Post by doublea on Oct 11, 2022 16:49:37 GMT
CocoRono's Guide Service is just one of those 'local gems' that all the Poseidon natives know about, but is almost unknown to most spotty newcomers. The hybrid CocoRono's relaxed laissez-faire attitude coupled with her inexplicably (almost matronly) cajun accent lead to a local fishing guide experience that has no comparison. Somehow everyone who manages to book her services is treated to a different 'trade secret' fishing spot that only she ever knows about, the whole journey customers are regaled with fishing stories which are always just barely on the side of believable.
CocoRono's particular talent is for guided fishing on the more exotic or difficult species on the waterworld. 'Ey sure you can get those Jump Jump at any restaurant in Haven, but you ain't gonna bag no Bad Mojo I guarantee!' being just one of the quotes she is wont to say. She won't balk at hunting Lesser White, or even fishing schools of blood hunters 'Just for fun and snacks!'.
This is all well and good but the Native Patrol and several members of the GEO understand that CocoRono, AKA Marguerite Berger, is actually a fake. Not that she isn't a skilled fishing guide, that part is true, but her business is not really a guide service. Her fishing tours, just like her false accent, is a façade heaped onto her real business which is drug smuggling. Underneath her down by the dockside persona, Marguerite is a highly skilled chemist, who not only is responsible for a truely shocking amount of Pharium variants out on the market (like Blue Cruize and Deep Sound Dive) but she is also capable of synthesizing more exotic and irritatingly proprietary medical formulations, which she tends to provide to native settlements at much cheaper rates than the corporations would be willing.
While she's known to the Native Patrol the local GEO who knows about her tends to keep a 'don't ask don't tell' policy around her dealings. Mostly this is due to her often providing medicine for extremely low cost to poor native settlements, (sometimes even offer meds for free), not to mention her willingness to sometimes provide a little intel to the Patrol when trying to track certain elements down.
What the GEO doesn't know is that Marguerite Berger is also a fake identity. The hybrid's real name is (probably) Joanne Brown. Again, she is indeed a very avid fishing guide, and the part about her being a chemist is also true. In fact Dr. Brown is an excellent chemist who, while she dabbles in pharmacology, she excels in explosives.
Joanne is a very, very carefully kept secret in the Free Poseidon movement, and her guide service / drug smuggling is a very carefully laid cover operation to her true business of moving weapons and explosives for use by the native insurgents. By having a 'secondary cover' of illegal activity keeps the GEO suspicions at bay, while allowing her to move munitions where they need to be. Many of her 'choice spots' are indeed well kept secrets as they are either near caches, or are cleverly located to distract attention away from them.
Concept: Deep cover Insurgent
Level: Exceptional
Attributes:
Skill Sets:
Biomods:
Ties:
*This is a hybrid variant from the v2 rules, may be replaced with another hybrid species in the new edition.
CocoRono's particular talent is for guided fishing on the more exotic or difficult species on the waterworld. 'Ey sure you can get those Jump Jump at any restaurant in Haven, but you ain't gonna bag no Bad Mojo I guarantee!' being just one of the quotes she is wont to say. She won't balk at hunting Lesser White, or even fishing schools of blood hunters 'Just for fun and snacks!'.
This is all well and good but the Native Patrol and several members of the GEO understand that CocoRono, AKA Marguerite Berger, is actually a fake. Not that she isn't a skilled fishing guide, that part is true, but her business is not really a guide service. Her fishing tours, just like her false accent, is a façade heaped onto her real business which is drug smuggling. Underneath her down by the dockside persona, Marguerite is a highly skilled chemist, who not only is responsible for a truely shocking amount of Pharium variants out on the market (like Blue Cruize and Deep Sound Dive) but she is also capable of synthesizing more exotic and irritatingly proprietary medical formulations, which she tends to provide to native settlements at much cheaper rates than the corporations would be willing.
While she's known to the Native Patrol the local GEO who knows about her tends to keep a 'don't ask don't tell' policy around her dealings. Mostly this is due to her often providing medicine for extremely low cost to poor native settlements, (sometimes even offer meds for free), not to mention her willingness to sometimes provide a little intel to the Patrol when trying to track certain elements down.
What the GEO doesn't know is that Marguerite Berger is also a fake identity. The hybrid's real name is (probably) Joanne Brown. Again, she is indeed a very avid fishing guide, and the part about her being a chemist is also true. In fact Dr. Brown is an excellent chemist who, while she dabbles in pharmacology, she excels in explosives.
Joanne is a very, very carefully kept secret in the Free Poseidon movement, and her guide service / drug smuggling is a very carefully laid cover operation to her true business of moving weapons and explosives for use by the native insurgents. By having a 'secondary cover' of illegal activity keeps the GEO suspicions at bay, while allowing her to move munitions where they need to be. Many of her 'choice spots' are indeed well kept secrets as they are either near caches, or are cleverly located to distract attention away from them.
Concept: Deep cover Insurgent
Level: Exceptional
Attributes:
- Cognition: 2 [Calculating 3, Creative 3]
- Psyche: 2 [Disarming 3, Deceptive 3]
- Coordination: 2 [Delicate 3, Steady 3]
- Physique: 0 [Hardy 1, Lead-Stomach 1]
Skill Sets:
- [2] Hybrid Reservation -> GEO Colony -> Native Culture
- [3] Frontier Survival-> Navigation -> Game Fishing
- [3] Fishing Boat Owner -> Sailing -> Chartered Guide
- [3] Insurgent-> Con Artist -> Smuggler
- [3] First Aid -> Toxicology-> Pharmacology
- [4] Physical Chemistry -> Organic Chemistry-> Chemical Engineering
Biomods:
- Mongrel Hybrid* +2 Coordination +1 Intellect -1 Physique -1 Psyche
- Multiglands +1 Psyche, attribute boost, +2 Deception
Ties:
- Free Poseidon: CocoRono is in deep with the native movement to push the corporations off of Poseidon, she is a true believer in preventing the Incorporates from ruining the waterworld as they did with Earth.
- Loner: Because of her multiple layers of fake identities, she is always on guard with everyone, and the lack of real connection is starting to eat away at her.
*This is a hybrid variant from the v2 rules, may be replaced with another hybrid species in the new edition.