Moderation in All Things (Class: Humourist)

For Cloak-and-Sword.

Class: Humourist
Start with: Treated skin-covering garb, a scalpel, a doctor's bag, phlebotomy tools, too many jars and vials.

Leech: With an hour of work, you may extract 1 HD's worth of a specific Humour from a willing or unconscious body. A body contains an amount of Humours equal to its HD, and replenishes 1 HD's worth per day if parted. A Humourless body does not die, but instead becomes sluggish and apathetic.

The Humours are:

• Blood: the Humour of joy and affability. Can be found in children, happy lovers, courtesans, dogs, and angels.
• Black Bile: the Humour of sadness and creativity. Can be found in poets, failed actors, noble scions, crows, and ghosts.
• Yellow Bile: the Humour of anger and daring. Can be found in military officers, athletes, revolutionaries, lions, and demons.
• Phlegm: the Humour of patience and contemplation. Can be found in scholars, priests, old people, turtles, and gargoyles.

A body with more than 1 HD may hold more than a single type of Humour, depending on how many categories it falls under at once (elderly actors, scions turned revolutionaries, bears (considered by some to be the link between dogs and lions), sickly young women).

Temperance: With 10 minutes of work, you may inject 1 HD of an extracted Humour into a willing or unconscious body.
If the body is injured, roll 2d6 and restore Elan for the greater of the two results if the chosen Humour matches the body, or the lesser if it doesn't.
If the body is not injured, it gains the following effect based on the chosen Humour until the end of the day or until it suffers damage (which will violently release the excess Humours), whichever comes first:

• Blood: +1 to reactions and +1 to saves vs love. Must save or be a people pleaser if asked to do something.
• Black Bile: +1 to hit and 1-in-6 chance to see invisible things like angels and muses. Must save or inconsolably cry whenever anything bad happens to you or anyone else.
• Yellow Bile: +1 damage and +1 to saves vs fear. Must save or fly into a rage at any perceived slight.
• Phlegm: +1 AC and 1-in-6 chance to already know the relevant factoid in addition to any other lore roll. Must save or refuse to act without lengthy deliberation when presented with a choice.

Multiple injections of the same Humour stack, increasing numerical bonuses by 1, but adding -2 to saves vs the related drawback.

Bedside Manner: Upon being seen, you are immediately recognized as a physician. You never seem out of place at social gatherings and are always welcome at any club you visit. You have a +2 to reactions from ill nobles and commoners, unless there is already another physician present.
A noble is considered to be ill when any ailment is causing them the slightest discomfort.
A commoner is considered to be ill when any ailment actively interferes with their work.

Life Debt: Anyone you save from certain death through medical intervention holds Esprit for you. Those who held Esprit for them and were present at the time will also hold Esprit for you.

Shorthand: You can write exceptionally fast, matching and sometimes exceeding talking speed. Text written this way is unintelligible to anyone except you and those who you teach how to read it. You are literate in Gryce in addition to any other languages you might know.

Mithridatism: You have +2 to saves against diseases and poisons. If you succeed the save against the same disease or poison three times, you become completely immune to it.

Diagnosis: With 10 minutes of uninterrupted examination, you can precisely determine all mundane ailments a body is suffering from, as well as its current Elan and Fertility type. This also reveals familial connections to any others previously diagnosed by you.

Non Nocere: If you ever attack anyone you previously diagnosed and the attack hits, you kill them instantly, no save. If at least one other person was present, you immediately become an outlaw and lose all social standing. Even if you were alone, you still lose all your Humourist abilities.

 

Credit to Grace on the GLOG server for inspiring this class