Solve For Ex: Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon

This is the character page for Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon, a character in Solve_For_Ex

• Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon, aka "Anna"
• Caste: Full Moon Lunar
• Concept: Shapeshifting Doctor/Assassin, [1], Imprecise biologist
• Totem: Scorpion
• 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 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.

Motivation

• To extirpate the cancers in the fabric of the world

Intimacies

Architect (Mate+Affection): "I will rid her of the disease of death/and see her smile."
Lance (Irritation) "No. Just no."
Thousand Streams River (Admiration) "Think of it as evolution in action."
Disease (Loathing) "That which doesn't work must be fixed."

Anima

Chirurgeon's totem form is the Scorpion, and her anima banner is a sandstorm of dusky shadows. While it flares, glinting silver, translucent plates of chitin cover her limbs and body.

Attributes

Physical

• Strength 5
• Dexterity 5
• Stamina 5

Social

• Charisma 1
• Manipulation 2
• Appearance 5

Mental

• Perception 3 (Favored)
• Intelligence 3
• Wits 4

Abilities

Favored

• Martial Arts 5 (Beast-form Attacks +3)
• Survival 2

Other

• Awareness 3
• Dodge 5
• Resistance 4
• Integrity 2
• Lore 1
• Linguistics 2 (Flametongue, Old Realm, High Realm)
• Investigation 3
• Socialize 2
• Stealth 5
• Medicine 4

Backgrounds

Artifact 3

Moonsilver Reinforced Breastplate

Artifact 2

Moonsilver hearthstone bracers

Solar Bond 2

Architect

Knacks

Deadly Beastman Transformation
Humble Mouse Shape Hybrid Body rearrangement Prey’s Skin Disguise

Charms

Full Moon

Third Full Moon Excellency Instinctive Full moon Excellency Claws of the Silver Moon Scorpion and Toad Absolution Scorpion and Toad Assumption Scorpion and Toad Mastery Adder Fang Method (Luna's Spite) Armor-Forming technique Bruise Relief Method Halting the Scarlet Flow

Half Moon

Third Half-Moon Excellency Perfect Symmetry

Combos

Internal Geometry Rearrangement: 1wp, 1m+ -- Chirurgeon reflexively alters her internal structure from moment to moment, channeling essence along her chakras to where it will do the most good. (Bruise-Relief Method, Halting the Scarlet Flow, Third Dexterity Excellency, Third Strength Excellency, Third Stamina Excellency, Scorpion and Toad Absolution, Scorpion and Toad Mastery)

Irrevocable Humor Drawing Method: 1wp, 3m+ -- By driving thin bone needles into her patient's meridians, Annealed Carapace Chirurgeon forces the body's toxins to congregate in a particular point, which she draws out with her mouth and internalizes, neutralizing poisons and diseases. (Third Stamina Excellency, Scorpion and Toad Assumption, Scorpion and Toad Absolution, Scorpion and Toad Mastery)

Essence

• Essence: ****
• Personal: 24/24
• Peripheral: 44/52
• Committed to Charms: 0
• Committed to artifacts: 8
• Willpower: 10/10
• Anima status:

Virtues

• Compassion: *
• Conviction: ****
• Temperance: *
• Valor: ***
• (Virtue channels used: None)

Limit Break

Curse of the Raging Bull: Chirurgeon's arrogance becomes paramount, and she will not back down from a challenge or yield ground in a dispute.

Conflict

Physical: Human

• Join Battle: 7
• Dodge DV: 9
• Parry DV: 6
• Soak: 14/14/10 Hardness 8

Movement

• Move: 5
• Dash: 11

Attacks

• Punch: Speed 5 Acc +11 5B Parry 6 Rate 3
• Kick: Speed 5 Acc +10 8B parry 4 rate 2
• Punch (CotSM): Speed 5 Acc +16 12L/5 parry 6 Rate 3
• Kick (CotSM): Speed 5 Acc +15 15L/5 parry 4 Rate 2

Physical: War Form

• Cost: 15m (19 for poison)
• Gift charms: Claws of the Silver Moon, Armored-Forming Technique, Halting the Scarlet Flow: may activate Adder's Fang Method for 4 additional motes)
• (Mutations: Armored hide, Scorpion tail {4 point Blight})
• Join Battle:7
• Dodge DV: 9
• Parry DV: 6
• Soak: 31/31/14 Hardness 8

Movement

• Move: 6
• Dash: 12

Attacks

• 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
• Kick: Speed 5 Acc +19 16L/5 parry 4 Rate 2 Overwhelming

Social

• Join Debate:
• Dodge MDV: 7
• Parry MDV: 8

Health Levels

• 1x -0, 2x -1, 18x -2, 1x -4, Incapacitated
• (wounds are designated as bashing, lethal or aggravated)

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.

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.

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 fostored 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.

Since then, Chirurgeon has spent her time shepherding various member-states of the Thousand Streams River project. Rather than carve out her own fiefdom, she has preferred to work as a freelancer, making subtle alterations to existing projects in preparation for assuming her own realm. Her favorite guise is to travel the south as a wandering healer, dispensing potions, philters, and sometimes poisons to all those mortals she deems

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