No NIGHT SHIFT game this past weekend, Easter afterall even if we are atheists. So my oldest and I worked on some NPCs and got in a little bit of our Forgotten Realms game.
For Tales of Jackson, IL I thought I should detail a few of the teachers. Not all of them just yet; I want to feel out how much interaction I want with the "adults," but some will have a direct impact. Both these teachers are familiar for different reasons. They also play very different roles.
Ms Valerie Beaumont
Up first is one of my "shared" NPCs. She is an NPC in my games and a PC in my buddy Greg's games. She is his character, and since he works at one of the nearby High Schools (as a football coach and security guard), he has been my go-to for some ideas. It really only seems fitting that Valerie is here. In truth, if there is some weirdness going on in my world, Valerie is there. She can't help herself, really. The last time we saw Val (chronologically), she was in New York during my "Spirit of '76" game. As an immortal, she is always on the move, so now, in the 1980s, she has moved to Jackson, IL, to teach AP History and French and to sponsor the Fencing Club.
And she is here to keep an eye on the characters. She works in the background to help keep the supernatural secret and keep the characters alive.
5th Level Survivor/10th Level Sage (Immortal)
Base Abilities
Strength: 12 (0)
Agility: 16 (+2)
Toughness: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 21 (+4) P
Wits: 16 (+2) s
Persona: 16 (+2) s
Vit: 64 (5d4+5 / 10d6+10)
DV: 9
Fate Points: 1d10
Check Bonus (P/S/T): +8/+5/+3
Melee bonus: +6 Ranged bonus: +8
Languages: English, French, Latin, German
Skills: Research (Int), History (Int)
Saves: +3 Death Saves and area effects. +5 to saves vs. spells and magical effects. She gains an additional +5 to all saving throws against magic, poison, disease, and death-based attacks due to her immortality.
Immortal Powers
Unique Kill: Virginia Dare (See Below)
Immortals regenerate 1d8 hit points every minute.
+3 to Intelligence
Survivor Skills
Open Locks: 115%
Bypass Traps: 110%
Sleight of Hand: 120%
Move Silently: 120%
Hide in Shadows: 110%
Hair: Red
Eyes: light-green
Height: 5'7"
Spells
1st level: Magic Missle, Glamour, Sleep
2nd level: ESP, Produce Flame, Cause Fear
3rd level: Clairvoyance, Haste, Water Breathing
4th level: Arcane Eye, Phantasmal Killer
Immortal Arcana
Innate Magic: Suggestion (x3 per day)
Enhanced Senses
Archetype: The Immortal Teacher
Quote: "My name is Valerie Regina Beaumont. I was born in the year of our Lord, 1569, I am 415 years old. I am immortal, and I can not die. You, on the other hand, are not so lucky."
Quirks: Talks about the past as if she were there. Students think she is odd, but she was there.
Theme song: "Valleri" - The Monkees (written when Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart met her in the Summer of 1966) and "Valerie" - Steve Winwood (written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings about her from a few years back).
Valerie was born in 1569 and is immortal. She was a young English girl who made her way to the New World in the year 1585. She came to the New World and settled in the Roanoke Colony, where she lived for a couple of years. Then something happened. She was caring for the young Virginia Dare and then woke up several days later, several miles from home. When she had managed to return to the colony, everyone was gone. She also discovered that she was immortal and was certain that the two were somehow linked.
Valerie spent the next few years roaming the new world. She learned magic from some of the few true witches in Salem and more from the indigenous Native Americans.
She has a ring on her right little finger that manages a glamour that "ages" her. A gift from a former lover. Currently, she appears to be in her mid-40s. Without the glamour, she appears as she did when she discovered her immortality, a young woman of 19. Her mind, though, is like someone just over 400.Shadow Steel Sword
Mr. Evans is a composite of a couple of teachers I had in High School, but his base began with Ezren, the iconic wizard from Pathfinder. I say "began" because he quickly grew beyond that. By day, Mr. Evans is a well-liked Math and Computer teacher who swears in class and tells kids the best thing they can do is think for themselves and that anyone over 30 is full of shit; him included.
By night, though, he goes to his home office with some computers he has built himself and is the hacker known only as "The Wizard." Here, he runs the BBS "Pathfinders," which tries to expose the truth about the supernatural occurrences in Jackson and beyond. He has hacked the Jackson PHS Football team's scoreboard, leaving, let's say, unflattering messages about the Assistant Principal. He has also hacked the billing systems at MacAlister College, but only to leave a message that they really need to upgrade their security. So he is an "ethical hacker," but his true fight is against the supernatural.
So by day Valerie and Warren are supportive co-workers and maybe even a flirty. But by night, they are on opposite sides of an ancient battle. Valerie wants to keep everything secret to protect herself and the kids. Warren want to expose it all, also to protect the kids. There is no contradiction here, and it makes their conflict more layered than just "alignment."
5th Level Sage/ 5th Level Inventor Human
Base Abilities
Strength: 12 (0)
Agility: 12 (0)
Toughness: 14 (+1)
Intelligence: 18 (+3) P
Wits: 16 (+2) s
Persona: 15 (+1) s
Vit: 21 (5d6)
DV: 9
Fate Points: 1d8
Check Bonus (P/S/T): +3/+2/+1
Melee bonus: +2 Ranged bonus: +2
Languages: English, German, Latin, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran
Skills: Computers (Int), Math (Int), Occult Knowledge (Int)
Saves: +4 vs. Spells and magical effects
Survivor Skills
Open Locks: 25%
Bypass Traps: 20%
Sleight of Hand: 30%
Move Silently: 30%
Hide in Shadows: 20%
Read Languages: 80%
Inventor Skills
Ingenuity Points: 2
Science! 75%
Hair: Brown, turning gray
Eyes: Brown
Height: 5'10"
Archetype: The Ethical Hacker
Quote: "The system isn't broken. It's working exactly the way cheap people built it."
Quirks: Swears in class, constantly drinking coffee. Complains he is dealing with an administration that thinks the future is chalk.
Theme song: "The Wizard" - Black Sabbath
All of Evans' Inventor points have been put into his two customized Amiga computers. He likes these since he can buy parts for them without setting off any alarms, and they are cheap. Currently, they are several years ahead of what is considered state-of-the-art for the time. He has even replaced the chipsets in them with upgraded Motorola 68000-series RISC chips running overclocked at 20 MHz. He also has a few scrapped TRS-80s that he uses as dummy terminals.
He knows a few spells to deal with the supernatural. He doesn't consider them "magic" but "reality hacks."
Evans is a threat to any character with supernatural powers, like witches, psychics, or immortals. Which is too bad because he is actually a good guy.
The soundtrack for my campaign continues to grow. I will likely have some more teachers to detail in the future.
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