3. Joyrd Longwagons

Joyrd Longwagons


  • Character Name: ""
    Player Name: "JugglerTheJester"

    Joyrd grew up the son of a successful, but not too profitable trader name Marc Longwagons who is the son of Joyrd's Grandfather Joyrd Longwagons.

    Joyrd's family travelled from city to city and town to town, and Joyrd never had a city or town to call home or anyone outside his kin who he could call friend. His father taught him the ways to bargain and well, swindle people. How to convince a man that some snake oil would cure thier baldness or that a certain weapon was magical when it was really just plain steal.

    Growing up with very little in the way of morals, learning that other people were there mearly for you to profit from, Joyrd became a greedy, selfish, and an uncaring individual. Profit was all that mattered, income, seeking wealth.

    While Joyrd learned the ways to swindle and virtually steal from others from his father, he didn't learn much in the way of how to really handle money and profits to increase his wealth. His father not being a very wealthy man could barely keep beans on the table for Joyrd and his family to eat.

    When Joryd was 16 his family's wagons were attacked by a band of orcs and his entire family was slain. Joyrd survived by throwing his younger sister at an orc raider and running for his life. The distraction gave him enough of a lead that he managed to take to cover and remain hidden from the orc raiders. The orc's interest was not in slaying every person in the wagon or they would have searched harder for Joyrd and possibly found him. However, found him they did not, and live he did, though at the sacrifice of his younger sister.

    Joyrd kept in his cover from the mid of night until nearly high noon, and then he went back to his family's wagons. He was saddened by the loss of his family and guilt stricken with how he had made his own escape, and broke into tears when he found the corpses next to the burnin wagons.

    After a bout of crying Joyrd begain to try to bury the bodies, feeling it was the proper thing to do. However the work was too difficult for him, the ground to hard, and the shovel too heavy in his soft uncalousedhands. So Joyrd gave up his attempt to bury the his family and searched the wagons for coin and supplies.

    Being far from any village and all his family's Ox and Horses slain, Joyrd picked up what coin and supplies he could find and carry and set off down the road fearful of another orc attack.

    Travelling on it wasn't Orcs that found him next, but a group of mostly human bandits… or rather, he kinda stumbled on to them and them onto him. The bandits demanded that he turn over all his valuable to them and be on his way. However he used his wit and guile to swindle the brigands into giving him information fo coin, and then food, and with that he was led to their camp.

    Oh, a few of the bigrands wised up at various points and tried to steal the young man's belongings and/or even kill him. However, over time he became the leader of the band of brigands, being the smartest one amoung them... and began a valuable business of inforcing his own toll on the nearby roads.

    ..... More to come, and a better rendition of this ....


  • Not reviewed yet as per poster's request.