Mriri/ Iririm - Shadow Tiefling, Sycophant Slave, Annoying Demonspawn Wench

[granny]

Born the Gods know where, slave at Waterdeep, Underdark (squids, aka Illithids), Ymph and many other places in all her little 25 years of life. Sorcerer Scion, with heritage yelling backwards a Night Hag and a Shadow Fiend. No, no... no Rakshasa or Set bloodline... she ran around like a crazy cat hissing and speaking like a snake more for personal traits than anything. Sorry for misleading some of you...

From the Night Hag she inherited the ability and luring need of walking through the dreams of others. Also, the cackling, the ocasional burning amber eyes, the blue skin, the odd hair and the long talons.

From the Shadow Fiend she inherited her shifting shadow and her empathy towards the shadow creatures.

The concept of Mriri's came from the idea of "radiation of nightmares", some idea I got when planning her and reading many files about tieflings. My first thought was to app for a Shade (thanks, Mr. Grendel for helping me to think that it would be cool), then I adapted the idea into one of the subraces available and rethought it so it would be more viable (thanks, IxtheSpeedy for helping me into thinking deeper about it). The radiation of nightmares is something that happened to a sorcerer that was a scion of a nighthag and a shadow fiend, alike Mriri. The only difference was that she was stuck into her own dreams, in comma, and whoever approached her would fall into them as well, meeting their own nightmares as if they were real. Shadows and dreams shaping their reality.

Mriri proved me that Diviners could be really cool to be played even mechanically speaking. I gone with her into a hybrid of diviner, conjurer (goals of GSF on both) and melee pugilist. She didn't frustrated me on combat, not even PvP (epic fight at the side of Kali-Ma during that crazy Sanitorium event). Although I always prefered to run from PvP combats, using her one time per day darkness ability (aka, "her shadow spreads into an impossible size, enveloping all").

I had big plans for her...

[INDENT]- to have big, imense fun, making crazy and creative things with her (holy hell, yes! we did it)
- to have a big, meany and powerful master (she had many: Kali-Ma, Pebs, Kross, Thalavar and even Razul);
- to control her shadows and dreams (never trully achieved);
- to spy for her master using the dreams of their foes (never trully achieved);
- to spy her own master (not achieved either);
- to receive dreams of events that might happen on the server before hand (no);
- to create a group of seers (no);
- to create a cult for Shar (no).
[/INDENT]

She had many twists during her career. The first big one was when Kali-Ma (thanks a lot for being such a meany big bad mashter) decides to offer a ton of mistlockians in sacrifice for a demon. From there, she would never see him again, at least not in that shape. She is hold captive by Caliphars inside the Enclave and not allowed to leave until further notice. While Kali-Ma runs to death, she is kept at Kross' side (big times with leshons and all), who slowly becomes her master. These were fun times, even if we only spent days and days only RPing, not doing too much other than that. At that time, she managed to mentally torture Kross and Bikka, trying to weaken their relation as Mriri kept making Kross to hurt herself at the same time she managed for Bikka to know about it. As Bikka hated the relation master-slave, it was painful enough to give her the last reasons for turning towards Loviatar (not the initial wish of Mriri, but good enough).

Then, Kross disappears from Mriri's life and she turns towards the Conglomerate, trying to know what happened to Kali-Ma. There they decide to help her into getting rid of her collar, what it's not done, but new ties start to be cultivated. A pity they don't last neither. Then she's captured by Pebs, with whom she has the craziest conversation of all, if it's possible to call that a conversation (both of them talking about separated subjects, not answering each other).

A dream about a snake that enjoyed eating eyes (a local legend of where I live) and a dream of an old lady waiting for her at Gulls Rock (weee, eyetention... thanks, JaydeMoon) was what brought me the eyes quest, giving a lot of purpose to her and managing to put her into interaction with almost the entire server.

Things keep calm a bit, she still confidant of being able to go wherever and whenever she wishes until Ramsey Vere, from the Aberdens, start seeking her for the crimes of Kali-Ma. Even she telling him that she was locked at the Enclave at the time, he keeps up with the accusations (although, she was free when the massive sacrifice happened). Seeking help within the Enclave, some Caliphars agree to help her, making public her innocence (that she misleaded them to belive), but none of them make a really convincing poster about the subject and she's captured during an invasion of Orcs that she tried to counter when looking for the eyes of the Orc Warchieftain. Many accusations are made, no proof offered, and she's killed in front of a mob by the orders of Emily.

Her body is taken back to the Enclave and there she is resurrected and then punished. The collar was taken off her neck, leaving a horrendous scar and two of her fingers are cut off her left hand (-1 dex, sniff). That was a relief to still have a character to play at that time, but also it was kinda hard to keep going on at the time. She had lost everything and had to manage to keep going shinny and interesting. So, I took a break. When I'm back, she had lost even her bed (no place to sleep, oh noooo!) at the dormitory. At least, she kept the key of the "Floating Rock". That's when Razul changes her name to Iririm (so I could log on and most of the people don't notice that Mriri didn't die) and officially poses as her master (not that exciting to share attentions of a master that holds another bunch of Nebezzduons and Caliphars).

There was still something on her: the eyes, the seek for eyes didn't end. But how to keep it up and still go on with her dead profile? That's when I decide to use her shadow in the form of a crow once again. And that's mostly through the eyes of her shadow that she saw the world in her last days of life.

The mimic guessing game was the way that she communicated her needs and was through it that she convinced a couple of interesting PCs to help (THANKS A LOT TO YOU GUYS and, sorry, I'm not telling who really got into it till the end for spoiler reasons... the screenies that follow about it don't necessary list these ones, as many interacted but not as many decided to help).

The times as a shadowy crow were really fun. My big thanks for everyone who played along with me... I'm really happy with the return.

On the last days, she got her only one DM loot (thanks, Howland), a ring that granted 3 times per day invisibility (no screenies of it to make you all jealous, sorry). But that was no issue at all as being a slave you get more sponsors than you can think. All her masters were pretty much generous (to keep her as a slave Kali-Ma spent up to 4k and Kross 1k, not mentioning all gifts they gave her)... well, that excepting the greedy Big Eye, aka Razul, (who only gave her a dirty brass trapped collar, that was also taken away), and the quite confused Pebs.

And then, she dies. Trying to recover the masks her former master was looking for. She did little to retribute all Kali-Ma did for her (even she being the slave) and this was one thing that she thought she should do, at any cost...

... at the Fugue Plane her soul is demanded back by her Shadow Fiend ancestor, which is then melted into the personality of the shadowy abyssal being... there is little that you hold yours when you're a shadow tiefling. Not even your soul belongs to you.

For everyone that somehow interacted with her or had a good/ bad time thanks to her: you're free now to be stalked by crazy nightmares of a night hag pushing down your chests during late night! The ones that loved her,
the ones that hated... the ones that tried to kill or to keep her alive!

And for the ones don't mentioned, I'm sorry, I interacted with so many that I lost track of quite a few cool things... I even thought I had more screenies than I actually had...

Damn... there are so many things to say about her, as it was so much fun to play her... but this post is already too big (not as big as my 16 Personal Character Notes, although... if you want to know more maybe someday I make them public). So, here they go, my screenies ^^:

auction


crazy moves


reed's fast teaching techniques (a must see one)


kali-ma's failed tries of torture


how kross' balls were related to math class


watching kali-ma and his alchemy rituals


monsters questing together


big times as a crow


trolling


the crow sees (heh, markin)


the shot from one of her last moments, trying to retrieve the masks of her deceased master, Kali-Ma

[The Old Hack]

Wonderful character. Ekaterin was absolutely terrified of her and was hugely relieved when she learned of her death (even if it turned out to be temporary later, Ekaterin never knew.)

Good luck with the next one :)

[KreShar]

Best master/slave duo ever. Had some great times in the Conclave together

[NecropolisV]

Awesome :D only interacted with her once but that one interaction actually led to a bunch of davians mental problems and ended up giving him dual personality's. Davian and the original davian. Was fun though and you managed to confuse the crud outa him lol. Good run though! Let's see what ya cook up next :P

[Bobbybrown]

Now i will never hear shlimemage ever again, kudos, good luck with your next.

[Knight Of Pentacles]

Those Conclavists are all a band of jokers...

[Frog Witch]

I so wish we had gotten chance to interact with each other in game. It looks like I missed out! Kudos!

[UnholyWon]

Awesome character and I enjoyed our interactions together. Good luck on your next character!

[Xnyth]

I see about three of my characters in the screenies of her.. That's funny.. But yes she was fun. The three characters I played during her life got to see all sides of Mriri.. Good job.

[Calixto]

An intereshting character, it is a shame I did not get to interact with her more!

[granny]

oh, I forgot to troll about something

THE CONCLAVE NEEEEEVER WROTE A SINGLE FILE ABOUT MRIRI ^^
tsk tsk

[Dr Dragon]

An awesome character. Pretty much Kali MAa made the mistake of letting Reed be a teacher.

[xXCrystal_Rose]

Stop dying on meeeeeeeee! <3

[el groso]

Markin Buckbane always thought the crow thing was an omen and a message to Caermyn. :)

[granny]

Markin Buckbane always thought the crow thing was an omen and a message to Caermyn. :)

and you don't know how much I loved that! ^^
anyway, the thing was serious! there is this guy who thought the crow to be the soul of Markin coming back from the death!