Nemesis Character

Events Test
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2,Bad Event: [Bad Event] 2,Good Event: [Good Event] 1,Peculiar Event: [Peculiar Event] 1,GAZED INTO THE ABYSS: You’ve had a terrifying, inexplicable encounter with the unnatural. +3 Occult, 1 Failed and 1 Hard notch in the Unnatural gauge 1,WON’T LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN: You’ve been a victim, sometime, of something. You’ll be damned if you’ll be one again. +2 Firearms, +1 Martial Arts, 1 Failed and 1 Hard notch in the Violence gauge 1,CELLMATE WAS A FORGER: So, what were you in the pen for, anyhow? (If you don’t want a criminal record, it could be a foreign prison.) +3 Forgery, 1 Failed and 1 Hard notch in the Helplessness gauge 1,CRASH SURVIVOR: What was it, a plane? Really bad car crash in the middle of nowhere? Shipwreck? Was it your fault? Did anyone else get out alive? +2 Survival, +1 Navigation (you pick) 1,GUILTY POTENTIAL WHISTLEBLOWER: You were involved in something dirty and live in fear of the details coming out. So does everyone else who was in it with you. None of you trust one another, but each of you knows that if you go down, everyone goes down together. +2 Lie, +1 Intimidate, 1 Failed and 1 Hard notch in Self 1,LOST IT ALL: You’ve suffered a terrible reversal of fortune – friends, money, power, privilege, it all went up in flames. The one thing they couldn’t take away from you was your education. +2 Education, +1 “ology” of choice 1,SOLD YOUR BODY: At some point, you really needed the money. Were you jaded and callous about it, or was it repulsive and traumatizing? +3 Seduction 1,BRUSH WITH DEATH: You were involved in a crisis where guns were going off, people were bleeding, and there was a lot of bad craziness. +2 Martial Arts, +1 Firearms 1,SHADY WORK PROJECT: At some point, your boss called you in and gave you a veiled lecture about loyalty along with some vague promises and, well, you wound up going somewhere you shouldn’t have gone. How’d that turn out? +3 Lockpick 1,LAB DISASTER: Just what lab did you work at? Was there an explosion, a poison gas release, a fatality… or just some burns and the loss of a billion dollars’ worth of equipment? +3 First Aid
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1,BROKE A PUBLIC SCANDAL: You stood up against the forces of corruption, spoke the truth to power and achieved justice as a result. +1 SENSE, +1 Search 1,SAVED LIVES IN A CRISIS: When everyone else panicked, you stayed cool and did what had to be done. Without you, it – whatever “it” was – would have been a whole lot worse. +3 Leadership 1,WON THE LOTTERY: Say it with me, now. “I’m riiich, bee-otch!” Money 1,BITCHIN’ CAMARO: Or some other impressive phallic symbol on wheels. You may or may not still own it, but you’ve done your share of speeding. +3 Drive 1,ONE-HIT WONDER: At some point, you were in a musical group that had a hit. The money’s gone, the group broke up, but every now and then someone recognizes you. +3 Perform 1,VORACIOUS READER: You’re just a bookworm. On the bus, on the plane, waiting in line at the bank, waiting in line at the library, on the crapper – you’ve got your nose in a book whenever possible. +1 MIND, +1 Education 1,HOMECOMING QUEEN/KING: You were really popular in High School, for what that’s worth. +2 Seduction, +1 Persuade 1,DAD COACHED YOU TO NATIONALS: Your dad missed the Olympic wrestling team by a hair, and he taught you a lot of his moves. +3 Wrestling 1,ROCK CLIMBER: Dude, rock climbing is fun, awright? +1 COORDINATION, +1 Climb 1,WENT BOWHUNTING WITH YOUR COOL UNCLE: He taught you a lot without really trying to, about how to be dignified, how to be quiet and listen, how to stick up for yourself, how to bluff at poker… and, incidentally, how to bullseye a twelve-point buck, skin it and make sausage. +3 Archery
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1,PUZZLE CHAMP: Crosswords, Sudoku, anagrams… you’re great at ‘em all. It doesn’t come up all that often, but when you play Scrabble, you crush. +3 Cryptology 1,RECOVERING STEROID ADDICT: Your eyes aren’t yellow anymore and you don’t get the inexplicable rages and weird muscle pulls any more, but you were using the clear and the cream and good ol’ Dianabol for a while. Some of that muscle has melted away or gone to lard, but some remains. -+1 BODY, +1 Endurance 1,INHERITED PART OF A VALUABLE IP: Maybe your grandfather wrote a jingle that still gets hauled out every Christmas, or an uncle was one of the geniuses behind “Archie Comics” so you got a check when that “Josie and the Pussycats” movie was made. Money 1,CIRCUS!: No, really, you were in the circus. +3 Acrobatics 1,DISBARRED: At one point you were a lawyer but have managed to get yourself booted from the halls of the law. +1 EMPATHY, +1 Persuade 1,EXQUISITE GOURMAND FOOD CRITIC: While you may no longer be published, at one time you had a job writing reviews of five-star restaurants. +3 Taste 1,RETIRED PETTY SMUGGLER: Whether it was coke for the rest of the tennis team, or endangered Macaques from down south, or fireworks into Illinois, you moved something somewhere in a way that was unlawful. +2 Pilot, +1 Navigation (Sea/Air) 1,SECRETARY FOR A FORENSIC PATHOLOGIST: Did you quit because the constant talk of the rates of bone decay got you down, or were you fired, or was it just downsizing? Whatever it was, you learned a lot just from typing up their reports. +3 Criminology 1,ESCAPE ARTIST: Were you doing the milk-can escape for money, or did you have to bust out of jail or what? +3 Escape Artist 1,ECCENTRIC RELATIVE: You were the only one who was willing to spend much time with poor Aunt Trudy – and it was worth it for the stories she told during her rare lucid times. Actually, some of the stories from paranoid episodes were pretty good too. +1 Counsel, +1 Psychology, +1 Lie
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