Felsic

Art by Juniper

> *"You know, I'd call you pathetic, if it wasn't so pure, the way that you are. You're like a dog in a ring, you're like an addict. You keep yourself in check, you act meek, you keep it locked down. But you know that you can only feel connection to others through violence. You know what it was that really did us in? Mauled by an animal, so much bigger and stronger than you, just pure rules of nature. You felt so alive that you started glowing. That's pure, it's almost romantic. I know what you are deep down."*
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> -Felsic reflecting on herself
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**Felsic** is a member of the *Pipe Dreamers* party. Even for an Alabhastarian, Felsic is not your typical woman, being both Radiant in nature and animalistic in inclination. Originally bound for a life of hard labor, Felsic found her calling as a famed pit fighter under the name "Flex Enforcer". However, her promising career met its end due to corporate connivance and she found herself alone in Klaybury with no money and few prospects. Living a depressing day-to-day in the slums, Felsic yearns to indulge her animal instincts again and find a challenge truly worthy of her strength. She is played by Juniper.

## Description

### Appearance

Felsic is a tall muscular woman with dark tanned skin and brown hair. Felsic's athletic physique is covered in a multitude of scars, predominantly obtained as the result of an owlbear attack when she was younger. One of these scars crosses under her right eye. When Felsic enters a rage, these scars light up with a golden glow, the only noticeable demonstration of her inherent Radiance. Felsic's large grey eyes also light up in the same color under the same circumstances. Her straight dark brown hair is usually kept up in a messy ponytail, with long loose bangs falling in front of her face and a pair of braids on either side of her head.

Felsic's usual clothing is a set of grey workman's trousers tied around with a thick leather belt. Her torso is covered by a combination of a poofy grey top and a sleeveless leather hoodie, chains coming from the collar and wrapping under her arms and around her back. She wears a simple pair of leather, working gloves. On her feet, Felsic wears a pair of light brown worker boots, which she affectionately refers to as her "timbs". Felsic also has a small rucksack on her back, which is secured by a shoulder strap going across her torso.

### Personality

> *"The rules of people are complicated, but the rules of nature are simple. We don't have feelings, we have instincts."*
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On the surface Felsic seems like a simple woman. Summarised as a "himbo but a girl" by her player, Felsic comes across as a charming, stoic, good-hearted person. Someone who is unburdened by the complexities of life, who just needs a hot meal and a warm bed to get herself through the day. She works out, she drinks, and she smokes weed often. She spends most of her off time chilling with her friends or finding ways to distract herself like picking at wooden dressers. In battle she is in her element and more composed than when she's not fighting.

However, very early on it becomes apparent that there's much more to her, as the crakcs in her persona start to show themselves. She's quick to panic, resorting to digging stress holes in order to handle unfamiliar situations. She's so desperate to talk to someone that she regaled her life story and her deep loneliness to Barry, an abusive seagull she met in the Veshar region of Qethos. And especially in social situations, she's almost a complete wreck, hiding under a blanket so people don't see how weak she is. She's prone to curling up in the fetal position when overwhelmed or stressed, and she gets sad or depressed easily.

It was later revealed that Felsic's himbo nature was something of a mask she puts on in order to hide the real her. Her acts of stoicism and aloof attitude are a cover up for the primal, violent, and anxiety driven wreck she really is. A side of herself that she doesn't want people to see, though cracks in her mask have appeared many times. She tries to bottle up all her worries and violent instincts behind that mask thinking it's the best decision for the wellbeing of her friends. Even when they offer her help or even just the chance to talk it out, Zugg especially, she refuses it. It's for this reason, perhaps, that she started smoking weed. To mellow herself out and help maintain the mask she puts on.

## History

### Background

Felsic was born as an only child to a couple living on the Ark of Alabhastar. It is currently unknown where exactly Felsic grew up, but her proximity to nature instilled a love of animals from an early age. Conversely, Felsic's schooling went very poorly, as she exhibited almost no talent for any of her subjects, with the standout exception being her rather impressive handwriting. Her parents were rather disappointed in her performance, which did not do Felsic's self-esteem any favors. Outside of school, however, Felsic did excel in athletics and, above all, combat. As is tradition in Alabhastar, Felsic learned to fight from childhood, choosing to specialize in fighting with great weapons to forcefully cleave her enemies in twain.

### The Owlbear

Reaching her late teens, Felsic's fitness and skill with a greataxe caused her to become cocky. In the supposed absence of a worthy opponent to fight, Felsic went out into the woods one day to find a powerful adversary. As misfortune would have it, Felsic stumbled upon an Owlbear, a chimeric beast with the body of a bear and the head of an owl believed to have originated from the Veil of Faewunder. Seeing this as the perfect adversary, Felsic recklessly charged in with her axe to engage it in combat. However, the Owlbear was significantly stronger than the arrogant teenager and the resulting fight turned into a one-sided mauling. Felsic was beaten within an inch of her life, suffering deep wounds from the beast's talons all across her body. With its attacker dispatched, the Owlbear deigned to finish Felsic off, leaving her to die.

This near-death experience would prove to be immensely formative for Felsic. During the mauling, she experienced an intense rush of emotion, as if discovering what it meant to be alive for the first time. In addition, her open wounds began to glow with a golden light, revealing to Felsic that she was in fact Radiant, one of a rare few whose essence had been influenced by lingering energies of the deceased god, DIV. It is unclear if this was triggered in response to Felsic's euphoria, to her body coming under dire stress or both, but Felsic was able to manifest her Radiance easily going forwards. It is also unclear if Felsic was found at the scene or if she managed to crawl back home after the incident, but it is implied she was saved from death's door by timely medical intervention.

As time passed and Felsic recovered, she became fixated on the animalistic state she had tapped into during the fight with the Owlbear. In her mind, she and the Owlbear were kindred spirits, both primal in nature and running on instinct. Felsic's love of violence and animals were combined into this new worldview in which she should strive to be more beast than human, because that was who she believed she was underneath it all. However, as a result of this new paradigm shift, her people skills deteriorated significantly, as she began to find it difficult to connected with others unless some form of violence was involved. As a result, Felsic withdrew into herself and hid away what she would consider her true self to be from the rest of the world.

### The Rise of Flex Enforcer

Felsic eventually matured and finished her schooling. Failing to live up the the expectations of her middle-class parents, she began to work as a laborer in a port town somewhere in Alabhastar. The demanding manual labor complimented her own training, causing her to become incredibly fit and strong. Her powerful physique caught the attention of a pit fighting company based in Qethos called Glav Entertainment. It is unclear how Felsic was scouted, but she was approached and offered a lucrative contract to fight in the ring. Felsic agreed, seeing both the money and the opportunity to fight strong opponents. As part of her new employment, Felsic travelled to Klaybury in southeast Qethos, her first time outside her homeland. There, she was introduced to Ketgor Glav, a former pit fighter, owner of Glav Entertainment and her new boss. She was instructed on the rules of pit fighting and told to adopt a stage persona as part of the job. Using her past experiences as inspiration, Felsic created a mask resembling the Owlbear she'd fought and took to the ring under a new identity: Flex Enforcer. As Flex Enforcer, Felsic proved to be a very successful fighter, taking down opponent after opponent in the ring and earning herself a celebrity status within the fighting community. Though she had become famous, almost everyone knew her by her wrestling persona, meaning that Felsic could wander the city without being recognized so long as she did not wear her mask.

### Down and Out

However, Felsic's fortunes soon proved to be too good to be true. Through the predatory nature of her contract and Ketgor's connivance, Felsic was denied her earnings as one of his prized fighters. Getting tired of the chicanery of her boss, Felsic abruptly left the wrestling scene, using her anonymity to escape notice and retribution. However, while freed from her obligations to Glav Entertainment, Felsic was left stranded in Klaybury with no friends, no credits and no plan. For the next while, Felsic remained in the industrial heart of Qethos, getting by with small jobs with manual labor. However, none of those jobs lasted long, and Felsic's search for employment was usually met with silence or rejection. During this period, Felsic took up recreational drug use to help her caged mental state.

Felsic also began to frequent a bar on the east side of town called the Old Kobold, best known for its disgusting seafood platter. As a regular, Felsic got to know some of the locals and became reasonably friendly with them, though she kept most at arm's length. Perhaps the person she bonded with the most was a loud-mouthed Raccling named Beau R.G., who was also unemployed. However, Felsic would not open up about her problems or her ruined wrestling career even to Beau, believing it better that she stay stoic and hide her primal self from those around her.

## Mechanics

### Powers and Abilities

* *Fighting Style* (Great Weapon Fighting)

#### Barbarian Abilities

* *Rage*
* *Unarmored Defense*
* *Danger Sense*
* *Reckless Attack*
* *Extra Attack*
* *Fast Movement*
* *Feral Instinct*
* Totem Abilities
	+ *Spirit Seeker*
	+ *Totem Spirit* (Bear)
	+ *Aspect of the Beast* (Tiger)

#### Fighter Abilities

* *Fighting Style: (Interception)*
* *Action Surge*
* Subclass Abilities

#### Feats

* *Martial Adept*
	+ *Goading Attack*
	+ *Trip Attack*

### Other Abilities

* ~~*Inspiring Attack*~~
	+ You may make an additional attack by spending an inspiration.
* *Divine Smite*
	+ Once per Day, you may use a 1st level Divine Smite as described in the Paladin class.

### Notable Items

* *Pugilist flail gloves* (Martial Weapon)
	+ Damage: 1d8 bludgeoning
	+ Properties: Pugilist
* *Goggles of Night*
* *Lepilia Boots* (Attunement)
	+ If you move 20ft during your turn, you may use your bonus action to make a weapon attack
* *Bracers of Defense*
* *Seismic Stompers* (Attunement)
	+ As a bonus action, you may stomp on the ground, and all creatures adjacent to you must make a dex save DC15, taking 2d12 Bludgeoning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a success.
* *Greataxe of the Primal Lords* (+2 Greataxe)
	+ When you enter a Rage, you may instead enter a Primal Rage. When you do so, this weapon becomes a +3 greataxe, your rage damage becomes 1d6 for every point of Rage damage you deal, but you also take the rage damage. When the rage ends, you take 1d6 true damage and revert back to a normal Rage. To end the Primal Rage, the duration MUST expire, or you may deal 2d6 true damage to yourself.

## Etymology

The term "felsic" is a geological modifier used to describe igneous rocks (rocks formed from cooling lava or magma) that possess a high content of elements found in feldspars and quartz, such as silicon, oxygen, aluminum and sodium. A rock is typically classified as such if its felsic minerals are above 75% of its total composition. Examples of felsic rocks include granite, rhyolite and obsidian.

## Trivia

* Felsic is the first *Radiant*/*Void*-touched player-character to appear in Phase 3, namely ***Radiant***.
* Felsic calls her boots "timbs", which is a reference to the real-life brand "Timberland", a footwear company known for their distinctive leather boots.

## Images

### Official Art

Felsic as she appeared in Pipe Dreamers Season 1 and 2 (Art by Juniper).Felsic wearing the Owlbear mask from her wrestling days (Art by Juniper).Felsic as she appears in Pipe Dreamers Season 3 (Art by Juniper).