Resolute Orchid in Sparrow's Shadow

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Resolute Orchid in Sparrow's Shadow was just a girl learning from her beloved sifu when they killed him. She doesn't know who or what or how - her memory of the event is a fractured blur of impossibilities, and the assailant's identity a blank in her mind. But she clearly remembers the aftermath - picking herself off the ground, finding his broken body, and running to the secret hiding place where he kept a book she had glimpsed but been forbidden to ever look at.

The book was incomprehensible, full of exercises that made no sense demanding senses she did not possess. But she persevered, through aching muscles and sleepless nights until an enlightenment settled upon her, and she knew she had been given the chance to avenge her master. She would not waste it.

Orchid is an athletic woman of average height, with black hair done in a short ponytail. She is sensibly dressed in trousers, tunic and sandals.

Basic Info

Caste: Dawn
Motivation: Avenge her Master
Essence: 3

Personal Pool: 17 (0)

Peripheral Pool: 41-8 committed (30)

Essence Recovery: 4/8
Willpower: 8 (1)
Health: 0/-1/-1/-2/-2/-4/I
Join Battle: 12

Mental Dodge DV: 7
Mental Parry DV: 1

Combat

Dodge DV: 8 (6 without bracers)
Soak: 1L/3B
Hardness: 0L/0B

Attacks

Without bracers, all speeds +1

Punch - Speed 4; Acc +1; Dmg 3B; DV 6; Rate 3
Kick - Speed 4; Acc 0; Dmg 6B; DV 4; Rate 2
Clinch - Speed 5; Acc 0; Dmg 3B; DV 5; Rate 1

Iron Punch - Speed 4; Acc +2; Dmg 5L; DV 6; Rate 3; 1m
Iron Kick - Speed 4; Acc +1; Dmg 8L; DV 4; Rate 2; 1m

Maiden Punch - Speed 4; Acc +7; Dmg 5L; DV 9; Rate 3; 1m
Maiden Kick - Speed 4; Acc +6; Dmg 8L; DV 7; Rate 2; 1m

Assumes 10m spent, using Fists of Iron Technique

Virtues

Compassion: ●●
Conviction: ●●●●
Temperance: ●●
Valor: ●●●●

Valour Flaw: that one where you go berserk

Intimacies

• Her master's manual (obsessive protection and secrecy)
• Martial Arts tradition (respect)

Attributes

Strength: ●●●
Dexterity: ●●●●●
Stamina: ●●●

Charisma: ●●
Manipulation: ●
Appearance: ●●●●

Perception: ●●●
Intelligence: ●●●
Wits: ●●●

Abilities

Martial Arts: ●●●●●
Melee: ●
Thrown: ●

Integrity: ●●●
Resistance: ●●●

Investigation: ●
Lore: ●●
Occult: ●

Athletics: ●●●
Awareness: ●●●
Dodge: ●●●●

Linguistics: ● (Riverspeak, Old Realm)

Charms

Martial Arts

• First Martial Arts Excellency

Solar Hero Style

• Fists of Iron Technique
• Sledgehammer Fist Punch

Violet Bier of Sorrows Style

Secret Techniques

• Secrets of Future Strife
• Flight of Mercury
• Blade of the Battle Maiden
• Joy in Adversity Stance

Dodge

• Reflex Sidestep Technique
• Shadow over Water
• Seven Shadow Evasion

Backgrounds

Artefact: ●●●
Face: ●●
Resources: ●
Contacts: ●

• An above-and-below board merchant in Nexus. They helped one another a great deal during the Nexus Incident and are on good terms.

Artefacts & Treasures

• Jade Hearthstone Bracers (●●)

Looted from the corrupt former Immaculate she defeated during the Nexus Incident. 4 (8) motes commitment.

• Winterbreath Jar (●)

Recieved from the inhabitants of a poor village formerly terrorised by bandits. Currently contains sake at Five's insistence.

• The Violet Bier of Sorrows Vol. I: The Sword's Hilt

Recovered from its secret hiding place after the death of her master. This book, written and bound in materials Orchid does not recognise, is filled with astrological tables, poetic koans about fate and cessation, and diagrams of the physical and metaphysical body and heavens.

• New! Straw Sandals

Made by a nice old woman in Kiko village.

Merits and Flaws

Nightmares: +1 BP
Phobia: Spiders +3 BP
Code of Honour Lv.2: +2 BP

BP Expenditure

• +3 virtues (9)
• +3 favoured abilities (3)
• +1 ability (1)
• +1 essence (7)

XP record

• Session 1: +5 (5)
• Session 2: +4 (9)
• Session 3: +8 (17)

Lessons

• Session 3: Five Corners is clearly a very friendly person but represents a threat to martial stoicism.