Tuja Alza-Balde

Tuja Alza-Balde

Name: Tuja Alza-Balde

Origin: Transmuted By Qal Into A True Believer

Essence: Qali Alchemist Practicing Medicine and Dialectics

Shadow: I Have the Solutions; Now to Find A Problem

Blood: Wrapped Up in the Most Recent Fashions and Gossip

Doom: All Mysteries Are Revealed In The Grand Synthesis!

Companion: TBD

Game: TBD

Player: Caiphon

Tuja grew up in a modestly wealthy and boringly respectable Tallanid house, which seemed to all but ensure they would live a life of easy and plenty - but a chance encounter with a jester opened their mind to the truth they'd been seeking all along. If substances can combine to create incredible changes in synthesis, why not people? Why not the Autarchy? And so now they travel, offering chemical solutions to those in need, and a quiet word in the ear to those their friends at the temple suggest.

Skills

+4	Lore
+3	Pillar (Guild)	Devise
+2	Rapport	Investigate	Unification of Opposites
+1	Contacts	Deceive	Ranged Combat	Willpower

Stress

Physical [1][2]

Mental [1][2][3]

Status [1][2][3][4]

Wealth [1][2]

Stunts

Specialist: Chemick Lore

General knowledge of chemick, including basic properties of ingredients found in the natural world. Act at a +2 skill level in related Lore actions

First Aid

Act at a +2 skill level in Lore treatment rolls of physical stress and mild consequences representing physical wounds.

Distil Essence

Lets you imbue a chemick preparation with a single property aspect from an ingredient at a difficulty of 2.

Combine Essence

Used in chemick, the mystical science combining chemistry, herbalism, and alchemy. You can imbue a potion, etc, with multiple property aspects from more than one ingredient, at a difficulty of 2 per property aspect.

Equipment

• elaborate clothing [from Tallanid]
• expensive makeup and perfume [from Tallanid]
• Chemick Lab workspace [from Chemicker]
• 18 doses of Common, Uncommon, and Rare ingredients you can define as you need to create new chemick [from Chemicker]
• 10 known Chemick recipes (from Chemicker)
• Self bow (from Ranged Combat)
• 3 Templars

Known Chemick

• "Concretism Adhesive Admixture" (creates an aspect - "Glob of Glue Goo")
• "Salve of Rapid Form Reunification" (as "healing accelerator salve" - heals damage the scene after application?)
• "Hedge-shearer's Oil" (creates a hazard which deals damage to plants?)
• "Philosopher's Draught for the Unity of Mind and Body" (as stress booster drug, grants an extra physical or mental stress box immediately after imbibing. The effect lasts 1 scene.
• (creates an aspect - "Radiating Charm"? - to improve Rapport rolls)
• (creates an aspect - "Illuminated With The Light of Reason"? - to improve Devise rolls)
• (creates a block - a thorn wall?)

Chemicker's Corner

Chemick Preparations

Chemick is the ability to derive an aspect from any natural property or capability of a creature, plant, or mineral, and to temporarily bestow that aspect on a subject. Whether that property is possessed by the creature, plant, or mineral as a skill, stunt, special ability, capability, or aspect, the chemick process always transforms it into an aspect. The recipient of that aspect gains a free invoke

• Example: A chemicker may gather an ingredient from the blood of a Snow Snake which gives the beast its ability to resist intense cold, and then use that to make a Potion of Cold Resistance. At its simplest, such a potion conveys a temporary Cold Resistance aspect to the imbiber if successful.

Lore specialties are important for Chemickers to know the aspects of creatures, plants, minerals, etc. There’s one core stunt: Chemick Lore. However, depending on how you describe your action, chemickers can also gain additional bonuses from stunts like Animal Lore, Demon Lore, Esteri Lore, Jeniri Lore, Mineral Lore, Plant Lore, and even Zoic Lore. A Lore roll like this can identify a useful aspect which the Chronicler may allow a chemicker to turn into an aspect using the rules here.

Types of Ingredient

• Delivery Methods are the ingredients used in determining whether the preparation is a potion, lotion / salve, gas, oil, acid, and so on. Salves take longer to have an effect than potions; the next scene, whereas potions are instantaneous. Usually they’re part of a standard chemick lab supplies, but may run out and have to be obtained separately. They don’t affect the difficulty of the brew.
• Latents are harvested ingredients which contain a property which may be converted into an aspect. Once harvested, latents are perishable, and often quickly lose their properties unless activated. Some rare latents may also act as either interpreters or activators (see below); some extremely rare or entropic latents may act as interpreters and activators. Each latent incorporated into a brew adds +2 to its difficulty.
• Interpreters are optional ingredients which allow a latent to be applied to specific targets. Interpreters are kindred-specific, ie they allow the latent to be used in a chemick preparation consumed by or applied to, say, a Hsun target. By default, chemickal preparations use a “common interpreter”, which allows them to affect humans, jeniri, and “common” animals. Universal interpreters exist, but they are usually entropic.
• Activators are ingredients which physically transform a latent into an effective chemick preparation, usually stopping the latent from losing its properties (or at least delaying its perishability). There are several types of activator, of increasing efficacy:
• An aspect activator converts into a simple aspect. This aspect may just be an aspect, or may act as an obstacle (+2 bonus, active effect, etc).
• A barrier activator converts into a barrier with a value equal to the shifts used to create it. It’s like a more powerful aspect. Remember that if you tie when trying to break through a barrier, you take a point of stress damage. (A Paralysis potion may be a good example.)
• A block activator converts into a block, which actively provides a skill level for its effect, which may include causing damage to the subject or enabling the subject to cause damage. Usually it’s only a single roll.
• A hazard activator converts into a hazard, such as a deadly poison which ravages the target over multiple exchanges.

Entropic ingredients are more active and easier to create effects from; however, they bestow an entropic taint on their subject while in effect, and in extreme cases this entropic taint may become permanent.

Harvesting Chemickal Ingredients from Beasts and Monsters

Chemicker characters can attempt to harvest ingredients from creatures for use in chemick potions and preparations. This is a declaration manoeuvre; if it’s obvious enough, then you may not even need to roll, but otherwise it’s probably a Lore roll (knowing which bit to harvest) or possible a Devise roll (delicate scalpel work to excise the correct organ), and so on.

Note that when harvesting ingredients in this way, it doesn’t matter if the source already has a relevant aspect or not; your harvest action creates one.

Example Chemick Preparations

• Healing Accelerator Salve: Often entropic, and the most advanced Accelerators incorporate an ingredient to counter the entropic effect. Requires an ingredient from an organism capable of rapid regeneration or other healing.

• Radium Charge: Highly unstable, used in radium rifles. Chemickers sometimes also make finished radium bullets, but it requires the Armourer stunt and the Glassblowing Specialist stunt, unless you’re a Kesh, in which case you don’t need the separate Glassblowing stunt.

• Stress Booster Drug: You gain an extra physical or mental stress box immediately after imbibing this preparation. The effect lasts 1 scene.

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