Pirates vs. Vampires: Mad Jack
To get my Pirates vs. Vampires game started, I thought I'd post my own personal character that I hope to run alongside the regular PCs (and as a full player character when the GM duties are shared).
John "Mad Jack" Murphy
Handsome Irishman with unruly brown hair and a three-day beard. His brown eyes alternate between communicating the joy of new love to the mad fury of one who has watched his lover's heart ripped out by vampires.
Cliches: Swashbuckling Vampire Slayer (4), Disgraced Jesuit Alchemist (3), Navy Surgeon (3).
Questing Dice (Kill All Vampires): [] [] [] [] []
Hook: Tragic Love (driven by love; doomed to have his heart continually broken)
Languages: English, Irish Gaelic, French, Latin, and Greek at the very least. As a classically educated Jesuit alchemist (and world traveller), he can make a TN roll to know a variety of other languages.
Lore: Versed in a variety of Catholic rituals (including blessings and exorcisms). Also knows a number of common (and not-so-common) alchemical formulations. Examples include but are not limited to the "Elixir Vitae", unusually strong solvents (but no the Universal Solvent), Soma, and chemical light. Mad Jack can improvise or research new formulations, though this usually counts as not having proper tools.
Tools: A blessed crusader sword of the finest Damascus watered steel; 2 silver throwing knives; a blessed hawthorn stake, a hammer-backed hatchet; vials of holy water; communion wafers; two flint-lock pistols (with silver and lead balls); silver crucifix; rosary; small silver mirror; garlic; pocket bible; other (unspecified) vampire hunting tools; ship-based alchemy lab; occult library; surgeon's bag.
Other Gear: Personal affects (though the grooming kit rarely sees use). Keeps mementos of past loves.
Backstory (not a full Tale): Irish Catholic second son who entered the seminary to become a Jesuit scholar. As a Jesuit, he learned alchemy, became a missionary, and was seduced by a vampire. After his fall from grace he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a surgeon and achieved enough success to begin courting a virtuous maiden of good family from Bath. When his love was slaughtered by his former vampire paramour he dedicated his life to fighting the undead scourge. When he drew the notice of the Undead Secret Masters he was forced back out to sea as a pirate, or vampire-hunting privateer as he likes to think of it.
John "Mad Jack" Murphy
Cliches: Swashbuckling Vampire Slayer (4), Disgraced Jesuit Alchemist (3), Navy Surgeon (3).
Questing Dice (Kill All Vampires): [] [] [] [] []
Hook: Tragic Love (driven by love; doomed to have his heart continually broken)
Languages: English, Irish Gaelic, French, Latin, and Greek at the very least. As a classically educated Jesuit alchemist (and world traveller), he can make a TN roll to know a variety of other languages.
Lore: Versed in a variety of Catholic rituals (including blessings and exorcisms). Also knows a number of common (and not-so-common) alchemical formulations. Examples include but are not limited to the "Elixir Vitae", unusually strong solvents (but no the Universal Solvent), Soma, and chemical light. Mad Jack can improvise or research new formulations, though this usually counts as not having proper tools.
Tools: A blessed crusader sword of the finest Damascus watered steel; 2 silver throwing knives; a blessed hawthorn stake, a hammer-backed hatchet; vials of holy water; communion wafers; two flint-lock pistols (with silver and lead balls); silver crucifix; rosary; small silver mirror; garlic; pocket bible; other (unspecified) vampire hunting tools; ship-based alchemy lab; occult library; surgeon's bag.
Other Gear: Personal affects (though the grooming kit rarely sees use). Keeps mementos of past loves.
Backstory (not a full Tale): Irish Catholic second son who entered the seminary to become a Jesuit scholar. As a Jesuit, he learned alchemy, became a missionary, and was seduced by a vampire. After his fall from grace he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a surgeon and achieved enough success to begin courting a virtuous maiden of good family from Bath. When his love was slaughtered by his former vampire paramour he dedicated his life to fighting the undead scourge. When he drew the notice of the Undead Secret Masters he was forced back out to sea as a pirate, or vampire-hunting privateer as he likes to think of it.
Labels: Characters, Pirates, Play, Vampires
posted by Risus Monkey at 7:29 PM
1 Comments:
See, this why I like Risus. A very unique setting, and yet, Risus seems to work perfectly. Simply amazing.
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