Revision as of 17:57, 25 May 2006

Introduced to the Broken Dagger in 2001, Biske didn't actually start play until 2002. He needed a character. Always mildly interested in werewolves, and bieng a big fat furry, Reagan Biske was the first character of Biske's to be made for the game.

Origin

Reagan Biske's name is derived from the French tale known simply as "Bisclaveret", or "The Werewolf", and shows the original intentions of the character - that is, a brave and riteous knight who happens to also be a werewolf. Deeming this "totally boring", Biske dumped the idea and completely rehauled the character to his currently cowardly, filthy state.

Despite being involved in numberous plots and suffering many injuries, Biske's pessimistic outlook and personality (if he ever had one) has changed little. A self-proclaimed coward, Biske nevertheless manages to save the day once or twice. And, much to his dismay, he has recieved no monetary rewards for doing so.

Description

Physical

Biske is a tall, lanky man of obvious northern peasant stock, being pale of skin with slightly curly hair and eyes of unremarkable brown. He stands at about the six-foot-four of an ectomorphic body type, many times looking quite emaciated even when he is eating consistantly. His hands are unusually large, even for his height, with long fingers and thickly callused palms. His hair is quite wild, being tangled or with various objects stuck in it, such as sticks and leaves. His scraggled beard and muttonchops hide a receeding chin and powerful jaw. All in all, for a man in his forties, Biske shows little indication of aging, save for a few worry-wrinkles.

There are quite a few visual clues that mark him as a werewolf. His lips are ashen-grey; his pupil is pinpoint, eye being mostly iris; the fingernails on his hands are more like the blunt, black claws of a wolfs; and perhaps the most noted is the long, bushy tail that extends from the small of his back and tailbone.

He is positively covered in scars; many times they completely replace the original skin. Noted scars include the tangled mass at and around his neck, including a burn-mark of linked chains; numerous small scars across his face, as if he'd been gnawed upon; a long, gashing scar across his abdomen; masses of scars about his ankles and arms; and many more, most inflicted upon himself during his transformations. He has extensive, healed burn-marks across his entire body, where the skin is bright pink and tender. His left eye is missing, leaving a gaping, uncovered hole.

The man is most noted for his coats; a sturdy one of forest green that was later destroyed by the werewolf Phaedra, and most currently one made of tanned hide and fur, made for him by DaisyDreams. His clothing is usually filthy, ill-fitting, and one tear away from falling apart, save for his sturdy, mud-specked hobnail boots. He also wears a long, trailing cloak of deer hide, another gift from the enigmatic Stands-as-One.

He carries a rather evil-looking axe of obvious drow origin, being apparently carved from obsidian and laced through with spiderwebs of silver; the double-headed blade being in the shape of bat wings - the centerpiece, a spider who's legs form vicious spikes, and who's head is that of a grinning, horned skull. It's uncertain just how he managed to find it, though it is known that Lokelei aided him in some fashion, and that he found it somewhere in Audmathus's old haunt.

Personality

Biske is difficult to understand, as it is hard to discern how much of his personality comes from the man or the beast. He is a noted manic-depressive, suffering swings that range from suicidal depression to almost child-like joy. There are times when he seems to approach an almost genius-like level of brilliance, and times when even the simplest thing confounds him. His temper is notoriously short, but he also displays more passive-aggresive tendancies.

Some might argue that he simply bides his time under the seeming guise of the coward. Thus far, however, he seems incapable of plotting long-term revenge, or in fact -any- sort of retaliation beyond immediate and petty. He is even a noted coward under the influence of the full moon, prefering to target innocents like young women and children rather than face someone that may put up a fight (though he will when cornered, or if no other prey presents itself).

He also suffers from selective short and long-term memory loss, usually during the times he transforms. He is also notorious for mixing up events and people from his past, and almost immediately forgets names as soon as they are given. Thus he tends to avoid using anyone's name, unless it's someone he knows well.

There's not much reedeeming quality in the man. He drinks to excess, curses, has poor hygene, and is noted for his lustful nature. However, he is terribly loyal to those he considers friends and allies, even if threatened with immediate hurt. And despite his mental imbalance, it has been proven that the man is almost impossible to emotionally shake.

Lately his good tendancies seem to be outweighing the bad; since Quincy's death and Audmathus' return, the man has quit drinking. He has also become more assertive and bold - some might say -heroic-. He has even voluntarily confronted Jirai, though his cowardice still shows in his stuttering speech and body tremors.

Trivia

• In spite of being a big wuss, it has been claimed that Reagan Biske has recieved the most battle-related injuries of any character still alive in the Broken Dagger.

• Number of times Biske's clothes have fallen/been ripped off: 63

• Biske's left eye was removed, and later devoured, by Audmathus.

• Biske has had his nose broken seven times since his inception - three of those instances caused by himself while drunk.

Powers

For the most part, Biske's werewolfism only alters his physical appearance and gives him great strength, endurance, and heightens his senses. Things Biske can do normally are listed as follows:

• Ability to climb rather well (aka, straight up walls and onto ceilings).
• He's much, much stronger than he looks.
• His senses of smell and hearing are rather keen.
• He's quite fast.
• He cannot get more ill than a common cold.
• Short of tearing his head off and/or using silver, he's almost impossible to kill.

The closer he is to the full moon, the more these things effect him. In the week before the full moon, his symptoms are as follows:

• His eye turns bloodshot
• He appears to suffer from an extreame bout of the flu - vomiting, fever, trouble breathing.
• He appears out-of-sorts - indeed, his personality changes drastically. He becomes more lucid and relaxed, even to the point of dangerous recklessness.
• He only -physically- transforms on the second day of the Full Moon; in the day preceeding and the day following, however, Biske is quite unstable and just as dangerous as he is when transformed.

Original Description

Nothing much is known about this man that showed up in Myrken one unremarkable day. It wasn't long until he was uncovered as a werewolf, a cruel fate that had torn his life away in a distant land nearly twenty years ago. Forced to live on the fringes of normal society since then, the man seems more dog-like than wolf; scrounging in garbage cans, begging charity, raiding chicken coops when he gets the chance. And yet when the full moon rises, his true nature is revealed.

He lives as he's always done since the sickness took him those two decades ago; a fawning, drunken, moraless, cowardly creature. And yet there are those rare instances in which he strides into danger, determined and strong - for those he has come to call friends. But even in those rare times there is doubt.

After all, who can trust a werewolf?