Spider Financier (Patreon)

SPIDER FINANCIER

Metropolitan travellers might remark on how strange it is to see a Spider outside of a bank teller’s window and you might remark in turn on how insensitive that is. Indeed, the thought that someone could hurt the feelings of a 6ft tall spider never crosses most people's’ minds, but a spider-heart aches like any other. However in truth you do not possess a spider-heart, at your core beats something far worse: the pungent heart of a Speculative Financier of the Spider Bank.

Possessions

• Shiny black silk suit
• Bowler hat
• Reinforced umbrella with sharpened tip (as Sword or Shield)
• Strongbox filled with money, property of the Spider Bank
• 10d6 pennies

Skills

Secret Signs: Spider Banking 6

Climb 5

Evaluate 4

Sneak 3

Mathmology 3

Fang Fighting 2

Umbrella fighting 1

Trapping 1

Special

May make silk at a rate of 6ft per turn. It is effectively sticky high quality rope. Every 30ft costs 1 Stamina to create. Anyone touching it must test their luck or become stuck pending a successful strength test.

Fangs can cause damage as large beast

Your strongbox has money of a bewildering array of currencies. For a 20% fee you may exchange anyone’s money up to the value of 6,000 pence (including your own, the spider bank shows no favouritism)

Your strongbox may loan money up to the value of 6,000 pence and must be returned at 40% APR

You may invest up to 6,000 once per month in a business or endeavour. You must get a return on it in the agreed upon time or:

If anyone steals, fails to pay, or in any other way finds themselves in unacceptable debt to the Spider Bank they must test their luck once a week (at the GMs discretion) every week they remain in the same place (an area the size of a city or less) or else be visited by debt collectors of the Spider Bank, What form they take will be appropriate to the area, but they will be well armed, unsympathetic, and insistent. In Troika, for instance, they typically send bedazzled Rhinomen.