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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 6987146" data-attributes="member: 23">This was  for a HERO game (similar to Gurps), of the "urban arcana" type.The character was someone who used to work for some kind of "keeping the crazy cultists down" semi secret semi gov agency.  He knew a few basic spells and was fairly knowledgeable about dimensional portals; but his shtick was an old revolver with magic dispelling bullets, very useful to pierce magical defenses.  So he and a few others of the agency go against a mad sorcerer opening a portal to the Far Realm (tentacles etc) in abandoned tunnels under London.  Things go horribly wrong - most of the team gets killed, and his arms gets chopped off.  *But* he does nail the sorcerer with his gun, killing him.Loosing a lot of blood and in shock, he uses the shrinking *portal* to staunch the bleeding.  This saves his life, BUT his blood seals the portal slightly open!Meanwhile, in the Far Realm, a tentacular Entity of middling power had poked its tentacles through the portal (as they are wont to do), but yanked them back as the portal started collapsing... but too slowly.  Had the portal collapsed fully it would have loss a few tentacles (they grow back) but now its stuck!The character runs screaming into the tunnels, tentacles flailing, sticking out of his right shoulder.After a few years of madness eating rats in the tunnels, the character slowly returned to a semblance of sanity as his psyche and that of the Entity made peace with each other.  They share senses and their minds partially entwine. The character forges a hollow arm of enchanted brass to replace his loss arm and hide his portal-bearing shoulder.  The tentacles hide inside the arm and operate it.  He returns to his agency, and becomes infamous: the brass-armed, mad-eyed mage hunter, with the rune-covered Webley that breaks spells and far too much knowledge of the Far Realms.  Sometimes he grows distracted (The Entity sometimes has to attend meetings of the Retroactive Committee to Adjust the Value of Pi or some other mind blasting endeavors), but the agency knows it can count on him to laugh at any eldritch threat and put it down.</blockquote>

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