Editing DavidWashington

== Attributes ==

'''Agility''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]] || '''Smarts''' [[file:d8a.png|24px]] || '''Spirit''' [[file:d8a.png|24px]] || '''Strength''' [[file:d4a.png|24px]] || '''Vigor''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]]

== Skills ==

'''Athletics''' [[file:d4a.png|24px]] || '''Common Knowledge''' [[file:d8a.png|24px]] || '''Focus''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]] || '''Gambling''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]]

'''Notice''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]] || '''Performance''' [[file:d6a.png|24px]] || '''Persuasion''' [[file:d8a.png|24px]] || '''Stealth''' [[file:d4a.png|24px]] || '''Taunt''' [[file:d8a.png|24px]]

== Derived Stats ==

'''Pace''' 6" || '''Parry''' 2 || '''Toughness''' 7 (2)

== Hindrances ==

'''Cautious''' – ''Minor'' – David plans extensively and is overly careful

'''Pacifist''' – ''Minor'' – Fights only in self-defence

'''Poverty''' – ''Minor'' – Lower starting funds and David is always broke

'''Wanted''' – ''Minor'' – David is wanted by the authorities

== Edges ==

'''Arcane Background (Gifted)''' – Arcane Skill is Focus (Spirit).
:'''Powers''' – ''Empathy'' || '''Power Points:''' 15

'''Charismatic''' – Free reroll when using Persuasion

'''Companion''' – Gain [[YellerBelly|Yeller Belly]] as a companion. He also gets the '''Ancient Knowledge''' boon, letting him cast ''bolt'' when Yeller Belly is within 80 yards and neither Shaken, Stunned nor Incapacitated

'''Streetwise''' – +2 to Common Knowledge and criminal networking

== Lab Rat ==

The experiments that Chilton worked upon David have supercharged his nervous system. At first, he had no control over this, and life was quite unbearable for him. But, with time, David's learnt how to control this sensitivity somewhat, and employ it only when he so chooses. As of late, this sensitivity has given David a way to feel and channel Yeller Belly's spiritual powers, granting him a new power when Yeller Belly is nearby.

'''Bolt'''

:''Power Points'' – 1
:''Range'' – 2×Smarts (32 yards)
:''Duration'' – Instant
:''Summary'' – 2d6 ranged attack
:''Trappings'' – David uses Yellow Belly's telekinesis to lift debris and launch it at incredible speeds

'''Empathy'''

:''Power Points'' – 1
:''Range'' – Touch
:''Duration'' – 5 rounds
:''Summary'' – Opposed roll vs Spirit to add +1/+2 to social skills for the Duration of the power
:''Trappings'' – Requires David to make physical contact with his target; after this his nerves light up based on their subconscious and emotional reactions, allowing him to quickly form an intimate profile of them
:''Note'' – With the Touch Limitation, David gets +1 to Focus rolls with this power

== Gear ==

'''Wealth''' [[file:d4a.png|24px]]

A well-worn but looked-after suit, boots and hat

The watch his grandad gave him as a boy

Playing cards in case of boredom

A Colt Army (.44), but it's just for the looks and won't fire

An armoured vest (light): +2 Armour | Weight 5 | Notes: Torso; reduce bullet damage by 2

== Advances ==

Vigor d6

Companion

== Background ==

David Washington's daddy always cursed him for being the shiftless layabout he was, saying things might have changed in this country but boys like him still needed to work for a living. David just wanted to enjoy his newfound freedom, however, and he found every excuse he could to avoid actual work. When his parents found out he was running games on their neighbours, they booted him out at the tender age of 17.

Undeterred, David travelled around and ran cons as he did so. He fell in with some bad crowds, but a combination of luck and cunning got him out in one piece every time. Until the day he met Valerie Chilton, a Mad Scientist working on longevity treatments. She offered him good pay for being a test subject, which sounded like an easy deal to David.

The actual tests soon changed his mind. She twisted him, transformed him, until he felt like a stranger in his own body. After she was done working her science upon him she paid him duly, and then sent him on his way. Feeling repulsed by his own flesh, David came to an epiphany of sorts, and he finally appreciated what his old man had been trying to teach him all those years ago. Now he's trying to go on the straight and narrow, but when you've got the skillset he does it's often easier to fall back on bad habits.

He's gotten word that an old colleague of his, Bill Keely, is having trouble in a town called Coffin Rock. David and Bill haven't had the easiest relationship, but he feels he owes the old coot so off he goes to bail him out of trouble.

== Worst Nightmare ==

His parents, the victims of his cons, all the people he feels he’s let down or hurt finding him and coming to take their revenge. The form this revenge takes varies from dream to dream: sometimes they dismember him, sometimes they imprison him and sometimes they bury him alive and let the worms come for him.