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Momma Ettu
"Poor thing, come inside let momma take care of you."

A 12-Victory Seasoned Contractor played by Redchigh in Maelstrom

Momma Ettu is a Storytelling witch who will risk her life to become the ultimate 'good' witch and help people. These 'games' are dangerous.

She is 83 years old, lives in A small secure house in rural new york, with plenty of security, and often appears as a grandmother type, with a knit sweater, grey neat hair and small purple hat (and a revolver in her purse).

Momma Ettu lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. Her journal has 3 entries.

Attributes

Brawn

1

Charisma

4

Dexterity

2

Intellect

3

Perception

4

Abilities

3 Alertness

2 Animals

3 Athletics

0 Brawl

3 Crafts

3 Culture

1 Drive

3 Firearms

4 Influence

3 Investigation

0 Medicine

0 Melee

4 Occult

3 Performance

0 Science

4 Stealth

0 Survival

0 Technology

0 Thievery

(Tap for Combat reference)
Initiative: 0 dice
Movement: 0 feet
Dash: 0 feet
Perception + Alertness: 0 dice

Injuries

2
Slash
(Tap for Severe Injury reference)

Battle Scars

Penalties from Battle Scars do not stack with Wound Penalty
  • Large star shaped scar on chest: -1 to social rolls when visible
  • bum left elbow, -2 to rolls using off hand
  • Body 6

    Penalty

    8 Mind

    0
    Agitated
    0
    Distracted
    Hurt
    -1
    Rattled
    Injured
    -1
    Worried
    Wounded
    -2
    Alarmed
    Mauled
    -3
    Frantic
    Maimed
    -4
    Delirious
    X_X

    Limits

    Murder
    Anguish
    Near-Death Experience

    Traumas

    (Momma Ettu has no Traumas)


    JUJU

    Whenever , regain one Source. Cooldown: one hour

    Circumstances

    Respected Expert: Occultists
    From Assets and Liabilities
    You are highly respected and influential within a given field or industry. Just about anyone in _____ will know of you and respect your status and ability within that field. Social rolls made against anyone in your chosen field receive +2 dice.
    Famous: Travelling occult educator and storyteller
    From Assets and Liabilities
    You are well-known and generally well-liked by the general public. You may easily communicate a message via the media during a Downtime, and you may receive preferential treatment from NPCs at the GM's discretion.
    Rich
    From Assets and Liabilities
    You are absolutely loaded. You have access to $1,000,000 (or equivalent currency) per Contract. Note that moving vast sums of money quickly or discreetly is not always possible.
    Healed herself with Tea-
    Given by Redchigh
    Cannot attack anyone outside of immediate self defense for one month

    Conditions

    From Maelstrom
    Cursed by her sister ursed by her sister. Cursed by her sister, jealous of Ettu's success and popularity, sent a cat to do her dirty work. Each time her appearance is complimented, she's effected as a age power
    Drenched in radioactive rain Will surely have a significantly higher chance of cancer
    From Assets and Liabilities
    Pathetic You are so pathetic, no one takes you seriously as a threat. Opponents must succeed a Difficulty 7 Mind roll in order to attack you instead of other opponents in combat. Only works if your Brawn rating is 1.
    Glass Jaw You are easily knocked out. Whenever you take an Injury that is Severity 4 or higher, or if you take any blow to your head, you pass out for the next Round. When you pass out, you drop what was in your hands, fall to the ground, cannot move, and cannot take any Actions.

    Loose Ends

    Dark Secret: Was responsible for the Nagasaki incident.

    Moderate Dangerous Given by a Liability
    You have a secret which, if it got out, would lead to immediate and significant consequences for you.

    Powers

    Momma Ettu is so persuasive, she can convince people they are being deceived by their own memories, and only Ettu can fill in the blanks. He words slot into the memories like lock and key, more often than not to minimize violence...


    Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute to activate. Select a Sapient, Living target within arm's reach. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6.

    If you succeed, a specific period of time (up to 1 day long) from your target’s memory is replaced with new memories of your choosing. This is recorded as a Condition. The level of detail and completeness of the alteration depends on your Outcome. If you fail, the target realizes that you are attempting to alter their memories.

    The period is chosen either by time (i.e. “last friday night”) or by reference to a specific event (i.e. “when the murder occurred”).

    If the target is confronted with compelling evidence that contradicts their memories, they may roll Mind at Difficulty 7. If their Outcome exceeds your Outcome on the initial roll, they realize that their memory for that period was manipulated, but they will not regain their old memories. If they fail, they may still distrust their memory, but they will not suspect manipulation.

    • You do not gain mind-reading through this effect, so your ability to alter their memory is limited by your knowledge of what they might know.
    • The target's roll to realize their memories have been altered can be made a maximum of one time per day.
    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Momma Ettu can verbally summon a 'Bogeyman' by verbally implying one is present and a danger, through story or statement like 'There's a bogeyman in these woods' or 'Ive heard bogeyman... " Etc.

    Immediately after, a medium dog-sized, indistinguishable ball of teeth (think Stephen King's Langoliers) will appear from somewhere out of sight (behind a tree, or around a corner or something when possible, but directly behind them if no other options are available within 15 feet or so). They follow Ettu's lore given during the summons, although she can always change the story. They will always attempt to approach stealthed, and hunt as a predator would- lunging when the target is distracted, when they're spotted, or when they manage to get close enough to catch the target unaware- where they will promptly lunge at the targets throat or chest area.

    https://imgur.com/gallery/S9qdw2L

    Bogeyman are notorious for being able to find you, no matter how far you run. (They can attempt to track people, somehow, despite lack of obvious eyes)

    She was inbued and taught to control and invoke existing spirits by her family as a child. She works with bogeymen because not only are they vicious, but every moment they're under her control, is a moment they're not hunting children to eat.


    Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. This Effect cannot be used unless Someone must be around to hear her imply that bogeymen are here.

    Summon a single A toothy round monster, mostly consisting of a giant mouth and tiny body at your location. They will last until they are destroyed. They are controlled by the GM but will follow any commands you give. You may have at most 1 minion active at a time.

    Minions have 4 Body and can make melee range attacks with 6 dice to attack and +2 Damage. They cannot move faster than a walk and cannot dodge incoming attacks. They have dog-level intelligence, and cannot communicate back to you. Any Perception checks they make are rolled with 8 dice.

    Your minion is able to Stealth with a 4-dice pool.

    Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see Momma Ettu seems to be on business-like terms with murderous creatures of fear and infanticide.

    • When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.

    Working closely with the negative spirits she normally uses, she has finally refined a method of communicating to more friendly ones..

    If she finds something she needs more information on, she can bury a coin and state it is an offering for the spirits, and a local spirit will enter the item to examine it, and whisper the information on the wind for momma ettu to hear.


    Exert your Mind and spend a minute to activate. Select a target Object within arm's reach. You must use up a silver coin, buried in order to activate this Effect. At the end of your investigation, roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.

    You learn all the following information about your target:

    • Determine if this Object is Alien in origin or whether it has any Alien energy or outside influences.
    • You may learn how much sentimental value an object has and to whom.
    The quality and specificity of information gained depends on your Outcome.

    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Momma Ettu makes a relaxing pot of tea, using an ecclectic mix of secrets she's picked up over the past decades.


    Exert your Mind and spend 15 minutes to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach. You must actively and obviously use teapot making set to activate this Effect. Choose a specific Injury on your target that has not yet been treated with this Effect and roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6.

    If you succeed, the Injury is reduced in Severity by your Outcome. If you reduce its Severity to 0, the Injury is fully healed. Otherwise, it is partially healed and will heal the rest of the way at its natural rate.

    This counts as a successful Makeshift Stabilization if the Injury was not already Stabilized; any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will remain. Your patient is required to Can't attack anyone except in immediate self defense for the next month. If they violate this rule, your treatment is immediately reversed.

    If your Outcome is greater than the Severity of the Injury you were attempting to treat, you may apply any excess Outcome to other Injuries on the same patient.

    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Requires conversation and focus, but momma Ettu can add weight to her words.


    Exert your Mind and spend at least one Action to activate. Select a Sapient, Living target within 20 feet. Communicate a command to your target. Roll Charisma + Influence at Difficulty 6. The target may resist by rolling Mind at Difficulty 7.

    If the contested Outcome is positive, your target will be compelled to follow your command to their best understanding of the letter and spirit of the command until they have completed it or for your Outcome in minutes. You cannot issue another suggestion to the target until 10 minutes after they have completed the first command or 10 minutes after a failure.

    The target is unaware that they are under supernatural influence and feel they are acting of their own free will. If you fail, they realize that you were attempting to influence them supernaturally with your command.

    Your command can be an order to take an immediate Action and a conditional request. You cannot order a target to "do nothing," and they are free to take other Actions as they fulfill your request. Commands can put the target into a potentially self-endangering scenario, including Combat, though you cannot force a target to directly attack themselves. The Effect ends if following your command would cause a target to cross one of their Limits in a way that would necessitate a Trauma roll.

    You must maintain Concentration while your command is being carried out. If you break Concentration, any active suggestions you have issued will end.

    • The target must be able to understand you and must receive your communication for the suggestion to work.
    • Allowed Commands
      • Conditional Request: implants a triggered response or latent order. (e.g. "when you see your mom, give her a kiss" or "when I give the signal, strip naked and pretend you're possessed by the devil.")
      • Direct Order: The target must take an immediate action (e.g. “Sit down,” "run away," or "tell me your password.")
    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Momma Ettu calls out for Edna, a stern, mildly frustrated voice and an ethereal, transparent image of an older woman, about Ettu's age with long white hair but with sunken eyes and very clearly dead, appears in a ghostly wheelchair a few feet away. The exact wording varies, but tends to be Ettu demanding her chair, Edna refusing, then Ettu attempting to throw Edna out of her chair. If she succeeds then Ettu gets in the chair, and Edna plummets down through the ground and disappears.

    Edna will take her chair back when the effect ends, with a banter like they're old friends or perhaps siblings.

    Edna is a lovely woman that Ettu met during her hospital stay after her heart attack.
    She ended up having to stay quite a while for rehab, and got to know a patient on her floor who turned out to be terminal.

    Children at heart, they tended to prank each other with harmless tricks and gentle bullying.

    Having kept her financial abundance secret, Ettu anonymously ensured her funeral was lavish, and covered the airfare for her relatives to attend. She was able to actually attend as well without being recognized, since it seemed to be in a parallel dimension of some sort.


    Exert your Mind and spend at least two Actions performing the following ritual: Summons the ghost of someone she's met before, complete with their ghostly wheelchair. She pulls them out of the chair, and they fall through the floor, disappearing from sight and Momma Ettu takes the now vacant ghost wheelchair. to activate. You must maintain Concentration while activating this Effect, and it fails if you are interrupted. Roll a single d10, Difficulty 4. If you fail or botch, the Effect fails and you cannot activate it again for an hour.

    You can run at four times your normal movement speed for the next hour.

    While running, you may climb, jump, and roll without breaking stride, but you are at 1/2 speed while doing so.

    After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.

    • If this Effect fails due to the Unreliable check, you must still pay any associated activation costs.
    • Any Encumbrance penalty to your movement still applies, but you do not suffer from any sort of exhaustion.
    • Damage from a collision depends on your speed at the time, as well as what you hit. GM's discretion, but generally moving faster than a car on the freeway and hitting a dense, solid object like a wall or a tree should be lethal. Mundane armor will not apply, but any supernatural forms of protection will.

    Momma Ettu knows bad things happen to bad people, without fail. The balance always tips, and if her speaking a few words can help it along, so be it.

    By merely mentioning that someone 'has it coming', on success, the target is afflicted with a functionally invisible karmic curse.

    It's just.. the *worst* luck.

    A root easily tripped across, a car that grazes them as they're crossing the street, or perhaps a monkey in a nearby tree haphazardly tossing a coconut-
    The target will find themselves incredibly accident-prone, taking a minor 1 point injury per day, randomly.
    Their 'destiny' is ripped away from them, and it's as though the universe itself is conspiring against them. A bird may fly in front of their fireball as they throw it. They may get accosted by a more of dust blown up their nose and randomly sneeze and interrupt themselves as they try to do a power.

    This does not summon anything new, or create a disease in the target, it just ensures something in the environment will hurt them when the damage is 'due'
    Randomly aggressive animals and freak accidents are usually how to damage is dealt.


    Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Living target within 20 feet. This Effect cannot be used unless Someone must hear her mention that the target deserves whatever is coming.. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Roll Charisma + Occult at Difficulty 6. Your target may resist by rolling Body at Difficulty 7.

    If you succeed, the target is afflicted with a Condition that causes any number of the following symptoms:

    • Magical Miasma: The target’s connection to the world’s mystical energies is weakened. Any time they try to activate an Effect or any kind of supernatural ability, they must roll 1d10 at Difficulty 5, and if they fail, the Effect or ability fails. The Difficulty increases by 1 with every hour that passes.
    • Poisoned: The target gains a Severity-1 Injury which ignores Armor and doesn’t heal naturally. For every hour that passes, they receive a new identical Injury. If this new Injury would kill them, they roll 1d10 at Difficulty 6. Success cures the condition; otherwise, they will die.
    Symptoms begin to appear immediately, and will remain and continue to worsen until the affliction is cured. The affliction is not contagious and will not spread to others.

    The affliction is not treatable by modern medicine. It may be diagnosed by rolling Intellect + Occult at Difficulty 6, and can be cured by Ritually bathe in clean, clear, natural running water under the light of the moon. (15 minutes).

    This Effect is not obvious, and the only sign you are using an Effect is Speaking with a calm, soothing voice and an intense stare. If someone suspects that an Effect was used, they must roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 8 to pick up on your Tell.

    • Successfully diagnosing an affliction also includes information about the treatment method.
    • The chosen method of treatment must be something that you could obtain in a small town given an afternoon.
    • Curing an affliction removes the Condition, but does not automatically heal any Injuries, Battle Scars, or Traumas which may have been caused by that condition.
    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Legendary Artifacts

    Eye of a Crone

    Created and held by Momma Ettu.
    Appears to be human eye, yellowed from age and 'whited over', long dead.

    Momma Ettu pulls out the artifact, holding it gently in her palm, as she mumbles oy, it was a near miss... Staring at the eye, she reaches out into the air to grasp something unseen. it doesn't look different from a mime and his invisible rope, leading to the target if it weren't for the eye flicking around in her palm, as if looking around quickly before guiding Ettu do her goal.
    She visibly grabs the invisible string, and aims it at the person- manipulating the strings of fate that link the injury to the target's 'destiny'.


    Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select two Sapient targets within arm's reach. If a target does not consent to the transfer, you must roll Perception + Occult at Difficulty 6 to use the effect on them. They can resist by rolling either Body or Mind at Difficulty 6, depending on what you are attempting to transfer to them.

    You may choose a single instance of one of the following to transfer between your two targets:

    • A single Power. Lasts two hours. You cannot transfer this Power.
    • A single Injury and any Battle Scars it caused
    Cannot be used again for the next day.

    Whenever you transfer an Injury, it's Severity increases by 1. Whenever you transfer Mind damage or Traumas, the recipient takes an additional Mind damage.

    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Consumables

    1

    The moment of death, the head (and body if attached) contorts briefly as a screeching revenant erupts from the body. A barely recognizable phantom screeches involuntarily, relieving the moment of death a second longer before a spark of recognition glimmers over it's eyes, and it teleports to the target of its vengeance and flying into their body. The raw necromantic energy inflicts whichever killed them in mere moments.


    Use up this A small ring, as black as night. and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless Can only trigger with Death Pact. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Roll 11 dice Difficulty 6, penalty does not apply. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.

    If the contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 8. Armor is reduced to 1/2, rounded down against this damage.

    When you die, you may activate this Effect targeting the person that killed you at any range and without any penalty. Its roll is at -1 Difficulty.

    Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the victims twisted undead visage, screeching in rage.

    • When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
    • This consumable is destroyed when used and cannot be used again.
    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Equipment

    Max Encumbrance: 0 pounds.

    On Person

    Armored zip up jacket (1 pt) Purse: fur coat with hood heavy duty crocheting yarn Knitting needles tea kit snubnose revolver (concealed in purse) 2 quickloaders (to reload in a turn) Matches cloth face mask earplugs Firestarter ID credit cards 4 silver coins

    In Bag

    Molotov (Bottle of high proof gin and a extra rag) Tarp 2 lb Beef jerky 2 lb dried fruit cooking utensils heating pack nice small metal teapot 3 respirators 1 gas mask tea Fishing line and hooks chalk various books 1 flare gun, 8 flares 2 road flares water purification tablets 1 gallon water Ear plugs flashlight long thin ornate knife (for ritual use but no innate powers)

    extra bag bug spray lamp fuel 20k in jewels night vision goggles tent

    3 slaves

    (Click to toggle Weapons reference)

    Trophies

    From Maelstrom
    Book of the dead
    Given by loroman1211
    raise dead spell Spend one action and one source, minion lasts for one hour, has skills it had on life. It can only be used once per day.

    Consumable Crafting Gifts

    The moment of death, the head (and body if attached) contorts briefly as a screeching revenant erupts from the body. A barely recognizable phantom screeches involuntarily, relieving the moment of death a second longer before a spark of recognition glimmers over it's eyes, and it teleports to the target of its vengeance and flying into their body. The raw necromantic energy inflicts whichever killed them in mere moments.


    Use up this A small ring, as black as night. and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach. This Effect cannot be used unless Can only trigger with Death Pact. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Roll 11 dice Difficulty 6, penalty does not apply. The target may contest by rolling Body, Difficulty 6.

    If the contested Outcome is positive, the target takes that much Damage plus 8. Armor is reduced to 1/2, rounded down against this damage.

    When you die, you may activate this Effect targeting the person that killed you at any range and without any penalty. Its roll is at -1 Difficulty.

    Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the victims twisted undead visage, screeching in rage.

    • When narrating disturbing content, be cognizant of your group's tone and accommodating to those who would like to "fast forward" through the description.
    • This consumable is destroyed when used and cannot be used again.
    • You can target yourself if you qualify as a valid target by the other requirements.

    Contractor Timeline

    12 Victories - 2 Failures
    Remaining Exp: 5 (Earned: 222 - Spent: 217)
    An itemized record of every Contract, Reward, Experience change, Condition, Circumstance, and Move

    Moves

    Momma Ettu has made 1 Move.
    Only GMs who have permission to run Contracts and post World Events in Maelstrom can post Moves for Momma Ettu.

    Assets And Liabilities

    Assets

    -3 Pathetic
    -3 Respected Expert
    Field: Occultists
    -6 Famous
    Claim to Fame: Travelling occult educator and storyteller
    -18 Finances: Rich
    -15 Gifted

    Liabilities

    +3 Dark Secret
    Secret: Was responsible for the Nagasaki incident.
    +12 Glass Jaw