Kissandre Oswood

Kissandre (Kiss) Osewood is one of the Player Characters on the podcast, portrayed by Jenna. She is a 20-year-old halfling bard, most notable for her use of her Tarot Deck to see the future and gain bonuses and abilities.

## Kissandre Oswood

### Relatives

Meander Oswood - SisterOliander Oswood - Sister

## Appearance

Kissandre is a short, young, halfling girl, with brown curly hair and tanned skin. She often wears a blue beret, as well as a mismatched outfit of blues and purples. She is about 3 and a half feet tall.

## Personality

Kiss is a very friendly and youthful individual. She is non-confrontational by nature, and plays peacemaker often. Kiss is also very loving, notably very attached to her family, stating that she has only ever been away from her sisters for about an hour before leaving to come to Aodra.

## Abilities

Kissandre has numerous bardic abilities.

* Tarot deck for divination
* Message
* Hideous Laughter
* Omens
* Persuasion (better in the morning)

## Items

* Tarot Cards
* Lucky Coins
* Charlatan's Die: 2d6 which the wielder can control the total value the die roll

## Life

### Pre-Campaign

Kiss originally hails from Sineroad, and has lived in Naledi all her life. She has two older sisters, Oleander and Meander.

### Arrival in Aodra

Kiss travelled to Aodra aboard the Crown's Ferry, having taking the payment incentive to journey to Mhor on behalf of the Crown. She spots a line forming outside of Hangman's and makes her way inside. She stops to flirt with a tall halfling man named Lincoln, and pets his goat. He seems quite taken with her, and mentions that she could come back later to meet him. She is joined at the bar by Qil, who she introduces to the concept of capitalism and teaches about the value of coins. The pair are later joined by Indigo, with whom they share a bottle of Wymar Reserve. Later, a sopping wet Syrakas joins the trio, and gives Kissandre the nickname Kiss.

After some time, Lincoln enters the bar and jealously argues with the party regarding Kiss spending time with them. The party promptly attacks Lincoln on Kiss' behalf, informing him that she is not his property. Kiss casts sleep on Lincoln, and the party steals his goat.

### Hunt for the Nanabush

Following the meeting with Lorelai, the party is informed that they should go to the Quinn homestead for more information regarding the Nanabush. There, they discover the halfling family is being attacked by Dog Men, and Kiss uses message to impersonate their god and terrify one of the creatures into stopping its attack. After the battle, Kiss plays with Indigo and the Quinn children, before helping Qil to burry the Dog Men in the forest, placing a single rose on its grave.

Kiss tries to convince the party that they could try to fool Solfred by bringing back something indicative of having killed the Nanabush without actually having done so, but is outvoted.

### Visiting the Wharf

After returning and spending the night at Hangman's, Kiss awakes to find three omens in her room: a carved wooden rat, a live white mouse, and a dead black rat. Kiss knows that normally when she finds dead omens, it means that someone is soon to die. While the party is deciding what to do with their day, Kiss shows marked interest in visiting the cemetery, noting that in Sineroad, people are simply buried at home.

The party visits Solfred for their payment, and is informed that something weird is going on at the wharf, but that she hasn't had time or manpower to check it out, she asks the party if they wouldn't mind visiting on her behalf. The party travels to the wharf through town, and discovers the body of a dead half-elf inside a shed, baring the door from being opened. After Qil manages to lift the shed off the ground (it does not have a floor), Kiss and Kaz pull the body out, and Kiss gives the body her dead rat omen. Kiss inspects the body and sees no wounds, nor any sign of drowning or poison.

### Getting Answers about Ben

After the party travelled to the lighthouse and fought the surprisingly-not-dead Ben, they travelled to the King's Hand to get answers from Mother Alessandra. During the conversation, Kiss tried to lie to Koleta, but failed miserably, only serving to make her more suspicious of the party than before. Eventually, the party decides to share what they've learned about Ben, and they gain some information about the Dollins in return. Kiss decides she would like to question the two young Hands, Samson and Victory, to see if either knows more about Ben. She brings them a small hammer from a supply closet and attempts to commiserate with them, but is unable to find common ground with the young boy.

Eventually the party decides to visit Hanger's to rest briefly, and Kiss performs on the mandolin to wonderful success. She ends her performance with a joke, and when someone interrupts her to get sexual, Kaz leaps to her aid and tries to fight the man, but fails. Instead, Emmil, the party's new companion, jumps up and headbutts the man unconscious. After this, the two new friends Emmil and Jens ask the party if they would like to join them on a treasure hunt.

Once at the beach, Jens and Emmil turn on the party and attempt to kill them. After a brutal battle, the party prevails, and Kiss is incredibly upset by the betrayal. She had felt kinship with the brothers, as they had been very kind and had laughed at her jokes. After Qil discovers the treasure, he gives Kiss the Charlatan's die, which she is very excited to try out.

### Getting Kicked out of Hangman's

The party returns to Handman's to discover a very upset Maiwenn, who is overwhelmed by the amount of work she has to do with no help. The party tries to assist her, Kiss suggesting that Indigo aid her as he knows the most about alcohol, but to no avail. Kiss then approaches a gnome gentlemen, later revealed to be Penny Fezwick, and tries to strike up a conversation with him, in her usual friendly nature. The man refuses to speak more than one-word answers, however, and Kiss dejectedly decides it would be best to try to get some rest.

However, the party is no longer sure that they have rooms, and are afraid to bother Maiwenn to get new ones, so Kiss decides that she will instead go upstairs and find a room to sleep in herself. Qil, now a rabbit, accompanies her. The first room they come to, once their room, is unlocked, but when Kiss opens the door, reveals a fully naked man shaving his legs. The human man has a beer belly and is rather hairy, but does have a large, beautiful penis, which seems to traumatize Kiss to see. She attempts to shut the door before Rabbit Qil can see anything, but after asking him, he indicates that he had in fact witnessed the glorious member.

They continue down the hallway until they find an open room, and go inside to sleep. The pair are later awoken by Indigo, who was sent to fetch them after Kaz got the group kicked out of the tavern. Qil bundles up a still exhausted Kiss, and carries her out of the inn to go find shelter elsewhere. The party then catches up with Kaz at the King's Hand, where they learn more about Kaz' past before he met them. Kiss kindly states that she is sure Kaz' crew are alive somewhere, but that the party will be his second crew until he finds them. Kiss then informs Kaz that she is most persuasive in the mornings, and cheekily asks Kaz if he finds her persuasive at night. Kaz becomes flustered, and the conversation ends.

### Battle in the Graveyard

Kiss is woken by Samson calling for help, and emerges to find the undead have risen in the graveyard. She fights alongside the other party members to put down the creatures who assault them. Afterwards, she angrily demands to know who has been messing about, as this is the second time today that she has had to fight the undead, and she is really not pleased about it.

After Qil unearths the tome again, Kiss investigates it, recognizing the spell 'Chill Touch' in it. She works to attune to the book, and discovers that it is called 'The Tome of the Dying Reef', and contains many spells which she can now cast. The tome itself is made of dark leather, and has fitting of petrified coral. It also whispers softly. She gives the tome back to Qil, as he will get more use out of it. Qil then gifts her a gold necklace that he stole off a corpse.

In the morning, Kiss casts augury to see if Qil and Kaz invoking Cide will be alright, and gets both wheel and woe in response. She then hears Hanger calling for Maiwenn in the distance, and heads to see what is happening.

### The Search for Samson and Maiwenn

The party approaches Hanger, who asks them if they've seen his daughter, as she hasn't shown up for her shift and he's growing concerned. The party questions him, and find out curiously that he didn't fire Ellric, but that he also doesn't know where he is. The party tries to sneak into Maiwenn's room to investigate her disappearance but are caught by some guards and give up. Instead, they decide to go looking for Samson, who vanished after the battle.

On their way to the spot where Samson indicated he found the tome, the party encounters Ellric and a woman out for a walk. Upon questioning him, he indicates that he has no clue where Maiwenn is, but is also confused as to why people think he quit or was fired. He shares with the party that he asked Hanger for the night off, and that he doesn't know why he doesn't remember. The two groups part ways and the party continues on to the beach.

Initially, the entire party swims about searching for any indication of where Samson has gone, but after Qil and Kaz find a tunnel underwater and go to explore it, Kiss and Indigo stay on the shore to wait, as Kiss is a poor swimmer. She becomes anxious as she waits, worrying that the others are hurt or in trouble. After the eventual return of the entire group, Kiss demands to go see the cavern and Desmua for herself, stating that perhaps she can decode the messages that the others have failed to read, but is told that it isn't safe and she would have a hard time even getting in. Kiss becomes frustrated at being the only party member that doesn't get to see the cavern, but eventually admits defeat and gives up on trying to go investigate.