Post by vwyx on Dec 21, 2015 3:09:12 GMT
Eamon “Aim” Cadell
Race: Human
Organizational Affiliation: None (Psyche Academy Student)
Aspects:
Definition: Skittish Scholarly Sealer
Ambitions: Become Paranormal Einstein
Background: Supernatural Scientist-in-Training
Convictions: The Answers Are Out There
Disadvantages: Panic-Prone
Abilities:
Physical: 7
Agility: 2
Endurance: 1
Perception: 2
Strength: 2
(2+1+2+2 = 7)
Mental: 8
Craft: 1
Knowledge: 3
Reasoning: 2
Willpower: 2
(1+3+2+2 = 8)
Social: 8
Deception: 2
Empathy: 2
Persuasion: 1
Resources: 3
(2+1+2+3 = 8)
Psychic: 4
Manipulation: 1
Metabolic: 0
Sensitive: 3
(1+0+3 = 4)
(7+9+7+4 = 27)
Refresh: 4 (5-1)
Stress Track:
Physical: Strength (2) + Endurance (1)
000
Mental: Reasoning (2) + Willpower (2)
0000
Social: Persuasion (1) + Resources (3)
0000
Life-Force: Highest Psychic (3) + Knowledge (3)
000000
Specialty Aspects:
Exceptional Skill: Information Sponge (Knowledge)
Foe: Give Me My Powers Back (Empathy)
Gear: Tablet Full of Research (Resource)
Help: Peer Review (Knowledge)
Inferior: Runs From Surprises (Willpower)
Expert Advantages:
Let Me Check My Notes: +1 bonus on rolls made to discover the cause of supernatural phenomena
Knows His Stuff: May use Knowledge instead of Persuasion, when speaking on academic matters
Save Meeeeeeeee!: +2 bonus to Endurance rolls made when startled and alone, in an attempt to reach others
Heroic Advantages:
Signature Item (Tablet Full of Research): Select an item you have obtained by taking a Resource Specialty Aspect. This item no longer costs a Fate Point to bring into the scene. In addition, it does not cost you a Fate Point the first time you invoke the Aspect associated with this item in a scene. (2 AP)
Power Advantages:
Sealing Injunction (Spirit Binding):
Activation: Sensitive Difficulty 4
Activation Time: Simple Action (Attack)
Duration: Permanent (Victim remains bound until the binding is removed)
Power Type: Talent
Maneuver – This operates as a maneuver that places a Situational Aspect on the target that, itself. The placed aspect shares the name of the Power Aspect and operates as a block described below.
- Fail – You fail to touch your opponent and may be at a disadvantage yourself as normal for failed Maneuvers.
- Tie – You trigger a mindscape and must resolve that before you can place the binding.
- Success – You place the binding and roll your Sensitive to determine the rank of the Block.
- Success with Spin – You place the binding with a Boost you can use on the Block roll.
Using the Power requires three rolls. One to activate the Power, one to touch the target and a final one to determine the Potency of the Block.
Depending on how the binding was placed, the victim might not know they’ve been bound until they try to do something with their Talents or psychic skills. A bound psychic can attempt to break a binding by attacking the block with one of their psychic Abilities. If they surpass the Potency of the block, then they reduce that Potency by one. If they surpass the Potency with Spin, then they can spend a Fate Point to break it entirely. Someone else only has to beat the block once to unbind a person, assuming they have the proper Talent, spell or shaping.
The GM can compel the Power Aspect to trigger a mindscape regardless of how the maneuver is rolled.
Modifiers:
+2 (Ranged): Your binding has a range of zones equal to your Sensitive and Armor no longer helps protect against the bind.
+0 (Telepathic Binding): The binding does not truly limit the target, but a telepathic instruction is placed making them believe that they have been bound. In this case, they must roll their Willpower against the binding rather than their relevant Psychic Ability and stress taken is Mental instead of Life-Force
Cost: (Base: 3, Modifiers: +2; Total: 5)
Racial Package: 0 (Human)
(TOTAL ABILITY COST: 2 (Signature Item) + 5 (Spirit Binding) = 7. Starting AP: 6. Refresh -1 (5-1 = 4) → +1 AP. Package affordable.))
Equipment:
Tablet: A small tablet. Not very powerful, its main use is to hold the copious amounts of research Eamon finds interesting, or important, or plans to look at in the near future, or simply comes into contact with. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Tablet Full Of Research (Gear/Resource)
Running Shoes: Quality blue-and-white running shoes, comfortably broken in. You'd recognize the brand. Eamon doesn't particularly like running, but he's self-aware enough that he's pretty sure he'll be doing quite a lot of it. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Save Meeeeeeeee! (Expert Advantage)
Force Talisman +1 (Sealing Injunction): A small quartz stone on a simple string bracelet. It's completely manly, shut up. It's attuned to boost the Chi when casting of Sealing Injunction. Gives +1 bonus to all rolls made to activate Spirit Binding. Technically, it will work for any human who holds it, so long as they have the Spirit Binding Power. (Cost: 3 (Effects one Power Advantage: 2, Adds +1; Total: 3). Aspect: Sealing Injunction (Power Advantage)
Luck Talisman +3: Another quartz stone, this time unattached to anything, and often stuffed into a pocket. Gives +3 bonus to resist “naturally occurring psychic maladies.” Against deliberate Attacks and Maneuvers, they provide a +1 bonus to all Psychic defenses, but break after an Attack or Maneuver succeeds with Spin, in addition to other effects of losing with Spin. (Cost: 3 (Adds +3)). Aspect: Skittish Scholarly Sealer (Definition)
Resonance Bead: Crystalline bead, set in a chain Eamon wears around his neck. Allows the user to detect residual use of Life-Force, as per the Sense Advantage. Gives a rough idea of how much activity has taken place in an area. This being the cheaper, mass-produced kind, it does not allow the user to determine the type of Life-Force used. Must roll a Sensitive Maneuver of 3 to reveal any Aspects related to the presence or lack of recent psychic phenomena. Can also test the strength of a willing psychic. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Let Me Check My Notes (Expert Advantage)
Appearance:
Eamon is a human male, ever-so-slightly under 6 feet, with a scrawny build. His hair is a bit too long, with uneven blond strands drifting into and out of his eyeline, and a snarled mop stretching a few inches down his neck. His eyes are not the piercing blue so often associated with psychics with a high degree of sensitivity, but a darker, duller shade. His skin is pale, with freckles scattered unevenly across his face and arms.
Those who observe him will notice that he has a tendency to fidget and dart his eyes around, as though constantly searching for something just out of sight. His constantly nervous demeanor may prove distracting or irritating to those who are not used to such high-strung behavior. However, his demeanor takes a complete 180 when he is either wrapped up in his independent research – which is often – as he becomes totally motionless, only moving to advance the page; or when he is in 'lecture mode,' whereupon his diction, body language, and attention become completely focused and confident.
Eamon's usual wardrobe consists of a long-sleeve tee shirt in a solid color – often yellow – and a dark green blouson, which has internal pockets large enough to hold his tablet, which he is never without. He wears waxed cotton pants, in a dark shade of olive. Except in the most inappropriate of circumstances (formal events, severe snow, bathtubs), he will be wearing running shoes. Eamon's enthusiasm for applied psychic science (and possibly his easily startled disposition) has left its mark on his fashion as well, and he also sports a thong bracelet with a small quartz stone attached, which is actually a Force Talisman attuned to his psychic ability; a silver chain around his neck with houses a Resonance Bead; and a slightly larger quartz stone which he keeps in a pocket, which is a Luck Talisman. Any more quartz on this boy, and he'll need a navel piercing just to have somewhere to put it.
Personality:
The word 'coward' gets tossed around Eamon a lot. In this case, “around” means “directly at, with unerring precision and complete conviction.” That's not entirely fair, though; Eamon is perfectly capable of facing danger head on... if he's prepared for it. It's just when it sneaks up on him that it seems to scratch the fight-or-flight response into a more manageable, one-word reaction. This has developed into, shall we say, a bit of an unfortunate decision-making paradigm, a phrase which here means “He once jumped out a window when he heard a BANG, because he knew it was only a two-story drop, and who knows what that noise was, probably an ax-murdurer, right?”
The noise was father stubbing a toe, in case that ever becomes relevant.
On the other hand, he's as bright as the sun reflecting off a screen you're trying to use. Eamon has, since birth, been fascinated with scientific studies involving psychic powers and phenomena. Had matters turned out differently, he might have thrown himself into books of a different nature, and wound up dedicating himself to the expression of internal power as a dedicated Channeler, or perhaps stumbled into research best kept from the public and been a powerful but short-lived High Magus. With the discovery of his own psychic gift and his acceptance into Psyche Academy, perhaps the next epicenter of paranormal scientific advance, he's practically over the moon, and determined to put this chance to good use.
Or he was, until his parents threw him a surprise party to celebrate. Now he'd just like the heart palpitations to stop.
Background:
Eamon was born to a fairly well-to-do family, located in a medium-sized, whitebread suburb in the Northeast USA. His mother is a lower-rung socialite, the forgettable kind of person who sometimes manages to brush shoulders with the rich and famous, and tries not to see them wiping that shoulder off afterward. His father is a divorce lawyer who's main claim to fame was representing one party of the first interspecies divorce in the whole county.
Given his origins, Eamon might have followed in either of his parents' footsteps and done well enough for himself. But from a young age, psychic powers fascinated him. It was like having a storybook thrown open in front of you, and letting you measure each shred of magic contained therein. The fact that there were people out there, finding out where this magic was coming from, what made it tick, and hidden uses it might have was almost a miracle to an impressionable young boy. So he read about it.
And he kept reading. He read everything he could find, and it wasn't enough. Science journals, credible accounts of experts, records of experiments and trials – he read and learned everything he could. Soon he was cross-referencing discoveries, proposing hypotheses (to himself) for later testing, and posting on the more reputable psychic discussion forums. Unlike many who actually knew what they were talking about, he was completely willing to speak to New Agers, and those who insisted that their personal theories were more accurate than whatever “The Man” was saying at the moment only spurred him to manic new heights of obsessively cataloging every point of data he could, to prove that it was science that held all the answers, even if only to himself.
It was when he was 13 years old, speaking to the local magician, that he found out that he had the potential for psychic power himself. After being fed up with this child insisting that a person with blood type O-Negative would not boost the receptability of potions made from their blood, the Low Magic User elected to imbibe a vial he'd made from a Shaper's blood to test the young boy's power for himself with a Resonance Bead he'd kept in storage, to prove that he'd been foolishly speaking of matters he had no stake in. To the surprise of both, the stone cast a green light.
It wasn't long after that that Eamon had purchased a Bead for himself. This was the first of several similar purchases that would see him grow in power as his Talent developed. His initial testing proved that his power could effectively deny other psychics the use of their abilities. The fallout from his initial testing proved that this did not stop people much larger than him from reacting in the expected way. Eamon kept up his studies throughout, even as his bruises healed, even as his broken nose set, even as a bit of a complex about unexpected surprises from those he'd (temporarily) psychically neutered developed.
As could possibly be extrapolated from the above, Eamon wasn't the most social of young adults. His parents worried a bit, but his grades were excellent, and if his hobby was taking up so much time, well... it might yet prove to be a phase, and in any case, there were worse things to spend time on. And so, when the time came that Psyche Academy opened its doors, it seemed like an ideal fit for Eamon. What could possibly go wrong?
Race: Human
Organizational Affiliation: None (Psyche Academy Student)
Aspects:
Definition: Skittish Scholarly Sealer
Ambitions: Become Paranormal Einstein
Background: Supernatural Scientist-in-Training
Convictions: The Answers Are Out There
Disadvantages: Panic-Prone
Abilities:
Physical: 7
Agility: 2
Endurance: 1
Perception: 2
Strength: 2
(2+1+2+2 = 7)
Mental: 8
Craft: 1
Knowledge: 3
Reasoning: 2
Willpower: 2
(1+3+2+2 = 8)
Social: 8
Deception: 2
Empathy: 2
Persuasion: 1
Resources: 3
(2+1+2+3 = 8)
Psychic: 4
Manipulation: 1
Metabolic: 0
Sensitive: 3
(1+0+3 = 4)
(7+9+7+4 = 27)
Refresh: 4 (5-1)
Stress Track:
Physical: Strength (2) + Endurance (1)
000
Mental: Reasoning (2) + Willpower (2)
0000
Social: Persuasion (1) + Resources (3)
0000
Life-Force: Highest Psychic (3) + Knowledge (3)
000000
Specialty Aspects:
Exceptional Skill: Information Sponge (Knowledge)
Foe: Give Me My Powers Back (Empathy)
Gear: Tablet Full of Research (Resource)
Help: Peer Review (Knowledge)
Inferior: Runs From Surprises (Willpower)
Expert Advantages:
Let Me Check My Notes: +1 bonus on rolls made to discover the cause of supernatural phenomena
Knows His Stuff: May use Knowledge instead of Persuasion, when speaking on academic matters
Save Meeeeeeeee!: +2 bonus to Endurance rolls made when startled and alone, in an attempt to reach others
Heroic Advantages:
Signature Item (Tablet Full of Research): Select an item you have obtained by taking a Resource Specialty Aspect. This item no longer costs a Fate Point to bring into the scene. In addition, it does not cost you a Fate Point the first time you invoke the Aspect associated with this item in a scene. (2 AP)
Power Advantages:
Sealing Injunction (Spirit Binding):
Activation: Sensitive Difficulty 4
Activation Time: Simple Action (Attack)
Duration: Permanent (Victim remains bound until the binding is removed)
Power Type: Talent
Maneuver – This operates as a maneuver that places a Situational Aspect on the target that, itself. The placed aspect shares the name of the Power Aspect and operates as a block described below.
- Fail – You fail to touch your opponent and may be at a disadvantage yourself as normal for failed Maneuvers.
- Tie – You trigger a mindscape and must resolve that before you can place the binding.
- Success – You place the binding and roll your Sensitive to determine the rank of the Block.
- Success with Spin – You place the binding with a Boost you can use on the Block roll.
Using the Power requires three rolls. One to activate the Power, one to touch the target and a final one to determine the Potency of the Block.
Depending on how the binding was placed, the victim might not know they’ve been bound until they try to do something with their Talents or psychic skills. A bound psychic can attempt to break a binding by attacking the block with one of their psychic Abilities. If they surpass the Potency of the block, then they reduce that Potency by one. If they surpass the Potency with Spin, then they can spend a Fate Point to break it entirely. Someone else only has to beat the block once to unbind a person, assuming they have the proper Talent, spell or shaping.
The GM can compel the Power Aspect to trigger a mindscape regardless of how the maneuver is rolled.
Modifiers:
+2 (Ranged): Your binding has a range of zones equal to your Sensitive and Armor no longer helps protect against the bind.
+0 (Telepathic Binding): The binding does not truly limit the target, but a telepathic instruction is placed making them believe that they have been bound. In this case, they must roll their Willpower against the binding rather than their relevant Psychic Ability and stress taken is Mental instead of Life-Force
Cost: (Base: 3, Modifiers: +2; Total: 5)
Racial Package: 0 (Human)
(TOTAL ABILITY COST: 2 (Signature Item) + 5 (Spirit Binding) = 7. Starting AP: 6. Refresh -1 (5-1 = 4) → +1 AP. Package affordable.))
Equipment:
Tablet: A small tablet. Not very powerful, its main use is to hold the copious amounts of research Eamon finds interesting, or important, or plans to look at in the near future, or simply comes into contact with. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Tablet Full Of Research (Gear/Resource)
Running Shoes: Quality blue-and-white running shoes, comfortably broken in. You'd recognize the brand. Eamon doesn't particularly like running, but he's self-aware enough that he's pretty sure he'll be doing quite a lot of it. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Save Meeeeeeeee! (Expert Advantage)
Force Talisman +1 (Sealing Injunction): A small quartz stone on a simple string bracelet. It's completely manly, shut up. It's attuned to boost the Chi when casting of Sealing Injunction. Gives +1 bonus to all rolls made to activate Spirit Binding. Technically, it will work for any human who holds it, so long as they have the Spirit Binding Power. (Cost: 3 (Effects one Power Advantage: 2, Adds +1; Total: 3). Aspect: Sealing Injunction (Power Advantage)
Luck Talisman +3: Another quartz stone, this time unattached to anything, and often stuffed into a pocket. Gives +3 bonus to resist “naturally occurring psychic maladies.” Against deliberate Attacks and Maneuvers, they provide a +1 bonus to all Psychic defenses, but break after an Attack or Maneuver succeeds with Spin, in addition to other effects of losing with Spin. (Cost: 3 (Adds +3)). Aspect: Skittish Scholarly Sealer (Definition)
Resonance Bead: Crystalline bead, set in a chain Eamon wears around his neck. Allows the user to detect residual use of Life-Force, as per the Sense Advantage. Gives a rough idea of how much activity has taken place in an area. This being the cheaper, mass-produced kind, it does not allow the user to determine the type of Life-Force used. Must roll a Sensitive Maneuver of 3 to reveal any Aspects related to the presence or lack of recent psychic phenomena. Can also test the strength of a willing psychic. (Cost: 2) Aspect: Let Me Check My Notes (Expert Advantage)
Appearance:
Eamon is a human male, ever-so-slightly under 6 feet, with a scrawny build. His hair is a bit too long, with uneven blond strands drifting into and out of his eyeline, and a snarled mop stretching a few inches down his neck. His eyes are not the piercing blue so often associated with psychics with a high degree of sensitivity, but a darker, duller shade. His skin is pale, with freckles scattered unevenly across his face and arms.
Those who observe him will notice that he has a tendency to fidget and dart his eyes around, as though constantly searching for something just out of sight. His constantly nervous demeanor may prove distracting or irritating to those who are not used to such high-strung behavior. However, his demeanor takes a complete 180 when he is either wrapped up in his independent research – which is often – as he becomes totally motionless, only moving to advance the page; or when he is in 'lecture mode,' whereupon his diction, body language, and attention become completely focused and confident.
Eamon's usual wardrobe consists of a long-sleeve tee shirt in a solid color – often yellow – and a dark green blouson, which has internal pockets large enough to hold his tablet, which he is never without. He wears waxed cotton pants, in a dark shade of olive. Except in the most inappropriate of circumstances (formal events, severe snow, bathtubs), he will be wearing running shoes. Eamon's enthusiasm for applied psychic science (and possibly his easily startled disposition) has left its mark on his fashion as well, and he also sports a thong bracelet with a small quartz stone attached, which is actually a Force Talisman attuned to his psychic ability; a silver chain around his neck with houses a Resonance Bead; and a slightly larger quartz stone which he keeps in a pocket, which is a Luck Talisman. Any more quartz on this boy, and he'll need a navel piercing just to have somewhere to put it.
Personality:
The word 'coward' gets tossed around Eamon a lot. In this case, “around” means “directly at, with unerring precision and complete conviction.” That's not entirely fair, though; Eamon is perfectly capable of facing danger head on... if he's prepared for it. It's just when it sneaks up on him that it seems to scratch the fight-or-flight response into a more manageable, one-word reaction. This has developed into, shall we say, a bit of an unfortunate decision-making paradigm, a phrase which here means “He once jumped out a window when he heard a BANG, because he knew it was only a two-story drop, and who knows what that noise was, probably an ax-murdurer, right?”
The noise was father stubbing a toe, in case that ever becomes relevant.
On the other hand, he's as bright as the sun reflecting off a screen you're trying to use. Eamon has, since birth, been fascinated with scientific studies involving psychic powers and phenomena. Had matters turned out differently, he might have thrown himself into books of a different nature, and wound up dedicating himself to the expression of internal power as a dedicated Channeler, or perhaps stumbled into research best kept from the public and been a powerful but short-lived High Magus. With the discovery of his own psychic gift and his acceptance into Psyche Academy, perhaps the next epicenter of paranormal scientific advance, he's practically over the moon, and determined to put this chance to good use.
Or he was, until his parents threw him a surprise party to celebrate. Now he'd just like the heart palpitations to stop.
Background:
Eamon was born to a fairly well-to-do family, located in a medium-sized, whitebread suburb in the Northeast USA. His mother is a lower-rung socialite, the forgettable kind of person who sometimes manages to brush shoulders with the rich and famous, and tries not to see them wiping that shoulder off afterward. His father is a divorce lawyer who's main claim to fame was representing one party of the first interspecies divorce in the whole county.
Given his origins, Eamon might have followed in either of his parents' footsteps and done well enough for himself. But from a young age, psychic powers fascinated him. It was like having a storybook thrown open in front of you, and letting you measure each shred of magic contained therein. The fact that there were people out there, finding out where this magic was coming from, what made it tick, and hidden uses it might have was almost a miracle to an impressionable young boy. So he read about it.
And he kept reading. He read everything he could find, and it wasn't enough. Science journals, credible accounts of experts, records of experiments and trials – he read and learned everything he could. Soon he was cross-referencing discoveries, proposing hypotheses (to himself) for later testing, and posting on the more reputable psychic discussion forums. Unlike many who actually knew what they were talking about, he was completely willing to speak to New Agers, and those who insisted that their personal theories were more accurate than whatever “The Man” was saying at the moment only spurred him to manic new heights of obsessively cataloging every point of data he could, to prove that it was science that held all the answers, even if only to himself.
It was when he was 13 years old, speaking to the local magician, that he found out that he had the potential for psychic power himself. After being fed up with this child insisting that a person with blood type O-Negative would not boost the receptability of potions made from their blood, the Low Magic User elected to imbibe a vial he'd made from a Shaper's blood to test the young boy's power for himself with a Resonance Bead he'd kept in storage, to prove that he'd been foolishly speaking of matters he had no stake in. To the surprise of both, the stone cast a green light.
It wasn't long after that that Eamon had purchased a Bead for himself. This was the first of several similar purchases that would see him grow in power as his Talent developed. His initial testing proved that his power could effectively deny other psychics the use of their abilities. The fallout from his initial testing proved that this did not stop people much larger than him from reacting in the expected way. Eamon kept up his studies throughout, even as his bruises healed, even as his broken nose set, even as a bit of a complex about unexpected surprises from those he'd (temporarily) psychically neutered developed.
As could possibly be extrapolated from the above, Eamon wasn't the most social of young adults. His parents worried a bit, but his grades were excellent, and if his hobby was taking up so much time, well... it might yet prove to be a phase, and in any case, there were worse things to spend time on. And so, when the time came that Psyche Academy opened its doors, it seemed like an ideal fit for Eamon. What could possibly go wrong?
