Reiss

Reiss is a character who appears in: Shadows of Visvara.
A sentient air bending skull who enjoys break dance.
==Appearance==
Reiss merely looks like a normal human skull, although he sports his skeletal break dancing outfit, which also doubles up as armour. The armour is actually completely hollow, as Reiss is holding it together with wind he's manipulating.
== Synopsis ==
=== History ===
In his youth, Reiss was enamoured with dance and got into breakdancing with his friends, then his friends started jokingly calling him A-Money, because the nickname sounded stupid. At some point, Reiss had sex with a human woman, resulting in her getting pregnant and they called the child B-Money. Eventually, Reiss would die for reasons he can't remember, only to later awake in a forest as nothing more than a skull, where he was picked up by an air-bending goose and put into its room in a dungeon, where he stayed for an unknown amount of time.
=== Shadows of Visvara - Chapter 3: Golden Gauntlets ===
One day, the West Side Boiz entered the dungeon and found themselves in the goose's room. They found the goose just kind of chilling there, so Davril tried to befriend it, but it honked at them then started running around in circles, forming a tornado in the circle, then blasted it at the party. Everybody dodged it except Borudash, who got thrown back, so Davril just insulted it really harshly and the goose just walked away, hurt. BOB searched the room and found Reiss. He didn't really have much to offer in terms of information, but he seemed like a chill dude, so BOB made a necklace and kept him around his neck. Reiss explained that he had a kid once called B-Money, so BOB explained that he likely murdered his descendents, which just made Reiss laugh. The party regrouped and went through a door in a library within the dungeon and found themselves in a massive boxing ring stadium and in the ring were two Earth-bending cows, but one was instantly crushed to death. The cow announced it was looking for a worthy challenger, so Borudash threw Reiss into the ring. Initially scared the skull winced, but then thought about how he named his son B-Money, then started to laugh, causing a torrent of wind to burst out and shoot straight through the cow, sending it off the ring. Victorious, the cow allowed them to proceed past him and they were met with a set of stairs leading down, so Davril led them down with his dancing lights, where they came across a man shouting at a woman on the floor. They all jumped down and frightened the man, who proceeded to ready himself for combat, talking big about his fire magic. They realised that the woman he was shouting at was Jenny, who was unconscious on the floor. Kai Goose asked for an explanation and so he explained that he had come to this dungeon to acquire the Golden Gauntlets for the Golden Artifact Seekers, but Jenny just came with him, despite his protest. Incredibly confused, Davril asked him to explain more about this golden weapon search and he explained that there were 14 golden weapons that were used to stop a malevolent old one called Big Chungus. Kai Goose and William Rogers took Jenny out the dungeon and the West Side Boiz agreed to help him get the gauntlets. The man, Zaoh Imnotgoodatmakingnames, explained that the gauntlets are at the bottom of a pool, but they can't touch the water, because they'll awaken the fragment of Big Chungus' life force that is trapped in the gauntlets, so they need his trusty fishing rod, but he ate it whole, since they were stuck in the dungeon for a whole month, so he tried to vomit it out, while the rest of the party just went down anyway. The Bulging Stick dived in and touched the gauntlets, suddenly causing a burst of darkness to consume everything around them. They were now stuck in a strange shadow realm and the gauntlets were spewing out this purple substance that transmogrified into a figure resembling a well-built man. They got into a fierce battle with the fragment of Big Chungus and claimed the gauntlet as their's, but Bob and Reiss had a falling out and Reiss decided to make a body out of wind and he just left the dungeon by himself.
=== Shadows of Visvara - Chapter 8: Tall Trial ===
After leaving the dungeon, Reiss had an intense vision of a massive tower growing out of the ground of some random location and he only had a vague sense of where it was located, so Reiss decided to investigate it, believing it may have something to do with him still being alive, so he returned to his old home, which was burnt to ashes, and went into his secret basement, where his old dance outfit was, alongside his old horse's gear, so he went to a nearby stable to acquire a horse with what little money he found. Reiss and his horse set off for this vague location and would eventually make it to Cummid, a small island just off the coast of Visvara. He would search the island vigorously for a while, but he eventually found the location in his vision, so he stalked it every night, until one day he saw Sigismund, Brugur Oradall Borudash, and Davril. Sigi waved at him, so he waved back, but then BOB launched Davril at him and Davril used thunderwave, knocking Reiss off his horse, to which he said, "yo, what the fuck are you doing? It's me, Reiss." Davril apologised profusely and the other two came running up and did the same. The party explained what they'd been up to since, and asked how Reiss was, so he explained his situation. The party were still confused as to what Reiss was waiting for though, so Reiss checked his watch and waited. Suddenly, the earth beneath them began to rumble, as a gaping hole began to form where a nearby town was. A massive tower began erupting from beneath it and it was structured with no windows or doors, but still had balconies all around it, furthermore, the entire tower was covered in vines. Reiss asked if the party wanted to assist him, to which they eagerly agreed to do, so they all grabbed one of his fingers, and found that the armour he was wearing was completely hollow. After a brief few moments of pause, all four of them burst into the air and landed above the clouds, on top of the tower. Despite how freezing cold it was up there, they pushed forward to the centre, where they found a podium that simply said Trial 1, so BOB tried pushing it over, but wasn't able to make it budge, so Davril tried slapping it and completely obliterated it. With that, one of the panels behind them opened up and revealed a strange humanoid figure made entirely out of a strange semi-transparent material. BOB charged at it and swung with his axe, but dodged it with incredible, yet jolty motions and speed, then formed a sword out of its hand and swung at everyone with its incredible length. Davril and BOB were hit back, so everyone tried attack it again and they eventually managed to throw it off the tower, but Reiss realised that it was rapidly climbing its way back up, and it jumped onto Reiss' head, so BOB and Davril tried pulling it off, but were instantly kicked back, while it continued to scramble at the skull's scalp, so Sigismund used burning hands on the thing and it scorched it off, freeing Reiss and causing it to fall off the tower again, so BOB grabbed the skull and chucked him at it. Reiss used his wind-based powers to smash into it, then rebound his way back up to the top of the tower, where they all heard a load mechanical noise and "TRIAL 1: COMPLETED". With this, Reiss suddenly had another vision of another tower in a location not too far, so without thinking, he jumped off the tower to look for it, stranding the party, so they had to figure out a way down without him.
=== Shadows of Visvara - Chapter 18: Edron's Journey ===
About a month had passed and Reiss was still on his quest to find out why he'd been resurrected. One night he was chilling by his campfire, in the town that Brugur Oradall Borudash, Sigismund, and Davril tried to make, before getting struck by lightning. Suddenly, Edron Bartholomew II came crashing down next to him, so they said hello to one another and exchanged information for why they were there. It turned out Edron and Davril had gotten into a fight, which resulted in Ed getting blasted all the way from Dorlomin to Cummid. Nevertheless, they agreed to help one another out, so Edron ascended that night's tower with him, where they found a menacning looking glass figure, who split in two and initiated a dance battle. Reiss was doing pretty well, but then Edron failed miserably and resorted to violence, causing him to be thrown off the tower, leaving Reiss to do the rest. The skull turned out victorious and had another vision, where he realised that the air bending goose, Aang Butagoose, who picked him up in the forest caused him to wake up, because the old one Bingus Dingus Tingus had transferred possession from the goose to the skull. Reiss then assisted Edron by taking him to Vibe Island to uncover the magic-based mysterious of his family blade, although, while they were there, Edron and Somather Geezer attached a tongue inside his skull to help him taste Bulge Anus' food. While in Bulge Anus' bakery, they heard it was Ringus Fitgus' funeral, a man Reiss didn't know, but he joined it regardless to accompany his friend and offer condolences, being someone who knows how bad beind dead is. Suddenly, a group of bandits appeared from the bushes and attacked the attendents of the funeral, so Reiss used his powers to fight back as best as he could, successfully helping the service continue peacefully. Afterwards, Edron requested that Reiss take him back to Dorlomin so that he could meet back up with the rest of the West Side Boiz, which he agreed to do and ended up taking him to the nearby café.
=== Shadows of Visvara - Chapter 19: Invasion of Orcs ===
A group of orcs and Don Cheadle entered the café and one of them pointed at Brugur Oradall Borudash and introduced himself as Urmok-Bill, leader of the Orctribe orc tribe. He explained that he was trying to track down Jedah Varkgorim, the leader of the United Clan of Orcs, so he wanted to know the secret that BOB supposedly knew, although it quickly became apparent that he didn't actually know anything and the United Clan of Orcs were trying to kill him for nothing. Regardless, Urmok-Bill decided to use this to his advantage and asked if they could work together to stop Jedah, since the outcome would be mutually beneficial. Orctribe spies had reported that there was evidence to support that the United Clan of Orcs were going to invade Dorlomin that very afternoon, so they wanted to ambush Jedah by having Borudash stand on his own in the park to lure him in, while the Orctribe, Don Cheadle and the West Side Boiz waited in the bushes and trees nearby to strike. Since he was in the area, Reiss offered to help too, so he hid in the bushes for the ambush as well. The plan was followed perfectly and an all-out battle took place in the park with Reiss focusing on killing United Clan of Orcs members while the West Side Boiz dealt with Jedah. After the battle, Reiss continued to wander and later found out that the West Side Boiz were convicted felons for various reasons.
== Powers & Abilities ==
=== Immortality ===
Reiss doesn't age at all and can only be killed if his skull head is destroyed in some form.
=== Air Manipulation ===
Reiss has the ability to air bend, likely something he subconsciously picked up from the goose after being with it for many years.
== Gallery ==
Reiss.png|Reiss (1st edition render)
KasdassoBOB.jpg|Reiss and Brugur Oradall Borudash doodle (Kasdasso)
== Trivia ==
* For some reason, Reiss lathered himself in butter before ascending one of the towers on Cummid. It seemed to serve some purpose, as he suggested Edron should also do it, but this wasn't explained.
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