Pallour
Name
Pallour the Brainer
Looks
A huge, lumbering man whose metabolism keeps him morbidly obese even when food is scarce. There is not a single hair on his bulbous, fish-pale body, which is naked but for a sparse getup of spiked straps of black leather. His voice is high and soft, and his eyes small and deep-set. His demenour shifts between cringing fear, giddy delight and shrieking terror, not always due to any outside reason that anyone can make out.
Stats
Cool +1
Hard +1
Hot -2
Sharp +1
Weird +3
Moves
Preternatural at-will brain attunement: you get +1 weird (weird+3)
Deep brain scan: : when you have time and physical intimacy with someone — mutual intimacy like holding them in your arms, or 1-sided intimacy like they’re restrained to a table — you can read them more deeply than normal. Roll+weird. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7–9, hold 1. While you’re reading them, spend your hold to ask their player questions, 1 for 1:
- what was your character’s lowest moment?
- for what does your character crave forgiveness, and of whom?
- what are your character’s secret pains?
- in what ways are your character’s mind and soul vulnerable?
On a miss, you inflict 1-harm (ap) upon your subject, to no benefit.
Brainer Special: If you and another character have sex, you automatically do a deep brain scan on them, whether you have the move or not. Roll+weird as normal. However, the MC chooses which questions the other character’s player answers.
Personal Gear
- Ornate dagger (2-harm hand valuable)
- Violation glove (hand hi-tech) For purposes of brainer moves, mere skin contact counts as time and intimacy.
- Deep ear plugs (worn hi-tech) Protects the wearer from all braner moves and gear
- Oddments worth 5-barter
HX
Lockbox Hx +3
Suv Hx +2
Kara Hx +2
Rhyme Hx +3
XP
Ο Ο Ο Ο Ο
Improvement
Each time you improve, choose one of the following. Check it off; you can’t choose it again.
__ get +1 cool (max cool+2)
__ get +1 sharp (max sharp+2)
__ get +1 hard (max hard+2)
__ get +1 hard (max hard+2)
__ get a new brainer move
__ get a new brainer move
__ get a 2 gigs (detail) and moonlighting
__ get a holding (detail) and wealth
__ get a move from another playbook
__ get a move from another playbook