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Fool
Archetype: Human Street Mage
Five foot eight with green hair and a
permanent silly looking grin on his face. He often interrupts his sentences with
intense fits of laughter.
Fool was always the class clown. At
least until one of his "jokes" exploded, taking out a class room full of
students. He went to jail but escaped three days later onto the streets of
Seattle. He was taken in by an old magic shop owner who discovered Fool's
capabilities and trained him in the hermetic tradition. At age twenty two the
old man died and Fool took over running the business, Cheap Tricks. Previously
he had a limited amount of cosmetic surgery to conceal his identity.
Fool specializes in illusion and combat spells and carries with him
several "jokes" which act as foci or fetishes. Only recently
he has gotten into the assassination business, once again using his tricks
in a deadly manner.
Jack Of Spades/Clubs/Hearts/Diamonds
Archetype: Human Gang Members
Quadruplets, the Jacks are little runts
of men who lack even an elementary school education. They stand five foot five
and all are bald. Each has their specific suit tattooed on their heads.
The Jack's are nothing more than Fool's
living "toys". He will often try out some of his low level pranks on them, none
of which are deadly, but some which have caused permanent disfiguring, making
the Jacks even uglier than they already were. They are almost always found with
him, bumping and tripping over each other like a bunch of children. They know
nothing of Fool's assassination operations and are simply around for comical
decoration.
The Clap (Hellen)
Archetype: Troll Prostitute
I guess in a troll's eyes The Clap may
appear attractive, six foot four with blond hair and blue eyes and several
horns. She is also somewhat articulate for a troll, speaking with plain,
unbroken English.
Hellen, or The Clap as everyone teasingly calls her, is
married to Fool. She also is a prostitute on the side, which doesn't seem
to bother Fool at all. He actually thinks it's hilarious.
Inside Hellen is screaming. She somehow caught herself up in this fucked
up life of hers and is too mentally weak to find a way out. If anyone bothers
talking with her she will slowly reveal information about her dilemma as
trust between her and the other person builds. Although she lives with
Fool she spends a lot of time with her customers and her nearly futile
quest to escape the prejudice against her race.
Lumpy
Archetype: Troll Security Guard
Lumpy is huge and has a seemingly
immortal booger hanging from his nose. He is always seen eating some kind of
snack, usually getting more of it on himself than in his mouth.
Lumpy wandered into Fool's shop several years ago thinking
it was a Stuffer Shack and, being the nice guy that he was, Fool provided
him with a munchy wired with an extremely small amount of plastic. The
explosion was larger than expected, taking out a small portion of Lumpy's
brain when it vented through the roof of his mouth and out his eyes. Feeling
mildly guilty over the mess he had created Fool brought him to a local
cyber shop, had him patched up and replaced his eyes. Still unable to function
in normal society, Lumpy was kept on as security and provided with a small
living space in the storage room.
Mr. Joke
Archetype: Stuffed Dead Guy
The previous store owner. Died in his
late seventies.
In his will, Mr. Joke asked to be
stuffed and turned into a waving mannequin for the front of the store. Fool
complied and the man had remained there to this very day. Fool dresses him up
special for holidays.
Loop
Archetype: Gargoyle
A male gargoyle who, by day, sits atop
Cheap Tricks.
Loop, as he has been named, crashed through the ceiling
of Cheap Tricks after being shot by a police helicopter. Fool hauled him
to a healer and after Loop returned to health, released him in Salish.
Loop returned and during the day now sits atop the store. At night he cruises
around doing whatever gargoyles do at night. He will defend the store if
he happens to be around during that time period. Fool has convinced locals
that it is simply a really life like inflatable and that he pulls it down
at night.
Team Happy (Current): Handbuzzer, Springysnake, Dribbleglass, Squirtingflower,
Rabbitouttadahat
Archetypes: Amateur Assassins
Fool's assassin's are never really around long enough for
people to get to know them. He's already gone through fourteen. Racially
in order they are; human, elf, ork, human, and troll.
Team Happy is the group of incredibly
down on their luck, and very often suicidal, mundane magicians who Fool cons,
using both spells and good ole' fast talk, into working for him as entertainers.
When needed they are sent out to perform simple street shows who's grand finale
occurs with the C.E.O. or government agent is walking by and usually involves a
large amount of explosives.
Nobody has caught on due to the fact that only one attack has been on
a Seattle resident. The rest have been fanned out around the continent,
and only one out of four actually works as planned. He always gives them
an electrocar of some kind to get them to their target and has heavily
shielded the trunk in order to prevent detection of explosives. Only one
member has ever been caught when his vehicle was pulled over while he had
the "trick" on his lap. When the package was searched, however,
it went off killing the assassin and the border guard.
Those who manage to return after an unsuccessful attack are dealt with
by summary execution and vacuum packing before being placed in the cellar.
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