So here it is....
Character: Leonard “Leo” Carter Mason
High Concept: Magical Engineer
Trouble: The Stuff I Make Are Hot Commodities
Other Aspects: Always Prepared, Just Because Your Paranoid Doesn’t Mean There Isn’t An Invisible Demon About to Eat Your Face, My Mentor the Warden, Violence Really Can Solve Most Problems
Backstory:
Leonard or Leo as he prefers to be called was born into a fairly well off upper middle class family, his father worked as an aeronautical engineer who built planes for the US Air Force, his mom also a full time career person who served as a software programmer for a leading technology company.
His mom and dad rarely being home left Leo to his own thoughts and devices. In the later years of his childhood he basically raised and took care of himself. So long as he kept his grades up, and stayed out of trouble (which he did) they more often then not just left him alone.
Wanting their approval Leo tried his hardest to make them notice him. He joined the Engineering Club in his high school, and learned all about designing and creating things. Soon what was formerly just a bid for attention became his hobby and obsession. Leo had for the first time in his life found something he was truly passionate about.
His gambit to make his parents actually notice him failed, he became secluded into his hobby, always working to improve his designs and inventions. After Graduating High School with top marks, he went to college to get a degree in architecture and engineering. It was here in his freshmen year of college that his magical ability manifested.
At first it started out small, sometimes when he picked up an object like say a stapler he instinctively knew how it worked and how to make it more efficient in general. Soon though, it evolved moving from simple improvements to full on creation. Whenever he needed something to accomplish one task or another, his mind would fill itself with ideas of how to put together an impromptu invention which would solve his problems easily.
It was when this was starting that, fortunately, he met his mentor, Justin Daily. Leo was rushing from his dorm room to the school as he was running late for an exam he bumped into Justin…Literally. He knocked the older gentlemen off his feet in his hurry. Stopping in his tracks from the encounter he helped his elder up. Completely forgetting about his exam in his worry, he walked Daily back to his dorm room, and got him some ice for the bulging red lump on his head. After doing so the pair started talking, from one topic to the next.
Just as Daily was about to leave, he accidentally dropped a small coin with a strange symbol on it. As Justin reached down to pick it up, Leo beat him to the punch line, just as he touched it, he felt the power and intended effects within. It was a simple single use enchantment which created a flash and a bang to distract a foe. As Mason handed it to Daily he told him off hand the coin would work better if he used a stronger ink like blood to strengthen the potency of the charm. Clapping a hand over his hand Leo wondered just what he said, fore before this point he always took his ability at designing things to be mundane, just an over active mind.
Realizing what he had found, Justin revealed himself to be a Warden of the White Council and clued Leo in to the facts of how the supernatural still and always had existed. Somehow managing to take this revelation in stride the young Architect became the Wardens unofficial apprentice.
Finding himself with virtually zero ability towards evocation, Leonard focused his studies on Thaumaturgy and other more detail oriented magic’s. In that arena he was (and is) king, no doubt about it. He can do things with wards, rituals and enchantments that you couldn’t believe one so young (for a spell caster) could do. He makes up for his lack of talent in “thug magic” with a variety of magical devices he has constructed. He might not be able to summon up a blast of fire by himself, but he does a six inch wooden rod that can with a flick of the wrist and a thought send out a white hot laser capable of cutting through just about anything you could care to name. Being so dependent on his devices, he makes sure he is prepared for anything. After all their is no such thing as being over prepared right?
Now out of college, holding a job as a building engineer for a local contractor, he splits his time between work, putting together new and better enchantments, and “testing” them on various baddies in his city. Who says you can’t mix work and pleasure, after all there is nothing better for relieving stress then burning a vampire to cinders.
Primary Aspects:
High Concept:
Magical Engineer – Leo builds things, he’s good at it, in fact he doubts anyone is better. He always has something to get the job done in his bag of tricks, and if he doesn’t then give him a couple of hours and he will.
Invoke: When he or his ally’s have a problem when no solution is immediately obvious.
Compel: When trouble is coming at him and he needs something to save his ass.
Trouble:
The Stuff I Make Are Hot Commodities- The problem with making things that are better then everyone else’s is that they want to take your things. Sometimes its just a friend in need, but every so often a baddie gets it into their head that they should try and take your things for themselves.
Invoke: When someone comes looking for Leo to get something from him, whether friend or foe.
Compel: When someone comes knocking on Leo’s door for help or one of his many, many genius works of art!
Other Aspects
Always Prepared – Leo is constantly looking out for ways to better ready himself to trouble, you never know when you might need something. This lets him keep his cool in the face of trouble, if you can deal with it, after all, why worry?
Invoke: When coming up on threat or problem Leo may face.
Compel: When a ‘curveball’ is thrown at him, can make him over confident at a critical moment.
Just Because Your Paranoid Doesn’t Mean There Isn’t An Invisible Demon About to Eat Your Face – A down side of being in the know, is that you also become paranoid, jumping at shadows, and generally tending to overreact to innocent situations.
Invoke- When something suspicious is going on, or he thinks he is about to be ambushed.
Compel- As needed when appropriate, paranoia doesn’t need a reason.
My Mentor the Warden - His teacher is a Warden Commander in Europe, and sometimes he occasionally needs help, other times you want his advice. In any case he’s there to help so long as you don’t break any of the Laws.
Invoke: When you want the White Councils help and/or attention.
Compel: When Daily needs your help.
Violence Really Can Solve Most Problems- Who said violence is never the answer; there wrong or stupid or both. There are problems out there that’s only solution is to kick down the door and squish the problem in question like a bug.
Invoke: When committing a violent act.
Compel: When someone really needs to be squished, or burned, to cut in two…
Skills:
Superb: Lore,
Great: Craftsmanship, Discipline,
Good: Conviction, Weapons,
Fair: Athletics, Empathy, Resources,
Average: Alertness, Endurance, Guns, Presence, Scholarship,
Powers:
Thaumaturgy [-3]
Refinement [-4]
Total: -7 Refresh
Specializations:
Thaumaturgy: Crafting (Strength +2, Frequency +1)
Items:
Armored Coat [8 shift Block or Armor: 4, 4 times per session](3 Enchanted Item Slots)
Laser Wand [Weapon 5 Attack targetted with Discipline, 4 times per session] (1 Enchanted Item Slot)
Telekinesis Bracelet [6 shift Maneuver used as Might, 3 times per session] (1 Enchanted Item Slot)
Magical Grenades [Weapon 5 Attack against an entire Zone targetted with Discipline, 2 times per session] (1 Enchanted Item Slot)
Veil Ring [5 shift Veil (no penalty to see out), 4 times per session] (2 Enchanted Item Slots)
Sleep Dust [Weapon 8 Attack targetted with Discipline, 2 times per session] (2 Enchanted Item Slots)] (2 Enchanted Item Slots)
Leo's Sword [Weapon 6 Attack with Weapons, 3 times per session. 6 shift Counterspell, 3 times per session.] (2 Enchanted Item Slots)
Four Open Potion Slots
Stress:
Mental: 0000
Physical: 000
Social: 000
