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Background Skills: 4 points chosen from among Sports
(Golf, Tennis, etc.), DX/A; Current Affairs (Popular
Culture) or Savoir-Faire (High Society), both IQ/E;
Connoisseur (any) or Fast-Talk, both IQ/A; Carousing,
HT/E; or Sex Appeal, HT/A.
* Multiplied for self-control number; see p. B120.
Lenses
Cinematic (+100 points): Add 80 points chosen from among
Enhanced Dodge 1-3 [15/level], Enhanced Parry 1-3 [5 or
10/level], Enhanced Time Sense [45], Extra Attack 1 or 2
(Multi-Strike, +20%) [30 or 60], Gizmos (Only for style,
-20%) [4/level], Heroic Archer [20], Innate Attack
[Varies], Rapier Wit [5], Serendipity 1-4 [15/level],
Trained by a Master [30], Weapon Master [20-45], or
Adrian was born in 1537 to a Warwickshire man-atarms
and his wife. Despite being raised like any English
girl, she was more fascinated with her father’s skills than
her mother’s domestic duties. She eventually convinced
several of her father’s younger comrades to train her.
Most regarded this as a fair trade for the opportunity to
spend time with a pretty (if eccentric) girl.
When Adrian was 17, her father marched off to some
nastiness in which the Duke of Suffolk was embroiled. It
proved to be a rebellion, and her father was slain when
forces loyal to Queen Mary defeated Suffolk. Shortly
thereafter, her mother was killed in random reprisals
against Protestants. Adrian escaped the same fate only by
taking up a rusty longsword – a souvenir of her father’s –
and fighting her way free.
Once safe, Adrian cut her hair, dressed in men’s clothing,
and posed as one of England’s many traveling “masters,”
showing off for food and drink. She swore a vow to
avenge her parents’ deaths by seeking news of unpopular
deeds by the Queen’s agents in the countryside, finding
those responsible, and killing them. She soon found herself
sought by bounty hunters coming to collect the price
on her head. Several Englishmen, two Welshmen, and
one Italian later, she still walks free.
Adrian is a larger-than-life prodigy at 19 years of age,
and stronger than some men – which lets her move her
5’8”, 125-lb. frame with blinding speed. She was built
with the Duelist template (p. 34) and has Masters of
Defence Weapon Training (p. 182).
ST 12 [20]; DX 14 [80]; IQ 11 [20]; HT 11 [10].
Damage 1d-1/1d+2; BL 29 lbs.; HP 10 [-4]; Will 11 [0];
Per 11 [0]; FP 11 [0].
Basic Speed 7.00 [15]; Basic Move 8 [5]; Dodge 10; Parry
13; Block 10.
Social Background
TL: 4 [0].
CF: Christian European [0].
Languages: English (Native) [0].
Adrian Froste (200 points)
extreme levels of traits on the realistic template:
Appearance (Very Handsome) [16] or (Transcendent)
[20], Charisma 4-12 [5/level], Luck (Extraordinary) [30]
or (Ridiculous) [60], Smooth Operator 2-4 [15/level], and
Wealth (Very Wealthy) [30] or (Filthy Rich) [50]. You
must take either Trained by a Master or Weapon Master!
• Add 20 points in your style’s cinematic skills (and prerequisites);
Flying Leap, Light Walk, and Lizard Climb
suit wuxia stars who do their stunts for real.
Tough Guy (+100 points): You’re a beast of a man, typecast
as the guy who shrugs off baseball bats and fires
machine guns one-handed. You’re as unbelievable as any
flashy wuxia star – but it’s all grit, not mystical mumbojumbo.
See Contender (p. 32) for statistics.
Advantages
Attractive [4]; Enhanced Parry 1 (All) [10]; Luck [15].
Perks: Grip Mastery (Longsword); Style Familiarity
(Glaive Fighting; Italian School; Longsword Fighting;
Masters of Defence Weapon Training; Pollaxe Fighting;
Quarterstaff; Sword-and-Buckler Play; Sword-and-Shield
Fighting); Weapon Bond (Her father’s longsword). [10]
Disadvantages
Enemy (Many bounty hunters; Hunter; 6 or less) [-10];
Loner (12) [-5]; Secret (Woman) [-5]; Social Stigma
(Criminal) [-5]; Trademark (Simple; Always takes the time
to strip the bodies of those she slays – looking for items of
value to the needy – even when that’s unsafe) [-5]; Vow
(Never refuse any request for aid) [-15].
Quirks: Abstains from intimate relations; Accepts only
things she needs, never money, from those she aids;
Claims to be the bastard son of a local official when asked
for identification; Fights dirty; Maneuvers to keep opponents
at maximum reach in duels. [-5]
Skills
Acting (Cross-Dressing) (E) IQ+1 [2]-12†; Area
Knowledge (England) (E) IQ+1 [2]-12; Armoury (Melee
Weapons) (A) IQ-1 [1]-10; Brawling (E) DX [1]-14;
Broadsword (A) DX+4 [16]-18; Current Affairs (England)
(E) IQ+1 [2]-12; Disguise (Cross-Dressing) (E) IQ+1 [2]-
12†; Fast-Talk (A) IQ [2]-11; First Aid (E) IQ [1]-11; Hiking
(A) HT [2]-11; Knife (E) DX [1]-14; Polearm (A) DX [2]-
14; Shield (E) DX [1]-14; Shield (Buckler) (E) DX [1]-14;
Shortsword (A) DX [0]-16*; Spear (A) DX [2]-14; Staff (A)
DX [2]-14; Stealth (A) DX [2]-14; Two-Handed Sword (A)
DX+4 [14]-18*; Wrestling (A) DX [2]-14.
Techniques: Feint (Two-Handed Sword) (H) [3]-20;
Sweep (Two-Handed Sword) (H) [4]-18.
* Based on Broadsword default.
† Optional specialties; see p. B169.
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