Day 11: Adulo Landsman, Martial Artist with a heavy legacy (Terror Target Gemini)



Eight generations ago the Landsman family was incredibly wealthy, owning trading vessels and warehouses and even a gold mine. Then disaster struck. Disaster took the form of the dragon Arxaxasz Septimus, scourge of the desert, the peacock king, green-fire-rains-down, and other epithets beside. It descended upon the gold mine, made light work of workers, foremen, and Landsman matriarch Prismilla.

The remaining Landsmans swore long and heavy oaths of revenge, ones that reverberate even today. Then came the deroute as successive generations squandered the remaining fortune on increasingly convoluted schemes of retribution. To wit, Adulo's grandmother attempted to poison the land around the dragon’s lair, and his father believed that an air-duel with the vexatious reptile was the ticket to success. The last of the Landsman fortune was spent on a bespoke fighter plane that barely got off the ground. It did however hit a fueling station, and Papa Landsman died in a spectacular explosion.

As Adulo’s mother had long since departed for saner pastures, he was alone in the world, a young ape with an oath of vengeance barely a wen to his name.


Adulo is a conflicted person. The oath still interrupts his sleep now and then, and he awakes discombobulated and with a feeling of guilt. He reassures himself that becoming a Runner, the grueling years spent learning martials arts, and working with Abelhanz Gray and his reprobates are all means to an end. He seems driven and jittery, interspersed with bouts of brooding. 

Adulo is going to become a living weapon, a champion and a dragon slayer. What others see as a certain covetousness and cowardice is just making sure that he lives to see the day when he vanquishes Arxaxasz Septimus, and that he has the funds to carry out the deed,

Now and then he’s disgusted with the whole doomed shitshow and blows his wages on partying. The hangovers always come with a hefty side of guilt. 

Name: Adulo Landsman
Bloodline: Qaradin
Class: Jack Of All (Martial Artist)

STATS
Power: 1
Coordination: 3
Intellect: 0
Charisma: 0

SKILLS
Training: 1
Handcraft: 1
Arcane: 1
Communication: 0

HEALTH (2d8h): 6

FEATS
Luck: Once per session you may reroll a check before the GM tells you the outcome. The second roll is final.
Martial Arts: When unarmed you have two attacks (1d4 damage) each turn. You have no Snag to your first counterattack each turn.
Parkour: You’ve got an Edge when chasing and fleeing on foot, and when doing acrobatics. 
Secret Move (Costs 1 Ki): Ranged unarmed attack (1d8 damage)

STARS: 1
Ki: 1+1d4

Money: 3 wen

GEAR: Hand wraps, hidden knife (damage 1d6), a vaguely dragon-shaped birthmark. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Day 03: Arlene Ramsey (Hard City)

Image
Detroit, 1946. When people think of a woman assassin, they think of some Rita Hayworth-looking glamorpuss. That’s not Arlene. She has that kind of reassuring face you’d like to see in a doctor’s office or behind a lunch counter. Arlene is an assassin though, and has eleven confirmed kills to her name. Don’t hesitate, don’t stand out. That’s words to live by for a contract killer. Arlene made her first kill in the jailhouse. She was inside for knocking her (ex)husband down with a bottle, and stealing his wallet and car. While inside, she strangled an officious trustee who tried to blackmail her. Arlene got away with it, and the only other witness, Astrid Felton, knew to keep quiet, up to a point. When they got out, Astrid admitted that she’d told her boyfriend Eugene Farrugia, “a big man in the COMMISSION”. This turned out to be a half-truth at best. Gene was a go-between, and quite squeamish for a made man. Still, Arlene found that they could do business. She’d do the hits and Gene wou...
Read more

The Last Days of Kranium Kastle

Image
This is a hack of TROIKA! (and Fighting Fantasy in general). You play the part of a creature serving an evil overlord. The war against the Forces of good isn’t going as planned, and it may be time for some hard decisions. Do you stay and fight or desert? Do you try to switch sides (as if the Forces of Good would ever trust or shelter you)? Or do you maybe have some crazy scheme which might turn the tide in your favor, and visit doom upon the armies of elves, dwarves, humans and warrior angels. This hack is inspired by Fighting Fantasy books (particularly The Warlock of Firetop Mountain , Citadel of Chaos , Phantoms of Fear and Creature of Havoc ). Thanks to Eric Nieudan for letting me borrow his crowblins! It's all literal with these guys CREATING A CHARACTER Roll for SKILL, STAMINA and LUCK as described in TROIKA! Roll d3+3 to determine Skill Roll 2d6+12 to determine Stamina Roll d6+6 to determine Luck Roll d66 on the Background Table and record th...
Read more

Magick of the Moon Priestess

Image
This another post inspired by one of Evlyn M's beautiful art pieces. Consider supporting her: https://www.patreon.com/evlynmoreau/posts The moon priestess is a great worker of magick. She is often spied by the broken-hearted, by insomniacs and by people on ketamine. She is unearthly and beautiful, having taken something of the moon’s light for herself. Her eyes are like twin blood moons. She is attended always by moths and sometimes by ensorcelled astronomers. Used with permission. The moon priestess communes with many lunar deities and creatures but worship none but Her Majesty the Moon. This is the magick of the moon priestess and the few with whom she deigns to share it. 1: Her Lips of Amber never part This may be basic social engineering rather than magic, but the results seem quite magical. The stillness of a full moon night has a profound effect on the human animal. The stillness is too immense and loud and the urge to fill it with one’s own noise can be irrep...
Read more