Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar

## Summary & Background

Played by Jupiter, Jet Jaguar is a Tabaxi Path of the Beast (Homebrew) Monk.

Link to Jet Jaguar's D&D Beyond Character Sheet.

Jet Jaguar's origins are unknown, even to himself. He has amnesia for an unknown reason. All he knows is that there's a voice coming from the Panther Mask he always wears that directs him, as it gives him brief glimpses into his past in exchange for experience fighting what it deems as worthy adversaries. Driven by his need for understanding, Jet wanders the land in search of opponents that will satiate his mask and reveal his past.

## Story Summary - Mists of Barovia Campaign

The path leading up to the current events in Barovia, Jet finds himself in the midst of a brutal fighting pit, by choice not because he was captured. He intentionally placed himself there in hopes that he would find battles worthy of his mask so that he may understand his past better. Having stayed for several months to no avail, he and a few fellow prisoners stage a coup, culminating with him finding the keys and unlocking the gate as the warden and a few dozen prison guards rushed them. As he unlocked the gate, a strange mist flowed through, and when it cleared, he was no longer in the prison.

Having no direction, he began to wander the path once again, eventually bringing himself to a travelling Radka, whom he tries to fight but Juliette steps out and confronts Jet for stopping their passage. Ending the battle in a stalemate, they agreed to get along for the time being and travel together, eventually picking up Shalfall and Dan Wailin along the way. They make their way and stop at the Vistani Encampment and end up seeking the advice of Madam Eva, the clan's wisewoman. When she read the tarokka cards, two cards came off his person and were revealed as: The Beast, and The Mists.

Moving on, the group depart from the Vistani and make their way along another road, and eventually Jet decides to fight Juliette again, but this time falling behind on the confrontation. Having never faced somewhat of a challenge, and less likely a defeat, he becomes predator like in his obsession with Juliette, stalking and just watching her. Eventually they come across a pair of children crying outside their home, stating they are outside whilst their parents are inside with a monster, to which the group go inside and investigate.

They ascend the building, finding it eerily quiet, as there are trap doors and secret rooms that they encounter on their ascent, and eventually meet Nursemaid Anya, a spectral nursemaid who's tied to this place in search of her baby, and a hanging corpse in the master bedroom. They find journals that indicate foulplay, that a Strahd, the lord of the land, had brought the mists with him to Barovia, and with it famine. The family turned to waylaying wayward travelers and resorting to cannibalism, and though the crops eventually grew hearty and the famine passed, the family stayed on their new diet. The mother of the household, turned to cult worship of a god of undeath named Lorghoth, where the father turned to the Nursemaid Anya. She became pregnant, and eventually when she gave birth, Elizabeth killed her and sacrificed the baby to their god, changing her into a monster.

They eventually find the children as ghosts upstairs and their bones huddled together having starved to death. They reveal the way downstairs and inhabit Juliette and Shalfall. As they descend, they eventually are attacked by zombies, to which Jet becomes increasingly dramatic and unhinged. When the menace is taken care of, they look for a room to recover as Jet finds a zombie trapped in a well and begins to ask it to fight him continuously, causing Shalfall, who was supposed to stay up and watch, fall asleep from the hypnotic rhythm. When they search for Jet, they find him at a crypt for the children, and having laid the spirits to rest, Shalfall deduces that Jet is an Avatar of Thanatos testing him.

As Shalfall begins to conjure up a spell to attack Jet, Jet unleashes his beast mode, and in a flash knocks Shalfall out and walks out of the basement, leaving behind his cards.

## Notable Items

* The Mists Card
* The Beast Card

## Notable Kills

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## Trivia

* Jupiter's second character
* Homebrewed in the style of Anime characters, namely Rock Lee
* Inspired by Barbarians and Swashbucklers