Manny’s immaculate workshop, out by the highway with a giant wireframe rooster in the parking lot, is a place where dreams are made. An expert blacksmith, electrical engineer, leatherworker, carpenter, mason, gem cutter, glass blower and reasonably well acquainted with a dozen other trades, he has a savant’s grasp of anything that requires him to work with his hands. Not quite an artist, not quite a craftsman, he makes his living on custom orders of the weird and wonderful.
In between banging out R&D prototypes for small to mid-sized businesses and would-be inventors who are all thumbs, and doing antique restoration work, Manny has developed a sideline with a clientele that spans the occult underground of the three closest major cities. Manny makes weird ritual components without asking questions. Need a 4 foot mirror of polished obsidian? He can do it. Want an orrery made from carved bone? It’ll take a month or two with the backlog but he can manage. Need a maypole with ribbons of tanned human skin? He’ll probably need to make some substitutions to get that to happen.
Manny’s only real condition is that he doesn’t want anything to do with anything illegal. He’s not at all assertive or confrontational though so this is a line in the sand that has been heavily scuffed. He does however, bear grudges and people who take advantage of his obliging nature can expect him to secretly try to find a way to keep them from ever coming back if they won’t take no for an answer. "The Highwayman", a viaturge who had him fashion a functioning suit of plate armor from stolen road signs and licence plates is the most recent offender he’s trying to shoo away. If the abrasive adept won’t listen then the flaming sword he’s trying to commission from him is likely to blow up in his hands. He wouldn’t be the first person Manny has indirectly put down.
STATS
Personality: Friendly, meticulous and gorgeous, but a bit of a milquetoast. Manny comes across as both down to earth and looks like he stepped out of the pages of a magazine ad. So long as you stick to the script of how he likes to interact with people it stays that way. Deviate and he’ll struggle to manage the unexpected.
Rage: Anyone who brings trouble into his shop.
Noble: Something good can be made from just about anything, real or metaphorical.
Fear: Drowning. Manny nearly died when he fell off a pier as a kid. He still doesn’t know how to swim (Violence).
Obsession: Craftsmanship pushed to its limits.
Wound Threshold: 50.
Clean Cut 60% (Substitutes for Status, Substitutes for Fitness, Protects Self.)
Handy As Heck 75%* (Substitutes for Notice, Unique: Make Things, Unique: Fix Things.)
Shock Gauges
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