Day 14: Outgunned Combo 14 - Neon Noir & A Kind of Magic

Lottery Result: Neon Noir & A Kind of Magic – Cyberpunk with Magic. Sounds familiar, though I cannot quite put my finger on it…

Just kidding.

Lareina Lucena Rojas is on the run. Yesterday, she was the star apprentice of Marlon Centino, himself the top magical scholar in the Arcology and a renowned professor at the university. This morning, she came into his office for the usual morning planning session and found a hit squad, a few cops, and the provost over the dead body of Marlon. And when they saw her, they raised their guns – reflexively she defended herself, and now her life has fallen apart.

Last week Marlon told her to look for an old friend of his if she ever had “problems that she couldn’t solve the usual way”. A person calling themselves “Wild Thing”. To go down into the dark underbelly of the arcology, find that person, and remind them of a certain debt. Lareina never expected to have to do this, but here we are.

In this world only the chosen few get to use magic; it is often a toy of those born with the right mutation. If they are born into a rich family, they get to study hard and become good at magic; if not, they might have a few small tricks up their sleeves but will more likely become sick and succumb to the wasting disease when the mana starts claiming their bodies. Magic is a tool for the rich and powerful. Mages in this world do not need fancy tools, but spells are spoken, with hand motions. Casting quietly is hard!

Role:  The Apprentice (AKoM)

Trope: Neurotic Geek – breaking my rules for this one; none of the NN tropes are at all fitting for this character. Anyway, the addition of cyberware, etc. should already make NN an essential part.

Feats: Magical Scholar – she can spend downtime learning a specific spell for a single use.

High Culture – good at navigating magical circles; this also applies to the rich crowd in general, but at -1.

Intuition – she spots things others don’t, including enemy weak spots

Flaw: She is too trusting

Catchphrase: "I don't think I've read anything about that"

She also gets a point in Shoot and Know, Photographic Eyes, the spells Magical Dart, Heal, Open/Close, and Empowered Blow (which makes the Dart Accurate and Rapid Fire), and a gun.

Her sheet is here.

By the way, you might have spotted that I have connected this one to the Day 3 character. This also made me wonder if a game that utilizes a lot of Action Flicks would work. Let's say you take a more world-defining one like Neon Noir as the basis, and then let players choose one additional one from a fitting selection if needed to round out their character.