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title: Jimeny the Enchanting Grasshopper
categories: PC familiar
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**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: Munster (farmland) 1, Area Lore: Elk's Run Valley 2 (6), Athletics (jumping) 4, Awareness (hearing) 3, 
Brawl (Dodge) 4 (12), Charm (get trust) 3, Enchanting Music (instilling diligence) 5+2 (12), Finesse (Rego) 3,Hunt (track) 1, Magic Lore (creatures) 2, 
Magic Theory 2 (9), Music (natural instrument of Grasshopper) 1 (3), Penetration (Enchanting Music) 3, Survival (grasslands) 4 

# 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.

# Advancement

Autumn 1230
: N/A

Winter 1231
: Bound as a familiar.  Assume no XP.

Spring 1231
: TBC Exposure 2xp Teaching (Trained 8xp?)

Summer 1231
: TBC Covenant Valley Lore 7xp

Autumn 1231
: TBA

Winter 1232
: TBA

Spring 1232
: TBC Clon MacNoise Lore 7xp

Summer 1232
: TBC Exposure 2xp Teaching (Trained 11xp?)

Autumn 1232
: TBC Trained in MT 11xp

Winter 1233
: TBA (Cieran is in Limerick to learn rope making.)

Spring 1233
: TBC Exposure 2xp Teaching (Trained 11xp?)

Summer 1233
: TBC Trained in MT 11xp

Autumn 1233
: TBC Lab assistant.  Exposure in MT 2xp

Winter 1234
: TBA

Spring 1234
: TBC Exposure 2xp Teaching (Trained 11xp?)

Summer 1234
: TBA

Autumn 1234
: TBC Story

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