I used to be the problem child, stealing anything I wanted, sleeping through or skipping my classes. I thought it was me and Ratt against the world. And when I found my father covered in the blood he coughed up, dead on our bathroom floor, I didn't feel anything. It wasn't until the services, that only my brother and I attended, that I realized if nothing changed I would end up just like him. A cold body in the ground, with no-one to mourn my loss. It ignited something in me, a flame, I won't end up like that, I'll tear myself apart and build it back up from scratch if I must. 

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Basic Info

The University of St. Brendan

Full Name: Vincent Nowak

Race: Exiled

Age: 19

Height: 5'6''

Weight: 130lbs

Sexuality: Bisexual

True Name: Marchocias

Languages: English, Gaelic, Latin.

Flavor Requirements

Addiction

Vincent started smoking when he was 12, simply because his brother didn't want him to. He regrets starting, yet doesn't think it will do him much harm in the long term, despite his father dying because of it.

Familiar

Vincent has a jet black rat, named Ratt. Ratt is currently 19 years old, and Vincent can talk to him, which used to make him think he was insane, but he's since accepted that the talking immortal rat is perfectly natural. Ratt is extremely protective of Vincent, being the only person who can understand him and having known him since the day they were born. His personality is what you'd expect of a rat, he's cunning and sneaky, not exactly honest but he would die for Vincent, so Vincent puts up with his shenanigans. 

Fetish

Vincent enjoys being choked. 

Higher Purpose  

Vincent's father died alone a year ago, Vincent found him dead in the bathroom with blood surrounding his body after he lost his fight with lung cancer. During a sparse funeral service Vincent realized that no-one cared about his dad, not even Vincent, and realized how sad it was, to disappear from the world with no-one to mourn you. He often beats himself up for not being there more when his father was alive, and is terrified of dying the same way. So he has dedicated himself to helping people and redeeming himself. He has a brother he wishes to reconnect with, Niall, but doesn't feel like he's changed enough to be forgiven yet.

Sense of Duty

  • Nina
  • Panga
  • Irvine

Mental Illness 

Vincent has panic disorder and is prone to Panic Attacks. He can get these whenever he begins to feel overly stressed, which can be just about anywhere or anytime if he starts to drown in his thoughts.  

Devine Magic

Vincent gets his powers from St. Brigit, after his father died and he set his mind on coming to the island she saw potential for greatness and proficiency in fire magics, and so she decided to help him out a bit. He's unaware of her patronage, but keeps having weirdly symbolic dreams with some fiery haired lady and her cross, for now he's assuming she's someone he knew from hell, though this couldn't be more wrong.



Magic Stuff

Magic

Divine Beasts - Charm Rat

Vincent can control rats to an extent, not being able to give instructions more than one sentence.  Roll this still versus the rat's Resist Influence skill (typically 8).  If he has multiple rats around him, roll for each group of 10.  Vincent takes +2 on this roll for rats he summoned. 


Divine Beasts - Summon Rat Swarm

Vincent can call all rats in a certain area to his location, the amount depends on where he is. In an urban/suburban/forest environment, he gets 10 rats per margin of success (treat 0 as 1).  This may be adjusted for areas that are less likely to have rats. 


Divine Fire - Turn Into Smoke

After concentrating for five seconds, Vincent's body turns into a cloud of cigarette smoke. If he succeeds by 4 or more, then his clothes and possessions (up to a backpack amount) can be transformed with him.


Divine Fire - Burning Palm

Vincent can conjure insane amounts of heat into his palm, enough to melt metal, given time. 

To destroy an area the size of your palm, it takes this much Heat per inch of thickness:

  • Stone is hardly affected. 20 Heat.
  • Wood burns. 6-8 Heat.
  • Plastic melts/deforms. 2-5 Heat.
  • Metal softens or melts. 9-15 Heat.

To see how much heat you can produce, roll with your magic skill until you either give up or get a success:

  • Critical fail: real real bad, determine situationally
  • Fail by 5 or more: bad, something is destroyed or someone is hurt or something catches fire, determined situationally.
  • Fail by 4 or less: 5 seconds go by and there are visible effects of the heat
  • Succeed: you can eventually destroy it. You generate an amount of heat per ten seconds equal to your margin of success. If the exact timing doesn't matter, you don't need to calculate it.

Alternatively, if you are trying to see if you can use this ability to accomplish a goal before someone can intervene, make it an opposed roll using your magic skill against one of their skills (running, sprinting, acting quickly, or whatever makes sense).


Divine Conjuration - Unburn

Vincent can recreate anything he has previously melted in pristine condition back into his palm, though it may smell like soot. On a failure the object is gone forever and can't be brought back with this spell, and on a critical success he duplicates it.


Divine Fire - Flashbang

Vincent creates a ball of flame in his hand and tosses it, exploding upon hitting something and blinding anyone nearby. This is opposed by a pain tolerance roll, if I succeed they are blind and deaf for a duration in seconds equal to the margin of success, and if I win the opposed roll they are also clumsy and disoriented for margin of success seconds, minimum 1. 

Other Info


Backstory Connections

List the characters you are connected to, the story between you, and who gets what Leverage. Everyone must do at least three connections. 

  • St. Brigid Catholic Church and Student Center
  • Irvine: they met after Ratt convinced Vincent that there was some beast on campus, but lead him to Irv reading a brochure instead. 1 leverage for everyone. 
  • Nina is this peppy girl who claimed to be a genie who can grant wishes?  Real nice girl. 

Schedule 

  • 8:00 AM   -   Algebra 
  • 10:00 AM   -   Intro to Psychology 
  • 12:00 PM   -   Intro to Sociology 
  • 2:00 PM   -   Intro to Philosophy 
  • 3:00 PM   -   English Lit.

Other Info

Vincent is somewhat aware that he is a Exiled, Ratt tried to explain it to him once yet he interrupted, not wanting knowledge of his past self to influence his current self. He doesn't know his true name.

Title
Raising Hell

Type
Player Character

Races
Exiled

Age
19

Gender
Male

Pronouns
He/Him