SKELETONS GO IN THE SKELETON BAG

[Frenzied]

So I finally got Cal killed off by rushing a group of adventurers who were going about their business. The character was supposed to die during the initial rebellion but instead he survived by pure miracle.

I forgot to get any useful screenshots.

His concept is as follows:

Cal functioned as a guard up top, using his might and magic to protect the woodlands and its elven occupants. After the darkening he went mad as everything and everyone that he cared about died, was enthralled, or snatched away to worse fates by the Dread Empire. With his gods dead and his soul empty, he lobotomized himself with a stiletto to cope with the grief, effectively rendering him mentally incompetent.

The mixture of grief induced insanity and a knife scrambling his brain left him with almost every single social disorder that could be listed: He hoarded items so that he would lose track of his keepsakes that he couldn't let go of. He was antisocial, sadistic, and had the social maturity of a child. He was paranoid that everyone was out to get him, and he was incredibly bipolar in that he would fly into a rage on a hairpin trigger from an otherwise jolly demeanor.

He hoarded skeletons in particular because he realized that the Dread Empire could do nothing to his boney friends, and he knew that if he came close to anyone else they could be taken away again in an instant. A skeleton? It doesn't move, it doesn't really do -anything- at all that could bring harm upon it. The mindflayers cannot make your skeleton do anything against its will.

Despite his crazy and kooky antics he was probably one of the most depressing characters I've ever played, just because of the people who surrounded him.

He attempted to further drown his sorrows through the use of any drugs he could get his hands on, including forge leavings, alcohol, and Cimerron's liquorice. He tried to completely numb his mind so that he could survive in a new era of grief and torment.

And being in Sanctuary didn't help him at all.

Ilmateri ignored his destructive binges in the streets, his kith and kin discussed legitimately helping him -once-, and none of them ever made a legitimate move or even brought up the fact that he was dreadfully addicted to liquorice and a diehard nonfunctioning alcoholic.

The only person who brought up his destructive addiction only did so to give reason to disown him from the elven race, and he outlived his companions who were slowly getting the gall to call him out on his lunacy.

No one had the guts to confront him while they still could, so instead of becoming a functioning member of society he became a crazed menace that was given the same regard as an attack dog by those who considered themselves unfortunate enough to be associated with him.

R.I.P. Fat Elf

Oh, also. His biting people and stealing equipment and eating aberrants was all because of how badly he was hallucinating.

[fireflies]

... Shakti tried to convince him that the Moldmire was Candyland... if I only had an available DM at that time... :P

[Vault Shrike]

A petition for skeleton

Hahah, great job.

[Abandoned-1]

Amory took pity on him, when he revealed that he lobotomized himself. Then he tried to crush Amory with a boulder. He will not be missed XD

[Knight Of Pentacles]

LOL

Brilliant.

[Pigadig]

I trained him up like an attack hound on one PC, trying to get him to kill things that were a threat to Sanctuary, then helped put him down like the rabid dog he had become with a different PC.

RIP Cal, you probably deserved better than you got from your "friends".

[LordofCinder]

Mighty flamebearing weirdo.

[Ironside]

your candle burned out long before your legend never did

[Aethereal]

[FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"]Cal Delri that bumbling, overgrown foetus led me to a moment that forever shapes the fate of this world. I should thank his idle little mind for being so delightful.
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R.I.P. Fat Elf

Such a tragedy. And to think I passed him off as a 'comic relief' character.

I did enjoy his antics nonetheless - from his very debut as the raging fan at the Sanctuary Pop Quiz - just a shame I never really saw the depth you seemingly wove into him. Given time, I probably would have, but there's never enough time is there.

[Moonlighter]

Poor mad Cal Delri. By the time he met Irith, he was just... utterly insane, and I'd had no experience with the character prior. I don't think anything could have prepared my sides for his contribution to the Freedom Square riot.

Well played.

[djspectre]

I never got a chance to interact with him until after the riot, he was colorful for sure. It's hard to play a depressive character and get joy of it because the very essence has to be sadness.

Still, a great effort and after hearing about him using the catapault at the riot, I laughed my ass off.

[Pool]

Cal was possibly the most hilarious character I've ever seen on EFU since Winston's Gilded Arrow and Wombat's alcoholic moon elf bard.

It's also extremely depressing to know that he went down by a long, slow, self-destructive path.

god speed, skeleton bag elf. o7