Marli Krolik is a “main” PC in the Dreamweaver campaign, so she has a 100-point build (for the “real world”) and a 200-point build (for inside “the Dreaming”). Only 25 points of Disadvantages in either case.

EDIT: The Dreamweaver campaign may be changing to where the double build is not used. However, I still think it’s a neat idea, so I’m still sharing both builds even if that doesn’t happen for me.

Disadvantages:

• Real World: Missing right hand (20 pts), 1d6 Unluck (5 pts)
• Dreaming: Phobia of drowning (20 pts), 1d6 Unluck (5 pts)

Racial Powers and Advantages (40 point package):

• Ultrasonic Perception (Discriminatory, 360 degrees, Targeting, +2 to rolls)
• Tunnelling 1”
• Leaping 5”
• Acrobatics 13- (18- in Dreaming)
• Breakfall 13- (18- in Dreaming)
• Stealth 13- (18- in Dreaming)

Attributes:

Real World Stats:
STR 13, DEX 18, CON 13, BODY 13
INT 10, EGO 14, PRE 10, COM 10

Real World Figured Stats:
SPD 3, OCV 6, DCV 6, PD 5, ED 5
ECV 5, REC 6, END 26, STUN 26

Dreaming Stats:
STR 13, DEX 18, CON 13, BODY 13
INT 10, EGO 14, PRE 20, COM 20

Dreaming Figured Stats:
SPD 4, OCV 6, DCV 6, PD 5, ED 5
ECV 5, REC 6, END 26, STUN 26

Purchased Skills, Talents and Powers:

Real World:

• WF: Common Melee Weapons
• TF: Riding Animals
• Environmental Movement: Supreme Balance

Dreaming:

As above, plus:

• Danger Sense 16-
• Mental Illusions 10d6
• Mental Defense 20
• Contact: Adrian McGregor 14-

Marli Krolik is the fourth of seven siblings, and the only girl. Their father, Piotr, owned a vineyard and occasionally made wine to sell along with his grapes. It wasn’t ever hugely successful, but it did well enough for the family to get by.

Then along came Adrian McGregor, who planted a vineyard just next door to theirs, and made it thrive. The McGregor vineyard was a huge success, to the detriment of the Krolik vineyard. Piotr, desperate to keep his family alive, decided to sneak under the fence onto McGregor’s property in hopes of finding out a secret to his success or a possible means of sabotage. He was never seen again. Marli’s brothers immediately wanted revenge, but Marli and their mother were able to talk them out of it. Marli later followed in her father’s footsteps and went to investigate the vineyard. Unfortunately, several of the grapevines were booby-trapped against the very sorts of things the Kroliks intended to do, and Marli came home missing her right hand. Adrian was later seen wearing the paw on his belt, and the Kroliks decided to leave him alone for a couple of years.

Those couple of years were very interesting from Marli’s point of view. Her brothers would swear that she became seriously unlucky since losing her hand, but she would swear nearly the opposite. It was certainly unlucky that she fell into an ant-lion’s den, or got chased and nearly killed by a hunter, or accidentally insulted a half-drunken Berun and got herself into a fight she didn’t want. But on the other hand…a tree fell into the ant-lion’s den not long after her and she was able to use it to escape, one of the hunter’s bullets knocked a wasp’s nest down from the tree and the wasps frightened the hunter away, and she was able to flatten the Berun with one well-placed and adrenaline-enhanced kick. If she was truly unlucky, then how did those bits of good fortune find her?

At last Marli’s brothers vowed to have revenge for their father’s fate, and vowed moreover to make their attack while Marli was at the market, so she couldn’t talk them out of it. Marli came home to find little Fenek cowering and bleeding in the backyard. She fixed him up as well as she could with one hand, and he tearfully confessed his brothers’ location and led Marli to the path they had taken. Marli sternly sent Fenek home and began looking for her brothers. Unfortunately, even the most blessed of Jack’s children cannot escape the noses of hounds, and she soon heard baying dogs coming her way.

Marli ducked into the nearest door, which was a cinderblock storage shed full of…more doors. She pondered the oddness of this for a moment, then began using the other doors to block the way in. As she picked up one of them, it opened within its frame, and Marli fell through. She barely heard it click shut behind her as her senses were dulled by being in deep water. She tried desperately to open the door again, but it would not obey.

Marli flew into a terrible panic at this. She had long been plagued by nightmares about drowning, and this seemed to be the nightmare coming true. With all her strength, she pushed against the door with her feet and shot through the water, hoping she could hold her breath long enough to float to the top. In the final instant where hope and breath both failed her, she felt a firm hand grabbing her ears and dragging her out of the water, and she was roughly deposited onto a solid surface. Panting and gasping, she tried to get up and get her bearings.

When sense returned to her, she found herself in a small sailboat in the middle of a large lake. She also found that her rescuer was none other than Adrian McGregor himself. He explained that he was a sorceror that dabbled in making portals to other worlds, and that her father had fallen into one of them. Adrian had been truly sorry for the hardship it had caused the Kroliks, but could not exactly make his true vocation public. He had, however, made sure to hang on to Marli’s severed paw as a means of magically tracking her to make sure no serious misfortune befell her. It came to light that he had been the one responsible for the tree in the ant-lion’s den, and the wasp’s nest that scared off the hunter, and he sighed very loudly about how difficult it had been to knock out a Berun and make it look like nothing unusual had happened!

Adrian also promised that Marli’s brothers were not in any danger from his hounds, and asked for her help in getting the sailboat to shore where he could send her back home. It was then that Marli discovered she had both hands again. Adrian explained that in the world they currently inhabited (which he called “the Dreaming”), everyone was a more ideal version of themselves, and that included her not being maimed. Marli followed Adrian’s instructions and helped guide the boat back to harbor, and Adrian kept his word and sent her back to her mother and brothers.

Marli has since vowed to return to the Dreaming and rescue her father. She has also secured Adrian’s promise to help as best he can, though he is certain success or failure ultimately lies with her.