Out West: NPCs
Snake Oil Jake / Gadgeteer
This character can create potions that give a person Touched powers. Each potion has the Flaws: Focus & One Use. Each dose lasts the Gadgeteer Roll’s Width in hours.
Due to the low level of Willpower in this setting, this character demonstrates a potion or two and sells fakes to the crowd. He skips town soon after the sales before his customers find out that their expensive potions are cheap teas made from wild plants.
Guano Juan / Control: Bats
Guano Juan is the wealthiest Touched in Santa Fe. This Mexican-Indian uses his Control over bats to create large piles of guano that are harvested and sold East to supply industry. There is a large amount of resentment towards Juan due to bigotry towards his ancestry and jealousy about his vast fortune.
Captain John “Saber” / HyperSkill: Sword
Captain John Smythe is the commander of Fort Nelson Hawkins. He’s a hard man made even harder by the manifestation of his Touched ability. In the midst of ferocious skirmish, Captain Smythe found himself able to slice through a man and his horse with one slice of his cavalry saber. Men fell like wheat before a thresher. It was only after the battle was over that Smythe discovered the horror of his situation. His hand had permanently fused around the hilt of his saber. He could not let go of the weapon.
Captain Smythe – now going under the unfortunate nickname of Captain Saber – faced a hard choice. Saber could lose both his hand and his power (Focus Flaw on his original saber) or he can live his life a dangerous freak.
Saber attempts to enforce the law of the Union on all the occupants of Santa Fe and is not above using his saber to back up his orders.