Name: Stephen "Squeeky" Wulmach
Role: Focused Practitioner (time)
High Concept: ML Baseball Playing Chronomancer. Kinda.
Troubles:
Wronged by Media.
Paranoid Wardens.
Aspects:
15 minutes of (in)famous.
Fastest arm alive.
Vampires killed my mother.
Great: Conviction, Baseball(thrown weapons)
Good: Athletics, Endurance
Fair: Alertness, Lore
Average: Presence, Resources
Powers:
0 Wizard's Constitution
-2 Channeling (time)
-1 Baseball Pitcher. Can throw projectiles two zones.
Magic:
Speed Up:
By slowing time around him, Stephen can move and act faster. While he gets better reflexes, the rote version of the spell will not make him vampire-fast.
The main use for this is to throw 120mph projectiles. Deadly, with the aim of a world-class pitcher behind them.
Note that the rote version of the spell is about 50% speedup for two exchanges. It gets progressively harder to speed things up more/longer.
Snel Shield:
You know how a spoon looks bent when you put it in a glass of water? Snel's law. This shield is an inverted V of slow time. As a projectile passes through the shield, parts of it will move faster than the rest (time passes slower inside the shield). This causes the projectile to veer of course and miss. Note that this only really works for aimed projectiles. Spray bullets, and something will hit.
The rote version of the spell is a defensive shield that deflects incoming projectiles for 2 Exchanges.
Foci:
Mother's watch: +1 to control (he has played with changing the ticking speed for years).
Baseball cap: +1 to throwing (it "feels right").
Background:
Even without magic, Stephen would have been at the top of the list of Minor League Pitchers. At a young age however, Stephen noticed that
he could speed up or slow down his mother's watch simply by concentrating. More experimentation showed him the possibilities of throwing a projectile while slowing time around him. When time "goes back to normal", that object is suddenly moving much faster.
Armed with this secret, Stephen gained instant recognition with his 120mph fastball. Unfortunately, this recognition also earned him the suspicion of the Wardens.
First adventure:
After playing in two major-league games and making headlines, Stephen ran into a Red Court Vampire operation (fixing the games?). Rushing in head-first (hatred for monsters), he nearly got killed. Luckily, the Vampires didn't want the attention they would gain from killing a minor celebrity. Instead, they uses the Kiss on him, leaving him drugged for the authorities to find. Allegations of drug-use followed, and Stephen was forced out of professional baseball playing.
