The Fiddler, Maybe friend, maybe foe Options

[hyzmarca]

Name: Johnny
Alias: The Fiddler
Race: Human

Musician's Way Adept

STR 5
BOD 4
QUI 7
WIL 8
INT 6
CHA 5

REA 6 (10)
INT +1d6 (+3d6)

Magic 11

Combat Pool 10

Edges
Aptitude: Fiddle
Perceptive
Poor Link

Flaws
Flashbacks: Highlander style flashbacks whenever he encounters something from his past.
Dark Secret: Is Immortal due to a curse from a powerful and malicious magical being.


Initiate Grade 7

Metamagics:
Virtuoso
Adept Centering (Fiddle):Physical Skills
Adept Centering (Fiddle):Ranged Combat
Divining
Psychometry
Limited Astral Projection

Geasa: Talisman (The Golden Fiddle)

Adept Powers
Commanding Voice
Enthralling Performance
Empathic Sense
Empathic Reading 2
Imp Ability: Fiddle 8
Imp. Reflexes 2
Imp. Sense: Vision Mag 3
Imp. Sense: Improved Scent
Imp. Sense: Directional Sense
Imp. Sense: Sound Dampening
Imp. Sense: Low-Light Vision
Motion Sense
Quick Draw
Astral Perception

Active Skills
Pistols 5
Shotguns 6
Rifles 5
Unarmed Combat 3
Clubs 4
Etiquette 5
Leadership 3
Intimidation 4
Interrogation 3
Interrogation/Verbal 3/4
Biotech/First Aid 4/5
Lock Picking 3
Disguise 3
Bike 5
Car 2
Aura Reading 4
Centering 5
Divining 3
Athletics 3
Stealth 4
Wilderness Survival 6
Edged Weapons 3

Knowledge Skills
Fiddle 16
Spirits 4
The Metaplanes 3
Christian Theurgy 4
Mythology 5


History:
Sometime in the begining or middle of the 20th century the Devil (or some magical being in the guise of the Christian Devil) went down to Georgia looking for a soul to steal and he was in a bind 'cause he was way behind and was willin' to make a deal.
He came across a fiddle player named Johnny, who claimed to be the best there's ever been, and he challanged the arrogant kid to a musical duel. If Johnny won the he would get a fiddle made of solid gold but if he lost then the Devil would get his soul. The contest was epic but in the end The devil bowed his head because he knew that he'd been beat; and he laid that golden fiddle on the ground at Johnny's feet
Johnny, however, being the arrogant moron that he was at the time, made a fatal mistake. He gloated like a sore winner and proclaimed to the Devil
"just come on back if you ever wanna try again. I done told you once, you son-of-a-bitch, I'm the best that's ever been!"
As most educated people know, if you ever meet the Devil you should have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste; You must use all your well-learned politesse or he'll lay your soul to waste.
The Devil, of course, lost Johnny's soul but he took the most insidious revenge for the insult. He cursed the golden fiddle and its owner with true immortality.

Johnny would later learn that his superb fiddle skill was a result of being born near (perhaps on) a manaspike and awakening as an Adept. Over time has has devolped his powers and searched for a way to rid himself of his curse. Today, he travels the world selling his services to the higest bidder while chasing any rumer about the Devil that cursed him. He has refined his fiddling skills so that he can play with one hand and shoot with the other, taking advantage his centerng.


The Golden Fiddle
Force 7 Unique Focus

The Golden Fiddle is what its name suggests. A fiddle make entirely of 24 karet gold. Although a solid gold fiddle should be heavy and should sound terrible, the Golden Fiddle is astonishingly light and sounds better than any other fiddle in existance.

When played, it adds its force to the Fiddle test and to any centering test made with the Fiddle as a linked skill. Its use also increases the TN of the test to resist Commanding Voice and Enthralling Performance by +1 and it acts as a Force 7 Calm Pack spell with 7 successes on any nonsentient animal that hears it (including nonsentient awakened critters).

The Golden Fiddle's most unique attribute is that it grants Immunity to Age and Immunity to Death to its owner. The first power works as normal while the second power prevents the character from dying but does not prevent him from suffering wounds or give him any healing bonuses. Should the Fiddle's owner take a deadly wound he will automaticly stabalize and will not take any overflow without intervention. He may take overflow from further attacks or overdamage but his overflow moniter does not have any limit. Given time, he will recover from any wound but he does not recover any faster or any better than other body 5 humans and Johnny has the scars to prove it.

The fiddle can only be bound by Johnny and can never by severed from him. Any other character who attempts to bond the fiddle will suffer 7D damage resisted with Willpower, lose 7 karma, and fail. Should the Fiddle be seperated from Johnny he may call it back to him from anywhere in the universe via the metaplanes. The fiddle, if called, will seem to physically shift to the metaplanes in a manner not unlike the Fading critter power and reappear in Johnney's hand. This takes a complex action.

The fiddle cannot be destroyed by normal means and will never take any damage from any physical or magical attack.

[Trax]

Who needs a club when you can use a 24k Fiddle to do the bashing for you. :D

[Kagetenshi]

It should be a 6S wound and a loss of 6 karma.

~J

[Konsaki]

Now all we need is a piano adept... :eek:

[Dog]

"Fire on the mountain! Run boy, run!"

Clearly a premonition of the ghost dance.

[Frag-o Delux]

What about a pinball wizard? I think he'll be named Tommy.

[Domino]

This place continues to amaze me.

[Tanka]

[hyzmarca]

[Kagetenshi]

Nothing about his mirror? :(

~J

[Critias]

I'm just wondering how someone plays a fiddle one handed while shooting a gun with the other. Some sort of...brace? Strap system? Anti-grav device that makes it hover horizontally in the appropriate position, without his left arm to hold it in place?

[Fortune]

[emo samurai]

Stop musclin' in on mah turf! :D

[Kagetenshi]

[DV8]

[emo samurai]

OOOH OOOOH! Do an emo samurai!

[Kagetenshi]

Emo Samurai:

Body: 0
Quickness: 0
Strength: 0
Charisma: 0
Intelligence: 0
Willpower: 0
Essence: 0.00
Reaction: 0+0d6

Edges:

Flaws:
Dead since Tokugawa Shogunate

Active Skills:
Decomposing 12

Knowledge Skills:
'80s D.C. Punk Scene: 6
Hardcore Punk: 5
Fugazi: 5

~J

[emo samurai]

That's Emo Samurai, not emo samurai. You didn't even make him EMO SAMURAI! You suck, Kagetenshi.

[eidolon]

Lolzers, "Decomposing 12".

[emo samurai]

"Roll 12 dice against a target number of -5. Divide 100 days by the number of successes; that is the time it takes for his flesh to rot and his skeleton to animate itself to seek vengeance against all fleshy things."

[eidolon]

Now that'd be AWESOME. A skeletal emo-sam, wandering around with flaming glowy eyes, on a metal-soundtracked quest to kill the oyuban that had him put six feet under.

Of course, he can't talk, so the constant pre-death screams of "what do you want (in Japanese, of course)" would only be answered by the sound of the flames licking the inside of his emo-skull.

Badass.

[emo samurai]

Now make stats for the emo samurai skeleton!

[Kagetenshi]

See above.

~J

[Lindt]

Goddess I love Dumpshock sometimes. This is one of those times.

Anyone who can quote CD Band and the stones back-to-back cant be all bad, even if it IS Hyzmarca.

[emo samurai]

An animated emo samurai would kick so much more ass, Kage. Stop shitting me.