Lak
1st of Sun's Swell, AE 721
Lak
Lak specializes in moving about the world unnoticed and undetected, extracting information from unsuspecting people. Most people don't know they exist, as they use a series of personas to move about the world, and that's how they prefer to work.
Physical Description
Specialized Equipment
Lak's more stablished personas:
Maelak: diplomatic envoy to the Paramars. Does meetings and negotiations when Padmini wants them to. Beautiful Yuan Ti woman with full copper hair and patterns of scales going down their back. Lak's favorite disguise.
Kalum: urchin little boy. Runs around the city when they need information in parts of town that aren't kind to the Paramar, because who's not kind to a down on their luck little child. Scrawny, perpetually dirty and grimy looking kid.
Okalna: bodyguard. Silent companion who joins interrogations for mind reading. Huge, buff, intimidating dude.
Alakme: the person who officially owns the shit Lak has - the name on the lease, on the bills, etc. A rich benefactor who "rents out" the apartment Lak lives in AirBnB style, so "don't worry neighbors if you see a parade of weird folk comin in and out".
They also use one-off disguises frequently.
Lak is a spy and infiltrator for the Paramar family, making the most of their psychic and shapechanging abilities.
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Species
Age
27
Date of Birth
13th of Bloomtide
Children
Pronouns
They/them
Gender
Non-binary
Aligned Organization
Ramblings and Emotional Distress
Information gained on Ratchet:
They're a Jendaiari
They disapprove of Mudaliar and are willing to turn coats for the right price
They know about Silla, which is a whole can of worms
Has a depressing backstory
They want to know about me. Which of course they fucking do.
Nosy motherfucker. I should have slit their throat when I had the chance.
Information Ratchet gained on me:
Not a Jendaiari
From the Kingdom of Hazar
Silla as a person of importance
(How the fuck would Ratchet know about Silla? He hasn't come over, we haven't met up outside of business, we barely fucking interacted) -> is it possible that they're… nope. Not gonna think about this.
Impulsive
Unwilling to share more information
Which fucking duh, they found out more about me in that conversation than the rest of Padmini's goddamn Inner Circle knew
I'm going to fucking murder them
[The next page in Lak's notebook has been torn out, Fire Bolted and stomped on for good measure. Said page had the following letter before being completely destroyed:]
Dear Mother and Father,
I suppose talking to a changeling for the first time in over a decade had me reminiscing. This letter will never make it to you, but hopefully there will be some catharsis to be found in writing it.
The changeling population in the Material Plane, the Jendaiari, are apparently big on community and camaraderie. This struck me as quite shocking and proof that our people have been differentiated from them for a very long time, because I could not ever imagine you to be people with such values.
You are disgraceful, horrible people who deserve nothing good in your lives, who deserve to suffer for what you've done to me. I was a child. I was scared. It was on you to hold me and tell me everything would be okay, but instead you left me. Changed my fucking name and abandoned me like the cowards you are.
I’d like to think I could have been a good person. Sweeter, nicer. If you hadn't been so keen on fucking me over from the get go. If you hadn't left me with such baggage that it took this piece of shit one question about my past to completely unravel me.
When I came to the Paramar, it was under the condition that my past would be buried. That the person I used to be could die and be left six feet under as I'm sure you hope I actually am. But now this motherfucker shows up asking these relentless questions and bringing that lonely, terrified, desperate person back to life.
So, I guess, at the end of this letter there was no catharsis to be found. Only fleeting hopes and wishes. Mom, I hope your opal eyes are dimmed into nothingness and closed forever. Dad, I hope your smell of sandalwood fades and rots. I hope that, for every day that I have suffered your abandonment, you get a decade worth of pain and misery.
Fuck you,
Lak
To do list (25th of Overlight)
25th of Overlight
[list written down in chicken scrawl on a small notebook that Lak carries with them]
Investigate the Kovar-Tuli relationship. It's not the first time something like this comes up and there's something there - not knowing what it is bothers me deeply
Keep an eye on Padmini's potential political marriage - Vimal is not to be trusted
Wait for Zeke's research to try to infiltrate the air base some other way
Overthrow the government. [letters become shakier, like the writer's hand was trembling a little] I'm not losing another home. I fucking refuse to.
Wait for Viessa's okay to hunt down her shit stain of an ex
[little marking of ink that might indicate someone started and stopped writing this last entry a couple of times before getting the balls to finish] Buy new set of lingerie for Silla's return - ask the workers at Singing Kestrel for store recommendations
To do list - Session 8
To do list (21st-24th of Overlight):
Look through Rachet's files ✅
Write down summaries and notes for Vimal ✅
Check out Temple of Continuance for Speak with Dead
Dry clean Padmini's dress ✅
Find new dress for Dahlia meeting (Maelak) ✅
Try out bigger tits? --> yes. ✅
Send Vesper a thank you gift for the potion of healing
Return sweats cleaned to Singing Kestrel ✅
Plan a fun night out to celebrate Alistor's return from prison
REMINDER: Take it easy on the spells in case the Kovars accept help
21st of Overlight
Shit. Shit. Fucking motherfucking piece of shit.
Ratchet escaped.
[You need to gather your thoughts and your wits.]
We had a plan. A beautiful, careful plan to find him and get him out of the equation.
[Was it really such a beautiful, careful plan or were you just grasping at straws to try to get to him as soon as possible? Did you sacrifice efficiency for the sake of a quicker, but less certain result? Mother and Father always said those were your faults.]
The plan went fully kaput and now he... goddamnit. I was so foolish, I was so certain we would get him that I went out as Padmini flagrantly casting spells. So now they either think Padmini is a spellcaster or they know there's a changeling amongst the Paramars' ranks. I would've made my peace with this information being out if I had at least fucking gotten him.
But no. I utterly failed in my one directive. And I exposed myself.
[You get to brood and whine tonight. Tomorrow, you start the hunt. And you don't fucking stop until Ratchet is dead on the ground.]
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