Max Danger

Celebrity/online persons name is Max Danger. Real name Maxwell Frederick Wilson.

Rough outline: rich kid grew up lazy and entitled. Flunked out of college and took up vlogging and social influencing. Started out doing travel influencer stuff, and that switched to adventure travel, which got more and more extreme as he got bored. He chased the social engagement - loving for likes, followers, and views. Eventually he stumbled onto the occult and conspiracy nuts, and figured out a strong hold on this niche. Combining this with his adventure travel turned him into a social media Indiana Jones of sorts, and he built up a persona, becoming internet famous.

Until he heard the stories about the cult of Tharizdun - the chained god. This entity was rumored to be a mad god, imprisoned by the others In his pantheon. He was fascinated, but more importantly his followers ate it up. Every time he did a story about Tharizdun - revealing some tidbit of research or another - his engagement numbers shot through the roof.

One research excursion, which had been a content heavy trek through a jungle and a dangerous dungeon crawl through an ancient temple, he found what he was looking for.

He was about to go live to broadcast the cult performing their ritual - practically seeing the follower count and likes roll in - when he was taken from behind by a group of green-robed individuals.

At least that’s the last the he remembered before the screaming. He didn’t know how long the assault on his mind lasted. Minutes? Hours? Days? Weeks? All he knew was that it invaded all of his senses. He could feel the screams on his skin. Taste them in his mouth. It flooded his vision. Filled his nostrils.

He woke up in a ditch outside of a rickety bar in Costa Rica. He was covered in his own piss and shit. And when he closed his eyes, he could still hear the screaming.

As far as he could tell, some kind of pact had been made. He felt that to his marrow. But those green-clad cultists were still following him, and he had no idea what they wanted.

Something like that.

You said you took a madness about green shirt people.

"He was about to go live to broadcast the cult performing their ritual - practically seeing the follower count and likes roll in - when he was taken from behind by a group of green-robed individuals."

Did any of your viewers see anything truly real about the cult or was it some mad fake conspiracy theory you were using for likes? Like burly images that might be something, you using friends to fake stuff, wild ideas you string together that sound plausible.

Could it be you traveled to Costa Rica. Walked around in the jungle and something happened that you do not remember. Trauma formed all these ideas on the cult being the cause?

He definitely went to costs rica looking for footage. He definitely went into some ruins. He definitely had an encounter with a great old one.

Was there actually a cult? Was there actually green clad man who roughed him up? Is he actually seeing green clad men following him? Unclear.

The experience in the ruins broke his mind open. It unleashed his abilities and changed him.

Since the green clad shirt thing is an insanity, maybe it’s not really real. But he’s paranoid about being followed and he’s attached the green complex to that. So I was thinking in reality the cultists are real and they wore green. But they aren’t necessarily following him around. He just associates the green with the trauma when he sees it.

What happened after Costa Rica?
How long ago was that?
I might have a Modern UA Warlock or spells possible if you want to look at them.
Google "5e UA modern."

You don't have to worry about class restrictions nor the subclasses. Just extra info if you wanted to look at the spells.

So after Costa Rica, it took a minute for Max to stabilize. Maybe a few weeks of stumbling around. Long enough that his fan base started wondering where he went. Wild speculation ran rampant on the Internet, ranging from dangerous cults to a simple accident in the ruins where he'd last been seen filming. As his family was rich, they pushed the Costa Rican government to start a search, and eventually he was found and brought back to Boulder where his family lives.

After getting cleaned up and regaining some of his senses, he started down this obsessive path to figure out how deep the rabbit hole goes. While his research into the occult prior to this experience was mostly a lark and tool for viewers, now he was serious.

I'll look at spells, but I feel pretty set. I'm thinking his Book of Shadows takes the form of his Smartphone. I'm taking Aspect of the Moon, so he doesn't sleep - figuring I'll play that more as he can't sleep because when he closes his eyes the screams start up.

Here's D&D Beyond link for now: https://ddb.ac/characters/83826474/55cUnO

I'm still playing with things. For example, I was going to take Haunted One, but thinking to change that to Entertainer or Noble. Not sure if there is a Celebrity background. I might even look at Charlatan. Mainly I want the fame aspect covered - people recognize Max Danger. He's famous.

You can mess with a background how ever you want. Grab the equipment you want, skills you want, and background feature you want.

Your character looked pretty good so far. You had a few things to figure out still I saw.

How do you plan on flavoring your Eldritch Blast?
What type of Familiar do you plan on having?

Familiar I’m thinking is a cat. Name is Crowley.

I went ahead and did a custom background.

For the eldritch blast, thinking either something with the spurs symbol of Tharizdun or something with chains.

I have 2 languages + common. I think I’ll take Latin as one. And German as the second.

Other than that I think I’m pretty much done.

Any other questions? I’ll need to transfer this guy over to the sheet on here.

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