OOC and Character Chatter

A couple'a NPCs off the bat:

- "Only word in the english language that has three double letters in a row?", Tara is Witch Craft's Bookkeeper. Good source for hooks regarding paying rent on your building.

-- "I left my days off on a post-it in the office...", a regular bartender at the brewery, Wyatt's a good source for hooks round employee screw ups. He's also a regular damsel in distress.

-- "*Sigh* I guess I'm lookin' the other way; again..." Chief of Salem PD, and has a love/hate relationship with the coven. She knows the SPD is, decidedly, not equipped to handle demons and angry ghosts.

-- "Check the stacks." Wesley is Salem Public Library's head librarian. He also maintains an extensive, uncatalogued collection of ancient, arcane, and dangerous volumes--an essential, due to magical entropy's penchant for destroying digital records on magical information.

Haven't settled on all my edges and hindrances yet, but I'm definitely taking Curious. Goes with the whole Gossip thing.

As for languages, I have Czech (native) and then English at D8 and Latin at D4

Hm, going through the powers in the core book, there isn't really anything divination-like available for Novice characters, which is kind of annoying since that's the direction I wanted to focus on. I guess I'll go more for general support.

Since casting rituals still requires to know the spell/power, I assume we're lifting the requirement for having an arcane background in order to get powers (via New Powers edge). Otherwise, it wouldn't really be possible to build a ritual character without an arcane background.

Current plan is Arcane Protection, Boost/Lower Trait, Mind Reading, Speak Language (2x New Powers)

EDIT: I just saw the Locate spell in the Pinebox powers you shared. I'm definitely taking that one. Probably instead of Boost/Lower Trait.

Going full ritual doesn't make mechanical sense since Arcane Background + New Powers gives 5 powers while 2x New Powers only gives four for the same price (while limiting me to rituals), but I prefer it for flavor for my character, so I'm still planning it that way. No moment-to-moment casting, only rituals.

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Does this make sense this way, Dunko? I can just buy Arcane Background if you prefer, but I prefer the flavor without it.

Tereza Hrabikova is the oldest granddaughter of the High Priestess of the local coven in Prague, a very influential and fairly famous one in witching Europe. The clan is very traditional and therefore strictly consists only of members of the Hrabik(ova) family.
As she was directly in the line of succession for the title of High Priestess, there were high expectations put on Tereza from a very young age. Expectations she was not able to meet, as she has never been comfortable with spontaneous casting, to the point that she never properly learned to do it. While she is an accomplished ritualist, this caused issues in her family which eventually led to her being excommunicated from her coven nicely asked if she would not prefer to apply her magic elsewhere and renounce her claim to the inheritance.

Tereza ended up traveling Europe for a while. Even after no longer being a member of the coven, she received financial support from her father and her name still opened some doors in witch communities across the continent. She's no longer in contact with her mother or most of the coven but does still occasionally talk to her father and younger siblings. During a trip to England, Tereza met Caroline and the two became friends, so when Caroline returned to the United States, to her home town of Salem, Tereza ended up joining her [I'm thinking of this having been about a year ago. @LightOfMidnight ?].

Since she hasn't been in Salem for very long, Tereza doesn't have many friends and contacts there yet but she did befriend Alina Andreyeva, a no-nonsense Russian martial artist and history student who is the head of the Slavic Society at Salem State University. Even though Tereza doesn't actually attend the university, she joins the society's meetings from time to time.

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I made the character sheet public, so you should all be able to see my Edges, Hindrances and all that. @Dunko, maybe take a look to see if this all looks good to you mechanically.

Now would be the time to think more about inter-PC relations. I already have a bit of one established with Caroline, but no fun tensions and drama potential yet. Any ideas? I'll also think about it.

I could definitely see some fun dynamic between Tereza and Deacon with him being a spontaneous caster and her being calm and ritual-focused (Does Deacon have any Occult/ritual talent?), so both having very different approaches to magic. Exacerbated by how his sister can't stand the objectively wrong way in which Tereza casts her rituals. If I'm reading him wrong, let me know, but I get the impression that he'd be kind of impulsive and headstrong.
Maybe for a goal statement connected to Deacon, it could be something like Make Deacon stop and reconsider his action.

For Jemma, since she is not connected to a witch family and is mostly self-taught, Tereza might see that as an opportunity to pass on something about the way she has been taught and how she understands magic. Maybe Teach Jemma a Truth about magic.
Could maybe lead to some annoyance, depending on how Jemma feels about being lectured by someone younger than herself (I'm thinking Tereza is 21).

(If that's the kind of goal statements Dunko had in mind)

I could definitely see some fun dynamic between Tereza and Deacon with him being a spontaneous caster and her being calm and ritual-focused (Does Deacon have any Occult/ritual talent?), so both having very different approaches to magic. Exacerbated by how his sister can't stand the objectively wrong way in which Tereza casts her rituals. If I'm reading him wrong, let me know, but I get the impression that he'd be kind of impulsive and headstrong.
Maybe for a goal statement connected to Deacon, it could be something like Make Deacon stop and reconsider his action.

For Jemma, since she is not connected to a witch family and is mostly self-taught, Tereza might see that as an opportunity to pass on something about the way she has been taught and how she understands magic. Maybe Teach Jemma a Truth about magic.
Could maybe lead to some annoyance, depending on how Jemma feels about being lectured by someone younger than herself (I'm thinking Tereza is 21).

(If that's the kind of goal statements Dunko had in mind)

I could definitely see some fun dynamic between Tereza and Deacon with him being a spontaneous caster and her being calm and ritual-focused (Does Deacon have any Occult/ritual talent?), so both having very different approaches to magic. Exacerbated by how his sister can't stand the objectively wrong way in which Tereza casts her rituals. If I'm reading him wrong, let me know, but I get the impression that he'd be kind of impulsive and headstrong.
Maybe for a goal statement connected to Deacon, it could be something like Make Deacon stop and reconsider his action.

For Jemma, since she is not connected to a witch family and is mostly self-taught, Tereza might see that as an opportunity to pass on something about the way she has been taught and how she understands magic. Maybe Teach Jemma a Truth about magic.
Could maybe lead to some annoyance, depending on how Jemma feels about being lectured by someone younger than herself (I'm thinking Tereza is 21).

(If that's the kind of goal statements Dunko had in mind)

Again I'm trying to gather all the current idears to get some structure. It helps me anyway :)

I'll make a table like that from Tereza's perspective tomorrow. It's a good idea.

For Tereza's role in the brewery, she primarily runs the in-house store and does marketing. Of course, helping out all around just comes with running a small failing business.
She also got there around one year ago rather than a few years

A little looking into Caroline's mindset...

Something I've been meaning to ask for a while, @Dunko, but never remembered when I was near the book to check it out and was now reminded by it, well, being relevant in this scene. I had this in an earlier post:
I was referencing my Hesitant Hindrance, but I kind of liked that as a character trait for her, so I was wondering if you'd mind me taking the Yellow Hindrance. I'm already maxed out on Hindrance Points, so it wouldn't give me any benefits. Aside from me liking Hindrances 😅