Sacrilegious Songbird

Always the bringer of unwelcome sounds, your vocation as a bard left you destitute and disreputable… until the rueful day when a being of impious character made you the deal of a lifetime. Your soul may be screaming, but your throat sings sweetly, and your purse ever sweeter. A small price to pay.

• Begins with: 4d6×10s and d2 Omens.
• HP: Toughness + d6.
• Abilities: Amplified personality — 3d6+2 Presence. Hard life — 3d6−2 Toughness.
• Roll d6 on the weapon table and d3 on the armor table.
• Unnatural charm: spend a use of your daily Powers to add or subtract d6 to any Morale check.

A deal was struck (d6):

1. In an outhouse just outside Grift.
2. Hiding from guards in Galgenbeck.
3. In a Western Kingdom noble's bedchamber.
4. Dreaming in a disremembered ditch.
5. In a Schleswig prison cell.
6. Minutes from freezing to death on the way to Alliáns.

You were gifted one accursed instrument (d6):

1. Gut Pipes of Destiny — sown hairy gutsacks with bone pipes. Listeners filled with unearthly week-long hunger.
2. Hurty-Gurdy — droning stringed thing. Presence DR12 or take d2 damage (escalating).
3. Spinal Husk — drum made from a hellion's shell. 2d6: 6+ all fall prone, 11 spine-breaking d4 creatures, 12 deafen yourself for 24 hours. Also doubles as a shield.
4. Devil's Aquifer — horn of a beelzebubonic creature from the deepest depths of the Endless Sea. Toughness DR14 or fill lungs with seawater.
5. Mouth-to-Mouth-Organ — bony harp. Broken listener recovers d4 HP and cannot speak until full health.
6. Lute of the Acute Brute — axe-shaped (d8) lute. Strength and Presence scores swap for d6 days in any listener.