NPCs: Modern Day Mages

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Really? Which? Combustible I suppose.

It also needs Compartmentalized Mind by the way, so that it can actually do something else while animating.

What else does it do besides animate the new body, though?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

What else does it do besides animate the new body, though?

In the song, not much, but this version ought to be capable of working magic.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

In the song, not much, but this version ought to be capable of working magic.

You should probably note size, otherwise it's a very big hat...

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

You should probably note size, otherwise it's a very big hat...

Always a critic...

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

In the song, not much, but this version ought to be capable of working magic.

Why wouldn't it be able to? If it's got the skill to do without rituals, no problem. If not, I don't know that it wouldn't be possible to use the animated body for the gestures and incantations. After all, you can gesture and incant with your own body while Concentrating on a spell...

[lexington]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

In the song, not much, but this version ought to be capable of working magic.

Frosty The Snowman?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

Why wouldn't it be able to? If it's got the skill to do without rituals, no problem.

Path magic without rituals? Huh?

If not, I don't know that it wouldn't be possible to use the animated body for the gestures and incantations. After all, you can gesture and incant with your own body while Concentrating on a spell...

Telekinesis takes Concentrate Maneuvers just to animate the body, if magic also takes Concentrate Maneuvers then you wouldn't be able to do both at the same time. Plus it might be nice to think, talk, and walk at the same time...

Originally Posted by lexington

Frosty The Snowman?

That would be the song, yes.

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Path magic without rituals? Huh?
Telekinesis takes Concentrate Maneuvers just to animate the body, if magic also takes Concentrate Maneuvers then you wouldn't be able to do both at the same time. Plus it might be nice to think, talk, and walk at the same time...

That would be the song, yes.

Shoot, I wasn't reading the Path names closely enough. If it were 'regular' Ritual Magic ala Basic, using spells from Magic at prereq defaults, you'd still get to do without gestures and incantations once your effective skill got high enough.

Yeah, needs 1 level of CM to keep animating the body and doing other things that require a Concentrate maneuver. However, there's no problem walking and talking while animating the body without it - you're doing the walking with the Animation TK that you're already Concentrating on, thank you very much, and there's no ban against talking at the same time.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

Yeah, needs 1 level of CM to keep animating the body and doing other things that require a Concentrate maneuver. However, there's no problem walking and talking while animating the body without it - you're doing the walking with the Animation TK that you're already Concentrating on, thank you very much, and there's no ban against talking at the same time.

You can't think at the same time, which might be a problem.

[ajardoor]

Carmilla Newhark (a.k.a. Ivy White), Reincarnated Ultra-Competent Mystic [800 points]

Height 6' 1''
Weight 120 lb
Age 47 (looks mid 20s)
SM +0

TL 8
Cultural Familiarites: Western (Native), East Asian [1].
Languages: English (Native), Chinese (Accented) W/Language Talent [2], German (Native) W/Language Talent [4], Japanese (Spoken Native/Written Accented) W/Language Talent [3].

ST 15 [50]
DX 15 [100]
IQ 17 [140]
HT 15 [50]

HP 15
FP 15
Will 20 [15]
Per 19 [10]
Basic Speed 8 [10]
Basic Move 8

Basic Lift 45 lb
Damage 1d+1 thr/2d+1 sw
Dodge 12
Parry 13 (Brawling)

Advantages: [275]
Ambidexerity [5]
Appearance (Beautiful) [12]
Charisma 1 [5]
Combat Reflexes [15]
Cultural Adaptability (Magical, -10%) [9]
Eidetic Memory (Photographic) [10]
Very Fit [15]
High Pain Threshold [10]
Intuition (Magical, -10%) [14]
Language Talent (Magical, -10%) [9]
Luck (Magical, -10%) [14]
Patron (Grand Spirit, +10; 6 or less, x0.5; Highly Accessible, +50%; Special Abilities (Grants Magical Boons), +100%) [13]
Reawakened [10]
Unaging (Magical, -10%) [14]
Wealth (Comfortable) [10]
Wild Talent 5 (Retention, +25%; Spirit, -25%)

Disadvantages: [-65]
Berserk (9 or less) [-15]
Bloodlust (12 or less) [-10]
Callous [-5]
Obsession (Achieve Personal Perfection) [-10]
Odious Personal Habit (Constantly Cheerful Demeanor) [-5]
Secret Identity (Ivy White) [-10]
Selfish (6 or less) [-10]

Quirks: [-1]
Delusion (Most People Are Cowards)

Skills: [216]
Acrobatics-13 [1]
Acting-18 [4]
Administration-18 [4]
Brawling-19 [12]
Carousing-18 [8]
Climbing-15 [2]
Computer Operation/TL8-19 [4]
Cooking-17 [2]
Current Affairs/TL8 (Business)-19 [4]
Dancing-15 [2]
Detect Lies-20 [8]
Diagnosis/TL8-16 [2]
Diplomacy-17 [4]
Disguise/TL8-18 [4]
Driving/TL8 (Automobile)-16 [4]
Economics-17 [4]
Expert Skill (Computer Security)-17 [4]
Fast Draw (Pistol)-18 [4]
Fast Draw/TL8 (Ammo)-17 [2]
Fast-Talk-18 [4]
Finance-17 [4]
First Aid/TL8-19 [4]
Forgery/TL8-16 [2]
Guns/TL8 (Pistol)-17 [4]
Guns/TL8 (Rifle)-17 [4]
Guns/TL8 (Shotgun)-17 [4]
Hidden Lore (Spirit Lore)-20 [12]
Holdout-18 [4]
Housekeeping-18 [1]
Intelligence Analysis/TL8-15 [1]
Jumping-16 [2]
Knife-17 [4]
Leadership-18 [2]
Lip Reading-18 [1]
Makeup/TL8-18 [2]
Market Analysis-17 [4]
Mathematics (Applied)/TL8-15 [1]
Mathematics (Computer Science)/TL8-15 [1]
Merchant-18 [4]
Technique: Neck Snap-16 [6]
Observation-22 [12]
Occultism-20 [12]
Politics-17 [2]
Psychology-17 [4]
Public Speaking-19 [4]
Research/TL8-19 [8]
Running-15 [2]
Sex Appeal-16 [4]
Shadowing-18 [4]
Speed Reading-16 [1]
Stealth-16 [4]
Swimming-16 [2]
Tactics-15 [1]
Teaching-14 [2]
Writing-18 [4]

Appearance:
Carmilla Newhark is very good lookng; well toned, flexible, tall, well-portioned, clean skinned and lithe. Her insular job has left her pale, but she works out fairly often and dresses in the standard business casual most of the time. Her hair is a vibrant red, long and straight. Her eyes are a bottle green, although looking into them for too long makes you uncomfortable. Almost as if the light reflects off them wrong...

Backstory:
Carmilla Newhark lived a fairly button-down life, for a supremely gifted woman. Despite her amazing talents, she never really made the most potential. Her grades in school and college were delibrately high end of average, she coasted through to her degree in Computer Science and landed a decent job as a company's IT security specialist.

Then she got visited by an ancient ditizen of the spirit world on the night of her 25th birthday, who informed that he was there to uphold a bargain he made with her pervious life, a brillant business woman named Ivy White.

White, it seemed, was in the habit of using the unique resources of the spirit world to become a supernatrally powerful and knowledgable mystic. Sensing the end of her life, she carefully set about appeasing this Grand Spirit with elaborate rituals that had world-wide implications, in exchange for subtly (and then not-so-subtly) passing on her acquired magical abilities onto her next life and tutor her in the ways of the spirits and otherworld powers.

White had planned well. Carmilla was easily able to recover a decent amount of White's knowledge and past reincarnations, as well as enough resources that she could convincingly pose as Ivy White if she needed to. The Grand Spirit gifted her with even deeper secrets as well. However, White had unfortunately miscalculated one step; she did not realise that Carmilla's further tapping into the knowledge of her past lives would expose to...unpleasantries. And when your past lives include two violent schizophrenics, one crusader who strolled through the streets of Jerusalem as they sacked it, five soldiers and a cannibalistic serial killer, it can get very unpleasant indeed.

To her credit, Carmilla has managed to benefit more than she has suffered, although that still doesn't make her newfound homocidal tendencies any less of a pain.