Reagan Biske

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

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.

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 nothing than 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 the Underground.

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 extream 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?