Madison is a very busy girl. She is in the school jazz band (clarinet). She plays soccer in a competitive private league. She takes advanced placement classes. She volunteers at local homeless shelters. She runs for student government. She helps decorate the school during Spirit Week. She takes private tutoring during the weekends to help keep her ahead of the academic competition. She sings in the church choir. She takes karate.
She also sees three therapists, takes four mood-altering drugs and a prescription antacid, and secretly wishes a monster would come and eat her parents.
Her parents are lovely people who've firmly convinced themselves that Madison Kate loves her busy schedule and numerous achievements, and wouldn't quit anything given the chance. Not that they give her the chance.
The problem with Madison's secret wish is that monsters are real, and her friend Yog'So-Soft would be happy to do the deed if Madison ever voiced it aloud.
Madison isn't sure who she really is. So far, she's been defined by the expectations she fulfills and the achievements she wins--but Yog'So-Soft has this way of asking questions that makes her stop and think, "What do I really want?"
Feet 3 (Dodging +1, Kicking +1, P.E. +1).
Guts 3 (Courage +1, Wind +1, Wrestling +0).
Hands 3 (Blocking +2, Punching +2, Shop +0).
Brains 3 (Notice +1, Out-Think +1, Remember +2).
Face 3 (Charm +2, Connive +0, Putdown +0).
The Parental Units 2, Tutor 2, Coach 2, Yog'So-Soft.
Appearance: Yog is like a nightmare teddy bear grown to enormous size, clawed, shambling, with a fanged vertical mouth where the seams of its face split open. On his belly you can still see the cute felt heart, splattered and blackened by unspeakable drippings.
Personality: Quiet and wise. Madison and Yog'So-Soft are almost of one mind, their bond is so strong. Yog was dormant in Madison's teddy for so long, when it awakened to its true nature they were already intimately linked. Yog offers quiet advice, and Socratically encourages Madison to find herself.
Way to Hide: Yog'So-Soft turns back into Madison's tattered old teddy bear, and she hides him in her bookbag.
Favorite Thing: When Madison stands up for herself and does something she likes for her own reasons. Yog'So-Soft can't tell when these things are right or wrong, so he has a habit of encouraging her to act out on her anger, because it's easiest to get some original thought that way.
Locations 1-2: Shambling Legs (8 dice, Defends, Useful [shambling quite fast], Tough).
Locations 3-4: Slashing Talons (4 dice, Attacks, Useful [rip open mystical doors, seals and barriers], Gnarly x2, Awesome x2, Wicked Fast).
Locations 5-6: Tummy with Stained Felt Heart (6 dice, Useful [manipulate emotions], Awesome x2, Tough x2).
Locations 7-8: Vertical Maw (7 dice, Attacks, Useful [exhale sleepy-dust that knocks people out], Gnarly x2).
Locations 9-10: Glassy Eyes (7 dice, Useful [see in the dark], Useful [see what people want the most in the world], Awesome x2).
With his Shambling Legs Yog can dodge and evade attacks, and, if needed, shuffle at, oh, about 250 miles per hour.
His Slashing Talons are seriously dangerous--fast, accurate, and really damaging. But the small dice pool makes them vulnerable. Outside of combat, the claws can easily shred magical barriers, cages, walls, locks, or other mystical obstructions.
The Felt Heart sewn to his tummy can project a beam that lets him manipulate emotions really well. Resisting it demands a Guts + Courage roll.
His creepy Vertical Maw can bite foes horribly, or he can exhale a cloud of sleepy-dust that can knock people out--even crowds of normal people, quite easily. When they wake, they can't distinguish the last half hour they were awake from weird dreams, which Yog'So-Soft uses to cover his tracks. In combat this can stun.
Finally, his Glassy Eyes see as well in total darkness as in total light, and if he squints he can see what someone wants most in the entire world. He still can't see this in Madison, but he keeps whispering questions, and keeps squinting at her.