Age of Worms Adventure Path

Fern

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"Dancer of Death"

That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

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Name: Fern Nodelo

Race: elf

Class: Fighter 3/ Swashbuckler 3/ Duelist 6/ Duskblade 1

Alignment: Neutral Good

Gender: female

Age: 141

Height: 4'9"

Weight: 83 lbs.

Hair: long and silver, braided down her back

Eyes: Tangerine

Armor/clothing: An ancient dress, obtained from the Tomb of Icosiel and retailored to fit her loose, but modest style, as well as to trim off the few feet of extra length that made the dress more appropriate for a Wind Duke

Weapon(s) of choice: diplomacy, intimidation, blatant fabrication, or her 'scorpion chain' (think straight-bladed kasuri-gama), all delivered cheerily

Tactics: Moves fluidly through battle, dancing and spinning to confuse her foes into attacking one another. Fights defensively, and recklessly with little apparent distinction.

Fern Art

More Detailed Description of Fern

Fern vs Grammer

A Quick Glance at Fern's Family

Nightmares

Fern is a tiny, silver-braided elven woman bedecked by many flowing ribbons, wielding a gigantic spiked chain. She became known as the "Dancer of Death" from her nightly show at Zalamandra's, where she would demonstrate her skill by attacking wooden targets, live vermin, and, in a crowd-pleasing climax, an enormous melon, dancing nimbly to music all the while. Fern loves dancing, and she dances happily through life, oblivious to much of what occurs around her, never hearing, never noticing, just frolicking and cavorting through town and dungeon alike. Fern has a cheerful voice, a sweet smile, and is very, very dangerous. Her notable moments include having dinner with Alastor Land's ghost, trying to surprise the party by burning away all that icky brown mold all by herself, and very politely blackmailing Balabar Smenk over a game of dragonchess. She no longer tries to give Filge the gift of gardening, even though plants are good and that is what her big brother told her so it must be right, because the adventure has moved to a much bigger scale than diamond lake, but the poor guy could always use a litte more joy in his life. After rescuing Threshk from his stoney prison, Fern has quickly bonded with the tiny psuedodragon, who has no issue with being adored and taken care of.

She seems to finally be getting over her non-breakup with Vincent, and has finally made a move toawrds having a real relationship with Bastion rather than just tease him and see how much she can lead him on without upsetting him. Since recieving her title of Lady of the Free City, Fern has shown an ever-increasing vanity, somehow still tempered by her hard working mindset. Most notably, she has spent nearly 10000gp on purely stylistic elements to her clothing and magical gear, from an extra 2000gp on her bow to her 3000gp dress and another 2000gp on her magic ring, as well as many other small expenses put toward her ever eggrandizing style.

Thomas is a little annoying when he claims to be some great wizard and a diviner at that, but he rushes into everything and relies on hitting things with a stick so often and doesn't seem to ever understand how local politics work, or how not to get everyone engry at him like he seems to do all the time and it shows a certain lack of foresight that confuses me even though he has proven multiple times that he is an invaluable teammate during adventures even though he seems to be trying to win all the time, even when its not a contest.

I sometimes wonder if Thomas still remembers that we are trying to be heroes, or if he is just using our battle against the forces of the coming apocalypse as an excuse to get 'loot'.
really wish Thomas would learn that the greatest treasure of all is facing death and knowing that you are still alive, not the belongings of relatively innocent henchmen.
Perhaps Thomas is the monster to be blamed for the treatment of Filge, and not Sorin. How can humans believe so strongly in their superiority over all other children of the Gods?
How horrible it must be for Thomas to face this 'magic tax.' If only he could open his eyes to what it really is. If only it was something not to be concerned with.
For someone who just got in trouble for being too 'common' for his noble blood, Thomas seems rather willing to do things better left to manual laborers, I hope he doesn't get grounded.
UGH!!! Could he have treated that poor girl like any more of a non-person!?! And it was his wonderful humans who turned out to be mimics!
Am I being unfair to him? It seems that no matter how much I've tried being nice, he still thinks poorly of me, so now I am letting him know that I can be mean to him too. I hope I am not being to harsh, he is still a friend, even if he isn't the best person in the world.
Ever since recieving the title of Lord, he seems to be growing more and more elitist. He was never exactly a down to oerth guy, but now it seems like he honestly thinks that he is just plain better than the average person.

Filge makes me kind of sad because on the one hand he has raised a bunch of people from the dead and doesn't seem to hold life or death as sacred, but on the other hand, we did some really bad things to him and I want to make him happier so that he won't feel so bad aobut it, but sometimes I almost feel like we are scolding him and trying to teach him how not to be selfish and evil, but I just don't know if that is the right was, but at least we know that he has learned that we can all be friends even if we broke into his house and beat him up real bad, but he kind of deserved that then, but now he deserves an apology and I don't quite know how to give it to him.

He doesn't seem to understand why flowers are good... I think his parents are to blame for that.
His new strategy of avoiding combat works very well for him, and he can even offer us some support in battle still. He should teach that to Croi also.
Terror is an element of his power. I'd never thought of it until facing arcane fear myself. Filge deals in horrid magics. But it's okay as long as he's fighting for good, right?
I wonder how he will feel when it comes time to deal with Smenk more intensely. But then again, I'd love it if someone would knock Thomas around a bit.
I think I finally trust him at least enough to know that he is thinking with the party's interests in mind, but not enough to think that he doesn't want to keep doing evil things, but so far he hasn't so maybe I should start trusting him about not doing evil things soon also.
When did he learn to heal?!
Studying paid off! Thanks so much to Filge for teaching me that people can take new directions in life, and for letting me read his spellbook every night, even when he didn't know about it.
Funny thing about it is that as Thomas becomes more and more aloof, Filge seems to grow more and more friendly. He's still a bit sarcastic, but I think that might just be who he is.

Vincent is exciting and adventurous, like a pirate prince from the stories I heard when I was a kid, but somehow I always thought that swashbuckling heroes were cuter and real elves, because I don't know what he is, but he says he's an elff, and I just don't believe him anymore, so hopefully its nothing bad, and he'll keep working with us and adding his amazing skills to the fights.

He's been acting kind of odd recently, like he doesn't want us to know something
Before I tell Vincent that discretion is a part of valor, maybe I should heed my own advice, but I still don't think he always knows what he is doing.
A Demon... how painful, maybe he really is part elf. I can't let him get too fatr away now. And I used to try to keep him so far....
I hope he doesn't get in trouble with this magic tax. We are all walking a fine line, but for some reason I think the axe might fall most heavily on him if his nature reveals itself
Cheater. And now acting kind of jealous, and I am kind of taking advantage of his jealousy, but it is kind of funny to watch him get upset, as long as he keeps his cool and things don't get out of hand.
Why did things get so wierd... and why is it that I can't help but be mean to him even though I want to make everything okay for him?
I just don't know what to do. I want to help him, but I know that only he can help himself, and he seems so withdrawn recently. I do NOT trust that brooch.
Well, he never did find his way back to us. I guess all he really was looking for was the chance to sail on the open sea. I'll miss him, but I've moved on, and even if I hadn't, I wouldn't want to try to hold him back from his dreams.

Chime is so adorable most of the time, but he gets really dark and spooky sometimes, and I can't help but wonder if maybe growing up as a half-breed has made him a very sad person deep inside, and that is why he seems to somber so much of the time and seems to act like he needs to prove himself in some glorious way even though we don't need him to prove himself, because he is already a great part of party morale and sometimes it almost feels like his inspiration is the razor edge between our victory and death.

He seems to be getting a little spookier, I hope he is okay.
I think Chime needs to spend less time around Vincent, he's acting more reckless recently.
Oh, that poor child. He wants so much to be a hero, but doesn't see that he already is one. I hope he stops trying to get killed to prove that he can save people.
He's been spending too much time at the Boneyard, if you asked me. Does he know what those Clerics do? He must. But that means....
He has been acting wierd about Drowish things recently... I wonder if he grew up as one of thier slaves or something?
Chaim is getting nastier and nastier recently. I think its those cultists of Death and their teachings.
I miss Chaim. I hope he is okay, but I am kind of afraid to find out. Why did he sneak off like that in such dangerous times?

Croídhamhsa is such a nice guy, but sometimes he seems a little narrowminded, but maybe I should be more scrutinous in my decisions, and not let convenience or adorability affect my stance on things like undead, which I think Croi is finally getting used to even thouhg maybe he shouldn't and none of us should, because if we all had heroe's hearts like Croi, we wouldn't need to yield on our morals and welcome undeath into our party.

I'm glad he is felling better about Filge and Motey, I just hope he means it and isn't just tolerating them.
I really feel bad saying this, but Croi needs to stop trying to get hurt, because he is a great healer and can summon great allies, but I feel safer with Thomas II fighting at my side, because he actaully can.
How fun it must have been for him to meet Hishka. They sure seemed to talk alot.
He flew ahead to save the party. I'm so glad he finally sees how much he can really help us, without getting hurt in the process.
Wow, his beasts that he summons are awesome!

I am really happy to see Croi having fun without endangering himself
When did he learn how to fight? When did he became a raging force of nature? Does he still believe in healing and life and all that stuff?
I used to think I had a clue about how magic worked, but now Croi claims that what he does is natural and what the rest of us do isnt. I understand that he is empowered by the primal essence and stuff, but I'm rather skeptical that anything that turns a man into a treant or literally drains the life force right out of a person and into another is natural, if it is unnatural for Thomas to shape stone.

Talin gives me inspiration to be a better person, when I am so caught up in the moment, she has the insight to question long term effects and what led up to where we are at the time, like thinking about Filge as a real person and not just as a villain who we needed to beat up on, because even though I thought we were being a bit abusive, I was only thinking of that in terms of not being bad people, rather than thinking of it in terms of how Filge must have felt about the whole thing.

I don't think Talin was ready for war yet, and its starting to show, I hope it doesn't change her too much.
Not even Talin knows what to do to be a good person all the time, and that kind of worries me, because she always knows what is good and how to be a hero.
I betrayed Talin, and I don't know how to make it up to her. I told her to let Thomas be a monster, even though we both knew it was wrong. But maybe she needed somebody else to permit the evil, so she didn't have to. What if I have to do the bad things so she can stay righteous. But then how will I know the answers to the difficult questions if I have to hide them from her?
Diamond Lake's mayor made a horrible decision, but it is the people who suffer. As bad as I might feel about it, I would forsake this town, or at lewast pretend to to maintain solidarity with our party, but how can we possibly even imply that she should do the same?
Maybe Talin doesn't really want to be a 'good and proper girl' and thats okay, but I just hope she doesn't get in over her head.
I wonder if she knows about Filge...
Poor girl, sometimes I think she is the only sane one. I hope that doesn't wear her down too much.
Talin is changing. I think she is starting to see that she can't be responsible for all of us. On the one hand, I'm happy that she is relaxing more, but on the other I hope that she didn't get burned out a little before making the change.

Sorin was the first orc I ever really spent any time with outside of a fight, and it left me with mixed feelings about how much more there was to Sorin than just violence, but his bloodlust was too strong, and I wish there was some means of giving him enough peace that he could be the good person he was when there were no enemies around, but I don't think I'll be around if that peace ever comes to him.

It might be too early to say, but I think he isn't coming back...

Motey is undead, and as such he is by definition evil and unholy, but at the same time he is so cute and so capable of being good and nice to us all, so I have to wonder if maybe he is just tricking us but in the meantime he is just a darling little beastie.

I hope he learns to talk soon, so then he can tell me what its like to be an abomination filled with hate and evil, and maybe I can better understand how to help save other undead.
Maybe its just me, but the more Motey tries to mimic real life, the ickier it gets.
I hope he gets along with Threshk

Threshk is a darling little dragon. Its so cute how he likes to hoard treasure. I hope he likes us enough to hang around. Besides, he compliments my costume quite well.

Fern Art

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