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'''MY NAME IS . . .''' Emily Play
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'''MY NAME IS . . .''' Sebastian Mayfair, but most folk just call me Doc
  
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'''AND I AM A . . .''' Professional Teenager
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'''AND I AM A . . .''' Medical Doctor specializing in Dentistry
  
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'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' Doctors, peering and prying; Nurses, poking and prodding; Patients, screaming and screaming and screaming and screaming . . .  
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'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' Teeth. If I close my eyes they gnash at me. So many teeth. So strong and sharp . . .
  
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'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' It was just the one little tentacle, growing out of my shoulder, but ma saw it. Saw the little black Fae no taller than my hand from the Neverwhen dancing around my feet. She called the Doctors at Willow Oak and they came for me in their stupid white truck with their stupid white HugMe shirt and strapped me in both and took me away.
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'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' I was in my practice. Routine cleaning. And right there in my chair, the fellow just changed. His face went black and featureless except for a gaping maw of gleaming teeth lunging at me as a boy and bicycle made of newsprint shouted, "Extra, Extra! Patient Eats Dentist!
  
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I live there now. Willow Oak Asylum.
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I stabbed him over and over with the dental instrument in my hand. Blood everywhere. No black face. No Paper Boy. Just my patient. Dead by my hand.
  
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You know . . . except when I leave.
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'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' Scrawny doctor fellow with a nervous demanor.
  
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The doctors can't see the holes in the world. But I can. And the Fae of the Neverwhen are only happy to lead me through the holes . . .
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'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' Viciously self preserving sociopath that will put the life of another ahead of his own without a thought.
  
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'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' Skinny teenage girl with blue hair and a hoodie.
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'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' Rendering toothless anything that might bite me, bringing people to the pacifistic worldview of those who subsist on pudding.
  
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'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' I am a changeling, a lost princess of the Neverwhen. The black Fae come to my call. But when I call, I change, and what lies beneath starts growing straight out of what's on the surface. The tentacles don't ungrow until the black Fae go.
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'''WHAT DO YOU DESIRE MOST?''' Peace and safety and an utter freedom from fear.
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'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' I walk the Ways, the paths between the World and the Neverwhen. One day I will make it to the Neverwhen and take my crown and I will stay.
 
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<s>'''WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO THE MAD CITY?''' There are scars in the Ways, crude wounds, holes between the City Slumbering and the Mad City. I got lost in the early days exploring the Ways between the World and the Neverwhen and found myself there. Getting out again wasn't near as easy as stumbling in. The Mad City is a terrible place. I learned much of myself trying to escape it. </s>
 
  
 
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<u>'''EXHAUSTION TALENT'''</u>
 
<u>'''EXHAUSTION TALENT'''</u>
  
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'''Vanishing Act:''' I can get out of virtually any situation without a trace, either by hiding, scampering away, misdirection, or pure bluff and bluster. When whoever is trying to corner me next looks, I'm just gone . . . near as they can tell.
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'''I Can Fix That:''' A tinkerer in his spare time, Doc has an uncanny knack for fixing or breaking things - especially things with lots of moving parts, whether he has proper tools for the job or not.
  
 
<u>'''MADNESS TALENT'''</u>
 
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'''Princess of the Neverwhen:''' The black Fae come when I call. Fight for me. Work for me. Dance with me. Guide my way. But when I call, tentacles start growing out of my flesh. The more I call the more tentacles grow, the longer they grow, the stronger.
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'''Psychic Dentistry:''' Doc can use his madness talent to make harmless that which seeks to harm him. With psychic pliers and metaphysical files he can grind down blades or bullets to harmless dust and infect his foes with pain and rot.
  
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'''(1-2 Madness Dice)''' A few Fae appear, usually unseen by anyone else, they point the way, give warning, do small things for me, act as a distraction, lead me to one of the Ways. [I grow one or two tentacles the length of an arm with the strength of a grasping hand].
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[1-2 Dice] Simple weapons and hazards arrayed against him can be reformed into useless chaff and madenning pain settles in those arrayed against him.
  
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'''(3-4 Madness Dice)''' Hundreds of Fae appear. They can accomplish quite a bit, or destroy quite a bit. They are a clever workforce. Or a terrible little army. This many of them are capable of keeping my companions on the path when we traverse the Ways, even if those I lead are blind to the path. [I grow three to four tentacles thrice the length of an arm with the strength of gorrillas].
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[3-4 Dice] Threats that might hazard a city block can be neutralized and infection and rot set into the wielders of those threats.
  
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'''(5-6 Madness Dice)''' Thousands of Fae scramble out of the cobbles and the paving stones, the sewer grates and cracks in the walls, laying their little hands to whatever chaos or destruction I have dreamed for them. I'm not often fast enough to keep them from wreaking their own mayhem as well when this many are to hand. In such numbers they can lead us through the longest Way in an instant. [I grow five to six tentacles the length of tall trees with the strength of giant yellow construction machines].
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[5-6 Dice] Neutralize threats no matter the size. Rot and decay infests the very spirit and being of whatever stood against him.

Revision as of 22:06, 12 March 2021

Sebastian "Doc" Mayfair

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I haven't required pliers for extraction in a long while.

T is for Toothless

An impotent bite

Rendering useless

Your edge in the fight

MY NAME IS . . . Sebastian Mayfair, but most folk just call me Doc

AND I AM A . . . Medical Doctor specializing in Dentistry

WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE? Teeth. If I close my eyes they gnash at me. So many teeth. So strong and sharp . . .

WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU? I was in my practice. Routine cleaning. And right there in my chair, the fellow just changed. His face went black and featureless except for a gaping maw of gleaming teeth lunging at me as a boy and bicycle made of newsprint shouted, "Extra, Extra! Patient Eats Dentist!

I stabbed him over and over with the dental instrument in my hand. Blood everywhere. No black face. No Paper Boy. Just my patient. Dead by my hand.

WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE? Scrawny doctor fellow with a nervous demanor.

WHAT LIES BENEATH? Viciously self preserving sociopath that will put the life of another ahead of his own without a thought.

WHAT IS YOUR PATH? Rendering toothless anything that might bite me, bringing people to the pacifistic worldview of those who subsist on pudding.

WHAT DO YOU DESIRE MOST? Peace and safety and an utter freedom from fear.

TOTAL DISCIPLINE 3

PERMANENT MADNESS 0

CURRENT EXHAUSTION 0

TOTAL FLIGHT RESPONSES 2

TOTAL FIGHT RESPONSES 1


EXHAUSTION TALENT

I Can Fix That: A tinkerer in his spare time, Doc has an uncanny knack for fixing or breaking things - especially things with lots of moving parts, whether he has proper tools for the job or not.

MADNESS TALENT

Psychic Dentistry: Doc can use his madness talent to make harmless that which seeks to harm him. With psychic pliers and metaphysical files he can grind down blades or bullets to harmless dust and infect his foes with pain and rot.

[1-2 Dice] Simple weapons and hazards arrayed against him can be reformed into useless chaff and madenning pain settles in those arrayed against him.

[3-4 Dice] Threats that might hazard a city block can be neutralized and infection and rot set into the wielders of those threats.

[5-6 Dice] Neutralize threats no matter the size. Rot and decay infests the very spirit and being of whatever stood against him.

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