Etla Isle

The lower level of the Jitterbugge is available to be reserved for special events, such as parties, receptions, or other gatherings. It features luxurious seating, cozy surroundings, and privacy.


Don't have a gathering big enough for the whole lower floor? Don't worry! For small gatherings, the back section of the main floor can be reserved as well.



Please speak with Bean Wiggenaut to set up a reservation. Rooms can be reserved by the hour for short gatherings or for by the half-day for longer gatherings. First drink is included for all attendees, or catering may be included as part of the rental fee (catering only available for gatherings of at least five attendees).

Have you previously submitted an application/character sheet which has been approved? Yes

Basics / Biography Data
Furcadia Name: Re Talgon
Character Name (if different):
Alias(es): Sorrow, Ashen
Species: Human (sometimes feline)
Subspecies/Race:
Age: Unknown
Apparent Age: Early-mid thirties
Gender: Male
Height: 5'10"
Weight: ~180 lbs
Build: Muscular, but still on the light side
Fur/Skin Color: Tanned (when human), dark grey (when feline)
Hair Color/Style: Blood red, parted on the right side. Goatee of the same colour.
Eye Color: Blood red, occasionally glowing somewhat unnaturally
Markings/Scars: Many scars, all kept hidden by clothing
Appendages: The usual.
Handedness: Left
Primary Class: Rogue
Secondary Class (optional): Magic-Elemental
Profession: "Just a simple traveler, of course."
Appearance (Furcadia Description): He stands roughly 5' 10" tall, although you can't be sure as you look at him. His form is wrapped in a dark grey cloak, and underneath his clothes are ashen, trimmed with crimson. He wears worn and scarred leather gloves of an indeterminate hue, so long have they seen daily use. His feet likewise wrapped inside boots that mark him as one who has traveled long roads for many years, so worn and faded are they from use. If you notice him in the right direction, or perhaps just from the corner of your eye, he appears to be carrying a sheathed sword on his back, with a red tassel on its pommel; if you try to see it, however, you'll find it must have been just an idle fancy of your mind, for surely you can see no weapon on him. Of his face you can see little, under his grey hood, except for his eyes and mouth, and a short brush-like beard. His eyes, the same deep crimson as his hair, have a piercing look to them, as if they can see through even the miry shadows of the mind. His mouth is twisted into a crooked smile, for he possesses a secret that only he knows...

Personality
Demeanor: Always smiling, yet somehow still inscrutable. Calls even strangers "friend." Mysterious doesn't begin to describe him.
Likes: Unknown
Dislikes: Unknown
Phobias (if any): Incapable.
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Free Spirit)

Statistics
Strength (STR): Medium
Dexterity (DEX): High
Constitution (CON): Medium
Intelligence (INT): High
Wisdom (WIS): High
Charisma (CHA): Medium
Overall Evaluation: (90) Hercules

(Strengths / Resistances) / Weaknesses
Strengths / Resistances: Inscrutability, Freedom from emotion, Cunning mind, Affinity with shadows
Weaknesses: Shadow elementals (can see through his illusions more easily), Strong wills (harder to deceive), Lack of empathy (emotional emulation not always perfect), Places with no shadows

Possessions
Weapons

• Weapon: Kriss sword, "Deceit"
  Description: 26" blade, curved like a snake. Hilt 10" long, supporting one or two-handed grip. Decorated with a red tassel attached to the pommel. Worn on his back, in its sheath. Sometimes made to look like a straight sword with a red stone in its pommel, though this is an illusion.
• Weapon: Kriss dagger, "Decision"
  Description: 8" blade, 5" handle, a smaller version of Deceit. Always hidden unless explicitly posted.
• Weapon: Small throwing blades
  Description: Also based off of the kriss design, with blades ranging from 1" to 4" long. Weight balanced for stability of flight, the handles are merely string wound around the tang to provide a good grip. They may or may not have red tassels at the end. He also doesn't wear these openly, but can be assumed to have several on his person at all times.

Armor

• Armor: Sorrow armor
  Description: Only worn occasionally, and only when in human form.
  
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• Armor: Iron-toed boots
  Description: Worn always. They have toe-caps of black iron for reinforcement (nearly had his toes bitten by a werewolf once).

Trinkets / Items (owned or worn):

• Item: Alchemist's matches
  Description: Small sticks that, when struck on a hard surface, will ignite.
• Item: Drinking flask
  Description: Kept at his hip; usually contains only water.
• Item: Pockets of holding
  Description: Nebulously hidden within his clothes. Who knows what he has there?
• Item: Drink-safety powder
  Description: Kept in a small vial hidden about his person. He drops a small amount of this (surreptitiously) into anything he drinks. One compound in the powder reacts with any alcohol content, precipitating it out as a fine-grained black powder, which sinks to the bottom of the drinking vessel. The other part does much the same, for most ordinary poisons.

Abilities
Natural Abilities

• Ability: Agility
  Description: Re has spent nearly all his life improving the skills to keep himself out of harm's way. That means he is much more agile than one might at first suspect, with reflexes that trigger even if he isn't devoting his full attention. The subconscious picks up much more than the conscious, after all.
• Ability: Martial arts
  Description: Re spent much of his life as an assassin, so he's had to train in several styles of fighting. He is more of a tactician than a brawler, so when he does fight, it will usually involve dirty tactics.

Learned Abilities:

• Ability: Freedom from Emotion
  Description: Re long ago gave up his ability to experience emotion. If he seems to be portraying an emotion or reacting emotionally, it is because he has also trained himself to emulate emotions. He is at all times in full control of his cognitive functions, therefore, and cannot be goaded against his will or have his mind confused or clouded in the way a normal person might
• Ability: Misdirection
  Description: The most basic form of illusion Re has mastered is simple misdirection and sleight of hand. He knows how to watch and manipulate the attentions of others so that they are focused exactly away from where they should be, in order to create simple illusions or enhance greater ones. This requires no great concentration on his part, as it isn't truly magic of any sort, just a showman's trick.
• Ability: True Illusion
  Description: Re has studied the art of weaving illusions that aren't merely sleight of hand, but actual distortions in perception. These often will take more than one turn to come to full effect, but simple ones need not take more than one.
  
• Ability: Mind Wrestling
  Description: Also called the "duel of the minds," Re has practiced the art of perceiving others' minds. Not typically in the sense of thought reading, but in the sense of forcing open a lock and gaining entry, whereupon he can assert some measure of mental control. This is why he often seeks to look others in the eyes, so that he may gain some measure of perception. Anyone who actively engages him after he brings up the sport of "mind dueling" or the like, professing only to have seen it done once or twice and not quite gotten the hang of it, will have to deal with a master of the art. Then again, he has never been truly tested against one of incredibly strong will. Perhaps he will find one he cannot conquer.

Other
RPR Profile (or other website) URL (optional): http://jttheninja.com/render/retalgon_main.html
Other pertinent info: All effects of Re's true illusions can be penetrated, but typically only by those who either:


Re typically will also project perceptual illusions other than visual to enhance his illusions. In particular, because he's usually around creatures who use hearing and scent, he isn't likely to overlook the expected cues. He often takes advantage of "what minds expect to see" in order to provide just enough illusion that the audience fills in the rest. This is why a mind must usually be actively working against his illusions in order to be unaffected by them. Furthermore, because he is not affected by emotion, his concentration is not affected by many of the external factors that might otherwise hamper the expenditure of energy.

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The Jitterbugge Café is pleased to welcome patrons from sunrise through midnight, seven days a week.

[OOC: The café is considered closed and is ICly locked from 12am through 6am FST each day. Characters who try to gain entry while it is closed will find the doors locked, double-locked, and triple-locked, and the place inaccessible. If you need to play a scene there outside these hours but have it considered to be earlier (due to time zones, etc), that is fine so long as all parties know it is time-offset.

If you're going to start trouble, you can ICly assume either Bean or Jo would, at the first sign of trouble, call for a guard, who can be NPCed if nobody is online/available. You can also expect sharp things/boiling liquids thrown at your character if he/she refuses to go along with the guards. Bean and Jo might not be very strong, but they protect their stuff with a hive mentality. If I'm online, give me a whisper so I know what's up. Otherwise, please drop me a line on the forum. Thank you.]

Located in Eileadora's bustling main street, just across from the tavern, the Jitterbugge Café is causing quite a buzz among the locals. Brewing coffee grown by local farmers, acquired through fair trade practices, it is becoming a place for laborers and shopkeepers alike to gather for a warm morning pick-me-up, an afternoon re-energizer, or even an after-dinner invigorator to keep the night life stirring.


Staff

• Head Barista: Bean Wiggenaut
• Assistant Barista: Jo [NPC] - if Bean isn't there, assume Jo is behind the counter. Jo is also a cricket-bugge, and also gender-indeterminate. And also hopelessly addicted to coffee.
• Other staff: Various other bugges, all apparently relatives of Bean who've used family obligation to get a job. There are usually a couple of them milling around the store, more down in the basement.

Now hiring great people!



Menu
-- See also Winter Specials!

Regular Coffee

• Small (8 oz) - 1 copper
• Medium (12 oz) - 2 copper
• Large (16 oz) - 3 copper
• All-day refills (up to 16 oz at a time) - 1 silver

Espresso

• Single - 2 copper
• Double - 3 copper
• Caffe Kasuriano (espresso + hot water):
• Small (12 oz) - 3 copper
• Large (16 oz) - 4 copper

Lattes

• Small (8oz., single shot) - 4 copper
• Medium (12 oz., single shot) - 6 copper
• Large (16 oz., double shot) - 8 copper

Iced Drinks- may not be available later in the day during summer.

• Iced Coffee (12 oz.) - 2 copper
• Iced Caffe Kasuriano (12 oz.) - 3 copper
• Iced Latte (12 oz.) - 4 copper

Add-ons

• Add cream - free!
• Add single or double shot of espresso - 2 copper
• Additional shots - 2 copper each
• Add flavourings (chocolate, vanilla, cinnamon, orange, berry, honey) - 4 copper per shot

Munchables

• Scones (Blueberry, Cranberry-Lemon, Chocolate, others as Bean bakes them) - 5 copper
• Sponge Cake Fingers (i.e. biscotti) - 1 copper
• Chocolate Chip Cookies (regular or double chocolate) - 2 for 3 copper
• Coffee kettle corn - 6 copper for a bag

General:

Full Name: Render
Aliases: sometimes called "Iceblade," but this is properly the name of his sword. 
Hair: Black
Skin: Pale, with a slight bluish cast
Eyes: Ice blue
Height: 6′ 0″
Weight: 175 w/out armor, 225 with
Species: Human *
Handedness: Left

* Render used to be feline in Furcadia because when he was created, the human option was not available. In other contexts, he is typically human. Since there was a large hiatus in playing him, I've decided just to say somewhere on his journey he regained human form.
 
Alignment: not altogether on anybody's side, since nobody's altogether on his side. But he has a vague instinct to seek out loyal service to a master, and despises what is evil.
Profession: Wanderer/Sword-sometimes-hired
 
Resistances: Cold, Mental attack
Weaknesses: Intense heat, any prolonged separation from Iceblade
Phobias: None.

Statistics:

Strength - Medium/Medium-High
Constitution - High
Dexterity - Medium
Agility - Medium
Intelligence - Medium
Wisdom - Low/High **

Fortitude - High
Reflex - Medium
Will - Medium

** Render has a vast potential to use his ice abilities, but it is of a reflexive/intuitive nature, not something he has practiced. He is not an elemental, but his link with Iceblade is intrinsic to his being, and so his abilities are just like any other physical part of him. So in terms of using "magic" in the usual sense, he's at a low, because he doesn't know how to use it. But in terms of facility and competence with using his ice powers, he's at a high.

Details:
Weapons

• Ice Blade: A sword whose blade is icy cold to the touch. Its origins are as mysterious as those of Render himself, but he seems to have some connection to it, as he can at times use it to make a space colder. It is breakable, but only with tremendous force. At all times it is surrounded by an icy breeze which can increase or decrease in intensity as Render's mood changes. It is a hand-and-a-half sword, so Render can and will use it one-handed if necessary. The blade itself is four feet long, making the whole sword about five feet. It weighs approximately 4 lbs, having a blade two and a half inches wide. Also note that because of the envelope of cold air around it, friction affects it less, thus making it a small bit easier to swing. The handle is about 10 inches long, decorated with silver and having a silver pommel. The hand guard is also silver, with obsidian stones set on either side. On the handle, a slightly faded inscription is visible, written in silver, though worn down and scratched a bit.
• Short Dagger: Render's backup weapon. Its blade is about a foot long, so he usually keeps it concealed. It does not have the cold-manipulating abilities of the ice blade, but because he keeps it so close it is usually cold as well. It is made of a special steel that is not as affected by changes in temperature as other steel, making it less vulnerable to brittleness. The blade is double edged and straight. Don't expect him to use it often, though.

Armor
Render's armor protects his chest, shins, the tops of his feet, and the outside of his left forearm. The metal is breakable, but as it's reinforced plate steel, it'll take force to get through it. The straps which fasten the armor are made of toughened leather reinforced by an iron core, which means it'll be difficult to separate him from his armor against his will.
 
Abilities
Render possesses the ability to create and manipulate ice, based on his connection with Iceblade. For a a list of some of his abilities, see here.

Appearance
You see a tall figure, robed and armored in black, most of his face obscured by a black mask. His clothing is likewise black, a strange mark upon his left sleeve. His skin is an icy pallid color, and his eyes are twin spheres of ice, seeming to look past what they see. At his right hip is slung a sword in its sheath, the handle inlaid with silver, twin obsidian stones set in the ends of its crossbar. A strange cloud of winter cold seems to dwell about the man, as if coming from within him; or perhaps it comes more from the sword. The two are never parted, and so it would be difficult to tell.

Other
See RPR profile here.