Lady In Red: GURPS Firefly

[omorka]

For tonight's installment,

Inara:

ST 10 (0 pts)
DX 13 (60 pts)
IQ 14 (80 pts)
HT 13 (30 pts)

Advantages: Appearance/Beautiful (12 pts), Contact Group (current and previous clients, 10 pts), Sensitive (1 level of Empathy, 5 pts), Status 1 (Registered Companion, 5 pts), Will +2 (10 pts)

Disadvantages: Code of Honor (protect her clients' privacy, keep all scheduled commitments, represent the Guild well, -5 pts), Duty (to the Guild, quite often, never hazardous, -5 pts), Pacifism/Reluctant Killer (-5 pts), Sense of Duty (the crew and her Housemates at the Guild, -5 pts)

Languages: Mandarin (Native, free), English (Native, 6 pts)

Quirks: Devout Buddhist (-1 pt), Always has a complicated hairstyle (-1 pt)

Skills: Acrobatics - 13 (4 pts), Artistry/Drawing - 14 (4 pts), Artistry/Interior Decorating - 14 (4 pts), Bow - 13 (2 pts), Carousing - 16 (8 pts), Computer Operation - 14 (1 pt), Cooking - 13 (1 pt), Current Affairs/High Culture - 15 (2 pts), Dancing - 15 (8 pts), Detect Lies - 14 (2 pts), Diplomacy - 14 (4 pts), Electronics Operation/Communications - 13 (1 pt), Erotic Art - 15 (8 pts; note that on an IQ-based roll, this is a 16), First Aid - 14 (1 pt), Games/Go - 14 (1 pt), Housekeeping - 14 (1 pt), Karate - 13 (4 pts), Makeup - 14 (1 pt), Meditation - 15 (2 pts), Musical Instrument/Piano - 14 (4 pts), Navigation/Air - 14 (2 pts), Observation - 13 (1 pt), Physiology - 13 (2 pts), Piloting/Aerospace - 14 (4 pts), Poetry - 13 (1 pt), Professional Skill/Courtesan - 16 (8 pts), Psychology - 14 (2 pts), Religious Ritual/Buddhist - 12 (1 pt), Savoir-Faire - 16 (4 pts), Sewing - 13 (1 pt), Sex Appeal - 16 (4 pts; includes 2 point bonus from Appearance), Singing - 13 (1 pt), Theology/Buddhist - 13 (2 pts)

Total: 292 pts

Wow, she almost outpoints Zoe! Wasn't expecting that. I considered munching her by raising her DX, but it wouldn't be a significant savings, pointwise. I'm tempted to give her Post-Combat Shakes, but we honestly haven't seen her in combat very often, and the couple of times we haven't seen her reaction to it enough to justify a combat-related disad. (Does her trying to kick YoSafBrige in the head count as a full combat? If it does, then she doesn't have the disad.) Also, I'm assuming that Reavers have Horrific Appearance and thus don't trigger the Reluctant Killer disad, per the movie. Anyone want to argue that?

Comments

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

Her participation at the end of the combat between Mal and the Operative in Serenity suggests to me that she doesn't have Post Combat Shakes.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

We don't really see the end of that sequence - the flashbomb in the incense goes off first. So I'm not positive we can count that one way or the other. It might argue for giving her a point in Demolitions, though, and it certainly isn't an argument for her having the disad.

[princejvstin.livejournal.com]

That was my point--that she seemed too much together in that scene to have the disad. If she had it, she wouldn't have been able to help get Mal out of there.