Description
A short and hunched over creature is here. Grey bones are visible beneath its
tattered clothing and bits of dried flesh still cling to the remains of its o
mortal body. Empty eye sockets look out vacantly from the hollow skull that
sits upon a bent and mangled spine and the wispy remnants of grey hair dangle
down toward its bony shoulders. Its gender is indeterminate as any clues that
would normally be used have been desiccated by the transformation it underwen
Long bony arms occasionally seem to move of their own accord, weaving pattern
in the air with yellowed claws. A closer look reveals that the skin has been
pulled tight over the bones, which results in the grey color and the flesh
has turned to dust where it was muscle and a sort of decaying dust where it
was fat.
Role
Background
Added Thu Jun 9 05:49:13 2005 at level 15:
Palmer Wiezel was born the son of the gravedigger in Seantryn Moden.
His father had a detached view of life based on his profession and his
mother died in childbirth. Growing up, he lived in the shack on the
graveyard itself with his father who slowly drank himself to death.
Burying his father at age 16, he moved to Arkham and began to learn to
be a necromancer.
Palmer was somewhat warped by his mother's death and by the fact that
his father kept her embalmed body in the shack that they lived in.
While this did make him quite comfortable around death and corpses, it
also made him callous about other people's deaths and nervous about
his own. While he knows that it is difficult for him to die the final
death and end up in a cemetery, he has a strong subconscious desire to
avoid that and would do anything to extend his mortal life.
Unconsciously, he feels that if he could just learn enough of
necromancy, then he could bring people, mostly his mother, back to life.
Palmer is unaware that destruction is a primary part of his life. He
thinks that he lives on the edge a little, but doesn't view his
actions as destructive. His actions though end up destroying things
more than he realizes.
Palmer is a bit of a racist, having grown up in a city dominated by
minotaurs and being a minority there in a distasteful profession. This
led his father to occasionally launch into diatribes about the damn
minotaurs and how they kept a good man from getting jobs in this town.
These harangues would also extend to the damn elves and their high-class
attitudes and the damn half-breeds who were always making the humans
look bad. Palmer chose to move to Arkham partially because it was a
human dominated city with few minorities, mostly only in the slave
populations. He does try to accept that other races exist, but he
really only feels comfortable around his own, although frankly he is not
very comfortable around even humans, feeling out of place in almost
every circumstance. He makes up for this by pretending knowledge and
experience and basically bluffing his way out of situations.
As a result of growing up poor and despised, Palmer developed a sort of
superiority complex. He became quiet vain as a youth and tends to
eschew unmatched outfits and dress as finely as he can, happy to steal
clothes from corpses as that was a childhood pastime. Despite his
rather poofy approach to dressing, Palmer is most likely straight.
However since he had very little experience with girls as a youth (not;role + surprising for someone who grew up in a cemetery) he becomes a bit
nervous and tongue-tied when around a lass. While his appearance is
nothing special, he does have a fairly dominant personality, which
accounts for his charisma.
update
Added Sun Oct 23 12:34:45 2005 at level 32:
Ever since he got the mark of Zurcon, Palmer has turned more and more
destructive. He feels his god within him ordering him to slay people
and destroy them. The only time he becomes free of this compulsion is
the moment after he has slayed the person. This allows him to avoid
destroying their clothing, which is more for the player behind than
for the character. He tends to kill anyone around him, groupmates
included, so by choice he avoids making friens lest he have to kill
a friend to please his god.
Since the becoming.....a path to insanity
Added Thu Jan 18 09:41:32 2007 at level 51:
Well, I suppose I should have updated this a while back.
Palmer has become a mummy and after a few setbacks at the
beginning, he seems to have grown into his own. He is still
destroying people, as well as destroying himself, but he
is slowly turning insane due to his undead status.
This manifests as paranoia first and then as a sort of
regression toward childhood, characterized by
ignorance of things he should know about as well as
childish tantrums and anger at both himself and others (including
Zurcon, of course, whom he blames for many, but not all
of his troubles. On occasion he can be somewhat sane, but
for the most part he is confused by his status and less
discriminating about his actions than he was while mortal.
Also he somewhat obsesses about the things that mortals can do
such as dreaming and bleeding and vomitting and so seeks
to get mortals to discuss these things. The discussions
pain him, but he does it anyhow.