This page is read only. You can view the source, but not change it. Ask your administrator if you think this is wrong. ====== Sherlock Holmes ====== * **Bloodline:** Pureblood * **Pursuit/Profession:** Discovery - Private Investigator * **Background:** Professional * **Blessings:** * Protected: Supernatural powers are less likely to affect you; `se``se` to all ritual magic checks or any check from an angel or Fallen targeting you. * **Purposed:** refresh 1 //Purpose// at the beginning of each session (in addition to the regular 2 Potential points of your choice) * **Curses:** none. * **Class:** 2 (Educated Professional who lacks noble titles) * **Means:** 2 (Rents 221B Baker Street, fully furnished with a housekeeper. Access to fine furniture, several sets of clothes, and quality tools of trade) * **Birth date:** 1854 * **Gender:** male * **Distinguishing Features:** tall & gaunt {{:clockworkrules:pasted:20201021-012608.png}} ===== Traits ===== * **Affinities:** * Rank 2 - The constant pursuit of Truth * Rank 1 - Saving the London Metropolitan Police from their own idiocy * **Reputations:** * Rank 2 - Internationally-renowned detective * Rank 1 - Confirmed bachelor. * **Memberships:** none. * **Persistent Conditions:** * **Wound Penalties:** ===== Assets & Liabilities & Powers ===== * **Assets:** * **Expertise:** raised Investigation to Rank 4. * **Expertise:** raised Intuition to Rank 4. * **Devoted Companion:** You have formed an unshakeable bond with Dr. John H Watson - assistant, flatmate, and biographer. * **Skilled:** gained 2 extra skills (up to Rank 3) * **Skilled:** gained 2 extra skills (up to Rank 3) * **Liabilities:** * **Obsession:** Sherlock is addicted to cocaine - he feels it is "transcendentally stimulating and clarifying to the mind." * **Nemesis:** A criminal worthy of Mr. Holmes' brilliance, Professor Moriarty is his greatest antagonist. * **Masteries:** * **Cold Reading:** Deduce facts about a person’s history based on a quick Focus+Investigation test vs `GDI``GDI`. For each `GSU`, Narrator provides one specific piece of helpful information about the target. * **Transcendent Powers:** none. * **Languages:** English, Latin, Attic //(ancient Greek)// ===== Characteristics ===== <statblock> theme: clockwork grace: 1 vigor: 1 reason: 4 focus: 5 presence: 1 will: 2 armor: 0 chaos: 0 wounds: 5 woundscurrent: 0 guard: 3 guardcurrent: 3 purpose: 3 purposecurrent:3 ether: 2 ethercurrent:2 </statblock> * Physical Defense: `CH``DI` (Vigor, Fisticuffs) * Social Defense: `CH``DI` (Will, Composure) ===== Skills ===== academics,3 artisan athletics bureaucracy,1 burglary,1 command,1 composure,1 engineering fencing firearms,1 fisticuffs,2 guile intuition,4 investigation,4 medicine,1 melee mysteries parley,2 refinement,1 riding science,1 stealth,1 streetwise,1 survival tactics temptation vocation ===== Gear ===== * Revolver: Webley .45 “British Bull Dog” - Potency 3, //Bleeding//, Short Range, B2/C3/S3. 6-round load, maneuver to reload. * Lockpick set - necessary to pick locks without penalty * Magnifying glass & other forensic tools. Show page