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Mahkah Blackwood

A 1-Victory Newbie Contractor played by jumbohiggins in Maelstrom

Mahkah Blackwood is a Activist / Cashier who will risk his life to become the ultimate Planet Protector and End the pillaging of the planet.

He is 20 years old, lives in Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, and often appears as A young man with shaggy hair generally wearing a large cheap hoody.

Mahkah Blackwood lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. His journal has 2 entries. His Questionnaire has 7 answers.

Attributes

Brawn

3 Charisma

3 Dexterity

3 Intellect

3 Perception

3

Abilities

3 Alertness

2 Animals

3 Athletics

2 Crafts

1 Culture

0 Drive

1 Firearms

0 Influence

3 Investigation

1 Medicine

3 Melee

1 Occult

1 Performance

0 Science

0 Technology

3 Stealth

3 Survival

1 Thievery

3 Nature

2 sabotage

(TapClick for Combat reference)

Initiative: 0 dice

Movement: 0 feet

Dash: 0 feet

Perception + Alertness: 0 dice

At the start of Combat, roll Initiative: Dexterity + Perception Difficulty 6.

Each Round of Combat represents 3 seconds of near-simultaneous action.

It's my Turn

You get one Movement and one Action on your turn every Round of Combat.

Movement

Movement is taken immediately before OR after your Action. It cannot be split.
You may Free Move (0) feet. Minimum 5 feet.
You may Dash up to an additional (0 feet).
- Dashing penalizes your Action -1 die per 5 feet.
All-out Sprint: instead of using free Movement or Dash, you may spend your Action and roll Brawn + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. You move (0 + (Outcome x 5) Feet).

Actions

Attack with your weapon or hands.
Evade by rolling to Defend or Dodge. Your Outcome is "spent" to reduce the Outcome of any incoming attacks until your next Action.
Activate a Power or use an Ability as normal.
Hold your Action by declaring an Action and a triggering event. If the event occurs before your turn on the next Round, you perform the Action.

I'm being attacked

If you have not yet spent your Action this Round, you may use it as a Reaction.

Reactions

Dodge by rolling Dexterity + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's.
Defend with your weapon by rolling its attack roll. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's. Availability depends on weapon match-up (tap/hover).
Clash with the attacker using the same roll you would use to Defend. The higher Outcome (not contested) is treated as the result of a successful, undefended attack roll against the loser.

Desperate Defense

If you have already used your Action, you may Exert your Mind to perform a Reaction. Your next Round's Action receives a -2 dice penalty. You cannot Clash as a Desperate Defense or React more than once to a given Action.

Will to Survive

Once per Contract, you may reduce the severity of an incoming Injury up to 5 Severity levels (to a minimum of Severity 5). You also take a point of Mind Damage and suffer a Battle Scar as normal.

If an attack's Outcome is positive after defense, it results in a new Injury with Severity = Outcome + Weapon damage - Armor

Injuries

(Mahkah Blackwood is unharmed)

(TapClick for Severe Injury reference)

Injuries Severity 4+ cause a Battle Scar or Equipment destruction and always require Stabilization

Stabilization is the Injury's main treatment, and each Injury can only be successfully Stabilized once

Unstabilized Injuries worsen by 1 Severity level every half hour

Proper Stabilization

Requires an advanced first aid kit for Severity 4 Injuries, a surgery setup for Severity 5 Injuries, and a surgery theater for Severity 6+ Injuries.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty equal to Severity

An Outcome of 1 or greater will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
Outcome 4+ puts the Injury on track to heal clean: its Battle Scar heals with it.
On a Botch, the Injury's Severity increases by 1.
Failed or Botched attempts may be re-attempted at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Makeshift Stabilization

Attempt a major treatment using insufficient or improvised medical equipment.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty > Severity

(Difficulty based on materials and tactics used)

Outcome 1+ will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
However, any Outcome less than 4 increases the Injury’s Severity by 1. Botches also worsen its Battle Scar if it caused one.
Regardless of Outcome, any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will persist after it is fully healed.
Failed or Botched attempts may be retried at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Self-stabilization attempts are rolled at +1 Difficulty.

Battle Scars

Dice penalties from Battle Scars do not stack with Stress

Nausea (Your body struggles to filter out toxins, causing bouts of nausea. Before making any complex decision (involving Mind or Intellect rolls), roll 1d10. On a failure, you become too nauseous to concentrate, taking -2 dice for the next 10 minutes.)

Body 7

Stress

7 Mind

Bruised

Distracted

Hurt

-1

Rattled

Injured

-1

Worried

Wounded

-2

Alarmed

Mauled

-3

Frantic

Maimed

-4

Delirious

X_X

Limits

Betrayal

Near-Death Experience

Sin

Traumas

(Mahkah Blackwood has no Traumas)

Source

Circumstances

In Maelstrom

Illicit Supplier: Explosives

From Assets and Liabilities

Through some illegal means, you have reliable access to a certain type of material others don’t. Choose drugs (narcotics, prescriptions, poisons), explosives (grenades, dynamite, c4), or armory (any firearms or armor, even if illegal where you reside)

Polyglot: Lakota, French, ASL

From Assets and Liabilities

You are fluent in three additional languages. You can speak, read, and write in the chosen languages. You may be given a roll to decipher some amount of meaning from a related language at GMs discretion.

Conditions

From Assets and Liabilities

Attuned Autoimmune Your background has exposed you to a wide variety of toxins and diseases, and you have adapted to resist. +2 dice to resistance rolls against any diseases or toxins.

Ugly A hideous disfigurement makes your appearance disturbing and memorable. Any rolls that involve physical appearance in some way are at +2 difficulty. Social interactions should be roleplayed with this Condition in mind.

From Maelstrom Prime

Sin Pollution Mahkah must protect and heal the planet any liter or pollution violates this.

Loose Ends

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Advancement

Newbie

1 Victories - 0 Failures

Remaining Exp: 0
(Earned: 162 - Spent: 162)

An itemized record of every Contract, advancement, and more

Journal

View Mahkah Blackwood's Encountered Contractors

Questionnaire

Latest 3 of 7 answers

Moves

Mahkah Blackwood has made 0 Moves.

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Biography

Mahkah lives in a reservation in South Dakota where they work as a Cashier and donate a portion of their money to their parents who they live with. On weekends and when available he joins his friends to protest Oil pipelines and support environmental causes. Overtime though he noticed that their efforts weren't really having much effect and so he sought more impactful activists out. He served as look out a few times but was held at bay until after a few jobs. Finally on his first big oppurtunity the group he was working with wanted to bomb a chemical factory. Mahkah was told that the factory would absorb the blast and contain the chemicals so they wouldn't escape. Turns out you shouldn't trust young people with explosives.

The explosion caused excess chemical slurry to launch from the building and damage the surrounding area. Mahkah and the others weren't identified but all of them were injured and started getting sick quickly, Mahkah included. His parents sought the old ways and the tribe offered a final gamble to Mahkah, a kind of ceremony that would fuse his spirit with part of the earth. Possibly prolonging his death in exchange for a life of servitude. Mahkah's parents made the decision for him and Mahkah was sacrificed to the earth.

Arms slit open and bleeding out on the ground in a ritual circle Mahkah was exsanguinated and dead for 5 minutes. His wounds were stuffed with earth and clay and his failing organs buffeted with leaves and vines. Mahkah had received a stay of execution but only briefly, they now feel the dying of the planet as well as their fading organs.

Assets And Liabilities

Assets

-6 Illicit Supplier

Stockpile Type: Explosives

-3 Polyglot

Language: Lakota, French, Plains Indian Sign Language

-6 Attuned Autoimmune

Liabilities

+3 Ugly

+7 Scarred

Scar: Nausea: Your body struggles to filter out toxins, causing bouts of nausea. Before making any complex decision (involving Mind or Intellect rolls), roll 1d10. On a failure, you become too nauseous to concentrate, taking -2 dice for the next 10 minutes.