[HOE] Tale-Teller AB Revamped

[Horace Black <horaceblack@yahoo.com>]

  O.K. I've revamped the Tale-Teller from this morning
and am planning on coming up with more powers, but
here is what I have so far.  Enjoy.
                             Horace Black
Arcane Background: Tale-Teller	3
  Some people can tell a joke or a story and entertain
a whole room full of people.  But there are some
people who speak to the very soul, whose words and
songs are magical in a sense.  With their stories,
songs and jokes they can alter the very fabric of the
universe and change the hearts of men and beast alike.
 Your hero has that kind of gift and he better use it
wisely.
   For every level of tale-tellin’ Aptitude you
possess you start with one Yarn.  Learning new yarns
takes 1d6 hours and cost 5 Bounty each.  Yarns are
stories, songs, jokes that have supernatural effects.
 
Yarns may be told by making a successful roll against
the Yarn’s TN, using the tale-tellin’ Aptitude.

A Tale-Teller has starting Strain equal to their Vigor
die type.


TN: This is the number the Tale-Teller needs to roll
or better to successfully use the yarn.

Speed: This is how many actions, the yarn takes to
tell.

Duration: This is how long the yarns affect the
target.

Strain: This is the amount of Strain the story weaver
spend to spin his yarn

Yarns

Baby, Light My Fire
TN: 7
Strain: 2
Speed: 1
Duration: 1 Hour/Success and Raise
   The songsmith receives the Purty Edge free while
this yarn is in effect.  If they already have the
Purty Edge then their bonus is doubled (+4 to
persuasion rolls).

Battle Cry
TN: 9
Strain: 2
Speed: 1
Duration: 1 Round/Tale-tellin’ level
   By releasing a battle cry “Remember the Alamo, Viva
La France, Spoon, etc.”, the tale-teller gives a bonus
to his allies to their attack rolls of +1 per success
and raise, affecting 1 ally per tale-tellin’ level.

Dance Puppets! Dance!
TN: Opposed
Strain: 5
Speed: 1
Duration: 1 Action/Success and Raise
   The Tale-Teller is able to take over the actions of
another creature, if it fails an opposed Spirit roll. 
The creature will do nothing that directly harms
itself and they are completely aware of what’s going
on, they just can’t do anything about it.

Dr. Dolittle
TN: 5
Strain: 1
Speed: 2
Duration: 1 Minute/Success and raise
  By making a Fair (5) tale-tellin’ check, the singer
can talk to the animals as they would a person. 
Although, the animals might not have much to say.

Dust in the Wind
TN: Opposed
Strain: 5
Speed: 1
Duration: Permanent
   When Dust in the Wind is used all undead must make
opposed Vigor rolls or take 1 Wound to their focus
area for every raise and success the Tale-Teller got. 
The tale weaver may only affect one undead per level
of tale-tellin’.

Inspire Courage
TN: 5 + Fear level
Strain: 2
Speed: 2
Duration: 1 Round/Tale-tellin’ level
   The tale spinner starts speaking of courage and
bravery, giving a bonus of +1 to guts checks per
success and raise, affecting one ally per level of
Tale-tellin’ Aptitude.

Let there be Light!
TN: 5
Strain: 1
Speed: 1
Duration: 1 Hour/tale-tellin’ level
   The tale weaver has learned the power of the spoke
word and may produce light from thin air.  This light
illuminates an area of 5-yard radius and move with the
Tale-Teller.

Lord of the Dance
TN: Opposed
Strain: 5
Speed: 2
Duration: 10 minutes/Success and raise
   Using this yarn causes creatures to obliviously
follow the performer, even into dangerous situations.
To resist this the creatures can make an Opposed Fair
(5) Spirit roll, failure means that the creature
dances after the performer.  
   Lord of the Dance affects up to 5 creatures per
tale-tellin’ Aptitude and only works on living and
non-human creatures.  Although for some unknown reason
it will also work on children or 12 years or less,
affecting 1 per level of tale-tellin’.

One Liner
TN: Opposed
Strain: 3
Speed: 2
Duration: 1 Round/ Success and raise
   So a Rabbi, a Priest and a clown walk into a bar
and the bartender says “What is this a joke!”  The
tale spinner is able to use tale-tellin’ to cause
those who hear his joke to start laughing
uncontrollably (treat as stunned).  The targets must
make a Fair (5) Mien roll to resist One Liner. One
target is affected per level of tale-tellin’ and the
tale-teller chooses the targets.

Purple Haze
TN: 5
Strain: 2
Speed: 1
Duration: 1 round/tale-tellin’ level
   When Purple Haze is sung, old people eyes glaze
over with nostalgia, but the real magic is that it
summons a visible purple fog around the tale weaver. 
This fog adds a +2 modifier to opponents TN to hit the
Tale-Teller.

Sing for Your Supper
TN: 7
Strain: 2
Speed: 5 Minutes
Duration: Permanent
   The spellsinger is able to perform this yarn and
summon forth a nice stew or soup out of this air.  The
Tale-Teller needs a bowl or something to use this yarn
and produces enough food to feed one person per
success and raise.

Soothing Song
TN: 7
Strain: 2
Speed: 2
Duration: 10 minutes/success and raise
   By using Soothing Song, the singer can stop the
effects of insanities on a target for the yarns
duration.  So that things like phobias and the Lunacy
syker power would be temporally stopped. 

Video Killed the Radio Star
TN: 5
Strain: 2
Speed: 1
Duration: Up to 5 minutes
   The Tale-Teller is able to produce an image of
anything ever broadcast by TV waves or cable TV. 
These may not be modified, but are shown as they where
originally sent.


__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now.
http://mailplus.yahoo.com