Login: LordCove
Character: Sallaron Tempest - Ranger/Rogue 12/11
Requesting to take 5 Fighter levels.
For years and years, Sallaron's battles have been followed by words of..
.. "This is a bloody bad idea!".....
..." I aint no bloody frontliner!"....or...
... " do I look like a bloody beserker?!"
Yet, despite his own wish to refrain from battle, and despite the requests, and often plea's and begging for him to refrain from diving headlong into the fight with swords swinging....he.... always seems to do it.
This has landed him into constant trouble... to the point the Soul Mother herself took quite an interest, and for a time, had a strong hold around his throat.
Despite this, and despite the realisation he is, or was, a terrible fighter.... Sall has always found himself in the midst of a fray, fighting, often enough badly, with the rest of the frontliners when he should, with constant advice, be shooting arrows in the back.
This.... over the years.... has learnt him quite a few lessons... which aside from the obvious " try not to Frontline".... has also taught him to fight pretty well... or at least, better than he was before.
// As have RP'd for quite a long time.... Sall whines and complains about having to frontline. But... "always" ends up charging in. From Guardians and Ettins, to Eon's Rememberance ( I think he actually had the killing hit...heh

)to Balor Princes and so on.... the silly bugger still charges.
// Few extracts from CDT: this Journal and "The notes" of Sall... which I had to literraly dig up. Just to save you having to read the whole thing... heh
http://forums.layonara.com/developme...tempest-2.html
" Remember, I aint no Frontliner. " I keep saying.....do they listen. No....they hang behind, protected by spells and wards,whilst I fight for my life...and recently enough, I keep failing. Im gonna have to practice some more fighting skills.....if only to keep me alive.
When the rush of battle ended, I looked around to find I'd killed them all. The lot of them lay dead at my feet.
No wizard magic. No blessings of Folian. No hiding behind a frontliner.
Just me.
But there I was....fighting in the front lines with Lilian and Angela, hacking at Spiders and Drow and Squid things and bloody Balors, in one of the darkest corners of this world.
The Amulet she made me seemed to glow around my neck, consecrated in Folian's name, and I swallowed my fear and charged into the fray with her.
Still amazes me sometimes the things Im able to survive. Sure....I aint no devastating force of nature...but by Folian I've certainly managed to outlive any expectations I had for myself.
Heh...Im glad I didnt tell her of some of the more "dangerous" places I've been going myself. But I kept my mouth shut, and they came with me to Dregar....
Myself, I accompanied a large group to the defence of Pranzis, where great battles ensured. Alas, the city fell....