Riki Martin (Matt)

"See, that wasn't so hard."

## Appearance

A male Satyr with tawny fur, chocolate-colored shoulder-length dreadlocks and goatee with small goat-like, pecan-colored horns. He stands 5 feet and 7 inches tall with cloven hooves and a very short and bushy tail.

He wears a patterned, purple, silk, buttoned-shirt with long sleeves and laced cuffs. For his pants, he wears purple tights and dark brown leather boots that extend just under his knee. Over it, he wears minimal armor which consists of a leather breastplate and leather leg armor.

## Personality

Riki is almost always suave in a lackadaisical manner. He makes people feel valued especially those who do really have value (after assessing their jewelry and worn items). He has a smooth way of talking and has a great singing voice.

## Abilities

### **Race: Satyr**

#### **Fey**

Riki's creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.

#### **Ram**

Riki can use his head and horns to make unarmed strikes. If he hits with them, he deals bludgeoning damage equal to 1d4 + Strength modifier.

#### **Magic Resistance**

Riki has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.

#### **Mirthful Leaps**

Whenever Riki make a long or high jump, he can roll a d8 and add the number rolled to the number of feet he covers, even when making a standing jump. This extra distance costs movement as normal. This has helped him climb trees and traverse mountains in his many adventures in the wild.

#### **Reveler**

Riki has proficiency in the Performance and Persuasion skills, and he has proficiency with the **lute** as his musical instrument of choice.

### **Background: Urchin**

Riki grew up in the wilds, far from civilization and the comforts of town and technology. At an early age, he had a fascination over trinkets, jewelry, gems and other shiny objects that his father, Koko would bring whenever he gets home from his trips. Riki would often sneak one of his mother's gems and show it off to his friends. This usually ends in a scuffle as the other kids would want to touch or hold it. To fight back, Riki trained his fighting skills under many mentors in their clan. He would often protect his older brother Riko from the mean kids. He also helps his brother return items he absent-mindedly pilfers, or sometimes he keeps it for himself without anyone noticing. When their parents were taken, the twins survived by helping each other. Riki would hunt for their meals while Riko provide the greens in their diet and a little cash from herbs he sells. When they were driven out of their clan, Riki dragged his brother to different towns and cities where he felt more at ease. He pickpocketed and swindled his way to feed both of them and get them a place to sleep in.

#### **City Secrets**

Riki knows the secret patterns and flow to cities and can find passages through the urban sprawl that others would miss. When he is not in combat, he (and companions he leads) can travel between any two locations in the city twice as fast as his speed would normally allow.

### **Class: Rogue**

**• Expertise** - Stealth, Slight of Hand

**• Sneak Attack -** You know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra **9d6** damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.

You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.

**• Thieves' Cant -** During your rogue training you learned thieves’ cant, a secret mix of dialect, jargon, and code that allows you to hide messages in seemingly normal conversation. Only another creature that knows thieves’ cant understands such messages. It takes four times longer to convey such a message than it does to speak the same idea plainly.

In addition, you understand a set of secret signs and symbols used to convey short, simple messages, such as whether an area is dangerous or the territory of a thieves’ guild, whether loot is nearby, or whether the people in an area are easy marks or will provide a safe house for thieves on the run.

## Belongings

### **Trinkets**

A small, weightless sliver of cyan stone that Riki wears around his neck. They found this stone in the forest when they were young only to discover that it cracked into two. Riki, the craftier of the two, turned them into pendants. The twins swore to always wear it to remember the other when they are away during adventures.

### **Mundane**

**• Burglar's Pack -** Includes a backpack, a bag of 1,000 ball bearings, 10 feet of string, a bell , 5 candles, a crowbar, a hammer, 10 pitons, a hooded lantern, 2 flasks of oil, 5 days rations, a tinderbox, and a waterskin. The pack also has 50 feet of hempen rope strapped to the side of it.

**• Urchin Items -** A small knife, a set of common clothes a map of the towns they've been in, a pet mouse called Portia, a scroll case with mechanical dials too complex for Riki to understand. He carries this to remember their parents by.

**• Others** - Rapier, dagger, lute, thieves' tools

## Relationships

• **Koko Martin (father)** - Koko is a wandering bard adventurer who joined a traveling performer group. He was often away from his family doing shows in a far distant town or kingdom. He does make it a point to return every so often but he missed a lot of milestones in the twin's growth. When the twins were just teenagers, Koko and Pamela were taken by a mysterious group of men and were never to be seen again.

• **Pamela Sue Martin (mother)** - Pamela is a loving mother and a faithful wife. Despite Koko's absence, she was able to raise the twins on her own teaching them what she knew. She sparked Riki's interest in crafting little baubles and jewelry while it was the kindness towards nature for Riko. She acted as the clan's herbalist as she was exceptionally good in finding the correct herbal cure for any disease. She passed this knowledge down to Riko as well as her love for woodland creatures.

• **Riko Martin (brother)** - Riko is Riki's twin brother and the problem child out of the two. At an early age, Riko would often get in trouble for unknowingly stealing items. This escalated when their own father was blamed for stealing an important item he was meant to deliver to a town's lord. Riki feels bad about Riko's situation so he never blamed him. Instead, he tried his best to make Riko's life comfortable by supporting his meager lifestyle in the forest or by giving him the opportunity of a lifetime in the New World

## Significant Events

Riki made a lot of friends in the ship called Eden. He was quite famous with the crew as he would often incorporate their names and their tasks in his songs. He has also sang multiple sea shanties to liven their spirits. He was always carried a positive and lively vibe with him that infected others.

Upon reaching the New World, Riko was eager to explore it. He signed up for the first exploration mission but it led to his demise.

## Backstory

Riki was the second son of Koko and Pamela Sue Martin. Growing up, he always wanted to be like his father, a wandering musician. He would cherish the times their father was around so he could learn to play many new songs with his lute. When his father was not around, he ended up defending his brother Riko from other children. He trained under many mentors to fight off even grown men. He also developed his sleight of hand skills so he could return the items his brother stole before their owner noticed it's missing.

When their parents were taken by mysterious men, he wanted to hurt his idiot brother so bad. He wanted to beat his oblivious brother so he would realize the trouble he brought their family. He thought about it but realized that it would not have been what their parents wanted. Instead, he diverted all his anger to trying to rescue them. Sadly, he failed all his attempts as he did not know where they were held or which group was responsible. He tried to bide his time and saw an opportunity when the clan elders kicked the twins out of the forest.

Without hesitation nor remorse, Riki left the forest and dragged his brother to the nearest town. He has been waiting for an opportunity to go look for their parents without the prying eyes of the clan's elders.

While his brother stayed in the fringes of whichever town they were in, Riki joined many thieves guilds to extract information about their parent's whereabouts. Taking the moniker of "Maru" which meant cunning, Riki worked many odd jobs just to gain a lead to know who had them captured. After many moons of thievery, news of Koko and Pamela's death reached Riki. He verified the information by digging the supposed graves only to identify his parents in them. He sulked for some time but never revealed the truth to Riko.

With a renewed sense of purpose, Riki was more determined to know the ones responsible for their parent's death. Retribution was coming for them at the tip of Riki's blades. With much pain inflicted and taken, Riki was able to acquire the location of his father's "old friends". This was the adventuring group his father joined for that delivery task. It was this group that had them taken and separated from their children. Left unchecked, Riki's anger urged him to kill all of them. Which he did.

Now hunted by some of the guilds he worked for, Riki saw an opportunity to escape by volunteering himself in the expedition the kingdom of Elencia was sending to the New World. Making sure he took the most important thing in his life with him, he also signed Riko up.

He invited his brother to a journey that would dictate the rest of their lives as they eagerly looked forward to the adventures both of them will be having in the New World.