Name – Taryn Lynne Vicente
Essence – Dynamic
Affiliation – Society of Ether
Nature – Innovator
Demeanor – Scientist
Concept – Cosplaying Etherite sorcerer
Casting Attribute – Intelligence
Location – Formerly the House of Joy,
Profession – Shooting instructor / cosplayer / social media personality
Anagram: Tavern Nicety
| Strength | 3 | Charisma | 3 | Perception | 3 |
| Dexterity | 4 / Steady Hands | Manipulation | 4 / Friendly | Intelligence | 4 / Book-learning |
| Stamina | 3 | Appearance | 4 / Cute | Wits | 3 |
| Alertness | 2 | Crafts | 4 / Cosplay, Gunsmith | Academics | 2 |
| Art | 4 / Illustration | Drive | 2 | Computer | 3 |
| Athletics | 1 | Etiquette | 1 | Cosmology | 2 |
| Awareness | 3 | Firearms | 4 / Competition | Enigmas | 2 |
| Brawl | 1 | Larceny | – | Esoterica | 3 / Sorcery, Mages |
| Empathy | 1 | Martial Arts | – | Finance | 2 |
| Expression | 2 | Meditation | 3 | Investigation | 1 |
| Intimidation | – | Melee | 1 / Knife | Law | – |
| Leadership | – | Performance | 3 | Medicine | – |
| Streetwise | 1 | Research | 2 | Occult | 3 |
| Subterfuge | 2 | Stealth | 1 | Politics | 1 |
| Carousing | 1 | Survival | 1 | Science | 2 / Physics |
| Instruction | 3 | Technology | 3 | ||
| Hypertech | 1 |
| Backgrounds | Paths | Tempers | |||
| Allies (Family) | 2 | Alchemy | 3 | Willpower | 7 |
| Artifact | 3 | Conjuration | 2 | Banality | 5 |
| Contacts (Fans) | 4 | Enchantment | 3 | ||
| Equipment | 2 | Ephemera | 1 | ||
| Fame | 2 | Mimicry | 1 | ||
| Gremlin | -3 | ||||
| Sanctum/Lab | 3 | ||||
| Library | 3 / Sorcery | ||||
| Resources | 3 |
| Merits | Flaws | ||||
| Crack Shot | 2 | Bad Sight: contacts | 1 | ||
| Family Support: Restaurant chain | 2 | Curiosity | 2 | ||
| Master Craftsman | 3 | Family Issues: tight-knit clan | 1 | ||
| Socially Networked: Fandom | 2 | Inappropriate | 1 | ||
| Subculture Insider: Fandom | 2 | Obsession: Fandom | 2 | ||
Equipment: Miscellaneous firearms related equipment
Competition pistols with customizations that are allowed by rules. Laser sights for her (non-competition) pistols. A high quality rifle with a bipod and a laser sight. A decent quality shotgun with a sling. Standard ammo for all of the above, plus some small amount of sorcery-made ammo for each.
Artifact: Bag of Holding •••, has a Gremlin attached!
This Bag of Holding is pretty much what it sounds like, a simple black leather messenger bag that holds about ten times what it seems like it could, and always weighs five pounds no matter what you put into it. Anything that can fit inside the opening can be carried in it, even if it would ordinarily not fit into the bag in terms of length. If it is searched by a non-mage, only the items designated as ‘seen’ will be detected within.
Attached to the bag is a mischievous persona, a Gremlin named Pyrix, who is some sort of faerie spirit (chimera) who somehow, accidentally, got woven into the bag when Taryn unwittingly bought fae-touched materials for use in the project. She was trying to push past her known limits in making this, and has since learned how to make the item properly (without gremlins), but she can’t bring herself to destroy the old one, even if the impish Pyrix does drive her crazy sometimes. He mostly offers snarky commentary on her life, as she’s the only one (as far as she knows) who can see him.
Weapons:
| Ranged | Dmg | Range/yd | Rate | Clip | Conceal |
| “Willie,” Smith & Wesson .38 revolver | 4 | 12 | 3 | 6 | P |
| “Klaus,” Sig-Sauer P320 9mm | 5 | 30 | 3 | 10 | J |
| “Steele,” Remington .30-06 Rifle | 8 | 200 | 1 | 5+1 | N |
| “Dean,” Winchester Model 24 double barrel (12 gauge) shotgun | 8 | 10 | 2 | 2 | J |
She has other pistols at her family’s house, in a gun locker, but these are the ones she keeps on hand. She also has swords that are really only good for bashing damage since they’re metal replicas, and several hunting knives of various sizes and configurations. Girl’s a little paranoid.
| Path | Casting Ability roll |
| Alchemy | Intelligence + Science, diff 4+Path Level |
| Conjuration | Intelligence + Esoterica, diff 4+Path Level |
| Enchantment | Intelligence + Crafts, diff 4+Path Level |
| Ephemera | Intelligence + Occult, diff 4+Path Level |
| Mimicry | Intelligence + Art, diff 4+Path Level |
| Dots | Path | Ritual | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| ● | Alchemy | Aunt Callie’s Cold Remedy | A cure for the common cold or flu, at least for 24 hours. It can also halve the recovery time for the illness. |
| ● | Alchemy | Better Setting Spray | holds makeup in place for up to 24 hours without any side effect. Makes an ounce per success. Learned from Noel. |
| ● | Alchemy | Everlasting Sunscreen | This sunscreen will stay on even in water and sweat, and will last and remain effective for 24 hours from application. |
| ● | Alchemy | Groggy-B-Gone | Concentrated magical caffeine that wakes you RIGHT the hell up. (1 dose/success) Learned from Noel. |
| ● | Alchemy | Suck it Up, Buttercup | A drug that lets the user ignore wound penalties up to the Injured level until wounded again. |
| ●● | Alchemy | Firearm Enhancing Cleanser | A cleansing solution that makes any firearm on which it’s used fire at -1 difficulty for the next 10 shots. |
| ●● | Alchemy | The Pain Annihilator | This is simply a nonaddictive superior painkiller that has no side effects at all and does not interact with other medication. (1 dose per success.) Learned from Noel. |
| ●● | Alchemy | Turbo | (per book pg. 20): An energy drink that lets the user go an entire week sleeping one hour per night. As a side effect, he will be a bit jittery during the times he would normally be sleeping. (1 dose/success) |
| ●●● | Alchemy | Supermetal | An extremely strong, light, and easy to work with metal alloy. It can retain an edge forever; melee weapons made from it do an extra die of damage and have –1 difficulty to hit. Armor made with it soaks an extra die of bashing and lethal damage. |
| ●●● | Alchemy | Super Slug Steel | Metal that can be made into a handful of bullets that will inflict a single aggravated level of damage in addition to any other wounds. (Sorcerer’s Companion pg. 34) |
| ● | Conjuration | That’s Where It is! | Allows the sorcerer to enchant an item to allow herself to draw out a single item from an assortment, as needed. Useful for things like finding the right key on a key ring or the one thing you need out of your purse. |
| ●● | Conjuration | Object Permanence | Per the book; attunes items for easier summoning. |
| ● | Enchantment | Eagle-Eye Pistol Grip | A custom handgun grip subtracting one from the difficulty of all aimed shots. |
| ● | Enchantment | Eldritch Mark | (per book pg 29) |
| ● | Enchantment | Personal Mark Charm | creates a handful of Personal Mark items that can be applied to any object for magical identification. Permanent. Learned from Noel. |
| ●● | Enchantment | Enhanced Bullets | Enhanced bullets dealing 2 additional dice of damage on hits. Each success on the Enchantment roll creates one bullet. |
| ●● | Enchantment | Rowan Ring | A rowan ring which counteracts fae magic used on the wearer. This cancels one instance of fae magic per success on the Enchantment roll. |
| ●● | Enchantment | Enhance Craftsmanship | Allows you to make master-quality items. |
| ●● | Enchantment | Super-Sight Shades | This eyewear, rendered as either goggles or a set of sunglasses, allows the wearer to see all forms of magic as auras around the person or item that bears them. Being able to identify that magic depends on Esoterica rolls, however, unless it’s Sorcery. |
| ●● | Enchantment | Universal ID | This is a very generic looking form of identification that looks, to the viewer, like whatever form of ID they are expecting to see, with appropriate seals, markings, and so forth. It will allow the holder to pass ID checks without a second guess, though if they are using a false name with it, they need to prepare it accordingly with a short ritual that involves chanting the new name and information over it accurately three times to make it appear on the card. It can be made in different shapes to mimic different forms of ID (such as passports), but its usual form is a plastic card the size of a credit card. Learned from Noel. |
| ●●● | Enchantment | Favor Candle | A colored candle that, when burned, grants two dots of a Background for the purposes of a one-time favor. |
| ●●● | Enchantment | Bag of Holding | A bag that always weighs 5 pounds and holds up to 10 times its volume in stuff. |
| ● | Ephemera | Identify Spirits | Allows Taryn to detect the presence of spirits in the local area and know what kind they are. |
| ● | Mimicry | Instant Makeover | Allows the caster to quickly do hair and makeup with magic. |
Focus:
| Paradigm: | Embrace the Threshold: We’re on the cusp of transformation. That Which Is is giving way to That Which Will Be, and folks who can’t make the transition will be left behind. Power, then, belongs to those who embrace the threshold and ride the changes into a fast-coming dawn. The old will fall to the new, and all we think we know will become the lost fragments of a dying world. |
| Practices: | Alchemy Craftwork Hypertech Weird Science |
| Instruments: | Personalized: to come Artwork Books/Scrolls/Periodicals Brews, Potions, Powders, other Concoctions Celestial Alignments Circles/Geometric Designs Computers Devices and Machines Formulae/Equations/Advanced Math Gadgets and Inventions Gems/Stones/Minerals Household Tools Lab Gear Mass Media Music Symbols Weapons Writings/Inscriptions/Runes |
| Resonance: | Dynamic: Vibrant ●● Static: Entropic: Ruthless ● |
Projects and plans in progress
- Alchemy ●● : Liquid Drinkbot Matrix — See “Kura.”
- Enchantment ●● : The Drinkbot, “Kura” — named for the restaurant in which she saw the cute little drinkbot that brings drinks to people’s tables. Taryn’s version will synthesize its own materials from a liquid matrix (made with Alchemy) and create whatever beverage the drinker wants. At the moment, the holdup is in how to make the drink matrix work, as it’s currently coming out in weird colors.
- Enchantment ● : Hunter, the Girls’ Best Friend — A ‘personal toy’ designed to respond to the user’s body motions and reactions and change speed, force, and such. Modeled after the many images floating around of Hunter Biden’s penis.
- Enchantment ●● : Spirit Goggles — These are goggles that allow you to see into the spirit world, with a heads-up display along the edges to identify what spirits you’re seeing. (Mimics Ephemera 1)
- Enchantment ●●● : Universal Translator — This is enchanted onto a headset, or onto a dongle that fits into a convenient port on a laptop or tablet. (It morphs to fit the appropriate port.) It will provide instantaneous translation for you of whatever someone is saying to, or around, you. It can only translate one language at a time, however, and it does not translate what you say back to them. You can, however, make more than one and provide them to each party in a conversation.
Other Details
- Car: Taryn drives a metal-flake-cobalt-blue F-150 that shows some sign of wear and tear, but is well-loved. It has several bumper stickers including one that reads, “Keep honking, I’m reloading.” Others include science geekery and fandom slogans and images, along with a big holographic d20 on her back window.
- Enchantment and Alchemy items: Taryn owns one of every permanent magic item she can make, and several of the ‘batch’ items. All of the remedy/enhancement consumables are kept in a special kit in her Bag of Holding.
- Eagle-Eye Pistol grip: one is attached to each of her pistols.
- Enhanced Bullets: one magazine’s worth for each of her firearms.
- Favor Candle: She owns one right now set for Resources in case she needs money in a hurry.
- Personal Mark Charms: Attached to each of her Wonders and her Bag of Holding.
- Rowan Ring: worn on her left hand. 7 Successes on the casting roll: [10, 8, 7, 6, 6, 6, 4, 2]
- Super Sight Shades: Kept in her purse in a hard-sided eyeglass case.
- Universal ID: kept in her wallet.
- Family: The Vicente family is well-known among Etherites as being gifted Sorcerers, particularly in Alchemy. Her superior in skill is her elder cousin Damon who currently lives in LA, who has a doctorate in Chemistry. She wound up in the Society of Ether more by family connection than anything else, and came upon her love of tech more through her appreciation for firearms than anything else. She’s handy at all kinds of crafting, though.
- Musical tastes: Taryn generally likes music older than she is, and isn’t hugely fond of modern mumble rap. You can bring her to tears with Patsy Cline and Dolly Parton.
- Various awards and recognition:
- Taryn has a Master’s degree from CalTech in Physics, summa cum laude.
- She also has a shelf full of awards from shooting competitions from the age of ten or so onward.
- She also has a selection of trophies from convention cosplay competitions, specifically for her more outlandish outfits. Her Ellen-Ripley-in-an-exoskeleton was a big winner and her steampunk outfits always attract positive attention, including the one where she had her own mini-balloon robot following her around. (A modified drone.)
- View of Sleepers: Taryn very much wants to see the Sleepers get a grip on themselves and help the world get ready for the changes magic could give. She is generally a hopeful person, and despite her gun-nut status, is very progressive in her politics.