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title: Jimeny the Enchanting Grasshopper
categories: PC familiar
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![Jimeny the Grasshopper](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Omocestus.viridulus.female.jpg)


**Advancement** [external](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cUG6JEB24qLFImVKmznL59pcWl4F7-Wz3-iNJhk8r80/edit?usp=sharing Jiminey's Season Log)
Updated to Spring 1238 (inclusive)
Updated to Spring 1242 (inclusive)

**Name** Jimeny

**Game Start** Summer 1230

**Magic Might**: 26 (Imaginem)  [Base Magic Might: 15 + 11 for starting size]

**Appearance**: a grasshopper the size of a bunny.

**Characteristics**: 
Int +1, Per +2 (excellent hearing),
Pre -1 (puny), Com +5 (enchanting sounds),
Str -11 (-1 initial) (puny), Sta +1 (calm),
Dex +1 (agile), Qik +5 (0 initial)

**Size**: -5 (starting Size: -11)

**Season**: Summer

**Confidence Score**: 1 (3)

**Virtues**: Magic Animal (0),
Arcane Lore (1), Enchanting Music (1), Sharp Ears (1), Way of the Grasslands (3),

**Flaws**: Fish out of Water (Grasslands) (-1),
Gluttonous (-1), Meddler (-3),
Magical Companion (-1),

**Magic Qualities**: 
Gigantic [+5 to Size] (3), Minor Virtue: Large (1),
Minor Virtue: Great Communication x2 (2),
Minor Virtue: Puissant Enchanting Music (1),
Minor Virtue: Unaffected by the Gift (1),
Greater Power: Control Locusts (3), Gift of Speech (1),
Minor Virtue: Improved Characteristics (1),
Personal Power: Invisibility/Sidestep (1)
Minor Virtue: Voice of the Grassland (1)

**Inferiorities**: N/A

**Personality Traits**:
Grasshopper* +6, Calm +1, Curious +1, Hungry* +3, Meddling* +5

**Reputations**: King of the Locusts (in the village he was found in) 1

**Combat**: No natural weapons

**Soak**: +1

**Fatigue Levels**: OK, 0, -1, -3, -5, Unconscious

**Wound Penalties**: –3 (1), –5 (2), Incapacitated (4), Dead (5+)

**Abilities**:
Gaelic (Leinster) 5, Latin (Hermetic Usage) 4, Area Lore: Clonnmacnoise (churches) 1 (0), Area Lore: Munster (farmland) 1 (0), Area Lore: Elk's Run Valley 3 (12), Athletics (jumping) 4 (0), Awareness (hearing) 3 (0), Brawl (Dodge) 4 (24), Charm (get trust) 3, Enchanting Music (instilling diligence) 5+2 (22), Finesse (Rego) 3 (0), Hunt (track) 1 (0), Magic Lore (creatures) 2 (0), Magic Theory 3 (6), Music (natural instrument of Grasshopper) 1 (3), Penetration (Enchanting Music) 3 (0), Survival (grasslands) 4 (0)
Gaelic (Leinster) 5, Latin (Hermetic Usage) 4, Area Lore: Clonnmacnoise (churches) 1 (0), Area Lore: Munster (farmland) 1 (0), Area Lore: Elk's Run Valley 3 (12), Athletics (jumping) 4 (8), Awareness (hearing) 3 (0), Brawl (Dodge) 5 (3), Charm (gain trust) 3, Enchanting Music (instilling diligence) 6+2 (9), Finesse (Rego) 3 (0), Hunt (track) 1 (0), Infernal Lore (Summoners) 1 (0), Magic Lore (creatures) 2 (3), Magic Theory (Imaginem) 4 (18), Music (natural instrument of Grasshopper) 1 (3), Penetration (Enchanting Music) 3 (0), Survival (grasslands) 4 (0)

# Powers

**Control Locusts**:
Init +1.  2pt to use.

Lets him control all the locust-esque bugs in the area and
increase his enchanting music range (playing them as instruments)

ReAn35. [Base 15: Completely control an animal.
R: Personal, D: Performance, T: Sound (sensory magic, = to structure)]
Limitted to insects.

(three mastery points; two to reduce point cost of this power, one
to reduce it for invisibility.

**Invisibility**
PeIm15 1pt.  Like veil of invisibility, but it can be cancelled at will.

**Imaginary Dodge**
ReIm10 1pt  Like wizard's sidestep.

**Vis**: 6p of Imaginem in wings

# Cords

|  Gold | Silver | Bronze | Lab Total | Vis spent | Invested |
|  :-:  | :-:    | :-:    | :-:       | :-: | :-: |
|  +3   | 0      | +2     | 46        | 9p | Winter 1231 |

# Notes

To bind: 26 (might 26 + 25 + 5xSize -25). ReIm

**Lab Total** (Winter 1231) 40 + Hiccup 6 = 46

**Vis Cost** 9p (he can lower the lab total by not using the cauldron)


# Details

**Voice of the (Land)** Minor, Supernatural

The character can speak with any creature whose natural habitat is a 
particular environment associated with this Virtue
(including animals and magic beings), and the
character is not normally perceived as either
a threat or a prey object by these creatures.