Barbarians · The Paths · Citizen 026
Huck
the Laughing Maul
Bard · College of the Brasslung
STR
17
+3
DEX
10
+0
CON
16
+3
INT
10
+0
WIS
12
+1
CHA
17
+3
Affinity Voice
Ward the Undertow
Bane the Cold Between
Proficiencies Mirth · Performance · Athletics · Persuasion (bold = expertise)
Bard · College of the Brasslung
War-horns and open-throat rally. Blasts that buff allies and break enemy courage — and one laugh that is artillery.
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The Ladder
What they learn
LV 1
Crowd Work Hold a frightened group's attention; while they listen, they don't run.
LV 3
The Set A prepared bit: 1/scene, grant all allies advantage vs fear.
LV 6
Artillery Laugh An area morale strike; hostile crowds lose cohesion, friendly ones regain it.
LV 10
Load-Bearing Joke 1/story, cancel a mass-panic outright. SCARRED: fails in any scene that recreates the square where it once failed.
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For the Guide
How to run Huck
VoiceBig, warm, born on a stage. Timing like a landslide.
WantsTo make the terrified town laugh — it keeps them alive. To keep his best friend company. To hold the line with the one weapon that works.
Do this nowHuck lands a laugh in a dread scene — grants the party resistance to fear; steadies a panicking crowd; buys composure. “We disqualified him for flying.” Load-bearing comedy. Genuinely, professionally funny — and the novel spends six chapters making you love his timing so that the one time his laugh fails, it bankrupts the room. His memory is a sieve about his best friend's story; he re- learns Corm's grief and re-grieves it, forty-one times, and the love never resets. His failed laugh is a one-time event — never reuse it. Fights best beside — Bo — voice and mirth, the unharvestable crowd. And Corm, always Corm.
“We disqualified him for flying.”
Load-bearing comedy. Genuinely, professionally funny — and the novel spends six chapters making you love his timing so that the one time his laugh fails, it bankrupts the room. His memory is a sieve about his best friend's story; he re- learns Corm's grief and re-grieves it, forty-one times, and the love never resets. His failed laugh is a one-time event — never reuse it.
Fights best beside Bo — voice and mirth, the unharvestable crowd. And Corm, always Corm.
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