A 10-Victory Seasoned Contractor played by shotgunwizard22 in Maelstrom
He is 18 years old, and often appears as A young man with brown coiffed hair and blue eyes, wearing a red hoodie and dark blue, sturdy jeans with tough leather gloves and boots, alongside a necklace of various stones inscribed with runes, and with a determined expression on his face.
Raul Saturn lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. His journal has 20 entries.
2 Alertness
0 Animals
3 Athletics
0 Brawl
1 Crafts
0 Culture
2 Drive
2 Firearms
0 Influence
2 Investigation
2 Medicine
5 Melee
2 Occult
0 Performance
0 Science
2 Stealth
2 Survival
0 Technology
2 Thievery
The Dragon Slayer has trained extensively in the art of swordsmanship, preparing themself to one day bring down the entire species. Their dedication has resulted in the ability to cut through armour like butter, and lop the heads off lesser men.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are engaged in combat with Sword.
Your attacks with Sword deal +3 Bonus Damage. Armor is reduced to 1/2, rounded up against this damage.
The Dragon Slayer has spent their life steeling their resolve to hunt dragons, and nothing shall stop them from achieving their goal
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Body and Mind Penalties are reduced to 0.
a rune-carved stone is worn on a necklace around the Dragon Slayers neck, allowing them to create a defensive layer of glowing multi-coloured light around themselves, warding off attacks and reducing the damage the Dragon Slayer receives. The Dragon Slayer can focus on their Ward Stone in order to amplify the effect, at the cost of a further supply of Mana.
Edit: After further refinement, the Ward stone now provides a constant level of protection, though it can still be amplified by channelling more mana into it, causing a glow of Octarine light.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
You have 3 Armor, which reduces incoming Damage. Armor from multiple sources does not stack.
You may Exert your Mind and spend an Action or Reaction to double your armor rating for the Round.
Your Armor protects you against Injury from non-physical sources as well.
The Rune of Revival is one of the most potent runes available to the Dragon Slayer, capable of reviving them from death so long as it remains intact. Once the Rune triggers, the Dragon Slayer is pulled to their feet as a wave of magical light washes over them, repairing the fatal injury.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
If you would take an Injury that would kill you, you don’t die. Instead, you survive in an Incapacitated state, though you appear dead to any means of detecting life. This state lasts for the next hour, at which point you fully return to life.
While Incapacitated, your only weakness is The Rune of Revival must be taken from the Dragon Slayers body and shattered, and if you take damage from it, you will die. Damage from other sources will still be dealt and can cause Battle Scars, but will never kill you. If your weakness is not immediately intuitive or obvious, attackers may be able to make some sort of knowledge roll to discover it, at GMs discretion. After you return, the Injury that would have killed you, as well as any Injuries sustained while Incapacitated, are healed. Battle scars obtained during this time remain.
The Dragon Slayer has carved a rune of holding into a small stone and placed it onto a necklace, allowing them to store and withdraw their tools at will.
Spend a Free Action to activate.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within arm’s reach to your stash. You may store Objects in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside a rolling luggage bag (50 liters), and you may store up to 7 things at a time.
The Rune of Regeneration is carved into a stone and worn around the neck of the Dragon Slayer, accelerating their recovery from harm and sealing their wounds shut within seconds.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every three days, starting once it becomes stabilized. Battle Scars caused by your Injuries are also healed when the Injuries that caused them regenerate. Any Injuries you receive stabilize automatically and do not deteriorate further.
The Dragon Slayer has learned how to carve Communication Runes, allowing them to make another runestone for their necklace
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within 10 miles of you. You must have a specific target in mind, but you require only an intuitive understanding of them, such as their name, face, or Location.
You open up a line of conversation to your target, and may continue speaking with them without any additional Exertion cost for as long as you maintain Concentration
The conversation will only be perceived by the intended recipient. You must share a common language for your target to understand the message.
The Dragon Slayer has carved a modified rune onto a stone and added it to their necklace, expanding its range from the detection of dragons and their kin to the detection of all monstrous creatures. The runestone lights up with a magical glow when it detects a monster nearby, and can have its accuracy improved by empowering it with additional mana.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.
You automatically detect all Monsters within 50 feet of you for the next minute. This includes any who come within range during the duration. You have a sense of how many valid targets are nearby and their direction, and you have a clear sense of both the distance and direction towards any detected beings. This information is accurate enough to use for aiming at them, at +1 Difficulty.
Even while this Effect is not active, if any Monsters come within 50 feet of you, you may roll Perception + Alertness, Difficulty 7 to detect them.
A Blink Rune, inscribed in a stone, is attached to a necklace worn by the Dragon Slayer and allows them to travel short distances in an instant.
Expend a point of Battery and spend an Action to activate. Select a Location which is at most 50 feet away horizontally or 10 feet away vertically.
You jump to the chosen location. If the landing is precarious, the GM may call for a roll to land safely. You will never take fall damage from successfully landing a jump made with this Effect.
Instead of physically passing through the air, you are teleported directly to your destination. Does not allow you to go through walls.
The Dragon Slayer throws a Glyph of Binding at their target, causing a set of chains made from various coloured lights to spring forth around them, holding them in place.
Use up this Stone-Carved Glyph and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach. Roll Brawn + Occult at Difficulty 6. The target] may contest by Defending or Dodging.
If you succeed, your target will be restricted at their location by a physical, tangible binding. They can still move their arms and use Effects, but cannot move to a new location.
The binding around a target must be destroyed in order for them to break free. Breaking the binding requires a total amount of damage equal to twice the contested Outcome from the Effect activation. Damage from multiple attacks is cumulative and stacks linearly.
Track your current equipment here. You may start with anything your Contractor would reasonably have access to.
Trophies are special objects and equipment.
Examples of Trophies include healing potions, scrolls, sci-fi technology, or any supernatural item that was not created with The Contract's Gift system.
Because Trophies may have GM-created systems, they also record the Playgroup they were acquired in.
The Dragon Slayer throws a Glyph of Binding at their target, causing a set of chains made from various coloured lights to spring forth around them, holding them in place.
Use up this Stone-Carved Glyph and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within arm's reach. Roll Brawn + Occult at Difficulty 6. The target] may contest by Defending or Dodging.
If you succeed, your target will be restricted at their location by a physical, tangible binding. They can still move their arms and use Effects, but cannot move to a new location.
The binding around a target must be destroyed in order for them to break free. Breaking the binding requires a total amount of damage equal to twice the contested Outcome from the Effect activation. Damage from multiple attacks is cumulative and stacks linearly.
Raul was trained to be a Dragon Slayer from the time he was 3 years old. His family had always hunted dragons, bringing the beasts down through wit and cunning for centuries, until the modern era, where the dragons veiled themselves in the trappings of modern civilisation. Now, Raul’s family legacy cost them dearly. The first to go was his mother, simply vanishing off the face of the earth during a hunt. Next was his elder sister, Lucile. All they found of her was half a leg, the grisly lump of flesh torn from its rightful place by impossibly huge teeth and pulverised by a several story drop. His father followed soon after, recklessness resulting in a standoff with law enforcement, and a bullet to the head. Raul continued to study his legacy, sequestered away in an old fort in Wyoming, repurposed by his family in the 1700’s following their arrival, isolated from the threat of the modern world and trained by an ever more decrepit master, one who passed away in a mysterious fire when Raul was 15. After that final loss, Raul’s hatred for dragon kind reached its pinnacle, and he swore an oath upon his sword, that he would be the one to eradicate dragons and all their kin, no matter where they hid, and a true Dragon Slayer always fulfils their oath.