TTRPG CHARACTER 6: Barachois Dauguet

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BASIC INFO NAME: Barachois Dauguet GAME: High Magic Lowlives GENERAL DEAL: Private Third Eye GENDER: Male STATS HP: 8 MP: 2 Inventory slots: 12 DICE Hit: d6 Magic: d4 Martial: d8 Phone battery: d8 #brand: 0 LOOK Poet. Dark turtleneck. Dark beret. VIBE Unwashed, sleepless mania. ALIGNMENT Medium Nerd, Lightly Goth

BARACHOIS Live-streamer, Unwilling Detective, Failed Marine Biologist BACKGROUND High Magic Low Lives is a game about playing social media influencer criminals who livestream their wizard crimes against the immortal aristocracy to build their #brand. The game copy says it's about wizard school drop-outs, but not all the classes are wizard school drop-outs. Barachois, for instance, got his wizard degree. Magic domain: shellfish. He picked it because the classes worked with his work schedule, he liked the university location, and it had nothing to do with divination or horrors and he wanted to invest his actual effort into literature and organising open mic nights for poetry. Or comedy, if the people insisted. He wasn't out to make enemies, he was out to provide a voice to the mic. Anyway, unfortunately, psychic visions didn't really give a shit about what he wanted his magic to do or not. So he has a degree in shellfish magic and a tendency for horrible migraine assaults from the future if he goes to sleep without taking precautions. Aside from his poor mental barriers against timelines yet to come, he also has poor mental barriers against the femme/homme fatale, who seem to have a homing instinct for his visions, and come bearing bad news and worse paychecks. He keeps telling himself that this is the last one, then he's out and back to trying to get a job as a very specific kind of marine biologist. But now he's fallen in with a certain crowd. Gotten a rep. He didn't try and build the brand, so now he's branded with an image he didn't build or get pick. He has the near-empty video page, and a slowly climbing follower counter. Help. ABILITIES Prophetic Visions: When you sleep without wearing any protection you learn a secret about the world that you couldn’t possibly have learned on your own. It may not be useful, but it will definitely be true. Inventory 2 Half tuna sandwich (Δ4) Bedroll (d4) Rope (Δ6) Sun hat (d6) Blue Potion & Tequila Δ6 Disposable Phone Battery Δ8 A length of pipe (d6) A spider in a glass orb, perfectly content and healthy (d6) EDITORIAL I think the concept of this game is interesting and fun. Like, the d66 tables for dating profile! The goth/prep, nerd/jock alignment chart! The ridiculous magic domains! But I don't think the mechanics as presented jive super well with the game as presented. It seems like it ought to be either more story-centric and thus less dice heavy but we have a bunch of different types of dice to keep track of. Or, if you did it the other way, and just had a romp with ridiculous backstory but the fun was supposed to be the encounters, it doesn't provide enough mechanical information to really feel like that's what it was trying to do, either. A weird midpoint of a game. Still, I'm happy with the character I made for it. Here's his misc information because I didn't really feel like they deserved their own section on the character sheet: Connection: Member of a secret death cult known as The Obsidian Eye (Δ6) Blood type: B positive Seeking a: Wilderness Prep for a Ritual Partnership Music preference: Crystal Fuzz Criminal record: Media piracy

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