Masquerade
Skill:9 Stamina:18 Initiative:6 Armor:4
Bartleby Fontaine has enjoyed a successful 20-year career as a high society art dealer, but he wants something more. His personal collection consists mainly of masks, several of which have unique occult histories and abilities attached.
Fontaine occasionally makes an appearance in the celebrity gossip pages for rekindling his on-again off-again relationship with the notorious Jack Towers, a.k.a. Rocketman.
Special: Bartleby wears a cloak woven from the unformed nightmares of infants, where he keeps a selection of magical masks stashed. Changing masks on his turn still leaves him enough time to act as normal.
Funeral Mask of the Broken King
The Mayan King Tlacatla of Pétocten who was buried in this jade mask held onto his kingdom through much of the Spanish holocaust by allying himself with a nearby settlement of English privateers. Eventually the English abandoned the colony and its nearby allies to the genocidal whims of the Spanish.
The wearer can cause everyone in earshot to obey a direct command or adopt a simple belief at the permanent cost of one skill point. Luck test to avoid.
Void Mask
Forged, stained and cursed by aristocratic french magician named Jacqueline Du Monde who was executed during the Great Terror.
Absorbs all ranged attacks. Sucks melee combatants into a pocket dimension that drops them back into reality 1d3 miles away.
Bronze Helm of the Gladiator
Infused with the spirit of its wearer, Brutalis, a captive enemy of Rome forced to fight against overwhelming odds who somehow never lost. He lived to retire and die an old man, and he insisted on being buried in his helm.
Imbues the wearer with 2 ranks in Superstrength and 3 ranks in Fast Healing.
Broken Mirror Veil
Infused with the spirit of a bride-to-be named Lily Tenbaugh (to be Lily Pond) who was murdered in her dressing room by the best man, one Richard Haupstein in a fit of jealous rage.
Allows the wearer to become invisible at the expense of one Luck Point per round (or Stamina for NPCs).
Steamboat Willy Gas Mask
Thousands of these were made in Hawaii during World War Two and distributed to families with small children in the hope that the kids would practice putting them on while playing. A little boy named Bobby Stipend was wearing this one while playing on the beach when a piece of unexploded ordinance from the battle of Pearl Harbor detonated underfoot.
Causes its wearer to physically transform into a child until the mask is removed.
Motives
- Add to mask collection
- Petty revenge
- Appease an impatient entity
- The excitement of a good heist
- Unrequited lust
- Enjoy the company of bad friends
