Campaign:EA-Exalted/Wang Long
Basics
- Campaign: Campaign: EA-Exalted
- Name: Wang Long, styled Noontide Shadow
- Concept: Solar Night Noble Thief
- Caste: Night
- Motivation: To find great items, ingredients, and recipes for his home’s cooking academy.
- Positive intimacies: Cares for his home village; LOVES his cowboy hat, will take a minor risk to get it if blown off; Cooking.
- Negative intimacies: Rotton Food.
- Anima: A pale white raven, with purple talons, normally perched on his right shoulder.
- Experience: 1/15
Background
Coming from the relatively tiny town of Iron Bud, a vassal city of the City of the Steel Lotus, Wang Long is a skilled thief, and the dedicated, though unofficial “acquisition officer” for the town’s renowned cooking academy, one of the finest in all Creation. He searches for unique ingredients and recipes.
Appearance
[[|thumb|250px|]] Basically, he is a pale Shota wearing all black. Also always wears his cowboy hat.
Attributes
Strength ●● Charisma ●● Perception ●●●● Dexterity ●●●● Manipulation ●●● Intelligence ●●● Stamina ●●● Appearance ●● Wits ●●●●
Abilities
Archery x Integrity ● Craft ● Athletics ●● Bureaucracy ● Martial Arts ● Performance x Investigation ●● Awareness ●●● Linguistics ●● Melee ● Presence x Lore ● Dodge ●●●● Ride ● Thrown ●●● Resistance ● Medicine x Larceny ●●● Sail ●● War x Survival ●● Occult x Stealth ●● Socialize ●●
Crafts: Water ●
Languages: Low Realm; High Realm, Flametongue.
Specialties
Thrown:
Backgrounds
Contacts: ● (He has skill in finding minor contacts.) Familiar: ●●● (Pepper, an intelligent raven that travels with him, assisting him.) Mentor: ●● (His mentor, the cooking school’s headmaster, has some pull in the Realm, as well
as quite a few skills, with some suspecting he might be an Exalted (although no one knows
for certain).) Resources: ● (He has a small hut in town that acts as “headquarters”.)
Charms
Triple-Distance Attack Technique Cost: 3m; Mins: Thrown 2, Essence 2; Type: Supplemental Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm triples the range of a Thrown weapon. Solars of higher Essence can also ignore distractions to their attack with this Charm.
Returning Weapon Concentration Cost: —; Mins: Thrown 3, Essence 2; Type: Permanent Keywords: None Duration: N/A Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm greatly enhances the Exalt's ability to physically retrieve her Thrown weapons, and causes the weapon or weapons to never stick when the Chosen attempts to retrieve them.
First Awareness Excellency Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Awareness 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender) Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
Keen Touch Technique Cost: 3m; Mins: Awareness 3, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: One scene Prerequisite Charms: Any Awareness Excellency
This is a set of three Charms heightens hearing and touch.
Seven Shadow Evasion
Cost: 3m; Mins: Dodge 4, Essence 2; Type: Reflexive (Step 2)
Keywords: Combo-OK, Obvious
Duration: Instant
Prerequisite Charms: Shadow Over Water
This Charm can be used in response to an attack. This Charm is a dodge that allows a Solar to perfectly defend against the attack, even if it would normally be undodgeable. This Charm suffers from the Conviction flaw.
Shadow Over Water Cost: 1m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 2) Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows the Exalt to temporarily regain her defensive advantage against a single attack.
First Larceny Excellency Cost: 1m per die; Mins: Larceny 1, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 1 for attacker, Step 2 for defender) Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
Reflex Sidestep stance Cost: 1m; Mins: Dodge 3, Essence 1; Type: Reflexive (Step 2) Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm makes the Chosen aware of an otherwise unexpected attack.
Lock-Opening Touch Cost: 3m; Mins: Larceny 3, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm allows the Chosen to open any lock easily, even if they lack tools (though the Charm gains the Obvious keyword if they do so). It is even difficult for Charms or other magical effects to contest this Charm.
Flawless Pickpocketing Technique Cost: 3m; Mins: Larceny 2, Essence 1; Type: Supplemental Keywords: Combo-OK Duration: Instant Prerequisite Charms: None
This Charm enhances the Chosen's attempt to pilfer an item from a person, rendering mundane means of detection useless. Even Charms and other magics are at an increased difficulty to contest this Charm.
Heritage Powers
By spending 5 motes of essence or 1 temporary Willpower, she may enhance her mortal senses to perceive all sanctum entrances and immaterial spirits around her for one scene.
She may spend 1 temporary Willpower to regain 6 motes of essence through force of will alone. This power may only be used once per scene.
God-Blooded Mutations
Positive Mutations
Child of the Waters: May hold her breath for Stamina x 30 Minutes at a time before needing to surface and take at least a few deep breaths (Stamina + Resistance to hold it longer, +10 minutes per success). Moves at the same speed while swimming as she does on land. Suffers no penalties for fighting while underwater.
Healing Factor: Heals as an Exalt.
Immortality: Doesn't Age, Limitless Lifespan, Immune to Age-related Effects.
Deceptive Frailty: Appears small and weak regardless of her traits, +1 die to attempts to convince or fool someone into thinking she is as weak and fragile as she looks.
Water Adaptation: May drink or be immersed in salt water without any harm. May hold her breath 4x as long as normal, swim at twice normal speed, and benefits from -1 Difficulty on Swimming-based Athletics rolls.
Negative Mutations
Too Human: Appears more mundane than most God-Blooded would, but must spend an additional 2 motes of essence when using Charms or Powers.
Unnatural Being: Is treated as if she were a Water Child (using her own traits) when dealing with Wards or Bindings. May react unfavorably to certain environments unwelcoming to a Water Child.
Merits and Flaws
Merits
Strong Lungs: Doubles the time she can hold her breath.
Flaws
Intolerance: Air Elementals: Difficulty 5 Compassion roll to overcome her hatred, suffering a -3 penalty on social actions taken against them (except for Intimidation attempts) on a failed roll. 3 WP to ignore a failed roll.
Essence
Essence: ●
Regeneration: 0 when active, 4/hour when relaxed, 8/hour when sleeping or meditating.
Personal Essence Pool: 24/24
Committed Essence: 0
Willpower
Willpower: ●●●●●
Temporary: 5/5
Virtues
Virtues:
Compassion ●●● Conviction ●● Temperance ●● Valor ●●
Virtue flaw: None
Inventory
Travelling outfit, Perfect Knife (+1 Accuracy, +2 Damage, +1 Defense. Kaiken-style, with a lacquered blue wooden handle and scabbard, waterproofed inside and out), a couple of pouches containing a bit of food, money, and a few small miscellaneous items.
Manses and Hearthstones
None.
Combat
Dodge DV: 5
Dodge MDV: 4
Soak: 0A/1L/2B
Pierced: 0A/1L/2B
Hardness: 0A/0L/0B
Attacks
Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 8/11, Damage 2B, Parry DV 5/6, Rate 3, M.
Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 7/10, Damage 5B, Parry DV 2/4, Rate 2, M.
Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 7/10, Damage 2B, Parry DV n/a, Rate 1, M, P.
Perfect Knife: Speed 5, Accuracy 5, Damage 6L, Parry DV 2, Rate 3, T.
Perfect Knife (Thrown): Speed 5, Accuracy 4, Damage 6L, Rate 3 (1), Range 15.
Health
□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated
□ Dying
Advancement
BP
Merits (3)/Positive Mutations (14)
Strong Lungs (3)
Child of the Waters (4)
Healing Factor (4)
Immortality (4)
Deceptive Frailty (1)
Water Adaptation (1)
Flaws (3)/Negative Mutations (6)
Intolerance: Air Elementals (3)
Too Human (4)
Unnatural Being (2)
Other BP Expenditures (20)
Strength ● (4)
Perception ● (4)
Athletics Specialty: Swimming ●●● (3)
Dodge Specialty: While Unarmored ●● (2)
Martial Arts ●●●● (4)
Martial Arts Specialty: Fighting Larger Opponents ●●● (2)
XP
Larceny ●: 3.
Bureaucracy ●: 3.