Thaddeus
Character Info
Class: Fortean
Level: 2
Need 0 more completed missions to reach level 3 (4 recorded).
Completed Missions: 2
Commissary Reward: 2
Perks earned: 1
Perks spent: 0
Perks remaining: 1
Personality
Recent Missions
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Operation Desert Hawk
Invalid date - success -
Stoning of the Snake Wizard
Mar 2, 2026 - success
Stats
Baseline Vitality
Get someone’s attention in a busy room.
Heartening: Clear up a bruise.
Baseline Might
Lift your own bodyweight.
Baseline Resilience
Survive several minutes of severe bleeding.
+ Spirit
See fear in someone’s eyes.
Intuition: Confirm that a mysterious stranger is a friend.
+ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Glow brightly.
Baseline Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after two Mid Costs.
Defiance: Skydive despite being scared to do so.
+ Sensory
Detect a subtle change in wind speed/direction.
+ Reflex
Slowly cross a tightrope.
Baseline Vigor
Run up a three story staircase in under 20 seconds.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after a pilates session.
+ Skill
Safely toss a knife to yourself without looking.
Expertise — Wrestling: Armbar an untrained person who’s larger than you.
++ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm a secret passage’s presence based on an untraceable breeze.
Expertise — Computers: Hack a mainframe first try.
+ Luck
Happenstance: A harmful strike becomes a glancing blow.
Class Abilities
You recall a cold case that bears an eerie resemblance to the scene.
(Low essence, Mid cooldown)
Pitch a historical crime, case, or other event that bears an uncanny resemblance to what’s currently happening.
You may make a free Deduction based on details that you discover at the current scene which are congruent with your Pitched event.
On success, you may receive an Insight about the scene that you may have otherwise missed.
Paired Action: Briefly describe another crime, case, or event and the coinciding details with the current scene. E.g. “This is exactly like the Davenport disappearances, 10 years ago…”
You make an outlandish connection between several elements – that somehow turns out to be true.
(Low-High essence, Low-High cooldown)
Pitch a connection between two or more elements of the mission. Conduit is encouraged to give Insights that suggest additional connections. You may repeat this once or twice, scaling cost/cooldown.
You must explain your theory out loud to someone and it must be based on evidence.
Paired Action: Describe the available evidence aloud while gesticulating wildly, then plausibly connect seemingly unrelated things.
Expertly slip into and briefly through a restricted area, bypassing both mundane and supernatural detection.
(Mid essence, Low duration, Mid cooldown)
You must Pitch the various ways in which you evade security or gain entry.
While active you are subtly ignored by all forms of surveillance.
Directly interacting with anyone for more than a moment or causing any kind of disturbance will cause the ability to end prematurely.
Paired Action: Time your approach carefully, observing the gaps in security, waiting for just the right moment before making your move.
Signature Gear
a heavy-duty one-handed flashlight, sturdy enough to be used as a baton. May reveal traces of supernatural activity.
a long black coat granting some environmental protection. While worn, law enforcement and other authority figures are more willing to work with you.
a pen-sized chrome cylinder. Activate to emit a flash that renders up to three targets compliant for Low duration. Targets must be nearby, non-aggressive, and sentient. (Mid Cooldown)
a plastic ID badge with your face and name. You may update the credentials it provides via Pitch, credentials you have seen are easier to copy. (Low cooldown)
Level Up — Thaddeus
Current level 2. Promoting to level 3 requires 0 more completed missions (4 / 4 recorded).
Stats
Adjust points if your level-up grants new allocation. Total: 0.
Baseline Vitality
Get someone’s attention in a busy room.
Heartening: Clear up a bruise.
+ Vitality
Nonverbally hold someone’s interest.
Heartening: Restore a Mid Cost’s worth of Stamina or Essence.
++ Vitality
Draw focus of a crowd away from a scuffle.
Heartening: Close up a deep cut.
+++ Vitality
Keep someone talking even as they try to kill you.
Heartening: Knit a broken bone.
++++ Vitality
Tempt a bloodthirsty monster away from helpless prey.
Heartening: Restore a full Threshold of Stamina or Essence.
+++++ Vitality
Distract a regiment of trained soldiers from a battle at hand.
Heartening: Reattach a severed limb (with imperfect recovery of function).
Baseline Might
Lift your own bodyweight.
+ Might
Crush an apple one-handed.
++ Might
Rip a college textbook in half.
+++ Might
Lift one end of a car.
++++ Might
Overhead press an entire car.
+++++ Might
Throw a car a dozen yards.
Baseline Resilience
Survive several minutes of severe bleeding.
+ Resilience
Pop a dislocated shoulder back in without flinching.
++ Resilience
Endure full-body immolation for over a minute.
+++ Resilience
Take a baseball bat straight to the chest with barely a bruise.
++++ Resilience
Survive a pistol shot to the skull without losing consciousness.
+++++ Resilience
Grab a swinging sword without it even breaking skin.
Baseline Spirit
See through a clumsy lie.
Intuition: Confirm that someone is being sarcastic.
+ Spirit
See fear in someone’s eyes.
Intuition: Confirm that a mysterious stranger is a friend.
++ Spirit
Pick out unspoken tension between two people in a group.
Intuition: Confirm that great danger is imminent.
+++ Spirit
See past a carefully crafted facade.
Intuition: Confirm the nature of an unknown magic.
++++ Spirit
Determine the sentimental value of an object.
Intuition: Confirm a condemned man’s innocence despite all evidence to the contrary.
+++++ Spirit
Get a sense of what recently happened in a room you enter.
Intuition: Confirm a secret that not a single other soul knows.
Baseline Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Light a cigarette with a snap of the fingers.
+ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Glow brightly.
++ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Dictate to a pen while it autonomously transcribes your words.
+++ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Hurl a head-sized fireball.
++++ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Animate a suit of armor to briefly fight at your side.
+++++ Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Drain a target’s life through prolonged touch.
Baseline Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after two Mid Costs.
Defiance: Skydive despite being scared to do so.
+ Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after seven Low Costs.
Defiance: Become fully lucid for a few moments during Red Essence Exhaustion.
++ Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after three Mid Costs.
Defiance: Briefly ignore the pain of a broken limb.
+++ Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after two High Costs.
Defiance: Remain conscious even after several minutes without air.
++++ Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after five Mid Costs.
Defiance: Lock eyes with a gorgon without turning to stone.
+++++ Will
Essence: Drop a Threshold after three High Costs.
Defiance: Safely handle a cursed artifact known to kill anyone who touches it.
Baseline Sensory
20/20 vision.
+ Sensory
Detect a subtle change in wind speed/direction.
++ Sensory
Smell poison in a drink.
+++ Sensory
Hear someone’s breathing through a solid wall.
++++ Sensory
Count the number of people in a small crowd at a glance.
+++++ Sensory
Pick out the heartbeat of someone buried alive.
Baseline Reflex
Climb a rope.
+ Reflex
Slowly cross a tightrope.
++ Reflex
Backflip on a tightrope.
+++ Reflex
Quickly cram yourself into a square box a third your height.
++++ Reflex
Comfortably land a 3-story drop unscathed.
+++++ Reflex
Walk in someone’s shadow, matching every movement, without being noticed.
Baseline Vigor
Run up a three story staircase in under 20 seconds.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after a pilates session.
+ Vigor
Keep pace with a casual cyclist.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after sprinting a mile.
++ Vigor
Throw 60 full-power punches in a minute.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after jogging a marathon.
+++ Vigor
Keep pace with a horse.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after 10 minutes of max-intensity combat.
++++ Vigor
With a running start, leap clean across a four-lane street.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after sprinting a marathon.
+++++ Vigor
Keep pace with a car on the highway.
Stamina: Drop a Threshold after summiting a mountain at top speed.
Baseline Skill
Catch a thrown object one-handed.
Expertise — Piano: Play a simple, two-handed piece.
+ Skill
Safely toss a knife to yourself without looking.
Expertise — Wrestling: Armbar an untrained person who’s larger than you.
++ Skill
Balance a pyramid of filled wine glasses at a brisk walk.
Expertise — Driving: Powerslide into a perfect parallel park.
+++ Skill
Effortlessly hit a bullseye.
Expertise — Painting: Produce a photorealistic portrait in minutes.
++++ Skill
Catch a fly between two fingers without killing it.
Expertise — Surgery: Perform an open-heart operation solo.
+++++ Skill
Cut a bullet mid-flight.
Expertise — Lockpicking: Open a tumbler lock in seconds without any tools.
Baseline Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm that a clean knife was recently used.
Expertise — A Local Language: Know the name of that language and a basic greeting.
+ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm that a fleeing suspect has doubled back when the trail goes cold.
Expertise — Cartography: Decipher a strange map.
++ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm a secret passage’s presence based on an untraceable breeze.
Expertise — Computers: Hack a mainframe first try.
+++ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm that someone is a dentist by the way they hold a pen.
Expertise — Entomology: Recite any fact about any local species of ant.
++++ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm a villain’s master plan based on the password to his computer.
Expertise — Chemistry: Create a potent explosive out of pantry ingredients.
+++++ Intelligence
Deduction: Confirm the precise time and cause of a death from a single drop of blood.
Expertise — Stock Trading: Quadruple an investment in minutes.
Baseline Luck
Happenstance: Find an inconsequential object.
+ Luck
Happenstance: A harmful strike becomes a glancing blow.
++ Luck
Happenstance: Find a useful object convenient to hand.
+++ Luck
Happenstance: An enemy improbably misses an easy killing blow.
++++ Luck
Happenstance: A critical item happens to be left unattended in your presence.
+++++ Luck
Happenstance: Clean out a poker table without once needing to bluff.
Abilities
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