Shadows of Shen Zhou:Yijia

Name: Yijia the Courier

Origin: Machinist

Passion: Obsession - Defend the Weak until the World is Redeemed in Blue Flame!

Immediate Goal: Protect the weak, especially on the Chaos Turnpike

Future Goals: Help Mechanized Shang developed the Four Undiscovered Elemental Engines.

Background:

Yijia the Courier is the son of a traveling mechanic in rural Yang. They were invited to join the Blue Flame Clan after they helped defend the town of Insignificant Rice (a farming community with a Blue Flame seed bank) from the Corrupted Avalanche Bandits. Yijia was trained in the martial arts by the clan, and became a skilled machinist under their tutilege. He built a custom motorcycle for himself he has named Eternal Movement.

Eventually, he came to serve Mechanized Shang, a Daoist engineer attempting to design the Four Undiscovered Elemental Engines to compliment and balance the Fire Elemental Engines that fuel Shen Zhou's industrial society. The clan occasionally overlooks heavy industry in favor of promoting biotechnology and electronics, and Mechanized Shang is well known among the Blue Flame's industrialists. Yijia has served Shang as bodyguard, but he is more known as Shang's messenger, hence his informal title. To help him in these endeavors, Shang gave Yijia a kwan dao made from new materials developed by the Blue Flame. This includes an edge made out of obsidisteel, a black crystaline material capable of keeping a frighteningly sharp edge. Yijia is devoted to Shang, seeing him as a visionary.

Shang is beginning a new phase in his project, and has moved his operation. He told Yijia to scout freely, choosing his own path to a place to make a virtuous name in. The Blue Flame must spread, and this should not be overly planned as intention has its limits. After consulting with a fortune teller, Yijia rode on the Capacious Imperial Freeway until it brought him to the city, where it became the horrible road system known as the Chaos Turnpike. He has settled in Inauspicious Calligraphy due to its still functional set of on-ramps onto the Turnpike.

Beliefs:

Technology can be used to bring us into greater harmony with the Dao. Even in a city such as this, people can be good and follow the Dao, though it will take virtuous individuals willing to promote. In the meantime, people must be defended.

Contacts:

Doctor Juan runs a clinic. He often has a need for an ambulance driver, and is a well respected physician. There are rumors that he has ties to the Yellow River Society, but few believe them as the rumors seem to come from a Nan courtier who has a long standing feud with Juan.

C.B. Sun is the dispatcher for a taxi cab service. She is a good source of information, and I've helped out when a taxi driver called in sick. We regularly trade favors back and forth.[/list]

Locations:

Lee's Redemption is a junk yard where one can find lots of things if one has the patience to look. Patient metalworkers and machinists who are willing to remove some rust can find wonderful things here for a price.

The Chaos Turnpike, aka The Great Turnpike of Chaotic Travel, aka Splendid Highway of Safe Movement. The city is surrounded by an unfinished beltway and highway system that links to the Capacious Imperial Freeway that connects all the major metropoli. Its construction has been started and stopped several times, each time slightly changing the design. The result is tangled web highway with many wrong turns and many poorly maintained stretches. Additionally, the city government does not have the resources to effectively police the Chaos Turnpike. The result is that it is only used by those who can afford knowledgeable drivers and security staff to stave off hijackers, the hijackers who rove the highway looking for cargo to steal, and the desperate who hope they can get where they need to go before the hijackers find them.

Rank/Archetype: Fourth Rank Warrior

Origin: Craftpersons

Passion: Obsession - Dedication to defend The People of the District

Region: Yang (Dong Territory)

Attributes & Skills

Might (Jade/Wood Chi) 3

Athletics 1

Fight 2

Speed (Crimson/Fire Chi) 4

Initiative 3

Dodge 3

Finesse 2

Melee 4 [spear 1]

Ride 3 [bike 1]

Presence (Gold/Earth Chi) 2

Confidence 1

Persuade 1

Genius (White/Metal Chi) 4

Learning 2

Medicine 1

Crafting 3

Politics 1

Tactics 2

Wu Wei (Silver/Water Chi) 3

Awareness 2

Senses 1

Protection Chi Aura - 2

River - [ ] [ ] [XX] [XX] [XX]

Health Points per Level - 16

Advantages Kung Fu Styles - Lightfoot 1 (Common Any Chi: Surefoot 1), Cloud Mastery 2 (Common Jade Chi: Phantom of the Clouds 1, Moon Covered by Clouds 2), Waves Like Water 2 (Common Silver Chi: Sliding Strike 1, Fierce Flexible Fence 2), Blue Flame Spear 3 (Uncommon White Chi: Swift Spear 1, Righteous Spear 2, Invulnerable Spear 3)

Backgrounds - Affiliation 4 (Blue Flame Clan), Mentor 3 (Mechanized Shang), Status 1 (“The Benevolent Road Defender”), Wealth 1 (Adequate), Lore: Daoism, Blue Flame Clan, Possession: Quality Motorcycle, Poessession: Quality Kwan Dao.

Disadvantages Onerous obligation (Blue Flame Clan), Painfully Honest

Equipment - Light Armor (Armor -5, Impairment 0), KD-900 Obsidisteel (Quality Kwan Dao: Speed +5, Strike +10, Def +10, Damage +15), Dagger (Speed +15, Strike +0, Damage +0), Punch Or Kick (Speed +15, Strike +0, Damage -5), Eternal Movement (Quality Motorcycle)

Treasures – None