The magical katana-wielding Harengon Fighter, who could avoid many a brawl if she could just control her anger… and her mouth.
⚠️⚠️ BASIL IS A GIRL — SHE / HER ⚠️⚠️
Basil is FEMALE.
She keeps getting mis-gendered in transcripts, summaries, and notes — she is a she. Played by Brin. A Harengon fighter, half-sister of Nortle. NEVER write he / him / his for Basil. Pronouns: she / her / hers.
Player Character — Echoes of ITYS (Brin)
A four-foot Harengon (bunny) fighter with a samurai’s training and an extremely short fuse — “people piss me off really easily.” Half-sister to Nortle, voice of reason to a party of idiots, and the one who actually hits things.
| Player | Race | Class | Build | Height | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brin | Harengon | Fighter | Samurai-trained | ~4 ft | Active |
Overview
Basil is the party’s blunt instrument and its conscience in roughly equal measure. Small, sassy, and quick to anger, she forages ore and gems for an old blacksmith — which is why she’s road-traveled — and she does the heavy lifting in a fight: leaping chasms with Boots of Leaping, punching with Veil-Stone Knuckles, and, in the finale, cutting a demonic umbilical cord and splitting a barbarian in half.
Story
Backstory
- The litter: her mother “got frisky with a hare”; Basil was the only survivor of the litter (the rest “too deformed”). She’s a bunny in a family of turtles.
- Half-sister of Nortle the tortle.
- The 300-year-old samurai: a reclusive mentor who healed and trained her for years and willed her his swords on his deathbed — the source of her martial discipline.
- The Xeros incident: she once punched a drunk Xeros in the face at a bar for hitting on her — a running joke across the chapter.
Chapter 1 Arc
- The Choldrith conversion: backs Foulclaw’s hymn on tambourine in Ch 1.1.
- Arena champion: chops every leg off the spider and pulps it in Ch 1.2.
- Voice of reason: “Moral of the story: don’t do drugs” (Ch 1.3).
- The finale: cuts Fauna Kneeler’s umbilical cord (“got her attention”) and later splits the Butcher in half (Ch 1.7).
Appearances
- 240530-ch1.1 (⏱ 00:37:17) — Brin’s PC; a harengon (rabbit-folk) fighter and Nortle’s half-sibling, samurai-trained, the party’s strongest member. Finds the three Zenzu Fruit in the cabin trunk.
- 240626-ch1.2 (⏱ 00:32:13) — Rabbit/bunny martial PC (Brin). White-furred, acrobatic ‘rabbit hop’; fights in the Knight’s Brawler with a samurai sword and brass knuckles, dismembering the giant spider and other monsters.
- 240709-ch1.3 (⏱ 00:09:44) — Brin’s PC; a small rabbit/bunny. Receives the Boots of Leaping, leaps the chasm and back, sweep-kicks Xeros to stop his suicidal stunt, and kicks the veil-stone pile into the void.
- 240807-ch1.4 (⏱ 00:05:05) — PC (Brin); a three-foot rabbit monk with fall-negating boots; cartwheels as a distraction, scoops shrink-goo into a vial, drinks the antidote and gets a swollen tongue. Shrinks to 34%.
- 250816-ch3.5 (⏱ 02:44:55) — Brin’s player-character, a rabbit-folk fighter who can shrink to regular rabbit size and wields stone-set gauntlets; sister of Nortle. Shrinking leaves her more vulnerable (movement/AC penalties) and she panics when reduced.
- 250911-ch3.6 (⏱ 02:43:52) — Brin’s PC, a small lagomorph (‘harringon’) who can repeatedly shrink herself and has six brothers. She trains under Nico to learn a healing-by-punching martial art at the School of Combat.
- 251009-ch3.7 (⏱ 02:42:59) — Brin’s player-character, a rabbit-folk cleric who heals by slapping/punching allies and casts Wall of Force; can shrink to a tiny bunny and was camouflaged black by the dark mantle dish.
- 251023-ch3.8 (⏱ 02:23:44) — Brin’s PC, a rabbit healer/bard and Nortle’s sister with oversized ears. Masters a healing ‘feet’ (feat) and at the climax tries to wall-of-force a dome around the dying Foulclaw.
- 251204-ch3.10 (⏱ 20:40:25) — Brin’s player-character, a white-furred rabbit fighter/martial-artist with magic boots and gauntlets, a Wall of Force dome, katana, and a Throwing-On-of-Hands healing punch; loses the fur on one hand to Disintegrate.
- 260227-ch4.1 (⏱ 00:02:00) — The GM’s usual PC, run as NPC here. Sassy samurai fighter, Nortle’s sister, offspring of an Aringon and a tortle; her amulet enhances her gauntlets with radiant damage. Went off drunk and alone, and is found at session’s end chained in the castle lab with both hands cut off.
- 260320-ch4.2 (⏱ 19:52:52) — GM Brin’s character and Nortle’s sister, a ‘Harengon’ turtle/bunny hybrid with a protective shell-patch and a now-destroyed power tattoo. Found hung from an Andrew’s cross with both hands severed; revived but left with her memory wiped by Astaroth’s machine.
- 260403-ch4.3 (⏱ 19:42:04) — Nortle’s half-sister, whose magic gauntlets and scrying orb the party now carries. She previously lost her memory and was mutilated; Cicely says Basil had visited her (intact) to help with the memory-restoration research before losing her own memory.
- 260409-ch4.4 (⏱ 20:41:26) — Nortle’s amnesiac sister, staying at Castle Leary with no hands (nubs) after Astaroth captured her. Sleepwalks, punches, and unconsciously sorts the investigation papers into correct order.
- 260501-ch4.5 (⏱ 20:04:43) — The GM’s usual character, currently handless and recovering at Castle Leary; she sleepwalks and gathers clues, has scales/a tattoo on her back, and this session renames herself ‘Rosemary’ after regressing.
- 260515-ch4.6 (⏱ 20:22:48) — Brin’s usual player-character, left to guard Castle Leary and then sent underwater with Cicely for safety. Owner of the smell-enhancing nose ring; described as having gone through a ‘man-hater phase.’
- 260610-ch4.8 (⏱ 19:49:44) — GM Brin’s dragonborn character (sword/katana fighter who ‘likes fists to flesh’); killed Mara to keep a promise to Cicely, held the resurrection egg, and chose to resurrect Millie. Prominent NPC.
- 250228-ch2.6.2 (⏱ 00:29:16) — PC (Brin), a bloodthirsty elf wielding a katana and Wall-of-Force gauntlets who compulsively collects feathers and blood; she ultimately traps the hooded figure inside a domed Wall of Force.