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''The first impression one would get of Liz is one of boundless energy. Whether she is running, talking or even just sitting, she is always moving, literally or metaphorically. A young woman at 19 she is usually found wearing a dark red tank top, knee long sport pants and high quality running shoes. Her brown hair she keeps short and at the moment touched up with white highlights. In her brown eyes one can see the fire that is her nature, both warming and possibly destructive, as well as the curiosity that drives her to seek ever new experiences and challenges.'' | ''The first impression one would get of Liz is one of boundless energy. Whether she is running, talking or even just sitting, she is always moving, literally or metaphorically. A young woman at 19 she is usually found wearing a dark red tank top, knee long sport pants and high quality running shoes. Her brown hair she keeps short and at the moment touched up with white highlights. In her brown eyes one can see the fire that is her nature, both warming and possibly destructive, as well as the curiosity that drives her to seek ever new experiences and challenges.'' | ||
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==Motivation== | ==Motivation== | ||
| − | + | Find the truth behind the facade of the world, learn what secret rulers enslave men. | |
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==Anima== | ==Anima== | ||
Although Liz finds fame (or even infamy) not exactly unpleasant she rarely lets her anima show, afraid that this might bring about an entirely ''wrong'' sort of attention. After all she knows so little about what really moves the world. When her anima does show it is of a pale gold with a strong touch of deep purple reminiscent of the night sky just after sunset. It begins with sparks in the air around her that turn into a veritable storm of ethereal flames as Liz employs more and more of her power. In its totemic form her anima is a concealing cloak around Liz, hiding her features. Above her are displayed the sword and the scales, symbols of justice far older than the Roman goddess Justitia. In the Umbra [[AlphaOmega/UmbralLiz|her anima manifests in a slightly different way]]. | Although Liz finds fame (or even infamy) not exactly unpleasant she rarely lets her anima show, afraid that this might bring about an entirely ''wrong'' sort of attention. After all she knows so little about what really moves the world. When her anima does show it is of a pale gold with a strong touch of deep purple reminiscent of the night sky just after sunset. It begins with sparks in the air around her that turn into a veritable storm of ethereal flames as Liz employs more and more of her power. In its totemic form her anima is a concealing cloak around Liz, hiding her features. Above her are displayed the sword and the scales, symbols of justice far older than the Roman goddess Justitia. In the Umbra [[AlphaOmega/UmbralLiz|her anima manifests in a slightly different way]]. | ||
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==Backgrounds== | ==Backgrounds== | ||
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Despite coming late to the Freerunning scene Liz has already made a name for herself. Her video clips are widely known on the internet, some even outside the parkour circles, and her blog is a permanent fixture of the community. She is known for coming out of the hardcore parkour field and gradually drifting closer to the free running philosophy of elegance and aesthetics over sheer efficiency as her abilities grew. In the last few months she has started to incorporate katas from her martial arts training into her jumps and movements making for some truly spectacular combinations. Some already call this a new direction or even a new level of free running while others have no mind for 'more fancy tricks'. | Despite coming late to the Freerunning scene Liz has already made a name for herself. Her video clips are widely known on the internet, some even outside the parkour circles, and her blog is a permanent fixture of the community. She is known for coming out of the hardcore parkour field and gradually drifting closer to the free running philosophy of elegance and aesthetics over sheer efficiency as her abilities grew. In the last few months she has started to incorporate katas from her martial arts training into her jumps and movements making for some truly spectacular combinations. Some already call this a new direction or even a new level of free running while others have no mind for 'more fancy tricks'. | ||
| − | ===Resources 2 | + | ===Resources 2=== |
Some of Liz's money comes from a college savings account her parents set up for her some time ago - in theory she's studying history and sports at the university of Tübingen. The greater part however comes from her own diverse efforts: There's the modest advertising money from her website, her part of the internet business she helped a friend set up, the odd job as stunt double in art student movies and then there's her book. It's a collection of running reports, technique tips, aesthetic observations as well as strange anecdotes of encounters while running parkour, all mashed together in a gonzo journalist style. With her father's help (he runs a bookshop and knows the ways of the publishing industry) she managed to get a good editor and a house to publish it - and miraculously it sells! Not nearly well enough to live, alone it wouldn't even cover half the rent, but together with all the other small stuff it's enough to keep her afloat and even suffices for some small luxuries. | Some of Liz's money comes from a college savings account her parents set up for her some time ago - in theory she's studying history and sports at the university of Tübingen. The greater part however comes from her own diverse efforts: There's the modest advertising money from her website, her part of the internet business she helped a friend set up, the odd job as stunt double in art student movies and then there's her book. It's a collection of running reports, technique tips, aesthetic observations as well as strange anecdotes of encounters while running parkour, all mashed together in a gonzo journalist style. With her father's help (he runs a bookshop and knows the ways of the publishing industry) she managed to get a good editor and a house to publish it - and miraculously it sells! Not nearly well enough to live, alone it wouldn't even cover half the rent, but together with all the other small stuff it's enough to keep her afloat and even suffices for some small luxuries. | ||
| − | + | ===Contacts 3=== | |
| − | ===Contacts 3 | + | It's the wonder of the internet: You can have friends halfway around the world, talk to them every day and not even know their voice. Ask a question and among the replies will be posters of every age and origin, from the unemployed postman to the professor of indology. Post a message on a community board and have a place to stay for a few days only an hour later. Through the tight community of free runners, parkour artists and Yamakasi afficionados world wide (not to mention the fan communities of small heavy metal bands, urban exploration fanatics or creative anarchists) Liz is sure to know someone just about everywhere. Here in Las Vegas she is friends with Dale Grimsby, a fellow free runner and one of the organisators of the Parkour Convention for which Liz came. |
| − | It's the wonder of the internet: You can have friends halfway around the world, talk to them every day and not even know their voice. Ask a question and among the replies will be posters of every age and origin, from the unemployed postman to the professor of | ||
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==Charms== | ==Charms== | ||
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Perfect Blazing Blow + Shadow Over Water + 3rd Martial Arts Excellency<br> | Perfect Blazing Blow + Shadow Over Water + 3rd Martial Arts Excellency<br> | ||
''From the fires of her heart Liz brings forth spiraling streaks of bright flames to orbit her and lend incredible power to her attacks.'' | ''From the fires of her heart Liz brings forth spiraling streaks of bright flames to orbit her and lend incredible power to her attacks.'' | ||
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| + | ==Intimacies== | ||
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| + | <i>I will never lose my freedom and submit to oppression!</i><br> | ||
| + | <i>If society labels us freaks for failing to follow their corrupt rules, we outsiders have to stick together.</i><br> | ||
| + | <i>I am not alone in this fight anymore, other Chosen, friends, stand with me against the darkness.</i><br> | ||
| + | <i>To see the people of Las Vegas safe from the horrors that assail them I will do everything in my power.</i><br> | ||
| + | <i>Troile and her servant Todd Brown will burn for the atrocities they have committed.</i><br> | ||
| + | <i>Dale Grimsby, fellow runner, friend, ...</i> (built 1/3) | ||
==Essence== | ==Essence== | ||
| − | Essence: | + | Essence: 2<br> |
| − | Personal: | + | Personal: 5/13<br> |
| − | Peripheral: | + | Peripheral: 17/25 (30)<br> |
| − | + | Commited to Charms: 3m personal (Searing Flame Prana), 8m peripheral (Graceful Crane Stance, Monkey Leap Technique)<br> | |
| − | Committed to artifacts: | + | Committed to artifacts: 5 peripheral (Robert's Klaive)<br> |
Anima Status: None | Anima Status: None | ||
Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated<br> | Health Levels: -0, -1, -1, -2, -2, -4, Incapacitated<br> | ||
(wounds are designated as ''bashing'', '''lethal''' or <strike>'''aggravated'''</strike>) | (wounds are designated as ''bashing'', '''lethal''' or <strike>'''aggravated'''</strike>) | ||
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==Willpower== | ==Willpower== | ||
| − | OOOOO | + | OOOOO OO (Willpower 5/7) |
==Virtues== | ==Virtues== | ||
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Temperance: 1 - <i>What is this 'impulse control' thing you speak of?</i><br> | Temperance: 1 - <i>What is this 'impulse control' thing you speak of?</i><br> | ||
Valor: 4 - <i>Is that a *challenge*?</i> | Valor: 4 - <i>Is that a *challenge*?</i> | ||
| − | ( | + | (2 Conviction, 1 Compassion, 3 Valor Channel used) |
| − | + | ===Limit Break=== | |
| + | <b>Irresistable Challenge</b><br> | ||
| + | While in Limit Break Liz will perceive everything as a challenge and act to meet it immediately. | ||
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| + | Limit Condition: Being dismissed, not taken seriously or taunted without being able to answer in kind.<br> | ||
| + | Limit: <b>XXXXXXX</b> | ||
==Equipment== | ==Equipment== | ||
| − | Backpack, | + | Backpack, sportwear, laptop, cellphone, entrance kit*, exceptional martial arts staff**. |
Hand: Spd 5, Acc 12, Dmg 4B, PDV 6, rate 3<br> | Hand: Spd 5, Acc 12, Dmg 4B, PDV 6, rate 3<br> | ||
Kick: Spd 6, Acc 10, Dmg 7B, PDV 5, rate 1<br> | Kick: Spd 6, Acc 10, Dmg 7B, PDV 5, rate 1<br> | ||
| − | Exceptional | + | Exceptional staff: Spd 6, Acc 14, Dmg 11B, PDV 7, rate 3<br> |
| − | + | Exceptional fighting sticks: Spd 4, Acc 13, Dmg 8B, PDV 7, rate 3<br> | |
| − | + | Robert's Klaive: Spd 4, Acc 12, Dmg 10A, PDV 6, rate 2 | |
| − | * | + | * (a few small screwdrivers, some basic lockpicking tools and spare wiring for electronics) |
| − | * | + | ** (can be separated into two fighting sticks as miscellaneous action (5, -1)) |
==History== | ==History== | ||
| − | Liz was the first of two daughters born to Mark and Claudia Albrechts in Hannover, Germany. Her father runs a moderately successful bookstore while her mother has resumed her work as elementary school teacher now that her two girls are old enough to take care of themselves for the most part. Julia, her sister, is two years her junior and is currently busy finishing school. Life with her family was as unglamorous as it was full of loving and support and Liz is on good speaking terms with her parents and sister even now that she is studying hundreds of kilometers away from home and investigating the darkness with her | + | Liz was the first of two daughters born to Mark and Claudia Albrechts in Hannover, Germany. Her father runs a moderately successful bookstore while her mother has resumed her work as elementary school teacher now that her two girls are old enough to take care of themselves for the most part. Julia, her sister, is two years her junior and is currently busy finishing school. Life with her family was as unglamorous as it was full of loving and support and Liz is on good speaking terms with her parents and sister even now that she is studying hundreds of kilometers away from home and investigating the darkness with her newfound superpowers. If her father was disappointed when she didn't take after him in appreciation of the scholarly pursuits he didn't show it and was all the more enthusiastic when she brought home the first athletics medals. |
| − | The biggest change in her life came when she was 16 and her then boyfriend introduced her to the small group of parkour traceurs in the city. As she understood more about this strange discipline that seemed to mostly involve running through unsafe places where no normal person would run she found that she liked it. Even had a natural aptitude for it. And it was only a few weeks later when during a training her perceptions shifted and it | + | The biggest change in her life came when she was 16 and her then boyfriend introduced her to the small group of parkour traceurs in the city. As she understood more about this strange discipline that seemed to mostly involve running through unsafe places where no normal person would run she found that she liked it. Even had a natural aptitude for it. And it was only a few weeks later when during a training her perceptions shifted and it occured to her for the first time how people everywhere slavishly kept to designated paths, be it walking through the park or crossing the city, be it in their careers or their political opinions. She herself would never let herself be constrained by mere social convention or arbitrary restrictions, she vowed then. |
Since those early days Liz has become an ace traceuse as well as a strong believer in the philosophy of personal freedom that is part of the parkour movement. So it was a particularly nasty shock for her, when one late evening as she ran parkour among the ruins of an abandoned industrial plant she came upon a group of people discussing secret rulers of the world, vampire empires hiding in plain sight and magical propaganda. At first she thought the disparate gathering of oddly dressed people no more than conspiracy theorists but then she felt the vast and invisible forces moving in accordance with the exchange of heated words. When those forces then took physical form as rearing dragons of flaming air, shields of glaring blue light and devouring spots of sheer blackness Liz ran like hell. One of the terrifying men pursued her for three full kilometers until she finally managed to lose him among the ruins despite the golden glow now surrounding her. | Since those early days Liz has become an ace traceuse as well as a strong believer in the philosophy of personal freedom that is part of the parkour movement. So it was a particularly nasty shock for her, when one late evening as she ran parkour among the ruins of an abandoned industrial plant she came upon a group of people discussing secret rulers of the world, vampire empires hiding in plain sight and magical propaganda. At first she thought the disparate gathering of oddly dressed people no more than conspiracy theorists but then she felt the vast and invisible forces moving in accordance with the exchange of heated words. When those forces then took physical form as rearing dragons of flaming air, shields of glaring blue light and devouring spots of sheer blackness Liz ran like hell. One of the terrifying men pursued her for three full kilometers until she finally managed to lose him among the ruins despite the golden glow now surrounding her. | ||
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===Lucky 1 & Unlucky 2=== | ===Lucky 1 & Unlucky 2=== | ||
| − | Things have a way of getting complicated when Liz is around. Whether it's the other car getting the very last parking spot, the falling | + | Things have a way of getting complicated when Liz is around. Whether it's the other car getting the very last parking spot, the falling potplant coming right for her or the soda machine eating her coins, bad luck is the natural way of things as far as she is concerned. At the same time when things really matter she has a way of somehow being at just the right spot at the right time. Over the years Liz has decided that neither is Karma a bitch nor is Luck a lady. Instead they're probably one and the same person who has decided to make Liz's life more interesting in that Chinese proverb kind of way. Just great. |
==Goals and Motivations== | ==Goals and Motivations== | ||
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==XP== | ==XP== | ||
| − | XP gained: | + | XP gained: 34<br> |
| − | XP spent: | + | XP spent: 34 (8 XP Searing Fist Attack, 8 XP Perfect Blazing Blow, 7 XP Fury of a Thousand Flames, 9 XP Valor 4, 2 XP Seven Shadow Evasion upgrade)<br> |
| − | XP unspent: | + | XP unspent: 0 |
| − | XP spending plans: | + | XP spending plans: Spider-Foot Style (8 XP), Flash-Fire Technique (8 XP), Flame-Flicker Stance (8 XP), Fire Dragon Form (8 XP), <b>Flowing Smoke Stance</b> (Combo: SoW+SSE+Flash-Fire+Flame-Flicker+3rd MA Ex, 14 XP), Strength-Increasing Exercise (8 XP)<br> |
| + | Essence 3 (16 XP), Dodge speciality (3 XP), Perfect Poise Stance(8 XP), Soaring Crane Leap (8 XP), Fiery Hand Attack (8 XP), Breath of the Fire Dragon (8 XP), 1st Presence Excellency (8 XP), Enemy-Castigating Solar Judgement (8 XP), <b>Incandescence of the Falling Sun</b> (Combo: SoW+Breath of the Fire Dragon+Fiery Hand+PBB+3rd MA Ex+ECS-Judgement, 18 XP) | ||
==Miscellaneous== | ==Miscellaneous== | ||
