Campaign:Acts of Villainy/Smilin' Jack

Basics

• Campaign: Acts of Villainy
• Name: "Smilin' Jack"/Jack "the Grin" Higgs
• Concept: Freedom Fighting Murder Man
• Caste/Aspect: Scourge
• Motivation: The End of All Tyranny via the Systematic Murder of all Leaders so Man is Free to Starve.
• Urge: The Specific Annhilation of All Royal Families in the East.
• Positive intimacies: The Underdog
• Negative intimacies: The Man
• Anima: Circle of Silence
• Experience: 36/229

Background

Smilin' Jack wasn't always an insane murder man. No... he started out quite noble. As a young lad, he stole food from carts to share with his friends... usually only a loaf of bread or a piece of fruit. However, one doesn't go and steal for a livin' without getting caught for long. His punishment? A long cut was made in right cheek. It was still bleeding when Jack looked at himself in a mirror. With a knife, he proceeded to even out, putting another curling cut on his left cheek... and putting a curling tip on his right. When he finally healed up a few weeks later, he looked like he had a creepy, sardonic grin etched on his face.

Hence, he was known as Jack the Grin.

A few more years passed when he found himself leading a cell of freedom fighters. Stealing from the rich, giving to the poor, trying to overthrow the evil government.

Or at least until the group got caught in a trap. His friend lying dead, dying, and broken... only he was standing, to shell shocked to do anything with the smug prince approached him. To this day... he doesn't remember what he was told, all he remembers is grabbing the poor fool and looking him in the eye, smiling. "You want death, little man? I'll give you death like you never seen!"

The room became an abattoir, a thick puddle of blood lying on the floor. When a demon started whispering in his ear, he smiled again. He liked what the guy had goin' for him. And what better way to fight the power...t hen with power of his own.

Appearance

He's a pale skinned mane wearing a pair of worn trousers held up by braces. No shoes, just feet wrapped in dirty bandages. He has a wide brimmed hat on his head, dark red. An off white scarf trails behind him, usually wrapped around his mouth and neck. He's got red eyes and black hair and his cheeks have curling scars leading from the ends of his mouth, etching a sick smile on his visage.

Attributes

Strength  ●●●         Charisma     ●●●●        Perception   ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●       Manipulation ●●●         Intelligence ●●
Stamina   ●●●●●       Appearance   ●●          Wits         ●●●●●

Abilities

Archery      o      Integrity   ●●●●● Craft         o    Athletics ●●●●●   Bureaucracy o
Martial Arts o      Performance o     Investigation o    Awareness ●●●●●   Linguistics o
Melee        ●●●●●  Presence    ●●●●● Lore          ●    Dodge     o       Ride        o
Thrown       o      Resistance  ●●●●● Medicine       o   Larceny   ●●●     Sail        o
War          o      Survival    o     Occult         o   Stealth   ●●●●●   Socialize   ●●●

Specialties

Languages: Forresttongue, Old Realm

Backgrounds

Cult:      ●●●
Backing:   ●
Influence: ●
Manse:     ●●●●
Artifact:  ●●●
Resources: ●●●

Charms

(Malfean)
By Pain Reforged
Nightmare Fugue Vigilance
Hardened Devil Body (x3)
(Adjoran)
Wind Born Stride (x2)
Joy in Violence Approach
Threat Monitoring Excitement
Who Strikes the Wind
Threat Monitoring Excitement
Opened Eye of the Hurricane
(Hungry Ghost Style)
Blood-Scenting Hunger
Leaping Horror Approach
Lunging Phantom Method
Shrouded Claw Attack
Hungry Ghost Form

Combos

Combo Name

Essence

Essence: ●●●●
Regeneration: (twice the rating of your hearthstone(s) when active, 4/hour more when relaxed, 8/hour more when sleeping)
Personal Essence Pool: 18/18
Peripheral Essence Pool: 43/43
Committed Essence: 8 (Bracers, Silk Armor, Razor Claws)
(write your essence pools as "current / maximum". current should be lower than maximum if you have motes committed to artifacts or if we finished a session while you wasn't at your maximum essence. commit from peripheral.)

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●●●
Temporary: 6/6

Virtues

Virtues:

Compassion ●●
Conviction ●●
Temperance ●
Valor      ●●●●

Virtue flaw: KILL FRENZY! (Valor)
Limit: □□□□□ □□□□□
Limit Break Condition:

Inventory

Razor claws (2 dots of artifact).

Throwing Needles.

Throwing Knives.

Tainted Jade Hearthstone Bracers (2 dots)

Silk Armor (Scarf) (2 dots)

Dragon-Smothering Elixir (3 dots of resources). A venom to better kill his DB enemies.
DB 8L Toxicity 5 Tolerance -/- Penalty -5
All others 6L Toxicity 4 Tolerance -/- Penalty -4

Manses and Hearthstones

Smilin' Jack's manse is his old hide out from his days as the good thief. Ironically, he had just changed into an Infernal Scourge when he came back and found a new present from his masters in Malfeas. A gem stone... resting with a note that it would help him kill all those tyrants.

He did nothing but laugh. His old life and new were meshing quite well.

Blood-Stained Wind Gemstone

Combat

Dodge DV: 8
Dodge MDV: 6
Soak: 0A/8L/6B (add armor and 0A/(Sta/2 round down)L/(Sta)B)
Pierced: 0A/0L/0B (add half from armor and full from stamina)
Hardness: 0A/0L/0B (armor only)

Attacks

Throwing Knives Speed: 5 Acc: +11 Damage: +5L Defense: +0 Rate: 3 Range: 15

Throwing Needles Speed: 5 Acc: +9 Damage: +4L Defense: +0 Rate:3 Range: 10
 
Razor Claws Speed: 5 Acc: +13 Damage: +8L Defense: +2 Rate: 3
 
Clinch Speed: 6 Acc: +10 Damage: +3B Rate: 1 
  
Kick Speed: 5 Acc: +10 Damage: +6B Defense: -2 Rate: 2 
 
Punch Speed: 5 Acc: +10 Damage: +3B Defense: +2 Rate: 3

Health

□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ -4
□ -4
□ -4
□ Incapacitated
□ Dying
□ Dying
□ Dying
□ Dying

Advancement

Bonus Points:
2 on Melee 5
2 on Athletics 5
2 on Awareness 5
6 on Valor 5
3 on Conviciton 5

XP:
12xp on Strength 3
4xp on Int 2
4xp on Per 2
12xp on Integrity 5
12xp on Presence 5
12xp on Resistance 5
11xp on Stealth 5
3xp on Compassion 2
40xp on Essence 4
9xp on White Jade Tree
6xp on Kata Sculpting gem
3xp on Gemstone of Shadows
45xp on Artifacts
8xp on Kalmanka's Grace
8xp on Laughing Gust Denial
8xp on Self as Cyclone Stance
8xp on Scarlet Rapture Shinitai
3xp on Viridian Gemstone

Shopping list

it's also helpful (but optional) if you write out charms you intend to buy