User:Noxigar/OtherCharactersAsideFromNamineAndNoxigar/Kurloz

Kurloz Hakamichi was an awkward process split into multiple fragments for the sake of my tenacity with trying to have one character be finished in a game.

The first one was a Pathfinder Society one-shot, where a Chaotic Neutral Groetus tanky Fighter was not enough to stop the Level 1 party from wiping against a Level 4 Minotaur, whom the engagement against was nearly finished. I couldn't roleplay Chaotic Neutral out of a paper bag, so I saved him up for later so I could attempt to.

The second attempt was a Rise of the Runelords campaign which went to hell from the word "Go." Shifting to Chaotic Good because of my doubts on ability to roleplay Chaotic Neutral, he did a much better job in spite of me doing awkward things like the Hagfish Challenge or having my Armor Master Fighter (I chose an archetype this time) worship Abadar (a Lawful Neutral god) because he was a businessman. I made the mistake of making INT and CHA dump stats on a Dwarf Fighter whilst trying to properly emulate how a Dwarf was "supposedly" played from the perspective of one of my former GMs (Powergamer). I additionally made the mistake of taking racial emnity against Elves when the party had at least 3 Elves in it, in a party which maximized to 10 people at one point. The fun bonus had been being rendered obsolete almost entirely by an Evocation Wizard. I had thought about playing an Armor Master / Gun Tank combo, but with the massive amount of people playing in Rise of the Runelords at the time, I simply decided to leave to lower the amount of people. To my lack of surprise, this did more good than harm.

Attempt number three was Vampire: the Requiem, which was me trying a new system at the time and a specific module that some Goth girl wanted to play. Said Goth played a Mekhet Player in all but name, and wanted to be the main character of the VTR campaign set in New Orleans so badly that it was frustrating for her and a minmaxed combat Akhud (whom I quickly learned wasn't a Mekhet when his blood did not Vinculum me after it more-or-less healed me alongside Mekhet's blood, with Akhud being confirmed when I got Praestantia randomly). The two of them argued for the beginning of the game, and this had been an initial party of 8 before Goth decided to move elsewhere to study video game design. With her gone, and two of her friends following suit not long after, it became me warring with the Akhud out-of-character over the fact he was being a gigantic douche to my sister and her boyfriend, who mostly wanted to play VTR to relive some fun they had two years ago with the same Storyteller. Cue me trying to be helpful to a number of other Player Characters and being soundly rejected by all of them, because I tried to play an eccentric-but-good-natured vigilante. Akhud's minmaxing turned him into the sole victor of the endgame, as he was able to get his character's goals done while everyone else struggled, and he got off relatively scot-free.

My character stayed alive exclusively because I had to max my Stamina and get Resilience maxed for a total of 15 Health dots. My Storyteller had also been relatively nice to me about a lot of things in the game, such as my mistaking a Belial's Brood Therion priest for a Neo-Nazi, and getting into a couple scuffles with Caitlyn Meadows because she was being so much of an asshole that it was going to tear New Orleans apart. Between getting backstabbed by both PCs and NPCs, I nearly got fed up with VTR. However, I didn't retire Kurloz Hakamichi because I realized I could continue his story later or revisit him if the need ever arose, or if a different Storyteller approved.