Character Name: Alfiermollo Nicknames: Deckhand "Mutie", Midget "Sand", Halfling Age: 27 Gender: Male Race: Halfling Status: Alive Description Height: No taller than the leg of the average human. Weight: As heavy as a small sack of fresh potatoes. Body Type: Nimble, quick, and light. Eyes: Deep blue Hair: Dark brown Skin: A light, pinkish brown Markings/Tattoos: None Health: Often starved Personality: He was once quirky, spontaneous, and childish. This young halfling had never really grown up.
Inventory: Many tiny knick knacks and doodles. Further Details: Voluntarily mute.
Selections†
Selection 1: Footsteps of Sorrowful Rain
Selection 2: Nourishment √
Selection 3: The Portrait √
Alfiermollo ripped the painting from the wall with care, making sure not to damage it too much. With it's heavy girth in his hands, he looked down at it. He was still amazed by her beauty... Astounded by it.
With the long, awkward portrait across his back, the halfling managed to sneak out of Kaldonia, and to his home in Mali'Fenn. There, he stored it under a floorboard.
Satisfied with his new attraction to paintings, the halfling ventured out once again to find another. This time, he found himself deep within the sewers of a foul human city.
Coughing and trying not to look at all of the waste, the halfling pondered around the slums of the sewer, looking for anything interesting. It was then that a little underground tavern caught his eye; and so did his next item.
A painting of "Saint Stran the Protector", it said. Alfiermollo gave a little grunt, and then with some quick prying, he hoisted that same painting across his back.
He ran out of the sewers and back again to his little home in Mali'Fenn. Two paintings now. His collection was building! The little halfling gave a silent cackle. Later that night, Alfiermollo traveled to Alras and spent the night there, hoping to do some pillaging in the morning.
This was when tragedy struck. As he woke up, the halfling heard of the devastation that struck Mali'Fenn; his home town! He ran as quick as he could out of Alras, but he was too late.
Through some form of devastation, the city had been raided, pillaged, and completely destroyed. Alfiermollo ran to his home frantically, knowing that his double-chest of paintings surely mustn't have been touched... But he was wrong. Not only was the floorboard he had placed removed, but the chest (and its contents) had vanished. With no trace of his paintings, the halfling felt defeated. He slumped down in the remains of his home, giving a sigh.
~-~ A few days later... ~-~
Alfiermollo skulks near Kaldonia again, hoping that he might be able to find some other paintings within the city. Because the gatehouse was closed, the halfling managed to find a way to sneak up and enter through the top. There, he began searching through the chests of the guards there, for the gatehouse itself was empty.
The first chest, nothing but some dirt and a wooden sword.
The second, an old sock and some gravel.
Ah, but the next one he encountered surely must have had something interesting behind it. It was an iron door, with no button on the outside.
Quickly, the halfling searched the premises of the gatehouse, managing to pry a level from the wall of another mans room. He clamped the lever on to the wall adjacent to the iron door, and -- voila -- the door was open.
Knowing that great loot was at hand, the halfling opened the chest. Oh, you just wait. Here's the good part.
Opening the chest, guess what Alfiermollo finds? After having no idea where it went, or who might have taken it...
He had her again. She was scratched and chipped, but there she was! There she was! Alfiermollo jumped for joy, grabbing his wonderful portrait. By some act of miraculous luck, he had found her.
He vowed silently to himself that he'd never let anything happen to her again.
And as far as Stran... He is yet to be found. Alfiermollo now knows who is responsible for this theft... And they will regret it.
Links
• Mountebank's Minor VA for 1a (Accepted)
• Mountebank's 1st Major VA for 1b and 1c (Denied)
* To Be Added
† Selections are in no particular historical order.
√ This selection actually happened in-game.