ER:Antoni

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A non-player character in the Errant Road on-line free-form role-playing game, on stage briefly but significantly. Needless to say, he doesn't exist in the Poe-verse. His first appearance is here, just about as a rabid dog is going to enter the scene.

Antoni is a half elf living in the smugglers' nest of Nautkia when PCs Lillith, Sister Rose, etc., show up there in pursuit of the mysteriously fugitive Father Egbert. He's one of several half elves who have been eking out a precarious living there, taking advantage of the fact that the inhabitants of Nautkia are too busy profiting from their smuggling rackets, and occasionally feuding with each other, to worry about half elves in their midst. At least that's the way things look when the PCs arrive. Unfortunately, a Peregin has recently moved to town, looking for Errants to dispatch, and as usual for elves, not being too picky about whether a half elf is actually an Errant or not. Antoni has particularly to fear this Peregin, as he truly is an Errant, with an ability to cause fatal disease in other humanoids and animals with a touch. (This was the "bad thing" mentioned in his introduction, causing the creation of the rabid dog that his partner, Ledos, dispatches.) Leofric, leader of the band of half elves, understandably takes this as a sign that the band has overstayed their welcome, and it's time to go back to Santuariel where they came from. Leofric manages to get the assistance of Lillith (who's also terrified of Peregins and the world as a whole, and wants desperately to go back home herself) in a scheme to sail away on a ship belonging to smuggler Lucy Kankaniel. Lillith, who's present when the mad dog appears, has a brief bit of soul searching as a result of this demonstration of Antoni's Errantcy, but decides to go along with the scheme anyway, and include him in it.

Things proceed more on less smoothly until it is discovered that the ship on which the half elves (including Lillith) are to escape Nautkia is also supposed to be used by Father Egbert for the same purpose -- and that the skip's skipper Lucy Kankaniel, has a contract out on her head, a contract that a most reluctant Argus has been extorted into accepting. In a taut episode on the Lorenzel River, during which on the good side, Argus saves the ship from destruction but makes it look like it was destroyed, while on the bad side, Egbert mysteriously commits suicide (maybe), Antoni gets to atone for what he did earlier: his partner Ledos is also an Errant who gets fits of uncontrolled magical violence, one of which is developing against Argus, Rose, etc., until Antoni breaks it up by conking his lover on the head. The half elves succeed in reaching the ship and sail away to what they hope is a new life -- minus Lillith, who wanted to join them and is devastated that the concatenation of events works to prevent her from going.

All in all, a rather sad character, if one who loves and is loved. The half elves are never seen again in the story, so one can hope that he and Ledos manage to live happily ever after.

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