Directionless Poltergeist

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Made for the Troika! Community Jam: Backgrounds 2024

Directionless Poltergeist

Feuds between wizards can get intense. You were summoned at the height of a particularly heated spat by one wizard to torment another. To stand outside their house at night and wail mournfully. To lurk in their corner of their eye. To knock upon their window when they thought they were alone. To steal their shoes sometimes.

Then one day they skipped town and grabbed a barge to a different Sphere, severing the psychic connection you had with them. Maybe you have some clues to follow up on that could tell you where they went so you can resume the haunting. Maybe your plan is to simply earn enough gold to allow you to visit every Sphere in the hump-backed sky systematically and see if any of them ping your ghostly radar. Or maybe, without the object of the obsession that has defined your entire existence up to now you will have to develop… a personality?

POSSESSIONS:

- Large wooden stick (Damage as Polearm)

- Tattered, ethereal robe (armour: 1)

- Stolen trinkets (slot: 1 - Small items you stole from your target)

ADVANCED SKILLS:

1 Sneak

2 Spell - Animate

3 Spell - Fear

2 Spell - Teleport

2 Mimicry

SPECIAL:

If the wizard you were created to haunt is in the same Sphere as you, you can immediately sense their exact location. Don’t go back to them, please, you’re more than that you know…

Directionless Poltergeist is an independent production by BaneVoice and is not affiliated with the Melsonian Arts Council.