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=Alice :: Ship's Cutter=
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==Alice :: Ship's Cutter==
  
 
[[File:Alice001.png|500px]]
 
[[File:Alice001.png|500px]]
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==Attributes [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
 
==Attributes [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
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'''Physical [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]]''' || '''Mental [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]''' || '''Social [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]'''
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'''Physical [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]''' || '''Mental [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]]''' || '''Social [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]'''
  
 
==Trained Skills [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
 
==Trained Skills [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
 
'''Fight''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
 
'''Fight''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
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:- ''Tenjin Shinyo-Ryū Jūjutsu'' [[file:d6a.png|20px|d6]]  
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:- ''Martial Arts'' [[file:d6a.png|20px|d6]]  
  
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'''Fix''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
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'''Influence''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]]
  
 
'''Know''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
 
'''Know''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
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'''Notice''' [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]
 
'''Notice''' [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]
  
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'''Sneak''' [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]
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'''Operate''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
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:- ''Infiltrate Systems''
  
 
'''Treat''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
 
'''Treat''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
  
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'''Trick''' [[file:d12a.png|24px|d12]]
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'''Trick''' [[file:d10a.png|24px|d10]]
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:- ''Misdirection'' [[file:d6a.png|20px|d6]]
 
  
 
==Untrained Skills [[file:d4a.png|30px|d4]]==
 
==Untrained Skills [[file:d4a.png|30px|d4]]==
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| Craft |  Drive | Fly | Focus | Influence | Labor | Move | Operate | Perform | Shoot | Survive | Throw  |
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| Craft |  Drive | Fix | Fly | Focus | Influence | Labor | Perform | Shoot | Survive | Throw  |
  
 
==Distinctions [[file:d8a.png|32px|d8]]==
 
==Distinctions [[file:d8a.png|32px|d8]]==
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'''Back Alley Cutter:''' ''You ain't had much in the way of formal training, but when folk cain't show their face at a legit medical facility, they cain't be too particular about who patches them up.''
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'''Back Alley Cutter:''' ''You were a promising medical student once upon a once. Now you patch up thugs who can't show their face in a legit facility.''
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: '''☑ Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>  
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: '''Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>  
  
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: '''☐ Street Surgery:''' ''This old cargo depot ain't particular sanitary, but at least there's no lawmen about'' - When you treat someone with injuries that would make a normal hospital ask inconvenient questions, spend 1 PP to step up or double '''Treat''' for the roll.
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: Street Surgery: ''This condemned cargo depot ain't particular sanitary, but at least there's no lawmen about'' - When you treat someone with injuries that would make a normal hospital ask inconvenient questions, spend 1 PP to step up or double '''Treat''' for the roll.
  
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: '''☑ Triage:''' <u>''You know how to stabilize a body til you can see to 'em proper'' - Spend 1 PP to step back another character’s medical or injury related complication.</u>
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: '''Triage:''' <u>''You know how to stabilize a body til you can see to 'em proper'' - Spend 1 PP to step back another character’s medical or injury related complication.</u>
  
 
[Highlighted Skills: ''Know/Notice/Treat'']
 
[Highlighted Skills: ''Know/Notice/Treat'']
  
  
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'''Clockwork Orphan:''' ''You were just a kid when the war left your body ruined, but piece by piece you've managed to put yourself back together.''
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'''Clockwork Orphan:''' ''You lost parts of yourself to the war, but they put you back together.''
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: '''☑ Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>  
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: '''Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>  
  
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: '''☐ Cybernetics:''' ''You look normal enough most of the time, til you do that thing you shouldn't be able to do'' - When you call attention to your enhanced nature, step back '''Social''' for the scene to step up '''Physical''' for an action.
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: Cybernetics: ''You look normal enough most of the time. Then you do that thing you shouldn't be able to do'' - When you call attention to your enhanced nature, step back '''Social''' for the scene to step up '''Physical''' for an action.
  
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: '''☐ Slip of a Girl:''' ''You're proper tiny, and the configuration of your mechanical bits lets you squeeze and bend in ways a regular skeleton just don't'' - Spend 1 PP to squeeze through spaces that are just too small for regular folk to manage.  
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: Natural Connection: ''Machine talks to machine.'' When using your implants to connect directly with a machine or system, spend 1 PP to step up or double '''Operate'''.
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[Highlighted Skills: ''Fix/Sneak/Trick'']
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[Highlighted Skills: ''Operate/Treat/Trick'']
  
  
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'''Old Bamboo Dǒulì:''' ''This traditional conical hat has been your ubiquitous companion for as long as you can remember, sheltering you from sun and rain and prying eyes.''  
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'''Duìzhǎng:''' ''You don't look like much, but people look to you when the chips are down.''
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: '''☑ Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>
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: '''Step Back:''' <u>Roll [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] instead of  [[file:d8a.png|18px|d8]] for 1 PP </u>
  
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: '''☑ Give 'em Hell:''' <u>''You don't look like much, but when the chips are down, folk seem uncommon willing to step in on your behalf'' - When you convince someone to make hell for someone else, spend 1 PP to give them an Asset equal to your '''Trick''' die.</u>
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: Give 'em Hell: ''For whatever reason, folk seem willing to commit absurdities on your behalf'' - When you convince someone to make hell for someone else, spend 1 PP to give them an Asset equal to your '''Trick''' die.
  
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: '''☐ Take measure:''' ''A Dǒulì's a fine screen for observing folk before they know they're being observed'' - When you come into conflict with someone for the first time, you may attempt to size them up with a '''Mental''' + '''Know''' Action. Create a '''''Sized Up''''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] Asset if you succeed, or take an '''''Overconfident''''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] Complication if you fail.
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: Talk 'em Down: ''You have some experience dealing with hotheads'' - When you try to defuse a charged situation, step up or double '''Influence'''. Take or step up a Complication to do both
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[Highlighted Skills: ''Fight/Know/Trick'']
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[Highlighted Skills: ''Fight/Influence/Trick'']
  
 
==Signature Assets [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
 
==Signature Assets [[file:d6a.png|32px|d6]][[File:Arrow03.png|24px]]==
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'''Steady Hands:''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] Despite their cybernetic nature, your hands and arms look perfectly normal, perfectly organic, perfectly . . . human. They don't flinch or shake, and they don't hesitate. No matter what is going on around you, your hands know what they are about.
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'''Steady Hands:''' [[file:d8a.png|24px|d8]] Despite their cybernetic nature, your hands and arms look perfectly normal - perfectly human. They don't flinch or shake, and they don't hesitate. No matter what is going on around you, your hands know what they are about. After all, that's how they were engineered.
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: '''☐ Right in the Phantom Limb:''' ''Never know when having a metal/polymer understructure will come in handy'' -  When you spend a PP to avoid being Taken Out from a physical attack or environmental happenstance, you can step back Steady Hands until the end of the Episode instead of taking a Complication. Remove Steady Hands from the Episode if they are stepped below [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]]
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<br>[Special: Cybernetics extend to shoulders]
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: '''☐ White Knuckling It:''' ''Some jobs require more effort than others'' - Once per scene, you can spend 1 PP to step up or double your '''Steady Hands''' asset on a '''Physical''' roll when pairing it with an eligible [[file:d4a.png|18px|d4]] skill.
 
  
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'''Bubble Gum:''' [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] You always have fresh bubble gum somewhere on your person, and usually have a piece in your mouth as well.
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'''Well Worn Dǒulì:''' [[file:d6a.png|24px|d6]] You've worn this ubiquitous conical bamboo hat as long as you can remember and it has served you well as a shelter from sun and rain and prying eyes.
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: '''☐ Pop Goes the Bubble Gun''' [sic]''':''' ''Funny how loud noises can affect folk when they're already nervous.'' Spend 1 PP to step up or double '''Trick''' when you snap your gum as a distraction.
 
  
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==Diceless Assets [[File:D0a.png|32px]]==
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==Diceless Assets [[File:Blackfatezero.png|24px]]==
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'''Field Medic's Kit:''' Compact collection of portable medical and surgical necessities.
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'''The Lieutenant's Tanto:''' You have this Japanese style dagger from a Browncoat Lieutenant for services rendered after a rather epic bar fight. The simple heirloom supposedly originated on earth-that-was.
  
 
==Episodes==
 
==Episodes==
  
 
==Background==
 
==Background==
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It was the constant rebuilding, repairing, replacing and adapting to her various cybernetics through her formative years that led to Alice's interest in surgery and medicine, but she never had the credit or sponsorship to go to medical school and become a proper doctor.  
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Alice was a war orphan who grew up in the belly of a lawless and broken city on a rock that nobody wanted anymore. She learned to survive the streets, learned to fend for herself and move with care where no one did, but it was a sparse and vicious existence.
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But she studied, and she learned, and she . . . practiced.
 
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Folk on the streets always needed patching up, and it was rare the most badly hurt among them dared show their faces at the hospital or local clinic, where the staff had to report suspicious wounds to the authorities. So there was always opportunity. And when she found her learning lacking, (say that twelve times fast while skipping), Alice always managed to find a duty-bound shepherd or nostalgic browncoat willing to teach a wispy-faced kid the next new thing.
 
  
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And then there was Nix. The girl mostly knew machine parts, but cybernetics required a certain understanding of human anatomy, tolerances, and physiology, which the older girl could usually be prompted to grudgingly pass along if Alice asked her while she was doing the work.
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Then a clash of rival gangs swept through her neighborhood killing many that she knew and costing her both her arms. She was found in the aftermath of the conflict by a kindly order of well meaning shepherds that had a surgeon among their number who endeavored to replace her arms - shoulder to finger - with cybernetic replacements.  
  
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Nix was dead now. Offed by dust-tweaker for a handful of chits.
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The procedures and therapies involved in attaching and adapting to the artificial limbs spanned first months and then years as they had to be adjusted or even replaced altogether as she grew.
  
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When she finally caught him up, Alice spent days showing him every way she knew to keep a traumatized body alive until the cumulative inflicted damage was more than even she could heal.  
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In her time with the shepherds, Alice learned something of the surgeon's trade and would assist as she was able - until the inevitable press of the gangs and the folk struggling to survive their constant conflict pushed the shepherds out of the settlement entirely. For all they had done for her, Alice did not opt to follow them to their new home, instead slipping back to the streets and plying her new trade for anyone who could pay a chit or trade a meal.
  
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Fun Fact: Fresh bubblegum did a fair job at masking the stench of stale urine and fresh feces if you didn't chew it flavorless before popping in the next piece.
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That felt like a lifetime ago.  
  
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Now she just had Kenjin. Her Sensei.  
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She had since traded broken streets on a broken rock for ships and space stations across the black, and for the most part she avoided craning her neck over her shoulder to see if the past was catching her up.  
  
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One-legged old drunk could still put her on her back twice as often as she managed to put him on his. Probably. She hadn't actually sparred with him since she left the dirt for the ships and stations of the black.  
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She preferred to look - and move - forward.  
  
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They still waved regular, though.
 
  
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But her sparring was now mostly with off-grid spacers who thought they could stiff her for her services because she looked like a tattered bit that might get sucked into an air vent if she walked to close. With any luck, the ship she had just signed on with would offer better opportunities.
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