Calli, Cat-Burglar/ Pick-Pocket/Cut-Purse

Name: Calli. Her name means 'the most beautiful', which is what she spends most of her time looking for ;-) Some of the various terms that have been used to describe her are quite nasty, ranging from bitch, whore  and to much worse.

Age: 23 years old

Appearance/Physical: Tall, seductive, very very beautiful. Has luscious long dark brown hair that she sometimes dyes. Thick red pouty lips that she uses to her advantage, in fact she uses everything to her advantage.

Calli has a tight suit of black leather armour. In daylight, she can be found in various clothing with or without the suit underneath - or even in nothing at all. When she goes out on a job, she normally uses a black hood and either the black leather if chance of combat or just loose black cloth if not. Sometimes, she does not take any weapons and tries to minimise the amount of stuff that could cause others to look badly on her.  Other times, she carries a fine short-sword at her hip, and a dagger in each of her boots. For jobs where she knows it will not be easy to get in, she sometimes wears a spider (housebreaker's harness), which allows her to stick climbing daggers into the wall and rope herself through them.

For a woman, she is quite tall, coming in at 5' 7" & weighing 127 lbs. She is quite ample with a very curvaceous figure due to lots of exercise from combat and thief practise. She doesn't try to hide her feminity, as she has found that men can be gullible & naive around a pretty woman.. Calli is very glad that the weight she gained during pregnancy slipped off quick.

Calli is double-jointed & able to contort her body into all sorts of position, which comes in handy when she is bound & needs to escape or has to slip through. It also allows her to more easily scratch her back.

Personality: Stubborn fits very well.. Cautious on the job.. Spunky.. Quite mouthy with plenty of attitude.. Doesn't believe that men are always stronger.. Has a temper.. Doesn't like not getting her own way and tends to pout & sulk when she doesn't win.. Greedy as hell fits too. Very good at being persuasive and expert at dissuading the suspicions of others.

When Calli was a young girl during her time in Hera's temple, she was exploring and came across a large cabinet in the basement. Crawling inside to look around, it closed and locked behind her. She was stuck inside, screaming with absolute terror in the darkness for over four hours. When a priest heading down heard the screaming and shaking, he quickly raced over and unlocked it. She sprang out, shaking uncontrollably as she sobbed and hung onto him for dear life. She recovered after about an hour, but ever since then, she has had a phobia of enclosed spaces.

She likes shiny things, especially rich expensive shiny things. She doesn't mind whoring herself to get money or property or advantage. She will backstab as needed, and has a very very loose sense of loyalty & morals. However, she also does follow the Thieve's Honor Code ( don't squeal, don't burn partners, share with those who are incarcerated, share info with other thieve's, and help other thieves despite emnity or differences) at times, but.some of the other thieves say she brings backstabbing out as a whole new artform as well.

It is rumored that even Zeus has come off worse once, although some of the stories about her are quite embellished & downright lies so it isn't likely its true (yet). She is continually sizing things up to get the most.

She thinks religion is a load of crock that was thought up by the opportunistic gods, and sees Zeus as a prime example of everything that is wrong with it. She knows he isn't omnipotent and makes mistakes, especially regarding women.

Calli is very uninhibited & immodest. She doesn't mind using her ample feminine assets to get every advantage she can. She has whored herself out before to men and women, both attractive and one that she found quite disgusting. She does have a limit in that though. She has done stuff for her guild, such as being used as a bribe or stabbing someone during sex.

She is always ready and open to try new things, loving experimenting.

She is naturally optimistic and enjoys showing off. She has a healthy dose of narcissim, in that she believes she is superior to others.

Powers: None and glad of it.

Heroic (well sorta) Motivation: Getting the most out of life from those who are stupid not to do the same. 

Background:

Calli is not really sure who her parents are, since she was left abandoned on the steps of one of Hera's temples. She was taken in by the priestesses & cared for. However, she eventually ran away from them when she was eight... with the contents of the temple lockbox in a bag. She fled the city in the back of a wagon, hoping that Hera's priestesses wouldn't find her and that they wouldn't realise what she took.

At the next town, she managed to find an old deserted barn to live in. Fending for herself for awhile, the money eventually ran out and she spent a couple more months on the street before she got herself in trouble. She was bound and carried down to a basement that contained the local Thieve's Guild. She was interrogated by the guild leader, who finally decided she was a keeper.

She was trained as a beggar & runner, helping out with whatever she could, and how to speak the special language known as Thieve's Cant, which was used predominantly not to draw attention to shady stuff. In return, she recieved rough dirty clothing, a place to sleep at night and some food. She was taught how to act more pitifully using mud & dirt, and how to fake defects. She got on well with the other street urchins in the guild.

As she got older, it was obvious that Calli could be used better in other avenues of guild activities, since she was smart and had looks. She was cleaned up and throughly scrubbed. Once that was done, she began recieving training as needed in all sorts of larceny, becoming good at pick-pocketing, lockpicking and climbing due to her agility. As neccessary, she was taught how to use a dagger, swort sword and slingshot.

The guild also taught her how to be very alert, quite & cautious at all times, because there could always be a monster or person around the corner ready to beat the crap out of you first. She excelled at listening, finding & remove traps, hiding and disguise too. Her natural ambidexterity and flexibility helps a lot, allowing her to twist & contort her body around to break out of bonds.

When she reached the age that she was just blossoming into an adult, the other thieves began using her body. They treated her okay, and she grew to enjoying the sexual activities that she was involved in. She learnt from some of the other female thieves on how to use her sexuality to her advantage.

As she rose in position in the guild, she was allowed to travel more and finally was given permission to 'do her own thing most of the time'. She struck out and became quite infamous.

One day in a tavern, she heard about some really expensive looking gold statues that were being held in the local temple of Zeus. Even though she knew of the king of the god's reputation, Calli decided it could be worth it. That night, she snuck into the temple and breached the room holding the statues. She would have escaped with them if it hadn't been for luck on the part of the guards. She fought hard, but was eventually taken captive.

She was tied up tight in his throne room with men watching until Zeus could deal with her. When he finally arrived, he sent the guards away and barred the doors easily.  Untying Calli with a wave, he watched for awhile as she tried to escape but couldn't. He made her clothes fall away and after a lot of defiance, he told her that she would be his slave for awhile to make up for the attempted theft. She told him in quite unladylike terms what he could do. That night, he took her and she was pregnant by the morning, being 'squirrelled' away in one of his temples.

She found that even though he was probably just protecting an asset in the form of her child, he didn't mind showering lavishness at her, and she milked it for all she could, knowing that he knew she was doing that since he wasn't that stupid.

Once she gave birth, he told her that the child, who they named Corineus, would be cared for by his priestesses, but that she could visit whenever she wanted to. She tried to steal her son away shortly after, but was caught, being knocked unconscious during it.

When she woke, she found Zeus had sent her to become an indentured slave at the vineyard of a cruel man for four years. She is pretty sure that throwing her there as punishment was partly out of anger and probably partly of a deal Zeus was forced into when Hera discovered she had borne a son for Zeus. Inside, she forced to do hard work in the fields or die. She didn't give in and passed through, glad to at least be alive and rid her of the side-affects of the pregnancy. They were told that if they worked hard, they could eventually buy their freedom maybe. Calli made a decision to do what she had to so she could see Corineus again.

The owner was very harsh, and had slaves flogged for minor things. Calli bore the brunt of a lot of it, because she wasn't giving in like the others.

For the next year, she worked hard, becoming very good and surviving everything that was thrown at her. The owner abused his female workers, and made them perform for him nude in small mock combats, even though none of them (except Calli) knew what to do. Calli didn't have any issues.  She was amused when she knew that Zeus even sometimes watched her from afar, especially in the nude matches.

One day, the women were rounded up and tied down to benches. The men were told to continue until the women were pregnant against their wills. Due to the forced field work, she eventually miscarried.

She eventually was granted her freedom back after 3 years, and Zeus kept his word to let her help bring up Corineus. Zeus was also good enough to ask his daughter, Artemis, to totally heal up the whip marks that covered Calli's back from the many times she had been flogged.

She headed back to thieving. Quite a number of the gods, goddesses & rich mortals have seen their property handled by Calli - Ares, Hermes, Hades, Hephaetus, Aphrodite, Poseidon, Athena, Artemis, Minos, along with the rulers of Athens, Sparta, Troy and other cities. She has done jobs with Autolycus before, who found her quite amusing if not a greedy little bitch who delighted in screwing him over when possible, and many others.

She now travels between Athens, Corinth and Megara most of the time.

Home City: Corinth, Megara or Athens are common places to find her. However, she floats around to were the good loot is.

Notes: She has a mottled-brown light warhorse named Delphin. Delphin has been trained not to startle during combat. He has a nasty fence & barn chewing habit though, which she has not been able to break him of. When she is on a job, she normally leaves him in the care of the local guild or temple of Zeus.

Calli is double-jointed, which helps a lot with many of her thief skills. She knows how to use ropes and walk across thin objects, such as tight ropes and planks, when up high. She has been taught how to tail someone without getting seen, and is very alert with good observational skills.

Calli is also ambidextrous, and can use either hand just as well.  She has also been trained on how to effectively use two weapons at once. Most of the time, one is her sword and the other is either a dagger or another short sword..

Calli has a four-year old son named Corineus, who is half-mortal and half-god thanks to Zeus being his father. Although she missed his early childhood, she is determined to make up for it.

AD&D 2nd Edition Char Details:
Race: Human (was originally half-elf, but no real diffs)
Class: Fighter(5th)/Thief(6th) - Cat Burglar Kit
Str 17, Dex 18, Con 10, Int 10, Wis 9, Cha 16
Languages: Greek, Thracian, Thieve's Cant*
Weapon Proficiencies: Short Sword, Dagger, Bolas, Whip, Ambidexterity, Two-Weapon Style
Non-Weapon Proficiencies: Appraisal, Alertness*, Tailing, Begging, Disguise, Tumbling, Glibness, Looting*, Double-Jointed, Observation, Rope Use, Tightrope Walking
Disadvantages: Greed, Phobia: Enclosed Spaces

THACO - 15
AC: Leather = 6 (9 -3 Dex), None = 7
HP - Max 68

Thief Skills:
Pick Pocket - 50%
Open Locks - 50%
Find/Remove Traps - 50%
Move Silent - 50%
Hide in Shadows - 50%
Detect Noise/Listen - 45%
Climb Walls - 60%
Bribe - 10%
Escape Bonds - 40%

Equipment: Fine short sword, 2 daggers, bolas, whip, Light warhorse (Delphin), Thieve's Picks, black leather armour, 1 weeks travel rations, crowbar, small bag of chalk, 40 feet hemp rope, grappling iron, slinky black lacy slip and panties, mini-blade, dark suit head cover, charcoal, climbing daggers, housebreaker's harness/spider, aniseed vial, caltrops, small bag of marbles

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