Remember Lock? My OC from the World of Darkness game “Mage the Ascension”? Of course you do (maybe, idk)
Well, he’s been going through some character development moments lately and it’s been really hard for him (and it doesn’t help that he couldn’t stay still from 1 minute). In the last 3 sessions he have lost 3 permanent willpower points in 2 different moments.
1. The first moment was after a kidnapping from the technocrasy when we were in the hospital after a fight with a ghoul (enemy of Lock, my character) that ended in a tense moment running, doing self harm to make the suspicious go away, a paradox hit, vulgar healing magic, leaving the dead body and making a blackout ln the area (not the best situation)
After taking us to their base, the technocrasy interrogate us and then take my character to a torture room to take info about the other mages of the city, Lock was loosing willpower to don’t say anything and in a point he got zero temporary willpower points, so he started to loose permanent ones in the torture (total of 2) before the other mages arrived and rescue all, stsrting a battle between mages and the techs.
At least he could get a laugh at his torturer using entropy to make his gun fail 3 times in a row, something that gave enough time to his team to not die. Yerko, the torturer, isn’t very happy with Lock (so sad because “I tough we were friends Yerko~”) and after the gun trick he went to stab him 2 times and then he ran away from the other mages that stormed the technocratic base, but don’t worry, we’ll meet again sometime, I’m gonna give him a little kiss in her forehead before I’ll send him to sleep).
Oh yeah, Lock was chained with PRIMIUN chains, so he got 3 of those.
2. The last session, after a very slice of life and nice first half session of sillyness and bonding of the team, Lock went to talk to his polycule because the technocrasy knows his real identity, he got the option of talk to them, tell them about his magic and that they could learn sorcery to defend themselves, it was a REALLY tense talk, like, REALLY tense, so in a desperate move to make a final rolldice when he needed 5 successes to make his polycule stay with him, he spent a willpower point for the secure success and then gave a permanent willpower point to ignore the penalties of the aggravaged and letal damage he had from the torture, to do that, I talk to the ST to offer 2 background points so I could do that, after other stuff, I got the necessary successes in the talk, so now Lock and his polycule are going to be mages/sorcerers together 👀 (to be honest, for me and for Lock, things like one permanent willpower point and all his fame background was a cheap price if it means he could keep seeing his partners).
Amazing sessions, very emotional and dramatic, fucking loved it and I hope the second part never happen again ✨