A Continent of Banalities

Hayden Blevins is a 'friend' of yesterday's character, Stella.  Agility +1 Presence 0 Strength +1 Toughness 0 Stability 0 Hit Points: 6 Social Standing: 0 Omens: 3 Lee Side Of Legal.-1 DR to Agility and Strength tests to get into places where you aren't wanted. Heavy. Gain +2 max Hit Points and increase your damage with unarmed attacks by +2. Gear baseball bat (1D6, Bulky) small handgun (1D6) a smartphone a rope a few oxies. The Story of Hayden: You used to be a fireman. The kids laugh at that. Didn’t get on no sexy calendars, but you had a purpose. Then you injured your legs and got workers’ comp. Also a hefty medical bill, even with insurance.  So, you got used to a new lifestyle. Drinking cheap beer and throwing hands until you had a reputation. Nothing like being a fireman. You’ve started selling a bit. Pills, nothing heavy. It keeps you in walking-around money, but you’d like to go somewhere else. A place where they don’t know you. 

We're switching track, slightly. Cthork Borg is a game about cosmic horror, based on (gasp!) Mörk Borg.  Stella Mainz, Languishing Agility +1 Presence 0 Strength -2 Toughness +1 Stability +1 Hit Points: 5 Social Standing: 0 Omens: 4 Habit. You may take on Debt during an investigation and, each time you do, you recover 1 Omen. You may continue to take on Debt until your Social Standing is at -3. Rock Bottom. Once per investigation, when you Break, you may ignore all consequences from the Break, recover to 4 Hit Points, discard 2 Debt, and gain a -3 DR bonus on all tests for the next hour. If that hour ends without you Breaking again, you Break again. Gear notebook and pen one last oxy old flip phone a business card with a number written on the back taser (1D4, Presence test (DR 14 or momentarily stunned) Stella’s Lament:  You have a waitress job that pays nothing, and that comes with a kind of expenses you don’t have when you’re rich.  You have to buy a beater car becaus...

A forner soldier who wants a shot (hehe) at redemption.  Joris Osterhorn Class: Mercenary Deserter (Rifleman) Strength: 0 Agility: 0 Presence: 0 Toughness: 0 HEALTH: 10 Guilder: 60 Normal Agility tests are DR14 Shots with a musket get +2 to attack rolls. at range Near. You start with: Musket, 10 rounds of shot, one gunpowder pouch, spadroon, breastplate, bread and cheese.  Bullet kit: When at rest, you can make your own bullets from metal that you have about with the use of this small forge. Your line of ancestors is a long one, and there were plenty of stories about valor and horsemanship, conquest and camaraderie. You set out to war as was right and proper, your spirits stirred to a fever pitch by the bugle and the drum. When you came to battle in the hell they call Sunshine Gorge, there was no music, only the thunder of cannons and the cawing of carrion crows. There were no heroes, only frightened farm boys fumbling with swords and rifles. It was when the man next to you ...

The third character is a hunter, based on Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischütz, and The Black Rider (the play and Tom Waits' music for same).  Class: Bounty Hunter (Master Trapper)  Strength: 0 Agility: +1 Presence: +2 Toughness:-1 HEALTH: 7  Guilder: None To find and make traps is Presence +2. Setting up a trap takes one round.  You start with: Two bear traps, Ten caltrops, Shovel, Hunter’s Knife d4, Large heavy net, Jar of bees, Jar of sleep gas, Rope 100ft The Black Huntsman’s Rifle When you use this rifle roll 1d6 1-3: The rifle does 1d10+2 4: You choose the damage done, up to a maximum of 12. 5: The rifle does 1d10+2 damage, half to the target and half to you.  6: The Black Hunter (GM) decides where the bullet goes, and how much damage it does. No cap. No mercy.  As a youth you weren’t much of a hunter, which meant that you were a wallflower at best, and a target of cruelty and scorn at worst. You bore it.That was until you met Sofiya the game keeper’...

 The second character is a sawbones turned monster hunter.  Heindrik Todesfelde, Doctor of Physick Class: Witch (herbalist)  Strength: -3 Agility: +1 Presence: +1 Toughness: 0 HEALTH: 6 Guilder: 10 You may brew d6 of the potions or poisons on page 86–87 as long as you can scrounge up some ingredients. Potions made in the wild lose vitality after 24 hours.  You start with:  A Brewers Kit consisting of;  Brass pot  Weights and scales  Flint and steel  Six glass bottles with stops  One pint of pure ethanol Healers Mask  This mask has glass lenses and a long beak stuffed with healing herbs. This will protect you from miasma as well as foul smells and airborne maladies. It also makes people uncomfortable. Spells (reskinned as medical procedures).  Ministrations (Healing Hand) Heal up to d4 creatures 6 hit points Forensics (Talk to the Dead) Ask an intact corpse 3 questions.  You knew a girl in medical college. Julia was her nam...

The first character of the month is a vampire hunter for Black Powder & Brimstone, a Mörk Borg hack, inspired by the 30 year war, Warhammer fantasy, and films like The Blood on Satan's Claw.  Friedah Colmberg Class: Bounty Hunter (Pistolier)  Strength: 0 Agility: -1 Presence: +3 Toughness: 0 HEALTH: 8 Guilder: 19 You may reroll a misfire dice but you must keep the second roll. You went to Ravenscrown Academy, and may reroll a single roll a day, if it pertains to hunting vampires.  You start with: 2 pistols, 12 shot, 2 gunpowder pouches, pouch of grain, salt, stake and hammer, Ravenscrown capotain.  Firearms Repair Kit  While at rest, you may use this handy kit to repair a damaged firearm. However, if the weapon is broken beyond repair it cannot be salvaged.  You went to Ravenscrown Academy, and you’re not ashamed to say that it shaped you. All the extreme discipline and forced marches in all kinds of weather helped focus you. You’ve pulled through many ...