Eulicid Foundation Character Template

Foundation Agent Template

Pick Virtue and Vice

- Attributes: 5/4/3/

- Skills: 11/7/4
- Merits: 7

- Health = Size + Stamina

- Sanity = Seven boxes

- Willpower = Resolve + Composure

- Defense = Lower of Dexterity and Wits

- Sanity Defense = Lower of Resolve + Composure

- Initiative = Dexterity + Composure

- Speed = Strength + Dexterity + Size

Agent Template additions

- 1 free Dot in Investigation, Athletics, and Survival

- Gain 1 Free Dot in two skills Skills relevant to the training stream that the Agent goes through, be it Conflict Management, Public Relations, or Research and Development.

- Agents Gain these Merits: Requisitions 4(Equal to Resources 3 in salary 4 in life style equivelent), Status (Eulicid Foundation) 1, and Sworn Officer 5( explained in 13th Precinct p. 81)
- Gain Violet Diamond Implant
- Gain Plato's Lantern Implant

- Gain 8 Merit dots to buy from Foundation Agent List of Special Merits.

Special Flaws.

Without the Diamond.

However it happened the Violet Diamond was never installed within you. Perhaps you resisted the idea of having an implant in your brain, perhaps it was violently rejected by your body, whatever the reason you are one of the few agents walking around without the protection of a Violet Diamond to keep your maintain your sanity. You don't have a Violet Diamond, you lack the bonus to your sanity defense.
Benefit: Gain 20xp For the Additional time you spent training instead of recovering from Installation.

Lanternless:
Against the strong suggestions of your peers and your superiors you have declined the implantation of your Plato's Lantern. You are unusual among agents for this trait, as most accept the implant as either part of the necessary preparation or see the benefits of the implant. Though uncommon some agents choose this due to personal reasons, spiritual reasons, or Magical reasons. You lack the Plato's Lantern Upgrade. In the event you wish to have it installed and must take two months of character time to get it implanted, adjusted, and the trainng involved to use it.
Benefit: Your Character had two more months of cross-training than the others, Gain a free dot of Occult, and a Free Dot in any physical skill.

Normal Flaws:

Collared
You're a probationary member, you've had all the same training as the rest, you get almost all the same benefits as the rest except one, the others are trusted, or as trusted as any other active agent is. As soon as you were allowed anything sensitive or dangerous a failsafe was used on you. They traditionally used to be collars that carried some form of death-curse if certain conditions were met, like you becoming a loose cannon, or the demon that fueled your powers proved to be very able at possessing you. Now, no one knows what it is, you still are given a collar, but it's as mundane as a McDonald's Hamburger. No, the Collar is there to remind you.

Drawback: You're useful to the Foundation, otherwise they'd have killed you, but you're not trustworthy enough to be allowed complete freedom. You have an unknown Sword of Damocles placed upon you, a very unpleasant and leathal one at that. Most every agent has heard the story of Abbas The Catburglar, who was caught trying to escape with many Dangerous Relics from the Black Vault, convinced that he had successfully countered his failsafe he decided to make a run for it with valuable relics to sell on the black market. When confronted and found he died of several snake bites, of snakes he threw up, that were made from his internal organs, before an avatar of Suketh came to consume his soul. This happened twenty years ago, and was the first time any agents acctually witnessed a failsafe activate. You can prove your loyalty, but at what cost?

Plato’s Lantern
(Agent Advantage)
Chi, Orgone, Pranya, Viril, Ether, many different names for one essential energy that exist immanently with the universe. Normally directed by effort of human will, human beings have a finite ability to focus and direct said energies. The foundation has frequently found inventors and Magicians who have been able to harness this energy, but it was the work of Nicola Tesela who found a solution to the limit of human ability by creating Plato’s Lantern. Appropriately enough the Item in question is lantern shaped but no larger than a soda can. The Tool is implanted inside the agent resting inside the chest cavity near the solar plexus. It allows the agent to store “Etheric Energy” within the lantern and channel it without over expenditure of effort. However the method by how the lantern works limits the storable EE. In order to recharge Plato’s Lantern the agent must deliberately refill the lantern’s EE, the energy cannot be gathered passively. It was said that Tesela was working on an even more refined design, however his death in The Carpathian Incident slowed research to a crawl.

Benefit:
Plato’s Lantern is a battery for paranormal ability. It can store up to 3 “willpower points” for the sole purpose of activating powers or objects by the Foundation Agent, these “willpower points” cannot be used to improve rolls, to resist effects, or to spend for non-paranormal merits. To refill the Lantern The agent must meditate in an area “Full of natural dynamism”, to quote the whimsical Serbian inventor himself, namely the agent must focus on the surrounding natural elements that are either in motion(such as stream or being outside while the wind blows) or actively interacting with the agent(Being exposed to a rainstorm or being in a forest glade that is actively purifying the air) in order to gather the Dynamic Etheric Energy from these environmental factors to the Lantern.

System:

The Agent rolls Wits + Composure + Modifiers

Each Roll represents 30 minutes in deep meditation while attuning the lantern to the surrounding environment, in order to gather Etheric Energy(From here on referred to as EE ) the agent must not break meditation or she will have to start over.
Note: As ridiculous as the idea is, it IS possible to spend willpower on this roll representing the extreme focus of the agent to achieve this state of meditation and gather the etheric energy.

Dramatic Failure: The Agent suffers from Houdini Syndrome until she spends an hour retuning the Lantern back in sync with her being and sleeps for a night. (represented by a normal Resolve + Composure roll and a night’s good sleep. )

Failure: The Agent cannot sync up the lantern to her environment and cannot gather EE.

Success: The Agent can recharge the battery equal to one EE per two successes

Exceptional Success: The Agent completely fills up the Lantern with five successes

Modifiers:

+1 Meditation Aid (Meditation Beads, Rosary, Mandala) (Non cumulative)
+2 Meditation Music
+3 Location of meditation is relatively safe
+3 Agent is at full willpower and is unharmed.
+4 Area’s Natural Dynamism is very active (ST approval)
+5 The Agent is at a Geomantic Nexus
-1 Per health box filled with damage over Stamina Dots *
-2 Distracting people in agent’s presence *
-2 Agent is drugged/poisoned *
-3 Agent is knowingly in an unsafe location *
-3 Agent is under the affect of an enemy’s supernatural powers.
-4 Agent is in violently unstable environment(Earthquake, Tossing seas, in the middle of pitched battle.
-1 to -5 Agent is surrounded by noise/activity that is confounding attempts to attune to EE( -1 represents minor pollution/unreasonable noise pollution, -3 represents being outdoors during rush-hour or in a park that is more concrete than grass, -5 is either being in an active office building or at a construction site in the middle of demolition.) *
-2, -3, -4, -5 Agent is within the sphere of effect of a haunt, a portal, a perversion of nature, and a ”hell mouth” respectively.
(Modifiers cannot exceed +5 or -5 though they are cumulative.)

Note: To those players who buy the meditative mind merit, for the purposes of recharging Plato’s Lantern you are able to ignore up to a maximum of -4 in cumilative penalties with an (*).