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[batgirl]

Ooooh! I remember this from the last time! After a bit of searching, I even found my old character.

Name: Magnolia Grey
Gender: Female
Race: Human
Profession: Brewmaster
Appearance: Average sized, Magnolia doesn't exude intimidation by any means. She wears a black suit with orange and purple pinstripes, a white blouse, suspenders and black boots. Her eyes are green and her hair black and kept pin strait down to the middle of her back. She usually wears a black top hat to go with her ensemble and a long black trench coat with many pockets where she keeps many vials and ingredients. She carries with her a brown faded messenger bag that holds her brewing kit, and some stock ingredients. On her thighs and in her boots are holsters that contain knives used for cutting ingredients/defending herself.

Personality: Happy enough, giddy when making a brew. Social to most people unless they give off a bad "vibe," or le gasp, don't like tea.

Background: In a world where spirits and people alike know the measure of a good party, someone needs to be able to craft the teas and brews that make parties things of legend. Magnolia was born into a long line of brewmasters who wander the world in their suits and top hats and use the world itself around them to create magically flavored teas for parties. Magnolia learned the family business, and when she came of age, began wandering and creating teas for humans and spirits alike.
Abilities:
Brewmaster: Devoted to her craft, Magnolia has studied night and day the various herbs, plants and ingredients to make teas and potions. As such, she has an innate knowledge of all things leafy, fungusy and tasty. Want to know if that mushroom will kill you or cure the latest bout of plague? Ask away because she knows.

Well Traveled: Magnolia, well into her wandering years, has traveled far and wide all over the world, retaining an excellent sense of direction.

Something from Nothing: Magnolia can make a tasty brew from even the most rudimentary ingredients. What may just look like grass to some can be infused into a hot delicious brew with just a sprinkling of this or that from her coat or bag.

Magnolia has a few ability enhancing teas at her disposal:

Pepper Spice Tea: This red spicy tea made with essence of Bhut Jolokia will enhance Magnolia's fire magic far beyond what she is normally capable of, giving her the power to create and throw fireballs and shoot flames. Hopefully there will be some milk nearby.

Cooling Silver Needle Tea: A cold and refreshing tea will increase the senses and speed up cellular tissue regeneration, healing broken bones and sealing wounds.

Spirit Blooming Tea: Want some pep in your step? This one will do it. A tea that enhances strength, speed and agility to superhuman levels for a period of time, just be prepared for the adrenaline crash afterwards. Usually used in conjunction with the African Super Blue Tea.

African Super Blue Tea: A tea with an extra jolt of energy thrown in. Wakes you up and gets you moving, usually used after the crash from Spirit Blooming Tea.

Wolf's Delight: A simple tea made with an exact amount of the toxic Wolfsbane. The drinker will turn into a human/wolf hybrid with incredible strength, speed, and agility along with razor sharp fangs and claws. There's no crash like with Spirit Blooming, but once the tea does wear off, the drinker shrinks down to the size of a large husky dog and remains in wolf form for 2 hours.

A+ Starling Tea: The apex of Magnolia's work, this tea has a 50% chance of granting the drinker amazing abilities that would likely turn the tide of any battle in her favor. However, the double edged sword is that there is a 50% chance of the tea not succeeding and making Magnolia violently ill and practically useless in a fight. Drink with caution.

Teas can be used in conjunction with each other, but will then become less effective.

Agility: Sneaking around areas and climbing mountains and large trees just to get certain ingredients have made Magnolia naturally very agile and quick.

Knife Play: Her sampling knives are usually just used for that, taking samples of ingredients for use. However, don't be fooled, Magnolia can use her knives to defend herself, and use them well. She has two longer knives that she can use to flourish and cut with the best of them, and two smaller knives that are mostly sample knives, but can be used in a pinch as throwing knives.

Minor Fire Magic: A brewmaster might not always have a ready flame, and as such are taught the most rudimentary of fire magic. Magnolia knows enough to create a flame to start a fire, even on wet wood, and also create enough heat in her hands to boil the brew in her vials just by holding them.

Involvement: New city = New Tea ingredients!

[Overcast]

Name: Roland Vandenberg and Arrogance
Gender: Man
Race: Human
Profession: Theurgic Busybody
Description: Tall, thin, with blond hair often combed to the side and blue piercing eyes, and high cheekbones. He is often in a fine black Victorian suit, with grey vest, white dress shirt, and wide blue tie. In inclimate weather he’ll throw on a large black double-breasted coat and on both sunny and rainy days he doffs a wide brimmed top hat. Otherwise he keeps his coat and spare clothes in side bag.

Roland is a very prideful and argumentative man, and yet all at once is a bit of a posh and dainty fop. He is frequently consumed by the state of his appearance and while he does not abhor violence, he is prone to trying to talk someone into submission if at all possible.

He was at one time a local politician and educator of a reasonably sized town. He lived his life with argument and conversation and believed a few well placed words could solve any problem, so when he took all he owned to try to move to a larger venue he was surprised that the bandits that robbed him weren’t responding to his totally valid arguments.

Angry at the world for stating he was wrong he attracted a spirit of arrogance, who claimed for just a few motes of his energy he could add a bit more BITE to his words. Roland being both petty and bitter accepted without any hesitation, and has since been corrupted by his power and intruding into anything that happens to cross his path.

Abilities: Arrogance is a spirit of well arrogance, using Roland’s own as fuel it adds a bit of force to his arguments and accusations allowing him to use words to parry, block and strike like weapons of their own.

Wall of Arrogance: Roland suffers no creature ignore his criticism, with a few well placed words about why he is better than someone else it creates a visible gap between the two of them made up from Arrogance’s power and Roland's will. He needs to criticize someone to make it happen, so a wall made for one person won’t work on another unless he is able to figure out a statement that sweeps over them both. It is also not indestructable, and tends to be weaker if his statement isn't true.

Sometimes Words Hurt: Roland attacks with his words, throwing insults at the enemy that are shaped and empowered by their own emotive response. A blunt truth that is practically all Roland hits like a fist, a remark that actually hurts someone’s feelings cuts like a blade, and a statement that genuinely hits the heart of someone emotionally pierces like a spear.

Gods of Fashion and Haircare: Arrogance can naturally repair, clean, and manipulate Roland’s outfit and hairstyle as necessary to allow him to maintain the appearance that he considers pivotal to maintaining his fragile sense of superiority.

Roland’s power thus works best against people who he can easily be critical about, and whom are used to responding to insults with a hot head. His greatest weakness is a well dressed and socially capable opponent, but then perhaps they might be willing to have a REAL debate.

[Arhra]

Originally Posted by batgirl

black suit with orange and purple pinstripes, a white blouse, suspenders and black boots. [...] She usually wears a black top hat to go with her ensemble and a long black trench coat with many pockets where she keeps many vials and ingredients.

Originally Posted by Overcast

a fine black Victorian suit, with grey vest, white dress shirt, and wide blue tie. In inclimate weather he’ll throw on a large black double-breasted coat and on both sunny and rainy days he doffs a wide brimmed top hat.

Magnificent.