Drabo Twigfook

[scrappayeti]

Drabo was one of my more successful characters to date. He was made primarily to walk the Steps of Sanq. I wanted to make a rounded evil character who didn’t just rub his hands together and cackle maliciously while summoning zombies and clubbing harp seals. I wanted him to be bad for a reason. Drabo's fall from grace came from a combination of ‘ends justifies the means’ morality to fight H’bala, and some truly terrible assessments of the frescos in the Last Keep.

His two major achievements were creating the Convocation of Gallants and walking the third to seventh Steps of Sanq.

Lets start with some action shots to get you in the mood:

In this screenshot we see level 4 Drabo honing a combat technique he would use over and over again on his climb to the giddy heights of level 10.




Here we have a nice action shot of him firing sling shots from behind. Another Drabo polished fighting technique.



Here is where Drabo met Englerose, a character who turned out to be highly influential to Drabo. Since things were going so well here, and everything appeared to be under control, you can see Drabo is practicing yet another of his best combat technique in the bottom left corner.



After he received his awesome tuxedo, Drabo was able to do some actual frontline fighting.



This was an epic fight from the Seventh Step. Now you know about as much about what was going on in that fight as I did. I think I cast at least three attack spells after all the enemies were dead.  




Now a few things you maybe didn’t know about Drabo:

Drabo went to the Underdark – here is a slave break that went smashingly. And by smashingly I mean that we were smashed first by some Duergar and then an Illithid. Difficulties resolved by throwing thousands of coins at the problem. Another combat technique Drabo excelled at.





Drabo was a Stargazer for a day.


Drabo was a Hobgoblin for a day.




Drabo was a human for quite a few days.




Drabo was a Ruby informant. (Wait, say what now?)




No really, here is the phat loot for proof.



Speaking of phat loot, here is the uncensored tuxedo of awesome.



And the phattest loot of them all, the unlimited supply of which drove the Mortals of Sanq to glory.



Warning, constant consumption of evil muffins may cause headaches, nausea, incontinence, erectile dysfunction, rapid alignment shifts and fervent, sinister loyalties.

[21:27] One more point I'd add, is that you should incorporate to your RP the fact that....
[21:28] .... after such extensive consumption of evil muffins, exposure to the energies of the City of the Ancients, etc....
[21:28] Drabo is changing. His loyalty to the Empire becoming somewhat fervent, sinister. Pure practical delusion and hope for destroying H'bala can no longer really explain his actions.

Here are a few pretty shots of Drabo chilling with his mates.






 





That last one was Emlyn walking into the Nightriser base alone after the Sixth Step. Team evil all wanted Drabo to order Emlyn’s death, but that was not Drabo’s way. Drabo may have turned to unmitigated evil, but that is no excuse for rudeness!  

Here are the team photos:

Step Seven crew.



Step Seven went so damn well I took a second team photo, this time posthumously.



Step Six crew. This screenie shows our pimped out faction HQ, complete with piles of gold. Ahh, Widdles, if only you had lived long enough to see it…



Step Four crew (there was no real team photo for Step Five, since we got team nature to do it by proxy. I mean, is there any evil faction that doesn’t get the druids to do some of the dirty work for them? Its almost evil faction industry standard by now).



Step Three crew.



Yup, soloed it. d(^_^)b

Here is the biggest gathering of the Convocation of Gallants, right before they went off and chopped down some tree. I have a thread of screenies from this event, so I wont put more here. This was, however, the best thing Drabo participated in that wasn’t fed to him by a friendly DM on a platter.



Speaking of trees, here is Drabo looking small and emo under another tree.



Despite joining team evil, well, sort of being on team evil right from the start, Drabo was really very dedicated to fighting the Maiden. So he had a slightly emo period from the time of the defeat of H’bala until his death. Drabo happened to be trimming his nails when he learned the news…  



Finally, a few screenshots from the various steps:
 
My only halfway decent screenshot from step three. It wasn’t the most visual Step, but more than that, I was so far out of my depth my hands were shaking the whole way through, so I couldn’t get a decent screenshot.



The end of poor Widdles. Note to self, when negotiating with dragons, always bring at least one expendable party member made of gold.


 
Big Barra always looks better in silhouette. Here he gives Team Sanq a stern talking to about the naughtiness of training mobs into the faction base for cheap xp.



Here Big Barra (still in silhouette) gives a classic evil speech, as we all try to ignore the mosquito bites and look appropriately awed.



On the Seventh Step, Drabo takes a needed rest break from fighting dinosaurs.



Drabo’s last moment before he, and for that matter half of Toril, are consumed in the end of the world. Worth it.



But here is my favourite screenshot, Fourth Step, meeting Rabba for the first time. Couldn’t have been more epic if I had a brass band playing live behind my computer when we entered her lair. Just. Fucking. Awesome.


I would like to thank the numerous players and DMs who made this character so entertaining to play. They are far too many to list in person. I was also lucky enough to have some really solid DM support at key moments. For the first time ever I felt like I was thinking along the same lines as the DM team, looking back there were absolutely no hitches:

[21:38] Scrappayeti you have written the worst, most horribly unreadable app ever.
[21:51] Apps should not be written in a "choose your own adventure" style.
[21:51] -trust- me

:) Who knew, right?

Look forward to seeing everyone on my next character in the (spoiler alert) UNDERDARK.

[Kotenku]

Great friggin' work, Scraps. Thank you for bringing Scrave along for the ride.

[Kinslayer988]

A wonderful gallery of screenshots showing the career of an equally wonderful character. Great job Scraappayeti!

[Knight Of Pentacles]

Cool

[icusmile]

Amazing stuff. That guy had some serious class.

[VanillaPudding]

OP robes. Good PC

[Zango_Unchained]

Noice pc, I love picture when were with the slaves
Drabo: "Everyone get naked look like a slave."
 Ritter: "I got this" [Puts on jester outfit]

[VengefulSeraphim]

dude you got evil crumbs everywhere, now they have to clean all that stuff up

[Vlaid]

I liked how when Efrain first got to know Drabo in the Delving....Efrain was thinking "This guy is way too slick, he's up to something shady. I know my own...", meanwhile trying to portray himself as someone reasonably goodly to this fake-goodly guy.

It was an interesting association is all I'm saying :D

Too bad I didn't stick around to see it all the way to the end, Looks like it was an incredibly ride.

(PS, I guessed you were a ruby informant secretly xD)

Another very well done PC for scrappy <3

[HalflingPower]

Garret mistakenly did step 5, woops.

(I broke the bindings my bad)

[UnholyWon]

Amazing character, and by far one of my all time favorite. Drabo had swag for days, and the biggest pair of balls. When Drabo walked up to Rabbanatha his balls played a tune of pure fucking AWESOME. Crazy skills, just Batman crazy skills.

[Howlando]

Very well done indeed scrappamonster!

[NecropolisV]

Amazing. Simply amazing. And wat... 5x per day invis???? You lucky dog you XD.

[Doctor Mambo]

Very, very cool character.  I got to interact with him briefly on two characters, and he was great in both cases.

[Deception]

Very excellent!