Adventuring to improve his home
Szuzzark
Szuzzark hails from the Flooded warrens of the Jade Coast, a series of caves inhabited by the kobolds of his tribe. Since the last generation, his tribe has been under the watch of their benefactor, a sea dragon by the name of Zellen, Guardian of the Jade Coast, Protector of the Flooded Warrens. With her protection and help, the warrens have prospered and now need to expand into a small city. With this expansion, more than just farmland and watchtowers were needed; trained warriors they had, but a navy was needed to protect them further. Zellen tasked Szuzzark with learning more about sailing and bringing that knowledge, and hopefully a ship, back home. Szuzzark left his home as a simple deckhand as Zellen's acolyte to gain skills to help defend and improve his home.
Szuzzark, now commonly known as Shim, has traveled the world for 3 years, gaining many skills and a fighting style as flowing and salty as the sea. Bouncing between crews of many different ships and spending his time on land learning skills and making contacts, Shim now wants to work on becoming a captain of his own ship (or an admiral, but small steps first), taking whatever steps may be needed to accomplish this feat. Making contacts with lords and other powerful nobles seems like a fine step in the right direction if only to maybe "procure" funds to buy a ship.
At a Glance
Ancestry
Kobold
Heritage
Dragonscaled Kobold
Class
Swashbuckler
Vitals
From session 2026-10-10-1640
Shim cast Sudden Bolt point-blank into the ghoul grappling him — the one spell in his list without the manipulate trait — and spent the fight tumbling through enemies to set up off-guard strikes with his swashbuckler finishers.
He was the first to open the artifact box and the first to be bound to it, taking the glowing tattoo on his wrist. He carried the orb in his spacious pouch afterward and had to fend off Lux and Russ when they came for it under compulsion. He tested the orb mid-fight and warned Lux that it had a price.
He was also the one holding the compass and leading the march, and he was bitten and drained by one of the cat-sized bees in the drider fight, going down at least once before being healed back up.
From session 2026-09-12-1722
Shim — who gave his name as Cesar, calling himself a privateer, mercenary and swashbuckler — took the opportunity while the party regrouped to get out of his fancy clothes and into armour, asking Vosk to shield him from view.
He was the best sneak of the group on the approach and closed with the angler on foot, using a dirty trick to tie two of its tentacles together and drop its AC. He landed a finisher for eleven points and kept up steady rapier work, using flashy dodge when the creature swung at him, and summoned a medium spectral dragon in the shape of his benefactor as backup.
He helped Vosk lever the dead angler's jaws open to get Lia out, taking the light end of the job. Throughout he was the voice of practicality — pushing to travel with the drow for safety in numbers, arguing the party would not have won a fight against the whole spider colony, and quietly noting his own first rule of the caves: don't get eaten by the fish.
From session 2026-08-29-1645
Came to the ball in fine clothes as a stand-in for his captain, who dislikes going inland and may or may not fear the Abyss. He struck up the evening's best conversation with Lux — comparing dragon wing types, offering to introduce him to a sea dragon he knows from the coast — and pitched himself to Lord Garrick as a mercenary looking for work and a look at the Abyss.
In combat he fought as a swashbuckler: a fall from the tower that ended in a sprawl rather than a tumble, dirty tricks and gut punches to leave ghouls clumsy, and precise finishers. It was his strike that broke the last cultist's concentration and collapsed the courtyard portal.
Afterward he pushed Lady Elara on where Adrian was, found her calm suspicious, and went down to the wine cellar with Vosk — finding the second portal and the raven-masked abductor. He chased the man up the stairs shouting for someone to stop him, and rode the fall into the Abyss clutching his dragon-benefactor pendant and praying for wings.