Campaign:NEWSPAPER GAEM/Cunning Fox
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Basics[edit]
- Campaign: NEWSPAPER GAEM
Name: Cunning Fox
Concept: EDITOR AND MANAGER OF THE YU-SHAN TIMES
Caste: Eclipse
Motivation: Control all major outlets of information in Creation (and beyond)
Positive intimacies: Well-mannered people.
Negative intimacies:
Anima: Flickering golden flames tipped with white, constantly pulsating in and out with a low hum
Experience: 0/55
Background[edit]
A boy was born on the southern fringes of the inland sea, living in a small trade town known as Kimek - a trade stop between Chiaroscuro and Paragon, known for its abundance of information and news, thanks to the merchants passing through. He was born into one of the richer, more reputable local merchant families, and for his quick and clever ways with words from an early age, he was given the name 'Cunning Fox.' Cunning Fox spent most of his early life learning to read and write, as well as manage business, handle ledgers, and making himself well-behaved among unknown or foreign cultures.
The night he came of age, Cunning Fox was managing the ledgers, when one of his assistants came barging in. "S-Sir!"
"Hm? Calm down. What is it?" The young Fox merely adjusted his spectacles, intently focused on his work as his quill casually scratching against the parchment as he recorded the day's income.
"It's..Arjuf, Sir! One of our trade ships came in, d-didn't have the right permit, so the guards on duty turned them back. On their way out, they, they insulted the officer on duty, and well, he was...." The messenger coughed a bit.
"Well?" Scritch scratch.
"A-A Dynast, sir! Cut him down right there for insulting his mother, told the rest that if any of the family had the balls to come back, he'd have 'em arrested and executed!"
Cunning Fox looked up, quirking a brow interestedly. "Have my ship at Paragon ready come tomorrow afternoon. I'll settle this misunderstanding personally."
"Sir, they'll-"
"My ship. Have it ready. Go."
As soon as his messenger left, Fox shuffled all the ledgers into a nearby drawer, reaching for a fresh slip of parchment. He dipped his quill again, pondering. A formal Letter of Apology to an Illustrious Dynast of one of the Great Houses of the Realm. Yes, that had a nice ring to it. As he set ink to paper, a sudden burst of gold emanated from his body - a pulsating flame from within, slowly reaching outward with each word he wrote. His words became one with his being, easily flowing outward with delicate finesse and impressive precision. By the time he was done, but a mere half-hour later, he looked over the finished product - perfectly hand-written, without a single error or misstep. There was no need for correction, or revision - the first draft alone was indisputably perfect. Even the ink with which the words were written seemed better than usual.
The next day, Cunning Fox arrived at Paragon, his ship ready to sail north. He made casual smalltalk with his crew, smiling, laughing, and even drinking: numerous rare pleasures he always reserved for such foreign trips. Every time he looked out to the Inland Sea, though, he felt something. Lifelines. Connections. Things vital to society. Even now, as he traveled, he was mending one. Others were still broken, crying out to be repaired, cut, or even paved over. He could see them, hear them, the delicate ties that kept life flowing.
He could control them, so long as he could reach out and touch them.
The next day, his family and representatives were re-allowed into the Realm. Cunning Fox stood at the gates of Paragon, handing several scrolls of instructions to his assistant as he stood by his simhata. "You're handling things in my stead now. Written here is everything you will need to know. I will be returning after Calibration to collect my salary each year - understood?"
"Yes, Sir. But where are you going?"
"Here, there. Everywhere. Har'at, I realized something. The world is not controlled by people. The world is controlled by the relationships between people."
"Uh...huh?"
"The knot that binds us together has been broken. I can see it. If I can see it, I can fix it. If I can fix it, I can control it." Cunning Fox grinned.
"So..where do you stat?" Har'at, his assistant, looked puzzled.
"Somewhere out there, there is a source. A place that all these lines originate from. I will find that place. And that is where I will begin."
Appearance[edit]
Cunning Fox is a tall, lithesome, handsome man, standing at six feet tall, with short, tidy chestnut hair, bearing both a hint of the delicate, almost effeminate features of the Realm's people and the dark skin and sharp, lithe features of the South. The frame of his body is slender and lacks strength, (as many a Lunar would quickly put it, 'girly',) however, his movements carry a notable amount of fluid grace. He clads himself in a rich, gold-colored silk robe, expertly-crafted by the tailors of Yu-Shan and funded with his considerable sums of family income, loose enough to be comfortable but close-fitting enough to avoid feeling or looking too 'baggy' or unkempt. He carries himself with a collective, stern demeanor, the constantly-calculating gaze of his blue eyes seldom giving way to any more than subtle emotion. A pair of ornate, golden bracers are clasped around his forearms, serving both as decoration and a means of self-defense.
Attributes[edit]
Strength ● Charisma ●●● Perception ●● Dexterity ●●● Manipulation ●●● Intelligence ●●● Stamina ●●● Appearance ●●●●● Wits ●●●●
Abilities[edit]
Solar/Abyssal Block 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(Native), Old Realm, High Realm, Riverspeak
Specialties[edit]
Backgrounds[edit]
Resources:●●●●● Artifact: ●●●● Artifact: ●
Charms[edit]
- (Solar Hero Style) Fists of Iron Technique: 1m, Supplemental. +1 Acc and +2 Damage to an unarmed MA attack, damage becomes Lethal.
- (Solar Hero Style) Dragon Coil Technique: 3m, Reflexive. Adds Essence to dice pools to inflict, maintain, and control grapples, as well as adding Essence to crush damage.
- (Solar Hero Style) Sledgehammer Fist Punch: 3m, Supplemental, Obvious. Doubles pre-soak damage for an unarmed attack against an inanimate object.
- (Solar Hero Style) Solar Hero Form: 6m, Simple, Form-Type, Obvious. User may parry attacks while unarmed without a stunt, and may spend one mote reflexively in Step 7 of any unarmed attack to allow the extra successes of that attack to be doubled.
- (Presence) 2nd Presence Excellency
- (Presence) Hypnotic Tongue Technique: 10m, 1 WP, Simple. User makes a (Manipulation+Presence) social attack. If the result exceeds the targets MDV, that target is compelled to follow one order by the Solar, no matter how complicated. This effect lasts the user's Charisma in days, and the target must spend 1 Willpower a day to resist the order. The target is not aware of this Compulsion, and must spend 4 Willpower to remember or recognize the order, and the target does not gain Limit from doing so.
- (Dodge) Shadow Over Water: 1m Reflexive, user ignores all penalties to Dodge DV for one attack.
- (Dodge) Seven Shadow Evasion: 3m, Reflexive. Perfectly dodges an attack; Temperance flawed: User may not take movement-type actions such as dashing, moving, or jumping until their DV refreshes twice.
- (Linguistics) 2nd Linguistics Excellency
- (Linguistics) Sagacious Reading of Intent: 3m, Reflexive. The user identifies the motive behind a statement, being given a one-sentence summary of what the person hopes to gain. The charm may also be activated defensively against a social attack: If the attacker's purpose is hostile to the Exalt or his/her Motivation, that attack is perfectly negated.
- (Linguistics) Letter-Within-A-Letter Technique: 6m, Simple. User plants a hidden message within another written work, which can only be read by its intended target. That message may contain natural or unnatural mental influence if the user wishes, in which case it becomes an attempted surprise attack with the writer's Linguistics added as automatic successes to the Socialize roll to establish surprise.
- (Linguistics) Twisted Words Technique: 6m, 1 WP, Supplemental. Supplements a written attack to compel or deceive others, making it unnatural. The user rolls (Manip+ability), and anyone who reads the written text falls under the effect of a specified Illusion of Compulsion. The target must spend 3 WP to resist this effect, or become committed to the intention of belief the user wishes to instill. This commitment costs 1 Willpower per scene to resist, and the target gains +3 MDV for each use of Twisted Words Technique the Solar has attempted on that target for that story.
- (Socialize) Second Socialize Excellency
- (Socialize) Understanding the Court: 20M, 1WP, Simple (Dramatic Action). User rolls (Perception+Socialize) at Difficulty 1 to build a perfectly-accurate and up-to-date profile of a given social environment. If a social group is deliberately putting out false signs or otherwise interfering, add their (Manipulation+Socialize+Magnitude)/2 to the difficulty of the roll. Only one profile of any given environment may be kept, and its crispness is reliant on the 20 motes committed to this charm for the entire Story. Mechanically, this Charm also reduces the external penalties imposed on manipulating that social environment by each extra success on the roll, up to the Exalt's personal Essence.
C-C-C-Combo's[edit]
Siren's Quill Method (2nd Linguistics Excellency - 2nd Presence Excellency - Letter Within a Letter Technique - Twisted Words Technique)
Fox's pen whirls as his mastery of words flows with utmost grace, the simplest phrases becoming the utmost beauties in his hands, so that he may turn the minds and wills of Creation to his own needs.
Essence[edit]
Essence: ●●●
Regeneration: 4/hour Relaxed, 8/hr Sleeping
Personal Essence Pool: 17/17
Peripheral Essence Pool: 14/27(33)
Committed Essence: 13
Willpower[edit]
Willpower: ●●●●● ●●●
Temporary: 8/8
Virtues[edit]
Virtues:
Compassion ● Conviction ●●●● Temperance ●●●● Valor ●●
Virtue flaw: Contempt of the Virtuous
Limit: □□□□□ □□□□□
Limit Break Condition: The character is hindered by the self-indulgent and intemperate nature of others.
Inventory[edit]
Ori. Perfected Kata Bracers (Adds Essence to the Damage, Accuracy, and Defense of unarmed attacks while using a Form-type charm, may deal Aggrivated damage to Creatures of Darkness. Fox always wears these as a form of constant self-defense alongside his self-directed training in unarmed combat.) Artifact: ●●●●
Ori. Smashfists (Speed 5, Accuracy +1, Damage +7B, Defense +3, Rate 2. Due to their crude and informal nature, Cunning Fox only wears these fighting gauntlets when he is expecting trouble to come his way.) Artifact: ●●●●
Perfect Concealed Reinforced Buff Jacket (+6L/+7B Soak, -0 Mobility, 2 Fatigue. Since it is inconspicuous, Cunning Fox regularly wears this armor while out on business.) Resources ●●●●●
Manses and Hearthstones[edit]
None.
Combat[edit]
Dodge DV: 5
Dodge MDV: 5
Soak: 6A/7L/10B
Pierced: 3A/4L/7B
Hardness: 0A/0L/0B '
Attacks[edit]
Parenthesis denote bonuses from Perfected Kata Bracers when using Form-Type Charms
Smashfists (Speed 5, Accuracy 6(9), Damage 8B(11B), Parry DV 7, Rate 2)
Punch (Speed 5, Accuracy 7 (9), Damage 1B (3B), Parry DV 5, Rate 3)
Kick (Speed 5, Accuracy 6 (8), Damage 4B (6B), Parry DV 3, Rate 2)
Health[edit]
□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated
□ Dying
□ Dying
□ Dying
Advancement[edit]
3 BP: Valor 2 3 BP: Conviction 4 2 BP: Artifact 4 4 BP: Resources 5 1 BP: Dodge 4 1 BP: Martial Arts 4 1 BP: Linguistics 4 1 BP: Linguistics 5 1 BP: Martial Arts 5 4 BP: Presence 2 through 5 1 BP: Socialize 4 8 XP: Second Presence Excellency 8 XP: Hypnotic Tongue Technique 16 XP: Essence 3 8 XP: Twisted Words Technique 7 XP: Socialize 5 8 XP: Understanding the Court