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Wandering Cartoon Skeleton

Surely there must be something more than just goofing off in the graveyard with your bonehead friends, right? Besides, your yawning grave had a terrible draft.

Possessions:

• Big Warm Sweater
• Sturdy Suitcase (as Shield)
• Your Own Gravestone
• Shovel (as Mace)

Advanced Skills:

2 Digging

1 Dancing

1 Slapstick Violence

1 Xylophone Playing

Special: All your possessions miraculously fit inside your Sturdy Suitcase.

You shovel well and can dig cartoonishly fast!

To recover stamina from resting, it must occur 6 feet underground, beneath your gravestone.

Cartoon Owl Scientist (Trainee)

Teachers never did appreciate your unique genius in school. The senior scientists didn’t respect you, not really. One day you hootin’ had enough!

Now, you’re on your own, measuring and cataloguing the infinite infinites of the ever-expanding multiverse.

Possessions:

• Big Prescription Glasses
• Lab Coat with Many Pockets
• Microscope
• Telescope
• Ruler
• Sextant
• Fancy Calculator
• Pencils, Paper, Clipboard

Skills: 

 3 Observing/Measuring

2 Hypothesizing

2 Stealth

1 Flying

1 Lecturing

Special: All your possessions miraculously fit inside your lab coat pockets.

With 1d6+1 Minutes of successful Observation/Measurement of a problem, obstacle, trap, or enemy, an Owl Scientist may use their Hypothesizing Advanced Skill as a catch-all skill for “solving” the issue at hand.

Examples:

After observing a kill-bot and noting its likely weaknesses, you can attack with your Hypothesizing Advanced Skill.

After observing a hallway of variously trapped tiles, you could plot a safe way though with your Hypothesizing Advanced Skill.

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