User:Damp Sponge

Damp Sponge grew up in Kaineng City as a nameless miscreant, committing petty crimes to stay alive in a city built on poverty and bureaucracy. The day finally came when he had somehow scrounged up enough money to get out of the miserable dead-end establishment, and he purchased a ferry ticket to Shing Jea Monastery, where he had heard he could rebuild his life from the ground up. However, fate ordained it to not be so simple.

A massive storm wrecked the ship on the island shore, killing every occupant except one. As he surveyed the carnage and death, something snapped inside the lone man. He fell to his knees and screamed at the sky for hours, demanding to know why he, the penniless delinquent, was the only one to survive. Surely he was unworthy. What scale of cosmic plan could cause such lopsided justice?

Guards eventually found the wreckage and, after fruitlessly questioning the one hysterical survivor, escorted him to the monastery itself. He calmed down considerably after a week of rehabilitation, though he said not a word. He was accepted as a full monastery student and was immediately given the standard professional aptitude tests. Ironically, they marked him best suited to be a merchant of death: an Assassin.

Through some perverse sense of duty or vengeance for those killed in the ferry wreck, he quietly accepted his fate and plunged into his studies. His progress was so rapid that other monastery residents dubbed him a “damp sponge,” unceasingly absorbing all knowledge thrown at him as if by osmosis. The name stuck, and Sponge himself remarked that, though unconventional, it was “memorable and sure to get noticed.”

Over the years his increasingly uncanny ability caused some to question his moral footing in the wake of the traumatizing ferry wreck. History has proven repeatedly that it is unwise to bestow great powers of killing upon the mentally unstable (IE: Shiro Tagachi), and there is no denying that Sponge is very, very good at what he does.

He is a Mo Zing, and his reputation is currently such that instead of competing for contracts with all the other assassins, clients come to him; a luxury of choice very rarely obtained in such a line of work.

Damp Sponge has nothing to prove. He is not subtle. He does not care what you think of him. And he never. Ever. Misses.

Locations

 * Echovald Forest
 * The Battle Isles
 * Isle of the Nameless
 * The Battle Isles
 * Isle of the Nameless

Skills
14 Dagger Mastery, 13 Critical Strikes
 * (elite)

Dialogue

 * "This oughta end well."


 * "One time I cooked and ate dinner while waiting for the AB timer."


 * "Y'know what else is pointless? A circle."


 * "And THAT is why you never trust a monkey."


 * "You brought this upon yourself!"

Items dropped

 * Glob of Ectoplasm
 * Bloodstained Jerkin