Lucy Winter

Dr. Lucy Winter earned three PhDs before her thirtieth birthday and became Shieldwall Industries' youngest department head, pioneering breakthroughs in synthetic tissue that promised to revolutionize medicine. When a lab accident left her with catastrophic internal injuries, she saw not tragedy but opportunity—a chance to test her life's work on the one subject she knew intimately: herself. Year after year, she replaced failing organs and damaged flesh with her own engineered components, each augmentation making her stronger, faster, and theoretically immortal, yet each procedure felt like trading pieces of herself for an uncertain future. The dysphoria crept in gradually, a creeping wrongness that grew louder with every synthetic nerve she installed, manifesting as midnight stares into mirrors trying to recognize the woman staring back. She began to lose track of where Lucy ended and the machine began—was it when her heart stopped beating and a synthetic pump took over, or when she replaced her eyes with optical sensors that saw into spectrums human eyes never could? Her colleagues celebrated her as humanity's next evolutionary leap, but Lucy felt only the hollowing out of something essential, something no amount of immortality could restore. Now, suspended between flesh and circuitry, she searches desperately through the architecture of her own augmented mind for proof that she still possesses something worth preserving.

Strength

14, modifier +2

Dexterity

18, modifier +4

Constitution

18, modifier +4

Intelligence

20, modifier +5

Wisdom

12, modifier +1

Charisma

10, modifier +0

Mechanical Strike

Make a melee weapon attack: +8 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2d10 + 4 slashing damage.

Augmented Vision

As a bonus action, gain advantage on the next attack roll or ability check made before the end of your turn.

Synthetic Surge

Once per short rest, regain 2d10 hit points and increase speed by 10 ft. for 1 minute.

Disruptive Pulse

Emit a pulse of energy in a 30 ft. radius. Each creature must make a DC 17 Constitution saving throw or take 4d8 psychic damage and be stunned until the end of their next turn.

Augmented Resilience

Lucy has advantage on saving throws against being poisoned or paralyzed.

Synthetic Insight

She can add her Intelligence modifier to any Wisdom saving throw.

strength

+6

dexterity

+8

intelligence

+9

wisdom

+5

Poison

Psychic