Cleo Love

Overview

Appearance

Average height, in shape, natural hair.

Background

Started cooking for herself when a biology student. Thrown out of Berkeley for abusing the lab facilities as part of a cooking experiment. Now cooks for her livelihood in local indie restaurant 'Patra'. Knows there is more to the world than the textbooks say, and wants to find it out.

Vital Statistics

Name// Cleo Love

Tradition// Orphan (Etherite)

Concept// Etherite chef.

Image Song// https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtF59ti_kAU

Nature// Avant-Garde

Demeanor// Bravo

Essence// Questing

Chantry//

Things to Track

Willpower// 8

Temporary Willpower// 5

Health Levels// -0 x 1, -1 x 2, -2 x 2, -5 x 1, Incapacitated

Current Damage// 0

Arete// 3

Quintessence// 4/4

Paradox// 0

Attributes

Strength 3

Dexterity 4 [fine work]

Stamina 4 [inexhaustible]

Perception 4 [chef's sense]

Intelligence 4 [creative]

Wits 4 [multitasking]

Charisma 3

Manipulation 2

Appearance 4 [healthy]

Abilities

TALENTS/

Alertness 3

Athletics 3

Awareness 3

Intuition 3

Streetwise 2

Subterfuge 1

SKILLS/

Business 2

Cooking 4 [innovation]

Etiquette 1

Leadership 1

Research 2

Technology 3

KNOWLEDGES/

Computer 1

Culture (food) 3

Languages 1 [English, Spanish]

Medicine 1

Science (biology) 3

Media 1

Paradigm

Vitalism - the universe is best understood as a living creature, as is the earth, and humanity.

Metabolism - the essence of life is to transform energy and matter within oneself, to conquer entropy and grow greater step by step.

(http://imgur.com/a/727lW)

Foci and Spheres

Life 2

Matter 2

Prime 2

Time 1

Rotes

Plant Food (Life 2, Prime 2) is Cleo's special formula super-fertiliser that can cause plants to grow almost instantly.

Hearty Meat Soup v1 (Life 2) always helps Cleo recover quickly after workouts.

Weird Fridge Hustle (Life 2, Matter 2) is what Cleo calls her escapades in making an at least edible meal out of almost any ingredients, even if the taste is a bit strange.

Grocery Sense (Life 1, Matter 1) helps pick out the actually best ingredients rather than the most expensive or best-looking.

The Zone (Time 1) is achieved sometimes during stressful busy nights. Cleo knows exactly what to do when to have every piece of the cooking process slot together perfectly.

Backgrounds

Avatar 4

Debt -3

Node 2

Resources 2

Sanctum 2

Social Links

Ringo Laplace is Cleo's former roommate and friend on the biology course. She is a sceptic at heart who finds Cleo's strange beliefs and course-ditching incomprehensible, but still visits frequently and regularly tests food. In her spare time she studies quantitative finance and machine learning. Japanese-Quebecois overseas student.

Jake Ancona is one of Cleo's exes. A philosophy major (in an analytic course, but likes the continentals) who is fascinated with the different ways the world can be understood and enables Cleo's vitalism. A Patra regular. Winds up Ringo when they are around at the same time. White, volcel.

Sarah 'Stardust' Moxie is an activist Cleo met at the gym. An anti-capitalist at the forefront of the local Fight For 15, #noDAPL, and more besides. Bounces between different health fads and doesn't trust food made by 'corporations', needles Cleo about being petty booj. Cleo once had to physically prevent her from getting a 'BLM' tattoo. White, rainbow-haired.

Rafael Cruz (no relation) is one of Cleo's main food suppliers with a good line in obtaining obscure, cheap or otherwise unusual ingredients. He appreciates a good meal, an entrepeneurial attitude and app 4. Mexican-American, middle aged, happily married.

Equipment

Patra

A small restaurant by UCLA popular with some students. Has a constantly revolving set of innovative 'specials'. Employs some servers on and off, but cooking and management is the job of the proprietor Cleo. Constantly in debt.

Cleo lives in the rooms above the restaurant. It has a small yard that produces unusually delicious fruit, veg and eggs unusually quickly, and a basement with some of her ongoing experiments, as well as some workout gear and restaurant supplies. On the floor above is a mysterious shut-in girl. Rooftop solar helps pay the power bills.

• Node 2: mysterious ingredient tass
• Sanctum 2: -1 difficulty on cooking rituals, arcane 2 (kitchen only)

Outfits

One nice dress for parties (not used for more than a year).

One decent suit from when she tried to get hired after dropping out.

One maid outfit from that theme night where she accidentally bought rather than rented.

Kitchen duds covered in stains, but clean.

Transport

Public.

Weapons

Punch 3B, diff 7

Kick 4B, diff 8

Frying Pan 4B, diff 8

Kitchen Knife 4L, diff 8

Pepper Spray

Merits and Flaws

Merits

Concentration

Restaurant

Spark of Life

Chargen

Attributes

Physical 32/24

• Strength 2 (4)
• Dexterity 2 (4)
• Stamina 4 (24)

Mental 60/64

• Perception 4 (24)
• Wits 3 (12)
• Intelligence 4 (24)

Social 40/44

• Charisma 3 (12)
• Manipulation 2 (4)
• Appearance 4 (24)

Abilities

Talents 27/27

• Alertness 3 (9)
• Athletics 3 (9)
• Awareness 3 (9)

Skills 39/39

• Business 2 (5)
• Cooking 4 (15)
• Leadership 1 (3)
• Research 2 (5)
• Technology 3 (9)

Knowledges 15/15

• Computer 1 (3)
• Languages 1 (English, Spanish) (3)
• Medicine 1 (3)
• Science (Biology) 3 (6)

Backgrounds

Background Points 21/21

• Avatar 4
• Debt -3
• Node 2
• Resources 2
• Sanctum 2

Spheres

Sphere Points 64/65

• Life 2 (18)
• Matter 2 (18)
• Prime 2 (18)
• Time 1 (10)

Freebie Points

Freebie Points 106/106

• Willpower 8 (18)
• Str 3 (8)
• Dex 4 (20)
• Wit 4 (12)
• Spark of Life (15)
• Concentration (3)
• Restaurant (3)

XP

Experience Gains

Experience Total/Spent/Unspent (0/0/0)

Experience Spending

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