Bonus Content 2-1: Old Friends, New Sheets (2/2)

Adorable - Level 1

Golem Body - Level 1

Magic Resistance -Level 1

Vampire Skills

Bloodsucker - Level 15

Command - Level 15

Darkspawn - NA

Greater Undead - Level 15

Light Allergies - NA

Fire Elementalist Skills

Call Fire - Level 5

Destroy fire - Level 1

Endure Fire - Level 5

Fire Affinity - NA

Least Fire Elemental - Level 2

Mana Focus - NA

Manipulate Fire - Level 5

Shape Fire - Level 1

Madeline is making the best of a bad situation. Fortunately, she doesn't hold grudges, and why would she? Monsters never have happy endings, but for the minute, at least, she's got a lot of new options to play with that she never even considered before.

The problem she keeps running into is that it's been a long time since she's been this weak, and she lost a LOT of stats she'd gained from grinding with her new body. Toy Golems are weak overall, her vampire levels aren't up there yet, and her fire elementalist career doesn't play into her species strengths. It's all sanity based, and... well, she's not.

On the plus side, a whole lot of her old weaknesses are out the window now. She's pretty happy about that. Now if only she can find a way to feed that old familiar bloodthirst that keeps gnawing in her gut...

Vampires have one weakness, in the Light Allergies skill. But since she has no flesh to burn in daylight, and only suffers a minor debuff otherwise, it's no longer a big deal. On the downside, her Bloodsucker skill is only half as effective. Sure, it'll actually deal a bit of extra damage, but she can't drink the blood to heal. That's a problem. Greater Undead, much like Golem Body, lets her ignore a few things and shrug off other effects. The two were never meant to be combined, at all, and it's going to help her immensely, she reckons. Darkspawn is a familiar trait by now, no surprises there... Command is her ace in the hole. It lets her cloud a target's mind temporarily, bending their will to hers- to a point. Now if only her will was greater...

Fire Elementalists are fairly sturdy mage types. They're animators by dint of being able to call up elementals. And by elementals, I mean one elemental of each type they can summon. That's their limitation. Their key skill is Fire Affinity, which gives them 75% resistance to flames, and lets them breathe fire without boiling their lungs.

Call Fire produces flame, Destroy Fire extinguishes it (The better the skill the more put out,) Manipulate fire lets her pull, push, and throw it around with limited telekinesis, Endure Fire is a buff that gives whoever it's on minor resistance to fire... stacked with Fire Affinity it shields the elementalist completely. Others get benefits too, but not as much, obviously. Shape Fire lets her create walls and pictures with flames, and similar structures. Least Fire Elemental summons an Emberling, that mostly floats around and sprays fire at things.

Mana Focus is a booster that we've seen before on Threadbare. It buffs the elementalist's sanity pool by a percentage equal to their level.

All in all, Madeline's happy with what she's got. But what she hasn't realized yet is that being made out of wood, unlike her colleagues, has upsides and downsides. Her armor value is higher than her plushie pals, but she's not as resistant to bashing type damage, being more brittle. If that ogre had hit her during the fight, that would have been that.

Madeline is a min/maxer and natural munchkin, and is frustrated at not having the stats to back up all her awesome ideas. Still, she figures that if worst comes to worst she'll just die, and so long as there's a soulstone around she'll get a second chance. And hey, maybe Threadbare will be good enough at the Golem thing to make her an even more uber body!

She IS a little weirded out about being in a group that she's not in charge of. It's been a while since she wasn't calling the shots. This is taking some adjustment.

ZUULA'S CHARACTER SHEET

Spoiler: Spoiler

Name: Zuula

Age: 40

Jobs:

Toy Golem Level 4

Half-Orc Level 5

Shaman Level 5

Midwife Level 5

Attributes:

Strength: 72 Constitution: 73 Hit Points: 175 Armor: 31

Intelligence: 33 Wisdom: 54 Sanity: 87 Mental Fortitude: 5

Dexterity: 57 Agility: 70 Stamina: 137 Endurance: 35

Charisma: 41 Willpower: 38 Moxie: 79 Cool: 30

Perception: 50 Luck: 49 Fortune: 99 Fate: 5(10)

Generic Skills

Brawling - Level 31

Climb - Level 32

Clubs and Maces - Level 44

Dagger - Level 12

Dodge - Level 26

Flight - Level 50

Ride - Level 16

Spears and Polearms - Level 38

Stealth - Level 20

Throwing - Level 14

Toy Golem Skills

Adorable - Level 1

Golem Body - Level 5

Magic Resistance -Level 1

Half-Orc Skills

Darkspawn - NA

Human Flexibility - NA

Shaman Skills

Beastly Skill Borrow - Level 25

Call Vines - Level 25

Dreamquest - Level 25

Fated Preserver - NA

Poison Resistance - Level 25

Secret Herbs and Spices - Level 25

Slow Regeneration - Level 25

Speak With Nature - Level 25

Midwife Skills

Birthing - Level 25

Check Infant - Level 25

Newborn's Mercy - Level 25

Zuula never planned for any of this. But it's all temporary. Sooner or later her job will be done, and then it's back to nature and the cycle.

Zuula was a master shaman before her death, and brings that to the table with fierce focus. Which is ironic, considering that her human trait allows experience-penalty-free multiclassing, but then she's been denying her human side for so long that she barely thinks about it anymore. In fact, ”barely thinks” is a good summary, because she mostly runs on instinct until she comes up against something she can't orc at, then tries to figure out a cunning and brutal way to get around it, relying on wisdom and dirty tricks as much as possible.

Shamans are a weird class. Most of their stuff runs on sanity, but a lot of it is best used before the fight, and there's a ton of utility stuff in there.

The main combat spells she has right now are threefold. Beastly Skill Borrow, which she just got after the ogre fight, will let her temporarily borrow skills from animal spirits. She's VERY happy to see that back, as it opens up a lot of options... from silent flight, to bearlike sturdiness, to wolflike speed... there's pretty much an animal out there for every situation and she knows them all. Call Vines is a good hindering spell, entangling and wrapping foes. It allows decent battlefield control... at least against monsters that can't tear right through the vines. Slow Regeneration is the last, healing a target over time. It's a good one to toss on before fights, and best of all, it seems to work on golems. Unlike clerical healing. Which just goes to show that nature is way smarter than stupid wimpy gods.

The rest of her stuff is utility, and has mainly noncombat benefits. Dreamquest puts the target into a trance, and gives them blurry visions of the future. Kind of. Sometimes they're of the present, or things that never were. It's weird. Fated Preserver is a passive, it marks her as a guardian of nature to other guardians of nature, and boosts her fate. Poison Resistance is a great defense... which golem body pretty much renders moot. Secret Herbs and Spices lets her track down the plants she's looking for in the vicinity, and gives her the ”Herbalism” skill without having to take the Herbalist Job. Speak with Nature lets her talk with natural animals, plants, and nature-related monsters. Of course, not all of them have much to say, but hey.

Zuula is also a practiced midwife, and relieved to see that as her levels rise again, the old skills are coming back as they were... no need to practice them all over again. Newborn's Mercy gives any infant she slaps it on a luck boost. Check Infant lets her look at baby's status screens... a thing that it hasn't occured to her to try on her new party members. Even though it totally WOULD work.

All in all, Zuula wants to regain her shamanly might and kick copious amounts of ass, while making sure her family is in a good spot before moving on. Although... she IS actually having fun with this new existence, more than she thought she would. And though she spent her first life shamaning and doing shamanly things, and leaving all else to other people, she knows that if more jobs open up, she might be tempted to branch out a bit. But to what?

Certainly not cleric or oracle. Gods be puny! And not cultist, because dark powers are stupid and have suckered orcs into doing their dirty work for way too long. But there's plenty of other stuff out there, and there IS that human skill she's been ignoring all her last life.

She will wait and see what comes. Yes, that is wise...