• PRO 12
• ATH 10
  • Endurance 13
• STR 17
  • Heat Resistance 20
• AWA 10
  • Hearing 8
• WIL 10
  • Fearsome Countenance 13
  • Loyalty 13
  • Lust for flesh 8
• ROG 12

• Tikbalangs are extremely strong. Their bodies were made to process the flesh of intelligent beings, & as such, they have strong constitutions. They are generally unaffected by the heat, & they have a fearsome countenance.
• They can glamour themselves to appear the same race as their victims, and they can vanish 4 times a day.
• Tikbalangs represent the chaos inherent in the elements, and as such, have some elemental powers: rain prediction, fire resistance, rock skin, and summoning breezes. They gain +1 to all base stats when it rains from a clear sky.

• Redsteel hook hand, +5/+5

• Cooking 11
• Survival 13
• Hunting/Tracking 13

(10:50:21 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: reading about ogres 
(10:50:28 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: any you'd like to see played?
(10:50:30 PM) Billy Ray: cool. cool cool cool.
(10:50:34 PM) Billy Ray: any that haven't been before.
(10:50:45 PM) Billy Ray: so, any but ogres and ettins.
(10:50:52 PM) Billy Ray: also, i think the agogwe page is incomplete.
(10:51:04 PM) Billy Ray: so you should probably skip that one
(10:54:50 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: http://madziar.net/wiki/Shem/Tikbalang
(10:55:02 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: is that playable?
(10:55:07 PM) Billy Ray: one sec
(10:56:01 PM) Billy Ray: yes. this is one of my favorite legends
(10:56:02 PM) Billy Ray: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikbalang
(10:57:06 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: it seems especially designed for a pirate ship
(10:57:20 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: elements?  Stat increases in inclement weather
(10:57:23 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: being of chaos?
(10:57:43 PM) Billy Ray: yeah
(10:57:50 PM) Billy Ray: and it's an ogre with a horse's head
(10:58:11 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: which is different enough for a new player
(10:58:49 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: I think he's been tamed by someone on the ship
(10:59:01 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: that's the only reason he'd stay with one crew for so long.
(10:59:14 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: not that he doesn't enjoy the work
(11:00:02 PM) Billy Ray: the red pirate his or herself is the one what tamed him
(11:01:59 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: if released from his servitude, I'd flip to see if he turns on the guy/gal
(11:02:06 PM) Billy Ray: nice
(11:02:13 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: because being a pirate isn't so bad
(11:02:47 PM) Billy Ray: yeah. and the food is good after a raid. ehem
(11:02:55 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: indeed!
(11:03:18 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: He views it as he was press-ganged, but he's taken to the life.
(11:03:52 PM) Billy Ray: so he was living in the jungles of Vada'dar (Philippines)
(11:03:56 PM) Billy Ray: near the coast
(11:04:09 PM) Billy Ray: and one day, these brightly dressed strangers entered his territory
(11:04:23 PM) Billy Ray: it was one of his "bad days" as the pirates would later describe it
(11:04:26 PM) Billy Ray: and he attacked, unprovoked
(11:04:50 PM) Billy Ray: and their leader fought him solo, cut off his hand, bound him up, and considered selling him into slavery.
(11:04:57 PM) Billy Ray: or just flaying him and using his hide as armor
(11:05:15 PM) Billy Ray: but s/he (i haven't decided) eventually decided to make use of you.
(11:05:28 PM) Billy Ray: one of her crew had murdered another member
(11:05:34 PM) Billy Ray: and she's pretty strict on that sort of thing
(11:05:49 PM) Billy Ray: so she threw the bastard in the cell with you and let you eat him
(11:06:17 PM) Billy Ray: six months later, you'd grown on her/him, and they'd let you participate in some fights
(11:06:20 PM) Billy Ray: fed you lots of good meat
(11:06:31 PM) Billy Ray: and gotten you that nice hook hand from one of their raids
(11:06:46 PM) Billy Ray: you lived alone most of your life before that, so you knew how to cook in the field
(11:06:52 PM) Billy Ray: and that translated well enough for the ship
(11:07:18 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: how intelligent are these things?  Do they live alone for the most part? Do they fight for territory?
(11:08:38 PM) Billy Ray: average intellifence
(11:08:45 PM) Billy Ray: but they're all pretty crazy
(11:09:08 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: crazy in what way?  I can do many different types of crazy.
(11:09:46 PM) Billy Ray: the kind of crazy that will lure strangers into the deep jungle, fuck with them, and then decide on a whim whether or not they will kill and eat them
(11:10:37 PM) Billy Ray: they live in small villages around one big tree, and each of them takes a section of the circle around said village as their territory
(11:11:07 PM) Billy Ray: they band together only to defend the village or go to war against a perceived enemy. given their madness, this can be anyone.
(11:12:04 PM) Billy Ray: they don't have marriages or anything. they fuck who they want, when they want.
(11:12:23 PM) Billy Ray: if a child comes of it, the mother raises the child. or eats it.
(11:13:29 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: I think, internally, my character has claimed the ship's mast as the center tree of his territory.
(11:13:33 PM) Billy Ray: basically, a society of homicidal  schizophrenic illusion-making horse-headed cannibals.
(11:13:34 PM) Billy Ray: nice
(11:14:02 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: you see, it's more that that, schizophrenic people are rarely violent,
(11:14:18 PM) Billy Ray: right, that's why i added "homicidal"
(11:14:47 PM) Billy Ray: schizophrenic people don't usually have horse's heads or make illusions, either
(11:15:09 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: for him, it's the pleasure of negotiating from a position of power, and a constant fight against boredom to keep himself "clear."
(11:15:35 PM) Billy Ray: i like it
(11:15:36 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: When he gets too bored he loses time.
(11:16:08 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: and that gets him in trouble.  Someone like him doesn't do well with solitary confinement.
(11:16:26 PM) Billy Ray: as an aside, his name would be filipino of some sort
(11:16:44 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: I'll come up with one, I have 3 filipinos in my lab
(11:17:44 PM) Billy Ray: neat
(11:17:56 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: keep in mind, he just doesn't like getting bored because that's when he makes mistakes.
(11:18:04 PM) Billy Ray: yeah
(11:18:21 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: the voices aren't too careful.  He needs something to help him keep focus.
(11:18:31 PM) Billy Ray: like cooking.
(11:18:38 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: indeed
(11:18:51 PM) Billy Ray: i think that's why he ended up a cook. the pirates noticed that he more or less knew how, and that it kept him fromeating them
(11:19:44 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: and it's fun to try and turn other people into cannibals
(11:19:56 PM) Billy Ray: haha
(11:21:02 PM) Billy Ray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1WeUhn7XKLs#!
(11:21:32 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: I think that's his current project.  It's not /exactly/ against the rules, especially if no one finds out.  And it's extra protein.  And if they develop a taste, maybe they'll all let him take on more rations!
(11:21:38 PM) ademus05@gmail.com/003A91EE: it's the perfect plan.
(11:21:53 PM) Billy Ray: hahaha
(11:21:56 PM) Billy Ray: i like it.