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The Invisible College

The Black Magic Hour

Powers, Skills, and Attributes

Powers

Sorcery - Felicity is a practiced sorceress, but her training and focus are primarily in direct effects. The primary focus of her training was on basic ritual implementation, and the channeling of arcane energy. Her aptitude for it made her seem like an invaluable tool to her former circle, and her aptitude for channeling extra-planar forces is considerable. In the years since coming out from under Billy Arcane's shadow, however, Felicity has honed her abilities, mastering a few healing skills, summoning powers and refining her control of what she can do. Subtle and indirect effects are outside her normal purview, as she prefers flashy, impressive and direct results.

Skills

Occult Knowledge - Felicity is an enthusiastic student of the occult arts, and has been her entire life. Having redoubled her studies now that she's independent, Felicity has put a great deal of work into amassing an occult library that ranges from the latest quack mysticism to eerily legitimate tomes of forbidden knowledge bound in all manner of unpleasant things. In her free time, Felicity is most often found in study. Her knowledge is far from complete, which sometimes gives her just enough understanding to be dangerous, and not just to the monsters she faces.

Doing it by Rote - Felicity's greatest attribute in occult practice is still her adaptability to ritual. Able to focus, clear her head and learn quickly from observation, Black Magic finds herself able to adapt quickly to occult tasks, even without much prior knowledge. This natural aptitude can make her highly useful to a benevolent wizard looking for an extra set of hands. More than once, however, it's made Felicity an unwitting accomplice to less scrupulous sorts.

A Different Kind of Magic - As an actress, Felicity failed to captivated the theater audiences of Vibora Bay. As Black Magic, however, she has worked hard at developing an audience. When not up to her neck in the underworld, Felicity actually does an admirable job managing her sparse production crew, public appearances and the technical aspects of doing her show. Her practice as an actress also gives her an advantage when attempting to bluff or connive her way out of situations.

Attributes

(Oc)cult of Personality - While hardly a household name amongst normal citizens, Felicity is rather well known in certain circles. If recognized by a fan while she's working a case, Black Magic is hardly adverse to trading an autograph, show tickets or a little extra attention for important information or access. This notoriety also provides her some degree of protection, as many of the groups her actions have raised the ire of know that her disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed. At least, for now.

In Her (Un)natural Environment - Due to her upbringing and prolonged exposure to otherworldly forces, Black Magic is incredibly hard to rattle. Even in the face of some mind-bending horrors, she manages to maintain her trademark smirk. However, this also applies to situations in which a more practiced mage or heroine would know to exercise caution. Felicity's bravery has gotten her through more than one trying time, but it's gotten her in over her head too many to count.

Gear and Equipment

Gear

The Nightscrap - Unearthed early in her misadventures, the Nightscrap is a cape that has become a signature part of Black Magic's "look." A powerful occult artifact, the Nightscrap allows the wearer to travel via teleportation, by slipping into a small sub-plane where normal rules of physics don't seem to apply. The danger of the item, however, is that if Black Magic is significantly distracted (or even harmed, somehow) during transport, she runs the risk of being lost indefinitely in this shadowy realm. Due to this, she only relies on the cloak for short jaunts unless in dire need.

Black Leather - Tailored from the flesh of minor demonic beings, these items allow Black Magic to handle and walk through materials otherwise harmful to the human body. Felicity's costume incorporates long gloves, boots, a mask and a corset crafted from the otherworldly material.

The Lending Legerdemain - Felicity's flippant name for her occult collection, it is a rather impressive sum of books she's managed to gather over the last few years. Both a resource and a responsibility, Black Magic knows at least enough to know what her private collection could do in the wrong hands. Towards that end, she's tried to ward and protect her library as best she can, and usually has at least two staff devoted to its care. However, as is always the way of these things, accidents do happen ...

Relationships

Lover

This section is specifically for a spouse, lover, or some other form of paramour. Feel free to use any of the formatting from 'Friends/Allies' below.

Friends/Allies

Put any friends or allies your character may have in here. You may give them descriptions or simply list them. To make a numbered list, simply place a # at the beginning of each new line:

1. This guy
2. That guy
3. Some chick

For a non-numbered list, put an asterisk instead (the lines are optional. Simply remove the HR tags if you wish to remove them):

• This guy

• That guy

• Some chick

Or, you could even use a smaller sub-header for each person, effectively creating a small section on them, like this:

That Guy I Know

Put info on the friend here.

That Chick I Met

And here.

Some Dude at the Bar

Don't forget this one.

Enemies

Put any rivals or enemies here. You can give descriptions, or simply list them. Same idea as the Allies and Friends.

General Perception