Lucky characters
Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 2:45 pm
Do you have especially lucky characters? My characters are usually terribly unlucky, their friends keep dying, they're bothered by criminals and so on. But thinking about what has happened to one of my characters during the last few years I realized he's been blessed.
Once he came to a location with just one person, a woman. An hour later the woman dropped dead. He took her clothes and praised his god for the gift. So he now has hemp pants, tunic and a coat. But he doesn't use the tunic because he hasn't quite gotten used to the feeling of having clothes.
Anyway, then he went to another place and was grilling meat outside when a guy comes outside from a house and drops two keys. Says he's tired of sitting inside and wants to go travelling, you can take those if you like. My character wasn't going to at first but then he picked them up and went inside, just to look around, and fell asleep as I ran out of minutes. So it looks like he's settled there.
He decided to make a cot because at that time tiredness still meant something. So he asked outside if anyone has a needle (there was like one or two people) and one woman loaned him a bone needle. But by the time he had finished the cot, she had already left.
In the house there's a smelting furnace (not primitive), and a curing tub. So he went to get salt. Then he made leather. Then he made himself a pair of shoes. Then he went to a forest and traded leather and limestone for hematite and a pile of stone and gathered wood and coal. Then he went back and made a stone table and crushed the hematite, well most of it. Then he made iron. Someone had taken his limestone stash but he's not really mad about it, because the limestone he had also found from the ground. (There had been such a big load he couldn't even carry it all.)
Also, recently he went out and found a dead woman and some primitive tools. But he doesn't quite know what to do with them because he has doubles already. At first he just left the woman there but then someone walked past and stole her hide bikini so he decided to bury her after all.
Also even though there are loads of animals around, he rarely gets attacked and his wooden shield usually blocks all the damage even though recently there was a pesky boar. But someone killed it. He's usually lucky in hunting too even though only wielding a longbow and has been wounded for a long time.
Once he came to a location with just one person, a woman. An hour later the woman dropped dead. He took her clothes and praised his god for the gift. So he now has hemp pants, tunic and a coat. But he doesn't use the tunic because he hasn't quite gotten used to the feeling of having clothes.
Anyway, then he went to another place and was grilling meat outside when a guy comes outside from a house and drops two keys. Says he's tired of sitting inside and wants to go travelling, you can take those if you like. My character wasn't going to at first but then he picked them up and went inside, just to look around, and fell asleep as I ran out of minutes. So it looks like he's settled there.
He decided to make a cot because at that time tiredness still meant something. So he asked outside if anyone has a needle (there was like one or two people) and one woman loaned him a bone needle. But by the time he had finished the cot, she had already left.
In the house there's a smelting furnace (not primitive), and a curing tub. So he went to get salt. Then he made leather. Then he made himself a pair of shoes. Then he went to a forest and traded leather and limestone for hematite and a pile of stone and gathered wood and coal. Then he went back and made a stone table and crushed the hematite, well most of it. Then he made iron. Someone had taken his limestone stash but he's not really mad about it, because the limestone he had also found from the ground. (There had been such a big load he couldn't even carry it all.)
Also, recently he went out and found a dead woman and some primitive tools. But he doesn't quite know what to do with them because he has doubles already. At first he just left the woman there but then someone walked past and stole her hide bikini so he decided to bury her after all.
Also even though there are loads of animals around, he rarely gets attacked and his wooden shield usually blocks all the damage even though recently there was a pesky boar. But someone killed it. He's usually lucky in hunting too even though only wielding a longbow and has been wounded for a long time.
Couldn't ask for more for them, and most of them don't have to worry too much about expenses, either.
