Firefly Distinctions

Casino Floor Manager

Val has years of experience managing chaos, spotting potential cheaters or other trouble makers in a crowd, and heading off trouble before it happens. He is also a student of the human condition as people from all walks come before him in times of crisis. He is familiar with both legitimate and less lawful industries as both are essential to the trade.
Highlighted Skills: Influence, Notice, Treat
Triggers:

1. Get a plot point when you use a D4 instead of a D8.
2. Eye for Trouble: When you observe a crowd, step up or double Notice to catch someone up to no good. Spend 1 PP to do both.
3. Eye of the Storm: Spend a Plot Point, after a Focus Roll to add your Mental Die to the total.

Dysfunctional Family Ties

How can family be so important to a man abandoned by his father, and responsible for his adult mother? He must cope with his issues of loss, his fantasies of his absent father, the long history of his father's travels as well as his resentful and gambling addicted mother. Still, his father's name opens up opportunities, and his mother's needs inspires a strong will.
Highlighted Skills: Focus, Labor, Survive
Triggers:

1. Get a plot point when you use a D4 instead of a D8
2. Quick's Debt: Give yourself a plot point when you take on a complication as a result of your family's past actions.
3. Quick's Favors: When you create an Asset by calling on an old friend or associate of your family, step it up.

Cool Under Pressure

The Casino Floor appears to most people like a cacophonous maelstrom. To you, it is a complex, but predictable machine. It must be to make a profit. Your senses are honed to spot the unusual, and filter out the noise.
Highlighted Skills: Focus, notice, sneak
Triggers:

1. Gain 1 Plot Point when you roll a d4 instead of a d8.
2. Got It in One: Spend 1 PP to roll your Focus and add it to your total.
3. Sea of Calm: Spend 1 PP to use a Complication as an Asset for one Action; step up the Complication afterward.

Veteran Doctor

War is hell they say. And doctors are the angels of mercy. Working in military hospitals, among servicemen of both side, and around the distractions of war has give you both specialized knowledge, and the resources to deal with the unexpected. However flashbacks and the call duty sometimes interfere with daily life.
Highlighted Skills: Shoot, Focus, Treat
Triggers:

1. Get a Plot Point when you use a D4 instead of a D8
2. Buying Time: Spend a Plot Point on a person who is Taken Out by Wounds to step it back to a d10 complication for the duration of the scene, however double that complication when later treatment is administered.
3. Less that Ideal Circumstances: Step back any complications to a Treat roll based on distractions, lack of equipment, hygiene, or similar problems.

Treason Suspect

When a war is lost, people search out scapegoats. This fell on you. While not yet convicted of any crime, you are watched, and reviled in the media. Life has become more difficult for you among the Alliance. However, this has made you something of a minor celebrity among those in the know with more Independent minds. You are used to be watched and have honed your alertness as a results.
Highlighted Skills: Notice, Sneak, Trick
Triggers:

1. Get a Plot Point when you use a D4 instead of a D8
2. Don't I Know You?: Get a Plot Point when you get a complication arising from Federal personnel's or aligned people's suspicions.
3. Go to Ground: Step up or Double you Sneak Die when avoiding government detection. Spend a plot point to do both.

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