Chris Stein

Aspects

High Concept: Trickster Changeling
Trouble: Was That Too Far?
Other Aspects: Not a Kid Anymore, Empathy is for chumps, Knows Mike's secret, Roll with the punches

Current Fate Points = 5

Skills

Stunts & Powers

Pointed Performance (Performance) [-1] May target specific person or group when performing for an audience.

Glamours [-2] See text

Stress & Consequences

If you suffer a stress you can spend an appropriate amount of stress points above. You can also reduce the stress by suffering a consequence first. Consequences create temporary aspects which can be invoked and compelled, the assailant will get a free tag of the newly created aspect. The consequence will eventually expire, when depends on the severity. Mild expires at end of the scene after the scene within which recovery starts. Moderate lasts until the end of the session after the session within which recovery starts. Severe lasts 2-3 sessions after recovery starts.

Base Refresh Level: 6
Total Refresh Adjustment: -3
Adjusted Refresh: 3

Chris' Potential Powers

At any point in this story, you can further embrace your fey nature and take any of these powers. You must permanently surrender the refresh cost in Fate Points to do so. If Chris takes both powers, it signifies that he has embraced his puckish nature and fully become a creature of faerie (and hence would become an NPC at the end of the session); his appearance will likely change to match his heritage more fully as he does so.
Chris will have to take The Sight before he can take Greater Glamours.

The Sight [–1]

Arcane Senses. Even with your third eye closed you have heightened arcane senses. You may use Lore as if it were an arcane Investigation skill as well as an arcane Alertness skill. You also gain +1 to Lore when using it in this fashion.

Wizard's Touch. As another aspect of your arcane senses, when you touch another being who has some magic potential, the GM may ask you to roll Lore to catch just a hint of a "spark"—indicating their nature as something other than mundanely mortal. Even on a failed roll, you might experience some sort of sense that something is "off," without being able to pin it down.
Opening the Third Eye. You may use the Sight to fully open your third eye, with all of the risks and rewards that come with it. See page YS223 for details on how the Sight works.

Greater Glamours [–4]

Veils. Same as Minor Veils, except: Use your Discipline or Deceit at +2 to oppose any efforts to discover the veil. You may set aside this +2 bonus to draw a veil over a whole zone.

Seemings. As with the Glamours effect of the same name (above). You may use your Discipline or Deceit skill at +2 to oppose any efforts to discover the seeming.

True Seemings. You may create an object—and with some difficulty, even ephemeral creatures—out of ectoplasm, the stuff of the Nevernever.

Personal question (Background)

Is your fey parent your mother or father? Have you met him or her? Are they aligned with Summer or Winter?

The lilac bush always bloomed first, without fail, in our yard. Not early by a day, or a week, but usually a month or so before the commonly perceived onset of spring. I think my Dad was aware of this too, but we've never talked about it. Those who might have come visiting certainly didn't notice, I didn't want them to... and so they didn't.

The significance of the lilacs was at once obvious and completely unknown to me. I honestly never thought about it much growing up. I didn't think about a lot of things.

There was a summer not too many years ago when the world shifted into view for me. It was the summer I met my mother for the first (and only) time. I still don't know if that meeting was by chance or design. I also don't really care. Savana (my mother) found me on a beach in the early morning after some classmates and I had parted ways on less than amicable terms.

Part of me had always longed to know Savana, to feel that connection. Most of what my Dad told me of my birth-mother didn't make sense to me. The truth he holds is an extravagant (though mundane) parody of the Faerie truth. I learned that my mother is responsible for the early blooming lilacs, whose fragrance she detests.

Oh yea, I learned that my mom's a freaking Faerie! WTF!

The most significant revelation was that I am different, other than, and my awkward attempts at interacting with people are not my failure but theirs.

The connection I was looking for was deeper than knowing my mother. It was more about self-exploration. Ever since then I've had a much harder time feeling or thinking along the lines of my friends. People, I've discovered, have the wrong priorities.

The following spring I set the lilac bush ablaze. I mixed the ashes into the soil and planted a raspberry bush in it's place... I hate those things!

Aspect: Empathy is for chumps

General question

Two of you used to be best friends, but then had a falling out. What happened, whose fault is it, and what does everyone else think about the incident?

Andy and I grew up on the same street. We played together all the time as kids. Snowball fights, bike riding, climbing trees, and epic games of hide and seek with the other kids in the neighborhood. We remained pretty close through junior high [i][Middle school, between elementary and high school. I'm not sure what the equivalent is for everyone][/i] although with Andy's increased activity in sport our worlds started to drift apart.

Everything changed when we got to high school. I hadn't seen Andy all summer, he was at some kind of boot camp, football thing. When school started we didn't see much of each other, he was busy with his team and I was involved with the school play. The play that year had a dramatic fight scene in it and I needed to learn how to handle myself a bit for the part. Andy was great about making some extra time to show me some moves. He was even a good sport about the shaving cream he found inside of his sparing gloves.

Maybe it was my fault, I should have realized Andy wasn't really my friend anymore, he was just helping out for old-times sake. I had to find him at school one day to let him know I couldn't make our practice session that afternoon. He was chill'n with his buddies. As I approached his friends noticed me and started to give me a hard time. One guy in particular, Tony, had it out for me, I guess I had pulled some prank on his little brother, at least that's what he said. Things escalated quickly and I don't really remember exactly what happened. I know I didn't take Tony's attitude very well and must have said some shit that really pissed him off. I guess it pissed Andy off too. I didn't realize how close he was to his new friends. Tony had started to advance on me, livid with rage. But before he got to me Andy had already decked me across the face. I was down cold, I didn't even see it coming.

Andy and I didn't see each other after that. I avoided him and his new friends. I found a letter from him in my locker not long after the incident, I burnt it. Actually I lit it on fire and tossed it into a near by garbage can... that was an interesting day at school! I guess everyone is entitled to new beginnings, I held onto that friendship for too long, it's better to let these things go.

Aspect: Roll with the punches
Skill: Fists

Flashback response re: Mike and little Hans

I sometimes wish I could talk to little Hans. I'm pretty sure he's got some ideas that Mike isn't telling me about. The whole Dani incident kind of freaked Mike out. For my part I didn't want anyone to get hurt, at least not severely. So Dani broke her arm, she probably loved all the attention.

Mike needs to lighten up, shit like that is funny. People hurt him, I think he's entitled to a little revenge. Dani snubs him all the time nowadays...

Aspect: Knows Mike's secret