Talk:Tana Absold

Posting the old history here for me to pull from. Now that you've seen the part of Tana's backstory that ties to Tana's quest branch, you can see why I wanted to throw up barriers to you building her story too deeply. Especially since I knew you'd have, like, three months to dwell and obsess and expand. Now that her tale is told, I'm going to try to expand this, and a lot/most of this stuff can stand, especially personality and such, which I think hem pretty close to my original ideas. -gm

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Kib Absold's younger sister and cohort. Description

Like all of the Absolds, Tana has the good looks characteristic of a healthy (read: wealthy) upbringing, with the features archetypical of Odessa: A solid build, olive skin, dark eyes and hair. For an Absold, she is not particularly tall (5' 7"), and her eyes are fiercely interrogative. Her voice, while able to demonstrate a fair and pleasing lilt, is more commonly blunt and loud, efficiently carrying the weight of her words with all the force of a Gilden warhammer. All of this air is bravado, belying a sensitivity that would quickly get her killed in the circles she frequents, were it detected. Background

Tana grew up the youngest of the Absolds, born a year before her mother Lilia's untimely death during labor. She, like Kib and Lea, grew up with no memory of Lilia beyond the faintest of impressions. Due to this commonality, and the natural grouping of the ages, those three were closer together in childhood than with any of the others. Being the last of many, and a girl besides, Garn had no particular plans for Tana's life. This was probably just as well--Tana was singularly stubborn even for an Absold, and any attempts to push her into a mold would have been met with fierce resistance. Of the girls, she was the most likely to spend time on the streets of Farrandon with her brothers, playing and fighting at their sides. She was educated as all of the Absolds, and spent her fair share of time on the road with her stonemason father, learning to talk and sell, but in contrast to Lea spent an inordinate amount of her nights freewheeling on rooftops and chumming around in dive bars. Exploring gave her a thrill, and the surest way to get Tana to go somewhere was to tell her she wasn't allowed. As Tana grew up, she spent more and more of her time on the road, conducting business for her father. While she had no interest in craftsmanship, new places and people excited her, and Garn was only too happy to encourage her interest in business. She used the opportunities to fulfill her curiosity, and even managed to acquire a Ring of Chameleon Power to aid her in this. Recent History

Tana was just returning from such a trip when Garn was arrested and tried for treason. She managed to sneak out shortly after and, hearing news that Kib had been unceremoniously dumped from his post with the Odessan military at the border between Western Celestia and the Bandit Kingdom, decided to follow him. A few months and a harrowing journey later, she found herself in Kred, surrounded by news of its recent troubles and Kib's involvement therein, and it is there that she finally caught up with her brother, with whom she now travels.

Let me know if this is all kosher. -Slitherrr

I'll let you run the game from now on, it'll save me a lot of time worrying and preparing stuff that someone is just going to snipe anyway. Awesome! *washes hands* -gm

In other words - I don't like shooting down work players gave done and put on the wiki. So, instead what I'm going to throw out the hours of work I've done on your family off camera for the purposes of storyline and unlock the page and we'll go back to doing randomly generated dungeon crawls. -gm

Jebus no, that's the opposite of why I was asking. -Slitherrr

Quite seriously, I didn't know what extent you had things planned out, so I threw up some test-run stuff, and if that wasn't cool, was more than happy to ditch it for what you've got. I mean, I do not and cannot have any way of knowing what's up your sleeve, so I'm always down with killing any work I've done in favor of secret canon. -Slitherrr

And by "work I've done" up there, I mean "shit I pulled out of my ass in off-time", which is why I have no problem letting it disappear. -Slitherrr

Heh, I always overthink. That's why I'm on metafilter! ;) -gm

I am totally down with your fiat. Kib is the only character on this Wiki that I have any attachment to exact shape of, and that doesn't extend to his family and friends, and even parts of his history that would conflict with other stuff. Anything else I put in is strictly with the caveat that it's designed to make your job easier--if you've already got canon that does or will conflict with it, consider my version completely null and void without any implicit or expressed approval from me whatsoever, and I am 100% ok with that. -Slitherrr

Flavorwise, anyway. I reserve the right to always nitpick and audit your numbers, within a stretchily defined amount of reason. -Slitherrr

Heh, heh, Indeed. My numbers always need auditing and my nits are forever need a pickin'. Again - not angry, just short because I'm typing at work. Feel free to continue developing canon - I encourage it! - just leave your family out of it. :D If you're curious, I can give you the bullet points and you can type them up. I keep my notes as bullets that later need to be converted into prose. -gm

Keep this up, GM, and your going to scare everyone away from inventing content except for the one guy that is *trying* to aggrivate you! --Msallen

Heh, heh, well, to be fair, I'm always looking for a reason to stop running games! Why do you think I want you guys to start running Dark Sun! ;)

I call BS! You are always trying to figure out how to run more games! --Msallen

That's because after they hit level 6 or 7, players become like 100x more obnoxious. Oh, their characters do, too. -gm

True that. I'm a big fan of 1-6, and by 12 I usually want all the characters to die so we can start a new campaign :| --Msallen

I'm also a huge fan of spinning off games and having other people deal with shit. I think when Trav, Mattie, Daniel, and I used to play, we rotated GMs like mad. Of course, all of those games were horrible, but still. -gm