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abracafcku) wrote2019-06-08 01:19 pm
abracafcku) wrote2019-06-08 01:19 pm
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CRAU DF #1 | CRAU DF #2
❥ Name: Taako
❥ Canon: The Adventure Zone: Balance
❥ Canon Point: Episode 50, post Refuge, pre Fantasy Costco + CRAU
❥ Fandom OC Approval: N/A
❥ History: Link
❥ CRAU?: YES. He's coming in from![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
driftfleet after spending about 9 months there.
❥ Personality: Taako is the wizard of the party and a good one, but he prefers to act simple and stupid to throw people off. While playing the fool, Taako is extremely competent in his spell usage and generally astute in his observations. He realized Lup was inside the Umbra Staff quickly after remembering who she was, and tricked Garfield the Deals Warlock into giving him the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom by using The Slicer of T'pire Weird Isles in conjunction with another magical item that upped his persuasion rolls. It's simpler and better for his survival to play dumb though.
Having been on his own (or so he thought) since he was 12, Taako is first and foremost concerned about his survival. He wasn't strong or particularly good at anything when he first went on the road, so he did whatever it took to make himself useful. He learned to cook from an aunt and used that when he began traveling. He taught himself magic as a way of spicing up his recipes and ingratiating himself to the traveling troupes. After so many years on the road, he's developed a fear of abandonment and has learned not to trust anyone and look after himself. If danger rears its head, he's the first to bolt or throw someone else under the bus.
Despite that, Taako actually cares very deeply for people he feels close to. He still teases and rags on them, but can be extremely kind when he wants to be. When he feels bad for stealing Angus's grandfather's silverware, he starts teaching him magic - while still calling him Ango or Agnes. When Ren, a fan of his from Refuge, is finally pulled from the Chalice's grasp, he presents her with a certificate of completion from his bogus magic school and makes it seem like he was actually watching her magic progress from outside Refuge's bubble. When Magnus is getting pulled into the Astral Realm during the Suffering Game, Taako doesn't hesitate to jump in after him and pull him back, leaving his physical body exposed to attack. Magnus and Merle are his family, and he will go to great lengths to keep them safe.
Most people will never get to see this side of him. To most, he's irreverent, bad with authority, and a troublemaker. If something amuses him, he'll do it even if it causes someone else stress or mental anguish. The biggest examples are with the train wizard Jenkins and the Arcanist Leon. Taako relentlessly teases Jenkins about conserving spell slots, even after he's revealed to be a powerful serial killer. With Leon, Taako goes out of his way to ruin the man's day by refusing to do even simple tasks correctly. Eventually, he breaks Leon entirely by casting Mislead to have an illusory doppelganger do something correctly - put a coin in a gachapon - only to throw it at his face in reality. He finds Leon's subsequent breakdown hilarious.
On a smaller scale, Taako loves coming up with good one-liners as he fights enemies, like the famous "Abraca-fuck-you!" in his fight with Magic Brian or "Hey thug, what's your name? Because I'm about to tentacle your dick" when he's fighting Kravitz's crystal golem. It's very hard to get Taako to take anything seriously for long. He quips about spell slots and forays into 4th wall territory by referencing people and pop culture not from his world (a blurring of the line between him and Justin, his player). He's quick to loot bodies and monsters, steal from people he meets, and not care about the consequences. He stole magic boots off Merle's dead cousin, took Angus's family silverware, and cleared the Rockport Express' safe without batting an eye. The only time he's ever hesitated was when Magnus and Merle wanted to rob the Goldcliff bank, which meant committing a serious crime. He says he will rat them out the second he sees the police again if they take anything, but later steals from the Refuge bank himself.
He's very vain and loves how he looks. Losing his beauty in the Suffering Game is a huge blow to him. His ego is part of what brought him to adventuring after the downfall of his traveling cooking show, Sizzle It Up! with Taako. His refusal to let his assistant, Sazed, have a larger presence in the show led Sazed to attempt murder via poison. Taako survived, but his audience did not and Taako fled, thinking it was his fault for transmuting ingredients incorrectly. They ran together and at the first chance, Sazed ditched him, further spiraling Taako's fear of abandonment.
Taako is extremely closed off to people and won't willingly discuss his life or his past with people. He craves connections with others, but isn't willing to suffer the pain of betrayal or abandonment that comes with it. He opens up to Angus first, but chooses not to tell Magnus and Merle about going on a date with Kravitz because he likes to keep his personal life private. He constantly references himself as "Taako from TV," but other than knowing he had a cooking show, most of his friends don't know how it ended.
For the most part, Taako is likeable if annoying, resourceful, lazy, greedy, self-centered, and immensely intelligent. In the Stolen Century, he was good enough to join the planar exploration mission with his sister, but ruthless enough to need her to be his moral compass. He chooses pragmatism over compassion and needs her to balance his scales as he often chooses self-preservation or the success of the overall mission over the lives of those that might get trampled along the way. Post Drift Fleet, he's closer to his Stolen Century self because he remembers Lup and the memories of the Stolen Century, but has trouble reconciling his disparate memories and the anger he still feels over having Lucretia steal them from him in the first place.
❥ Abilities: Elven Abilities
Languages and Proficiencies
❥ Extras: He'll need to get spell components all over again which reduces the number of spells he can do right away. Items he's bringing are: the Umbra Staff, The Tentabangle (info here), and his Pocket Spa with the 24 hour limit on it.
He's going to be supporting Ohma
❥ Canon: The Adventure Zone: Balance
❥ Canon Point: Episode 50, post Refuge, pre Fantasy Costco + CRAU
❥ Fandom OC Approval: N/A
❥ History: Link
❥ CRAU?: YES. He's coming in from
driftfleet after spending about 9 months there. - When he first arrived, he met Lup - a woman who shared his face, seemed to know him, and wore the red robe of the Bureau of Balance's enemies. At first, he was cautious with her and wary of leaving himself exposed to any potential tricks or attacks, but over time he fell into a comfortable routine of hanging out with her and trusting her. Taako doesn't trust easily, but he found himself wanting to be with Lup against his better judgment and that confused him. His confusion often led to him acting callously toward her, insisting he didn't care even if he often went out of his way to help her. Slowly, over time, being together began to break the hold the Voidfish had over his memories and small things began leaking through - like her childhood nickname of Lulu instead of his Fleet-given nicknames of Stalkericious, memories of things being not as he recalled, etc. Helped along with her insistence to be honest with him and her promise that she would never leave, he began to trust Lup more and more until he actually remembered her after receiving the Voidfish's potion on their final planet stop.
- He developed several strong bonds with new people in the Fleet - most notably Thor, Loki, Carl, and Honerva. He and Thor often talked about things together, with Thor sharing that he'd almost started a war over his own hubris and Taako sharing that he actually wanted to remember who Lup is and was to him. Later, they went into each other's Calibrations and learned about their pasts. Thor learned about Glamour Springs, which later encouraged Taako to actually confess to it, and Taako learned about Hela and later about Thanos. It's one of the biggest bonds Taako created in Drift Fleet. He also wanted to please and learn more about Loki, his captain, trying his awkward best to comfort him after Loki returns from a canon update to Infinity War and making food he thinks the god will like. With Carl, Taako tried (and failed) to teach him magic, but was giving him cooking lessons as he worked at Taako's restaurant. Taako knows that Carl goes back to death, and so when he disappeared, it actually affected him more than he likes to let on. Finally, with Honerva, Taako begrudgingly and caustically tried to help her get better - chiding her for her lack of taste in food and for not being able to give Kova, her cat - and by extension her son, the affection it clearly desired. In his own way, he tried to help her reclaim her lost memory and sense of self because it echoed Taako's own struggles with the same.
- Kravitz arrived and they started dating in earnest once they got over the time gap between them. Taako started out thinking it was a dumb fling, but Kravitz was kind and understanding and handsome as all hell, so he eventually actually fell in love with him. Taako kept a distance between them still because of the difference in time and knowledge, and it came to a head when Kravitz kept Taako from seeing Lup during Calibrations. They had a fight and Kravitz explained, as best he could, about what he knew about their future. Taako eventually forgave Kravitz and they made up, but then Kravitz left abruptly, leaving Taako with a broken heart that he's still trying to pretend isn't affecting him.
- Taako tried to use the excess energy from a magically powered planet, his own spells, and the research of another elven mage, Belthazar, he knew in the Fleet to punch through the planar divide and get a message out to his home plane. He'd hoped to allow Kravitz to access a fraction of his power to contact the Raven Queen and start up a rescue mission, but the spell failed and rebounded onto him. He nearly died in the ensuing explosion and became afraid of the Atroma because he felt them push back against his magic. Later, when the chance to attack the Marsiva presented itself, he abstained because he knew that fighting the ship wouldn't get them out and he wasn't going to provoke an attack unless he knew it was the final battle.
- Magnus arrives and Taako is both relieved to see him and horrified to realize that even Magnus speaks static. The one person he knew he could trust was now separated from him, causing Taako to start avoiding his closest relationships out of sheer annoyance that he was the only one out of the loop on his own life. After Calibrations, when Lup reveals that she's a lich and that they've always been together, Taako goes to Magnus and angrily accuses him of keeping the truth from him. Magnus comes clean and is able to tell Taako that Lucretia, the Madam Director, is the one that stole his memories, but that Lup is telling the truth and that he's not always been alone. There's some relief to that, but also a lot of anger and betrayal directed toward the Director left behind.
- Thanks to learning the truth of Glamour Springs, he's started cooking on a regular basis and owned a restaurant in the Fleet. After Calibrations, a few people learned about Sazed and it made him panic, but he was surprised to learn that people actually didn't care or blame him for it. It helped relieve what little regret he still had over the incident.
- On their final planetary stop, Taako received and drank a Voidfish potion. He remembered the Stolen Century and Lup, and rather than tell her and Magnus about it - he pranked them by dressing up in a facsimilie of what he'd worn and looked like during their year on the beach.
- In the final battle against the Atroma, Taako infiltrates the ship and attacks with everyone else. Once the battle is settled, he chooses to go home with his family despite knowing that going back means forgetting for a little while.
❥ Personality: Taako is the wizard of the party and a good one, but he prefers to act simple and stupid to throw people off. While playing the fool, Taako is extremely competent in his spell usage and generally astute in his observations. He realized Lup was inside the Umbra Staff quickly after remembering who she was, and tricked Garfield the Deals Warlock into giving him the Flaming Poisoning Raging Sword of Doom by using The Slicer of T'pire Weird Isles in conjunction with another magical item that upped his persuasion rolls. It's simpler and better for his survival to play dumb though.
Having been on his own (or so he thought) since he was 12, Taako is first and foremost concerned about his survival. He wasn't strong or particularly good at anything when he first went on the road, so he did whatever it took to make himself useful. He learned to cook from an aunt and used that when he began traveling. He taught himself magic as a way of spicing up his recipes and ingratiating himself to the traveling troupes. After so many years on the road, he's developed a fear of abandonment and has learned not to trust anyone and look after himself. If danger rears its head, he's the first to bolt or throw someone else under the bus.
Despite that, Taako actually cares very deeply for people he feels close to. He still teases and rags on them, but can be extremely kind when he wants to be. When he feels bad for stealing Angus's grandfather's silverware, he starts teaching him magic - while still calling him Ango or Agnes. When Ren, a fan of his from Refuge, is finally pulled from the Chalice's grasp, he presents her with a certificate of completion from his bogus magic school and makes it seem like he was actually watching her magic progress from outside Refuge's bubble. When Magnus is getting pulled into the Astral Realm during the Suffering Game, Taako doesn't hesitate to jump in after him and pull him back, leaving his physical body exposed to attack. Magnus and Merle are his family, and he will go to great lengths to keep them safe.
Most people will never get to see this side of him. To most, he's irreverent, bad with authority, and a troublemaker. If something amuses him, he'll do it even if it causes someone else stress or mental anguish. The biggest examples are with the train wizard Jenkins and the Arcanist Leon. Taako relentlessly teases Jenkins about conserving spell slots, even after he's revealed to be a powerful serial killer. With Leon, Taako goes out of his way to ruin the man's day by refusing to do even simple tasks correctly. Eventually, he breaks Leon entirely by casting Mislead to have an illusory doppelganger do something correctly - put a coin in a gachapon - only to throw it at his face in reality. He finds Leon's subsequent breakdown hilarious.
On a smaller scale, Taako loves coming up with good one-liners as he fights enemies, like the famous "Abraca-fuck-you!" in his fight with Magic Brian or "Hey thug, what's your name? Because I'm about to tentacle your dick" when he's fighting Kravitz's crystal golem. It's very hard to get Taako to take anything seriously for long. He quips about spell slots and forays into 4th wall territory by referencing people and pop culture not from his world (a blurring of the line between him and Justin, his player). He's quick to loot bodies and monsters, steal from people he meets, and not care about the consequences. He stole magic boots off Merle's dead cousin, took Angus's family silverware, and cleared the Rockport Express' safe without batting an eye. The only time he's ever hesitated was when Magnus and Merle wanted to rob the Goldcliff bank, which meant committing a serious crime. He says he will rat them out the second he sees the police again if they take anything, but later steals from the Refuge bank himself.
He's very vain and loves how he looks. Losing his beauty in the Suffering Game is a huge blow to him. His ego is part of what brought him to adventuring after the downfall of his traveling cooking show, Sizzle It Up! with Taako. His refusal to let his assistant, Sazed, have a larger presence in the show led Sazed to attempt murder via poison. Taako survived, but his audience did not and Taako fled, thinking it was his fault for transmuting ingredients incorrectly. They ran together and at the first chance, Sazed ditched him, further spiraling Taako's fear of abandonment.
Taako is extremely closed off to people and won't willingly discuss his life or his past with people. He craves connections with others, but isn't willing to suffer the pain of betrayal or abandonment that comes with it. He opens up to Angus first, but chooses not to tell Magnus and Merle about going on a date with Kravitz because he likes to keep his personal life private. He constantly references himself as "Taako from TV," but other than knowing he had a cooking show, most of his friends don't know how it ended.
For the most part, Taako is likeable if annoying, resourceful, lazy, greedy, self-centered, and immensely intelligent. In the Stolen Century, he was good enough to join the planar exploration mission with his sister, but ruthless enough to need her to be his moral compass. He chooses pragmatism over compassion and needs her to balance his scales as he often chooses self-preservation or the success of the overall mission over the lives of those that might get trampled along the way. Post Drift Fleet, he's closer to his Stolen Century self because he remembers Lup and the memories of the Stolen Century, but has trouble reconciling his disparate memories and the anger he still feels over having Lucretia steal them from him in the first place.
❥ Abilities: Elven Abilities
- Darkvision – For a 60 foot radius dim light looks bright, and darkness looks like dim light
- Trance – Instead of sleeping, he goes into a light trance for 4 hours a day
- Arcane Recovery – Once a day, he can take a short rest and recover spell slots up to Level 6
- Fey Ancestry – Difficult to charm and sleeping spells don’t work on him
- Minor Alchemy – Can change 1 cubic feet of common, non-magical objects of wood, stone (not gems), iron, copper, or silver into a different one of those materials. For every ten minutes spent casting the spell, can transform 1 cubic feet of material. The effects last for 1 hour and then the items revert to their original materials.
- Transmuter’s Stone – Can spend 8 hours to create a transmuter’s stone that stores transmutation magic. Casting a new transmutation spell of level 1 or higher lets him change the skill of the stone as long as he’s holding it, but if he makes a second stone, the first stops working. He can give the stone away or keep it, but when the stone is in someone’s possession, it grants one of the following skills.
- Darkvision
- Speed increase of 10 feet (the creature becomes faster)
- Hardier constitution
- Resistance to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage
- Darkvision
Languages and Proficiencies
- Proficient with daggers, darts, light crossbows, long and short words, long and short bows, quarterstaffs and slings
- Can speak Common, Elvish, Draconian, Dwarvish and Goblin
- He can create a new magical focus if his wand is lost
- He also has a Bureau of Balance bracer on his left forearm that cannot be removed. It’s nonfunctional as long as he’s not in his original world
❥ Extras: He'll need to get spell components all over again which reduces the number of spells he can do right away. Items he's bringing are: the Umbra Staff, The Tentabangle (info here), and his Pocket Spa with the 24 hour limit on it.
He's going to be supporting Ohma
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CRAU DF #1 | CRAU DF #2