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Author's note: this is a very very rough draft that I am working on. Please forgive me. (bow)

Name: Nadju Stoggs
Gender: M
Age: 23
Race: human

Hometown: Cerastes
Occupation: adventurer. *U* former mercenary/servant for hire and pirate (unknown trait!).

Appearance: sallow, pale skin, bright platinum blonde scruffy hair. about 5'6" (awfully short!) built sturdy (but doesn't look it!). Wears a nice, but very "well loved" black suit and pants, white startched dress shirt + (bow)tie, gold rim glasses, shiny black leather dress shoes and a shiny gold pocketwatch. He is always well kempt and clean (at least in public). This comes from the nature of his occupation, as being well groomed is a sign of a good servant.

He is shaven, but keeps some sideburns. His suit is always pressed and ironed, although there are some small rips in the fabric, and it deffinately has the air of an old suit. The style he goes for is "sleek and sophisticated".

for his armor, see "job description". He only wears armor when it's nessecary, as it inhibits his movement. As an adventurer, though, he will probably wear some sort of armor (probably would be a bad choice if he didn't >>;;; ). He likes light-to-medium weight armors, leather or scale. He likes having more decorative embellesments to his metal armor.


Underneath his suit, Nadju has a full body tatoo (body suit) which he recieved will working with a ____ ship. It was from one of his shipmates/pals, though he did still have to pay for its work. [refference:Irezumi ] it has a motif of . (as he is wearing a suit I don't think you'll see it... maybe a little bit on his neck + hands).

face/body refferences:
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outfit refferences: His style is similar to Watanuki of XXXholic (CLAMP)
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Personality: "Earl Grey Breakfast tea" (milky)
Proper, defensive, sweet at times and sour at others. Goes well with bread and biscuits. His favorite things are his master, afternoon tea, and novels.

His least favorite things are paper work, being late and heat.

alignment: chaotic neutral (is only loyal to his current employer (who is given the title of "master" or "mistress"))

Commong Knowledge: Sort of dowdy looking clerk that works in town. He doesn't appear like a fighting character at all. *sweat*

DIVISION Melee(heavy weaponry), mixed
JOB PROGRESSION Clerk > Combat Butler> Holy(Dark) Butler


Clerk
Melee, mixed
competent weapons handling, literate, some cooking/clenaing skill.

Clerk is a combination base-class of an warrior/squire and a secretary.
he can do paperwork and other miscelanious jobs. *u* A clerk is the class for the all-purpose servant. Most of their points are invested in melee combat, but they have some first aid + housekeeping skills, which can
equipment:
+medium weight metal or leather armor
+broadswords, longswords, great swords, hammers (2 handed weaponry)
+bucklers

basic goal: medium weight defense-oriented melee mercenary - protect xxxx from attack
mission: to protect the master! It is a class that must be illustrated moe style
weakness: suceptible to ranged attacks.

melee (+4) ranged (+) magic/other(serving) (+1)

Combat Butler
More focus on support effects . combat butlers use their housekeeping skills to help them/their associates

quite familiar with their weapon of choice and competent with basic cooking, cleaning + etc. duties.

melee 5 ranged 1 magic/other(serving) 4

basic goal: medium to light weight mercenary - protect xxxx from attack/attack others
mission: follow the orders of their master.

Holy Butler
Ultimate form! *A*
master of weapons, scholarly, housewife level caretaking skills
A holy butler is a combat butler who has truly mastered his weapon and has developed enough skills


melee (+8 ) ranged (+2) magic/other(serving) (+5)





NOTES: While I have tailored this specifically for my character, combat butlers are not a one-character class. They are an uncommon form of mercenary, who are general fighters with special skills in housekeeping. It is a type of mercenary that caters to upper class citizens who need extra security. Often the combat butler is infact the captain of the body guards, and is usually the closest to the employer, and the most trusted of the servants.

Normally, a combat butler will choose a "master" and then stick with them for a long period of time (sometimes six months, twenty five years), developing good bonds with their employer. The stronger a butler gets, the more affluent an employeer will want him. Holy butler class butlers are often employed by royalty and other very very wealthy people (politicians), while combat level butlers are more likely to be employed by other members of the upper class, such as merchants.

However, combat butlers are not limited to this. They can also get work in the way other mercenaries do, without being considered for their more servile duties. Bounty hunting, item retrieval, general adventuring and short-time body guard work are all fields open to the combat butler. the same employee-employer close relationship will not be seen, although their supportive skills will be taken into account.

Sometimes it is a possibility that combat butlers will seek employment as regular butlers, but it is rare, and far less profitable. =_=;

Most styles (schools?) of combat butlery are isolated from each other, passed down from one butler to his successor. The style of fighting and the weapon which the butler uses change, and can very greatly from butler to butler- as can the outfit, style of housekeeping, etc., but they are usually quite similar to the style of the master. One thing that all combat butlers have is their unique mixture of melee fighting skill and housekeeping-themed support skills.

The (unspoken) Combat Butler creed:

-loyal
-strong
...





TRAINING:
**important note: in this section, "master" reffers to the tutor/trainer of the apprentice combat butler, not the "master" a combat butler serves.


Their is no guild or other group that serves as a "center" of operations, for which butlers can connect and interact. Instead, it is a job passed down through apprenticeship.

The type of cooking + fighting skills that a butler will learn are taught to him by his teacher. The teacher-butler usually feels a duty to "pass on his knowledge" to one particularly promising disciple, instead of many different ones, of differing levels of skill. This helps keep butlers from being too common. More likely than not, the butler will pick one of the under-servants from his employers.

After mastering the basic skills of a clerk, the master will send his apprentice on a journey. It can range from working with a pre-selected master (usually a younger, lower ranking person, such as a 2nd prince or an heir), to a true wanderer's adventure. This is a special part of combat butler training that allows them to develop their own special skills and also social networks. It is considered an important "rite of passage".

Usually this journey will be supervised by a substitue master who takes on the apprentice as his charge. This can be a close friend of the master combat butler, or even the person that the apprentice is in charge of protecting.

It can last from six months to over ten years, depending on the apprentice. Some never return. The usual thought upon returning is: "It seems it's time for me to check in, isn't it... (wry laugh)"

Upon meeting the apprentice once again, the master will challenge him to a battle, usually passing on his final (and most important) secret technique. Once a master is defeated by his apprentice, the training is seen as complete.

Although an apprentice can desert his master during the rite of passage and still become a fully functional Combat Butler, if he does not complete his training, he will not be able to reach Dark/Holy Butler level, and cannot take on any true apprentices himself

A Combat Butler will usually take only one or two apprentices in his career, but, of course, there are outliers. Some never take on an apprentice, deeming their skills too deadly/detrimental to society to pass down.

In some rare cases, where the master butler passes away before the apprentice returns, a surrogate master will be delegated. If it is possible, an older disciple will be chosen.



SKILLS SET

SKILL 01 - lvl 1 - First-Aid [cooking] - Nursemaid -
effect: d6 +1



SKILL 02 - lvl 2 - Signature Move -
effect:

SKILL 03 - lvl 3 -


non-combat:

cleaning
negotiation


RACIAL BONUS -

SKILL 04 - lvl 1 - Defend (any* target) - racial bonus/special (double action) -
Effect: recieve damage intended for another player (1/2 success rate[1st-2nd lvl]|3/4 success rate[3rd lvl])
roll: 1d20 (must roll 11 or higher)
Nadju gets a special bonus that allows him to defend one other player from attack by shielding them with his own body. **If he has a movement(evade) score higher than the attacker, he may perform a counter. If not, he recieves the damage as if he were defending.

There is a (base) 1/2 success rate for levels 1 and 2, *The target must be within a 15ft radius of Nadju for this skill to be successful. Each foot farther from Nadju, subtract 1 from your roll.

this is a full turn action.



WEAPON

LEVEL One
POINT ASSIGNMENT Melee (4), Ranged (0), Magic/Other (1)
HIT POINTS 40
EVADE 12


author note: hmm... I have some questions about this work.

**should this be a roll versus an evade check? (well, there's not a bonuses part...)

I am intrigued by your "Combat Butler" concept XD!

As I said before, I definitely like the concept, but there needs to be major elaboration. Are you not sure where to start on that, or just haven't had the time? I would start with his personality, and then go to history, answering questions as to WHY his personality is like that, what happened to make him want to be a Butler and such. heart

Hey there. xd Just was looking at your job stuff, and it looks like you've got some numbers confused. At level 2, you get 10 points total and can allot no more than 8 points to a single area. At level 3, you get 15 points total and can allot no more than 12 points to a single area. 3nodding

Yeah, I think that's what happened. xd It may be unclear in the write-up.

Hey! :3 I was just reading about Nadju's tattoo and it sounds neat, but I'm concerned about the fact that it's very very Japanese. I'm not quite sure how something like this would show up on a pirate ship and it seems more likely to be something received if he had been hanging out in Kioni Village (our token Japantown). Were the pirates somehow influenced by Kioni? It would seem that someone somewhere along the line would have had to have gone there to see this practice, be it Nadju or the other pirates -- perhaps the ship he traveled on was comprised of former Kioni Villagers who had abandoned Kioni for some reason?

That sounds fine. Since the wiki article linked was Japanese specific, that's what I was going off of. xd