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Zoop Timbers, aka Sister Zoop, is a female gnome cleric of Light domain, dedicated to the Goddess Arawai, and played fantastically by Al Stanford.

Description

Appearance

Zoop is a 72 year old female rock gnome, which looks like a mid 20's human. She stands 3'10" tall (tall for a gnome) with an average build and weighs 37 lbs. She has long, thick dirty-blond hair and usually ties it up in a big bun. Her eyes are green, skin is a tanned white with freckles on her nose, cheeks, and shoulders.

She wears leather pants and a simple cotton blouse under her armour when adventuring. She's been spotted wearing nurses' scrubs for pajamas, particularly mint green scrubs with pink and purple cartoony dragons on them.

Personality

Zoop is a kind, compassionate nurse who has somehow found her way into the world of adventuring. She is known, as gnomes are, for embracing a deep sense of curiousity and matching it with compassion for all. She won't start a fight, and when combat breaks out she'd rather heal/buff her team than take an aggressive lead. If/when someone starts a fight with her team, she will absolutely fight back and when a being proves to be a menace she will work to put them down.

She has a serious hate for the undead, as they are an abomination against her nurse/cleric training.

Due to her girl scout upbringing, Zoop will try to befriend wild animals rather than attack them.

Biography

Her greatest desire - To know why Arawai chose her. She was just another nurse/medic at the abbey, then one day she was able to call on her goddess and get an answer, and apply Arawai's blessings to the people around her. Zoop knows she's nothing special so why was she chosen by the goddess?

Her greatest fear - Zoop is terrified that she'll lose her goddess' blessing and not be able to continue the healing and her friends and loved ones will die when she could have saved them. She knows that death is part of life, but now that she's able to fight for the forces of life she loves the changes she can make. This leads to her wondering at nights if she'll lose her powers and have to watch people die around her.

Background

Zoop was born and raised in Dahrinmoor. She was raised by a lower-middle class family, father was an alchemist’s tinkersmith (maker of fine tools for non-magical discovery) and mother was a baker. She’s the second of 4 kids with an older sister and 2 younger brothers. At a young age she showed interest in medicine so she was apprenticed to the local nuns/clerics, the Fertile Branch group followers of Arawai (a health and fertility goddess).

Zoop was raised by the sisters and turned into an acolyte of Arawai. She lived in the nunnery and worked at the neighbourhood hospital set up by the sisters. She became an accomplished nurse, known for her curious mind, friendly smile, and unflinching hands in bloody situations. She worked at the hospital for many quiet decades, always co-operative but secretly hoping for a little adventure.

After getting some very bad news from the nunnery’s Abbess, Zoop was depressed and started drinking. It is cheap and easy for a gnome to get drunk. She ended up at a rough bar one night when a pair of local gangs, the Cripplers and Bloodspatterers, started fighting. Several gang members were injured when Zoop looked around and saw the mayhem. She immediately went into field medic mode, and started treating the wounded. She would mend and heal both groups, along with the random locals. As the fight wound down the gangs noticed the treated members and dragged them away.

The gang leaders asked around and found out who she was. They came by the nunnery and thanked the surprised Abbess. The Abbess didn’t stop Zoop from going out to drink but instead had her followed to learn more. Over several weeks Zoop was spotted at many rough dive bars, always cleaning up the injured after fights broke out. The bar owners would invite her back for free drinks (gnomes are cheap drunks) so that their patrons would be safe.

After a while, Zoop wasn’t drinking any more. She liked being around the action and had made many friends in low places. She became known for treating everyone equally, and letting no-one die. She confessed her love for being around fights/battles to the Abbess. Seeing something special in Zoop, the Abbess asked around then signed Zoop up for the next group of adventurers leaving town.

She is a proud member of the Sisterhood of the Fertile Branch. She also belongs to the Honourable Gnomic order of Tinkers, Neverwinter charter as well as being a legacy member of the Girls Scouts of Brynnhold.

In-game

After helping out the Silverstone family recover their daughter, Zoop and the Only Rumours were granted special traveler status with the Thunderstone shipping Co., and have a signet ring to prove it.

In recognition for their work, the Order has granted Zoop and the Rumours the title of Predicators. This is kind of a big deal.

Relationships

Anima of Doriath

She has begun to kind-of adopt Anima as a lost little sister, or new roommate. She is concerned that Anima's upbringing has left her with hyper-violent tendencies and a fondness for dismemberment/beheading.

Zoop would like to bring out more of the young woman in Anima, and has been known to propmt her to think about her post-adventuring career.

Seymore Swindleheist

She thinks he's a filthy, yet clever goblin. Someone that dependant on toys, tools, and machines must be compensating for something but she doesn't really care.

Zoop finds Seymore pleasantly crafty, and since she was raised among crafty tinker gnomes she finds his ways familiar. She knows he's ethically gray and makes sure to send him into situations where that is an asset or where he has a chaperone.

Lo'tham Stoneformer Kalu-Kath

When they ^[1], Zoop had just lost several of her friends and co-adventuring companions and he was added to her SWAT crew to help bring down the criminal organization The Vallazari, or at least their headquarters in Kingsport. During their first combat encounter, Lo'tham fell under the sway of a mind-controlling fungi and turned to attack Zoop. This left Zoop cold to him for quite a while. To express this distate, she would often introduce herself and the members of the Adventuring company as colleagues while introducing Lo'tham as their "intern" or other minor title.

Over the course of their adventures she warmed up to him and learned how valuable he could be as an ^[2].

Every now and then, Lo'tham will try to say things in Gnomish but he doesn't really speak the language so it just turns out as random gibberish mixed with offensive slurs. Zoop finds it deeply disturbing every time and hopes he'll stop.

Parz

Zoop has seen many gnomes like him before so she doesn't treat him like anything special. She thinks he's mostly just another stoner with a positive attitude. The druidic connection and his skills are entirely new to her, which she constantly finds baffling and exciting.

They are friendly and often talk in gnomish about their comrades. Mostly about how they are young, and prone to poor decisions.

Character information

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Notable items

Feats

• Squat nimbleness
• Tavern brawler
• Warcaster

Quotes

• "Surrender and you will be shown mercy!" Usually this is shouted as the rest of the Rumours are about to mercilessly murder-hobo someone.

References

1. ↑ first met
2. ↑ adventuring companion