ROTE:Dokueki Sumie
Dokueki Sumie
Dokueki Sumie
Contents
Affiliations[edit]
Solo d10 Buddy d8 Team d6
Distinctions[edit]
Unseen Killer, Conflicted Healer, I Won't Go That Far
Powersets[edit]
Ninja Training[edit]
(Invisibility d8, Senses d10, Enhanced Agility d8, Enhanced Stamina d8, Wall-Clinging d6, Speed d6)
SFX[edit]
Focus (If a pool includes a Ninja Training power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one die one step larger)
Limit[edit]
Darkness Within (Gain 1 PP to Step Up the Emotional Stress caused by Loss, Rejection, or Failure by 1)
Dokueiki Clan Style[edit]
(Chi Poison d10, Mind Control d8, Resist Chi d10, Healing d8)
SFX[edit]
Poison Touch (Add a d6 to the pool and step up the Effect Die by 1 when creating a Chi Poisoned Complication)
SFX[edit]
Chi Contamination (Add a d6 to the pool and step up the Effect Die by 1 when creating a Chi-Poisoned Zone Asset)
SFX[edit]
Immunity (Spend 1 PP to ignore the effects of Poison or Chi-poisoning effects)
Limit[edit]
Exhaustion (Gain 1 PP and Shut Down any Dokueki Clan Style power. Activate an Opportunity or use a Recovery Scene to recover.)
Specialties[edit]
Acrobatic Expert d8, Combat Master d10, Ninja Lore Master d10, Covert Master d10, Medical Master d10, Menace Expert d8, Psych Master d10
Family background[edit]
The Dokueki family has been compared to snakes for ages-- they creep through the grass, up trees, over walls, wait for their moment to strike, then attack with a devastating blow that leaves their victim twitching and dying in agony, his chi system poisoned and destroying him. In the course of studying that last effect, of course, they've had to learn a lot about how the human body works, and thus gained a secondary reputation as healers. Traditionally, however, they don't care about healing-- they are the silent, death-bringing snakes, damnit! Why does everybody keep going to them for healing, anyway?
The current generations:
Sumie's father Nobuo is a widower, always on the lookout for a new wife. (He claims that it's to provide a mother for his children. Everybody else is of the opinion that he's just chasing women, most of them faaaaar too young for him.) He takes the ninja duties of the Dokueki family very seriously, and can't understand why Sumie wouldn't want to go be an all-out ninja. There's a lot of great guys in the business, after all. He's also a lot more interested in the mayhem aspects of the family's style than the healing (or even subtle) techniques that can be used with it.
Sumie's maternal grandmother Masumi takes care of the domestic side of family life. She's very old, and very traditional. She's small, and not very mobile, and a frightening expert with subtle nerve holds-- she can make Sumie's little brother sweep up the floor by grabbing his ear and manipulating his chi so that his arms have no option but to sweep. (She's also slightly shorter than him, and will turn anyone she pleases into her horse, jumping on their back, and manipulating their chi so that they take her wherever she wants.)
Sumie's little brother Tsutomu is about ten. He's shown a lot of skill in Dokueki family mobility forms, and so can climb the sheerest walls, jump from tree to tree, and slither through the tiniest cracks for the purpose of annoying people and getting underfoot-- especially for following Sumie around. He thinks that she needs to date more, but doesn't approve of any actual boys that have ever been anywhere near her, and will make a point of tormenting any boy who might in some way be a conceivable date for her, while still pestering Sumie about how she needs to get a boyfriend.
Personality and history[edit]
Sumie is serious, but slightly shy. She finds the medical aspects of her family's arts much more interesting than the horrible chi poison techniques, although she's shown a lot of talent for both. She's much more interested in becoming a doctor than an assassin.
Sumie is quite attractive, and frequently draws the attention of lots of the local boys, particularly Kazuhiko, who simply cannot grasp that she is not interested in dating him, that she does not want to make out with him, that they are not already dating, and that she is not his girlfriend.
That last point causes the most trouble-- Kazuhiko has made the claim that she is on more than one occasion. Beautiful, sophisticated Masami has a tremendous crush on Kazuhiko, and was quite angry to hear that he, in turn, was dating quiet, intellectual Sumie. She won't forgive Sumie for stealing him away like that!
Masami isn't a great danger to Sumie, of course. She doesn't attack the snake ninja physically, but gets her revenge in smaller, more social ways. And that hurts Sumie very much-- because she's come to realize that she's in love with Masami...
