Since the start of 1290, she spent a lot of time with Rupert Salter, a mage from the Grey College who was also a regular at the Wessex Arms. This was somewhat cut short when Rupert went on a mission to rescue her and Panama from a demon plane, and in order to save the rest of the character party, overcast and exploded in a storm of elemental lightning. |
Her pre-play background is fairly boring - second of five children, lived in a small village near Grantabrugge, was taught to read and write and so on by the village priests (of Crofter). Some very minor hint of Drow ancestry buried way way back in the family (her parents never talked about it). There was an incident with playing with candles when she was younger and somehow extinguishing one before it caught the tablecloth, and at sixteen she was found by a group of mages who came round to the village and went off to Grantabrugge to study at the Dark College. She spent the next ten years studying hard in her college, learning elemental theory and so on, and really being quite reclusive until Natalia, a friend she'd met at the temple of Crofter in the city, convinced her to come to the Wessex Arms. |
A ritual to clean her soul of some residual taint resulted in her being possessed by a demon and attempting to kill Umbra, the Elemental Lord of Darkness. Umbra was, understandably, probably not very happy about this. Mary wound up looking like a demon as a result. |
The first night she got there there were odd magic numbers on the floor, Vlad tried to chat her up, and Edgar mathemagically exploded on the ritual circle. |
She spent the next few months trying to leech magic from the plane she'd been trapped on to get revenge on the demon lord, and studying magic from (and eventually propositioning) the High Mage. |
The second week, Unity turned up. This began a long, fruitful, very personal, and probably hilariously unwise set of religious experiences for Mary. Since the start of 1290, she spent a lot of time with Rupert Salter, a mage from the Grey College who was also a regular at the Wessex Arms. This was cut short a year or so later when Rupert went on a mission to rescue her and Panama from a demon plane, and in order to save the rest of the character party, overcast and exploded in a storm of elemental lightning. A ritual to clean her soul of some residual taint resulted in her being possessed by a demon and attempting to kill Umbra, the Elemental Lord of Darkness. Umbra was, understandably, probably not very happy about this. Mary wound up looking like a demon as a result, complete with stabby claws and scales. She spent the next few months trying to leech magic from the plane she'd been trapped on to get revenge on the demon lord, and studying magic from (and eventually sleeping with) the High Mage. |
Was laid to rest by a Child of the Light, and her body disintegrated into darkness (apparently none of the Lightists had realised she was magical). |
Was laid to rest by a Child of the Light, and her body disintegrated into darkness. Apparently none of the Lightists had realised she was magic-tainted until this point. If the universe has a sense of humour, she's possibly sitting somewhere in the plane of the Light with the rest of its inhabitants wondering where the hell the abomination came from. Alternatively, if anyone knows what happened to Unity after he died... Final themesong: The Escapist, by Nightwish (bonus track on Japanese version of Dark Passion Play), for various lyrics, but especially this verse: Journey home at night, the sound of a dolphin calling Tearing off the mask of man, the tower my sole guide This is who I am - escapist, paradise seeker Farewell, no time to fly Out of sight, out of time, away from our lives Stats! Because having a spell list so long that the character dies before she uses more than half of them in uptime is fun. Having a load of combat spells when your character is a self-avowed coward who deals with bar fights by hiding behind the bar is also fun. (Getting claws helped a lot.) |
If the universe has a sense of humour, she's most likely now sitting somewhere in the plane of the Light with the rest of its inhabitants wondering where the hell the abomination came from... |
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