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123 lines
4.3 KiB
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# Chaz “Chad” Ironwick
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> DM-facing NPC writeup. Brain-damaged golden boy of [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]].
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## Role
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- **Age:** 16 (freshman), tracks with PCs
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- **Heritage/Class:** Human (or half-orc) Fighter / martial-focused athlete
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- **Primary Faction:** [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.1 Mageball Team & Jocks | Mageball Team]]
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- **Public Image:** Star Mageball hopeful, loud, handsome, dumb as rocks, inexplicably popular.
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## What Students Know
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- Chaz is:
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- The guy yelling in the hallway before first bell.
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- The one starting “AVA-LON! AVA-LON!” chants at lunch.
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- The kid who will absolutely call someone “4-eyes” in the year of our gods, whatever.
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- He’s got:
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- A decent arm,
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- Natural instincts on the field,
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- Absolutely no grasp of *why* any of it works.
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- Typical interaction:
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- Bullying Millie or other nerds with playground-tier insults.
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- Crude jokes that land mostly because of sheer confidence.
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- Over-the-top loyalty to “the boys” on the team.
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- Reputation:
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- Already a minor legend among underclassmen.
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- Teachers generally sigh when his name shows up on their rosters.
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- “Brain damaged but in a charming way” is the prevailing vibe.
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## What He Wants
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### Surface Wants
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- To win. Games, arguments, hallway confrontations—doesn’t matter.
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- To be seen as **the** face of Avalon sports:
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- Posters, announcements, crowds chanting his name.
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- To coast to a scholarship on raw talent and vibes.
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### Deeper Wants
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- To not think too hard about the fact that he forgets things:
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- Plays he should remember,
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- Classes he apparently attended,
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- A specific hit that everyone swears “wasn’t that bad.”
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- To feel like he’s good for something other than hitting people and being hit.
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## Methods & Tactics
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- **Default move:** push first, apologize never.
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- Fights verbal battles with:
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- Nonsense insults (“I bet you see good with those four eyes!”)
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- Louder volume whenever he’s losing the point.
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- Sometimes takes orders surprisingly well from anyone who:
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- Sounds like a coach,
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- Speaks in sports metaphors,
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- Or just sounds confident.
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## Relationship to Millie
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- Starts as classic bully:
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- Yells across the cafeteria,
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- Knocks trays,
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- Calls them “nerd,” “four-eyes,” etc.
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- First crack in the dynamic:
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- Millie calls out a tactical flaw in his play (“You leave left-field wide open, that’s why you keep losing to <RIVAL SCHOOL>.”)
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- He freezes, gears visibly turning, then blurts, “Shut the fuck up, you fucking dork,” because he has *no* other response.
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- Long arc:
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- By junior year, Millie is the **irreplaceable strategist**,
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- Chaz becomes their loudest defender on and off the field.
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## Relationship to the PCs
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- **Joe:** immediate bro-crush:
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- Sees him as a fellow “real athlete,” tries to recruit him hard.
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- Will absolutely drag Joe into team drama and parties.
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- **Ben:** thinks he’s funny until Ben’s bullshit affects the team; then he gets mean.
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- **Soren:** scared of her on an instinctual level:
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- Covers fear with bad jokes,
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- Will avoid being alone with her if he can help it.
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## Secrets & Pressure Points (DM Only)
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- He genuinely has mild traumatic brain injury from repeated hits:
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- Headaches, mood swings, memory holes.
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- Nobody is taking it seriously because it would threaten his playtime.
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- He is deeply superstitious:
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- Small rituals before games,
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- Secretly believes the Root “likes” certain plays / patterns on the field.
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- If Root anomalies start mirroring his favorite patterns, he will:
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- Feel chosen,
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- Double down on risky plays,
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- Be very vulnerable to manipulation by Fouadriel / the Coherence later.
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---
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## How to Play Chaz
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- **Voice:** Loud, slightly slurred around big words, often confused mid-sentence.
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- **Body language:** Chest out, hips forward, constantly drumming on tables or patting backs too hard.
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- **Sample Lines:**
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- “Hey, four-eyes! I bet you see good with those four eyes!”
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- (after Millie says something smart) “…Huh… well, uh… you’re a fucking dork. Nerd.”
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- “Yo Joe, you and me? We’re gonna make Avalon *legendary*, dude.”
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- Dial up the comedy early, the tragedy later when the hits start adding up.
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