Campaign:Conquering of Canals/Watson

Basics

• Campaign: Campaign:Conquering_of_Canals
• Name: Clarity of Simple Wisdom | Granite Servant
• Concept: Watson to my Holmes.
• Caste/Aspect: Eclipse.
• Motivation: To help Omen in his investigations.
• Positive intimacies: Omen. An-Teng. His notepad.
• Negative intimacies:
• Anima: Flares out as a prison at banner-level.
• Experience: 3/19

Background

Granite Servant began life as a simple man of An-Teng, if a bit larger than most. He was good at many things, but most of them involved his incredibly high threshold for pain. He was always a gentle sort of fellow, with not even the tiniest hint of malice behind his eyes. He eventually fulfilled the duty of every Tenganese man and found a lovely wife, and settled down to have children with her whilst he worked as a local keeper of peace. Things at home were... strange, though. His beautiful wife acted oddly, arranging things in strange but perfect patterns. Everything had to have an order. He went out and hired a man he had worked with before, an outcaste from the realm who had an eye for things meant to be hidden. Eventually they found that his wife had joined the Seven-Stranded Vine, and together they exposed the cell of the cult to the eyes of the city. At that time his newfound friend exalted into a Solar.. though they did not know it yet. He offered to help his friend any way he could, to determine what had happened to him (Thinking perhaps he was doomed to become an Anathema for halting the cult's progress.) Eventually he found the truth himself, and was equally exalted by the Unconquered Sun for his dutiful nature and eye for simple procedures. He took a new name for his new purpose, and swore to help his friend to rid An-Teng of this wicked influence.

Appearance

Clarity of Simple Wisdom is an An-Teng native, and it shows. He has deep brownish skin, and soft black hair. He has quite a bit of portlyness to him but it doesn't seem to slow him down much. He moves like a landslide, slowly - but deliberately and with quite a bit of force behind him. He is has a gentle nature but will absolutely not brook any sort of demon without a very good reason. After all, they took his poor, naive wife from him.

Attributes

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

Abilities

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

Languages: Flametongue, Low Realm

Backgrounds

Artifact: ●●● (Reinforced ori breastplate)
Resources : ●●
Mentor : ●● (Holmes!)

Merits

4 bp Brutal attack
1bp on Common Sense

Charms

Frugal Merchant Method. 1m. Supplemental. Combo-OK. Instant. Let's the exalt know an item's value, and helps in haggling a price for it.

Insightful Buyer Technique. 3m. Supplemental. Combo-OK. Social. Instant. Removes all external penalties from a mercantile action up to (Essence)

Durability of Oak Meditation. 3m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Instant. Grants hardness 8.

Spirit Strengthens the Skin. 1m per pre-soak die removed. Reflexive. Combo-ok. Obvious. Removes 1 die from pre-soak damage per mote spent. Can reduce an attack to 0.

Iron Skin Meditation. 2m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Obvious. Instant. Combo-OK. Obvious. Roll Stam+Resist vs attacker's essence (up to 6) On a success, the attack does no damage. On a failure, it only adds +4A/+8L/+8B soak.

Stubborn Monkey Hesitation. 3m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Instant. Starts the fight off right. The character will act on tick 0 if he's started the fight, and adds (Ess) to JB rolls if he does not

Hunter Bags The Deer. 3m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Instant. Makes an attack go one tick faster, but the speed of the attack is increased by 1.

Bird of Paradise Whistles In The North. 3 or 5m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Counterattack. When hit with an unexpected attack, immediately initiate a clinch. (Dex or Str + MA) By spending 2 extra motes, the counter-attack may use her full normal attack dice to attack instead of clinch.

Lightning Metal Armament. 2m. Reflexive. Instant. Apply half normal DV to unexpected attacks, and 4 dice to any JB roll after an unexpected attack.

Poisoned Rat Moves Without Pride. 4m. Supplemental. Combo-OK. If you hit with the attack, the target must roll Wits+Awareness vs your MA rating. If they fail, their speed of their current action by 1.

Essence

Essence: ●●
Regeneration:
Personal Essence Pool: /
Peripheral Essence Pool: /
Committed Essence:

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●●
Temporary: 5/5

Virtues

Virtues:

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

Virtue flaw:
Limit: □□□□□ □□□□□
Limit Break Condition: Seeing the unfortunate in pain.

Combat

Dodge DV:
Dodge MDV:
Soak: 0A/14L/13B
Pierced: 0A/11L/11B
Hardness: 0A/9L/9B

Health

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

Advancement

4bp on brutal attack 2bp on ma 2bp on resistance 2bp on bureaucracy 4bp on strength 1bp on Common Sense