Sucks-Down-Teeth

Sucks Down Teeth

Beats

Minor: Allude to the events that led you to seek forbidden knowledge to achieve your impossible task

Major: Kill someone who is trying to stop you from claiming knowledge.

Skills

• Discern
• Hunt
• Endure
• Kill

Domains

• Cursed
• Desolate

Core Abilities

Unorthodox Methods Once per session, before you roll dice to resolve an action, instead state that your result is a 6. You succeed but take stress.

Heartsblood Your minimum protection value for all resistances is equal to the tier of the Heart you are currently on. This value doesn’t add to other sources of protection, but your base protection can’t be lower than your current tier unless you specifically lose access to it due to fallout.

The Red Feast When you eat a resource, you gain any domains associated with that resource until the end of the situation. If you already have access to the domain, gain an appropriate knack. There’s no limit to what you can eat, but tough or noxious materials might require an Endure + Cursed check to avoid causing yourself harm. Consuming resources requires your attention and leaves you exposed, so doing it successfully in stressful situations (such as combat) could require a Sneak or Evade roll.

Minor Advances

Desperate Measures You can consume the flesh of something or someone that you have recently killed and gain a skill associated with them for the remainder of the situation.

Fell Metabolism When you use THE RED FEAST ability, you may choose to have your attacks gain the Brutal tag for a number of actions equal to the amount rolled on the resource dice instead of gaining a domain.

Unmaking Claws Your unarmed attacks gain the Piercing tag

Major Advances

Monstrous Appetite When you use THE RED FEAST to consume a resource that has a domain you can access, remove stress from Blood or Echo equal to the amount rolled on the dice instead.

Resources

A freshly harvest heart that still occasionally twitches: d6 Wild

Dead Charnel Hyena: d8 Religion, Awkward

Ghoul Stomach: d4 Cursed, Taboo

Tiny Tin of Jewels: d6 Haven

Equipment

Hunting Knife: Kill d6

Bone charms and animal gut sutures: Mend Blood d6

Metal Teeth (it's not exactly boredom that got the old one's ripped off, though it is a certain kind of ennui that leads to eating one's own teeth)

Spritz bottle and pocket fan

Heady incense sticks that burn dirty-blue smoke

Backstory

Sucks-Down-Teeth is still more widely known, by those familiar with their mask, as 'Snow-White-Page'. They're seen as little more than a layabout lacking the creative spark that defines the aelfir. For a long time, that's what they were. Another masked face at the parties and torture-operas. Too weak for war, too dull for poetry, too listless even for joy. They were such a disgrace that their mother, Claws-Through-Music, thought to send them away. By airship they left Spire to oversee a distant holding. That would have been the end of it. Snow-White-Page with her uninspired blank white mask would spend her life working accounts and overseeing bureaucracy till she died and was laid to quiet rest in a family mausoleum.

But that isn't what happened. An act of sabotage brought down the airship Snow-White-Page left on. Those responsible were never caught. It doesn't matter. The ship crashed into a barren Northern landscape, amongst snow and ice, far from Spire. It was assumed that Snow-White-Page was dead, and the minimum acceptable mourning was observed.

When Snow-White-Page returned, they wore their cracked and broken true mask upon their face, and another mask on their hip. This new mask was a crude affair of mishappen bones poorly entwined with old rope, but the returned wallflower treated it as precious as a true mask, even as they showed no regard to their new mask. Snow-White-Page was excepted with as minimal a ceremony as her mourning had been, and quietly put aside. It was no longer simply that Snow-White-Page was boring... she had become... unsettling...

The other aelfir could not see beneath the mask, of course. Could not see that Snow-White-Page's flesh had turned gray and strong. They could not see how her stomach distended, or that their teeth were gone and replaced with crude metal. To family they began to refer to themself as Sucks-Down-Teeth, a name that was never openly acknowledged. Nor did the family share how Sucks-Down-Teeth had survived after the crash. How they had feasted on the bodies that had been aboard the airship... some of which were not dead when the first bite was taken. The drow doctor the family employed knew of the changes, of course, but the family would not hear it. Nor would they hear stories of how Sucks-Down-Teeth would rip out their fingernails to eat, or tear out their hair. How they would swallow teeth and tongues over any other food.

Sucks-Down-Teeth had not returned to Spire for family, however. They came to see King Teeth, and worship at his altar. To beg a miracle. But, it was not a miracle the bloated King could perform, so Sucks-Down-Teeth went beyond him, past Grist and into the Heart... Sucks-Down-Teeth is not a fool, for all their obsession. They know they need resources and help if they are to find what they wish. To this end, they have turned to family once again. To their uncle, who has interest in some trinket of the Heart, a crown. If seeking this trinket is what it takes to have support for their own purposes, Sucks-Down-Teeth will take it.

Calling: Enlightenment

What "impossible" thing are you attempting to achieve in the City Beneath? I seek the secrets to true autophagy, to utterly and completely consume myself, body and soul.

What's the first step on your journey? The consumption of King Teeth, to take his demi-god status.

Choose another player character. They've been invaluable in your journey so far. What have you learned from them? Greyson is invaluable. I came to him hoping to learn the limits of flesh and how to surpass them... instead I learnt the value of an ally and companion..

Choose another player character. You know they're hiding secrets from you - why do you suspect they're doing this? Kish knows things about the Heart that would be useful to me. I think they're hiding because the Deep Apiarists fear the Heart, and what I might become. I think she genuinely thinks she's protecting me.