Blighters Character Frame: Iérgewiana Corpse-Tracker
look at Chris McDowalls Blighters for rules or make up your own. A gauge is a d6, a skill point is one d6.
You were born among the insectile people of Iérgewi. Through the vast forest and along the wide and rocky shoreline of your homeworld your people travel, living a nomadic live. The Iérgewianas thrive on pollen, the trace before, and on carrion, the trace after. Searching for both has permeated your entire life. And it trained you to look for details and traces that others wouldn't even dare to witness.
Take the following skill points:
- Tracking (2), Research (1), Movement (1)
- Assign 2 additional skill points among these skills or among new skills
Take with you:
- A set of corpse knifes (1E; +2E if the target can't move)
- A trained marsupial reptile companion (good scent, sharp teeth (1E))
- A light but sturdy tent
- 6 rations of corpse meat and pollen
- Mapmaking tools
- A huge backpack made for transporting body parts
You have the following gauges:
HURT: Measures how much harm you suffered. Ticks up, when physical damage is inflicted on you.
1-3: But a scratch. You can keep going
4-5: Stumbling. Next single action counts as skill 0.
6: Dying. One last chance to save yourself or be saved.
Restore HURT by getting medical attention
SCENT: Measures your olfactory orientation. Ticks up, when you're confronted with intense and unusual smells.
1-3: Nose length up front. Your senses work well
4-5: Nauseated. You have to vomit, stressing others around you
6: Nose-blind. You are without orientation. Rolls that involve orienting yourself or concentrating on a single target count as skill 0.
Restore SCENT by burying your head in sweet carrion for a significant amount of time.
You know the following Trick:
OLFACTORY TRACES
- If you know the smell of something or someone, you can tick 1 SCENT to sniff out its or their current location.
Learn other Tricks by meeting their Prerequisite:
GLANDS OF THE BLACK HONEY
- Prerequisite: Eat Iérgewian Gelée royale and sleep through a month long metamorphosis.
- Take a GLAND gauge. Tick it every time you consume a corpse. Once it reaches 6, you produce a dose of Black Honey and the gauge resets to 1. Black Honey can be consumed to restore all physical harm at once.
WAYS OF N'ZIEND
- Prerequisite: Learn the arts of corpse memories at the feet of the Beekeepers of far N'ZIEND.
- When you consume a part of a corpse, you can relive one of its memories.
HUNTING GATHERER
- Prerequisite: You and your marsupial reptile companion hunt down a target and consume it together.
- When you and your pet hunt down a target, you can decide to go full focus. If you do, you get +1E on every action related to the hunt, but also -1d on every action unrelated to the hunt.
NASAL KNOWING
- Prerequisite: Smell the Flora and Fauna on six different planets.
- When you smell a lifeform, you can tick 1 SCENT to get answers on three yes or no questions about it.
SURVIVALIST GEAR
- Prerequisite: Get your claws on blueprints and enough scrapmetal and wires
- You have an extra GEAR gauge, you can tick for survival gear (works like a personal COST gauge). Examples include: Climbing gear (2 ticks); Machete (2E, 2 ticks); Breathing Filter (3 ticks); Antitoxin (1 tick / dose); Traps (ticks according to Effect); Weatherproof clothing (2 ticks).
- Restore GEAR by disasembling old gear or by finding enough new material.
SNIFFER OF WAYS
- Prerequisite: Live through the painfull metamorphosis into a Ghost-Nose back on Iérgewi and loose your eyesight in the process.
- You can tick 2 SCENT to introduce a new environmental factor in your surroundings that everybody else wasn't aware of before. Examples include: A secret passageway; a perfect hiding spot; good cover; a potential hazard you could use for advantage; etc.