Colorado Smith

The hobo with The Wing

Description:

BODY
45 (lean)

SPEED
60 (sprinter)

MIND
50 (street smart)

SOUL
65 (touched by the veil)

Body Skills

Railcar Olympian – 15 + 10 = 25
Hobo Street Battlin’ – 15 + 20 = 45
Hobo Resilience – 15 + bonus 5 = 20
\-Living a life on the rails means getting into an awful lot of scrapes, whether you mean to or not. Take enough hits, and the new ones don’t seem nearly as bad. For every 10 points, you can negate half damage from an improvised weapon or bare hands once per day.

Speed Skills

Dodge – 15 + 15 = 30
Driving – 15 + 0 = 15
Initiative – 30 +10 = 40
Combat Adaptability – 25
\-When you’re in a fight in an alley, chances are you didn’t have the presence of mind to bring anything with you but your bare hands. A success with this skill (rolling under skill level) allows you to grab something nearby and strike with it in the same round. Failure means the item is retrieved and readied for combat normally. Critical failure and it’s either flung into a wall or into your face, at the GM’s discretion.

Haul Ass! – 10
\-Don’t know what’s going on, don’t care, it’s time to GO. You can choose to be immune to being caught with your pants down OR you can escape combat (within reason. Can’t poof your way out of a concrete box or sprint 50 miles out of a warzone) once per day for every 10 points.

Mind Skills

Hobo Stealth – 15 + 15 = 30
General Education – 15 + 5 = 20
Notice – 15 + 10 = 25
Hobo Lore – 12
\-Being a hobo isn’t merely being homeless and living on the road. It’s being a member of a grand underground subculture of people all across the country, possibly even the world. This skill enables you to find and interpret special signs and markers left behind by those who came before, giving you access to a wealth of information on the area you are in.

##Occult Knowledge – 10 + bonus 10 = 20
\-OBSESSION This skill enables you to recognize when the occult is at work, and potentially identify the purpose of rituals or symbols.

Soul Skills

Hobo Guile – 15 + 20 = 35
Lying – 15 + 15 = 30
Hobo Sense – 30
\-Spend enough time on your own in the world and you start to get a feeling for when things aren’t right, or are about to get real bad real fast. Honing this skill enables you to (sometimes) get advance warning of danger or something being outright strange.

VIOLENCE

HARDENED –
FAILURE -

THE UNNATURAL

HARDENED – 2
FAILURE -

HELPLESSNESS

HARDENED –
FAILURE -

ISOLATION

HARDENED – 1
FAILURE -

SELF

HARDENED –
FAILURE – 1

Inventory

The Wing
A small assortment of candies
A battered journal containing his research
An old tin can containing ~$5 in loose change

Bio:

Summary
Found “The Wing” one day while living his normal life with his normal job and his normal wife. The Wing was all important. The Wing drove him to where he is now. The Wing has cost him everything. Now all he has left are his regrets. His regrets, and of course, The Wing.

Personality
Bitter, surly, and unkempt, but has a good side buried underneath

Obsession
The Wing

Rage Stimulus
To suggest his efforts have been pointless or not worth it. He knows damn well what he’s lost, and he doesn’t need anyone’s help reminding him.

Fear Stimulus
GOV’MENT COMIN TO TAKE MAH WING (Helplessness)

Noble Stimulus
The pure and innocent laughter of a child.

Trigger Event
Discovery of The Wing led to a bout of escalating obsession ending in genuine madness as it continued to defy reason. As desperation began to set in, he began looking into less… Conventional methods of classification.

Colorado Smith

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