Please help flesh out my first fated

[Soseito]

My wife and I decded to look into the TTB game and try to make a few characters. I created a character named Hector Von Quiby.

I Went into creation wanting to create a Mcmourning like character that was a doctor who wanted to create the perfect body out of perfect parts. His thing would have been that he believed that there were no perfect people only perfect parts and that he couldn't stand ugliness.

I wanted him to raise zombies and eventually go mad and start creating abominations.

 

Character developmet however wanted things to be slightly different.

The card I flipped for the station was the red joker. So apparently my doctor was kidnapped by neverborn as a baby and spent his childhood wandering through peoples dreams and nightmares. He returned/was sent to malifaux by the neverborn for some insidious reason.

The rest of the cards flipped were as follows. The western card a 13 of crows, the northern card a 11 of crows, the eastern card a 2 of masks, and lastly the southern card a 6 of rams.

Assigning the numbers and my two stat points gave me this setup: M+1, G-1, S-1, R+3, C-3, C+2, T+1, I=0

 

Still wanting to go along the abomination path I picked the following skills as my root skills: Counterspelling(station bonus), Necromancy, Pneumatic, Artefacting, Stitching.

And for my endeavor skills: Engineering, Harness soulstone, Intimidate, Toughness, Labor.

 

At the moment I figure the reason the neverborn sent him to malifaux would be to raise undead hordes to disrupt guild supply lines over time to make neverborn raids much more successful. So going off of that, I have him slightly fluffed out as follows:

Due to spending so much time growing up in the dream world he isn't too strong, graceful, or agile. Having learned his social mannerisms from the neverborn he isn't able to communicate his thoughts or feelings too well with "normal" people. He smiles just a bit too widely and his eyes seem a bit too large. His facial features and social quirks make him a uncomfortable presence for most folk.

During his first attempt to raise a zombie he failed to assert control and the zombie destroyed (ripped off?) one of his arms before he was able to destroy it. Due to being in the quarentine zone and not exactly in anyone's good graces he had to forage for scraps and attempt to create a substitute arm. The resulting arm was barely enough to be considered functional. Over time he salvaged constructs for soulstone fragments and more parts to improve the functinality of his arm. Over time he started grafting pates of light metal from his shoulder radiating outward to his chest creating a armor of sorts to prevent any further undead-assisted modifications.

 

The tarot reading gave me the following message once inverted:

Once you rise from the ashes,

He will shade your tired eyes and wet your thirsty lips,

But as fate grows weary of your follies,

The mute man must cry out for the wolf,

And you will die.

 

Now my wife wanted to play a performer who was a neverborn in disguise. The neverborn would be traveling with the doctor to keep an eye on him or could be with him because she was a childhood friend/associate/whatever.

 

Going off of the tarot I've thought up this interpretation: The doctor came back from the brink of death and made himself stronger by attaching a mechanical limb. He then recieves aid in his mission by means of the performer joining him and bringing her skills and contacts to the mix. However after going against the wishes of their patron the neverborn become very displeased with them. One such time a neverborn would take control of a especially nasty construct or undead and rend the doctor into pieces.

Maybe at that time I can have the doctor come back as a undead/construct hybrid and get revenge on his former patron.

 

So what does everybody think for a first attempt? On that note does anybody know of how to create a abomination without having to take the grave spirit advanced pursuit and get a red joker?

[Mason]

That looks pretty good!

 

If you have Into the Steam, the Animator Pursuit seems like it might be right up the doctor's alley. It would allow him to quickly turn pieces of scraps/corpses into small abomination-like creatures known as Cobbled, which would fit with the Neverborn wanting him to churn out undead to harass the Guild's supply lines.

 

Drudge or Augmented (from Into the Steam) would be good choices for a start, as either way they would allow him to begin with a good prosthetic arm to match his backstory. Then you could roll in the necromancy in subsequent sessions.

[Victoria]

Those prosthetic arms are definitely hard to get without starting with them, depending on the script your fatemaster allows you to earn with your adventures. 

 

If you are going to be sabotaging guild supply lines, it would make sense that you would be doing some manual labor somewhere within those supply lines, therefore the drudge pursuit to start with might make sense for the character.

 

(I know nothing about augmented as I haven't had time to read my into the steam book yet!)

[Soseito]

For now I would be running the game for my wife while playing a few side characters. I decided I would have him start as a graverobber with access to heal and subsume corpse. Since the arm is pretty important to hisbackstory I figured it woudn't be game breaking to have him start with a poorly self made one for 6 scrip with a damage of 0/1/2. This way he can still have an arm while being able to purchace a second pair of pants.

I do not yet have the into the steam, but since the webstore will be open on the 5th (yay payday!) I plan to fix that.