[UA] Help with a new arquetype: The Lovers

[jecouto at tiscali.es]

Hi

As always, I start things without a clear and defined plan and go along
until I hit the wall and have to start laying down the details... yes, I'm
that class of bad GM.

In this particular campaign, I've the clear idea from the beggining that
2 of the players are unknowingly channeling an "dual" archetype, The Lovers.
They were in fact the defining members of the Clergy as The Lovers in a
good number of incarnations of the universe (that is, they were in the Clergy
when the 333 archetype ascended) and the Compte is particulary interested
in having them again on board, as all those universes were in his view better
than the current batch, where The Lovers are... Romeo & Juliet (not their
names, the concept; that why all famous love stories have tragedy). Needless
to say the current Lovers are going to be against them (because if they
ascend is Renuntiation time for them... and you bet they arent going to
be loving each other anymore)

All this is fine if I had an idea of what the hell does this archetype involves,
so first, if anybody has something similar, please share, and second, I
would like feedback on this idea.

Right now I'm thinking on 4 channels on the following lines:

- first one is basically enhancement over social skills; the presence of
The Lovers makes people happy ("They are a wonderful couple, dont you think?")
so its easier for them to Charm people into helping them. Mechanics-wise
(and yes, I've to do the catalog of skill mechanics...) I'm thinking either
of flip-flop or to add the Avatar to the skill when they are together or
the context allows it ("if you give us that seems-to-be-dead potion we can
fake our deaths and run away for our parents")

- second would be a form of "psychiatric help". As it is said in the manual
that you can recover from a failed check if you get inmediate attention
from somebody that cares for you and soothes you, the Lovers, while together,
never get notches (they may fail and flee or they may pass and stay, but
they arent going to get a failed or hardened notch), as long as they stay
together and help each other. Still unclear if this would be by default
or need a check...

- third one would be the classic "third sense" of Lovers. "I know she is
in trouble" "Something is happening to him"... roll under Avatar and get
a warning if your significant other is in danger, and maybe even clues about
location, enemy, situation...

- fourth would be the classic "nothing can keep us apart" (like the Messenger,
all barriers drop between you and you significant other).

Ideas, sugestions?

Jesús Couto F.

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