Gandy Dancer is a player character in the Dust campaign controlled by Clint McElroy. Gandy is a wizard whose parents died a tragic but heroic death saving their fellow railroad workers. She was then adopted as a PR move by the head of the railroad company, Emil Moche. Due to the trauma stemming from her parents' death, Gandy travels the world and studies the arcane obsessively in her Labrary in order to learn how to beat death itself and become immortal by any means necessary.
She, alongside Augustus Parsons and Errol Ryehouse, works for the Grayson Agency.
Debts[]
Debts in Urban Shadows are used to get NPCs, Factions, or other PCs to do something for you, or vice-versa
Owed to Her[]
People[]
- Errol Ryehouse
- For protection from the Banshee - 1 Debt
Factions[]
- The Banshee - None
- The Church - None
- Grayson Agency - None
Owed to Others[]
People[]
- Augustus Parsons
- For hiring her to investigate Flint Chittles - 1 Debt
- Uncle Oni
- For being her go-to when she's in trouble - 2 Debts
Factions[]
- The Banshee - None
- The Church - None
- Grayson Agency - None
Powers and Abilities[]
Moves[]
Gandy has access to all the Basic and Faction moves available to all characters. She has not advanced any of those moves.
Wizard Moves[]
- Channeling: When Gandy channels and collects her magics, she rolls with Spirit. On a 10+, she holds 3. On a 7-9, she holds 3 and chooses 1 from the list below. On a miss, she holds 1, but cannot channel again this scene.
- Take -1 ongoing until you rest
- Suffer 1-harm (ap)
- Mark corruption
- Sanctum Sanctorum: When Gandy goes to her sanctum, which in her case is an old-school paddy wagon, for a spell ingredient, relic, or tome, she must roll with Spirit. On a 10+, she's got just the thing. On a 7-9, she's got something close, but it’s flawed or lacking in some significant way. On a miss, she doesn’t have what she's looking for, but she knows someone who probably has it in stock.
Spells[]
The "hold" spent to cast spells is gained from the channeling Wizard move, above.
- Tracking: Spend 1 hold to learn the location of someone. She must have a personal object that belongs to the target or recent leavings of their body (a lock of hair, fingernail clippings, their blood, etc.).
- Elementalism: She conjures the elements to strike out at her enemies. She must spend 1 hold to unleash an attack with her magic as a weapon (3-harm close or 2-harm close area).
- Shielding: She must spend 1 hold to provide armor+1 to herself or someone nearby, or spend 2 holds to provide armor+1 to everyone in a small area, possibly including herself. This armor lasts until the end of the scene. She can stack multiple uses of Shielding at once.
Fan Art[]
Trivia[]
- Her name is a reference to a slang term used for early railroad workers in the United States.[1]
- During her world travels, Gandy met and made a pact with the homunculus Uncle Oni in Japan, who now acts as her adviser, a source of power, companion, and the coach driver of the Labrary.
- When gambling in the Sterling with Em the ghost, Gandy appears to not know how to play poker. Later, when speaking with Isabella Slate and Marcus, she reveals she has actually won a poker championship in the past.