Egon the Dwarf

First Impressions

Obviously a dwarf from his shape and size, but almost entirely encased in a carapace of plate. Armed with shortsword and, unusually, a light mace. His face and hands are visible and he is invariably cheerful, seeming to relish all experiences and laughing both at his own and others' misfortunes.

Referee Only

Age: 100 years as a dwarf, +200 as a vampire.

His vampirically-doubled dwarf strength of 40, enhanced by sorcery to 48 allows him to wear chain under his plate. Even if mobbed by PCs he can almost cerainly simply stand up with them all on him. He can weild a repeating arbalest as if it were a crossbow.

He leaves his hands ungauntleted to sink into victims' bodies easier and his face uncovered (open helm) so his eyes can lock onto victims' eyes and Transfix them. He Taps, and so does his already large Allied. The light mace has a hidden sprung loaded fork... it is actually the special cult weapon of Vivamort (a Sword Biter) once triggered. He holds it in his right hand and uses it to parry with; if successful, and the attack fails, the opponent is disarmed.

He has so many continual sorcery spells running on him you can feel them.

Character Traits

Allows victims time to heal up wounds, if they're a pushover: don't want all that blood leaking away now do we?
Sings merrily whilst fighting
Retains a dwarf's interest in shiny gems and precious metals.

Typical Catchphrases (in a gravelly voice)

"Hold on boys - you can't all die at once!"
"Ah, shoddy human manufacture" [If PC weapon or armour breaks]
"Say, is that a Mostali Mark 4 Repeater? I designed that!"

Statistics

19-20 (Head):    14 (16)hp / 17ap (+DR19)     STR 40(48)

16-18 (L. arm):  12(14) / 11 (+DR19)          CON 36(42)

13-15 (R. arm):  12(14) / 11 (+DR19)          SIZ 9

12    (Chest):   16(18) / 17 (+DR19)          INT 15

9-10  (Abdomen): 14(16) / 19 (+DR19)          POW 18(27: taps)

5-8   (L. leg):  14(16) / 8 (+DR19)           DEX 18

1-4   (R. leg):  14(16) / 8 (+DR19)           CHA 18 (PA 17)


(Bracketed values = with Enhanced stats. DR19 = Damage Resistance intensity 19.)

Total hit points: 19 (22 with Enhanced Con) Although CON and HP per location are doubled, vampires' base HP remain normal (?)

Skills

• Perception skills: 80%
• Manipulation: 90%
• Knowledge: 85% (old; scholar-cult; intelligent)
• Stealth: 90%
• Sorcery: Intensify 86%, Duration 50%, Multispell 40%, Range 30%, Ceremony 76%, Free INT 15
• RQ2 Defense: 85%; (old!) RQ3 Dodge: 90%

Attacks

• Repeating Arbalest 90%; 3d6 per bolt, plus multimissile 4; 6 barrels.
• Shortsword 90% attack / 80% parry; d6+1+Damage Boosting 19 (if time)+damage bonus; 20AP
• Sword Biter 90% / 90%; d6+2+damage bonus+permanent D.B.9 If Egon rolls 01-20 for his parry and attacker rolls 21-95 for attack, opponent is disarmed. infinite hit points
• Harmonising Gaze POW vs POW, no MP cost, in addition to other attacks. Victim will avoid this if they make a Luck roll. Victim is frozen for 10 rounds or until Dispel 2 is used.
• Bite 65%; 1d4+half damage bonus+1d6 STR (blood) per round. Never uses this if situation is unsafe.
• Touch 90%; Punches for d4+damage bonus hp, then hand sinks through armour and if POW vs. POW succeeds, drains 1d3 MP as per Spirit Combat.
• Allied Casts spells: POW 33 + 7 Tapped: Also vampiric spirit combat.

Damage bonus is zero.

Spells (Magic Points: 18 + 9 Tapped + 93 in Bounds; Allied has POW 33 + 10 points stored + 7 Tapped)

Spirit Spells & Sorcery

• Neutralise Magic 90%, Form/Set Bronze 85%, Form/Set Iron 50%, Tap DEX 58%, Mystic Vision 87%, Diminish Strength 78% (always fun for heavily armoured foes ) Venom 67%, Palsy 40%
• (Precast: Damage Resistance 86%, Spirit Resistance 79%, Cast Back 80%, Detection Blank 45%, Damage Boosting 89%, Armouring Enchantment 54%)
• Disrupt, Demoralise, Darkness, Darkwall, Silence, Multimissile 4
• (Healing 6, Xeno 6 - not used often)

Rune Spells

• Worship Vivamort (Reusable)
• Create Zombie (Reusable)
• Ecstatic Communion (Reusable)
• Divination (Reusable)
• Dismiss Magic 4 (dispels 8 point spells) (Reusable)
• Fire Breath 12 (One-use, d6 hp / point, 1 location, 3m range)
• Warding 1 (One-use)
• Telekinesis (One-use)
• Shield 7 (One-use)
• Spirit Block 3 (One-use)
• Reverse Chaos (One-use)
• Fight Disease (One-use)
• Teleport (One-use)
• Divine Intervention 2 (Yelm) (One-use)
• Divine Intervention 4 (Storm Bull) (One-use)

Special Abilities

• Likes to scout 'discorporately' using Mystic Vision before combat, looking for Rune Levels' Mind Links, etc. This allows him to cast spells intelligently.
• Another fave trick is to do an initial feinting attack then run off into the darkness, returning 15+ minutes later when PC spells have dissipated!
• Can see in the dark
• Vampires are immune to poison and disease. For PCs who use Skin of Life + poison gas, Egon is ideal: he dispels the spell, then walks in in a cloud from his own gas vial.
• Allied in Bat: POW 33 + 7 Tapped + continual sorcerous spells: Spirit Resistance 7 + Damage Resistance 8 + Cast Back 4. Two power storage crystals, 4 + 6 points.
• Sword-Biter has an Iron Dwarf enchantment stabilise weapon on it, making it indestructible for several years yet. Still only blocks 20hp damage when parrying though.
• Usual vampire abilities... can turn into a bat or wolf or smoke at will. Regenerates 1hp / round in smoke form, except Fire damage, which he can Heal.
• If a victim is drained to 3MP or less, Egon gains th last Rune spell they sacrificed for (if they got another point of Shield, he would get all points) as a 1-use spell. They lose it, permanently.
• If hit in any hit location for more than it can take (eg arm goes from to -6hp or less), or total HP drop below zero, automatically turns into smoke. More a hindrance to him than a help...

To kill him need to basically impale him in head or chest hard enough to take him to zero HP there. Ie, around 27hp (assuming you get through the damage resistance 19)

• Thus unless impaled in chest, or head taken to between zero and -6hp (ie unconcious), he will turn to smoke from blows which might otherwise kill him.
• If he turns to smoke, his funeral robes (armour & weaponry) go too but treasure accumulated since then will drop to the ground.
• As he has a powerful chaos feature, Regenerate 5hp / round in each location until dead, he is very difficult to put down except with impales to the chest or Turn Undead. As he's already Undead, you may wish to tone down the Chaos Feature to only Regenerating 1hp/round.
• Continual sorcery spells running: (powerful matrices multispelled together tattooed on his skin with Condition: usable only by chaotics): Enhanced STR, CON; Tapped POW; Damage Resistance 19 / Cast Back 4 / Spirit Resistance 4 (from his aquaintance Delecti); Damage Boosting on weapons; Detection Blank
• Guaranteed DI as a Rune Priest of Vivamort, but may take him out of circulation for up to a year

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