[CHAR] Into Darkness - A Dungeon World Adventure

[Paraffin]

Zogolli the Sybaritic

Name: Lakmi Zogolli (Goes by Zog or Zogolli, Lakmi is reserved for lovers)
XP: 1
HP Max: 21
HP Current: 21/21
Base Damage: d10
Armor:
Alignment: ???
Look: Shrouded Eyes, Supple Body, Silken Clothes and Unusual Jewelry

A lithesome assemblage of supple muscle and fluid athleticism that is not wont for gravitas, foreign features furrowed by deep laugh lines and deeper scars. Handsome yet hovering at that epicene margin between masculine and not it could be argued he has a certain universal appeal--though none are quite so vocal in the debate as Zogolli himself. Stitched up in silk and bedizened in a bewildering assortment of unusual jewelry his style of dress denotes him as an outsider, estranged from Aabranian norm in many tangible respects.

Race: Human Outsider

Bonds: Max 4

Alexandria is puny and foolish, but amusing to me.

Serah's ways are strange and confusing.

Linoleum is always getting into trouble—I must protect them from themselves.

Linoleum shares my hunger for glory; the earth will tremble at our passing!

Stats: Assign 16(+2), 15(+1), 13(+1), 12(0), 9(0), 8(-1) as you see fit

STR: 12
DEX: 16 (+2)
CON: 13 (+1)
INT: 8 (-1)
WIS: 9
CHAR: 15 (+1)

Gear:

dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight)
more dungeon rations (5 uses, 1 weight)
a Rapier; close, precise, 1 weight
a dagger (hand, 1 weight)
Adventuring Gear (5 uses, 1 weight)
More Adventuring Gear (5 uses, 1 weight)
A pickled fairy, a token of his homeland.

Ammo:
Coin:
Load: 6/20

Starting Moves

Herculean Appetites

Others may content themselves with just a taste of wine, or dominion over a servant or two, but you want more. Choose two appetites. While pursuing one of your appetites if you would roll for a move, instead of rolling 2d6 you roll 1d6+1d8. If the d6 is the higher die of the pair, the GM will also introduce a complication or danger that comes about due to your heedless pursuits.

Pure destruction
Power over others *
Mortal pleasures *
Conquest
Riches and property
Fame and glory


The Upper Hand

You take +1 ongoing to last breath rolls. When you take your last breath, on a 7–9 you make an offer to Death in return for your life. If Death accepts he will return you to life. If not, you die.


Musclebound

While you wield a weapon it gains the forceful and messy tags.


What Are You Waiting For?

When you cry out a challenge to your enemies, roll+Con.

On a 10+ they treat you as the most obvious threat to be dealt with and ignore your companions, take +2 damage ongoing against them.
On a 7–9 only a few (the weakest or most foolhardy among them) fall prey to your taunting.


Full Plate and Packing Steel

You ignore the clumsy tag on armor you wear.

Advanced Moves:

[ClocktowerEchos]

"Bard" Linoleum

Name: Linoleum the Voice of the Gong
XP: 0
HP Max: 6+Con
HP Current: 15/15
Base Damage: d6
Armor:
Alignment: Chaotic
Look: Fiery Eyes, Wild Hair, Fine Clothes, Fit Body
Race: Human Male

Bonds: Max 4

Clicky

This is not my first adventure with _______________ .

I sang stories of _______________ long before I ever met them in person.

_______________ is often the butt of my jokes.

I am writing a ballad about the adventures of Zogolli .

Serah trusted me with a secret.

Alexandria does not trust me, and for good reason.

Stats:
STR: 15(+1)
DEX: 13(+1)
CON: 9(0)
INT: 12(0)
WIS: 8(-1)
CHA: 16(+2)

Gear:

• Stolen Hand Gong (0 weight)
• Ostentatious clothes (0 weight)
• Halfling Pipeleaf; 6 uses, 5 coins, 0 weight)
• Dungeon Rations (5 uses, 1 weight)

Ammo: N/A
Coin: 0
Load: 1/9+15

Starting Moves:

Clicky

Human

When you first enter a civilized settlement someone who respects the custom of hospitality to minstrels will take you in as their guest.

Arcane Art

When you weave a performance into a basic spell, choose an ally and an effect:

Heal 1d8 damage
+1d4 forward to damage
Their mind is shaken clear of one enchantment
The next time someone successfully assists the target with aid, they get +2 instead of +1
Then roll+Cha.

✴ On a 10+, the ally gets the selected effect.

✴ On a 7-9, your spell still works, but you draw unwanted attention or your magic reverberates to other targets affecting them as well, GM’s choice.

Bardic Lore

Choose an area of expertise:

Spells and Magicks
The Dead and Undead
Grand Histories of the Known World
A Bestiary of Creatures Unusual
The Planar Spheres
Legends of Heroes Past
Gods and Their Servants

When you first encounter an important creature, location, or item (your call) covered by your bardic lore you can ask the GM any one question about it; the GM will answer truthfully. The GM may then ask you what tale, song, or legend you heard that information in.

Charming and Open

When you speak frankly with someone, you can ask their player a question from the list below. They must answer it truthfully, then they may ask you a question from the list (which you must answer truthfully).

Whom do you serve?
What do you wish I would do?
How can I get you to?
What are you really feeling right now?
What do you most desire?

A Port in the Storm

When you return to a civilized settlement you’ve visited before, tell the GM when you were last here. They’ll tell you how it’s changed since then.

Advanced Moves:

[Grey]

The Not!Cleric

Name: Alexandria Belladonna
XP: 0
HP Max: 20
HP Current: 20/20
Base Damage: d6
Armor: 1
Alignment: Lawful - Endanger yourself following the precepts of your church or god.
Look: Sharp Eyes; Strange Hair; Flowing Robes; Thin Body
At first glance, an obvious (if slightly out of fashion) example of Aabranian nobility. Her elaborately-styled hair - long, earthy, and braided with deadly nightshade into a low-set bun - and the brand on her exposed forearm are particularly dead giveaways. Upon closer inspection however, the state of her affairs becomes more clear in the lack of ostentation. Her features are particularly plain, and perhaps she could have been attractive once, but spiritual nourishment has left her eyes cold and her body diminished.
Race: Human - Your faith is diverse. Choose one wizard spell. You can cast and be granted that spell as if it was a cleric spell.

Bonds

• Linoleum has insulted my deity; I do not trust them.
• Serah is a good and faithful person; I trust them implicitly.
• Zogolli is in constant danger, I will keep them safe.
• I am working on converting ____ to my faith.

Stats
STR: 8 (-1)
DEX: 9 (0)
CON: 12 (0)
INT: 15 (+1)
WIS: 16 (+2)
CHA: 13 (+1)

Gear

• Holy Symbol (0 weight) - Stylization of a five-petaled flower framed by six symmetrically placed wings, with a short, pointed stem. On a brooch.
• Dungeon Rations (10 uses, 2 weight)
• Chainmail (1 armor, 1 weight)
• Staff (close, two-handed, 1 weight)
• Bandages (6 uses, slow, 0 weight)
• Antitoxin (0 weight)
• Adventuring Gear (1 weight)

Ammo:
Coin: 0 [All Assets Frozen]
Load: 5/18

Deity - Lealope
Domain: Knowledge and Hidden Things
Petition: Gaining Secrets

Strictly speaking not a deity, but rather the powerful demonic patroness of Alexandria's family. Self-identifies as female.

Appearance has been described by Alexandria as resembling a grotesque angel with too many wings. Additionally, the sickeningly sweet scent of deadly flowers seems to linger for a short period after her visitations.

Other information to be revealed.

Starting Moves

• Divine Guidance
  When you petition your deity according to the precept of your religion, you are granted some useful knowledge or boon related to your deity’s domain. The GM will tell you what.
• Turn Undead
  When you hold your holy symbol aloft and call on your deity for protection, roll+Wis.
  • On a 7+, so long as you continue to pray and brandish your holy symbol, no undead may come within reach of you.
  • On a 10+, you also momentarily daze intelligent undead and cause mindless undead to flee. Aggression breaks the effects and they are able to act as normal. Intelligent undead may still find ways to harry you from afar. They’re clever like that.
• Commune
  When you spend uninterrupted time (an hour or so) in quiet communion with your deity, you:
  • Lose any spells already granted to you.
  • Are granted new spells of your choice whose total levels don’t exceed your own level+1, and none of which is a higher level than your own level.
  • Prepare all of your rotes, which never count against your limit.
• Cast a Spell
  When you unleash a spell granted to you by your deity, roll+Wis.
  • On a 10+, the spell is successfully cast and your deity does not revoke the spell, so you may cast it again.
  • On a 7–9, the spell is cast, but choose one:
    • You draw unwelcome attention or put yourself in a spot. The GM will tell you how.
    • Your casting distances you from your deity—take -1 ongoing to cast a spell until the next time you commune.
    • After you cast it, the spell is revoked by your deity. You cannot cast the spell again until you commune and have it granted to you.
    Note that maintaining spells with ongoing effects will sometimes cause a penalty to your roll to cast a spell.

Advanced Moves

Spells

• Light (Level Rote)
  An item you touch glows with divine light, about as bright as a torch. It gives off no heat or sound and requires no fuel but is otherwise like a mundane torch. You have complete control of the color of the flame. The spell lasts as long as it is in your presence.
• Sanctify (Level Rote)
  Food or water you hold in your hands while you cast this spell is consecrated by your deity. In addition to now being holy or unholy, the affected substance is purified of any mundane spoilage.
• Guidance (Level Rote)
  The symbol of your deity appears before you and gestures towards the direction or course of action your deity would have you take then disappears. The message is through gesture only; your communication through this spell is severely limited.
• Bless (Level 1 Ongoing)
  Your deity smiles upon a combatant of your choice. They take +1 ongoing so long as battle continues and they stand and fight. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.
• Cure Light Wounds (Level 1)
  At your touch wounds scab and bones cease to ache. Heal an ally you touch of 1d8 damage.
• Detect Alignment (Level 1)
  When you cast this spell choose an alignment: Good, Evil, Lawful, or Chaotic. One of your senses is briefly able to detect that alignment. The GM will tell you what here is of that alignment.
• Cause Fear (Level 1 Ongoing)
  Choose a target you can see and a nearby object. The target is afraid of the object so long as you maintain the spell. Their reaction is up to them: flee, panic, beg, fight. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell. You cannot target entities with less than animal intelligence (magical constructs, undead, automatons, and the like).
• Magic Missile (Level 1)
  Projectiles of pure magic spring from your fingers. Deal 2d4 damage to one target.
• Magic Weapon (Level 1 Ongoing)
  The weapon you hold while casting does +1d4 damage until you dismiss this spell. While this spell is ongoing you take -1 to cast a spell.
• Sanctuary (Level 1)
  As you cast this spell, you walk the perimeter of an area, consecrating it to your deity. As long as you stay within that area you are alerted whenever someone acts with malice within the sanctuary (including entering with harmful intent). Anyone who receives healing within a sanctuary heals +1d4 HP.
• Speak With Dead (Level 1)
  A corpse converses with you briefly. It will answer any three questions you pose to it to the best of the knowledge it had in life and the knowledge it gained in death.

[Leoven]

Socially Awkward Nerd

Name: Serah
XP: 0
HP Max: 19
HP Current: 19/19
Base Damage: d6
Armor: Hide
Alignment: Neutral
Look: Haunting eyes; Furry hood; Weathered hides

Race: Halfling Female

Bonds:

Alexandria smells more like prey than a hunter.

The spirits spoke to me of a great danger that follows Zogolli.

I have showed Linoleum a secret rite of the Land.

Stats:
STR: 9(0)
DEX: 15(+1)
CON: 13(+1)
INT: 12(0)
WIS: 16(+2)
CHA: 8(-1)

Gear:
Hide armor (1 armor, 1 weight)
Spear (close, thrown, near, 1 weight)
Poultices and herbs (2 uses, 1 weight)

Ammo: 0
Coin: 0
Load: 3/15

Starting Moves:

Hider

Halfling

You sing the healing songs of spring and brook. When you make camp, you and your allies heal +1d6.

Born of the Soil

You learned your magic in a place whose spirits are strong and ancient and they’ve marked you as one of their own. No matter where you go, they live within you and allow you to take their shape. Choose one of the following. It is the land to which you are attuned—when shapeshifting you may take the shape of any animal who might live in your Land.

The Frozen North: If your huddled clothing and snow-white hair isn't indication enough, your left arm is no longer flesh but one made from permafrost crystal. You maintain sentient control and flexibility over the limb despite its structure. This mark remains through your transformations.

By Nature Sustained

You don’t need to eat or drink. If a move tells you to mark off a ration just ignore it.

Spirit Tongue

The grunts, barks, chirps, and calls of the creatures of the wild are as language to you. You can understand any animal native to your land or akin to one whose essence you have studied.

Shapeshifter

When you call upon the spirits to change your shape, roll+Wis. On a 10+ hold 3. On a 7–9 hold 2. On a miss hold 1 in addition to whatever the GM says.

You may take on the physical form of any species whose essence you have studied or who lives in your land: you and your possessions meld into a perfect copy of the species’ form. You have any innate abilities and weaknesses of the form: claws, wings, gills, breathing water instead of air. You still use your normal stats but some moves may be harder to trigger—a housecat will find it hard to do battle with an ogre. The GM will also tell you one or more moves associated with your new form. Spend 1 hold to make that move. Once you’re out of hold, you return to your natural form. At any time, you may spend all your hold and revert to your natural form.

Studied Essence

When you spend time in contemplation of an animal spirit, you may add its species to those you can assume using shapeshifting.

Advanced Moves:

[Duthguy]

Hider

Name: Robin
XP:
HP Max: 21
HP Current: 21/21
Base Damage: d8
Armor: leather
Alignment: Neutral
Look: Shifty Eyes, Hooded Head, Lithe Body
Race: Human

Bonds: I stole something from Zogolli

Stats: Assign 16(+2), 15(+1), 13(+1), 12(0), 9(0), 8(-1) as you see fit
STR: 8 (-1)
DEX: 16 (+2)
CON: 15 (+1)
INT: 13 (+1)
WIS: 12 (0)
CHA: 9 (0)

Gear:
Dagger (hand, 1 weight)
short sword (close, 1 weight)
Ragged Bow (near, 2 weight)
bundle of arrows (3 ammo, 1 weight)
Adventuring gear (5 uses, 1 weight)
dungeon rations (4 uses, 1 weight)
leather armor (1 armor, 1 weight)
Oil of Tagit (3 uses no weight)
Antitoxin (no weight)
Bandages (3 uses, no weight)
Ammo: 3
Coin: 10
Load: 9/17

Starting Moves:

Hider

Human

You are a professional. When you spout lore or discern realities about criminal activities, take +1.

Trap Expert

When you spend a moment to survey a dangerous area, roll+DEX.

✴ On a 10+, hold 3.

✴ On a 7–9, hold 1. Spend your hold as you walk through the area to ask these questions:

Is there a trap here and if so, what activates it?
What does the trap do when activated?
What else is hidden here?

Tricks of the Trade

When you pick locks or pockets or disable traps, roll+DEX.

✴ On a 10+, you do it, no problem.

✴ On a 7–9, you still do it, but the GM will offer you two options between suspicion, danger, or cost.

Backstab

When you attack a surprised or defenseless enemy with a melee weapon, you can choose to deal your damage or roll+DEX.

✴ On a 10+ choose two.

✴ On a 7–9 choose one.

You don’t get into melee with them
You deal your damage+1d6
You create an advantage, +1 forward to you or an ally acting on it
Reduce their armor by 1 until they repair it
Flexible Morals

When someone tries to detect your alignment you can tell them any alignment you like.

Poisoner

You’ve mastered the care and use of a poison. Choose a poison from the list below; that poison is no longer dangerous for you to use. You also start with three uses of the poison you choose. Whenever you have time to gather materials and a safe place to brew you can make three uses of the poison you choose for free. Note that some poisons are applied, meaning you have to carefully apply it to the target or something they eat or drink. Touch poisons just need to touch the target, they can even be used on the blade of a weapon.

Oil of Tagit (applied): The target falls into a light sleep
Bloodweed (touch): The target deals -1d4 damage ongoing until cured
Goldenroot (applied): The target treats the next creature they see as a trusted ally, until proved otherwise
Serpent’s Tears (touch): Anyone dealing damage to the target rolls twice and takes the better result.

Advanced Moves: