Mystery Box

my name is unimportant. my class is important. my qualification is a portent.

Great. Cool. Très prophetic and melodramatic. If nothing else, you've got style, kid.

But I still need to know who and what your Pawn is gonna be, before I can Bind you to it. Name, Class, and Qualifications.

Name: The Box

Class: The Box

Qualifications: The Box

Yeah no. You ain't The Mystery Box. If you were, you wouldn't be wasting your time watching me unbox a second-rate Relic like this orb, let alone angling to make it your new home. You'd have put me away, and ended this once and for all.

Naw. You ain't The Box. But, if there's any luck left, you might be the one to close it.

Anyway, enough with the unsolicited exposition. Let's get on with this, shall we?

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Name?

flannery over-easy

Bootz

iii

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Class?

Clonemancer

'Iterative' replicator

viriomancer

Mail Carrier (my day job)

working

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Qualifications?

>More agile than most. Probably due to rolling at high speeds. Also I can use stuff against people & such & such.

Those metal metal scales and claws could pretty anti-stabby and stabby respectively, and you definitely did not cry when you were vaccinated.

okay maybe it's not great and maybe it's just my very first virus prototype that i mostly created on accident and i cant really control how much it reproduces but at least since it's faulty most of its descendants are sterile and it doesn't spread too fast just please let me in

i have a grudge.

All things considered this looks pretty doable, and fits the nature of an Orb of Faulty Replication well enough. Taking everything into consideration, this orb ought'a make a fine Relic to whip up into your new Pawn. As for the nitty-gritty details, here's what we're looking at...

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Character Info: Flannery "Over-Easy" Bootz III

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Name: Ms. Flannery "Over-Easy" Bootz III

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Pawn Status:
• Grazes: 0/4
• Wounds: 0/6

Class: Copycatburglar
• Skill: Lucky Break
• Grace +2
• Presence +1
• Insight +1

Relic: Orb of Faulty Replication
• Skill: Doppelmancy
• Insight +2
• Presence +1
• Logic +1[/box]

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Inventory:

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Equipped:
• Blue-Collar Cloak (Evade +2): The stout denim shroud of the Working Class.
• Boots of Stomping (Jump +1, Stomp +1): These boots lend a boost, whether you're going up or coming down.
• Cat's Ear Hood (Listen +1, Charm +1): With this on your head, you hear more acutely, and look cute too.
• Replica Courier Bag (Container, Disguise +2): From your "Day Job" as a "Mail Courier". Opening a real Courier Bag is illegal, so law-abiding folk shouldn't snoop inside.
• Steel Scalemail (Armor +2): Flexible body armor made out of little metal plates.
• Steel Clawntlet (Hand-to-Hand, Climb +1, Lethal +1): A glove ending in retractable knife-sized claws.
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[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Lucky Break (Grace):

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When you find yourself in a bind or out of options, you can always look to sheer dumb luck to see you through.

• Triumph (20 or more): You not only get out of the situation, but take something good with you, or leave behind something bad.
• Success (16-19): However improbable, something solves your problem for you, with no strings attached.
• Compromise (11-15): Fate gets you out of trouble, but you leave something good behind, or take something bad with you.
• Failure (10 or less): Luck just isn't with you right now, and your troubles take a turn for the worse.[/box]

[box=#808080 width=full border=2]Doppelmancy (Insight):

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You have the power to copy virtually anything. Trouble is, they're bad copies. Pick a nearby object or being, and say a rhyming Incantation to copy it. The copy generally looks and acts like the real thing. The copy lasts until it's damaged, for as long as you concentrate on it. Take -1 to all actions, for each existing copy.

• Triumph (20 or more): The copy is either indistinguishable from the original, or permanent and real despite 1 Minor Flaw.
• Success (16-19): It's a pretty good copy, but has 1 Major Flaw, or 2 Minor Flaws.
• Compromise (11-15): Your copy has some issues; namely 2 Major Flaws, or 3 Minor Flaws.
• Failure (10 or less): Something has gone wrong with your copy. Very, very wrong.

For each Flaw, the copy you create...
• ...isn't quite normal. It may be the wrong size, color, smell, weight, or have wildly different physical properties.
• ...isn't quite real. It may be insubstantial when touched, shimmer like a mirage, or vanish at inopportune times.
• ...isn't quite the same. Something about the way it works and behaves is worse, opposite, or just plain wrong.[/box]

Anyway Miss Bootz, the way I see it, we're just about ready to get the Pawn Binding Ritual underway. I'll get things started, but I'm gonna need a second to come up with an Incantation for this one. Can't work good magic without a good Incantation, eh?

Meanwhile, what I'm gonna need from you is to figure out what your Pawn is gonna look like. The Crawl is full of all kinds of peeps and creeps, but you're gonna have the best luck if you keep it Human, alright? Trust me. And keep your Gear in mind, or else things might get a little weird.

Once you got that figured out, I'm gonna need you to focus on it. You'll need a real tangible picture of how you want to look, you get me? I'm talking Literal Pictures here. Doodles, fine arte, whatever you got. It doesn't have to be good, it just has to be a picture. Descriptions just aren't gonna cut it. In fact, leave descriptions out entirely; they're just gonna get in the way.

So, show me some pictures, and keep it classy, alright? Once I work out this Incantation, I'll handle the rest.
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