The characters at the table for this phase of the playtest — six people who got pulled sideways into what Backwater Static actually is. Built with the 20 Below Character Creator, and gathered here as the table came together.
A lawyer, a damned good one, who made a ton of money defending Gulf South Oil & Gas for ten years — until her goddaughter died of cancer linked to the company's pollution. She retired and took a mulligan on her 20s. Now she works at the Screen, mostly for the people watching and something to do.
Quiet Authority · Murder Eyes · Predator Walk · Danger Sense · Combat Precog
Bureaucracy 4 · Bribery 3 · Academics 3 · Computer Use 3
Alertness (Lesser) · Encyclopedic Knowledge (Lesser)
Domination 1 — Blind Command; limited by Marked Predator, Fragile Hold
Neagley, Penelope Garcia, Bobby Singer — the one who knows a guy, has the gear already staged, and was three steps ahead of the plan before anyone else finished making it.
LEEEROOYYYY Jenkins!!!! · Playing 4D chess · Spider senses · Touched by the weaver
Hacking 2 · Computer Use 2 · Bureaucracy 2 · Persuasion 2 · Streetwise 2
Alternate Identity (Greater)
Technokinesis 3 · Gadgeteer 1 · Regeneration 1 · Teleport / Dimensional Portal 1 · Threadspace 1 · Unburdened 1
A nurse with time in cardiology, oncology, the OR, the ICU, the ER, and field medicine — the person you want in the room when something has already gone wrong. Off the clock: endurance racing, swimming, cycling, running.
Hard to Kill · Built Like a Tank · Marathon Body · Quiet Authority
First Aid 5 · Holistic Medicine 4 · Medicine 4 · Swimming 4
Jack of All Trades (Legendary) · Ambidextrous · Innate Compass · Light Sleeper
Regeneration 2 · Claws / Fangs 2 · Enhanced Speed 1 · Flight 1 · Healing 1
A wandering college dropout who hasn't found his place. He's worked almost every job you can think of, and he wasn't good at any of them — on paper, anyway.
Prince Charming · Animalistically Magnetic · A Chameleon · Star-Touched · Karmically Blessed
Higher Purpose (Legendary) · Jack of All Trades (Greater) · Enchanting Voice (Greater)
Signature Move 5 · Forcefield 3 · Flight 2 · Threadspace 1
"Dragon Slave" — Area of Effect, Piercing Edge; Telegraphed, One and Done. "Darkness beyond twilight, crimson beyond blood that flows..."
A man the supernatural world forgot, using that anonymity to shelter those it wants silenced. Drive: anyone under his protection deserves a place nothing can find or control. Trigger: shelters, extracts, or conceals someone being hunted — even when it costs him his own safety or anonymity.
Forgettable · Psychically Silent · Fate-Forgotten · Untouchable · Reassuring
Concealment 3 · Insight 3 · Occult 3
Steadfast Presence (Legendary) · Special Movement (Lesser)
Peripheral 5 — Group Obscurity; limited by Loud Undoes It, No Recordings. Deadzone 4
A disheveled vet who looks like he could do damage if provoked. Or not. Hard to tell until it's too late to ask.
Grizzled · Wrathful · Merciless · Hard-to-Kill · Thread-Bound
Firearms 4 · Melee Combat 4 · Sleight of Hand 4
Special Movement (Lesser) · Never Off Balance (Lesser) · Light Sleeper · Ambidextrous · Animal Rapport · Natural Linguist
Conjured Armory 2 — Armory of Anything. Regeneration 2 · Necromancy 1 — Reinforced Bones
Six people, six very different reasons for still being at the table. More gets added here as the campaign moves — this page reflects the party as of Playtest Phase One and will be revised as playtest refines the system.