Baroque K

K

Age: Around her early thirties, hard to pinpoint

Ethnicity: Half-Chinese - can pass for Asian, but slightly taller and paler than the norm.

General appearance: Thin and lanky, coal-black hair in a brushed-back page cut (see picture on the wiki) and a near-omnpresent grin that would be called "Cheshirean" in any other environment than Baroque. Arms and parts of torso covered in an intricate set of disparate magickal tattoos, scarifications etc.

Skills:

• Great (+4): Deceit
• Good (+3): Mysteries, Resolve, Contacting
• Fair (+2): Rapport, Alertness, Sleight of hand, Gambling,
• Average (+1): Burglary,Investigation, Stealth, Athletics, Academics

Aspects:

One with the whisper-stream K is a part of the chatter network of the underworld. Invoked to know people and places, to get hold of information or black market goods. Compelled for the trouble that comes with being part of that same shadowy society - obligations that demand attention and deals that must be upheld.

A thousand cons, a thousand lies K lives and breathes bluffs, cons and lies. Invoked to enhance the con game - either to make up bluffs of her own, to spot that "three-man Clondyke" being worked against her or someone else. Compelled to make her life more complicated, as the lies become more real that the mercurial truth and old cons come back to haunt her.

Bastard of the black arts She has seen stuff you wouldn´t believe, and exorcised demons from streetkids in Darfur working from patched-together manuscripts of the Book of Angel Spit and pure grit. Invoked to take advantage of her enormous occult real-life experiences, knowledge and/or salvaged pieces of paraphernalia. Compelled for various occult Bad Stuff, or resentment from the Church or more "refined" orders/cabals of mages.

Never the children Possibly as a result of her own less-than-ideal childhood (of which we know but snippets), she just simply can´t abide children getting hurt, nor the people who hurt them. Consequently, she acts to prevent the former and hurt the latter. Compelled to grant her inner strength when acting out this selfless trait or with people who might know her for what she has accomplished, and invoked for forcing her to act or possibly run into even more old enemies.

Painted skin K:s body is patterned with a multitude of protective thaumaturgic tattoos, totems and scarifications. Some make her invisible to curses, some ward off harmful spells, some simply keep her out of the eyes of previously enraged entities. Invoked, obviously, to protect from magical harm or to give her small edges here and there. I´m up for suggestions on compels, though - pissed-off demons or ghosts? Gah, even more enemies.

Dirty Secrets, Dirty Jobs K has traveled the world and worked about every echelon of the shady side of society at one time or the other - she has had to learn the hard way how to pick a lock, the proper way to dispose of partially eaten bodies, how to set up meetings between rival factions of hair-trigger gunslingers and how to make off with the stolen kidney of the Mayor of Urkatsk (and indeed, how to get it out in the first place). It´s a lifestyle. Invoked to claim experience on a zillion types of criminal (or otherwise unsavory) activities or to pull out the worn notebook of blackmail information, compelled to get into trouble because of past crimes or to force her to work to preserve her own secrets.

Stunts:

• Conwoman (Modified from vanilla SotC: allows K to use Deceit in place of Empathy, pure and simple.)
• Clever Façade (Deceit: can get a free read on people who are fooled by my façade.)
• Rare Artifact (Mysteries: fear my occult Bat-belt! Uh, with possible side consequences.)
• Sixth Sense (Mysteries; after a while, one becomes adapt at sniffing out the Weird...)
• I know a guy who knows a guy (Contacting)

K:s relationships:

Alexei - Alexei and K has the kind of relaxed working relationship that you can only get if your area of specialty very nearly doesn´t overlap at all. Once they were past the hitman´s obligatory seduction gambit (which she gracefully managed to avoid), their cooperation is very frictionless. She needs someone to watch her back, or leant upon to discourage them from violence towards her person - well, Alexei has that stuff down to a science. Alexei needs protection from elements that tend to be resistant to bullets and mortal charms, well - K has the recipe.

Salil - Almost the polar opposite of her relationship with Alexei; K and Sal always step in polite circles around each other, like two cats at the somewhat contested territory border. They´re allies, but they were never exactly friends - K has abstained from digging into the secrets of the mysterious "Sword of God" and Salil does not accept contracts on K as a "witch and practitioner of black arts". They are honest about this, and this is a strong enough bond in Baroque.

"Thumbs" - K has grown quite affectionate towards the "big old lug", possibly more so than towards any other person in the city. He´s all heart-on-his-sleeve grit, with none of the subterfuge of the rest of her world. He´s also right along with her on her "extracurricular activities", when possible - both of them are quite willing to step in when kids are getting hurt. Consequently, Thumbs has probably seen more of the "unmasked" K than any other breathing person.

Paul Revenge - Another sometimes-and-tentative ally, Revenge is a man who can tell the difference between Law and Justice. For some reason, the two has an amazing tendency to run into each other on the darker cases - and somehow, they´ve managed to lend each other a hand without compromising the codes that they live and breathe by. They also tend to find themselves in the same bed occasionally - dangerous acquintances makes for fatal attractions. The exact nature of their relationship remains undefined.

Eddie "the Angel" Raith - The journalist is an annoying and possibly dangerous rat chewing at power cables, just waiting to set the whole block ablaze. That aside, K is quite amused by him and his antics... even if she tends to carry around that Sri Lankan charm that makes her features blur on photographs a lot more these days, after that first comedy of errors that very nearly led to her mug featuring in the daily press. Quite despite herself - indeed, to her own annoyance - she has a somewhat soft spot for the man´s passion and would rather not see him killed due to his own recklessness when confronting powers and people that just might be beyond his understanding or reach.

Red Raven - The Raven sees K as a sometimes-informer who squeals on people who intrude on her business. K sees Red Raven as an excellent blunt object to be used against people who offend her - people who break the rules, and so are exempt from the Code, mind you. So far, this has worked out fine.

The Midnight Samaritan - The man had nothing but contempt for her, but she has managed to make herself a small enough target to stay out of his way - although that whole Brother Clavinger/Broken Circle/Fitzroy debacle was a close one. (With permission from above: ) He did show up, though - the very same night that he died, K found herself being dangled from a rooftop and roughly interrogated with the whole subtlety that was the masked crusader´s signum. What was said was between the two of them only, and now that he´s dead... well, nothing good can come out of this.

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