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Description

Bryce is a young man of eighteen years who grew up on his family's farm in Thessilane. He has short blond hair that is rarely combed and more often pointing every which way, and usually he's just wearing some simple pants and a shirt, looking very much the farm boy that he grew up as. He stands at five feet and eight inches, and is in fairly good shape with a lean figure but muscles from hard work doing all the labor-oriented tasks at his job. He has pale green eyes and while he usually carries no weapon, lately he's started to wear his longsword from the Brotherhood.

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Background

He works at the Rememdium Edificium, originally hired by Doctor David D'Rael and now struggling to keep the place running with Janessa and Raziqa now that Doctor D'Rael has left to return to his homelands. Bryce has small experience with medicines and techniques in patching people up, but he has a gift for healing people through divine means, though he hides this ability as well as he can. He generally doesn't use these powers unless he can't find a conventional method for helping a person, as the healing tends to drain his energy very quickly and leave him feeling ill.

He's incredibly shy around people, often letting his twin brother, Braddock, do the talking for him in social situations. This shyness lends to him being very private about personal matters, and he gets frustrated with people when they barrage him with questions, often refusing to answer anything in hopes that he'll just be left alone. He's also learned since he moved to Myrken Wood that it's a challenging town to be illiterate in. Growing up in a small village didn't offer much oppotunity for learning to read, but he never really noticed the drawbacks until coming to Myrken where he's realized almost everyone is a step ahead. So far he's managed to get by with the disadvantage and it doesn't really bother him that he can't read so much as that people expect him to be able to.

Current Events

After returning from his visit to Thessilane to visit the family, Bryce got caught dealing with the minotaur, Choss, out in the woods. He was sick at the time, from a nasty cough brough on by poisoned demon blood he came in contact with. When the patrol caught him talking to the minotaur they observed in hiding, and waited until Choss left to arrest him. He was placed on restriction to the barracks, and was only allowed to leave for short amounts of time after he pleaded with Lieutenant Bishop. Pauline 00:16, 20 September 2006 (EDT)

History

When he came to Myrken in the fall of 205 AR with his twin brother, Braddock, the two of them initially secured jobs with a carpenter to help repair the roof of the tavern. They used the money to rent a small cottage on the edge of town, and spent most of their free time on repairing the dwelling. Eventually Brad moved on to a new job while Bryce continued as a laborer to the carpenter for the winter months. At some point he met Doctor David D'Rael and Janessa, and started working at the Rememdium Edificium in the early spring to train in the healing arts, quitting his other job.

When Doctor D'Rael was called back to his homeland, Janessa, Bryce, and Raziqa were left in charge of the hospital. Things were fairly slow in the healing business and Bryce sought out a second job with the Brotherhood of Janeiro. Mostly he joined the Brotherhood to learn how to fight with a sword, the only option he really had to learn since personal trainers are hard to come by and rather expensive. His first two weeks of training were very long, leaving him exhausted constantly as he tried to juggle his training and work at the Edificium. He finally got the hang of things though, and was working out some sort of schedule that could accomodate both jobs when the Bloody Flux came. (May 205)

With the new rush of patients at the hospital, and Doctor D'Rael gone, Bryce reduced his training to just attending morning drills with the Brotherhood so he could spend more time helping Janessa and Raziqa. With all the bugs swarming in town and so many people sick it wasn't long before he was too worn out from healing and stopped attending drills entirely. Not his ideal choice, but helping the plague victims is ultimately more important than training with the soldiers. Luckily the bugs haven't been bothering him. He's not entirely certain why, but the swarms and nasty wasps don't seem to go after him like they do most other people, and this leaves him remarkably bite free.

Bryce became laid up at the Edificium himself. Janessa had contracted the Flux, and when he attempted to heal her some strange dark magic conflicted with his own and the power backfired. He spent days sleeping and wrapped up in a multitude of bandages all over his arms, legs, chest, everywhere. He had terrible burns all over him, but concentrated in long snaking paths that wind along his skin, as if he had been wrapped up in burning vines. While he was recovering several townspeople perished of the flux that didn't respond well to the treatments. Pauline 09:13, 27 May 2006 (EDT)

After recouperating enough to start helping at the Edificium again, Bryce got into an argument with Agnieszka, who blamed the healer for death of her brother to the flux. This combined with learning finally from Brad that their nephew had died of an accident left Bryce torn with grief and guilt, and he spent the next several days determined to make sure no one else died of the flux. Ultimately this mission was moot because it was only several days before Biske stormed into the Edificium demanding for the young healers attention. The werewolf ended up murdering two innocent flux patients and cornering Bryce, who was too afraid to deny the request for healing, and his lycanthropy curse was healed. Pauline 23:07, 7 June 2006 (EDT)

Yet another encounter with the ever so charming Agnieszka, this time her and Braddock got into a row, arguing at the top of their lungs out on the lawn. Luckily there was no bloodshed between the teenagers and things were about to settle down when Agnie got attacked by a dragon (Trilby the size of a school bus). Bryce rushed to her aid despite the repeated insistances by Agnie that she wants to see him dead. He managed to even score a strike on the dragon's maw before he was clipped by a wing and knocked off his feet. Agnie was grappled in the dragon's claws and carried off into the night. Bryce assumed that she ended up dragon food, and while he did feel BAD for the girl, no dragon slayer is he. It turned out that Agnie was only being used as bait by the dragon, and she was brought into the Edificium a couple days later by Ariane for healing. The dragon had wounded the girl considerably and she needed immediate attention. Pauline 15:24, 10 June 2006 (EDT)

In a splendid example of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, Bryce was heading into the tavern for a quick dinner and opened the door to an eight foot minotaur battling several others. Before he had a chance to retreat the monster wrapped an iron grip around his shoulder and dragged him inside to be used as a hostage, pressing a serrated blade to his throat. The minotaur drug the young healer off into the woods, a prisoner. Pauline 19:12, 16 June 2006 (EDT)

With the help of the Brotherhood of Janeiro, and Lieutenant Bishop, the captives of the Nightmare Company were able to escape. The minotaur, Choss, had drug the three captives (Bryce, Kals, and Rhaena) to a farm the company had attacked with the intention of forcing them to aid his fallen creatures in the assault, but the Brotherhood had arrived on the scene moments earlier and immediately attacked the minotaur. Choss released prisoners by flinging them at the soldiers, and fled into the woods. Pauline 09:45, 7 July 2006 (EDT)

Just when things started to get back to normal, and it looked like Bryce might actually make some progress starting a relationship with Rhaena Olwak, disaster struck in a series of strange events. First Doctor D'rael asked the healer to visit the barracks to attend to the pregnant Reverie in his stead. When Bryce got there he was suprised to see the elf in a prison cell, and talking with Lieutenant Bishop. The officer requested that he aid Reverie in accompanying him to visit Alli's cell. Bryce was startled to find out that Alli was in a cell at all, and shocked that she was near death and her hand hand been severed with a sword. Magdalena showed up seemingly out of nowhere, and the two men attempted to protect the girls from the vampire and her small band of undead supporters. They were able to drive her back and Bishop decided to remove the girls from the gaol, with Bryce's help.

The next evening Bryce went to the tavern to see if Rhaena was about, and was fortunate enough to find her but the Agnie was there as well. Almost immediately the girl insisted that he was under arrest and was to be detained by her. When he requested an explanation she started accusing him of treason and aiding prisoners in escape, declaring him a traitor to the Brotherhood of Janeiro. Since she was armed, and he was not, and all attempts to calm her down failed.. he agreed to accompany her to the Barracks, and she had him locked up in the same dirty cell that Alli had occupied previously. Pauline 13:10, 15 July 2006 (EDT)

Letters went around all over town declaring dozens of citizens in Mryken as traitors. Near the top of the list Bryce was listed as one of the most wanted along with Maxwell Bishop for committing treason by removing the girls from the gaol. Agnie arrested him that evening, and she had him taken to the same cell that they rescued Alli from the night before. After discussing his options with Lieutenant Aeryn, he decided to stay with the Brotherhood and serve a weeks probation, since essentially he was just following Bishop's orders. Unfortunately, even though the Brotherhood cleared his charges, the rest of the town of Myrken still considered him a traitor and assistant to treason. Despite being on shaky ground with Janeiro already, Rhaena and Braddock convinced him to request some time off so they can leave town for a bit until things settle down. They decided to go visit their family's farm in Thessilane, a far more peaceful scene than the political mess that Mykren is. 24.177.170.227 15:25, 5 August 2006 (EDT)

Getting Involved

Since Bryce is one of the healers in town, a cleric specifically, this provides opportunities for people to have their characters healed, uncursed, or undiseased. If you want to get some RP time for these things just leave me (Pauline) a message on IRC (I leave it running while I'm at work, and sleeping) and then I can get back to you. I'd prefer if people didn't ASSUME that he healed anyone, but basic treatments at the Edificium would be fine (bandaging, etc).

People Bryce Thinks Are Crazy

Alli - More often than not the two of them are at odds with each other, and usually it's because he completely misunderstands something she expects him to say or do and she blows up at him. She's also beat on him with a broom, and slapped him (courtesy of Brad)..cut out her OWN EYE. Totally batty.

Raziqa - She claims she's in her 30s.. Looks like she's in her 20s.. and acts like a teenager. She actually provoked Curin, and that's insane.

Ariane Carnath-Emory - Punched him for healing her broken leg, told him he was supposed to get her permission first. Loony.

Agniezska - Blames him for the death of her brother. Punched Brad thinking he was Bryce. Fails to reason with logic. Crazy.

Curin - Shows up randomly, harasses him, tries to provoke him.. He has NO clue why the woman bothers him, or knows the things she does about him. Creepy-crazy.

Leiko - Pays his brother for guard service. Nuts.

Biske - Crazy talk. Thinks everyone is drow.

OOC Stuff

OOC:

Born: July 27th, 187 AR

Played by Pauline