The Vice Magus

"Tch, do we have to do this?"

Original Lifepath

Roderick Titov, The Vice Magus

Academics Skill: Average but people think more than that
Sports Skill: Exactly as Incompetent as Expected
Favorite Foods: Pierogies, Gyros, Outside Dust
Blood Type: B-
Animal: Pig
Age: 16
An Interesting Fact About You: You’re probably the richest kid in the Walking Fields.
Issues: Vice 1, Trust 1

XP Emotion: Either Speechlessness

Will: 8/8
MP: 5/5

Skills

(Magical) Titov Family Magic 3 - You're good at the family magics. Too good. Too reliant on it, anyway.

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Standard Titov techniques, and the accompanying Obstacles, are:

[Obstacle 0] perform the rituals that keep bound the thing beneath their shrine
[Obstacle 1] appear stable and calm while experiencing a psychotic episode
[Obstacle 1+] attract someone or something to them that they need
[Obstacle 1] know what they can offer that person to assure their willing cooperation
[Obstacle 2] know what they can offer that person that would make them not merely willing to cooperate but unwilling to betray the Titovs under any reasonable duress
[Obstacle 2] infuse an object with emotional meaning—make even an ordinary work into great art that gives a sense of freedom or peace, or a simple knickknack into a gift that brings great joy
[Obstacle 3] create a new person from the earth, if there is no one that their magic may summon in answer to a certain need.

(Magical) Sosunov Dream Magic 1 - You've learned a few tricks from your father.

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Standard Sosunov non magical techniques:
[Obstacle 0] purify Outside dust through meditation
[Obstacle 1] calm the Outside to a very limited extent through meditation
[Obstacle 1] shape a dream that you’re already in

Standard Sosunov magical techniques:
[Obstacle 1] appear in the dreams of a loved one
[Obstacle 1] send and receive detailed information through a loved one’s dream
[Obstacle 2] use magic to attack or defend the spirit of an entity in a dream you’re in (such as a spiritual invader, the dreamer, or yourself)
[Obstacle 2] sense unnatural forces at work on dreams;
[Obstacle 2] break someone’s will down with drugs, ritual, or sleep deprivation so that you and the target may both enter the dreams of that person’s loved ones
[Obstacle 2] enter any dream already thoroughly compromised by other magical forces
[Obstacle 3] send a dream forwards or backwards through time.

Proud 2 - You're good at standing up for your pride.
Taunt 1 - You're familiar with being quite the asshole.
Domestic Skills 1 - Despite your proud and hedonistic standing, you do know how to operate a broom.
Indulgence -1 - You think that you're great at lounging around and being Byronic.

Perks

Bond (2): I must consume low-grade Outside dust to function.
[Ideally a Connection to the Light Seeker]
Affliction (tied to a Green Issue): The Outside pulls at me, especially when and if I dream.

Quests

Current Arc: Immortal Mystic (Primordial)
Total XP: 5

XP Emotion: Shock and Horror

Unspent XP: 0

Basic Quest: I AM VERY BUSY BROODING.

1/9 XP
Once per scene, you can hold up an orange card! This card says on one side "Brooding!" and is meant to symbolise the fact that you are a broody Gothic Byronic hero who is very brooding. On the other side, it says, "I don't actually care about this.".

Quest 1: A Whisper on the Wind

4/21 XP
Major Goals
The HG can award you 3 XP towards this quest when you’ve…
❀ …first learned about the Treasure.
❀ …given the Whisperer a nickname which it approves of.
❀ …set aside a family heirloom, cherished possession, or other personally important object.
You can earn each bonus once, for a total of 15 XP.

Quest Flavor
1/chapter, you can earn a bonus XP towards this quest by…
❀ …explaining, at length, why you’re uninterested in hunting the Treasure.
❀ …ignoring the Whisperer.
❀ …drawing a picture, writing a poem, or otherwise creating art about the Treasure.
❀ …struggling to us some piece of travelling equipment (a compass or a map, perhaps).
❀ …talking about the sky.
❀ …telling the Whisperer some personal anecdote unrelated to the Treasure.
❀ …playng a flute, whistle, or other wind instrument.

Quest 2: Inspiration (Black Quest Miracle)

Quest 3: Transformative (Red Quest Miracle)

Arcs

Creature of Delirium 3

Experience: Ennui and Disillusionment

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Embodiment
Type: Imperial Miracle
Wherever Roderick is, the property "Roderick must be disillusioned forms.

Extraction
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost:
❀0 MP—extract your Experience, 1/chapter
❀2 MP—do so a second or later time per chapter
Roderick can extract the disillusionment from people, making them passionate and hopeful. It takes the form of silvery drops- basically a nonpoisonous mercury, though it does poison anyone who isn't Roderick with disillusionment, unhappy thoughts and ennui.

Command
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost:
❀Automatic—act or listen through your vessels
❀1 MP—waive the default level 2 Obstacle for doing so
Roderick can peer into the silvery liquid to see what the vessel is doing, and can act through them by molding the liquid.

Catharsis
Type: Special
Cost:
❀+0 MP—make a miracle emotionally affecting, up to twice/book in separate chapters
❀+2 MP—do so a third or later time per book
❀+4 MP—do so a second or later time per chapter

Sovereignity
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost: —
Sometimes things in the world lose track of your Experience. They divide from it and become hollow vessels for your will—just as if you held their weystone.

Sovereignty (Powered-Up)
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost:
❀4 MP at Arc 2-3
❀2 MP at Arc 4
❀1 MP at Arc 5
For 4 MP, you can gather and control enough vessels to terrorize or protect the Region itself.

When you’re using Sovereignty to act at the Regional scale, you’re difficult to challenge. You waive the minimum level 2 Obstacle for acting through your vessels. There’s an ominous inevitability to your actions—they’re protected by an effective Cool rating of 2, or [your Cool + 1] (max 5), whichever is better. But most importantly of all, the broad-strokes description of your actions is unchallengeable by mundane actions and guaranteed to be both effective and impressive—it’s only the smaller details that need an Intention from you at all.

Manipulation
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost: 2 MP
When something is your vessel—either through Sovereignty or because you hold its weystone—you can evoke some appropriate transformation or fate.

Pick a vessel.

Until the end of the next chapter, it transforms it into a new shape or mode of being of your choice, or you banish it to a Region of your choice, there to wander for a while and then experience something that you describe.

Wield
Type: Miraculous Action
Cost: 2 MP at Arc 3

As noted, you may magically draw upon the power of a weystone, using it as a well of your Experience or drawing upon the traits of the thing it comes from.

Invoke Wield and that power becomes miraculous.

I’m still going to ask for a mundane action here to shape what you’re actually doing when you draw upon that power—but:

you can waive the level 2 Obstacle I mentioned back under Extraction
you gain free Edge in an otherwise fair contest equal to the Arc rating and
the unleashed power is miraculous. You can fail or be opposed when it comes to drawing on the power and deciding what it does, but once you’ve actually unleashed it, no mundane action can oppose it and it’s automatically both effective and impressive.

Extend The Moment
Type: Special (not an action), Bleak
Cost:
❀+0 MP—stretch a moment, 1/chapter
❀+2 MP—do so a second or later time per chapter
As part of a miraculous action, including acting through a vessel, you may invoke Extend the Moment to make an instantaneous or quick action an extended experience for some target—subjective seconds or even minutes go by while they experience that action in detail.

This has two key effects:

The underlying action becomes Bleak.

Regardless of genre, you may offer your target the opportunity to take an action from the Fairy Tale genre—typically (Suffer) Trauma, Corruption, or Metamorphosis/Transformation, but any Fairy Tale action the two of you agree on is fine—and they’ll earn a bonus MP if they do so.

Shape Fate
Type: Imperial Miracle
Cost: 4 MP at Arc 3-4

Invoke Shape Fate to shape the destiny of one of your vessels.

This power has a specific weakness: Anyone can spend 4 MP, or 0 MP when resolving an Issue, to snap the target free of their fate—expiating it, breaking free of it, or transcending it, as the target chooses.

Primordial 0

Estate: The Whispers of the Wind
Principle: Passion or Temptation
Transformation: A raging tempest that whips up Outside Dust

Immortal
Type: Miraculous Action, Major
Cost:
❀ 0 MP—damage or enchantment has only temporary, appropriate effects on you
❀ 1 MP—you totally recover and shrug everything off 1-2 times mid-scene
❀ 2 MP—starting mid-scene, you shrug off attacks and other effects like they’re paper tigers
❀ 4 MP—you’re basically unaffected by the world around you

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Unnatural Action
Type: Special
You can use your Estate to emote with.

Scry
Type: Imperial Miracle
Cost:
❀ 0 MP—after a few minutes concentrating, use your element to find something
❀ 1-4 MP—speed this process up
Spend a few minutes concentrating and you can invoke an Element-themed search method.

You can send out a small mote of your Element that can run through your Element very quickly, focus your senses to see and hear from any specific place therein. However, you can only see and hear things that are “within” your Element—no matter how vivid or loud, you can’t actually see or hear outside your Element’s boundaries.

For ubiquitous Elements, it usually takes around an hour to search a Region for a specific person-sized object that is visible to you. Sometimes you're lucky or unlucky.

If you’re trying to move your senses to a specific, known point in the Region you’re in, and your Element is there, it takes a minute or less; a specific, known point anywhere in Town takes up to five minutes.

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[ [color=orangered][B][SIZE=4]BROODING.[/SIZE][/B] // [SIZE=1]guys look at me guys guys look[/SIZE][/color] ]