (45) Evoker (40) Draco Mancer (10) Paradox Shaman (15)
Notes:
Disposition: slightly guilt ridden
Appearance: this illithid stands a little over sixfeet tall with indecernable weight, his robes are a plain black, contrary to what is expected from a mighty wizard such as himself, if one can discern emotion on an illithid face his would be one of great sorrow for sins done in the past, he carries a deck of many things with him and will not draw from it under anyconditons, solely to remind him of what he has done
Eye Color (if any eyes): white
Hair Color (if any hair): none
Distinguishing Marks: unlike other illithid zelen has six tentacles each are around three and a half feet in length
Height: 6 foot 2 inches
Weight: 170 lbs
History: an unpleasant history, Zelen was as vile as illithids come through out his early years, enslaving creatures and having them do his bidding, all that changed the day he drew from the deck, he suddenly felt overwhelming remorse for what he had done and resolved to set out and atone for his sins

he was also a rare breed of illithid who instead of deveolping Psionic talents, trained in arcane magic and was forever shunned, this caused him to train ruthlessly in the art of the Anti Psion, and is highly proficent in the use of it's abilities

he met taklinn shortly after His rise and the massive giant was immedeately bewildered by Him, and illithid who wasn't evil who has heard of such a thing, Taklinn decided to help Zelen, partially out of pity, and from pride that so vile a creature could rise above evil, the two have been staunch allies ever since

Attributes:
Str H godlike
Keen VL Forbidden
Rflx VH godlike
End H godlike
Cha VL forbidden
Int M forbidden
P. Ability L forbidden
Will VH godlike (15/25)
Affinities:
Magic 1100
Ki 350
Tech 550
AntiPsi 1000
Traits:
Positive:
Fast learner
Unbelieveably tough

Negative:
Emotionally scarred
Stubborn

Neutral:
Diamond in the rough (difficult opponent)

Personal Totem:
dragon
Abilities:

Legendary

Forbidden
ivination:

Mage Eye IV
Mage Eye Hive
Omniscient Eye
Omniscient Olfaction
Omniscient Ear
Omniscient Tactility

Curses:

Curse of Black Fate: This curse turns the forces of Fate against the target!

Curse of Flame's Antagonism: One's heat resistance is lowered to virtually nil, indeed turned into a massive vulnerability. Flame curls around the person constantly, ambient heat burning the person. Fires burst all around them spontaneously [some versions use this to make someone destroy the homes and towns of friends and family making them a pariah], and any existing fire will mystically stream at the person, whether from a lighter, bonfire or anything else. Fire elementals, spirits, etc. will assault the character. The character's own processes (say the production of methane) will ignite. Any fire attacks the victim will use will backdraft and strike them or allies. Uses are obvious: Disarm a fire specialist, etc. [Versions exist for cold and ice, water, electricity, etc.]

Curse of Following Storms: Constant storms follow the character. Lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other apocalyptic events will constantly strike the person. Mist will obscure around them.

Leech Seed III (Legendary because normally it's a beast or nature move, not a curse)

Curse of the Siphoner: Someone struck with this curse becomes a living source for the caster. Magic, psychic, ki or technique energy; stamina; Attributes; food, water, sleep... All of these can be constantly drained at the whim of the caster. The victim can be forced into MASSIVE negatives in all of these stats to boost the caster.

Curse of the Glutton:

Curse of Lust:

Curse of Wrath:

Curse of Pride:

Curse of Sloth:

Curse of the Seed of War: For some reason, the victim of this Curse becomes a constant source of attack, who causes people to riot, attacking first him then everyone else!

Butterfingers Curse III

Mind Control III

Ensorcel IV: This spell is used to make a patsy totally vulnerable to one's spells, particularly curses.

Geas IV:

Quest IV:

All Diablo II Necromancer Curses at IV

Damage Spells:

Death Bolt III
Harm IV
Transgressive
(passive) anti Psionic field

Skills:

Merits:
transgressive psionic Immunity
twin weapon ki
Knife Ki
Equipment:
dragon claw pendant (bonus to dragon summoning)
twin coldiron daggers (hevily enchanterd, vorpal, Mindbleeding)
Cybernetics:

Symbiotes/Bio-Wizardry:

Minions:
Bones, Dracolich, advanced greatwyrm red (true neutral)
1 greatwyrm of each dragon variety
Dark/Light Path:
------------Light-Light
-----Honorable
------------Light-Dark
Zelen Holosol
------------Dark-Light
-----Martyr
------------Dark-Dark
Trainers:
Elimenster
Mordenkinen
Szas Tam
Boccob
Mystra
Denir
Bahamut
Feylich
Godlich

we will naturally need to refine further

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

I'd say he needs good anti-psychic trainers. Bahamut is to get dracolich in there, right? I imagine that other options could equally fun over time: Faylich, godlich, etc. Other trainer concepts could be for physical attributes or to balance out his weak areas.

Making a new Mordenkainen spell, I'm looking forward to that . Bigby could be fun too.

Why is Honorable light and Martyr dark?

Your DIO will be (at least at the moment, other communal DIO may pop up and we may find that some fun stuff shows up from trainers or equipment or so on):

Zelen
Bones
Dragons
Mordenkainen's Valorous Grandhound
Red Shadow Ninja
Minions
Tzemke

He should also have a Familiar, yes with independent attacking of course.

Diamond in the Rough normally doesn't manifest against a particular type of foe. It refers to the way that the person is specially gifted and in some circumstances he rises. Perhaps Challenging Nemesis: Zelen is a little lazy with his full set of gifts until some nemesis brings it out of him. Which then becomes a fun concept since his true power is predicated on conflict.

Dragon Claw isn't a Totem. He still needs Zodiac Sign, a Code Name, some of the other character background stuff, Energon Disc forms, 3 F2 potions, the Communal stuff to his sheet, Tome and Job Gem Classes...

[Vincent Hack]

okay code name: Six of Four

i know Diamond in the rough dosen't usually manifest itself in a particular type of foe but then again, He dosent really consider non Psions a threat

Martyr is dark because he borders on scuicidal, where as honorable is light because he cares more for offence rather than defence

and Bones is the familiar

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Six of Four?

I'd think that he might consider non-psions more of a threat because his Affinity doesn't trump theirs.

All right, what does Honorable and Martyr do? Honorable more abilities, Martyr more power?

Gotcha on Bones.

Rest of the stuff?

[Vincent Hack]

six tentacles of the fpour normally granted to his race
he harbors no animosity towards non-psions
Honorable more power to direct assults, less power to sneak attacks martyr, upon reaching critical condition Zelen gains a massive health boost as well as power boost to all attacks

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Reminds me of a Borg name .

Yes, but if a non-psion fights him... Does he actually hunt and kill psions?

I like those. So then what'd the LL, LD, DL, DD be?

You need to do everything else. Classes, etc.

[Vincent Hack]

he dosent hunt and kill psions, so much as he hunts and kills other illithids, he dosen't look favorably upon psions however

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

All right, represent that through Merits, Diamond in the Rough needs to be something more broad. I'd say Challenge or Powerful Adversary.

Everything else?

[Vincent Hack]

god io need a good spell list,

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Give me a set of disciplines and ideas and I'll generate you 30 Forbiddens.

[Vincent Hack]

hmm okay let me think
disciplines, divinination, curses and damage spells

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Divination:

Mage Eye IV
Mage Eye Hive
Omniscient Eye
Omniscient Olfaction
Omniscient Ear
Omniscient Tactility

Curses:

Curse of Black Fate: This curse turns the forces of Fate against the target!

Curse of Flame's Antagonism: One's heat resistance is lowered to virtually nil, indeed turned into a massive vulnerability. Flame curls around the person constantly, ambient heat burning the person. Fires burst all around them spontaneously [some versions use this to make someone destroy the homes and towns of friends and family making them a pariah], and any existing fire will mystically stream at the person, whether from a lighter, bonfire or anything else. Fire elementals, spirits, etc. will assault the character. The character's own processes (say the production of methane) will ignite. Any fire attacks the victim will use will backdraft and strike them or allies. Uses are obvious: Disarm a fire specialist, etc. [Versions exist for cold and ice, water, electricity, etc.]

Curse of Following Storms: Constant storms follow the character. Lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other apocalyptic events will constantly strike the person. Mist will obscure around them.

Leech Seed III (Legendary because normally it's a beast or nature move, not a curse)

Curse of the Siphoner: Someone struck with this curse becomes a living source for the caster. Magic, psychic, ki or technique energy; stamina; Attributes; food, water, sleep... All of these can be constantly drained at the whim of the caster. The victim can be forced into MASSIVE negatives in all of these stats to boost the caster.

Curse of the Glutton:

Curse of Lust:

Curse of Wrath:

Curse of Pride:

Curse of Sloth:

Curse of the Seed of War: For some reason, the victim of this Curse becomes a constant source of attack, who causes people to riot, attacking first him then everyone else!

Butterfingers Curse III

Mind Control III

Ensorcel IV: This spell is used to make a patsy totally vulnerable to one's spells, particularly curses.

Geas IV:

Quest IV:

All Diablo II Necromancer Curses at IV

Damage Spells:

Death Bolt III
Harm IV
See the General Spell List for the Epochal Four and the Primal Eight


Those give you some ideas?

[Vincent Hack]

yeah, now i need to figure antipshinic moves, but i can usually pll those out of my ass

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Energon Disc, Occidental and Oriental Zodiac Signs, what kind of Dragon (and don't create another Dragon personal totem because in actual fact Hack is NOT a dragon, he's actually more of a crocodile or komodo dragon or so on...)

[Vincent Hack]

ahh okay, what kind of dragon for what his minions, all of them
prismatic force, metallic chromatic, elemental landwyrm and planar
energon disc i supose would have to be
star signs, dosen't know
totem: chimera

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

So you have four types of wyrms? I fail to see what those things are.

What Energon Disc? Robo-dragon...?

Need a list of the various attributes we impute to Occidental Zodiac signs?

Mythological creatures are generally not totemic.

[Vincent Hack]

do you have the draconomican? if so read it
energon disc robodragon, like megatron on beast wars, and for vehicle, lets go with a nice
yes i need a list of what each star sign does
then totem, will be the mighty stag
www.mindflayer.net/images/illithid.jpg
just a picture of him

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

No, I do not.

...Nice what?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrological_sign

A'ight, Stag works. Any reason why you think Zelen would be a Stag?

Nice pic.

[Vincent Hack]

it's got so much shit for dragons as NPC's and PC's
god i had a reason for the stag it but i forgot
nice sports car, i had a brain fart, probably a nice amethyst porche

[Frederic Bourgault-Christie]

Sounds awesome.

Okay, Stag, when you remember note it.

Robodragon and sports car.

So: Occidental/Oriental Zodiac, all those other categories...?

Who are Feylich and Godlich?

[Vincent Hack]

ok...trying to remember back
feylich and godlich I can't remember where I discovered them but I remember godlich had done something when he cast the Lichifying spell that he actually attained a spark of godhood.
feylich i think was a particularly dark hearted dryad who ruled a dead forest. Think mirkwood combined with the dead marshes
and Sagittarius seems appropriate to him acctually