Vat:PC/Joseph

Joseph

Aspects
High Concept: Horseback Wizard Displaced Out of Time
Trouble: Book Bound & Out of Touch

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Backhand Swing and a Miss! Loving mother but abusive father who trained him in the Art. Ran away to find others to learn from.
Focused to a Purpose Running off made him realize what a sad state of affairs the world was in, and he dedicated himself to making it a better place.
Doing the Right Thing is Costly While seeking out the Lakota tribe to help them, they instead tortured him and bound his spirit into his journal
Snap Judgement While walking through the dairy section at your local super market you got a tingling on the back of you neck, you quickly hid inside the staff door and watched as that huge man you had an encounter with walked past you (Amiri). He doesn't look dangerous, but you never know.

Attributes

Primary

Strength 1 — Dexterity 3 — Constitution 2 — Intelligence 4 — Perception 4 — Willpower 5

Secondary

• Life Points
• Essence (+5 essence)
• Speed
• Consciousness/Survival
• Initiative +3

Skills

• Bureaucracy 1
• Dodge 1
• Engineering [Architecture] 1
• Gambling 1
• Humanities (Anthropology) 1
• Humanities (Archeology) 1
• Humanities (History) 2
• Humanities (Theology) 1
• Lang (Sioux, German, Chinese) 1 each
• Lockpicking (Mechanical) 1
• Myth and Legend (Cryptozoology) 2
• Notice 3
• Occult Knowledge 3
• Research/Investigation 2
• Rituals 2
• Smooth Talking 1
• Storytelling 1

Powers

Invocations

Blessing 1

All essence must come from the caster and is not regained until the blessing is spent.

Blessing of Protection (2e per +1)—This effect protects the subject from metaphysical harm. Each Essence Point spent gives the subject a +1 bonus to resist one supernatural attack of one specific kind (Magic, the Sight, Primal Power, and so on). This protection activates whenever a hostile attack is made against the blessing’s recipient. The protection is only good against one such attack. A Blessing of Protection can also be oriented against all forms of supernatural attack at the cost of two Essence per +1 bonus.

Good Luck (3e per +1)—This effect gi ves the recipient Luck. For every three Essence spent, the target gains a +1 bonus. The total bonuses may be applied to one Task/Test, or may be split as desired among many such attempts. Once the Luck bonuses are spent, the effects of the Blessing stop.

Success Blessing (5e)—This guarantees success in some small matter involving mundane affairs, such as a business deal, school examination or sporting event, provided the recipient had a chance to succeed anyway. This effect costs five Essence.

Communion 1

Elemental Earth 2

Farsight 2

Insight 2

Sending 1

Shield 1

Warding 2

Drawbacks

Amnesia

Impaired Senses (Sight, corrected)

Impaired Senses (Sound, uncorrected)

Honorable 1

Bookbound

Similar to two point emotional problem obsession, except that he can be forced by spirit powers back into the book. He may elect to willingly go into the book, but much spend effort and essence to get back out.

Accursed (Harpell Gifted)

Qualities

Influence (Paranormal) 1

Official Identity (False)

Photographic Memory

Pulling String—Library 1

Pulling String—Occult Library 1

Hyperlingiual 1

Essence Channelling 3

Gift

Age 1

+4 Skill points (+3 to languages, +1 Engineering [Architecture]), +5 points for metaphysical (+1(2) Farsight, +1(2) Insight, 1 point into purchasing extra essence), +5 Essence. These are NOT reflected in the rest of the sheet.

Resources -- no levels

Average. $9k in property. $1500/month pre-tax.

Background

In the year 1899, Joseph Padalecki was in North Dakota on a year long spiritual retreat. He was the last classically trained magician in his family and was seeking out the Lakota tribe to hear of their plight and see if there was something that he could do to fix it.

When he found the tribe, the shaman was a young man full of rage and grief, having recently replaced the elderly shaman who had been shot by a group of "white devils". When they found Joseph, they took out their hate on him for nearly three full days.

Just as he was about to find peace in death, the young shaman cursed Joseph to be trapped in the world but not part of it. Joseph's soul fled his body and found its new home in his journal. "You will not know peace until the Lakota people are free of the white devils."

Years later the journal and belongings of Joseph was recovered, and the journal was passed down the generations as a curiosity.

Fast forward almost a hundred years to 1980. The US Supreme Court agreed to award the Lakota over one hundred millions dollars, starting a process of recognizing the rights of the Lakota people. This watershed moment in concert with Joseph's strength of will was enough for him to purchase his freedom, though in moments of weakness his spirit will withdraw back into the book.

Once he had managed to escape his prison, he immediately fled. He knew the type of work that his great, great, great grandson did and wasn't sure how he would react. He managed to cobble together a false identity and secured himself employment as a professor of anthropology.

Joseph was perplexed that the world didn't work the same as it had before he was imprisoned. Until recently his gift rarely, if ever, functioned. The strength is returning, and he was asked to join the VAT. Little did he know that his grandson was also being brought on board.