Name: Tara Val Char Cost 6 STR -4 11 DEX 3 13 CON 6 10 BODY 0 13 INT 3 20 EGO 20 10 PRE 0 14 COM 2 7 PD 6 6 ED 3 3 SPD 9 5 REC 2 26 END 0 20 STUN 0 Characteristic Rolls: STR: 10-, DEX: 11-, CON: 12-, INT: 12-, EGO: 13-, PER: 12- Run: 6", Swim: 2", Jump: 1", Lift: 57½kg Cost Powers END/Roll 3 Mental Awareness 5 Mental Defense (9 pts); Add to Total 39 Variable Power Pool (30-pt Pool); Control Cost: 15; Incantation: Instant Power, -¼; Concentrate: 0 DCV, -½ 0 Variable Power Pool Powers Cost Skills, Talents, Perks Roll 27 Danger Sense (Against All Attacks, Immediate Vicinity); Works: Against All Attacks, +10; Range: Immediate Vicinity, +5 12- 5 Cramming 3 Knowledge Skill: Magical lore. 12- 3 Knowledge Skill: Taglarin Mythic Rites 12- 2 Latin (Fluent Conv.); Literacy: Standard, 0 9 Magic 16- 4 Martial Dodge (OCV --, DCV +5) 75+ Disadvantages 5 Distinctive Features: Adept; Concealability: Easily, 5; Reaction: Noticed and Recognizable, +0 15 Psych. Lim.: In love with Willow. (Common, Strong) 15 Psych. Lim.: Likes to try new magic. (Common, Strong) 15 Psych. Lim.: Code vs. killing (humans). (Uncommon, Total) 15 Psych. Lim.: Super shy, socially inept, low self esteem. (Common, Strong) 1 Other: Quirk - Doesn't talk about her family. 1 Other: Quirk - Homosexual. 1 Other: Quirk - Incredibly cute. 1 Other: Quirk - Makes obscure references. 1 Other: Quirk - Wears silly hair styles. 5 Reputation: Wiccan (8-) OCV: 4; DCV: 4; ECV: 7; Mental Def.: 9; Phases: 4, 8, 12 PD/rPD: 7/0; ED/rED: 6/0 Costs: Char.: 50 Disad.: 75 Powers: + 100 Base: + 75 Total: = 150 Total: = 150 Family 5.06 - Tara: ''Yeah. You learn her source, and, uh, we'll introduce her to her insect reflection. Um... that, that was funny if you, um, studied Taglarin mythic rites... and are a complete dork.'' Real name: Tara Maclay Other known aliases: See the list. Occupation: Student. Current group affiliation: Ally of the Scooby Gang. Past group affiliations: Former member of the U.C. Sunnydale Wiccans. Major enemies: Her family, formerly Glory and the Gentlemen. First appearance: Hush 4.10 Origin: Family 5.06 Description: Tara is a pretty 20 year old woman standing 5'4'' tall with long, blonde hair and blue eyes. Explanation of the conversion: Tara's Variable Power Pool allows her to cast a variety of spells, but she needs Incantations and to Concentrate to cast any spell she tries, which limits their combat use. Her Mental Awareness and Danger Sense represent her ability to know something is mystically wrong, although she may not be sure what. It should be noted that Tara was written up to be a Follower for Willow Rosenberg, not a player character. History: Tara Maclay was born in the early 1980s. Only a little of her early life is known, but she has a brother named Donny, and her mother practiced magic. When Tara was 17 her mother died. Her family convinced Tara that the women in her family were part demon. They told her the only way to suppress her demon side was to stay at home. Not willing to accept this fate, Tara left home and eventually enrolled at U.C. Sunnydale, in California, and also took on the study of magic. Tara attended U.C. Sunnydale in 1998 where she joined a local Wiccan group, but wasn't accepted socially. While in that group she met Willow Rosenberg, and learned they were both the only real spell casters in the group. About that time the town of Sunnydale was attacked by the Gentlemen, who stole the voices of the whole town and proceeded to harvest the hearts of certain people. Tara attempted to contact Willow so they could find a solution to the loss of their voices, but the henchmen of the Gentlemen found her first and attacked her. Tara found Willow and the two of them were able to combine powers and defend themselves from the attack (Hush 4.10). Willow and Tara became close, and eventually became very close. Willow told Tara about her adventures fighting the forces of evil. Eventually Willow introduced Tara to her friends Buffy Summers, Xander Harris and Rupert Giles. Tara was instrumental in discovering that the rogue vampire Slayer Faith had swapped bodies with Buffy Summers and aided in restoring her (Who Are You 4.16). Willow and Tara's relationship started to take a romantic turn. When Willow's former boyfriend Daniel "Oz" Osborne returned to Sunnydale after learning to control his werewolf side, Tara became confused and told Willow she understood if she wanted to leave her for Oz. Sadly Oz didn't have his werewolf side under control as he thought and the wolf attacked Tara. Tara was saved by soldiers in the Initiative, who captured Oz. Oz would eventually be freed and he left Willow and Tara (New Moon Rising 4.19). Tara's family came to Sunnydale to attempt to get her to return home on her 20th birthday, but she refused, and learned that she was not part demon (Family 5.06). When the banished hell god Glorificus was looking for her lost key to dimensions in an attempt to return home, she suspected that Tara was the key in disguise. When she learned Tara wasn't the key she left Tara with a broken hand and drained of her sanity (Tough Love 5.19). During their final battle with Glorificus, Willow was able to drain Tara's sanity from Glory and place it back in Tara, but in the battle Buffy died saving the world from a dimensional rift (The Gift 5.22). Several months later Tara aided Willow in casting a spell to bring back Buffy from the dead. This spell was interrupted by a band of demon bikers looking to set up shop in Sunnydale. Although they didn't think the spell worked, Buffy did return from the dead. In the battle with the demons, Tara killed the demon's leader Razor by axing it in the back (Bargaining Part 1 6.01 & Bargaining Part 2 6.02). Powers: Tara is a low level spell caster with a wide range of spells. She's successfully created fire, light, smoke, and done minor blinding curses. An unusual ability she has displayed is the ability to magically know something is wrong with someone and to sense the use of mental powers. Conversion by Mathew R. Ignash - November, 2001 (mathewignash@yahoo.com)