Douglas McDougalbeard

Douglas McDougalbeard was a female dwarfen cleric who first appeared in the Demon Slayers campaign. She was often mistaken for a male, due to her androgynous full plate armour and the McDougalbeard clan 's famous voluminous beard. She was played by Tropingenie .

## Backstory

According to the McDougalbeard family, "Doug" translated roughly to "brave warrior" in an old, forgotten, dwaven tongue. The legitimacy of this is unknown, but from a young age Douglas (lit. "brave warrior woman") was raised to be a warrior. When the god of her clan, Gorum , a god of war, gave her his blessing, there were many celebrations and much drinking. She was a young lass of 122 at the time, and was immediately drafted into the church's militia. After training as a warrior for 100 years, she was able to manifest wings of steel on her armour, granting her the power of flight [1]. For the next fourty years, until her supposed death at the ripe old age of 263 [2], she spent her days as a wandering battle cleric: healing the hurt, and fighting for all things pure and holy [3].

## Campaigns

### Demon Slayers

#### Session 14:

Seeing the "Gnome " falling from the sky, Douglas joined the party upon being told they were going to kill the demon king. But only after smacking the Paladin with her shield, sending them spinning off into the distance. Seeing Gene spinning out of control, Douglas moves in to assist. She tossed some ropes at Gene, and he managed to loop and arm around the rope. Flying towards the demon castle, Douglas spotted a shining silver obelisk radiating evil like hot tup jets in a sauna. She readied her lance upon seeing what appeared to be demons. Upon hearing the wizard, and Gene, Douglas decided to throw him into the obelisk. She aimed at a point next to the obelisk, then slammed into Gene's back with her lance, casting forceful strike. He was sent flying towards the ground in front of the obelisk, smashing the obelisk with his death axe. As the horde of demons and other undead abominations, the rest of the party landed on the obelisk. Douglas charged the demon army, missing the point man with her lance but bodychecking the demon. The demons swarmed Douglas, but most of the attacks glanced off her armour. "I command thee to fall!" cried Douglas, casting a spell [4] and sending 10 demons falling to the ground, 100 feet below. Her spiritual companion charged forwards, slashing at one of the two remaining demons. Douglas dove down into the right flank of the enemy army, dropping her lance and drawing the greatsword,and radiated a burst of positive energy. All but 1 undead passed away. Seeing the next wave of the army advancing, Douglas continued to charge forward, channeling energy again. The undead in the wave were obliterated. "Sanctification, lads!" Douglas shouted over the Drascilla's organ music. Hearing the glowing green undead's shriek, Douglas asked if Fuji needed help; he declined. The surviving demons on the ground beat on Douglas' armour, scratching her up fairly badly. Nearly unconscious, she retreated, thanking Gorum that the demon army was also retreating.

When they reconvened on the battlefield, in front of the towering demon king, who was clad in darkness and tentacles, and wielding knives, Douglas knew she would bring glory to Gorum. "Be cleansed by holy fire, demon!" A pillar of fire momentarily engulfed the tower of shadows and tentacles. As the combat continued, Douglas summoned her spiritual allies to fight for her. As dark spears rained down, Douglas cowered behind her shield, getting hit by negative energy damage. As the spires burst forth, Douglas began radiating positive energy to counter their negative energy, and her spiritual allies began getting damaging hits on Adrian Grey. As the tendrils shot negative energy again, Douglas managed to deflect some with her holy symbol. Hearing Fuji call for healing, Douglas dove forwards as a shadow ball slammed into her. Seeing Fuji collapse, Douglas opted to heal herself. As Adrian Grey exploded in shadows, Douglas endured.

## OOC

Douglas was made following Tropingenie's hiatus, after a spontaneous decision to attend the 14th session of the campaign. With little to go off of, Tropingenie opted to make a character focused on healing, yet ultimately tried to make a character who could be as self-sufficient as possible. However, her damage output remained rather lacking, due to the focus on suppourt.

Character sheet

### OOC References

[1] The 3rd part Cleric archetype, Steel Valkyrie , allowed this. - Trop
[2] Douglas was 262 at the time of the campaign -- that's venerable, for a dwarf. Without possessing the magic item, "Cloak of Immortality," she would have taken heavy physical penalties. Her death is non-canon. - Trop

[3] Technically the character was chaotic neutral, since her definition of what is holy consists of whether or not they fight back. Though she would cleanse undead, a bar brawl is just as holy to Douglas as a crusade. - Trop

[4] The command spell , using the "drop" command, to be precise. It was quite effective since the gamemaster said we were flying ~100ft above the ground. - Trop