Post by Royce Hail on Sept 8, 2013 10:18:42 GMT -5
Played By= Kris Holden-Ried
Category= Lord (of Industry)
Name = Royce Kaleb Hail
Alias/Nicknames = Boon, Hailson, Royce Hailson
Age =36
Status = Married to Lyra "Lyra-lee" Kentlee (daughter of the Harvest Lord Pardeux)-NPC
Height = 6'3"
Weight = 203 lbs
Eye Color = Blue-green
Hair Color = Copper-blonde
General Demeanor/Personality = He generally comes off as a coldly-friendly guy. The one who smiles with his mouth but kills you or ignores you with his eyes. He is deeply interested in very few things and tends to overlook anything else. He has a sense of entitlement and superiority that is both taught to him in his upbringing and earned in his life and ethics. He is a hard man, but a fair man to fair men.
Quirks = He hates anything that is a dirty yellow color (like mustard or caution signs) He is allergic to most flowers, some grasses and trees. He usually carries around Gizmo, a small winged lizard found on Hailos of the [?] variety with only one eye, that doesn't always listen to him. Gizmo has sharp teeth and claws, eats anything given to him, and is immune to heat. Alone, it would take him two minutes to chew (uninterrupted) through to an artery to kill a grown person; in a flock (30 or so) they can devour a whole man Royce's size inside of two minutes. Terrible night vision, prone to hypothermia even before freezing temperatures, and smokes from the mouth and nose but does not breath fire unless fire is already started and held and spat from the mouth in flaming timber and ash.
Best Skills = Manipulation, The Bach-Ore Mining business (inside and out, top to bottom), Being in Charge, Swordsman, and Pick-axeman
General Skills =Fulfilling Orders, Self Control, Observation, Problem Solving, Accounting, boxing/barfighting, pistols, writing, Vio (AtVerse Violin), and basic lordly decorum.
Reputation = Among Lords and Ladies he is anti-social and mocking, sarcastic and belittling of their pampered nature and getting away with it only because no one has the balls to insult the future king of the fuel supply. Among the Miners, he's a hardass who doesn't put up with insubordination or disrespect and has been known to maim or kill transgressors. He is also known for never asking or telling a Miner to do something he hasn't done himself, sometimes even going as far as to prove it on the spot before dolling immediate repercussions for making him. As he says, "mining bach-ore is hard, so I have to be harder."
Brief Bio =
HAIL'S SON BORN IN THE MINES
Overlord and Lady Hail gave birth to their first son in the B-009 (BOON) Shaft of the Bach-Ore mines today. An insider reports Lady Hail was chasing her husband into the mine to demand the name of his whore. Witnesses say they were well into a heated discussion as to the finer points of Marriage when Lady Hail let out a scream that stopped work through the entire B quadrant! Even before aid could arrive, Overlord Hail had to assist his wife in the delivery of his son, Lord Royce Kaleb Hail. The Hails played the recording of the Miners cheering at the sound of baby Hail's first breath-cries every day during the week long celebration of the Hail Heir. Business is booming for the Hail family and rumors are spreading that the birth of Hail's son has caused an uprising among the Overlords cousins. Is there a power-struggle in the Hail-Family future?
HAIL'S SON NEARLY DIES IN MINE EXPLOSION
That's right folks, the famed first and only son of Overlord Hail is in critical condition following an explosion in the mines last night. At sixteen, he is already well known among the Miners for adding his hands to the line in a pinch. An invaluable member of the Hail family, Royce was said to be with [unnamed], an Engineer inspecting the 12th shaft in the T quadrant recently outfitted with power and comm-lines. Details as to the exact cause of the explosion are unknown but while the rumor-mill is going on about the Hail Cousins making a play for the fuel-throne, our sources say it was just an accident. More specifically, a gas pocket ignited by a faulty equipment spark. You can be sure the Families of Construction will be served with a claim shortly and we anticipate the Underside making the most profit in the Lord's Death Pool. Don't worry Royce, our bet is on you! Only a man born in the mine could survive a deadly explosion within it's bowls. By popular demand, we're using our last line to ask our fans to pray on the ladies behalf to save the Boon Baby's pretty face!
ROYCE HAILSON DECLARES HIMSELF AN ETERNAL BACHELOR
Much to the sadness of the noble ladies hoping to marry into the Hail fortune, Royce has declared his intent to remain forever a bachelor. At twenty-two, this bold move seems to have met with the approval of the entire Hail family except his loving parents. A source close to Royce says it's the constant love-battle between Overlord and Lady Hail which has driven him to abstain from the vows. In fact, we hear the life-lucky Noble is going a step further and even swearing off women all together! We'll believe it when we don't see it, Boon, but in the meantime we salute you. If nothing else, your flag off the market roster leaves another lovely Lady for the rest of the less dashing and famed Lords of the AtVerse. If anyone hears of the Underside's bets on Hailson's chastity, we'd like to give him three weeks. Ladies, there's a purse of 1,000 tek bits for proof of pleasure. Don't be shy, we're here all day, every day! Ask for Hal of the Hailos Herald!
Much to the sadness of the noble ladies hoping to marry into the Hail fortune, Royce has declared his intent to remain forever a bachelor. At twenty-two, this bold move seems to have met with the approval of the entire Hail family except his loving parents. A source close to Royce says it's the constant love-battle between Overlord and Lady Hail which has driven him to abstain from the vows. In fact, we hear the life-lucky Noble is going a step further and even swearing off women all together! We'll believe it when we don't see it, Boon, but in the meantime we salute you. If nothing else, your flag off the market roster leaves another lovely Lady for the rest of the less dashing and famed Lords of the AtVerse. If anyone hears of the Underside's bets on Hailson's chastity, we'd like to give him three weeks. Ladies, there's a purse of 1,000 tek bits for proof of pleasure. Don't be shy, we're here all day, every day! Ask for Hal of the Hailos Herald!
In a surprising turn of events, the long abstinent and self-proclaimed Eternal Bachelor marries the rumored Lady of the Harvest in a station orbiting Hailos today. Rumors say the marriage was arranged by the Overlord and Lady Hail and Harvest Lord and Lady Parduex in a hail-marry attempt to secure the line of succession. Royce, 36, shocked us all when the tenth anniversary of our 1K Tek Bit offer passed unclaimed. It is now fourteen years since his declaration and his nubile bride Lyra, 17, is reported to have never even heard of him! It seems the happiest couple of this union is the Overlord and his wife, but we'll give the new bride some time to warm the hard, cold heart of the Hail's son. One this is for certain, at least he picked himself a beautiful woman with a promising future! We're hoping the little Lady will take charity to a whole new level now that she has the Hail's purse backing her. She can start in the Mines of Hailos, then Midway and finally Javos where the newly weds are expected to spend their festivalmoon. During which time, we're told by sources close to the family, if Hail's son and the Lady of the Harvest fail to produce an heir the Overlord will be required to name one of his fathering cousins as second in line to the Hail Empire. We know who our thoughts are on, but we'd like to see the Underside's betting board on this one.