Luci Alessi does not have a home Playgroup despite completing 23 Contracts. They should not play in any Contracts until they have a home.
A 22-Victory Professional Contractor played by Riley as a Free Agent
She is 22 years old, lives in and around the US as a nomad, and often appears as a short-haired athletically built blonde haired woman.
Her journal has 23 entries.
4 Alertness
0 Animals
4 Athletics
1 Brawl
3 Crafts
2 Culture
0 Drive
3 Firearms
2 Influence
3 Investigation
0 Medicine
0 Melee
2 Occult
0 Performance
2 Science
4 Stealth
2 Survival
3 Technology
3 Thievery
5 Artistry
5 Snipers
The shadows are friend, not foe. For many, they conceal but for Luci, they illuminate. They invite. They embrace.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your senses are enhanced in the following way.
Luci uncaps her pen and removes the sticky ball point pen from it. The ink acts as an adhesive that allows it to stick to surfaces. The things that it sees are translated onto the Sketchbook in the form of inky black drawings that move on the page.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a target within 10 feet. You must actively and obviously use Writing Surface to activate this Effect.
You place a ward, which is fixed to a target Object that can be moved and repositioned. You can perceive with all your senses or activate investigative Effects through the ward as though you were standing at its location. You may have at most 8 wards running at once.
The ward requires Concentration to monitor, though it will remain active until you deactivate it. It can be detected with a roll and destroyed through mundane means.
You may activate another Effect through one of your Wards as if you were standing at its location. The Ward is destroyed afterward.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the Umbra Plane momentarily looks back into the mortal plane- right into the souls of anyone nearby.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
Luci's experimentation with the Umbral plane has finally allowed her to change her own matter on a molecular level. On her writing surface, she sketches a drawing of the disguise that she desires to adopt and within about a minute, her own shadow will envelop her from the bottom up and even the inside out from her infused blood, per Bloodless. It's a bit of a painful experience that she has to tough through, but by the end, her appearance is significantly altered.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute to activate. You must actively and obviously use Writing Utensil and Drawing to activate this Effect. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You become disguised in a manner of your choosing. The disguise lasts until you either activate a new disguise, or choose to end the effect.
The new appearance may have a different sex, age, and race to your own, and you may alter height by up to a foot and your weight by 50%. Your disguise cannot directly mimic an existing person. You cannot alter your clothes. Your disguise can alter your smell, DNA, and other aspects that are not perceivable via human senses. A disguise cannot affect your Attributes or other stats.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk (15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
Luci shares a metabolism with the Umbral Plane allowing her to sustain herself indefinitely thanks to its good graces.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You no longer require any food, water, or air in order to survive.
You may Exert your Mind to adapt to your current environment for three hours. While adapted, you do not suffer harm from heat, cold, pressure, or lack of oxygen in that environment, provided that challenge normally exists in that environment.
Manipulating her shadow to take various forms has paid off, allowing Luci to repair her body and her items, but Blackwork is yet another evolution of her power in which it tends to act on its own. Luci is fully free to activate or deactivate it, but the method by which she is able to fly is finnicky at best. Smoky black marionette strings manifest around her- attached to her extremities and around her torso- and pull her in the vague direction of where she wants to go.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate.
You may levitate off the ground at two times your normal walking speed. The effect lasts for the next hour, though you may choose to end it at will.
Luci's shadow has grown to gain a semblance of sentience and following a number of close encounters with over-eager gun runners, the entity inside her shadow will routinely physically manifest to protect her from such harm. Examples include catching bullets and flicking blades.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
You have 6 Armor, which reduces incoming damage from all sources of physical attack except Fire or Primarily Light Based Attacks. Armor from multiple sources does not stack. This Armor cannot be circumvented with Called Shots.
Any time your Armor prevents damage, your total Armor rating is temporarily decreased by 1. Whenever you go two Rounds without preventing any damage, it is restored back to its full value.
The user sinks into either their own shadow or an adjacent shadow and pops out from any shadow within line of sight.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 rounds to activate. Select a Location within your line of sight , and which is directly adjacent to Shadows. You must be within arm's reach of Shadows to activate this Effect. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You are transported directly to the chosen Location. You must wait 1 full Round before activating this Effect again.
Luci's shadow doubles as a holding space that she's allowed to use from the Umbral Plane. Her preferred method of stashing is stuffing the object in her shadow, however, she can also dematerialize and rematerialize objects in her hands into shadows that will seep over her shoulder or down into her shadow.
Spend a Quick Action to activate.
You may withdraw an item from your stash, or add an item that is within 30 feet of you to your stash. You may only stash targets which are not possessed by someone else, and are freestanding and unattached.
You may store any targets in your stash, each no larger than something which could fit inside an SUV (4,000 liters), and you may store up to 7 things at a time.
You may choose to equip any equipment you withdraw at no additional cost.
Animate targets may Resist being stashed.
The tattoo of a crosshair around her eye was the main gift, granted to her by the entity in her youngest years which allows her to see what can not normally or easily be seen by others- almost as if things are literally pointed out to her by her shadow. Since then, she has grown considerably, and while her mark remains, the power of her blessed sight grows.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Your Perception rating is increased by 1. You may Exert your Mind to automatically gain an Outcome of 5 on any roll that uses Perception (Cannot be used on combat rolls or Power activations).
You also gain the following effects:
Luci, with the help of a magnifying agent that can enlarge a focus and central point for her, Luci is able to use her mythically gifted perception to extend her clear sightedness to see through walls or any other obstacles that she desires to push past.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. You must actively and obviously use a lens or magnifying agent (must be specifically built for that purpose) to activate this Effect. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You may perceive things through sight within 500 feet of you as though there were no walls or obstacles blocking your view for the next five minutes.
Any Perception rolls made through obstacles are rolled at +1 Difficulty.
Luci likes to play peekaboo but due to thr unfortunate circumstances of Jules death and thr previous contract, Luci can't help but look over her shoulder at every turn and be at least somewhat suspicious of everything and everyone around her.
Luci pulls up a head covering of some sort. A pulse radiates from the shadow casted on her face and rolls across her entire body, covering it in a thin fragile veil of refraction.
Mechanically, takes advantage of the destructive interference of light waves, around her person and items, effectively making it impossible for her to be perceived through the visual light spectrum.
You gain the following benefits at all times. You must actively and obviously be using A hood, shawl, or head covering of some sort to gain the benefits of this Effect.
You and any clothes or equipment you are wearing are obscured from sight. All attempts to detect you via sight fail. Detection attempts via other senses where sight would assist are rolled at a -2 dice penalty.
Entering Combat or being Injured will end the Effect. When the Effect ends, it is disabled for 1 day.
You may turn this Effect on and off at will during its duration.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Paranoia.
Umbra's shadow will climb up her own body like rolling black rainwater. Black tendrils will shoot to different portions of the wound and slowly close them up. If the wound would have killed her, a line of shadowy stitches will follow along the injury.
You gain the following benefits at all times.
Any Injury you receive heals quickly, reducing its Severity by one level every 10 minutes, starting once it becomes stabilized. You may also Exert your Mind and spend an Action to reduce the Severity of a single stabilized Injury by 1. Does not affect Injuries suffered as an activation cost for Effects.
Battle Scars caused by your Injuries are also healed when the Injuries that caused them regenerate. Any Injuries you receive automatically count as a successful Makeshift Stabilization and do not deteriorate further.
As long as at least half your body remains intact, you cannot die and remain at Incapacitated, regardless of how many Injuries you take. It is clear to observers that you are still alive.
Possession of this Power grants the following Trauma at all times: Must roll Trauma to change her course of objective direction once shes decided it..
When in an appropriate light level, the user's shadow will flare and begin dripping upward like molten ink. It wraps around her arm like a coil and imbues itself into her writing utensil. The user doodles down what they desire to create. If the drawing is competent enough, the shadows will pool around it and they'll be able to reach into the drawing and pull out whatever item they drew. The drawings can be predone so long as they follow along with the proper prerequisites.
Exert your Mind and spend 1 minute to activate. This Effect cannot be used unless Must be in sufficient darkness or shade.
Choose an Object which could fit inside a regular backpack (up to 27 liters). It must be Non-Alien and generic but can include rare or complex materials (such as radium, gold, or drugs). You can create explosives, but they are limited in size to being no larger or more powerful than a satchel charge. You cannot create firearms.
Roll Perception + Crafts to fabricate up to 5 copies of your chosen Object. The Difficulty is assigned by the GM and depends on the specificity of your chosen Object. Your created items no longer expire, and will last until they are destroyed.
Luci's shadow borrows from the infinite knowledge of the Umbral plane and guides foolish Luci's hand and expressing thr information through a form of art that is decipherable to her through drawing out details and whispering in her ear. Information on how to use the object come in the form of schematics. Individuals who have recently used this object are sketched alongside it. Whether the object is alien in origin is specified in the schematics.
Exert your Mind and spend a minute to activate. Select a target Object within arm's reach. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Crafts at Difficulty 6.
You learn all the following information about your target:
The user uncaps her pen, splashes ink across the canvas, and then makes a formal request for what they would like to see.
Time Walk: The ink seeps into the page and begins to move on its own, translating from the watchful eyes of shadows past into a complete picture upon her sketchbook page.
Got a Bad Feeling About This Place: Areas containing traps and ambushes are clearly shaped together- to such detail that the user can recognize what the area looks like, while also being intuited upon its rough direction and distance.
Exert your Mind and spend 2 Actions to activate. Investigate an area with a radius of up to 500 feet You cannot investigate the same target more than once per hour. At the end of your investigation, roll Perception + Crafts at Difficulty 6.
You learn a single specific piece of information, chosen from the following list, about the area:
Upon selecting her item of choice to repair, Luci procures her notebook and begins sketching out all of the parts required to replace the damaged or missing pieces. Upon completing her drawing, she will pluck the items out of her notebook. The drawing will swirl with an Umbral darkness before eventually taking shape and form as a proper permanent piece to fix or replace damaged or missing parts. The repaired or missing piece will fling toward the object Luci intends to fix- watching as that item flies to its intended spot and sticks itself right where it needs to be.
Perception + Artistry Roll
Spend 10 minutes to activate. Select a Object within arm's reach that is of any size. You may target Alien technology, so long as you have an understanding of its intended function. When repairing Alien targets, you must Exert your Mind. More than half the target object must be present in order to begin repairs. Roll Perception + Crafts at Difficulty 6.
If you succeed, your target is repaired back to a functional state. If you fail, you spend the full time working before realizing you cannot repair the target. If your target only requires fuel or power and is otherwise in working order, this Effect costs no Exertion, and the target is fueled/powered for the next 24 hours.
Luci communicates her desire to augment an item through visual art, using the surrounding shadow and darkness to help form the swirls of pure energy that infuse themselves into the items she desires.
On firearms, her shadow will slink along the barrel and firing mechanism, making it far more efficient and adding its own kick to the fired bullet, making it deadlier while also assisting to manage recoil.
On melee weapons, the shadow slinks along the weapon with either barbs or thorns.
On other mundane items, their shadows become slightly more pronounced and may even shimmer if looked at closely enough. This improvement strengthens the bonds of the item with more supernatural or mundane energies, allowing it more freedom, efficiency, and durability.
Exert your Mind and spend an hour to activate. Select a Device within arm's reach. Can be used on Alien technology. This Effect cannot be used unless Luci must be in complete darkness and must be completely alone.. Cannot be used to improve Armor.
For the next three weeks, your target receives 3 extra dice to all actions taken for its intended use. Attacking with an upgraded weapon grants +3 Weapon Damage instead of additional dice. While it is upgraded, the item cannot be destroyed.
Upgraded weapons count as any material your opponent might be particularly vulnerable to. Upgraded Armor cannot be circumvented by called shots. Upgraded Devices do not run out of fuel or energy.
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation or for its duration will almost certainly be disturbed to see the energy is summoned through a portal of eldritch adjacent appearance. Many eyes stare at anyone watching nearby while they get a glimpse of horrors beyond their imagination lasting no longer than a few seconds.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
Luci creates a spectral shadow of herself that imbues itself into objects by drawing a rune on the object itself that allows a connection to be made with her and the Umbral Plane. They can manifest physically as specters that solely perform the task of the imbued object. They are extremely obvious and supernatural and while they will not communicate, they will diligently follow orders and handle the objects like mundane humans with a minor amount of skill.
In the case of objects that are not clearly able to be piloted or operated, an inky black substance will secrete from it and dissolve upon contact with anything if it drips off.
Standing Orders:
- These weapons are not to be used by anyone other than Luci unless she specifies otherwise.
- If control of the physical weapons is ever stolen from Luci or forced to bear their fangs towards Luci, the weapons will not fire until Luci says they can.
- These weapons are on orders to defend Luci from harm with Bullet Parry, unless told they are allowed to fire.
- These weapons will always be silent per the artifact firearms enhancement unless told otherwise.
- Luci's weapons are to only follow her orders if she says "Wry" before the order.
- Others are allowed to give these weapons orders if and only if they exactly refer to the weapons name in particular and say, "(X Weapons Name), 1998, Command" before each order.
- These orders can only be nullified or canceled if Luci says "The Sun Sets Beneath the Abyss."
- Only Luci is allowed to create new standing orders.
Exert your Mind and an Action to activate. Select a Inanimate target within arm's reach which could fit inside an SUV (4,000 liters). You must use up paint equal to the surface area of the animated target in order to activate this Effect. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
Your target will become Animated indefinitely. You may choose to end the effect at will, as a Free Action. You can maintain a max of 4 targets animated at once.
Animated Objects have the following restrictions and capabilities:
Anyone who witnesses you during this Effect's activation will almost certainly be disturbed to see the specters' bodies are summoned through a portal of eldritch adjacent appearance. Many eyes stare at anyone watching nearby while they get a glimpse of horrors beyond their imagination lasting no longer than a few seconds.
The Umbral plane is a verse that is not well known. Some believe it to be a source of energy while others believe it to be an energy sink. However, there is evidence to suggest that both of these assumptions are correct. In this case, Luci, with guidance from the entity within her shadow and on her own hunt to find a way inside of the Umbral plane, has discovered a workable method of connecting some of the bullets she makes into a miniature portal to that very same place. While physical matter, unfortunately, cannot pass through this portal, mystical energy can. And since this portal is linked to one of the Umbral plane's energy sinks, when it hits a target, it infuses into the user's internal systems and applies a constant drain that can disorient powers and even potentially shut them down completely.
Use up this bullet and spend an Action to activate. Make a firearms attack at a Living target within normal attack range. Roll 7 dice Difficulty 6, penalty does not apply. The target may roll to dodge or defend, as normal for firearms attacks. The attack may or may not deal Damage as per a normal attack, at the user's choice.
If you succeed, the target is afflicted with a Condition that causes one of the following symptoms:
The affliction can be diagnosed with a Medicine roll, and may be cured by modern medicine through treatment at a fully equipped facility. Treatment outside of a facility may stop the affliction from worsening for a day, but will not cure the underlying Condition. Gifts or supernatural Effects and Powers which would cure or prevent this affliction do not cure or prevent it, but instead offer a clear diagnosis and provide information regarding the method of treatment without requiring a diagnosis roll.
A pill made up of ostrich eggs and penicillin as a fungus. It takes a bit to melt away into the body before you will feel its cleansing effect, though it does exhaust the body due to enhancing the speed of your immune system
Use up this a small thumbsized bowl of shark fin soup and spend 1 minute to activate. Select a Living target within arm's reach.
You may cure any any diseases or poisons afflicting your target even if you have not diagnosed or fully understood it. You may cure diseases or poisons even if they are not treatable through modern medicine. During treatment, the malady you are treating does not progress or cause additional damage or other effects.
After you finish activating this Effect, you cannot move quicker than a walk (max 15 feet per Round) for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour. Exhaustion’s penalty and duration stacks with multiple activations.
Track your current equipment here. You may start with anything your Contractor would reasonably have access to.
The guiding hand that knows all things from the Umbral Plane assists Luci, mostly in regards to her aim while altering the actual trajectory of her bullets with what is essentially an aimbot.
You gain the following benefits as long as you are wearing this Artifact and engaged in combat with firearms.
+2 dice to all firearms rolls.
Possession of this Artifact causes the following Trauma to manifest over the course of a day: The user hallucinates the shadows of their regret, shame, and disappointment related to her own actions and those she has killed. She will need to roll self control to not wash that that from the user's hands whenever the opportunity presents itself. If you lose possession of this Artifact, the Trauma heals over the course of the next month.
You also gain the following effects:
Luci's firearms are typically very overturned and overdesigned. She's secretly a huge comic book fan and her new revelations in regards to her ability to create items using the energies of the Umbral Plane have opened up the ability for her slightly childish imagination to go wild with possibilities.
Luci takes an exceptional amount of time sketching out a full blueprint for the weapon of her desire- typically inspired designs from comics or movies that she personally finds cool. And per her own Fabricate power, she spends time manifesting the item through the use of her own shadows, however she takes extra time to refine the details and give the firearm its own personality. Each and every single one of these has a little bit of Luci and her creative intent inside of them.
This Artifact can be used as a heavy sniper rifle. It is roughly at least twice as large as a heavy sniper rifle and cannot be concealed on your person or disassembled for storage.
Attack by rolling Dexterity + Firearms, Difficulty 6. Successful attacks deal 3 Weapon Damage +0 Bonus Damage. The target's Armor is fully effective against this damage.
You also gain the following effects:
The shadow of the user's regret and shame, per the Maddening on Umbra's Spite, is cultivated and weaponized. It pools from the hands and infests the next shot in the chamber of the gun. It wraps around, subsumes, and completely coats the round until it's barely recognizable- only as a silhouette.
The bullet becomes so changed that it will no longer be capable of dealing considerable damage, but instead had become a darkbang. It shares the traits of a flashbang- discombobulating and stunning adversaries.
It blinds them with darkness instead of light and smoky black tendrils will manifest and effectively act as a spider web, making any actions more difficult for the target. Inhaling it produces a similar effect mentally- fogging up the target's mind.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Select a Animate target within 300 feet. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect. Roll Perception + Firearms at Difficulty 7.
If you succeed, the target will suffer a dice penalty equal to the Outcome for the next 1 Round. Dice pools may be reduced all the way down to 0 by this penalty. This breaks Concentration.
After the Effect ends, the target will be at -1 dice to all actions and cannot move faster than a walk or Concentrate for the next minute.
You may only use this Effect once per day.
You turn on and turn up the volume of your wireless headphones and they surge with thick black shadows before dying down when the cast ends. For the next ten minutes your shadow will whisper translations from any sapient target around you as well as taking control of the motor control of your mouth when you speak, allowing you to speak flawlessly in whatever language your target speaks.
When concerning other facets of communication, your shadow will interpret anything you see to you in real time.
Exert your Mind and spend an Action to activate. Roll a single D10 as a critical failure check. If you roll a 1, the Effect fails, and you will incorrectly interpret and only translate racial slurs and taboo words. Involuntary words of toxicity will escape your mouth and those spoken to will be compelled to physically retaliate. Make a Trauma roll when you activate this Effect.
You may understand and communicate to humans and Sapient beings as if you are fluent in a relevant language for the next ten minutes.
This also includes understanding any recorded communications from the relevant targets, including writings, scent trails, etc.
After this Effect ends, you cannot move quicker than a walk for one minute and suffer a -1 dice penalty for an hour.
The Umbral plane is a verse that is not well known. Some believe it to be a source of energy while others believe it to be an energy sink. However, there is evidence to suggest that both of these assumptions are correct. In this case, Luci, with guidance from the entity within her shadow and on her own hunt to find a way inside of the Umbral plane, has discovered a workable method of connecting some of the bullets she makes into a miniature portal to that very same place. While physical matter, unfortunately, cannot pass through this portal, mystical energy can. And since this portal is linked to one of the Umbral plane's energy sinks, when it hits a target, it infuses into the user's internal systems and applies a constant drain that can disorient powers and even potentially shut them down completely.
Use up this bullet and spend an Action to activate. Make a firearms attack at a Living target within normal attack range. Roll 7 dice Difficulty 6, penalty does not apply. The target may roll to dodge or defend, as normal for firearms attacks. The attack may or may not deal Damage as per a normal attack, at the user's choice.
If you succeed, the target is afflicted with a Condition that causes one of the following symptoms:
The affliction can be diagnosed with a Medicine roll, and may be cured by modern medicine through treatment at a fully equipped facility. Treatment outside of a facility may stop the affliction from worsening for a day, but will not cure the underlying Condition. Gifts or supernatural Effects and Powers which would cure or prevent this affliction do not cure or prevent it, but instead offer a clear diagnosis and provide information regarding the method of treatment without requiring a diagnosis roll.
Luci was such a lonely and shy child that she only ever had her brother and her imaginary friend, her own shadow, as people she could talk to. At some point in her life, her imaginary friend started to become more real and watch out for her in ways that shouldn't have been possible.
It's very likely that some god or entity took pity on her for being so pathetic that they were like, "holy shit, you need a friend and I got you. As you grow and change, so will your friend."
The only two times this naturally manifested in her at a physical capacity is when she picked up the sniper scope and she was graced with superior sight as well as a tattoo around her right eye.
But as Luci had grown throughout the contract, her imaginary friend gained sentience and become disappointed in Luci's poor performance. So naturally, it jumped at the chance to switch places and show her how it was really done.
Note: The blood shed from Umbra's bullets create beautiful art upon whatever surface lies behind her shot.