Jeb Rattles: Captain/Gambler/Duelist

[Zango_Unchained]

Hello friends, well its that time again when the curtain falls and before your eyes is another one of your pc's stories coming to a close. Jeb was my try at a few things to push some of my boundaries and try some new stuff. I really enjoyed him. He was quirky and had that extra spice to him like Echr had. He really was enjoyable for me and met his end as I always expected it would happen. Through wanton gambling with someone who never wins.

A brief look in his past can be seen here...
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Character name: Jeb "Rattles" Talbot
Race: Halfling
Class: Pure Fighter [Duelist perk taken to represent swashbuckler.]

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Past:

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Jeb used to be a normal sailor on a merchantman vessel in a trade line that worked along the sword coast, this merchant line was a privately owned guild of merchants based out of waterdeep.

Things took a turn for the worst when the sun died down and they turned to transporting of goods and food, never killing when it could be avoided and inviting people who couldn't protect themselves onto their vessel, the ship was also built into and changed in its duration at sea in these dark times, the hull was lined with boxed metal torches, and the Hull lined with fireproofed animal hides, it gave a ghastly visage to other ships on the sea, as the hides used were from anything gathered on the surface, from aberrant beasts with hides of countless and disturbing hues to that of starved deer, wolves, bears, and, likewise. The ship once called the dauntless mariner, was renamed after the fall, as The Saving Grave. As all the men aboard were certain they would die at sea, but would often save who ever they could while attacking and destroying raider vessels which grew very common with the fall of the sun. Their port of calling was a few miles south of Neverwinter.


Before the fall he was a humble fisherman who indulged in fishing off the side of the ship. Yet, he soon gave up his hobby to practice and train melting his old hooks into large knife like fishhooks.

This leads into his name Jeb "Rattles"^1 Talbot, known for using a pair of flattened and sharpened fishhooks^2, this improvised weapon would not fit into any proper sheath, so he would simply place them into metal sheaths beaten into the general shape of his weapons, causing such to rattle and cause a clinking noise as he walked. Thus "Rattles" grew to be his namesake with the sound that followed him as he walked.

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How he ended up in Sanctuary:

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He ended up in sanctuary as he was defending against a aberrant host as it invaded his humble port home by sea and by land with thrall forces from the siege of Neverwinter.

While the Saving Grave was taking refugees and running the gauntlet of drow ships to save who they could, Jeb kept the port from being over-run with a handful of fellow sailing men who were willing to give up their lives to save the ship and families.

During a lull in the fighting a final mustering of aberrant forces was baring down on the settlement the Saving grave took off, the seas for a few moments safe of nearby dread vessels as the ship mage used the last of his reagents to incinerate the aberrant ship. The saving grave boarded to near double capacity had to leave burdened down with its hold of people crawled away.

Leaving the remaining defenders to entrench in a broken down tavern by the name of Tymora's kiss and Bitches bite, holding out in this final hold, a Spellguard portal appeared on the edge of the town. The defenders thinking the ship's wizard had opened a portal to save them sprinted out for it, as the final aberrant force surged. Under a flurry of bolts and magic the defending force was burned to bones, leaving only Jeb and a handful of his luckier halfling and human co-patriots to dive in the portal before it vanished from sight leaving him in the strange illusion of the destroyed Sanctuary with a hooded man beckoning him forward.  

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A Halfling in grimy seafaring garb, on his sides are two makeshift sheaths which hold curved and flattened fishhooks with a crude and sharp edge. As he walks the sounds of rattling metal is heard, barefooted and his arms covered in nautical inks as well as two talismans around his neck, one of a raging storm and the other of a simple coin.  This Halfling seems to look at the world with a jovial eye, yet he seems quick to set hands to the curved and sharpened hooks on his sides.
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1. I got the idea for "Rattles" on this articale about halfling surnames, and how there are "Earned" names and "Family" names. Link to the Article


2. These objects will be represented as Kukuri's this being his main weapon these "fish-hooks" are sharpened and well kept by this halfer. For a size comparrision you can look at this link.
The fish hook, size comparison
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A few screenies of my time then...

I recall Jeb was once called a womanizer, thats not true at all...
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Now he called himself a captain did he truly have a boat? Who knows...
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He did go on some zaney adventures though..
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And can you spot the blue clad halfling?
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I had a blast folks, I had meaningful encounters with so many of you and it would be an injustice to try and list them as my mind would be incapable of putting all the names that deserve to be here. Kudos to you my fellow players for making Jeb come alive. And thank you to the DM team for all the help they gave me, Jayde Moon with the Starling, Mira with calling me names, Liah for making me fear ropes again, BoM who helped Jeb on the path to greatness, Halfbrood because beer barons #1, and the rest of the team for all their great work and everything you did to help make the character enjoyable.

I'll see you all on my next one, he keenly was a blast.

[GodWillsIt]

No Jeb! So many things left undone. Had an absolute blast playing with you though, great character through and through.

[xXCrystal_Rose]

You always complained about him being weak, but once he got a lot of special loot it really turned the otherwise junky build into something fearsome. He was always fun to have around! If he wasn't CG then he should have been. Always nice and selflessly helpful to anyone.

[The Old Hack]

Jeb was awesome and will be keenly missed.

[robocop]

Cool little guy. Keep the awesome coming

[TroublesomeTree]

DIED AS HE LIVED

RAD

[efuincarnate]

Wat!!! Wat!!! Man go away for a few days   :(  ...great PC Zango..!!

[Ryan]

Keenly well done.

[tinfoilhat]

'Lo Mel.

'Lo Jeb.

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Bye Jeb :(

Gonna miss this guy!

[Doc-Holiday]

Mikael's last words:

"Stay out of trouble"

The words Charlene wanted him to hear often...


:*(

[Jayde Moon]

Good job.

[Arc]

What? Well, great PC! I'll still have to figure out how you died so suddenly.

[Mira]

Very nicely done, scum.

;)

[Pool]

William has been crippled for months, Jeb was crippled for two weeks and was already healed. That man had enough luck to buy a lottery ticket and win. If only he were still alive.

God speed, you keenly beautiful gentleman of exceptional tastes. o7

[FromTheRooftop]

keenly played lad