Day 17: Crunch
A cursed gangster and the last day of Sigil & Shadow. This character has a power that's really more of a curse, but one that could be quite useful. (The Labaki and the Gaffigans are two major crime outfits in the campaign city that bears some resemblance to Baltimore). Elijah “Crunch” Stevens Crunch is a low-level Labaki soldier with ambition. So far he has risen from being a kid slinging to overseeing a couple of kids slinging. Middle management, in a sense. He gets his nickname from the fact that he always seems to be working. His mother always told him that working hard and wearing nice clothes could get him far. Crunch works like a horse and favors Tommy Hilfiger. He looks more like a college student than (people’s idea of) a gangster. Mrs. Stevens might not approve of her son’s line of work, but she does not object to him paying her rent. One thing has really ruined things for Crunch: a curse. One day Crunch and his boys beat up a fiend who had tried to make off with thei...