Kreek the Fleet

== Identity ==
Pronoun: (He/Him/It)
Voice traits: Raspy, creaky bird voice. Caws a lot to distract or call attention.
Mannerisms / habits to help DMs portray them consistently: He is a sneaky little thief who is always looking for ways to push every boundary that enables him to steal what he wants while remaining in a morally grey area. Doesn't see himself as particularly bad, happy to be the good guy if he can swipe something shiny to satisfy his kleptomania on the way.
Pop culture influences (who are they like): I didn't really base them off anything, but they certainly are meant to be that sketchy antihero of the group that just barely slides as not being a particularly bad guy. They are happy to be the good guy in the grand scheme of things, and the things he might steal along the way are just a blurry detail.
== Appearance ==
Age: 25
D&D race: Kenku (Ravenfolk for copyright safety)
Height: 3'6"
Weight: 50lbs
Feather color: Mix of matte, drab, and pearlescent black and midnight blue/green feathers
Skin color: Pink, but don't pluck my bird :(
Eye color: His eyes are like soulless black pearls, don't stare into the void
Example clothing outfit worn: Kreek doesn't wear any clothes besides a heavy dark hooded cloak evidently custom made for him
Kreek looks fairly typical for his ilk, some weird cross between a raven and a malformed halfling. Like most Ravenfolk (Kenku), Kreek's wings are weak and shriveled, but their dull black feathers do help conceal him. Kreek has eyes that look like black pearls that often seem to go unblinking for hours as he stares into your soul. Sometimes this stare is all it takes to distract someone while he swipes their coin purse from under their nose.
His Firebreathing kittens tattoo is hidden under his right wing, in a spot where enough feathers have fallen off that they can be pushed aside to reveal it.
== Social Connections ==
Family members: Unknown, orphaned at birth
Friends / People they know: 
* Remous Belethrane - An enforcer of one of the local crime guilds in Niqamui. Kreek is heavily indebted to the entire guild, and until Remous agrees that Kreek's debt is paid, Kreek will never be truly free.
Social class: Kreek lives among the poor, even if his kleptomania and routine dealings with fences provide a significant stream of income. He invests every coin into his debt to Remous, and is content living with the bare minimum for now. 
Occupation: Kreek has been trained in all manners of burglary, conning, forgery, and pickpocketing. He tactfully uses all of these skills whenever the opportunity arrises to make a quick coin, though it almost all goes towards his debt to Remous.
Where do they sleep at night: Once Kreek finishes and "work" for the night, he will routinely find some rooftop above a random quiet alley in Niqamui on any given night, and between their cloak and their feathers, can stay warm enough to rest from the early hours of the morning to mid-day.
== Personality ==
Traits: 
* The first thing I do in a new place is note the locations of everything valuable—or where such things could be hidden. 
* The best way to get me to do something is to tell me I can’t do it.
* I'm in a difficult situation, and my greatest priority has to be to get myself out of it.
Ideal: 
* People. I’m loyal to my friends, not to any ideals, and everyone else can take a trip down the Styx for all I care.
* To define one as a friend, must mean one can never betray the other, and if such were to occur, the price to pay will be death.
Bond: 
* I’m trying to pay off an old debt I owe to a dangerous organization, one acquired due to my own mistakes.
Flaw: 
* When I see something valuable, I can’t think about anything but how to steal it.
== Background / Personal history ==
Kreek was abandoned at birth, and the Niqamui authorities ultimately deposited him in the Cookie Castle Orphanage. His early years would be fairly decent actually, and he left the orphanage at 12 (which is basically 18 for Ravenfolk) well before the sea hag incident took place there. Kreek would try to find work in the city, but struggled, and before long he was starving and spending his days begging in the streets for food. 
The homeless and thieves have a way of intertwining, and one day, a tall half-elf named Remous Belethrane would toss a few gold to Kreek and tell him there would be plenty more if he could help out with some, simple "jobs". Kreek was suspicious, but had little to lose, so he took the offer. Remous knew about the Ravenfolk and their innately powerful abilities to recall information and mimic sounds and actions they observe, and he would teach Kreek how to use these for less than legal activities. It turns out its easy to intercept shipments if all you need is a momentary glance at the log books, and just as easy to breach voice protected magical vaults, provided you have a Ravenfolk on hand. Kreek would practice the arts of the common thief, hoping to become a full fledged member of the group Remous represented, and eventually the opportunity would come in the form of an initiation heist. 
Unfortunately for Kreek, Remous has a nasty habit of taking bribes, and he ratted out the details of the heist to some investigators of the Niqamui guard. In the ensuing sting, the other 3 initiates were captured, but Kreek seemingly escaped. He raced back to the hideout Remous had used many times, and inadvertently lead the Niqamui guard straight to one of the main safehouses of this particular guild of thieves. The entire group was disbanded since most of their leadership was imprisoned, however Remous seemingly escaped, and Kreek hardly being a member was eventually released after just 2 years in prison. 
Not long after he was released, Remous and several other goons from an apparently newly formed guild tracked down Kreek. They informed him that his little mistake not only led to a lot of powerful people losing a lot of money, but those same people now had a very large target on painted on Remous' back for getting such an "incompetent excuse for an initiate" or at the least failing to teach them the basics of secrecy. Remous offered Kreek a choice, being that he could kill him outright, or Kreek could work to help pay off the lost money and "damage his career". He estimated something in the ballpark of 5,000,000 gold should about cover it. 
Kreek negotiated that he would be free to acquire the funds however he pleased, so long as he meets Remous once a week to pay off a small slice of the debt each week. For the last 7 years, Kreek has been paying the debt off, likely over 2 million gold paid already now, but Remous has been steadily increasing just how much he wants each week. Kreek was starting to struggle to manage with his criminal exploits alone, so he decided it was perhaps time to look for secondary employment, perhaps in a certain guild of firebreathing felines... 
== List of adventures ==
# Charmed, I'm sure: Kreek got to finally get one over on ol Remous, and now he is rotting in jail. Sadly for Kreek, Remous isn't the kind of person who can be locked up for very long.
#Birthday Lament: Maybe this whole hero thing isn't all that bad, as Kreek discovers whilst hunting down the cult behind a series of brazen robberies, while also pretending to be a golden goose?
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