Big Churu
Character Info
Class: Swindler
Level: 1
Owner: MushroomPlant
Need 0 more completed missions to reach level 2 (2 recorded).
Completed Missions: 1
Commissary Reward: 1
Perks earned: 0
Perks spent: 0
Perks remaining: 0
Personality
Recent Missions
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Talents Shown
Oct 2, 2026 - success -
Arbitrating Assholes and Aliens
Sep 8, 2026 - success
Stats
+ Vitality
Nonverbally hold someone’s interest.
Heartening: Restore a Mid Cost’s worth of Stamina or Essence.
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.
Baseline Arcane (Without Sacrifice)
Manifestation: Light a cigarette with a snap of the fingers.
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.
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.
+ Luck
Happenstance: A harmful strike becomes a glancing blow.
Class Abilities
Spot someone’s “tell” to make a Query (M) about their emotional state or intentions, also learning about their wealth whilst doing so.
Convince someone to invest into a profitable scheme run by you, with promised and totally real returns.
Offer someone to bet on something.
Signature Gear
Three small containers and a ball that fits under them, appearance of which is Pitched when you pull them out first.
A pouch with some jetons inside, appearance and worth of which are Pitched upon retrieval (e.g. poker chips).
A short hat with a wide, sweeping brim, decorated with small ornaments.
A plain-looking deck of playing cards, marked with magical ink.
A coin with heads on both of its sides.
Appearance
A pleasantly plump grey cat with a small bag with gambling stuff
Background
Mister Twinkle-Muffins learned from a young age that the world was a cruel, cruel place. No matter how hard he begged, his owners wouldn't give him second dinners. That was... until he realized he could switch out the bowls and distract one of his owners, so the other would believe he hadn't been fed. He continued expanding upon these skills, expanding beyond just tricking his owners. Soon enough he had all of the fanciest things a cat could want, sourced from all those around the neighborhood who would fall for his schemes.
His owners eventually were unable to support him (in large part due to the financial strain his antics put upon them). They moved away to a new apartment that did not allow pets and gave Mister Twinkle-Muffins up for adoption. The Boi was not having that at all, and managed to sneak away, finding a local casino that took him in.
At first he was just an unofficial "mascot," but the casino soon realized that his skills could help them. He made them a LOT of money tricking customers. One of them even bet their ability to talk, which Mister Twinkle-Muffins swiped for himself (it's proven quite useful). Eventually, he amassed enough wealth that he managed to scheme the owners out of their stake in the enterprise and rebranded it as the Twinkle-Muffins Totally Legal Catsino.
This ended up busted by the feds fairly quickly due to Mister Twinkle-Muffins' egregious money laundering, but he managed to utilize his connections to pivot into other illicit adventures, and started operating under the alias "Big Churu" to avoid the heat his old name had started to catch. He currently runs a scam call center targeting elderly people who don't like pets.
He treats his friends well, but has very little moral qualms scamming... anyone.
He joined the Enclave because he wants more money.
Flavor
(One extra merx from swindling on first mission)
Level Up — Big Churu
Current level 1. Promoting to level 2 requires 0 more completed missions (2 / 2 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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