Luke Danebluff Duke Of Deals

[I love cats]

Luke Danebluff Duke Of Deals started out as a meer bandit dweeb stealing goods and reselling them getting his ass beat by house Orza. He found himself at odds with house Moonspear because he wasn't a fan of peerage influence in the Square. For whatever reason the Rumor Mill  refused to approve his background check forcing him to cut a deal and go around the rumor mill. While Guildmember Luke attempted to negotiate with the sibilant empire to much failure and getting the city invaded. By some twist of insane luck and absurd cowardice Luke managed to survive the march on the Sibilant Empire. Unfortunatly for Luke his own mercenaries betrayed and robbed him for 35,000 groat all of which he recovered. He was forever plagued by a terrible curse and hearing the whisper of coward and attacked by shadows.

He had a lot of shady dealings and went out of his way to have people scried on and spied on ever paranoid of treachery and paranoia around him. This spying eventually saved him from Mede. Luke was also a major fan of loans amazing enough every PC he lent money to eventually paid back. Early on in the Ring Race Luke tried to levy his immense wealth to get ringrunners to declare for him. After a very amazing deal with the Striders to get Velstra Retainers to leave the house and even getting most of their faction killed the striders stopped their war. Interesting enough Luke also did it in a way that appeared legitament and wasn't just completely because they were paying.

By some absurd luck Luke managed to get the breakers to sell him the title of Guildmaster for a 50,000 gold debt. Knowing well the power of Eupraxia, and arcane skill of Eliphas Luke decided that paying people to try and kill them to remove his debt would not have been profitable and opted to simply pay his debt. Eventually Luke found himself made guildmaster and shortly after Ib'javi took issue. Because Ib'javi did not want to have a morally corrupt Guildmaster who would literally vote whatever she could paid him to do. Resulting in an epic feud and a daring decision to raid the hells themselves. Unfortunately for Luke Ib'javi had an absurd level of DM protection granting instant no saving throw DM kill permadeath for exploiting its weakness. (An expensive comedic epic spell instead of say a ring with immunity death magic. Unfortunatly I have not gotten inquiries to be able to cast a spell on a wizard to offer similar protection against axe crits and sneak attacks.) Yes it was dumb and I don't care what any DM or PC says for that matter nor am I going to hold back an unseemingly public display as Howland suggests. I can see how from a storyline perspective its a great ending and conclusion to a PC. Although you can bet in a pen and paper game if a level 9 PC kills a great villain by exploiting a great weakness and gets instant killed with not a single dice roll or a ward against death up taken into account the player is going to be less interested in playing with that DM or in this case team of DMS.

Screenshots are on discord might upload more.

[the battle of marathon]

Restored honor.

[Howlando]

Dr Dragon, you did an excellent job with this PC. Even from the perspective of a DM who doesn't frequently have a chance to get IG, it was amusing to hear about his scummy dealings and schemes. He earned what he had, and I especially appreciated how he seemed to have successfully developed a network of supporters and I was glad to see you do so well with this character. Truly one of your finest, and you have come a long way indeed in EFU.

Now as for this -

nor am I going to hold back an unseemingly public display as Howland suggests

I guess you want to do unseemly.

Point one -

(16) Do not attack blue NPCs unless you have received permission from a DM.

Having played here so long, I am surprised that you declined to observe common practices and let a blue NPC villain have its speech (or inform the DM that you were going to attack) before shooting (and if perhaps you had, some of the dangers of relying upon this quirky NWN mechanic would have been revealed to you - i.e. the ward you referenced, etc.)

Point two -

DMs are certainly not perfect, and if you have a problem with how something happens you talk to the DM in person; and if that doesn't go anywhere every player has the right to PM me their issue or complaint, and I will make a review and post it in our internal forum for discussion with the whole team. EFU and NWN is frequently an imperfect medium for telling stories, and no doubt things rarely go perfectly, and we do take issues of fairness seriously. Unfortunately, going off about this in Discord and an Obituary thread seems like a disrespectful and immature response.

[Draugir]

[zerotje]

Good job on a great PC. You always stir the pond.  :)

[VanillaPudding]

Great job DRD. You're characters are constantly at the forefront of the server driving conflict and stories. Keep it up

[Aethereal]

I just have to echo certain sentiments, that to me, Luke 'the Duke of Deals' Danebluff was by far one of your best characters ever, and I think your best character this chapter without a doubt. Why? Not only was the Duke successful by almost every metric of a character in terms of achievement - he became a legitimate Guild Master of Ticker Square! - but it was the fact that through him, you involved all sorts of characters and players of varied playstyles from the PvP-people, the schemers, the casuals, newbies, to the no-mechanical-skill pure RPers, loreseekers and everyone else in a way that suited them and yet served your character's designs!

Truly, I've said it before, that with certain characters of yours I've found it almost unbearable interacting with them but I actually enjoyed interacting with Luke, and that little role as a Staff-Writer of the Danebluff Daily we worked out for Aethelwine - that whole thing had such an amusing foundation beginning with potential blackmail turned into the strangest of collaboration.

You tapped into a winning formula, Dr Dragon. I think you're capable of the same again and if you learn from what made the Duke of Deals so great you'll restore honour yet again. Make it fun for everyone, one way or another. And if there is any poetry to the conclusion, it can be said that Luke in the end, truly dared, perhaps Dorvant didn't die inside the Prince's head after all.

[Richørd]

Unfortunately for Luke Ib'javi had an absurd level of DM protection granting instant no saving throw DM kill permadeath for exploiting its weakness. (An expensive comedic epic spell instead of say a ring with immunity death magic. Unfortunatly I have not gotten inquiries to be able to cast a spell on a wizard to offer similar protection against axe crits and sneak attacks.) Yes it was dumb and I don't care what any DM or PC says for that matter nor am I going to hold back an unseemingly public display as Howland suggests. I can see how from a storyline perspective its a great ending and conclusion to a PC. Although you can bet in a pen and paper game if a level 9 PC kills a great villain by exploiting a great weakness and gets instant killed with not a single dice roll or a ward against death up taken into account the player is going to be less interested in playing with that DM or in this case team of DMS.

That entire part is so unecessary and just stains a good ending to a storyline.

Bye.



EDIT : Now that some time passed I can give you a more thorough and well meant feedback on your PC.
Your PC was a shady dealsman through and through.
Even with all the comically-evil shit your PC tried to pull, to the socially inept stuff he said and did, to the very fact that you kept on making a very obvious mockery of Donald Trump with him and worst of all the seemingly OOC motivated comments on past and present PCs ... it was all in all pretty impressive.
I think the biggest quality of Luke as a PC was that he was ALWAYS approachable. It did not matter for what, there was always a way to get in touch with that PC one way or another, unlike other highly known PCs that can at times disappear from the public eye and only be approached by an inner circle or through hoops and loops or not at all. Luke Danebluff was a doer and a maker and nothing was going to stop him and his drug fueled binges, always open to include anyone while doing so (even if he merely planned to use those people and then throw them aside afterwards.

I think it sucks that you stain the amazing final impression that PC made and that you'd leave such a sour aftertaste by mocking the DMs publicly for their decision to have Ib'javi create a revenge-act ward for herself.
Is it cheesy? Sure is. But look at it this way.
Your PC was a nobody, just some goon. So basically like most characters. You went to something very different after having played yet another "restor honoure" screaming nutcase.
And what did he achieve? Literally the highest rank available within Ticker Square's politics. Luke Danebluff became a freaking Guildmaster. He survived events that saw so many other big crush PCs die. So many storylines ended time and time again and Luke Danebluff would just keep on surviving like a damn cockroach.
It all ended with Luke being the one to kill off Ib'javi. Your character was able to end one of the most prominent villains in the entire setting. How the flipping fringodingo are you going to talk about "absurd level of DM protection" after killing off a character that was basically untouchable before, that took the lives of so many prominent and powerful PCs to bring down? Shit, brother.

As one salt nugget to another : Chill. I might not like you but your PC undeniably did amazingly well.

[Howlando]

Dr D and I have had a good chat about some understandable frustration and all is well now, there's really no reason for you to voice your opinion here Richord.

Let's keep this and other obituary threads positive moving forward.

[Loops]

Great job with Luke. Sorry you feel rough about the ending. Can't wait to meet your next DrD.

[SunrypeSlim]

Darkness surrounds me and I am sad. Red and black demons of dread rend my fragile heartstrings with rusty, dull shears. I am become a topiary of regret. How do we go on without Danebluff? We might as well all delete our characters and continue on as cousins of CoR's Greatest Family.

I'm surprised you're surprised how anything works here. You're so good at the one part of EfU that I can never get (motivating other characters/players to action) that, sometimes, you make RwG look like a babe in the woods. What your characters do, say, and care about is so on-point and diegetic that it's impossible not to get immersed in it. A DrDragon PC has something that none of the rest of us can truly emulate: Complete unpredictability. I don't mean randomness; I mean that your characters are three-dimensional enough that they often go unpredicted, in spite of the salt mines saying they know you.

If you committed to using proper punctuation, literally no-one could match your level.

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RIP Duke of Deals.

[Hierophant]

Best DrD PC I've played with. Very approachable and always down for anything. Good job and good luck on the next.

[Drink With Me]

Luke was great. I only wish I could've been there for the finale. A regret my character will have to carry.

[Quarterdragon]

Luke Danebluff was part of two incredible moments for me, some of the most EFU EFUing I ever EFUed.  The first was the conclusion of the Great Ring Race with the double backstab, and the next was his infamous blessed killshot.  The former made him a guildmaster, the latter is what will make him a legend.