ASPECTS:

HIGH CONCEPT: Bounty Hunting Kleptomantic Sorceror

INVOKE: Hunting Bounties and stealing things including magic.

COMPEL: The bounties he chases are important and the magic he has stolen has put him on the radar of a lot of people.

TROUBLE: The Conclave of Emerald Owns Me

INVOKE: As a pawn of the Conclave, he has to follow their rules and pursue their interests.

COMPEL: Virgil has a contract with the Conclave written in his own blood. He cannot get out of it and doesn’t know all of its terms.

ASPECT: Former Modern-Day Robin Hood

INVOKE: All things illegal.

COMPEL: Virgil considers himself the good guy. He has standards and a code of ethics.

ASPECT: My Stolen Magic and Knowledge Power the Worldsplinter

INVOKE: Using magic with his custom stave, the Worldsplinter, as a focus. Being bound to him, the Worldsplinter can be summoned to him.

COMPEL: His magic and knowledge is stolen and magically loud. Once he uses it, it is difficult, if not impossible to conceal.

ASPECT: High Risk, High Reward

INVOKE: To take on risky gambles that can have high payouts.

COMPEL: High Risks can really bite him when they fail.

APPROACHES 15/15

Great +4: Intellect

Good +3: Guile, Force

Fair +2: Focus, Haste

Average +1: Flair

Mediocre +0:

MANTLE

KLEPTOMANCER (Supernatural Scale)

You can absorb magical energies, both ambient and active, and use them to power your own abilities.

UNIQUE CONDITIONS

Exhausted (sticky): [ ]

Mark this condition to boost your magical power, as described by the Magical Talent stunt. When you are Exhausted, the GM has one boost to use against you in any scene in which your fatigue may be used against you. The GM may claim this boost at any time during a relevant scene. Clearing Exhausted, of course, requires an active effort to rest. The GM may allow this recovery to occur between any two scenes involving a sufficient time jump.

Burned Out (lasting): [ ]

Mark this condition to further boost your magical power, as described by the Magical Talent stunt. If Burned Out, you cannot use magic, period, until fully recovered. Begin recovery by eating, meditating, or otherwise deliberately resting as per the Exhausted condition. Recover fully at the end of the following session. One-trick ponies are terrifying when they can sic legions of ghosts on you. Mr. Lindquist is one of the most underestimated practitioners alive. Like I said.

Indebted in Blood (sticky): [x][x][x][x][]

Debt is to the Conclave of Emerald. As per normal (page 117), but the debt can be compelled and not bought off until all the boxes of debt have been cleared.

CORE STUNTS:

Magical Sponge:

You naturally absorb (inadvertently or not) magical energy. You get Armor:2 against magical attacks and +1 to overcome magic-based obstacles with Force.

Kleptomancer:

Mark Exhausted. For the rest of the scene you can duplicate any magical power you witness or have used against you, mimicking their approach and action. You are capable of “borrowing” more than one spell or power in a scene, but can only retain one at a time for continual use. For example, if a necromancer strikes you with a flesh-rotting bolt of entropic energies, you can do the same to him until such a time you choose to abandon that magic for some other spell you see in action (Fuego!, for example).

Into the Abyss:

Mark Burned Out to make any zone in which you are currently inhospitable to the use of magic. If anyone attempts to use magic in your zone they must add +2 to the opposition; if their magic doesn’t prompt opposition, they must first overcome Fair +2 opposition to use it. It’s as if their magic is just sucked into nothingness. This lasts until the end of the scene or sunrise, whichever comes first.

ADDITIONAL STUNTS:

Thaumavore:

Absorbing magic empowers you. When you successfully defend against magical attacks or overcome magical obstacles using your power, in addition to other effects, you gain a Filled With Energy boost reflecting the sort of magic you absorbed. You may only have one such boost at a time.

Evocation:

As a sorcerer, you can cast magical spells comprising the five elements: fire, air, earth, water, and spirit. In game terms, you may perform any of the four basic actions with spectacular magical effects such as defending with a shield of ice or creating an advantage by shifting earth beneath the opponent’s feet. Your actions may have scale (page 182) at the GM’s discretion. If desired, push yourself to increase the spell’s effect as follows:

• Check a stress box for +1 or two boxes for +2 on any one magical action. You may check only two boxes at a time.

• Mark Exhausted to add +4 to any single magical action or to attack multiple targets magically without dividing your roll (page 190).

• Mark Burned Out to gain +2 to all magical actions for the rest of the scene or, if Exhausted is already checked, to attack multiple targets with magic without having to divide your roll.

These benefits are cumulative: if you mark two stress boxes and both conditions, you could do a single magical action at +8, and then have +2 to all magical actions for the rest of the scene.

Spell Thief:

Virgil has learned how to copy the spells of other casters. Spend the Boost gained from his Thamavore ability to increase the scale of his spells to Supernatural Scale and beyond. If he Defends against magical attacks or overcomes magical effects he can boost the Scale of his spells to match that of the opposition. This means that if Zeus zapped Virgil with his Godlike Lightning Bolt and Virgil somehow survived he would have the ability to use the boost generated from that to cast a single spell of Godlike Level. There is a reason Kleptomancers are feared and loathed by wizards and sorcerers.

Cold Reader:

You know how to study and learn about people. Once per session, you may ask the GM to tell you an aspect of any character you interact with in a scene without having to roll an action.

Smooth Talker:

Because I am a Smooth Talker, I get a +2 when I use Guile to create advantages when I’m trying to deceive someone I am talking to.

Slick Intruder:

+2 to use Guile to Overcome Obstacles when dealing with security obstacles such as Locks, Cameras, Alarms, and Traps.

CONDITIONS:

In Peril (sticky): [ 4 ]

You may mark the In Peril condition whenever you are hit by an attack. Negate up to four shifts of damage from the attack and then create an aspect that describes how the attack causes damage not easily shaken off (such as a Broken Leg or Shattered Reputation). Whoever inflicted the condition is awarded a free invoke on that aspect. Recover from In Peril when you act deliberately to resolve the peril: medical attention for an injury, a bribe to erase the slight on your reputation. This typically entails overcoming an obstacle against an opposition of Great (+4) or higher.

Doomed (lasting): [ 6 ]

You may mark the Doomed condition whenever you are hit by an attack. Negate up to six shifts of damage from the attack and then create an aspect that describes how the attack has rendered you almost helpless, such as Bleeding Out or Ready to Embrace the Dark Side. Whoever inflicted the condition is awarded a free invoke on that aspect. Recover from Doomed when you act deliberately to resolve the doom: emergency medical attention, the intervention of a White Council healer skilled in mental magic, or something similar. This typically entails overcoming an obstacle against an opposition of Great (+4) or higher. Clear out Doomed at the end of the next session after you’ve started recovery. If Doomed is checked and you are taken out (page 189), death is one of the possible outcomes.

STRESS: [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ] [ 1 ]

CURRENT REFRESH: 2
Spent Refresh: 5