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Selma T Whispers
Shh. It’s all right. No more pain. Only rest.

A 7-Victory Novice Contractor played by jamesdsoup in Maelstrom

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Selma T Whispers is a clinical psychologist who will risk her life to become the ultimate angel of death and wants to end all human life and guide them to a painless grave.

She is 36 years old, lives in Los Angeles California, and often appears as 5'0" Swedish woman, with pale blonde hair, sharp blue eyes behind shining golden glasses, and a set of immaculate red scrubs.

Selma T Whispers lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. Her journal has 13 entries. Her Questionnaire has 19 answers.

Attributes

Brawn

3 Charisma

3 Dexterity

3 Intellect

5 Perception

3

Abilities

3 Alertness

0 Animals

2 Athletics

0 Crafts

3 Culture

0 Drive

2 Firearms

2 Influence

2 Investigation

5 Medicine

0 Melee

0 Occult

0 Performance

2 Science

2 Stealth

3 Survival

0 Technology

0 Thievery

(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

(Selma T Whispers 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

(Selma T Whispers has no Battle Scars)

Body 7

Stress

9 Mind

Miffed

Agitated

Bruised

Distracted

Hurt

-1

Rattled

Injured

-1

Worried

Wounded

-2

Alarmed

Mauled

-3

Frantic

Maimed

-4

Delirious

X_X

Limits

Animal-Lover

Betrayal

Failure

Traumas

(Selma T Whispers has no Traumas)

Source

Whenever , regain one Source. Cooldown: one day

Circumstances

In Maelstrom

Finances: Average

From Assets and Liabilities

You can live stably off your money. You have access to $2,500 (or equivalent currency) per Contract.

Conditions

From Assets and Liabilities

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

Nimble Fingers Your fingers are particularly long and slender. You receive a +2 dice bonus to any non-combat Action that requires fine manual dexterity.

Focused You’re cool under pressure. Stress from Mind Damage is reduced by 2.

Clear Conscience You have a special knack for shrugging off traumatic experiences. All Trauma rolls you make are -1 Difficulty, and Stress does not apply.

Jack of All Trades You are naturally capable of most things, even without any training. When making a roll which utilizes a Primary Ability that you don’t possess, you do not suffer the standard +1 Difficulty penalty, and you receive +1 dice to the roll.

Imbued After accepting your first Invitation to a Contract, you are Imbued, altering you in several ways. After completing a Contract, your learning and conditioning improves rapidly. However, you require the Contracts to advance. You have an indomitable Will to Survive. You may Exert your Mind to improve the Outcome of your Actions. You are highly receptive to therapy and may "cure" one of your Traumas with counseling on a Downtime.

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Advancement

Novice

7 Victories - 0 Failures

Remaining Exp: 9
(Earned: 219 - Spent: 210)

An itemized record of every Contract, advancement, and more

Journal

View Selma T Whispers's Encountered Contractors

Latest 3 of 13 entries

An untitled Journal

After the Game Ends

Between Spores and Stars

Questionnaire

Latest 3 of 19 answers

Moves

Selma T Whispers has made 0 Moves.

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Biography

Selma Thaniel Whispers was not born for life; she was born for endings. Raised in the cold distance of Sweden and educated in the clinical heart of Los Angeles, Selma learned early that comfort is an illusion and pain is inevitable. Her parents, both sharp-edged professionals, praised her intellect but offered no warmth. They taught her to value precision, detachment, and efficiency — and Selma listened.

She studied medicine first, psychology second, chasing not the cure, but the core — the thing inside humans that breaks and cannot be repaired. Over time, she stopped seeing patients as people and started seeing them as puzzles: patterns of suffering, waiting to be solved.

When the supernatural revealed itself, Selma didn't flinch. She saw in it the final confirmation of her beliefs: there was no redemption coming. Only endings. Only the slow, inevitable deterioration of the human mind, body, and soul — and she would be the one to guide them through it.

Accepting her first Contract felt less like a choice and more like a diagnosis. Now, imbued with abilities beyond normal medicine, Selma Thaniel Whispers walks the line between life and death. Her golden glasses gleam as she exerts subtle, terrible influence over the emotions of those she meets. Her whispered words heal wounds... but always on her terms. Her wings, born from terror and duty, carry her across battlefields where only one fate awaits.

Selma does not see herself as cruel. In her eyes, mercy and death are twins, and she is their midwife. Each life she touches is either saved — temporarily — or gently escorted toward their final silence. She believes that humanity is terminal, that survival is an act of vanity, and that she has been chosen to be the architect of a more merciful extinction.

In the contracting world, whispers about "Dr. Whispers" abound: a woman in blood-red scrubs, smiling faintly as the room grows colder, as emotions boil, as enemies falter. Some say her glasses shine with a holy light before the mind breaks. Some say her footsteps don't leave marks anymore. All know one truth: if you see Selma Thaniel Whispers coming, it is already too late to run.

She does not kill out of hate. She does not heal out of hope. She acts because this is what kindness looks like — when you finally stop lying to yourself.

Assets And Liabilities

Assets

-1 Additional Language

Language: ASL

-0 Finances: Average

-6 Focused

-6 Clear Conscience

-12 Jack of All Trades

-3 Nimble Fingers

-0 Imbued