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Cole "Echo" Varnes
His name still rings in my head.

A 1-Victory Newbie Contractor played by Mythlington in Nightfall

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Cole "Echo" Varnes is a Military Veteran who will risk his life to become the ultimate reclaimer of the fallen and defy death itself to bring back his brother-in-arms, "Graveyard". He will stop at nothing to see his face one more time.

He is 28 years old, lives in the forests of New Hampshire, where they reside within a quaint wooden cabin on their own, and often appears as a stoic, young-looking man with messy off-white hair, blue eyes and pale skin. They are often fully cladded from head to toe in Military gear if the situation calls for it.

Cole "Echo" Varnes lives in Nightfall, a setting grounded in the modern day Earth where the supernatural is not hidden, but commodified, militarized, and worshiped. His Questionnaire has 5 answers.

Attributes

Brawn

5 Charisma

2 Dexterity

6 Intellect

2 Perception

2

Abilities

3 Alertness

0 Animals

2 Athletics

0 Crafts

0 Culture

1 Drive

5 Firearms

0 Influence

1 Investigation

1 Medicine

2 Melee

0 Occult

0 Performance

0 Science

1 Stealth

1 Survival

1 Technology

0 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

(Cole "Echo" Varnes is unharmed)

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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

Traumatic Brain Injury (Due to Echo's multiple close calls with explosions and blasts, he has suffered significant damage to his brain. In order to concentrate, he must exert mind and any intellect rolls he may make are at a +2 difficulty.)

Body 8

Stress

5 Mind

Annoyed

Bruised

Hurt

-1

Injured

-1

Worried

Wounded

-2

Alarmed

Mauled

-3

Frantic

Maimed

-4

Delirious

X_X

Limits

Betrayal

Capture

Failure

Near-Death Experience

Traumas

Survivor's Guilt Survivor's Guilt When someone under your protection is harmed (Fellow contractors, people you are escorting to safety, etc.), you must roll Self-Control to avoid blaming yourself and entering a depressive or reckless state. You may exert your mind to convince yourself it's not your fault.

Paranoia You have a natural distrust of everyone around you, and are always on edge looking for threats.

Adrenaline

Circumstances

In Nightfall

Finances: Average

From Assets and Liabilities

You can live stably off your money. You have access to $2,500 (or equivalent currency) per Contract.

Arsenal: Armory

From Assets and Liabilities

Through some legal, licensed means, you have reliable access to a certain type of material others don’t. You may transport this material without the authorities interfering. Choose drugs (narcotics, prescriptions, poisons), explosives (grenades, dynamite, c4), or armory (any firearms or armor, even if normally illegal where you reside)

Conditions

From Assets and Liabilities

Delusions of Grandeur You believe yourself to be the very best, one of the elite, superior to anyone else you meet. You must succeed a Self-Control roll in order to believe something or take an action which contradicts this delusion.

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.

Loose Ends

Individual Enemy: Soren Pike

Moderate Dangerous Given by a Liability

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

Newbie

1 Victories - 0 Failures

Remaining Exp: 5
(Earned: 161 - Spent: 156)

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Biography

Cole "Echo" Varnes was once a decorated U.S. soldier, respected for his precision, discipline, and calm under pressure. He served with distinction during the final years of the Third Gulf Conflict, a brutal and shadowy campaign marked by drone strikes, proxy insurgencies, and bleeding-edge cyber warfare. Operating in high-risk infiltration units, Cole became known for completing missions that others called impossible — until the day everything fell apart.

His squad was ambushed deep behind enemy lines, and his closest friend, known only by the callsign Graveyard, never made it out. With no body recovered and no answers given, Cole walked away from the military and disappeared.

Now operating under the name Echo, he takes high-risk contracts brought to him by the Harbingers — not for power or profit, but for the faint trail of leads they offer. Ancient tech, black-site data, forbidden archives — anything that might explain what really happened that day… or undo it.

To most, Echo’s mission seems impossible. To him, it’s the only thing left that matters.

Assets And Liabilities

Assets

-15 Gifted

-0 Finances: Average

-12 Arsenal

Arsenal Type: Armory

Liabilities

+9 Sensitive

+6 Individual Enemy

Name of Enemy: Soren Pike

+6 Delusions of Grandeur

+7 Scarred

Scar: Traumatic Brain Injury