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This is the character page for Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon, a character in [[Solve_For_Ex]]
 
This is the character page for Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon, a character in [[Solve_For_Ex]]
  
[[file:Chirism.jpg |thumb| Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon]]
 
  
[[file:Chirurgeontell.jpg|thumb| Chirurgeon's Tell]]
 
  
 
*'''Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon''', aka "Anna"
 
*'''Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon''', aka "Anna"
 
*Caste: Full Moon Lunar
 
*Caste: Full Moon Lunar
*Concept: Shapeshifting Doctor/Assassin, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Kuudere Kuudere]], Imprecise biologist
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*Concept: Shapeshifting Doctor/Assassin, [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Kuudere|Kuudere], Imprecise biologist
 
*Totem: Scorpion
 
*Totem: Scorpion
 
*Tell: Four black, unblinking lateral eyes
 
*Tell: Four black, unblinking lateral eyes
  
*'''Appearance:''' Chirurgeon gives the first impression of being cool, calm, and remote.  She stands more than six feet tall, and can usually be seen wearing brightly colored, flowing silk robes over an engraved silver breastplate.  She affects to wear small half-moon spectacles, although the lenses within are merely flat glass.  She has caramel-colored skin and flame red hair.  Her moonsilver tattoos are unusually angular: more geometric than tribal.  Because the first and primary subject of Anna's flesh-shaping ministrations was herself, her features are flawlessly symmetrical, and she prides herself on the physical perfection of her true form, even as she sees no problem with grafting animal traits onto it: function is always beautiful.   
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*'''Appearance:''' Chirurgeon gives the first impression of being cool, calm, and remote.  She stands more than six feet tall, and can usually be seen wearing brightly colored, flowing silk robes over an engraved silver breastplate.  She has caramel-colored skin and flame red hair.  Her moonsilver tattoos are unusually angular: more geometric than tribal.  Because the first and primary subject of Anna's flesh-shaping ministrations was herself, her features are flawlessly symmetrical, and she prides herself on the physical perfection of her true form, even as she sees no problem with grafting animal traits onto it: function is always beautiful.   
  
  
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=Intimacies=
 
=Intimacies=
'''Architect''' (Mate+Affection): "I will rid her of the disease of death, ''and see her smile again''."<br>
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Architect (Mate+Affection): "I will rid her of the disease of death/and see her smile."<br>
'''Lance''' (Irritation) "No. Just no.  Even I can't produce an opium strong enough to make that palatable."<br>
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Lance (Irritation) "No. Just no."<br>
'''Thousand Streams River''' (Admiration) "Think of it as evolution in action.  The Scarlet Empress created one Realm that she can barely hold together: we shall create thousands ,every one able to stand on its own."<br>
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Thousand Streams River (Admiration) "Think of it as evolution in action."<br>
'''Disease''' (Loathing) "That which doesn't work must be fixed."<br>
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Disease (Loathing) "That which doesn't work must be fixed."<br>
'''Slavery''' (Rage) "It's irrational!  With all the inflictions they face, why do mortals force even more upon their fellows?"<br>
 
  
 
=Anima=
 
=Anima=
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*Appearance 5
 
*Appearance 5
 
==Mental==
 
==Mental==
*Perception 3  
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*Perception 3 (Favored)
*Intelligence 3 (Favored)
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*Intelligence 3  
 
*Wits 4
 
*Wits 4
 
 
=Abilities=
 
=Abilities=
  
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*Resistance 4  
 
*Resistance 4  
 
*Integrity 2
 
*Integrity 2
*Presence 1
 
 
*Lore 1
 
*Lore 1
 
*Linguistics 2 (Flametongue, Old Realm, High Realm)
 
*Linguistics 2 (Flametongue, Old Realm, High Realm)
 
*Investigation 3
 
*Investigation 3
 
*Socialize 2
 
*Socialize 2
*Stealth 5 (Camouflage +1)
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*Stealth 5  
 
*Medicine 4
 
*Medicine 4
  
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==Artifact 2==
 
==Artifact 2==
 
Moonsilver hearthstone bracers<br>
 
Moonsilver hearthstone bracers<br>
==Backing 2==
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==Solar Bond 2==
The Winding Path: Chirurgeon has carried out several missions for the Winding Path over the years, and has a reputation within the organization for competence.
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Architect<br>
==Solar Bond 3==
 
Architect Bound in Blood and Bone<br>
 
  
 
==Knacks==
 
==Knacks==
 
Deadly Beastman Transformation<br>
 
Deadly Beastman Transformation<br>
Humble Mouse Shape<br>
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Humble Mouse Shape
Hybrid Body rearrangement <br>
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Hybrid Body rearrangement  
Prey’s Skin Disguise<br>
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Prey’s Skin Disguise
  
 
=Charms=
 
=Charms=
  
 
==Full Moon==
 
==Full Moon==
Third Full Moon Excellency<br>
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Third Full Moon Excellency
Instinctive Full moon Excellency<br>
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Instinctive Full moon Excellency
Claws of the Silver Moon<br>
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Claws of the Silver Moon
Scorpion and Toad Absolution <br>
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Scorpion and Toad Absolution  
Scorpion and Toad Assumption <br>
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Scorpion and Toad Assumption  
Scorpion and Toad Mastery<br>
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Scorpion and Toad Mastery
Adder Fang Method (Luna's Spite)<br>
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Adder Fang Method (Luna's Spite)
Armor-Forming technique <br>
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Armor-Forming technique  
Bruise Relief Method<br>
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Bruise Relief Method
Halting the Scarlet Flow<br>
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Halting the Scarlet Flow
Ox Body x4<br>
 
 
 
==Changing Moon==
 
Third Changing Moon Excellency<br>
 
Perfect Symmetry<br>
 
  
==No Moon==
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==Half Moon==
First No Moon Excellency <br>
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Third Half-Moon Excellency
Flesh-Sculpting Art<br>
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Perfect Symmetry
  
 
==Combos==
 
==Combos==
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*Dash: 12
 
*Dash: 12
 
===Attacks===
 
===Attacks===
*Scorpion Tail: Speed 5 Acc +21 15L/5 Parry 6 Rate 2 Piercing, Overwhelming
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*Scorpion Tail (CotSM): Speed 5 Acc +21 15L/5 Parry 6 Rate 2 Piercing, Overwhelming
 
*Punch: Speed 5 Acc +20 13L/5 Parry 6 Rate 3 Overwhelming
 
*Punch: Speed 5 Acc +20 13L/5 Parry 6 Rate 3 Overwhelming
 
*Kick: Speed 5 Acc +19 16L/5 parry 4 Rate 2 Overwhelming
 
*Kick: Speed 5 Acc +19 16L/5 parry 4 Rate 2 Overwhelming
 
 
==Social==
 
==Social==
 
*Join Debate:  
 
*Join Debate:  
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*(wounds are designated as ''bashing'', '''lethal''' or <strike>aggravated</strike>)
 
*(wounds are designated as ''bashing'', '''lethal''' or <strike>aggravated</strike>)
 
=Equipment=
 
=Equipment=
Reinforced Moonsilver Breastplate, Moonsilver Hearthstone Bracers, fine noble's clothes, small alchemy kit, several glass philters containing exotic ingredients and unguents: Sweet Cordials, Ghost Flower and Maiden's Tea leaves, Seven Bounties Paste, Age-Staving Cordial, etc.<br>
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Reinforced Moonsilver Breastplate, Moonsilver Hearthstone Bracers, fine noble's clothes, small alchemy kit, several glass philters containing exotic ingredients and unguents: Sweet Cordials, Ghost Flower and Maiden's Tea leaves, Seven Bounties Paste, Age-Staving Cordial, etc.  
 
 
===Toxins===
 
 
 
'''Matron of Shadows' Kiss''' - Refined from a five different mushroom spores and two varieties of sap, this substance has been used by beastman tribes to knock their fellows unconscious prior to invasive surgery until the Guild discovered this wonder and sold it for its other possible applications. Failure to resist the initial application renders mortal beings unconscious nearly instantly for several hours (7 - Stamina). Success on the Resistance Roll gives the individual a -2 penalty due to the severe fatigue it bestows, with multiple successes halving the timeframe for each success (5 - Stam, 0 = No effect). Rarely, the materials cause a sudden and fatal allergic reaction that all medicine has yet to be able to solve. (Botch with more than half of the dice showing 1 causes 10L damage immediately, as the Matron's Kiss sends the soul to the Lethe)  Resource **.
 
 
 
 
=History=
 
=History=
Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon is the master of triage. From her pre-exaltation youth as an apprentice to one of the few credible street-doctors in Gem, she learned a simple, cold fact: only some can be saved. To save the body, you must remove the gangrenous leg. To prevent the epidemic from spreading, you must quarantine the dying. It is the physician's responsibility to separate the quick from the dead. Post-exaltation, Chiri found that Luna's gifts allowed her to extend her simple, natural philosophy both within and without. Through careful experimentation, she gained almost total mastery of her body's chemical structures, allowing her to produce toxins and anti-toxins at a whim. But Luna's greatest gift was to share a fraction of her perspective: it brought Chiri to the realization that she could scale her talents upwards. The same lancets that could remove necrotizing flesh can carve the pitted black spots from the surface of Creation. You can call it cancer, or Deathlords, or simple human idiocy, but it all amounts to the same thing in the long run. That which can be saved, will be saved. And that which cannot, will be excised.
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*Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon is the master of triage. From her pre-exaltation youth as an apprentice to one of the few credible street-doctors in Gem, she learned a simple, cold fact: only some can be saved. To save the body, you must remove the gangrenous leg. To prevent the epidemic from spreading, you must quarantine the dying. It is the physician's responsibility to separate the quick from the dead. Post-exaltation, Chiri found that Luna's gifts allowed her to extend her simple, natural philosophy both within and without. Through careful experimentation, she gained almost total mastery of her body's chemical structures, allowing her to produce toxins and anti-toxins at a whim. But Luna's greatest gift was to share a fraction of her perspective: it brought Chiri to the realization that she could scale her talents upwards. The same lancets that could remove necrotizing flesh can carve the pitted black spots from the surface of Creation. You can call it cancer, or Deathlords, or simple human idiocy, but it all amounts to the same thing in the long run. That which can be saved, will be saved. And that which cannot, will be excised.
  
 
At a very early age, Chrirugeon (then a young, timid girl called Scuttle) was given in apprenticeship to a hedge-doctor in Gem: Master Chiral.  She spent years there tending to the wounds of the city's mercenaries and pit fighters, developing just enough skill to sew shut wounds or wield a bonesaw; Chiral had once been a competent healer, but his skills had been atrophied by decades of drink.  Upon her exaltation at age 14, Chirurgeon was found by the No Moon caste Hui-Kin Laughing.  Hui brought her to a lunar sanctuary deep in the eastern South, where the glittering desert met high mountains.  There she pursued her original vocation, studying under lunar healers while being fostered by Hui-Kin.  Soon, however, Chirurgeon began to turn her talents inward, steadily enhancing her physical abilities while perfecting her internal chemistry at the expense of her more intellectual studies.  She became, to her own surprise, a deadly warrior.  As a result, on the day of her final tattooing, she chose to enter the Full Moon caste instead of her mentor's, much to Hui-Kin's irritation.
 
At a very early age, Chrirugeon (then a young, timid girl called Scuttle) was given in apprenticeship to a hedge-doctor in Gem: Master Chiral.  She spent years there tending to the wounds of the city's mercenaries and pit fighters, developing just enough skill to sew shut wounds or wield a bonesaw; Chiral had once been a competent healer, but his skills had been atrophied by decades of drink.  Upon her exaltation at age 14, Chirurgeon was found by the No Moon caste Hui-Kin Laughing.  Hui brought her to a lunar sanctuary deep in the eastern South, where the glittering desert met high mountains.  There she pursued her original vocation, studying under lunar healers while being fostered by Hui-Kin.  Soon, however, Chirurgeon began to turn her talents inward, steadily enhancing her physical abilities while perfecting her internal chemistry at the expense of her more intellectual studies.  She became, to her own surprise, a deadly warrior.  As a result, on the day of her final tattooing, she chose to enter the Full Moon caste instead of her mentor's, much to Hui-Kin's irritation.
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=Personality=
 
=Personality=
"Back off, man.  I'm a scientist!"
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*Give at least one short paragraph
 
 
Chirurgeon is cool, calm, and collected, as well as somewhat arrogant.  She has little regard for sentiment, and her actions can sometimes seem merciless, although she almost always acts to forward what she percieves as the larger good.  She is often blind to subtler social cues, as well as common mortal mores.  She occasionally forgets, for instance, that replacing your lower body and abdomen with an eight-limbed, winged arachnoid form is something most people find disconcerting: to her, it's simply a more convenient form of locomotion.  However, she often sets aside her cool exterior in the interests of relaxation and recreation, utilizing her ability to rearrange her internal chemistry to "gland" several mild chemical stimulants, from qat to coca to marijuana, and during these interludes she can be persuaded to enjoy herself to the point of abandoning her normal iron self control.  She can even be persuaded to make these available to others, on request.
 
 
 
Chirurgeon cares deeply for Architect, in terms she herself is unable to define; somewhere between protective older sister and loyal retainer, with traces of lust.  She is irrationally protective of her only real friend, and will fight anyone she perceives as attempting to harm the Abyssal.
 
 
 
Chirurgeon has a soft spot for slaves, and especially the Djala people.  In the early days of her exaltation, she briefly carved a bloody swath through Varang before she became convinced that no amount of murder, even at the scales she was capable of, would provide a solution to slavery.  Since then, she has been researching more subtle solutions to the problem.
 
 
 
 
=Goals=
 
=Goals=
* Find a cure for Architect's condition: she doesn't think of the Abyssal in terms of redemption, but of illness.  Architect can go on being a creature of darkness as long as she likes, if only she stops suffering the effects of Resonance.
 
* Prepare the world for the return of the Solars.  This Anathema nonsense needs to stop.
 
* Heal the many blights upon the face of creation: shadowlands, wyld incursions, etc.
 
 
 
=Family=
 
=Family=
Chirurgeon severed all ties with her birth family even before exaltation.  She retains some affection for her former teacher, Master Chiral: in the early days of her exaltation she attempted to provide him with support and supplies, but he spent most of the proceeds on alcohol, and her bitterness over this caused her to keep her distance. 
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==Each Member==
 
 
She and her former mentor Hui-Kin have a somewhat chilly relationship, ever since Chirurgeon changed her focused caste: Hui-Kin is a nominal pacifist, and disapproves of Chirurgeon's methods.
 
 
 
Chirurgeon still keeps tabs on some of the slaves and the descendants of slaves she freed during her early years.  She placed the freed Djala wherever she could, often inserting them into territories governed by fellow Lunars.  A few of them instead chose to seek refuge in Paragon.
 
 
 
 
=Circle=
 
=Circle=
 
==Each Circlemate==
 
==Each Circlemate==
 
=XP=
 
=XP=
*Earned: 100
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*Earned: #
*Spent: 100
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*Spent: # (make a list of all purchases here)
Manipulation +1 (4 xp)<br>
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*Unspent: #
Linguistics +2 (5 XP)<br>
 
Presence +1 (3xp)<br>
 
Lore +1 (3 XP)<br>
 
Integrity 2 (5XP)<br>
 
Hybrid Body rearrangement (8xp)<br>
 
Prey’s Skin Disguise (8xp)<br>
 
Scorpion and Toad Absolution (8xp)<br>
 
Scorpion and Toad Assumption (8xp)<br>
 
Scorpion and Toad Mastery (8xp)<br>
 
Bruise Relief Method (heal Bash, Gift) (8xp)<br>
 
Adder Fang Method {Luna’s Spite}(8xp)<br>
 
Halting Scarlet Flow (8xp)<br>
 
First No Moon Excellency (8xp)<br>
 
Body-Sculpting Art(8xp)<br>
 

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