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* Vandeseen: Female human Wilder 2; CR 2; Medium humanoid (human); HD 2D6+2; hp 14; Init +2; Spd 30 ft; Space 5 ft; Reach 5 ft; AC 18 (touch 15, flat-footed 16); Atk +1 melee (1D6, light mace) or +1 melee (1D4, dagger) or +3 ranged (1D4, dagger) or +3 ranged (1D4, dart); SQ elude touch, psychic enervation, wild surge +1; AL CG, SV Fort +1, Ref +2, Will +3; Str 10, Dex 14, Con 13, Int 15, Wis 11, Cha 17. Height 5 ft 6 in.

Skills and Feats: Balance +4, Bluff +7, Concentration +5, Intimidate +6, Listen +4, Perform (sing) +5, Perform (stringed instrument) +5, Sense Motive +3, Spot +4, Tumble +7; Body Fuel, Mind Over Body.

Possessions: light mace, daggers (2), darts (8), bandoleer, lyre, traveller's outfit, belt pouch, copper diadem studded with agates (85 gp), 27 cp, 13 sp, 1 gp.

Languages: Common, Elven, Halfling.

Power Points/Day: 9

Powers: 1 - conceal thoughts, mind thrust. Base DC = 13 + power level.

Vandeseen is enamoured of experience. She craves sensations and experiences of all sorts. It is a sort of mental wanderlust. This led the 25 year old woman to leave her home in Noscrused to journey to the Kingdom of Slumber in order to train as a bardess under the famous Canaris or one of his fellow elder bards. During her studies, wherein she showed quite the ability to weave the notes of her lyre with the lyric of her voice, she often strayed from her studies in order to see all the amazing and woundrous things that were available to her in Slumber. In one such instance, she was invited by a cabal of students who had stolen a batch of "mind juice" to drink the brew. Unhesitatingly, while the others lost their nerve, she quaffed the poultice, and instantly felt her mind expand in bizarre directions. She lapsed into a coma, and her companions feared her slain or comatose forever, though they were too afraid to take her to authorities, and so tended to her themselves.

For a month and a day she was under the spell of the drink, and then she awoke suddenly, completely healthy, but also with the vast emptiness of her expanded mind now filled with the fount of her unbridled emotions and lust for life. So overcome was she by this that she determined to leave her bardic studies and travel the world.

Vandeseen left Slumber and travelled through Western Blanthil, Jaggarth, Vosh-gerr, and eventually returned home to Noscrused in tthe Far Coast. Alas, her parents were quite disappointed that she had forsaken her art, and when they learned of her strange mental powers and observed the change in her personality, they grew estranged from her. This only angered the lass, who now wore her heart on her sleeve, and in one blow-up she insulted her parents and left, heading north. She eventually ended up in Dwillingir, and her exceptionally good looks landed her in the harlot trade. However, her passion and vehemence during lovemaking made her less and less requested by regulars of the House of Ill-Repute and eventually her duties transformed into a player of atmospheric music for the House, and to entertain in its lounge. She still services those who can handle her, but she now spends most of her time serving as bardess of the House.