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Developed and used this guy as the antagonist for a scenario I ran. My players were not happy with me.
Focused Practitioner
High Concept: Bipolar Orpheomancer
Trouble: Juke Box Hero Wannabe
Aspects:
1. Pampered Childhood
2. Phantom of the Opera Syndrome
3. Music of the Spheres at My Fingertips
4. The Crowd Follows My Beat
Skills
+5 – Conviction, Performance
+4 – Presence, Scholarship
+3 – Deceit, Discipline
+2 – Athletics, Endurance, Lore
+1 – Alertness, Contacts, Intimidation
Stress: Physical=3, Mental=4, Social=4
(2 extra mild Mental consequences, 1 extra mild Social consequence}
Powers
-2 Channeling (Air)
-2 Incite Emotion (At Range)
-2 Lawbreaker - #1 (3 or more times) - +2 to any spellcasting roll when using magic that would break this same law again.
Stunts
-1 Spellsinger (Performance) – Use Performance instead of Discipline for spell control.
-1 Occultist (Lore) – Music+1, Ancient Music +2
-1 Art Historian (Performance) – Art+1, Music History+2, Rock Music+3
-1 Poet (Performance)- Composition+2
-1 Scholar (Scholarship) – Music+1, Ancient Music+2
Focus Item(s)
1957 Fender Stratocaster (authentic) – Air, Offensive Power+2
Guitar Pick – Air, Offensive Control+2
2 Rote Spells
1. Riff#1, Wall of Air, Block - Movement border
2. Riff#2, Feedback, Auditory Attack
Calculate out his Feedback and see how strong it can get. It doesn’t take many to put someone down… Heaven help you if he decides to do it zone-wide. He can’t do this stuff a lot, but when it does… it hurts.
Biography
Musical prodigy who attended Julliard. His power manifested in his second year and things went heavily sideways. He was ejected from Julliard before he turned 16. The specifics of his ouster got him blacklisted with both "respectable" musical institutions of higher learning (who refused to enroll him) and much of the entertainment industry (who refused to risk using him).
He only "sort of" understands that he's doing magic. He's looked into the occult and has enough knowledge to get Lore-2. He's wandered around the country earning his living first as an independent music teacher, and later as manager/promoter for garage rock bands trying to hit the big time. So far none of them has made him rich.
He has a vast repertoire of music he can play, from pre-Renaissance to current Top-40. The man truly is a musical library on legs and a certifiable prodigy with the guitar.
He's heavily bi-polar and long ago stopped taking his meds... because they messed with his concentration too much.
He still dreams of making it big and takes every opportunity to "show off" just how good he is... even if it always goes bad and tarnishes his reputation even more. Poor dude never learns.
He's well into middle-age and very bitter. He has grudges and every year that goes by, less compunction about pursuing them.
He is ... not... a nice guy.
