Author: Chris

Archie the Apparent

Archie is an adaptable nano who sees beyond

Stats

Abilities

Hedge Magic (1 Intellect point): You can perform small tricks: temporarily change the colour or basic appearance of a small object, cause small objects to float through the air, clean a small area, mend a broken object, prepare (but not create) food, and so on. You can’t use Hedge Magic to harm another creature or object. Action. 

Scan (2 Intellect points): You scan an area equal in size to a 10-foot (3 m) cube, including all objects or creatures within that area. The area must be within short range. Scanning a creature or object always reveals its level (a measure of how powerful, dangerous, or difficult it is). You also learn whatever facts the GM feels are pertinent about the matter and energy in that area. For example, you might learn that the wooden box contains a device of metal and synth. You might learn that the glass cylinder is full of poisonous gas, and that its metal stand has an electrical field running through it that connects to a metal mesh in the floor. You might learn that the creature standing before you is a mammal with a small brain. However, this esotery doesn’t tell you what the information means. Thus, in the first example, you don’t know what the metal and synth device does. In the second, you don’t know if stepping on the floor causes the cylinder to release the gas. In the third, you might suspect that the creature is not very intelligent, but scans, like looks, can be deceiving. Many materials and energy fields prevent or resist scanning. Action. 

See the Unseen. You can automatically perceive creatures and objects that are normally invisible, out of phase, or only partially in this universe. When looking for things more conventionally hidden, the task is eased. Enabler. 

Tier 2 

Mind Reading (4 Intellect points): You can read the surface thoughts of a creature within short range of you, even if the target doesn’t want you to. You must be able to see the target. Once you have established contact, you can read the target’s thoughts for up to one minute. If you or the target move out of range, the connection is broken. Action to initiate. 

See Through Matter (3+ Intellect points). You can see through matter as if it were transparent. You can see through up to 6 inches (15 cm) of material for one round. Doing so is a task whose difficulty is equal to the material or object’s level. In addition to the normal options for using Effort, you can also choose to use Effort to see through another 6 inches (15 cm) of material for each additional level of Effo 

Tier 3 

Barrier (3+ Intellect points): You create an opaque, stationary barrier of solid energy within immediate range. The barrier is 10 feet by 10 feet (3 m by 3 m) and of negligible thickness. It is a level 2 barrier and lasts for ten minutes. It can be placed anywhere it fits, whether against a solid object (including the ground) or floating in the air. Each level of Effort you apply strengthens the barrier by one level. For example, applying two levels of Effort creates a level 4 barrier. Action. 

Sensor (4 Intellect points). You create an immobile, invisible sensor within immediate range that lasts for 28 hours. At any time during that duration, you can concentrate to see, hear, and smell through the sensor, no matter how far you move from it. The sensor doesn’t grant you sensory capabilities beyond the norm. If you have the Nano’s special ability of the same name then, when you use either, you gain an asset to any perception task you attempt in conjunction with perceiving through the sensor interface. Action to create; action to check. 

Skills

medium weapons: Inability

heavy weapons: Inability 

Understanding Numenera: Trained  

Pleasant social interactions: Trained

Overcome sorrow, deprivation or pain: Trained

Negotiate: Skilled

Attacks with medium and heavy weapons are hindered

Equipment

Needle Weapon: Thought controlled flying sonic needle (Heavy 6 damage)

Special Items

Campaign Item: 

Teleporter Ring – Transports me and another to a place I’ve already been within 300 miles

Cyphers: 

Density nodule –

Rejuvenator –

Oddity: 

Metallic Jar – Maintains a liquid at a constant temperature. Also on occasion produces a liquid like a replicator

Tattoo

• A black cat with green eyes which is usually invisible

Haytham Alassis

Haytham is a graceful glaive who talks to machines

Stats

Abilities

Combat Prowess: You add +1 damage to one type of attack of your choice: melee attacks or ranged attacks. Enabler. 

Cypher Use: You can bear two cyphers at a time.  

Trained in Armor: You can wear armor for long periods of time without tiring and can compensate for slowed reactions from wearing armor. You reduce the Speed Effort cost for wearing armor by 1. Enabler. 

Weapons: You can use any weapon without penalty. 

Fleet of Foot (1+ Speed points): You can move a short distance as part of another action. You can move a long distance as your entire action for a turn. If you apply a level of Effort to this ability, you can move a long distance and make an attack as your entire action for a turn, but the attack is hindered. Enabler. 

Misdirect (3 Speed points): When an opponent misses you, you can redirect their attack to another target (a creature or object) of your choosing that’s within immediate range of you. Make an unmodified attack roll against the new target (do not use any of your or the opponent’s modifiers to the attack roll, but you can apply Effort for accuracy). If the attack hits, the target takes damage from your opponent’s attack. Enabler. 

Distant Activation (1 Intellect point). You can activate or deactivate any machine you can see within short range, even if normally you would have to touch or manually operate the device. To use this ability, you must understand the function of the machine, it must be your size or smaller, and it can’t be connected to another intelligence (or be intelligent itself). Action. 

Successive Attack (2 Speed points): If you take down a foe, you can immediately make another attack on that same turn against a new foe within your reach. The second attack is part of the same action. You can use this fighting move with melee attacks and ranged attacks. Enabler. 

Obstacle Running (3 Speed points): For the next minute, you can ignore obstacles that slow your movement, allowing you to travel at normal speed through areas with rubble, fences, tables, and similar objects that you would have to climb over or move around. This movement might include sliding on a railing, briefly running along a wall, or even stepping on a creature to boost yourself over something. If an obstacle would normally require a Might or Speed task to overcome, such as swinging on a rope, balancing on a rope, or jumping over a hole, you are trained at that task. Enabler. 

Coaxing Power (2 Intellect points). You boost the power or function of a machine so that it operates at 1 level higher than normal for one hour. Action to initiate.  

Charm Machine (2 Intellect points). You convince an unintelligent machine to “like” you. A machine that likes you is 50 percent less likely to function if said function would cause you harm. Thus, if a foe attempts to detonate a bomb near you controlled by a detonator that likes you, there is a 50 percent chance that it won’t explode. Action to initiate. 

Intelligent Interface (3 Intellect points). You can speak telepathically with any intelligent machine within long range. Further, you are trained in all interactions with intelligent machines. Such machines and automatons that normally would never communicate with a human might talk to you. Enabler. 

Skills

Light bladed Weapons (Light): Trained 

Medium Weapons (ranged): Skilled 

Balancing: Trained 

All tasks involving electrical machines: Skilled 

Careful movement: Trained 

Physical Performance Arts: Trained 

Speed Defence: Trained 

Equipment

Clothing 

Webley Laser revolver (medium ranged) – 6 shots before the cooling rods need replacing 

12 replacement cooling rods 

light armour 

an explorer’s pack 

5 shins (coins) 

A bag of small tools 

Special Items

Campaign Item: 

Pet Nevajin – can fire a destructive ray 200 yards (61 metres) – absorbed a cypher that broke it, and my family (who have long been good with machines) adopted it 

Cyphers: 

Density nodule – Power Level 4, a fix to a weapon and for the next 28 hours weapon gains +3 damage to physically solid targets 

Rejuvenator – recovers 2 points to each pool (might/speed/intellect) 

Oddity: 

Blob of clay that takes on mysterious shapes when left alone. 

Tattoo

• Microprocessor on my right inside forearm
• A black cat with green eyes which is usually invisible