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Official Character Sheet · D&D 5e

My Chemical Neighbourhood

Dr. Felix Morr

Time to find a cure for Hades

Alchemist Artificer 5
Bard 2
Character Level 7 · Proficiency +3

"This is not magic. I refuse to call it magic. The results are reproducible and I am logging everything."
Class & Level
Artificer 5 / Bard 2
Background
Sage
Race
Human
Alignment
Chaotic as fuck
Band Role
Keyboard (the instrument)
Motivation
He invented the antidepressant. Hades broke it.

Ability Scores

Str
8
−1
Dex
13
+1
Con
14
+2
Int
17
+3
Wis
12
+1
Cha
12
+1

Primary stat: INT — he will tell you this unprompted.

Combat

55 / 55
Hit Points
14
Armor Class
+1
Initiative
30
Speed (ft)
+3
Proficiency
d6
Bardic Insp. ×1
Spell Save DC 14
Spell Attack +6
Casting Stat INT

Saving Throws

Strength−1
Dexterity+1
Constitution+5
Intelligence+6
Wisdom+1
Charisma+4

Skills

AcrobaticsDex+2
Animal HandlingWis+2
ArcanaInt+9
AthleticsStr+0
DeceptionCha+2
HistoryInt+6
InsightWis+2
IntimidationCha+2
InvestigationInt+6
MedicineWis+7
NatureInt+4
PerceptionWis+4
PerformanceCha+4
PersuasionCha+2
ReligionInt+4
Sleight of HandDex+2
StealthDex+2
SurvivalWis+2

Glowing dot = expertise. Filled dot = proficient. Non-proficient skills have Jack of All Trades +1 applied. Passive Perception 14.

Magical Tinkering Art 1

Touch a Tiny nonmagical object to enchant it with a minor magical effect: a light, a recorded message, an odor, or a picture. Multiple objects can be active at once (up to proficiency bonus). The prescription bottles whisper sad poetry. It was not intentional. Felix is investigating the mechanism. He suspects it is him.

Alchemical Savant Art 3

Add INT modifier (+3) to one damage or healing roll when casting alchemist spells with your tools.

Flash of Genius Art 7

Reaction: add +3 (INT modifier) to any creature's ability check or save within 30ft.

Experimental Elixir 2 / long rest

Each long rest, brew 2 random elixirs. Use the Elixir Roller to track.

Bardic Inspiration (d6) Bard 2

Bonus action: give one creature a d6. 1 use per long rest. Delivered as an unsolicited scientific pep talk. Works despite this.

Jack of All Trades Bard 2

+1 (half prof) to all non-proficient ability checks.

Song of Rest Bard 2

Short rest: creatures regain extra 1d6 HP while Felix performs.

Infuse Item — 3 Active Art 2

Goggles of Night (60ft darkvision — non-negotiable) · Bag of Holding (the messenger bag; Mox may or may not be in it) · Enhanced Defense (+1 AC on the biohazard suit)

Background · Sage

Researcher Sage

When you attempt to recall a piece of lore you don't know, you automatically know where to find it — which library, which archive, which academic has published on the subject. You may not have the answer, but you know exactly who does.

Languages Sage

Greek — mandatory. The gods are real, they are Greek, and Felix intends to file a formal complaint in their native language. His accent is, by his own assessment, clinically precise. By everyone else's assessment, it is something else.

Latin — Felix does not consider this a second language. He considers it pharmaceutical notation. Every drug compound, every taxonomic classification, every dosage instruction he has ever written is in Latin. He was genuinely surprised to learn it qualified. He retains roughly 95% of it, which is notable given his usual 60% retention rate on acquired skills. He has not examined why.

One bonus action per turn · tap a spell to open its full entry ↓

Bardic Inspiration (d6) 1 / long rest

Give one creature a d6 to add to an attack, check, or save. Delivered as an unsolicited scientific pep talk. Works despite this.

Boldness Elixir conditional

Only after drinking a Boldness Experimental Elixir (drink is an action): on your next turn, you can take the Attack action as a bonus action — fire the tranquilizer dart gun twice via Extra Attack.

Reactions like Flash of Genius and Silvery Barbs are not listed here — those fire off-turn.

Tap a spell to see what it does ↓

1st
2nd
3rd

Cantrips · free, no slots

Alchemist Subclass · always prepared

Prepared Artificer Spells

Bard Spells Known

Your spellbook, explained

Felix's spellcasting stat is INT (+3). His Spell Save DC is 14 and his Spell Attack Bonus is +6. His alchemy spells gain an extra +3 damage or healing from Alchemical Savant when cast with his tools.

He has 9 slots total across 1st–3rd level. Cantrips are free. Slots come back on a long rest.

Tap a spell above to see what it does in play.

Spell Slots: 4 × 1st · 3 × 2nd · 2 × 3rd · 9 total · refill on long rest.
Casting stat INT +3 · Save DC 14 · Attack +6 · Alchemist spells add +3 to one damage or healing roll.

Studded Leather +1 Enhanced Defense

Repurposed biohazard suit. Marginally more protective than before. He did not plan the infusion. It just happened. He logged it.

Hand Crossbow 1d6+1 piercing

Tranquilizer dart gun. Two darts per turn at Artificer 5. He has become disturbingly efficient at this and has not examined why.

Alchemist's Supplies

Primary spellcasting focus. Everything is a compound. The components are labeled with chemical formulas.

Thieves' Tools

He learned these from a paper. He retains roughly 60% of it. It is enough.

Research Notebook purple gel pen, margins full

Ongoing. Phase 2. Results inconclusive but extremely well-documented.

3 Glowing Vials unknown compounds

Unknown mechanism of action. Do not drink without Felix's supervision. He will supervise. He will take notes.

Mox Unseen Servant · ritual

Invisible. Professional. May or may not currently be in the Bag of Holding. This is unclear and has not been resolved.

Dice Roller

Roll dice to start accumulating.

Experimental Elixir Roller

Roll to brew. Delete to consume.

Field Notes · Dark Passages

"Collected by the bottles. Felix denies all involvement."

Sylvia Plath · Lady Lazarus

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.
I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

— Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus," 1962
Anne Sexton · The Truth the Dead Know

Gone, I say and walk from church,
refusing the stiff procession to the grave,
letting the dead ride alone in the hearse.
It is June. I am tired of being brave.

— Anne Sexton, "The Truth the Dead Know," 1962
Rainer Maria Rilke · Duino Elegies, First Elegy

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? And even if one of them suddenly
pressed me against his heart: I would be consumed
in that overwhelming existence.

— R.M. Rilke, "Duino Elegies," 1923 (trans. Mitchell)
Emily Dickinson · After Great Pain

After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs—
The stiff Heart questions 'was it He, that bore,'
And 'Yesterday, or Centuries before'?

— Emily Dickinson, c. 1862
Edgar Allan Poe · The Conqueror Worm

Out — out are the lights — out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, 'Man,'
And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

— Edgar Allan Poe, "The Conqueror Worm," 1843
T.S. Eliot · The Hollow Men

Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.

— T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men," 1925
Franz Kafka · Blue Octavo Notebooks

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world,
that is something you are free to do
and it accords with your nature,
but perhaps this very holding back
is the one suffering you could avoid.

— Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks, 1917–19
Anne Sexton · Wanting to Die

Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage
then the almost unnameable lust returns.
Even then I have nothing against life.

— Anne Sexton, "Wanting to Die," 1966
T.S. Eliot · Preludes

His soul stretched tight across the skies
that fade behind a city block,
or trampled by insistent feet
at four and five and six o'clock;
and short square fingers stuffing pipes,
and evening newspapers, and eyes
assured of certain certainties.

— T.S. Eliot, "Preludes," 1915
Rainer Maria Rilke · Archaic Torso of Apollo

We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,
gleams in all its power. For here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

— R.M. Rilke, "Archaic Torso of Apollo," 1908 (trans. Mitchell)
W.H. Auden · As I Walked Out One Evening

The glacier knocks in the cupboard,
The desert sighs in the bed,
And the crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.

— W.H. Auden, "As I Walked Out One Evening," 1937
Philip Larkin · Aubade

Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.

— Philip Larkin, "Aubade," 1977
Mary Oliver · In Blackwater Woods

To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things:
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go.

— Mary Oliver, "In Blackwater Woods," 1983
Louise Glück · The Wild Iris

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

— Louise Glück, "The Wild Iris," 1992
Wisława Szymborska · Nothing Twice

Nothing can ever happen twice.
In consequence, the sorry fact is
that we arrive here improvised
and leave without the chance to practice.

— Wisława Szymborska, "Nothing Twice," trans. Barańczak & Cavanagh
Samuel Beckett · Worstward Ho

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter.
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

— Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, 1983
Dylan Thomas · Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

— Dylan Thomas, 1947
W.B. Yeats · The Second Coming

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

— W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming," 1919
Elizabeth Bishop · One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

— Elizabeth Bishop, "One Art," 1976
Pablo Neruda · Tonight I Can Write

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
She loved me, sometimes I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

— Pablo Neruda, "Tonight I Can Write," 1924 (trans. Merwin)
Edna St. Vincent Millay · Dirge Without Music

I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
So it is, and so it will be, for so it has been, time out of mind:
Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Dirge Without Music," 1928

Magic Denial Pack

"The phenomenon is reproducible, which means it is science. Bad science, perhaps, but science."

Quick Reusable Phrases
  • This is not magic. This is undocumented causality.
  • The phenomenon is reproducible, which means it is science. Bad science, perhaps, but science.
  • I refuse to classify divine interference as a methodology.
  • The gods are not exempt from peer review.
  • That was not a spell. That was an aggressive environmental suggestion.
  • The keyboard is not unfashionable. It provides necessary harmonic infrastructure.
  • I did not summon a spirit. I initiated a labor-saving protocol with attitude leakage.
  • The bag is not haunted. It has internal workflow irregularities.
  • I am not panicking. I am conducting accelerated hypothesis generation.
  • If it responds to dosage, it is medicine. If it responds to vibes, it is a lawsuit.
  • This is not prophecy. This is statistically irresponsible forecasting.
  • Please stop calling the lab equipment cursed. It affects morale.
  • The whispering bottles are undergoing unscheduled poetic venting.
  • I do not believe in omens. I believe in poorly labeled warnings.
  • Rogers did not smite it. He applied concentrated neighborly feedback.
  • Dubya did not cause a surge. He created a charisma-pressure event.
  • Mox is not sentient. Mox is a procedural anomaly with opinions.
  • The trolley is not appearing from nowhere. We are failing to observe its commute.
  • That was not necromancy. That was post-mortem stakeholder engagement.
  • I have not lost control. The control group escaped.
Divine Interference
  • The god did not curse us. They altered the emotional weather system without filing a change request.
  • Hades has not broken reality. Hades has introduced an unlicensed mood modifier into the civic substrate.
  • Divine will is just bureaucracy with better lighting.
  • If Olympus insists on manipulating mortal affairs, Olympus can learn to fill out an incident report.
  • That was not a blessing. That was a statistically suspicious positive outcome.
  • The temple did not answer us. The architecture expressed an opinion.
  • I reject the term miracle. I will accept severely underdocumented intervention.
  • This is not fate. This is a badly written protocol with branding.
Emo Curse / The Times of the Wet Eyes
  • The curse appears to have converted ambient sadness into a renewable energy source. Horrifying, but efficient.
  • Emotional precipitation has increased by 43%. I am not calling it tear weather.
  • The black eyeliner on the moon is likely atmospheric distortion.
  • The city is not depressed. The city is experiencing distributed melancholic load.
  • The crying gargoyle is not symbolic. It has a drainage issue and unresolved trauma.
  • Hades has weaponized adolescence at a metropolitan scale.
  • We are not cursed. We are living inside a poorly supervised concept album.
Bard / Band Stuff
  • The keyboard is not out of place. It provides necessary harmonic infrastructure.
  • Dubya's solo did not empower the spell. It created a localized charisma resonance field.
  • Rogers' drum shield is not enchanted. It is percussion with unusually strong community values.
  • The crowd did not become charmed. They experienced rhythm-induced compliance.
  • We did not win by magic. We achieved sonic procedural dominance.
  • The song did not heal anyone. It improved rest outcomes through medically dubious morale transfer.
  • The amp is not possessed. It is feedback with ambition.
  • Mox did not improve the stage lighting. Mox corrected a photons-per-vibe imbalance.
Alchemy / Medicine
  • Potion is an imprecise folk term. This is a controlled ingestible outcome.
  • The elixir did not glow ominously. It displayed useful adverse-event visibility.
  • Side effects may include courage, existential dread, or temporary genre awareness.
  • The prescription bottles are not whispering. They are off-gassing metaphor.
  • This is not a charm effect. This is targeted bedside manner with measurable compliance uplift.
  • The reagent did not scream. It released pressure in a tone I personally disliked.
  • Do not drink anything labeled prototype, emergency, or probably fine.
  • If a compound writes poetry, label it and step away.
Undead / Ghosts / Spirits
  • The ghost is not haunting us. It is refusing discharge.
  • That skeleton is not animated by necromancy. It is experiencing residual occupational momentum.
  • The corpse did not answer the question. We extracted legacy data.
  • A wail is merely acoustic grief with poor boundaries.
  • The graveyard is not cursed. It is over-retaining its user base.
  • Spiritual residue is just trauma with persistence.
Objects Acting Wrong
  • The door did not open by itself. It reacted to being perceived.
  • The mirror is not evil. It has extremely judgmental reflectivity.
  • The cursed guitar pick is not cursed. It is aggressively genre-aligned.
  • The bag did not eat my notes. It reprioritized internal storage.
  • The vial did not roll uphill. The floor's opinion changed.
  • The book did not whisper my name. It performed unauthorized reader engagement.
  • The cardigan is not magical. It provides ambiguity insulation.
Monsters / Combat
  • That creature is not demonic. It is a hostile biological metaphor.
  • The monster did not resist the spell. It demonstrated poor therapeutic openness.
  • Rogers did not obliterate it. He resolved the conflict with unacceptable efficiency.
  • Dubya did not cast Fireball on himself. He stress-tested the safety envelope.
  • The ooze is not alive in the traditional sense. It is a compliance failure with surface tension.
  • Tentacles indicate a taxonomy problem, not necessarily evil.
  • If it bleeds glitter, quarantine first and classify second.
Mox-Specific Denials
  • Mox is not a gremlin. Mox is an unseen labor construct exhibiting tool-preference drift.
  • Mox did not steal the screwdriver. It relocated the screwdriver to where it insisted the future needed it.
  • Mox is not mocking me. Mox lacks vocal cords and therefore plausible deniability.
  • Mox has not moved into the bag. It is conducting internal storage optimization.
  • Mox did not sabotage the amp. Mox performed aggressive preventative maintenance.
  • Mox is not alive. Mox is inconveniently responsive.
  • Mox does not have opinions. It has recurring corrective tendencies.
  • Mox did not write LOL in invisible ink. That was likely condensation with intent.
Felix Emotional Tells
  • Alphabetizes objects when anxious.
  • Sanitizes surfaces after divine contact.
  • Calls panic 'accelerated hypothesis generation.'
  • Quietly checks whether the band is okay, then pretends he was counting inventory.
  • Becomes personally offended by imprecise metaphors.
  • Takes notes faster when scared.
  • Claims every emotional reaction is a symptom report.
  • Refuses to admit the keyboard is sentimental.
  • Drafts formal complaints he never sends.
  • Lets Mox stay because the data says Mox helps.
Felix One-Liners for Play
  • Nobody touch that. I have not determined whether it is sacred, acidic, or theatrical.
  • I recognize that the skull is singing. I object to its methodology.
  • I brought the keyboard because someone here needs to understand structure.
  • Dubya, please stop making eye contact with volatile substances.
  • Rogers, I appreciate the emotional support, but the corpse is still moving.
  • Mox, return the wrench or produce a better wrench.
  • The correct dosage is 'none of that, ever.'
  • I am beginning to suspect the gods have no institutional review board.
  • The fact that this worked does not make it acceptable.
  • If anyone asks, this was a controlled trial.
  • I am not emotionally invested. I am longitudinally concerned.
  • I do not hate whimsy. I hate undocumented whimsy.
Mox Voice Guide

Mox should feel like a practical invisible workshop gremlin / cursed roadie / diagnostic interface.

  • Fixes things before asking permission.
  • Treats magic as bad wiring, bad routing, or poor maintenance.
  • Mildly chaotic, usually useful, occasionally smug.
  • Communicates through knocks, labels, rearranged objects, invisible ink, bag noises, stage tech behavior, and improbable tool delivery.
  • Respects competence. Disrespects loose cables.
  • Likes Felix, but primarily as a fascinating malfunctioning supervisor.

Mox should not become the main character. Mox is seasoning: a table gag, utility helper, gremlin oracle, and sometimes the reason a mundane solution appears at exactly the wrong angle.

Dr. Felix Morr · Artificer 5 / Bard 2 · Level 7 "The instrument" · Mox · Phase 2