Brahnamins Characters - Trick

Michael Kilpatrick :: Trick

The Barrow Kings. Great warlords, buried in their earthen mounds, surrounded by weapons and armor and wealth and horses.

And servants.

I was the Trickster of such a king. His highest adviser. My job in life was to never agree with him. And when he died my lot was to be wrapped alive in skins, sealed in stone, and buried beneath him.

Long before the druids walked the isle, their spiritual ancestors made pacts with the primal shadows, with mist, and stone, and darkness.

In their darkest dreams I'll bet they never conceived that their focus and blood sacrifices would reach down and preserve life in their forgotten guardian. Or that any power might shatter their careful wards so that that life could break free.

It would seem I have the Rikti to thank for that, but it turns out I'm an ungrateful bastard where they're concerned. I am human. I served a human master. Human hands made me what I became. Human blood preserved my life outside of time. I am bound to the tribes of man in so many ways. I have little choice but to stand with them. And little inclination to do otherwise, truth be told.

For good or ill, they are my people.

Affiliations

Trick does pretty well on his own, is at his most awkward when paired with another individual, and truly shines as a single moving part in the intricate interplay of a team.

|| Solo || Buddy || Team ||

Distinctions

Roll instead of for 1 PP

| Reckless to a Fault | A Man Out of His Time | If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him |

Power Sets

Son of Shadow || Teleportation || Shadowform || Summon the Damned ||

• SFX: Second Chance - Spend 1 PP to reroll when using any Son of Shadow power.
• SFX: Unleashed - Step up or double any Son of Shadow power for one action. If the action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of your power die.
• SFX: Versatile - Split Summon the Damned into two dice at –1 step, or three dice at –2 steps.

Limit: Growing Dread - Count 1s and 2s on dice as opportunities when using Shadowform.

Limit: Conscious Activation - While stressed out, asleep, or unconscious, shutdown Son of Shadow. Recover Son of Shadow when you recover that stress or wake up.

Limit: Exhausted - Shutdown any Son of Shadow power and gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.

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Son of Stone || Godlike Durability || Superhuman Weapon: Fists of Stone ||

• SFX: Immunity - Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma, or complications from physical blows.
• SFX: Berserk - Add a die from the doom pool to one or more attack action. Step up the doom pool die by +1 for each action; return it to the doom pool when you’re done.

Limit: Visage of Stone - Step up emotional stress inflicted by others' fear of your appearance to gain 1 PP.

Specialties

|| Covert Expert || Combat Expert ||

Milestones

Anachronism

• 1 XP when you completely fail to ‘get’ some critical bit of modern culture or language
• 3 XP when your misapprehension of propriety or culture causes someone to take stress
• 10 XP when you successfully reconcile the culture of your birth with modern mores or give up ever being able to make them meet.

Violent Mistrust

• 1 XP when you overreact to something most folk would never question
• 3 XP when your mistrust backfires, directly resulting in you taking stress or trauma
• 10 XP when your mistrust of something innocuous turns out to be completely justified or something you viscerally mistrust manages to change your gut reaction

Stress Tracks

• Physical:

• Emotioinal:

• Mental:

• Trauma: