| Dramatis Personae |
| Oloth |
| Realms |
Retired
| Reality Fault |
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| Realms: Oloth: Dramatis Personae |
Keesha Ski'irish (Keesha)
Keesha Ski'irish was a retired fighter pilot working as a freighter captain in Known Space when the Oloth Rift opened and contact was made with the spelljamming ships of the Imperial Elven Navy. Her small armed merchant ship, CSS Chirikh, was one of the ones authorized to enter the Rift and trade directly with Oloth.
This was a lucrative route, especially with the Oloth-Known Space mail contract that went with it. Unfortunately, the Rift turned out to be unstable, and the Chirikh, on the Oloth side during the normal course of her deliveries, was too far away to make it back through before it collapsed.
While the armed freighter was, in her opinion, more than a match for anything in the Oloth Sphere, there was no way to refuel it, and in any event the fusion reactors were unusable in the weird phlogiston between the spheres of Realmspace. The exiled Keesha decided to make as much money as she could by selling most of her cargo and doing a few hauling jobs around the Sphere, and then invested the cash in converting the Chirikh to a spelljammer. In the process she discovered her own abilities as a minor mage -- and developed contacts with the local underworld figures. She now makes a comfortable living as a freighter captain once again, the duralloy hull of the Chirikh recommending her to people who need greater security for their goods. (Occasional rumors of smuggling have never been proven.) The armed freighter was never disarmed, though... although there is little fuel left now, the reserves are husbanded against any need of the still functional laser turret and the two missiles still wait in their launchers for a target should the need arise within a Sphere .... although the two ballistae mounted on the new upper deck are normally used for defense.
Oh, yes... Keesha is a bat. She is relatively short, standing -- or more often hanging -- a little under 5 feet tall on clawed feet, including her oversized and elaborately ridged ears. Her grin shows a mouthful of extremely sharp teeth in a pointed muzzle, and a twinkle dances in her large-pupiled eyes.
She is covered in fine dark brown fur, almost downy on her wings, and somewhat coarser in a cowlick between her ears...her headfur is cut short to stay out of her way in flight. Keesha's arms are integral to her wings, supporting them on jointed bone spurs that extend from her elbows and wrists. Her hands fold back along the wings in flight...on the ground, her wings fold up, letting her use her hands with only a little loss of dexterity.
She usually wears a rather low-slung pair of shorts and a tunic split up the sides for her wing membranes. Both are in the same dark brown as her fur, and she blends easily into the shadows. An amber pendant hangs from her neck, a pouch is strapped to her left leg and a sheathed dagger on her right.