Nicole Goguen
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Basic Information

Player name: Yue
Star Name: Nicole Goguen / Ren
Star Age: 11
Star School: Briarwood
Clique: Gothique
Allowance: 6
Savings: 9

Attributes

Body: D6
Mind: D8
Senses: D6
Will: D8
Social: D4
Magic: D8

Life Points: 12/12
Reflex: 9
Resist magic: 11
Zap Points: 16/16

Skills

Mundane
  • Mythology 1
  • Fix-Electronics 1
  • Basics 2
  • Computers 2
  • Pop Culture 4
Magical
  • Spell Breaker 2
  • Casting 4
  • Mysticism 4

Talents

  • Rich - Allowance 6, Starting equipment allowance 60
  • Creepy - +1 to rolls where she acts weird or scary.

Heritage

Demon-Blooded

  • Advantage: Spend 1 Zap point to transform into a demonic form with +1 Body and +1 Will.
  • Disadvantage: Whenever she takes damage, roll (Will + Focus + Life Points lost). On a failure she transforms into a creature from Beyond: +1 Body, +1 Senses, -2 Mind, -2 Social, and loses 1 Zap point per turn. She changes back when she reaches 0 Zap points.

Magic

  • Alteration 3
  • Curse 3
  • Conjuration 3

Spells

  • Signature Spell - Call Monster: This spell creates one monster of a rank equal to the Witch's Conjuration magic rank. Nicole can also call a monster from the Beyond that's one level higher than her Conjuration magic rank, but not entirely under her control.
  • Alteration - Improve: Choose a single Attribute. This spell improves that attribute in the target at a rate of +1 per MTR. The target's speed also doubles. If the target isn't alive, the item's speed and efficiency are improved, and its Life Points are doubled.
  • Conjuration - Shopping Spree: Creates non-magical mundane items without fuel or batteries. The total value of the created items cannot exceed 20 Allowance.
  • Curse - Jinx: The target is afflicted with bad luck, and all rolls by the target are reduced by a rank equal to the Witch's Curse magic rank.

Equipment

  • Ren's Wand - Made of black crystal, with a green tip. +1 to benevolent spells, -1 to wicked spells. Projects the voice of an older woman out loud to act as a conscience.
  • Bag of Holding - Black laptop bag, holds a LOT of stuff. Like so much. You have no idea.
  • Magic School Uniform - Changes into up to twelve different outfits, as well as whatever school uniform would be appropriate for the season. Does not grow, but mends itself if it's damaged.
  • Witch Gloves - Reduces the need for gestures to pointing or snapping fingers.
  • Silver Streak - A broom with a silver shaft and bleached white straw. Speed is double spell maximum, +2 to rolls for controlling the broom in flight.

Backstory
Growing up, Nicole Goguen just thought she was a little weird. Everyone thinks they're "different" when they're young, though for Nicole it was a bit, well. More than that. Prone to blackouts and strange events surrounding her, young Nicole was often the subject of town gossip. Rumors abounded that the girl had even been responsible for missing pets around the neighboring streets, though with no proof this was little more than the sort of hushed talk bored housewives conspired over across picket fence lines.
Of course, this was all true, rumor or no rumor. What even Nicole didn't know was that her family hailed from another world, a world of magic of the sort so many young children dwell on existing, until they grow up and realize it's all fairy tales and daydreams. Except, quite a few of the stories happen to have more than a small basis in reality, just not quite the reality humans tend to deal with on a daily basis.
Sadly, Nicole's parents had been exiled for reasons unknown, but this didn't stop the couple from raising their daughter amongst the world of the mundane. They decided it would be best if the young girl had no idea about their former life, concerned with the need to blend into normal society. Unfortunately, as one might imagine by now, this didn't go as planned.
Even further from the mundane world lay the Beyond, a mysterious shifting realm even those knowledgeable in matters magical have little detailed information on. Things inhabit the Beyond as they do any world, and one of those beings latched onto Nicole at some point, using the growing girl as a host of sorts. As Nicole aged, so too did the being known as Ren, gradually taking further and further control as she strengthened.
When the blackouts struck Nicole, Ren managed to assume control of her host, strong enough now that her own features even manifest upon the clueless girl. With sharpened horns and fangs, arcane markings along her flesh, and a thrashing tail, the seemingly odd-but-harmless girl became more than a little intimidating. Worse still, Ren seemed to have little care for keeping Nicole's cover, or sharing space with the girl at all. Something had to be done.
Perhaps owing to the reasons her family was exiled in the first place, upon discovering the being from the Beyond inhabiting their daughter, Nicole's parents conspired to place a seal that would halt Ren's growing powers and leave Nicole in control for good. Naturally, this meant they had to come clean with the girl, explaining their magic and her own latent abilities—with the caveat that she certainly couldn't go around trying to cast said magic, however.
It should go without saying that within the aforementioned world of magic, of course, there are watchers for these sorts of things. People making sure proper balance between mundane and magical goes without too great a shift in either direction. It was thanks to these people that eventually, Nicole received an invitation to the little known school of Briarwood Academy.
Thinking she finally had her chance to learn to control her talent, Nicole had little idea she was also enrolled in order to keep an eye on, for fear of Ren assuming control once more and growing even more dangerous than she already was. It is a testament to the being's potential that even some Academy professors remain more than cautious around the new student. Still, at the very least things had improved with the enrollment in a school catered to her skills in particular…even if even these students still found Nicole rather off-putting and strange in a different way from how she'd been perceived by her mundane classmates.

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