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51 Daring Knucklehead
In order to keep up with the ever-escalating demands of the attention economy, you had your skeletal system ripped out and replaced by an ultralight, hollow one. This granted you an extra 4.5 minutes of fame and dozens of new followers who, come next week, will demand even greater sacrifices for their entertainment.
  • Possessions
  • A Pneumatized Skeleton
  • A Motorized Wingsuit
  • An Action Camera
  • Advanced Skills
  • 4 Acrobatics
  • 3 Tolerance to Pain
  • 2 Flying
  • 2 Videography

42 Mantis-touched
In one of your more interesting DMT trips you passed through the realm of the Mantis beings. Well you must've caught a bug or something, since you've been undergoing some changes that left you with a severely impaired social life and several novel ways of digesting your food.
  • Possessions
  • A Mandible OR Grasping Forelegs (damage as Modest Beast)
  • Compound Eyes
  • Advanced Skills
  • 4 Climb
  • 3 Acrobatics
  • 2 Language — Mantis
  • 1 Awareness
  • 1 Spell — Entovision

34 Shaolin Punk
ONE MAN
AGAINST THE WORLD
THEY TOOK HIS LUNCH MONEY
– NOW IT'S PAYBACK TIME

As a result of having watched too many ninja movies and never having outgrown them, Shaolin punks have inner monologues like this playing in their heads all the time. Honor. Justice. These are words they like to throw around. When they're not fighting in pointless tournaments no one else cares about, they're fighting in the streets for any perceived offense of which there's never any shortage.
  • Possessions
  • A Kattori Tanzō Katana (Damage As Sword)
  • A Skullet
  • 1d6 Throwing Stars
  • Advanced Skills
  • 3 Martial Arts
  • 2 Katana Fighting
  • 2 Flexing
  • Special
  • On a successful hit, you can Test Your Luck to use the Ten Fingers Of Certain Death technique. Although this does NOT guarantee certain death, the damage you deal is doubled.
33 Indentured Delivery Person
Arbeit Mach 5 is revolutionizing the way we work — revolutionizing it straight back to the feudal age. Thanks to Arbeit, you can choose the mode of indentured servitude that best suits you; now everyone has the tools to join in the vertiginous race to the bottom. The system works! You signed on as the only available way to pay off your crippling student loan debt.
  • Possessions
  • “Exposure Is A Viable Form Of Payment — The Arbeit Mach 5 Bible” Booklet
  • A GPS-Enabled PDA (Leased By Arbeit)
  • An Oversized Delivery Bag
  • Advanced Skills
  • 4 Tracking
  • 3 Running
  • 2 Driving
  • 2 Making Ends Meet
  • 1 Sneaking
  • Special
  • You may Test your Luck to rifle through your bag for a specific item you need. 
31 Satanic LARPer
Everyone knows that playing roleplaying games, or "RPGs", does irreparable damage to the psyche and that only hopeless degenerates engage in it. For you, it was a gateway drug into the occult. You were gradually immersed in a make-believe world of witches, demons and needlessly complicated rules for tying knots until your will had been shattered and you had to pledge your undying soul to the Lord of Lies. And that's just at level one!
  • Possessions
  • A Battered Dark Dungeons Softcover
  • A Boffer Sword (Damage As Club)
  • A BMX Bike
  • Studded Leather Bracelets (Counts As Light Armor)
  • Advanced Skills
  • 4 Bike Riding
  • 2 Occultism
  • 2 Heavy Metal Instrument Of Your Choice
  • 1 Spell — Ectoplasm
  • 1 Spell — Nigredo
23 Nephilim Outcast
You were born with a diamond-studded silver spoon in your mouth. You used to pal around with all the right people, hang out at the best party jets... But you brought shame to your House when your exploits were found too brazen even for them, leaving them no choice but to disown you. Now you're out on your own and facing the terrifying prospect of having to pay for things. With money. You may even have to let the beachfront condo go.
  • Possessions
  • An Expensive Ornament Emblazoned With Your House’s Coat Of Arms
  • A Cane Sword (damage as Sword)
  • Some Reptoid In You
  • Advanced Skills
  • 4 Etiquette
  • 3 Evaluate
  • 2 Fencing
  • 2 Cigar Chomping
  • Special
  • You still have friends (i.e. people you have dirt on) in high places. You may Test your Luck to call in a special favor.

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