gawain

Announcement

Patrick Stuart of False Machine has adapted Gawain and the Green Knight, and is kickstarting a hard copy with illustrations by Daniel Puerta. I did layout for it, and you can back it here. We’ve been working hard to make a nice book for a long time, so if you like chivalric poetry or lovely drawings, please check it out.

Anyway!

Thinking about Gawain has me thinking about broader Arthurian stuff and, naturally, Pernicious Albion. I also just grabbed Troika, so I wanted to try my hand at some backgrounds.

Horned Witch

You’ve learned from the best — the best being Myrddin Wyllt, whispering his secrets through the depleted uranium tombstone binding him forever beneath Brocéliande. Pressing your ear against a monolith deep in the woods to listen to the murmurings of a dead wizard is hardly the best way to study, however, so you’ve mostly picked up  the skills of his wilder youth.

Possessions

• A loyal wolf of modest size (henchman)
• Claws
• Horn crown (+1 to convincing royalty and nobility of the truth and accuracy of prophecies)

Advanced Skills

• 3 Beast Ken
• 2 Read Entrails (spell)
• 2 Keen Senses
• 1 Claw Fighting
• 1 Random Spell
• 1 Random Spell

Special

• Myrddin Wyllt has seen this all before. You may test your Luck to remember him whispering to you what is going to happen within the next 10 minutes.
• You know where Myrddin rests in Brocéliande. It’s a long and dangerous trip, but he is an effective tutor.

BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE DRIVER

YOU DRIVE A BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE. IT’S STRANGE AND MAGNIFICENT BODY IS YOURS TO COMMAND. YOU FIND THE SICK, YOU RETRIEVE THE INJURED, YOU PROCLAIM YOUR COMING AND GOING WITH THE WAILING OF YOUR BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE’S SIRENS.

Possessions

• A BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE (large beast, only acts when being driven)

Advanced Skills

• 4 BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE Driving
• 2 Teratology (identifying monsters, recalling their behaviors, being a general expert in strange biologies)
• 2 Healing
• 1 Awareness
• 1 Navigating

Special

YOUR BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE SWELLS AND RIPPLES WITH THE LIKENESS OF EVERY LIVING THING.

• You may test your Luck to reveal some new capability your BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE has. It lasts for the rest of the session, and must be identical to the capabilities of a mundane animal (venom, constricting coils, the ability to scale walls, wings, gills). If you fail your test of Luck, you lose 4 Stamina as the BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE’s harsh metabolic processes spill into the cab.
• Neither player nor Referee can ever directly describe the BEAUTIFUL AMBULANCE, only talk about what it does with it’s miraculous and capacious body.