Session 14.5 - Tragic Backstory Time

Baby years
- 3 yo, in crib, playing with squirrel cradle
- parents looking at me
- front door explodes
- parents killed w/ spells right in front of me
- 2 guys come up about to kill me (i was the target of the contract)
- goopy tendrils eviscerate the assassins, saving me
- - they attach onto one of my stuffed squirrels hanging from the cradle
 
 
8 yo
- everyone knows me by the name jackal
- rocky is very much not alive, but I think there is something more to him than meets the eye. he has the potential for something greater
- starving with my friend jimbo
- heading to the nut store to steal some nut, but unsuccessful
- scrounge thru dumpster and find some small yet delicious nuts
- jimbo goes back to orphanage, i continue looking for food
- come back to nut shop, door is open, vendor is dead, assassin standing over him
- assassin helps me get piece of the giant nut
- gives me flyer for thieves guild and invites me to the orientation
- - 12 ranks total, 12 is boss man, 1 is rookie
- - jackal is put down as my real name and thief alias
- sign up for guild, adding rocky as my companion
- run into the assassin again, his name is jim (not related to jimbo)
- get kicked out of orphanage for stabbing my bully (jimley) in the foot
 
 
17-yo
- rank 10 in guild, i actually run a small division of it in mogli
- take 1 mil gold contract to kill the nurblan prince
- in the rafters above, preparing to strike
- a shapeless apparition knocks me down and saps all my strength (now level 1)
- i run away
- i'm kicked out of the local guild due to the bounty on my head and am demoted to rank 2 worldwide
- i decide to start "anew" by taking a ship to kharkl (but first to some random land called "fortnitius" for some odd jobs and to lay low)
- campaign begins
 
 
now, in a tavern
- door opens behind us
- loud harmonic humming
- HORSE JESUS RETURNS!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?