by lukew » Tue Apr 03, 2018 6:41 pm
Vadelice Character Bio
Narrative:
Jerking awake to reality, a startled man stares around at his blurry cold surroundings. All dark. A beating headache, full body soreness, and a tremendous weight of fatigue bear upon him. A foreign voice speaks, "He is ready for execution..." Confused and unorganized questions streamed into the man's head as the voice continued, "Also, this stays between us... the head guard mustn't know about this... you'll get own reward outside your normal pay." The man hears metal doors opening, and unsteady torchlight illuminates a small stone jail cell. The man is in a heavy wooden stockade on wheels, which one from the a number of guards at the doorway approaches and unlocks, and the man slinks out, crumpling on the cold floor. The man turns looks up and sees the guard with his sword already drawn back to strike him. The guard, caught off guard by the fact that the man was in fact conscious, hurriedly plunges the sword forward, but the man avoids the attack, instantly rolling aside. With the guards body bent forward and down, at the apex of his swing, the man, on the floor, instinctively grapples his sword arm and uses the guard's momentum, and his own legs, to propel the attacker over his head behind him. As this guard hits the floor, the man darts his eyes to the other guards with the torches at the door (there were three), and all charging in with their weapons out. The man kicks the massive stockade at them, stopping all three, giving him enough time to get up and kick the first guard's head with his bare foot. The three guards recovered separately, and the man deflected the 2nd and 3rd guards' attacks by stepping aside and throwing them to the floor. In this, the man then looked up, receiving a powerful punch to the jaw from the 4th. The man stumbled back onto the 3rd guard, but hastily grabbed his sword and killed the advancing 4th. Then he immediately found himself in a tight headlock from the 3rd, but turned the sword around and plunged it into his belly, and ran away from the others down the dark corridor. The guards behind shouted for others, but the man already had found a window, saw the moon above and dark, chilling water far below, and jumped out, and far, hoping that the water was deep enough to catch him in what was probably a thirty foot drop. The landing felt light an explosion of ice to him, the world became completely dark as he plunged below, and thankfully the water was just deep enough; he gently hit the rocky bottom near the end of the descent, and he pushed up towards the surface. He broke it, but his body was in such shock from the extreme cold that he struggled to swim properly. But he fought to stay at the surface, and as the water left his ears he heard many guards shouting from above, so he began to swim from the prison and into the night. He couldn't remember anything from before waking up in the cell, he couldn't remember who he was, but he had some type of fighting skills, which he knew well enough to employ as instinct. He also noticed that he was a very strong swimmer (obviously boys), and had already put considerable distant between him and the dimly lit island that he had jumped from, and with an ease that allowed him the focus on this reflection. He had no idea where he was. He took in the geography, seeing that this island prison was only about a half mile from what seemed to be the mainland, and that he had jumped from a window that was facing away from it. He began to swim around the island towards this. He now was used to the cold water temperatures. Facing towards the mainland was the prison harbor, and he saw written at the head of the harbor, "The Royal Penitentiary." Why he ended up there, he had no idea. He saw lots of commotion, probably having to do with his escape, so he headed back to the mainland. Later reaching the shore, he found shelter and slept, thankful that it was a warm night. The next day, he trekked inland and reached the city of Vadelice, where he has been wandering around in for only a few short days.........