Lost in Jianghu/Characters/Ga Jie

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Plays in Lost in Jianghu

Rank: 4th

Archetype: Scholar

Concept: Merchant Inspector



Vital Stats

Chi

Lake

River/Aura

Chi Threshold

with Armor

Cultivation

13

7

2

13/26/39

18/36/54

34 (1/14)


Awareness (Sight)

Confidence

Inspire

Learning (Focus on Breath. Seven Moves Ahead)

Medicine

Politics (Economic Climate, Bird's Progress)

Survival (Predictions)

Tactics

Wu Wei

+5

+5

+5

+10

+5

+5

+5

+5

+5


Honor

Benevolence

Righteousness

Loyalty

Force

4

2

2

3

1

Revenge

Individualism

Obsession

Ruthlessness

Ferocity

4

2

3

2

2

Gear

  • Light Armor (+5 Chi Threshold vs. Physical Attacks, -0 Footwork/Speed)
  • Iron Umbrella (Staff) (+5 Strike, +5 Block, Flood a die or set of dice from the River as the basis for a Secondary Attack)

Chi Conditions

'Natural State' Conditions

  • Uncover the Identities of the Faceless Mask Killers (Minor, Water Hyperactivity): Gains a +5 Action Bonus for all actions taken, directly or indirectly, towards bringing his family's killers to justice.
  • Analyze, Dissect, and Reconstruct (Minor, Earth Hyperactivity): Gains a Breath Bonus when approaching situations with careful introspection and calculation of all potential advantages and disadvantages at his disposal.

Other Chi Conditions

  • Romancing Miss Ling (Trivial, Fire Weakness 50/1/1 story): Action penalty whenever you try to deny your feelings for No-Shadows Ling; it will dissipate when you act on those feelings, or when she categorically rejects your advances
  • Defender of the Rings (Trivial, Metal Hyperactivity 50/1/1 story): Action Bonus when you act in defense of the Three Bronze Rings. It'll dissipate of its own accord once the conspiracy is unmasked (or it succeeds!)
  • Anticipation of Corruption (Minor, Water Weakness 84/5/1 scene): When you restrain yourself from acting viciously, you gain 1 fewer Cultivation/per chapter. It will dissipate of its own accord if you gain a point of Corrupt Chi.

External Styles

White and Black Stones [8D/C]

(with Staff)

Speed

Footwork

Strike

Damage

Block

Toughness

+5

+5

+10 (+15)

+5

+5 (+10)

+5

Laughs At: White and Black Stones laughs at simple styles and straightforwards styles, whose attacks and defenses are easy to predict. It also laughs at trickery, as it’s razor-keen insight penetrates deception with ease.

Fears: White and Black Stones fears the passionate and the mad. With its focus on winning strategy, madmen and fools who fight without tactics or technique can confound this style’s many plans. White and Black Stones also knows that even a momentary delay in formulating a counter-tactic can be lethal, so it fears any circumstance of condition that could inhibit its ability to think clearly.

External Tech
  • Thousand Strategem Master (2): You can use the Learning skill in place of the Tactics skill to evaluate opponent’s external kung-fu styles. You have a +5 bonus to such rolls.
  • Seven Moves Ahead (3): You may use your Learning skill to defend against Disrupt and Disorient marvels and to Break your opponents’ Waves, regardless of circumstance.
  • Entangling Sidestep Pattern (3): You may Reply when you are attacked by a group of Minions, even if you are hit.

Internal Styles

Eight-Learned Gentleman [5D/15C]

  • A Complicated Life (1)
    • You have a +10 bonus to an End of Battle Rippling Roll.
  • Unfearing Heart Meditation (2)
    • You have a +5 bonus to your Block.
    • You may make a Hard (30) Breath check as a Minor Action on your defense roll. If you succeed, this technique has a Round-Long Duration, the bonus to your Block increases to +10, and you have a +5 bonus against an opponent's Disrupts.
  • Sharp Tools Mean Perfect Work (3)
    • You have a +10 bonus to your Strike.
    • You can boost this technique by expending additional sets of dice on your attack roll. Each set of dice you sacrifice grants this technique a further +5 bonus to your Strike. You are limited to boosting by 5 total points per Rank achieved.


Secret Arts: The Scholar's Art [14D/C]

  • Understanding the World (0)
  • Secret Art of Prediction (0)
  • Story of the Three Arts (3)
    • Wondrous Doors Expertise (2): You have an additional +5 bonus to making Predictions concerning the gain or loss of wealth, fame, or social standing.
  • Extraordinary Scholar Techniques
    • Passion and Inspiration Technique (3)
    • Following Paths to Hidden Doors: After being affected by a Prediction or spending a scene interrogating someone else who was, you may make a Hard [30] (if you were affected) or Memorable [40] (if you interrogated someone else affected) Learning roll to learn the details of the Prediction. (via Loresheet Secret)
    • Learned Sage Approach (3): Spend one Joss of either type to ignore Fears penalties and to deny opponents Laughs At penalties. This technique overrides any kung fu techniques; the effect lasts for the length of a combat, or for one scene.
    • Scholar's Diffidence (3): At your option, you may use Learning as the basis of a Resist roll to defend against Discovery of a Medical, Passion/Inspiration, or Curse/Influence condition, or a Doctor's, Priest's, or Courtier's Secret Arts attack. You should act out a pedantic refutation of the would-be discoverer's logic.

Secret Arts: The Courtier's Art [3D/C]

  • Passions and Inspirations (0)
  • Story of Self (3)

Loresheets

Square Hole Circle [18E/8C]

(3 Destiny)

  • 2 Status: A member of the Square Hole Circle (2)
  • 0 Bonus: Politics (Economic Climate) (0)
  • 3 Destiny: Adopted son of Merchant-Prince Xu Weimin, Tea Magnate of Bird's Progress (3)
  • 2 Treasure: Iron Umbrella (concealed weapon) (2)
  • 4 Secret: You unlock the secret of the Following Paths to Hidden Doors Extraordinary Scholar Technique. After being affected by a Prediction or spending a scene interrogating someone else who was, you may make a Hard [30] (if you were affected) or Memorable [40] (if you interrogated someone else affected) Learning roll to learn the details of the Prediction.
  • 4 Technique: You learn the Avoiding Traps technique. The Block bonus of White and Black Stones style increases to +10 when you have analyzed your opponent's style.

Martial Sages [7E]

(3 Destiny)

  • 4 Fortune: Rescued Master Zhou Junde, a Martial Sage, & is being considered for membership (4)

Faceless Mask Killers [8E]

  • 4 Involvement: Your parents' killers have reappeared, and look to be the culprits of the attempt on the Second Dragon Prince's Life!
  • 2 Victory (of 8): You have begun to unlock the secret of the Faceless Mask Killers; learning the nature of these monsters will be the key to defeating them once and for all!
  • 2 Fortune: Now that you'd learned the nature of the poison the Killers use in their assassinations, you have a solid lead to track them down. When making Survival, Politics, or Learning checks related to your efforts in that regard, you Laugh At the opposition.

Bird’s Progress [11E]

  • 3 Involvement: (0)

The City Above

(free with campaign loresheet)

  • 2 Fortune: Pass between the two cities without trouble - Merchant Inspector (2)

The City Beneath

(2 Destiny)

The Three Bronze Rings

(0 Destiny)

  • 0 Bonus: Politics: Bird’s Progress (0)
  • 3 Fortune: You've been saddled with the task of being the Three Bronze Rings' liason to the Imperial Bureaucracy in Bird's Progress. This is a position of some responsibility, and will surely make your life more complicated, but it also may provide a look into the inner workings of the city's Magistracy.

A Fourth Ring?

  • 4 Fortune: You've come into evidence of a murder plot against the Southern Dragon Prince; someone has arranged a contract against the Southern Dragon Pirate Clan's scion!
    • 0 Bonus: When investigating or making Predictions concerning this plot, you Laugh At the opposition.

The Ocean Unbound Monastery [3E]

Black Dragon Slayer

  • 1 Involvement: The infamous sword will make an appearance in your story
  • 2 Fortune: You've learned about the nature of the sword from Brother Pallid Sutra

Relationships

Friendship [3E]

  • 3 Fortune: No-Shadows Ling is impressed by Ga Jie's pursuit of justice; will it keep her scared straight and pliable, or turn her against him? Only time will tell!