31 Days Character Creation Challenge Day 18: ARC Doom

Another ARC Doom character, a Celestial bureaucrat. The character is made using a combo of point-buy and random rolls. 

Ogdena, Rightly Guided Engineer, [She/her] Bureaucratic engineer who believes in a vast conspiracy and speaks very softly. 

Ogdena is a bureaucrat in the Celestial Bureaucracy’s R&D department, the Architecture subdivision. It was Ogdena who signed off on the first triumphal arch. It was, well, a triumph. Things were looking decidedly sunny, and Ogdena even started looking around for a suitable romantic partner. 

The next day someone sabotaged the pneumatic mail to her office. It took days to discover and weeks to be properly fixed. Meanwhile Ogdena missed a meeting with big-account demons from the Exsanguinated Badlands of Xhillez, landing her in hot water with her boss and several hotshots from Sales. 

That was when she started to believe that there was a great conspiracy within the Bureaucracy, working to keep the mortal world manageable by stifling their progress. Ogdena herself was merely collateral damage. If only she could rise to to a position where she can uncover it like a detective in a murder mystery. 


APPROACHES

CREATIVE: 0                         CAREFUL: +2                            CONCERTED: +1   


BLOOD (2d6+0):  7                 GUTS (2d6+6): 17


 SKILL

Knowledge Skills

Academic 2

Social Skills

(none)

Physical Skills

Coordination 1

Pragmatic Skills

Tinker 2

Trade 1

Prowess

Focus 1


Inventory

Thieves’ tools, disguise kit and manacles

Large backpack and a blank book

Studded leather apron  [+1 Blood Defense]

Stoicism [+1 Guts Defense]

Memories of toil [+1 Guts Defense]


Techniques (NOTE: Techniques are like spells, only linked to Focus, representing the hero’s personal willpower and spirit).

2xONLY ONES WHO KNOW - Either everybody knows about your action or nobody does

2xUNCANNY ALARM - Ask the fates about an action's consequences.

INSPIRATION - Improve someone's next action by buoying them with inspiration


QUESTIONS

What makes them different from others?

Ogdena works within the bureaucracy of heaven, while having a deep distrust of it. 

There are three rumors about them. What are they and who believes it?

1: Ogdena is taking bribes all the hours the gods send! This one has trickled from Accounts Payable through the Celestial Bureaucracy, and even some members of the public have heard about it. 

2: Ogdena is a nutjob, who’s only gotten to her position because of the many other nutjobs in the organization. Nuttiness loves company. Many of the junior workers in her department have heard this one, and believe it. 

3: Ogdena is an integral member of a conspiracy running the Celestial Bureaucracy by subtly subverting orders. This rumor is rampant in Sales, where it seems to have originated. 

What was the most painful lesson your hero had to learn?

That even the most rightly-guided institution will do what is politic, easy or has the right optics. 


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