A Child’s Troika Alphabet
Being a Primer on the Known and Unknown Spheres, their Divers Inhabitants, and the Spells and Many Oddities Therein.
An in-progress collection of alliterative Troika backgrounds to help young witches and wizards survive the alphabet.
Inspired by Victorian children’s alphabet books.
Backgrounds A-Z
- Dastardly Dealer of Delicious Dirt
- Fantastic Fox Farmer
- Jill-of-all-Jacks
- Mad Maker of Merry Monsters
- Nowhere Nobody Nohow
- Pamphletting Pugilist of the People
- Questing Questioner of the Quotidian
- Tiny Time Technician
- Xylophage Xylophonist
- Visual Inspiration
Dastardly Dealer of Delicious Dirt
Dirt, delicious, dirty dirt! You dig it. You dish it. You divine things from it. You get a bit dirty. Just how you like it.
Possessions
- Dirt
- Dirty jumpsuit
- Digging tools
- Divining rod (damage as Club)
Advanced Skills
- 3 Dirt (physical, all kinds, from all over the world)
- 3 Dirt (gossip, about everyone, everywhere)
- 2 Spell - Dirt Digestion
- 2 Dealmaking
- 1 Derring-do
- 1 Divining
Special
Spell - Dirt Digestion (2)
By eating a small sample of dirt, you can tell exactly where it came from and what secrets may have been uttered in its vicinity within the past week.
Fantastic Fox Farmer
You are a fancy and fantastic fox farmer. You are also actually a Fox. You raise foxes to dance and fly and generally be fantastic.
Possessions
- 2d100 Foxes
- Fancy fineries
- Foxtrot records
- Flying machines
- Flyers for_ Fantastic Fox Farm’s Freaky Flying Foxes!_
- Fax machine
Advanced Skills
- 3 Foxes
- 2 Fox farming
- 2 Foxtrot
- 2 Flying
- 2 Flyering
- 1 Faxing
Special
Fox-y Friends
Other canines (wolves, dogs, etc) are hypnotized by your fancy and fantastical shows. When encountering any canine, you may Test Luck to convince them to join your retinue.
Jill-of-all-Jacks
Possessions
- Jack (tool)
- Jackknife
- Jacks (game)
- Jack, apple (liqueur)
- Jar of jackfruit jam
- Journey’s Greatest Hits
Advanced Skills
- 3 Jacking (of any type, carjacking, hijacking, dancing, jacking things up)
- 3 Spell - Jump In Jack Flash
- 2 Jingles & Jangles
- 2 Jacks playing
- 1 Jackknife Fighting
Special
You have complete knowledge of every single person named Jack who has ever existed in any sphere.
Spell: Jump In Jack Flash
Drawing on your knowledge of a specific Jack, you morph your body into a completely accurate copy of them. Lasts for 1 hour. On a critical failed casting, you are stuck as this Jack for d66 days.
Mad Maker of Merry Monsters
You make monsters. Your friends are all monsters. You made all your friends.
Possessions
- A band of merry monsters (2d6)
- Magic Monocle
- Mood Ring
- Materials
- Metal
- Matchsticks
- Moss
- Munchables
- Many Memories of Merry Monsters
Advanced Skills
- 3 Making
- 3 Monsters
- 2 Madness
- 1 Memories
Special
You can make a sentient monster out of any material; it can only be happy and a little crazy.
Nowhere Nobody Nohow
You are nothing (and everything), nowhere (so, everywhere), you cannot be harmed, you have no body, you are a non-thing, a nascent non-notion.
Possessions
- None
Advanced Skills
- 5 Nothing
- 4 Negation
- 3 N/A
- 2 Notions
Special
- Nothing.
Pamphletting Pugilist of the People
They said you would come, a fighter for the workers, who’d punch more than just the clock, who could swing with words as well as fists!
Possessions
- Portable printing press
- Pretty paper
- Plenty of The Proletariat Primer pamphlets
- Punching gloves
- Parrot
Advanced Skills
- 3 Pugilism
- 3 Pamphlet printing
- 2 Spell - Punch the clock
- 2 Punch-making
Special
Anyone you punch instantly supports the working class.
Spell : Punch the Clock (1)
You can punch a clock and stop time, releasing workers from their ordeal, while the capitalists remain bound to the yoke of time.
Questing Questioner of the Quotidian
Quitting your quaint and quiet quadrant of the world, you picked up a quill and began your quest to query and question the status quo. It’s led to more than a few quarrels.
Possessions
- Quick tongue
- Quill (damage as Sword, +1)
- Question book
- Question mark(er)
- Quota of questions (daily)
Skills
- 3 Questioning
- 3 Questing
- 3 Quotidia
- 2 Quarreling
Special
You can say “I’m just asking the question” after asking a question, putting the target at -1 against attempts to harm you.
Tiny Time Technician
You may be tiny, but your taming of time is truly tremendous.
Possessions
- Tiny timepieces
- Tiny tools in a tiny toolbox
- Time tree trimmers
- Time trap
- The Three-Volume Tome of Tiny Time Taming. Time Tree Trimming & Time Trapping
Advanced Skills
- 3 Time
- 3 Time tooling
- 3 Time taming
- 2 Time trapping
- 2 Time tree trimming
Special
You can disassemble and fix any timepiece, and set it to any time. You always know exactly what time it is, down to the nanosecond.
Xylophage Xylophonist
You are a giant termite. Like your ancestors, you are exceptionally good at eating wood, but you do have other hobbies….
Possessions
- Xylophone
- Xbox (damage as Club)
- X-ray machine
- X-ray collection
Advanced Skills
- 5 Xylophagia
- 1 Xylophone playing
- 1 Xbox playing
- 1 Xray tech
Special
Your name must start with “X”. If you choose “Xerxes” you must add “the [d100+23]”.
You can add any skills that start with “X”, but cannot surpass level 1 in any of them.
Thanks to Thriftomancer for insisting that the Troika alphabet include a giant termite Xylophage, and input on the first draft of this background