Post by Rob "the Meddler" Goodfellow on Mar 2, 2012 23:01:12 GMT -5
THE MEDDLER
(For the Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space RPG)
STORY POINTS 6
ATTRIBUTES
- AWARENESS 4
- COORDINATION 3
- INGENUITY 7
- PRESENCE 3
- RESOLVE 5
- STRENGTH 3
SKILLS
- ATHLETICS 1
- CONVINCE 3
- CRAFT 1
- FIGHTING 1
- KNOWLEDGE 5
- MARKSMAN 1
- MEDICINE 2
- SCIENCE 6 (Temporal Engineering +2)
- SUBTERFUGE 2
- SURVIVAL 1
- TECHNOLOGY 3
- TRANSPORT 3
TRAITS
- Experienced Time Lord x3 (Special Good)
- Feel the Turn of the Universe (Special Good)
- Vortex (Special Good)
- Time Traveler (familiar with Tech Levels 4, 6, 8, 9)
- Grandfather Paradox (Special)
- Psychic (Special Good)
- Precognition (Special Good)
- Charming (Minor Good)
- Technically Adept (Minor Good)
- Boffin (Major Good)
- Keen Senses (Major Good)
- Argumentative (Minor Bad)
- Eccentric (Minor Bad)
- Impulsie (Minor Bad)
- Insatiable Curiousity (Mintor Bad)
- (Next To The) Last of My Kind (Minor Bad)
- Obsession (Minor Bad)
- Adversary (Major Bad)
- Code of Conduct - Help the underdog. Leave the world better than you found it. (Major Bad)
- Obligation - his family (Minor Bad, although he doesn't think of it that way)
EQUIPMENT
- Sombra y corta: An invisible (except for it's shadow), massless saber that can be summoned and dismissed at will and cannot be taken away except by TL 9 or better technology. Strength +2 weapon that ignores all armor.
HOME TECH LEVEL: 10 (Time Lord)
APPEARANCE
(Fourth Incarnation)
PERSONAL GOAL
Save the civilizations of the Universe from the long dark at the end of the Stelliferous Era.
PERSONALITY
Charming and superficially friendly, but with a subtle note in his voice that leaves you wondering if he's mocking you. Acts slightly absent-minded.
BACKGROUND
Long ago, on a world now lost to the Spiral Politic, a young boy stared into the Untempered Schism. Some children go mad from the experience, while others run away. This particular child was inspired, driven by the inherent possibilities he saw writhing and coursing through the whole of the Vortex. In the Academy, that vision drove him. It was his muse and his obsession, and it proved to be his downfall. After graduation he began to push the boundaries of the Spiral Politic, exploring closer and closer to the extreme edges of Gallifrey's domains.
Far out on the edge of the Stelliferous Era, the young temporal engineer watched a civilization of living crystal orbiting one of the last stars of the universe. He listened to their songs of worship, he watched their rituals, and he beheld their final, fruitless struggles to sustain the life of the only sun that shone in their skies.
Numb and horrified, he watched the death of the universe's last civilization. Burying his true name and identity in a maze of paradox and contradiction, the Meddler left Gallifrey in a stolen Type 67 Mark IV TARDIS with a burning goal to uplift the other species of the universe to the level of the Time Lords, and to change the fate of the universe itself.
He's met with some failures, true, particularly when confronted by more self-righteous Time Lords. But he has had his successes as well (preventing the Second Atomic War between the European Axis and the Sino-Soviet Republic in 1957 and preventing John F. Kennedy from embroiling the United States in a war with the Silurian colony of Y'hai-nathlei in 1964, just to name two).
Like all the Renegades, he served in the Time War. His skills as a practical temporal engineer were put to use in acausal strikes against the Dalek Empire. He also developed the Time Lock that the Doctor eventually used to seal Gallifrey and the Time War away from the Spiral Politic forever.
Scarred by the events of the last great Time War, and his role in the effective destruction of his homeworld, he fled into the solace of forgetfulness by invoking the Chameleon Arch. For 30 years he lived in late 20th/early 21st Century CE Earth as Charles DeMêler, Vietnam War veteran. He married Patricia DeMêler (nee MIller) and owned his own electronic repair store in the Bay area of San Francisco.
Pat traveled with him for a year after he resumed his true identity as the Meddler in the wake of the Day of Ghosts invasion, looking for the man she loved in the Time Lord he had become. After his third regeneration at the "hands" of the Toclafane in Utopia, she could take it no longer and returned to Earth.
Since then he has served as a scientific adviser to both UNIT and MAJESTIC-12, helped save the Earth from retrocausal destruction and England from both nuclear and Weeping Angel annihilation, and kidnapped Joan of Arc. He's also reopened the Time War, been caught in a love triangle between an elder Time Lord and his goddaughter, found his TARDIS infested with minor Sidhe, spent another decade under the Chameleon Arch as a Torchwood Agent in World War II, gotten married, and started a family.
Oddly enough, he's happier now than he ever has been in the past.
Grandfather Paradox (Special Trait)
Having traveled backwards along your own timeline to murder yourself or your parents, you no longer exist within time.
Effect: Has the prerequisite of the Vortex Special Trait. The character becomes utterly immune to all mind-effecting Psychic effects, and becomes invisible to clairvoyance and any ability that allows someone to predict the future.
It's not all good, though. The character also automatically loses the benefits of the Psychic and Telepathy Traits, suffers a -2 penalty on all social rolls with any creature with the Feel the Turn of the Universe trait, and gains the Dark Secret (Grandfather Paradox) Major Bad Trait.
Grandfather Paradox costs 3 Character Points to purchase, and permanently reduces the character's maximum Story Points by 2.
