World Notes:

-- Character played in the Star Wars roleplay group, Cantina Roleplayers Guild .

FoE (Forces of the Empire) is a Star Wars role-playing group set in the ROTJ era more or less. The Emperor survived the Death Star II as did Vader who lapsed back to the Dark Side. The Alliance now controls a swathe of territory and the galactic civil war continues.

The club was begun way way back before the pre-quels and the two Sith rule but otherwise has incorporated much of these additional movies.

Lil began life as my second ever D&D character. I had the First Edition D&D book, Players Guide and Dungeon Masters Guide but no world, so I made up one and ran myself. This was Crossroads. It featured a world with dozens of kingdoms, small and large, and a thousand year history (in case I sent my characters back in time). Magic was abundant there and highly stylized, and the world was called Crossroads because it contained many places that were dimensional rifts.

Eventually I joined a gaming group where I now live, and brought Lil in as my 'Can she roleplay?' 'Dunno lets invite her over for a session and see before we make a decision.' character. Considering how unelf Lil is, Im surprised that they accepted me, but I played Lil with them for several months through Forgotten Realms and Ravenloft, then other characters but I always had a soft spot for Lil.

When Forces of the Empire needed a mob of characters for the Empress Cruise plotline, I dusted off Lil and added her to the list as an NPC and she was accepted. The changes that were made to allow her to exist in a sci-fi world weren't too difficult, the hard part was in Lil growing up enough to become a leader of men.

I didn't want to play a treehugging pastel wearing flower garlanded elf when I made Lil. Actually I simply rolled it and she came out the total opposite of the treehugger without help from me. Lil has the Elvish 90% resistance to some magics, and the typical saving throw. Its almost impossible to Charm an Elf or put one to sleep, but Lil goes out like a light every time. But, she cant be hit. One of my favorite sessions was when we first entered Ravenloft and the DM ran a capture scenario. A mob of rats or kobolds, some kind of short creature that swarms up and surrounds you so you always have several able to get a backstab off. And soon enough everyone else was down for the count. She bandaged them and fought on. And on. And on. And on. And on. Several hours later I had only a few of the buggers left, and John pulls three werewolves with charm ability out of thin air, Boom, next thing you know Lil is out like a light. Noone ever believes me when I say that Lil never makes that roll. Dunno why not...

One of her first traveling companions was a barbarian played by Kim. A big lout who never bathed, and everything we killed unless we buried it or burnt it first, became jerky in his hands. Not bad actually, she liked him and they got along. He didnt try to change her and except for the bathing thing, she didnt try to change him. He had this amulet he was trying to return and the DM didnt want him to so we were always getting sidetracked. One time this barbarian and Lil exploring a ruined temple together fell down a chute into the basement. The barbarian picked up a glowing black metal mace, and as we all knew had to be, was possessed by the soul of the evil cleric who had ruled there. And then naturally, he tried to kill her. This mass of muscle four times her mass and huge, couldnt touch her. She didnt have much of a weapon at that time, but nickel and dimed the barbarian into unsconscious, and this was the old style Barbarian with a million hit points.

Another time we played out a module from a magazine, "Wrestle the Troll". This was awesome. All the men in the group just HAD to wrestle the troll. Even our female thief tried it. Meanwhile there was some sideplot about dwarves and halflings in disguise, but the barbarian rechallenged the troll and should have won, actually, but didnt and got mad as barbarians do. He started a fight, and Lil ducked behind the counter for safety. It happened she'd paid attention to where the betting money had gone to, and so she helped herself, then as the whole place exploded into a brawl, ran for the door. Our thief had just gotten a horn of jumping and started blowing the thing constantly. So of course Lil fails her saves and is hopping around. She managed to make a save long enough to get out the door and partway down the street but it was a real riot. Had so much fun laughing our heads off, Kim and me.

The group we had was superb. Kim's barbarian, Gabe's Cavalier, Heather's thief. The Cavalier was one of the old style ones, son of a Lord, and god on a horse. Heather's thing was thieves and she really played them well. We got ambushed by a bunch of hobolds, like 30 of them. Which was not much of a problem really. Except they had 6 kobold archers up in the trees plonking us with arrows. We werent in much danger of dying, but eventually the arrows would have added up. So we clean up most of the landbased kobolds and the cavalier is trying to give us orders, and the barbarian is contesting his right to do so (we didnt have a party leader, we just sort of did our individual thing and it worked) and so these two stop fighting the kobolds and get into a fight over whos going to lead the party. !!! Heather and I, Lil and the thief, started yelling at the two IC and between us took out the rest of the kobolds while those two duked it out. As if we were going to follow either one of them after they staged their power struggle in the middle of an ambush. Men... but it was great fun to rp. :-)

Another of Kim's characters was the one taken from the inn. I dont recall why exactly, but there were a dozen spectres riding nightmares, and they only wanted him. Had no weapons to affect them, couldnt help him. She feels bad about that, even if he was an elf.

Lil and Hunder did appear briefly in Alt.Dragons-Inn, in the [Tower Guards] thread long enough to steal the payroll.

Oh yes, the art was done by Kim D. Davis in 1991. He hooked me up with his group, and drew pictures during games of all of our characters. Still does actually.

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