Arnet Leeds

A character for Into The Bloody Depths

Character Sheet

• Ancestry: Human
• Calling: Forced
• Class: Junk Mage

Beats

(Minor) Receive orders from your masters.
(Major) Thanks to your actions, a haven is pitched into deadly chaos.

Skills

• Discern
• Sneak

Domains

• Haven
• Occult
• Technology

Protections

• Supplies: 2

Core Abilities

Collateral: Once per session, allocate stress to the nearest friendly target (PC or NPC) instead of marking it yourself.

Ravening Knowledge: When your Mind stress is 4 or higher, roll with mastery when casting spells.

Sacrifice: Before casting a spell, sacrifice an Occult resource to roll its die and add it to your Protection against stress gained from the spell.

Minor Advances

Mark of Shadow: Gain Sneak. Hiding is always a Standard action.

Rust and Iron: Gain Technology. Roll Mend+Technology to improve equipment by one step; it gains Dangerous and Unreliable.

Back-Pocket Arcana: +2 Supplies Protection.

Frontier Etiquette: Gain Haven. The first time each session that you use a haunt, your spent resource counts as one die higher.

Major Advances

Greed of the Red King: Cast with Discern+Occult. Determine what a target you can see wants most of all. Can smell things of particular value.

Resources

• A Collection of Tiny Jewels (D6 Haven)
• Rose Dumplings (D4 Haven)
• Small Sack of Gold Gnoll Teeth (D6, Haven, Taboo)
• Sand Serpent Statuette (D8, Occult, Fragile)
• Large Sapphire Engraved With Strange Runes (D10, Cursed, Beacon, Volatile)

Equipment

• Overstuffed Coat (Mend Supplies D6)
• Blunderbuss (Kill D4, Spread, Point-Black, One-shot)
• Collection of Delving Gear (Delve D6)
• Feather-tokens to Luxulyan (the Duke of Air)
• A well-worn scrimshaw kit

Backstory

Arnet Leeds was born to a family of retro-engineers who came to Spire when he was a baby; he's known nothing else. He was part of the Brazacott Technical Institute, using his moderate knowledge to develop new technologies and figure out arcane connections between them, but it really seemed easier to use his talents to embezzle large sums of money through false work orders, skimming parts off of shipments, and doing black-market work on the side. Until he got caught.

Brazzacot's masters were not amused at the loss of resources, but they were impressed by Arnet's skills. They implanted a one-directional fragment of their crystal Intelligence network, allowing them to send him messages but not allowing him to tap into the network, and sent him into the Heart to gather rare goods, technological wonders, and whatever else might pay off his truly massive debt. Arnet would like nothing more than to tell them to sod off, but he's concerned that they can probably track him through the crystal and maybe possibly make it explode inside his head. He's really not sure. He's not sure that they're sure. Better not to force the issue.

But this job! This job could be the one that gets Arnet clear once and for all - or that finds him a way to burn that stupid crystal out of his brain without, you know, burning his brain out of his brain.

Recently, you and another character returned from a delve with an item for a wealthy patron. They wouldn’t give it up – why, and what was it?

Greyson and Arnet did a job together, acquiring an interesting piece of Heart-tainted technology for a wealthy patron working for one of the many factions plotting in the Spire, but Arnet convinced Greyson to claim to the patron that they could not acquire it, and then quietly give the item to the Brazzacot Institute instead.