Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 8 STR -2 11- Lift 75.8 kg; 1 1/2d6 HTH Damage [2] 12 DEX 6 11- OCV: 4/DCV: 4 9 CON -2 11- 9 BODY -2 11- 12 INT 2 11- PER Roll 11- 12 EGO 4 11- ECV: 4 13 PRE 3 12- PRE Attack: 2 1/2d6 10 COM 0 11- 2 PD 0 Total: 2 PD (0 rPD) 2 ED 0 Total: 2 ED (0 rED) 2 SPD 0 Phases: 6, 12 4 REC 0 18 END 0 18 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 9 Movement: Running: 6"/12" Leaping: 1"/2" Swimming: 3"/6" Cost Powers & Skills 1 "Skidded The Ocean": Swimming +1" (3" total), END 1 Skills 3 Breakfall 11- 3 Climbing 11- 2 "Played The Piano": KS: Music 11- 3 "He Went To Paris": Language: French (completely fluent; literate) 0 Language: English (idiomatic; literate) 3 Mechanics 11- 2 Navigation (Marine) 11- 3 "Skidded The Ocean": TF: Small Motorized Boats, Small Rowed Boats, Small Wind-Powered Boats 3 Jack of All Trades 1 1) "Fishes The Pilings": PS: Fisherman 11- 1 2) "Hopped On A Freighter": PS: Sailor 11- 1 3) "Played The Piano": PS: Piano Player 11- 1 4) "Writing His Memoirs": PS: Writer 11- 3 Traveler 1 1) "He Went To England": AK: England 11- 1 2) "He Went To Paris": CK: Paris, France 11- 1 3) "Lives In The Islands": AK: "The Islands" 11- 33 Total Powers & Skills Cost 42 Total Character Cost 0+ Disadvantages 0 Age: 60+ 0 Normal Characteristic Maxima 10 Physical Limitation: "The War... Left Him With Only One Eye" (1/2 OCV on all Ranged Attacks, no peripheral vision on one side) (Infrequently, Greatly Impairing) 10 Physical Limitation: "Losin' His Hearin'" (-3 to Hearing PER Rolls for faint/obscured sounds) (Frequently, Slightly Impairing) 10 Psychological Limitation: "He Don't Care What Most People Say" (Common, Moderate) 2 Experience 42 Total Disadvantage Points
Description: As a young man, the otherwise unnamed protagonist of He Went To Paris, traveled to the city of Paris, "Lookin' For Answers/To Questions That Bothered Him So." He never found what he was looking for, but instead fell in love with the city, the warm summers, the wine, and the cheeses, and eventually stayed for a good four to five years. He then went to England, fell in love (with an actress named Kim), and got married. Supporting himself by playing the piano, he lived there for twenty years, raising a son by the name of Jim. However, World War II took his son away, while the German air raids killed his wife and cost him an eye.
His world in ruins, he recalled the question he never had answered, so he found work on an outgoing freighter and left England "without a sound." At best guess he worked as a sailor for some time, "skidded the ocean," eventually ending up in the Caribbean. Now, aged 86, he spends his time fishing, writing his memoirs, and generally accepting his life.
"He Went To Paris" was built around the Sailor package from Pulp Hero. He's been around, seen a lot, and even at age 86 is still going strong (albeit slower). Technically he's alive in 1973 or so, but you could easily adopt him to just about any genre—swap W.W.II for W.W.I and he could be the perfect pulp contact or party NPC!
He Went To Paris's Hero Designer File
(He Went To Paris created by Jimmy Buffett, character sheet created by Michael Surbrook)
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