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==Manny Green, the Twisted Tycoon==

[[Summary::[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive A wicked and corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company] who sought to obtain a monopoly on supernatural healing [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MurderIsTheBestSolution by assassinating clerics and paladins], especially the owner of the [[Healer's Necklace (3.5e Equipment)|Healer's Necklace]], which he sought to have for himself; his murderous behavior eventually earned him an asploded head, but his greed, hatred, and sheer determination to take what he desired by any means necessary caused a piece of him to cling to the world of the living even as his soul was shipped directly to Hell.]]

'''Level:''' [[Level::6th]]

'''Binding DC:''' [[Binding DC::35]]

'''Special Requirement:''' Yes

===Legend===

Coming soon

===Special summoning===

Manny views being summoned by a binder and forming a pact with them to be equivalent to a business transaction &mdash; that is, either "hiring" the binder for his services or ''being'' "hired" for ''his'' services. And while he is evil and ruthless, he is also fair-minded and believes that all services should be compensated. As such, when he is summoned, Manny will promptly attempt to "hire" you, which means that he will offer you 10,000 gp to voluntarily fail your binding check with him; if you accept, the gold magically appears on your person when the pact is made, effectively being transferred from the plane of vestiges to your wallet (or whatever you carry your money in). If you decline, Manny will still pay you 6,000 gp if you fail your binding check anyways, as he will still consider himself to have "hired" you.

Alternatively, you may offer Manny up to 20,000 gp while making the pact; you get a +1 bonus to your binding check for every 1,000 gp offered. You must have the gold you wish to offer on your person at the time you form the pact. If you do, and you succeed on the binding check, the offered gp vanishes from your person, entering the plane of vestiges. If you attempt to buy Manny's services, but still fail your binding check anyways, Manny won't take your money, as he does not consider himself a conman and is averse to ripping people off without giving them something in return. In fact, he'll still pay you 2,000 gp in return for your "services", as he will still consider himself to have "hired" you.

Manny will be very displeased if he "hires" you and you proceed to disobey his instructions. Each time you disobey Manny's influence, he will take 1,000 gp from you in addition to imposing the standard &minus;1 penalty to attack rolls, saving throws, and checks, but he won't take more gold from you than the amount he originally paid you. Instead, once he has taken back all the money he gave you, any further violations of Manny's influence will incur a &minus;2 penalty instead of the standard &minus;1 penalty. This does not affect the penalties from your prior violations, or penalties from violating the influence of other vestiges, but it stacks with them just the same. If you have Manny pay you to make a bad pact and then proceed to egregiously screw him over (such as by locking yourself in a room and not letting anybody in, or making a point to avoid contact with sentient beings), Manny will be ''furious'' and will refuse to let you form a pact with him again for 1 month. After that month is up, if you summon Manny, receive money from him, and screw him over ''again'', he will refuse to let you form a pact with him again for 1 year. If you screw Manny over a third time, he will never form a pact with you again.

(To recap; Manny pays you 10,000 gp if you voluntarily fail your binding check against him; he pays you 6,000 gp if you ''in''voluntarily fail your binding check; and he pays you 2,000 gp if you try to buy a good pact with him but fail your binding check anyways. If you make a good pact with Manny, he doesn't pay you anything, as he considers ''you'' to have "hired" ''him'' instead of the other way around.)

If you make a good pact with Manny Green, but it later gets downgraded to a bad pact (such as by failing to [[Soul Salvager (3.5e Prestige Class)#Unbind Vestige|unbind another binder's pact with Manny]]), Manny doesn't pay you anything, but you don't suffer increased penalties for disobeying his influence.

===Manifestation===

You hear the voice of an early-adolescent female anthro vixen sobbing in fear, while a middle-aged human male voice boasts in triumph while threatening the girl, declaring that the bearer of the female voice is going to die soon and nothing will change that. After a few seconds, both voices are interrupted by a loud gunshot, and a human male figure collapses into the confines of the seal with his head blown apart like a smashed wastermelon. After several seconds, he gets up, apparently either completely oblivious to his head trauma or simply not bothered by it, and turns to address the binder. His voice is the same male voice that was heard threatening the girl, but he barely brings the subject up outside of expressing some irritation that she escaped from him with her life intact; instead, [[#Special summoning|he offers to hire the binder]] to perform some services for him.

===Sign===

You come to look a bit more well-fed, gaining roughly 5 pounds as a side-effect. In addition, any clothes you wear will look a bit less grungy and more formal, fancy, ornate... basically, a little more like the sort of outfit you'd expect a high-ranking Western businessman to wear.

===Influence===

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===Granted Abilities===

====Medical Business Expert====

In life, Manny Green was first and foremost the CEO of a pharmaceutical company, which he founded himself; he had to know quite a bit about medicine to pull that off. As a vestige, he confers some of that knowledge to those who bind him.

While bound to Manny Green, you have a +4 competence bonus to [[SRD:Heal Skill|Heal]] and [[SRD:Appraise Skill|Appraise]] checks. This bonus increases by +1 for every two effective binder levels after 10th.

====Firearm Proficiency====

In life, Manny was ''not'' afraid to do his own dirty work when he deemed it necessary, and he trained himself in the use of many firearms in order to carry out his campaign of monopolizing healing. As a vestige, he enables you to use a wide variety of firearms.

While bound to Manny Green, you gain proficiency in [[Handgun (3.5e Equipment)|handguns]], [[Pistol (3.5e Equipment)|pistols]] ([[Pistol, MS Variant (3.5e Equipment)|both kinds]]), [[Pump-Action Shotgun (3.5e Equipment)|pump-action shotguns]], [[Combat Shotgun (3.5e Equipment)|combat shotguns]], [[Sniper Rifle (3.5e Equipment)|sniper rifles]], [[Elephant Gun (3.5e Equipment)|elephant guns]], [[5.56 NATO Machine Gun (3.5e Equipment)|5.56x45 machine guns]], and [[Colt Python (3.5e Equipment)|Colt Pythons]]. However, you do not gain anything else that might be required to use these guns to their maximum potential (such as an increase to Strength or feats).

====Machinist====

While Manny wasn't afraid to do his own dirty work, he was well aware that he was only human, and could be putting himself at severe risk of exposure, arrest, and even bodily harm if he happened to target someone capable of fighting back. So he taught himself to design robots, mecha, and weapons that he could use to carry out the hits that he didn't trust assassins to do for him.

While bound to Manny Green, you have a +2 competence bonus to [[SRD:Craft Skill|Craft (weaponsmithing), Craft (golems), Craft (Bots)]], and [[Program (3.5e Skill)|Program]] checks, and can use these skills untrained. This bonus increases by +1 for every two effective binder levels after 12th.

At effective binder level 10th, you gain [[SRD:Craft Magic Arms and Armor|Craft Magic Arms and Armor]]. At effective binder level 12th, you gain [[SRD:Craft Construct|Craft Construct]].

====Pokémon Mastery====

Manny Green always had an affinity for [[Pokémon (3.5e Subtype)|Pokémon]], and even as his heart hardened and he fell into evil, his love for them remained. Of course, he was not adverse to using his Pokémon to kill people.

While bound to Manny Green, you can [[Pokémon d20 (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Pokémaster#Control Pokémon|control Pokémon]] and [[Pokémon d20 (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Pokémaster#Craft Pokéballs|craft Poké Balls]] as though you were a [[Pokémon d20 (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Pokémaster|Pokémaster]] whose class level is equal to your effective binder level &minus;4.

If you are also bound to [[Wrapsodi Skuttla, Malicious Potion-Maker (3.5e Vestige)|Wrapsodi Skuttla]], your effective Pokémaster level equals your effective binder level.

====Manny's Rifle====

While bound to Manny Green, you gain the ability to summon and wield the high-powered hunting rifle he owned in life.  You are proficient with this rifle, [[#Firearm Proficiency|just as you would be with another gun of its make, model, and type]]. You can summon the gun with the same action you would take to draw a sniper rifle, and unsummon it with the same action you would take to put a sniper rifle away. If the rifle leaves your person (such as by you being [[SRD:Disarm|disarmed]]), it vanishes in 1 round. (This might be enough time for a very skilled gunman to pick up the rifle and shoot ''you'' with it, so there are legitimate reasons to manually unsummon the rifle instead of simply dropping it, even if the latter would be faster for you.) You do have to load the gun manually, but the necessary ammunition automatically appears on its person as needed, so you don't have to worry about running out.

Mechanically, Manny's rifle is a [[Sniper Rifle (3.5e Equipment)|sniper rifle]] and has all the limitations and advantages of such, including being restricted to one attack per round, taking a −4 penalty to attack if attacking within 30 feet of the target, holding 5 shots, and being reloaded as a full-round action that provokes [[SRD:Attack of Opportunity|attacks of opportunity]]. On the other hand, it also has a range increment of 300 feet, a 4× critical multiplier, and extends the range at which precision attacks (such as sneak attacks) are possible by 60 feet. The major difference between Manny's rifle and an ordinary sniper rifle is that Manny's rifle does 4d12 damage on a successful hit; this is upgraded to 8d12 damage when the attack is performed within 20 feet of the target. However, the upgrade to power comes at the expense of accuracy, though this can be offset by aiming ''very'' carefully; Manny's rifle takes a &minus;3 penalty to attack rolls unless you fire it as a full-round action and succeed on a DC 20 [[SRD:Concentration Skill|Concentration]] check. (Manny's rifle was designed to be ''extremely'' powerful, as Annie Belnades, the woman he spent the last 25 years of his life trying to murder, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperToughness is extremely durable] and [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhyWontYouDie an ordinary gun would ''not'' be able to down her in one shot].)

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Summary	… [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive A wicked and corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company who sought to obtain a monopoly on supernatural healing by assassinating clerics and paladins, especially the owner of the Healer's Necklace, which he sought to have for himself; his murderous behavior eventually earned him an asploded head, but his greed, hatred, and sheer determination to take what he desired by any means necessary caused a piece of him to cling to the world of the living even as his soul was shipped directly to Hell. as his soul was shipped directly to Hell. +
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