*Edit* January 3rd. Happy Birthday to me. I'm just saying. BTW, Kingdom for Kieflings is like cocaine, I'm getting twitchy just writing this. /*Edit*

Happy New Year everybody. Sometimes you wonder just how "popular" you are. After all, internet popularity is a pretty nebulous thing. Anyhow, I've decided to test the waters with a contest. I want to see your impressions of my LFR character, Pip. Here is some reference.

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I'll be taking submissions till the end of February (depending on the response) and will afterwards select my favorite of the entries and I will do a full color image of one of the winner's original characters in exchange. Even if you don't take first prize your work will get a +fav and be added to the contest journal entry on my homepage. It may look like I'm trying to find the laziest and cheapest way to get a bunch of fanart but I prefer to look at it as a social experiment...

There's plenty of information about this character in my comments but I'll give a brief description here anyways. Pip is the granddaughter of one of the generals of hell and other than that mostly gypsy. She's athletic, intelligent, and outgoing but rather foolish. She's an outgoing and upbeat flirt with a mean streak a mile wide, fortunately she has a short attention span and prefers easy money to serious trouble. My favorite LFR module moments for Pip include:

- After the party cleric rendered an orcish troubled lad unconscious (for questioning), one of his buddies dropped his weapon and started talking to try to save his own hide. Afterwards we let him leave and the party promptly forgot the only orc who was still alive. Pip quietly backtracked and kicked him in the neck with her stiletto boot heel to finish the job.

- In a riddle contest she went about intimidating the other competitors with her diabolical nature and won the competition with riddles used in hell to bargain for mortal souls (which caused more than a few contestants to drop out).

- After convincing a town of idiots that the masked man was a hero, not a menace, one of her allies accidentally caused a human sacrifice to be eaten by his own insect swarm, completing the ritual and causing the masked man to turn on the party. When he would not listen to us, Pip suggested that they just kill him and use the party changeling to pretend to be the masked man since we would be the only living witnesses to the event.

- After discovering that cannibalistic lizardmen were attacking our employer because halflings had been poisoning their food supply, Pip convinced the party to turn over our one prisoner to the lizardmen for their justice (which was quite obviously going to mean being eaten). The cleric was mortified but most of the rest of the party was primals and they bought her logic. We handed the halfling off as a peace offering between our employer and them... with BBQ sauce.

- In order to sneak a bunch of loud and uncoordinated lunks into a forbidden zone, Pip and a dark elf rogue started what appeared to be a big, ugly, dirty laundry airing lovers quarrel. This pretty much pulled every eye and ear within a hundred yards to them until the captain of the watch finally broke it up. Both of them easily snuck over the wall ninja style afterwards.

If you need/want any additional info feel free to comment/note me. And in case you were wondering, the Lawful Good Cleric she usually rolls with seems to be hitting the antacids rather hard these days.