Citybuilding and Character Creation

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I think he often looks like that. He’s not the most diplomatically minded.

Hey, Frank and Georg live on the same street! 500 doors away, but still... howdy neighbour!

Yeah, come down to Frank's we'll give you a discount.

Name
The Thing that Partitions the Void (Partition to their friends)

Look
Ambiguous gender. Variable Ethnicity. Archaic clothing

Demeanor
Ominous

Character Stats
Blood -1, Heart 0, Mind 1, Spirit 2

Starting Factions ([ ] unchecked, [/] checked)
Mortality 1 [ ], Night -1 [ ], Power 1 [ ], Wild 1 [ ]

Intro Questions
• Who are you? I am and am from the Thing that Partitions the Void
• How long have you been in the city? That’s kind of hard to tell, I haven’t really wrapped my head around your time yet, but I have figured out you all move in the same direction.
• What keeps you up at night? I’m supposed to be down at night? Oh or is this one of your idioms... Well I guess I’m a bit concerned about fitting in to your universe.
• What have you sacrificed for your powers? My freedom I guess where I’m from I don’t have powers but here I do, but I am also bound by some of your rules.
• What do you desperately need? To find the bit of myself that went missing.

Gear
A simple house in Outer Richmond, a crappy car, a decent cell phone.
A focus (Pocket Watch) and a Sanctum (Elsewhere)
A Snub nosed revolver (2-harm close loud reload concealable)

Debts
Someobe is helping you keep your demons at bay, you owe them a debt.
Someone is your go-to when you get in trouble, you owe them two debts.
You are helping someone keep a dangerous secret, they owe you a debt.

Wizard Moves
Channeling: When you channel and collect your magics, roll with Spirit. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 3 and choose 1 from the list below. On a miss hold one, but you cannot channel again this scene.
-Take -1 ongoing until you rest
-Suffer 1-harm (ap)
-Mark corruption
Sanctum Sanctorium: When you go to your Sanctum for a spell ingredient, relic, or tomb, roll with Spirit. On a 10+ you’ve got pretty much just the thing. On a 7-9, you’ve got something close but it’s flawed of lacking in some significant way. On a miss you don’t have what your looking for, but you know someone who probably has it in stock.

Spells
Memory Wipe: Spend 1 hold to cause a helpless target to forget some of their short term memories, up to an entire hours worth. You can spend an additional hold and mark corruption to put alternative memories in their place
Veil: Spend 1 hold to make yourself invisible from sight for a few moments.
Teleport: Spend 1 hold to teleport yourself a short distance within the scene your in.

Sanctum
Features; a mystical prison, magical wards, a portal to another dimension, a focus circle.
Downsides; it attracts otherworldly attention, it contains many volatile substances.

When you go into your sanctum to work on something, the MC tells you what it will take to complete your task, as if your Sanctum was a mystical Workspace.

Focus
You have a mystical focus item that helps you channel your magic. Without it, take -1 to Channeling. Further gain +1 hold when Channeling.

Drama Moves
Wizard Corruption Move
When you strike a deal with someone dark and powerful, mark corruption.
Intimacy Move
When you share a moment of intimacy—physical or emotional—with another person, decide whether you care about them or not. If you don’t, they go about their business as normal. If you do, they take -1 ongoing to Escape until they get some intimacy somewhere else.
End Move
When you die, you may place a devastating curse on someone nearby. Specify the e ects of the curse and how they may end it.

Harm ([ ] unchecked, [/] checked)
[ ] Faint
[ ] [ ] Grievous
[ ] [ ] Critical
When you suffer harm, mark the same number of boxes as harm received. when you heal harm, erase it in the same order. You heal about 1 harm/day naturally. You can mark a Scar to ignore all ham you are about to suffer.

Scar ([ ] unchecked, [/] checked)
[ ] Shattered (-1 Blood)
[ ] Disfigured (-1 Heart)
[ ] Fractured (-1 Mind)
[ ] Broken (-1 Spirit)

Armor
0

Background
-still to come-

This is shaping up to be one extremely interesting group of Californians.

Given the weirdness of my character I could definitely see this working. The one you earmarked for me might work really well with Kalajel’s character

Works for me Kalajel you open to the suggestion to take the third one on my list?

I'd actually like the second one. T.T

This one?
"»» You are helping someone realize their true potential through your visions. They owe you a Debt."
Yeah, given my background, it would work well for me.

@ flug: since I have a debt in which I did hurt womeone and your character looks like he gets hurt a lot, I guess I could use your character for that debt?
You injured someone in the process of fulfilling an instinct. Tell them what instinct you were serving. You owe them 2 debts. (placeholder)
I could take that one by coupling with this one I have: Someone has a tie to your creator (or their lineage) and possesses knowledge about your origin they have refused to share. The owe you a debt. (placeholder).
Given that you're the only other Asian character in the game (albeit it seems you're more Japanese than anything) It could be that you are a descendent of Fei Long (or the entity which he was?). I would seek to protect you since I feel you might hold the key to my past...

Works for me.

I also have:

Someone broke an important promise to you and swore they would make it up to you. They owe you 2 Debts. (Partition)

You are keeping something hidden for someone. They owe you a Debt. (placeholder)

You entrusted someone with a dangerous task. Ask them if they succeeded or failed. If they succeeded, you owe them a debt. If they failed, they owe you 2 debts. (placeholder)

Alright, so I once injured Frank Yves while following my instinct "To break the defiant" (seems appropriate), so I owe him two debts.

My debts that need filling....

Someobe is helping you keep your demons at bay, you owe them a debt. (Shou)
Someone is your go-to when you get in trouble, you owe them two debts. (Persephone)
You are helping someone keep a dangerous secret, they owe you a debt. (Archbishop Kyrill)

Also @flug I’ll take the someone broke an important promise debt.

Partition did it too, I’m not sure when I did it, but if it makes you happy I’ll promise to make it up to you if it hasn’t been done soon.

@eugenemarshall: I'll take the "You’re protecting someone from a dark power. They owe you 2 Debts." one. One of my debts is that I'm keeping something hidden, the dark power could be looking for that.

@Genesisect: actually, I have an idea which ties into my other debts now. Your time confusion thing still works, but instead of partitioning off the Feywild, your promise was to restore a partition that Frank had been involved in creating in 2004. This ties together all of my debts;



This is the Lands End Labyrinth. Tourists like to wander around it. They think it's fun. It's not so much fun for the avatar of a demon trapped inside it which wants to escape and wreak havoc in the city. Frank was involved in capturing it in 2004. A wizard created the labyrinth and Frank used some Fey magic to cause anything trapped inside confusion so that they couldn't escape. But the labyrinth has been degrading faster than expected so...

-Frank asked Partition to restore it to its full power
-He is keeping this avatar hidden from its master for... one of you? Maybe?
-He entrusted Persephone (if eugene agrees, but it ties in with protecting Frank from a dark power) with a dangerous task, which she may or may not have succeeded at.

@Kalajel: I chanced upon this;
Chinatown Plague Tunnels
You know what’s scary? Tunnels. You know what’s scarier? Secret tunnels. According to some, a labyrinth of secret tunnels winds its way under Chinatown. There’s been speculation that these tunnels were once a shady tourist attraction, while others say the tunnels led to underground gambling and opium rings. Underground passageways would make sneaking around the city a lot easier, and who knows what might lurk inside the tunnels these days.

The word "plague" in the title refers to the bubonic plague outbreak in 1900-1904, which was centred on Chinatown. Could be connected to the artefact you are looking for.

This one?
"»» You are helping someone realize their true potential through your visions. They owe you a Debt."
Yeah, given my background, it would work well for me.

Cool updated mine for this.
I'll take any that make sense for my character to be part of.