Pathfinder (1E) B-Team Misfits

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Muse

Name:   Alyssa Nox and her friend Nikita Blaze
Race:   Human
Class:   Unchained Summoner

History:   Many generations ago, a noble girl with a free and wild heart--Luci--was betrothed to a mighty sorcerer--Nox.  As the two courted, the sorcerer came to love the young girl with desperate ferocity. 
   Luci saw the sorcerer's pride and passion.  She saw his virtues and his flaws alike. She loved him with all her heart. 
   Luci was good friends with a clever stable boy who served her family.  The sorcerer found them talking together in the barn one day, sitting close, holding hands, with no escort.  A terrible jealousy overcame the Sorcerer and he prepared a terrible curse to smite the hapless youth. 
   Luci threw herself on her knees before her betrothed.  "Amil is my friend, my lord.  Nothing more.  You are my sun and my stars.  I am pure, and no man but you will ever claim my body or touch my heart.  I will gladly scream a thousand agonies if I lie!" 
   The sorcerer's heart leaped.  In confusion, he turned the curse upon his beloved, but only to bind her oath.  The two never learned the effects of the curse for Luci's was true.  She went  pure to her wedding bed and never looked back. 
   For two generations, all of the daughters of the line of Nox shared their mother's maiden purity.  The family grew.  Fire aspected powers began to appear in the lineage.  Not just sorcerers, but also oracles and summoners.  There was even once an ifrit born to the line. 
   The family began to take great pride in the virtue of their maidens, and be sought for in marriage for this reason.  When the first Nox girl yielded to a man's desires out of wedlock, her father was so outraged that he exiled her.  Any girl would have been disgraced for such a crime, and born the stigma for the rest of her life, but exile?  Some of the neighbors whispered that this was too harsh. 
   Of course, in Taldor, many things were whispered. 
   Instead it became the custom to exile daughters who failed to live up to the family's strict standards of chastity.  In spite of this, more and more of their daughters faltered in their virtue.  Many claimed they were ravished, but they--too--faced their family's wrath. 
   The family's ties to fire grew stronger, and stranger.  A few years after the first daughter was exiled for impurity, a strange and horrible being of elemental fire attacked the family. 
   Tessa Nox didn't have any of the family's supernatural gifts.  She was mostly a proper maiden of Taldor, if a bit too good hearted to really get into vicious gossip games.  She loved swordplay, though, and used her allowance to become an amazing student. 
   The other thing Tessa loved was singing.  Though she valued her chastity, she loved the way hot eyes wandered over her when she sang...
   Maybe they were too hot, though...
   And maybe she loved it too much... 
   When Tessa was seventeen, her voice instructors arranged for her to perform a concert.  The whole audience was captivated, but afterwards, a band of men dragged her into an inn room.  There the seven men molested her deliciously.  Tessa screamed in climax more times than she could count.  When she stumbled home in the morning to demand her family avenge her, her womb was so heavily swollen from the seed of seven men that she looked six months pregnant. 
   Her family flew into a horrible frenzy.  Rather than become her champions in a quest for justice, they drove her from the family with cruel words and more than one blow.  Only Tessa's little sister had any mercy.  With tears in her eyes, she slipped Tessa some clothes, a pouch of coin, and her sword. 
   Over the next two months, Tessa found housing and work.  She trained hard and challenged each of them men who'd violated her to a duel to the death.  Tessa took her vengeance one man at a time.  By the time she was done, her belly was visibly swelling.  Tessa left to seek her fortune as a sell sword.  Within a month, her pregnancy had come to full term.  She gave birth to fast growing twins with red skin, four arms, and fire for hair.  The twins grew quickly and left their mother to terrorize the countryside within nine months. 
   Tessa was  molested two more times during her time as a sell sword, each time birthing a fiery monster.  She couldn't bring herself to hate her children, even knowing they would grow to be true monsters. 
   Then came the day that Tessa met Armand.  He was a paladin, strong and pure hearted and handsome enough to make her heart hammer and dance.  Tessa tried to avoid Armand, knowing that she had been despoiled and the best she could hope for was to make him the father of monsters.  Over the months, Armand saved her from being molested more than once.  They fought back to back against hordes of evil.  Armand's love was pure and unquenchable.  Tessa rebuked him time and again, saying only that she was impure and he deserved a maiden. 
   Every time she rebuked him, Tessa's heart broke. 
   Finally, she confessed her curse to Armand.  He looked at her with eyes that shared her pain, but he kissed her with all hear heart.  "By Iomedae's mercy i sweat to you, Tessa,  I will give you a true daughter. 
   He did. 
   Armand's pure love cleansed the curse from Tessa's womb.  Alyssa Nox was born a nine months later.  A fit, strong, and beautiful baby girl.  Tessa retired in Mendev to raise her daughter.  She keeps a luxurious home for her beloved husband to return to when he isn't crusading against the demons from the World Wound.  Her own love is not abandoned, though, young men and women from all across Mendev and beyond compete to train at her Salon.  She is once of the most respected sword-masters in the land. 
   Nor has Tessa fully abandoned her other love.  Though she has sworn that she will never sing in public again, she still sings lullabies for her daughter, and love songs for her husband, but only in privacy.
   Alyssa was born to a father who was loving, kind, and strong, but usually away doing heroic deeds to make the nation safe for her.  She was born to a mother with vast love and haunting sadness.  Alyssa loved her mother painfully, but she was also free spirited, intelligent, willful, and inspired. 
   Alyssa was singing along to her mother's lullabies from an early age.  Her voice was a thing of haunting beauty, like her mother's.  It terrified Tessa even as it touched her soul.  As soon as she was old enough to understand, Tessa extracted an oath from Alyssa that no man but her father and her husband will ever hear her sing. 
   Alyssa has chafed against this oath as she has grown, but so far she has obeyed it.
   Though not her mother's match, Alyssa is extremely skilled at swordplay, devouring her mother's instruction with loving intensity.
   Riding in the countryside with fellow students and a powerful man at arms for extra security, Alyssa chased fireflies one evening and got separated.  Finding herself alone at a beautiful lake that mirrored the moon, the thirteen years old girl began to sing for the joy and beauty of the lake.  Her song called for a companion.  They found her still there, come the dawn, cradling a read gold egg.  Her gifts as a summoner had awakened.  Alyssa kept the egg in the fire in her room and sang to it every night.  It hatched into Nikita Blaze, her Eidolon, and the small fire serpent taught to tap into her magic. 
   Tessa and Armand agreed that when Tessa turned seventeen, they would tell her the truth of her family's curse.  They went to her bedroom together on the first day of Alyssa's seventeenth year, but it was empty.  A letter waited them on the bed. 

   "Beloved Mother and Father. 
   "I love you with all my heart.  I can no longer bare the way it haunts you when I sing, or when I laugh. 
   "Please, don't fear for me.  I need to prove to you, and to myself, that I am as strong as you have made me.  Nikita and I will travel the world together.  We will face the evils you once faced and triumphed over.  Together, we will show you that you will never have to fear for me again."


Regarding the questions:
Do you want to include a PC villain or two as potential antagonists of the party? -  I'd like that.  Perhaps if Alyssa doesn't please you you'd enjoy a lusty lizard man villain? 

Would you want your character to be (temporarily or permanently) enslaved by said villains? - That would be a lot of fun. 
A link for all of us who ever had a shouting match with our muse: http://www.ted.com/talks/elizabeth_gilbert_on_genius.html

How to set this Muse ablaze (O/Os)

When the little angel won't appear no matter how many plum blossoms you swirl:  https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=135346.msg16474321#msg16474321 (Major update 5/10/2023)

Silim

Throwing my hat into the ring more officially now.

Name: Ayverin
Race: Human
Class: Magus (Bladebound & Kensai Archetype)
Curse: Stacked - Being well-endowed comes with a slew of downsides. In Ayverin's case, her awkward center of gravity gives her a -4 to all Reflex saves, and a -2 to CMD against Trip attempts.
Notable Other Traits: Very tall, standing at 6'1"
Sexuality: Pansexual

History: Ayverin had one advantage from birth and while growing up: Namely, that her parents were wizards. That alone meant she grew up relatively privileged and with education, making her a very bright and curious child. This curiosity would come back to bite her in one particular way, though, when she was exploring her father's workshop when he was out despite being told not to. It just so happened that one unfinished potion he had left on the stands had a very distinct, nice smell and flavor.

Thankfully, it wasn't poisonous, but the effects of an uncontrolled, unfinished magic potion containing elements of an Enlarge Person spell did take hold. Ayverin's growth was accelerated heavily, and no amount of scolding her would stop that. Being always one of the tallest kids and later teenagers had both advantages and disadvantages - very few would mess with a girl two heads taller than them, but it was also virtually impossible for her to find a boyfriend.

Frustrated, she went deep into the studies her parents enabled for her, but wizardry alone just wasn't doing it for her. Instead, she also began taking combat lessons from a retired adventurer running a bar, and soon enough, was reading books on how to combine the martial and spellcasting. How to master a weapon and yet develop arcane strength that would frighten monsters. In short, she began training to be a Magus as an older teenager, with her sights set on becoming an adventurer.

Stubbornly building up her grace despite her now rather annoying 'bodily malfunctions' from the little childhood accident, she became one of the many adventurers of Golarion, but always lagging behind others like her quickly doomed her into never being seen as one of the best, like she wished to be. However, at least her single-minded focus on mastering the scimitar was rewarded - something had taken notice of her. What was this entity, and why did it take the form of a mostly-black sword in her favored form? How come it could speak to her? A mystery to figure out, as she attempts to overcome herself.

Notes: At level 3 she'd have her Black Blade to start out with, so I've included it in the backstory a bit. There's a lot of potential for fun shenanigans of many kinds with an intelligent sword that can actually dominate its wielder, so making it either a reckless gung-ho sword or even an actually very perverted weapon out to get Ayverin into (and eventually out of) a bunch of sexual situations could provide some fun possibilities for the kinkier side of the game. Also as a Kensai Ayverin not only doesn't, but can't wear armor if she wants to use her abilities, so hey. We can all see where THAT will go, can't we? :p

Experience wise, Ayverin is mostly just frustrated and has maybe had a boyfriend or two at best, and even then not for long. She's got a bit of a "work before fun" attitude which probably didn't help, so being confronted with the lewder side of trying to get into those dungeons and back out will be interesting.



For the villain side, I don't have anything in particular planned out, but I'd be happy to play one, of any gender that might be wanted. Probably a Sorcerer who is more 'Chaotic Idiot' than Chaotic Evil or Neutral, of the kind that thinks everything can be solved by liberal application of more fire magic. Sort of the 'quirky mini-boss' who'd probably has quite a bit of fun when playing around with captives, but who is also too much of an idiot to really keep any enslaved heroine as such for long, and might very well get the tables turned on them or can just eventually get converted to working with them instead, if its just enough fun to do so.

helvorn

'Stacked' as a curse; I like it!!!!  :)

PixelatedPixie

I have sent a PM to the group I decided to go with.  Thank you everyone for your interest/effort/applications and apologies that I couldn't take you all :-(

I may accept a villain or two at some point, but will probably hold off for now as I get the main group set up.