Tamsen Batz

Tamsen Batz, also known as Monkey, was a player character in the SSMP. They were played by Ness.

As a Monkey
As a monkey, Tamsen looked like a typical red-handed tamarin wearing golden jewelry. She had many earrings, necklaces, rings, and bracelets, but wore no clothes besides that. She stood at about one foot tall on her hind legs. She had one golden canine tooth.

Personality
Tamsen was a prickly, short-tempered person without much respect for anyone. She was greedy, self-obsessed, and overall a pretty bad person. She did have moments where she cared for people, especially her friends, but she had trouble expressing that without feeling as though she was growing soft or being weak.

Plot
Tamsen arrived on the Tudi-Mare-Gin Sutudoan islands with at start of the server. She immediately stole all the treasure from the End Tower and fled to the southwestern jungle, where she began to build the city Deoro using a network of tunnels to travel through the jungle.

Tamsen met the giant Chad Ray and got into many arguments with him, including one resulting in her stealing his clock. She often stole from other islanders, but would vehemently deny any accusations of thievery from them. She fled the islands once she saw a Vredin ship dropping off The Jester and managed to stow away on that ship.

Backstory
Mary Alice Fisher was born to two farmers in distant fields called Oro. Her mother died soon after her younger sisters were born, so she does not remember her.

Mary was the oldest daughter of three (plus an older brother) and grew up in the land of Oro. Her older brother silas and her younger twin sisters Laura-Belle and Annie lived on their father's land until Silas moved away to start his own.

When she was 12, Mary met a girl called Bonnie who was a year older than her and was visiting her uncle nearby. Mary and Bonnie grew very close and the pair spent most of their time on the Fishers’ land.

One day, when Mary was fourteen, Mary’s father promised Mary’s hand in marriage to their family friend Clayton without talking to her at all. The problem was that Mary had fallen in love with Bonnie and fled to the hayloft of their barn with Bonnie to try to plan to run away with her. Her father pursued them, and Mary kicked him off of the ladder to the hayloft and he fell, breaking his neck and dying.

Mary and Bonnie fled into the woods and made their way to Silas’ house, leaving Mary's younger sisters with their father's body on the farm.

Silas sent Bonnie away upon finding out that she still had a family, and Mary never saw her again.

When Silas received a letter that Mary had killed their father and fled around a year later, he confronted her and Mary killed him with his crossbow. She kept up his farm for a year or two until she killed the town's reverend to defend her lie and then ran, burning Silas' farm down to fake her own death. The next town over, Mary met the Strangefolk, a traveling band of musicians, storytellers, and thieves. She introduced herself as Tamsen Batz and the story went on from there.

After joining the Strangefolk, Tamsen traveled the countryside robbing people and telling tales of murder and pillage. Eventually, the group heard of a mystical city called Happy hidden within the jungle. They went to it and joined its masses, living there as welcomed guests for about a year before they robbed the holy volcano of the city called Monkey.

Monkey contained caves full of unimaginable amounts of wealth, which the Strangefolk were tempted by. They climbed the mountain and began mining it. The spent about two months mining the mountain before it began to rumble and partially collapse. They avoided unstable parts of it and continued for one more week. On the last day of their final week, the mountain called Monkey erupted, consuming Tamsen while the rest of the Strangefolk fled. Tamsen was turned into a monkey as a curse from Monkey, an aspect and alias of Tari. She was cursed to only be able to consume treasure because of her greed, and she was made small and weak. A sailor on a Vredin prison ship captured her and kept her as a pet, bringing her with him on his voyage to Tudi-Mare-Gin Sutudoan (the same ship Marcelino was on). She behaved so poorly that she was released on the island, as the sailor no longer wanted to care for her.