FaiDIRCgame/DickLongington
Main stuff[edit]
Skill Pyramid[edit]
- +5 Superb: Athletics
- +4 Great: Might, Leadership
- +3 Good: Guns, Alertness, Fists
- +2 Fair: Intimidation, Rapport, Weapons, Resolve
- +1 Average: Art, Drive, Survival, Contact, Endurance
Stunts[edit]
Herculean Strength[edit]
The character is incredibly strong, capable of lifting great weights. All weight-based difficulties that don’t involve combat are reduced by two steps. See page XX for more on weights.
Brawler[edit]
You’re at home in any big old burly brawl, with multiple opponents and ideally some beer in you. Whenever you are personally outnumbered in a fight (i.e., when someone gets to attack you at a bonus due to a numerical advantage) your defense rolls with Fists are at +1. When fighting two or more minions, you deal one additional stress on a successful hit.
Shot on the Run[edit]
The character is light on his feet with a gun in his hand, able to keep the gunplay going while evading attempts to harm him. This character may use Guns as a defense skill against physical attacks; normally, Guns cannot be used defensively.
Feel the Burn[edit]
The character can push through incredible pain in order to reach his goal. The character can take one extra moderate, physical consequence (see page XX) before moving on to a severe physical consequence, allowing him to take a total of four consequences in a physical conflict.
Death Defiance[edit]
If the character is ever taken out away from the view of other characters and death appears imminent, certain, or absolute, (such as from dropping off a cliff, apparently failing to escape from an exploding building and so on) then coincidence will conspire to keep the character alive. This stunt does not protect the character from dying “on camera”. The player then spends half of his remaining fate points, rounded up (he must have at least one to do this), and may watch play and think of a good explanation for how he survived.
Once he has a story, he may re-enter play in any subsequent scene in as dramatic a fashion as he sees fit, with all of his physical stress cleared and a single consequence to reflect the dangers survived.
Aspects[edit]
- Smooth Talker
- Man Mountain
- Obnoxious Powercharge!
- An Officer and a Barbarian
- Fists of Fury
- Nerves of Steel
History[edit]
Early Life[edit]
Richard Muggach Menzies Longington was born to Irene Morag Menzies and Tarquin Matthew Longington (esq.) The two of whom had a passionate affair whilst Irene was working as a maid on the Longington estate. The two eloped on the Scottish border, as is the fashion. Being a charactaristically strong lass from the highlands, Irene convinced Tarquin to discuss a starting sum of his farther to move back into the countryside village of Edzell. Sir Longington agreed, on the condition that he was subsequently disinherited and was never to contact him again. And so, Dick grew up in a quiet village with just enough money to get by. This meant that as soon as he was old enough to go to school, he was helping farm, and as soon as he could lift a till, he was plowing fields, making him rather more built than the common boy of his age. As an only child, he sought others to socialise with, developing rather early due to his mothers morningly hearty porridge, served with the traditional tablespoon of salt coupled with farming responsibilities. As part of this, he became savvy with the girls around him at a younger age and had what his mother describes as a "Good Scottish tounge in his head". A side effect of this is that he wasn't as acidemically gifted as others, though maintaining just enough smarts to skate by. Further, his reputation as a charmer lead indirectly to many a fight with other boys of his age, making him a bit of a scrapper.
The Great War[edit]
Whilst Tarquin was disinhereted and too old for frontline war, he pleded with his father to pull strings that would afford Dick a less dangerous position. Begrugingly, as the only namesake of the Longington name, he granted his wish; pulling stings to get Dick officer training. He was noted for wearing the ceremonial kilt of his regiment, complete with flashes and Skindoo into a charge, and bringing back 60% of his troop. It was at this celebration that the mysterious MI6 opprative, Fists McCoy introduced himself, suggesting that Dick was of great interest, though he was missing an additional skillset that would make him indispensible, urging him train him in the art of fist fighting using the Queensbery rules. Tragically, Dick recieved news that Fists was stabbed by someone in a fist duel and has vowed to avenge him one day.
Novels[edit]
Dick Longington in The Lethal Game![edit]
The Centurians are called in by the mayor of New York to combat a violent Irish mob in downtown but quickly learn that they are pawns in a very lethal game!