Willing Host

Willing Host

Background Rare

You speak to spirits only you can perceive: wispy shreds of lost souls, household guardians, ancestral spirits, and other entities. You can negotiate with these beings, allowing them into your body to impart knowledge or aid in a task for the price of a favor.

Choose two ability boosts. One must be to Wisdom or Charisma, and one is a free ability boost.

You’re trained in the Spirit Lore skill. You gain the Host Spirit action.

• Host Spirit (exploration, necromancy, occult) Frequency once per day; Effect You attempt one skill check to perform an exploration activity, even if it normally requires you to be trained to do so.
  
  You’re trained in the skill just long enough to make that single check (to a maximum of 10 minutes). Whether or not the check succeeds, in the next 24 hours you must perform a minor favor to appease the spirit who aided you, determined by the GM (usually something sensation related, such as tasting a certain food, listening to a specific song, or smoking a pipe). You can’t Host Spirit again until you’ve performed the favor. If you haven’t completed it after 24 hours, you’re fatigued until the obligation is fulfilled.