FREE: Characters: The Prisoner aka The Prisoner of Time

The Prisoner

also known as

The Prisoner of Time, The Man Who Has Not Tasted Death

Homeworld:
The World of Mystery

Family: 
It is believed that The Prisoner is an orphan, whose family died during the Vazeer raids during the final phase of the War of Seven Sides.

Background:
The Prisoner obtained his unusual power after being betrayed by his fellow rogue and best friend Aelvon during a dungeon delve. Shot with a handbow and left for dead, The Prisoner stumbled into a nearby river, eventually being washed down into a lagoon that was home to a hedge wizard. This hedge wizard found the nearly dead rogue, placed on him a magical amulet, and the amulet restored The Prisoner to life, at the cost of being unremovable. The amulet also conferred on The Prisoner his known magical powers.

Known Power and Abilities:

Magical AmuletThe prisoner wears a green glass magical amulet with a yellow cat-like eye embedded in it. This amulet is unable to be removed and its origin currently remains obscure.

Rogue
The Prisoner goes up levels as a Rogue, a footpad thief with excellent hand to hand, knife and improvised weapon fighting skills. He has no coordination or skill with heavy weapons other than improvised attacks and has no ability whatsoever with Knight weapons and armour.

Toughness
The Prisoner regenerates physical harm swiftly enough so that normal stunning or crushing damage is ignored.

Immortal
The Prisoner is immune to life threatening effects short of total disintegration or beheading followed by permanent separation of his head from his body eg placing the head in a solid container.

The Smell Of Lime #4 page 69 "I Was Dead"

Steamtown - the Zoomways

Zoomways are stable wormholes between worlds. Their appearance is basically that of a whirlpool in mid-air, which opens into a tunnel of a particular colour or shade.

The known types of Zoomways include:

The Paisley Zoomway - allowing travel between different parallel worlds and different time periods. An extremely powerful entity resembling a meso-American deity and known as The Paisley God claims dominion over this Zoomway and all who try and use it.

The Black Zoomway - leading into the Realm of Death. No one can pass through the Zoomway and remain Alive, although they might not necessarily emerge Dead, either.

The Rose Zoomway - named for its resemblance to pink-red roses and their spiked green stems, the interior of this Zoomway is shot through with those colours. It is used to travel into the past and future of the parallel universe in which you currently reside.

The Jade Zoomway - this Zoomway leads to the Asiatic-seeming Court of the August Personage in Jade and other celestial entities claiming to be Old Earth Gods. There is something odd about them though, and when encountered by Quo all was not as it seemed at the Court...

More Zoomways in another update to come!


Zoomways originally appeared in the Jonathan Nolan written game 'New Heaven, New Earth' created in 1982, published in 1985.

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