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Jessie (Carrion) Hope

A 7-Victory Novice Contractor played by Iamangelofwar in Maelstrom

Jessie (Carrion) Hope is a narcoleptic thief who will risk her life to become the ultimate dream-walking researcher and make contact with other planes of existence.

She is 20 years old, lives in an apartment in Houston, Texas, and often appears as a lanky, blonde woman, dressed in a denim jacket and black bootcut jeans.

Jessie (Carrion) Hope lives in Maelstrom, a setting where videos of the supernatural go viral every day. Her journal, Box of Cassettes, has 8 entries. Her Questionnaire has 11 answers.

Attributes

Brawn

2 Charisma

3 Dexterity

3 Intellect

4 Perception

3

Abilities

3 Alertness

1 Animals

3 Athletics

3 Crafts

3 Culture

2 Drive

2 Firearms

2 Influence

3 Investigation

1 Medicine

0 Melee

4 Occult

0 Performance

2 Science

4 Stealth

0 Survival

3 Technology

3 Thievery

(TapClick for Combat reference)

Initiative: 0 dice

Movement: 0 feet

Dash: 0 feet

Perception + Alertness: 0 dice

At the start of Combat, roll Initiative: Dexterity + Perception Difficulty 6.

Each Round of Combat represents 3 seconds of near-simultaneous action.

It's my Turn

You get one Movement and one Action on your turn every Round of Combat.

Movement

Movement is taken immediately before OR after your Action. It cannot be split.
You may Free Move (0) feet. Minimum 5 feet.
You may Dash up to an additional (0 feet).
- Dashing penalizes your Action -1 die per 5 feet.
All-out Sprint: instead of using free Movement or Dash, you may spend your Action and roll Brawn + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. You move (0 + (Outcome x 5) Feet).

Actions

Attack with your weapon or hands.
Evade by rolling to Defend or Dodge. Your Outcome is "spent" to reduce the Outcome of any incoming attacks until your next Action.
Activate a Power or use an Ability as normal.
Hold your Action by declaring an Action and a triggering event. If the event occurs before your turn on the next Round, you perform the Action.

I'm being attacked

If you have not yet spent your Action this Round, you may use it as a Reaction.

Reactions

Dodge by rolling Dexterity + Athletics ( dice) Difficulty 6. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's.
Defend with your weapon by rolling its attack roll. Your Outcome is subtracted from the attacker's. Availability depends on weapon match-up (tap/hover).
Clash with the attacker using the same roll you would use to Defend. The higher Outcome (not contested) is treated as the result of a successful, undefended attack roll against the loser.

Desperate Defense

If you have already used your Action, you may Exert your Mind to perform a Reaction. Your next Round's Action receives a -2 dice penalty. You cannot Clash as a Desperate Defense or React more than once to a given Action.

Will to Survive

Once per Contract, you may reduce the severity of an incoming Injury up to 5 Severity levels (to a minimum of Severity 5). You also take a point of Mind Damage and suffer a Battle Scar as normal.

If an attack's Outcome is positive after defense, it results in a new Injury with Severity = Outcome + Weapon damage - Armor

Injuries

(Jessie (Carrion) Hope is unharmed)

(TapClick for Severe Injury reference)

Injuries Severity 4+ cause a Battle Scar or Equipment destruction and always require Stabilization

Stabilization is the Injury's main treatment, and each Injury can only be successfully Stabilized once

Unstabilized Injuries worsen by 1 Severity level every half hour

Proper Stabilization

Requires an advanced first aid kit for Severity 4 Injuries, a surgery setup for Severity 5 Injuries, and a surgery theater for Severity 6+ Injuries.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty equal to Severity

An Outcome of 1 or greater will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
Outcome 4+ puts the Injury on track to heal clean: its Battle Scar heals with it.
On a Botch, the Injury's Severity increases by 1.
Failed or Botched attempts may be re-attempted at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Makeshift Stabilization

Attempt a major treatment using insufficient or improvised medical equipment.

Roll Intellect + Medicine, Difficulty > Severity

(Difficulty based on materials and tactics used)

Outcome 1+ will Stabilize the Injury and stop its degradation.
However, any Outcome less than 4 increases the Injury’s Severity by 1. Botches also worsen its Battle Scar if it caused one.
Regardless of Outcome, any Battle Scars caused by the Injury will persist after it is fully healed.
Failed or Botched attempts may be retried at +1 Difficulty per failure.

Self-stabilization attempts are rolled at +1 Difficulty.

Battle Scars

Dice penalties from Battle Scars do not stack with Stress

Narcolepsy (Once each hour the GM may ask you to roll Mind at Difficulty 6. If you fail or botch, you fall asleep for the next ten minutes or until something wakes you up.)

Body 6

Stress

8 Mind

Agitated

Distracted

Hurt

-1

Rattled

Injured

-1

Worried

Wounded

-2

Alarmed

Mauled

-3

Frantic

Maimed

-4

Delirious

X_X

Limits

Anguish

Atrocities

Murder

Capture

Traumas

Enviromental Adaptation: canada

Compulsion to be Heroic helping the innocent and friends even to your detriment

Dreams

Whenever , regain one Source. Cooldown: one day

Circumstances

In Maelstrom

Finances: Comfortable

From Assets and Liabilities

Your finances are in-order, and you can afford to spare some for your Contracting. You have access to $35,000 (or equivalent currency) per Contract.

Den of The Coyote

Given by Ricterx

In a large abandoned railway rests a large coyote, its hunger sated, and its rage dulled. Jessie has given a large fearsome coyote older and wiser than she may ever become- a home, as well as a means of eliminating his hunger. In exchange the intelligent beast offers her wisdom in exchange for stories about her life and what she see's out in the world. Once per contract or down time, she may ask them advice about any non-modern subject, the beast rolls at 10 dice to understand or know about it. In exchange he requests that when she returns she brings back a story about her adventures, rather than prey.

Conditions

From Assets and Liabilities

Sensitive You're emotionally fragile, and very likely to be mentally and emotionally scarred by your experiences. You have four Limits, instead of the usual three.

Light Sleeper You are able to function with less sleep than most people. You need only four hours of sleep per night, and any supernatural attempts to put you to sleep are rolled at +1 Difficulty.

Cat-Eyes Your eyes catch the light in the dark like a cat or dog's, granting low-light vision. You suffer no penalty to rolls in low-light situations. You cannot see in pitch blackness.

Nimble Fingers Your fingers are particularly long and slender. You receive a +2 dice bonus to any action that requires fine manual dexterity.

From Maelstrom

Doll Stalked Whenever a doll/painting/depicition of humanoid is around you, for a moment, they will come to life just to look at you The actual object is neither alive nor animate. The ghostly hauntings however... may make them seem like they are. Other contractors may see this effect but it only looks at Jessie hope

Loose Ends

Evil Clone

Moderate Dangerous Given by PoisedIvyT_T

Whether through misfortune or deliberate provocation, you have made a lifelong enemy out of someone, and they will stop at nothing to take you down.

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Advancement

Novice

7 Victories - 3 Failures

Remaining Exp: 13
(Earned: 221 - Spent: 208)

An itemized record of every Contract, advancement, and more

Journal: Box of Cassettes

View Jessie (Carrion) Hope's Encountered Contractors

Latest 2 of 8 entries

B4C: The Coyote

Y2W: Divine Deliverer

Questionnaire

Latest 3 of 11 answers

Moves

Jessie (Carrion) Hope has made 1 Move.

A better Deal

Only GMs who have permission to run Contracts and post World Events in Maelstrom can post Moves for Jessie (Carrion) Hope.

Biography

“Start Recording, Log one. The Date is October 12th, 2023. My name is Jessica Hope. This is a record of the strange and potentially supernatural happenings and creatures I’ve encountered. I suppose I should start with my only confirmed anomaly I have to talk about: Myself.”

“I grew up all around East Texas, and when I was younger, maybe 12, I had a dream. I was standing in a clearing and looking up at a stormy night sky. And over the trees, over the horizon, spanning the dark sky filled with purple lightning, was the darker shape of a great black bird. Like a raven or crow. I used to have those dreams a lot. Sometimes I was running, alone or with others. Sometimes I’d be talking to them, or they’d be helping me up.”

“So quite a few months after the first dream, I moved. And when I got there, I felt something off, and couldn’t tell what until I had the dream again. That field I was running through, I recognized that it was the same one as the one in front of my new house. And as the dreams went on, so did their prophetic nature. Though always afraid.”

“And one night, I wasn’t afraid. I climbed a tree in that dream, full of cold clarity. And I leaped up to slam my fist into the bird, but before I could make contact, I was pushed from the dream, and I awoke from the best sleep I ever had. I didn’t have the dream after that. For years. Until last year, I collapsed unexpectedly at work. The doctors said it’s a tumor on the hypothalamus of my brain, the part that regulates, alongside other things, sleep. It’s given me a nasty case of Narcolepsy, with intense bouts of sleepwalking. They can’t do much about it, because of how deep it is in the brain.”

“But anyways, that’s when the dreams started up again, more intense, more vibrant, more revealing. I could see them where they slept, I could see their deepest desires, all with that looming shape of the bird in the background.”

“Rather these are just tricks of the mind, or actual prophecy, I can not tell, as I have never acted on them. But I feel like it can’t be coincidence.”

“End Recording.”

Assets And Liabilities

Assets

-3 Cat-Eyes

-3 Nimble Fingers

-6 Light Sleeper

-6 Finances: Comfortable

Liabilities

+9 Sensitive