Post by Nevajas on Mar 2, 2006 22:05:30 GMT -5
Character Name: Johnny Swiftstride Goldenpockets, aka Three Fingered Johnny
Race: Rock Gnome
Height: 3’ 5”
Weight: About 46 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
If there is a core truth to his tall tales, then Johnathan Dorgan Swiftstride Bumpkin-Headed Goldenpockets hails from the island of Lantan, where he was the middle child of seven. While both his parents (and most of the children) were skilled crafters of various fields, Johnny never quiet got the hang of it. His curiosity extend more to the metaphysical and musical, and he has been the only Goldenpocket of his generation told to “stop fooling around with the Weave” and pick up some sort of hand tool. Many of his stories claim that it took several disastrous endings to various training sessions before his parents accepted that their son would never amount to any sort of smith, tailor or tinkerer, he’d simply be very dead if they continued to push such potentially volatile subject matter on him. (Johnny never explains how he managed to turn tailoring into a volatile subject. Whether or not he actively sabotaged every lesson placed in front of him is up for debate to this day. Gnomes are, after all, fond of pranks that they find educational for the recipient.)
When it became obvious that musical instruments were actually safe alternatives to picks and chisels and awls, Mister and Lady Goldenpockets encouraged young Johnathan to become a bard, praising such a career as “better than nothing, or farming.” In fact, Uncle Geoffrey Gilstro Gingerback Goldenpockets was a successful and popular wandering minstrel. Even though he hadn’t been heard from in years--ever since the last family reunion he had been invited to, where he compared the Lady Goldenpockets sister’s cooking to something he found living the bowels of a gray render he killed in the Silver Marches--Johnny was told that Uncle G was making a fine living for himself, assuming he hadn’t offended someone who left him dead in a ditch. So it was a few short years ago that Johnny Swiftstride Goldenpockets gathered his wits, money and several musical instruments, bid his family farewell and set out to explore Faerûn. While he has yet to go back home he is in constant correspondents to his family, assuring them that he hasn’t been left rot in an unmarked grave.
Race: Rock Gnome
Height: 3’ 5”
Weight: About 46 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
If there is a core truth to his tall tales, then Johnathan Dorgan Swiftstride Bumpkin-Headed Goldenpockets hails from the island of Lantan, where he was the middle child of seven. While both his parents (and most of the children) were skilled crafters of various fields, Johnny never quiet got the hang of it. His curiosity extend more to the metaphysical and musical, and he has been the only Goldenpocket of his generation told to “stop fooling around with the Weave” and pick up some sort of hand tool. Many of his stories claim that it took several disastrous endings to various training sessions before his parents accepted that their son would never amount to any sort of smith, tailor or tinkerer, he’d simply be very dead if they continued to push such potentially volatile subject matter on him. (Johnny never explains how he managed to turn tailoring into a volatile subject. Whether or not he actively sabotaged every lesson placed in front of him is up for debate to this day. Gnomes are, after all, fond of pranks that they find educational for the recipient.)
When it became obvious that musical instruments were actually safe alternatives to picks and chisels and awls, Mister and Lady Goldenpockets encouraged young Johnathan to become a bard, praising such a career as “better than nothing, or farming.” In fact, Uncle Geoffrey Gilstro Gingerback Goldenpockets was a successful and popular wandering minstrel. Even though he hadn’t been heard from in years--ever since the last family reunion he had been invited to, where he compared the Lady Goldenpockets sister’s cooking to something he found living the bowels of a gray render he killed in the Silver Marches--Johnny was told that Uncle G was making a fine living for himself, assuming he hadn’t offended someone who left him dead in a ditch. So it was a few short years ago that Johnny Swiftstride Goldenpockets gathered his wits, money and several musical instruments, bid his family farewell and set out to explore Faerûn. While he has yet to go back home he is in constant correspondents to his family, assuring them that he hasn’t been left rot in an unmarked grave.