Life Event Summary
Life Event Summary
Latest Update: 28 February 2022
Dice was born in Stanworth to Diane, a server at one of the largest casinos in the city. Diane was also a prostitute, which is how she became pregnant with Dice. They lived in a small house with a black and green Poubeast named Blight.
When she was a child (9), Dice woke up to noises of what she would realize are the result of a debt-collector who had broken into their shabby house. The intruder tried to attack Dice, but Blight sacrificed himself to protect the child the little mutt always played with. Dice panicked and ran to get help from her mother. She found her mother dead, having been killed in her sleep. She didn't go get help until the sun rose, petrified that the intruder that had killed her only family was waiting to hurt her, too.
In the morning that followed, she ran to find the Militiaman named Peyton that her mother told her to find should anything bad happen. She gets help and protection while Peyton investigated and buried both Diane and Blight. The militia sent her to Neustadt on a merchant cart.
For a time after her arrival, Dice lived on the streets. Desperate for food, she decided to look for something to eat, even accepting to steal if she had the chance. She picked up the smell of what she would learn is pizza. Sneaking around once the coast was clear, she stole a slice and ducked for cover to eat it. Her growling stomach as she ate gave her position away, and she was found out by the Racketeer as a result. He took her in, impressed by her sneaking skill set, and gave her the name Dice.
Found in the submissions and roleplays within the group prior to Summer of 2021.
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On her excursion across the sea, Dice conducted official Black Market business with transporting goods. The environment onboard was vastly different than her comfortable time in Neustadt's sewers with the Racketeer; she experienced stricter rules and was punished quite often in the beginning.
Frubber accompanied her. He became more well-behaved as other crew members had no issues with threatening the thieving Footler's life and limbs. Squish and Boop were brought along to help provide a filtered water source, but Frubber was the main one to utilize that perk.
She experienced a shift in personality, self-discipline, and improved in some areas of skill. She gained a knowledge of how to use Black Powder weaponry, making and using Skom, and an alcohol dependency while overseas.
Her language and reading comprehension skills somewhat improved, but it's hard to tell when she's intoxicated.
Getting By Onboard
Card tricks were something she continued on the ship during her time as a privateer. It's a much tougher crowd, especially since many had the same skills as her, but she used it to win booze off of her crew mates.
Learning to brew Skom
The other crew members came from a variety of backgrounds, and it gave Dice the opportunity to learn. Her reading skills improved as she read and wrote logs, instructions, and the like. She was able to make connections with some people with alchemist backgrounds, and they were willing to teach her about making poisons for a price, typically gold or booze. What she was most interested in was the creation of skom. While onboard, she would buy doses of Yellow Fellow, the name given to yellow skom, and add it to her alcohol to keep her darker thoughts at bay.
Knowing she would not be onboard forever, she eventually convinced the dealer on board to teach her how to make some herself, and for a hefty amount of gold and booze, the dealer gave her a crash course and wrote down some encoded instructions for how to brew the different types of skom.
Now that she was back in Neustadt, Dice borrows old alchemy equipment in the Black Market. When she reunites with Amalric, she'll use his setup to create Skom. The finished products will often be sold periodically in the Black Market, and she saves some Yellow Fellow for herself in a flask often seen on her belt to add to her booze.
Dice has become more distant and secretive. She shows a great dislike for talking about her feelings or state of mind, and questions of her life aspirations are met with a shrug and change of subject. She's struggling immensely with her unresolved issues, and it's actively compounded by her decision to use alcohol and Skom to ignore them rather than doing anything to face and overcome them. For the time being, her short-term goal is to start selling poisons and Skom to customers that enter the Black Market.
(Will potentially be rewritten)