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Post by Pawel on Jun 8, 2023 5:52:14 GMT
allie you are filling the Undercurrents with all kinds of exciting stuff. It reads great and it's going to be super useful for anyone in search for additional ideas or inspiration for their campaigns. Thank you!! And Grace is just such a likeable, intriguing character. One would love to read more about her!! Just to let you know, amongst the canon updates in the Recontact edition, the Hybrid reservation has now been moved from Africa to, quoting, "several thousand hectares of arable land in central Canada". It was a Biogene research facility plus its surrounding grounds. But it was never really explained how the supersoldier programme volunteers were recruited and from where, so I hope this doesn't get in the way of Grace's childhood/origin.
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Post by allie on Jun 8, 2023 6:59:08 GMT
Not gonna lie, the original Tanzanian rez was a huge part of her inspiration (and why I started Duolingo Swahili), but I think I've got her story and stats pretty much conformable to Recontact canon. Grace is just such a likeable, intriguing character. One would love to read more about her!! What would you like to know? She's got a past like an iceberg: dangerous, mostly hidden, and much deeper than it looks... |
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Post by Pawel on Jun 8, 2023 8:43:39 GMT
Not gonna lie, the original Tanzanian rez was a huge part of her inspiration (and why I started Duolingo Swahili), but I think I've got her story and stats pretty much conformable to Recontact canon. Grace is just such a likeable, intriguing character. One would love to read more about her!! What would you like to know? She's got a past like an iceberg: dangerous, mostly hidden, and much deeper than it looks... Well, she does have stories to tell! So, you know, more stories!  Of course her past is a fascinating thing, but I also do wonder what does she actually do for a living these days. She a pirate? |
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Post by allie on Jun 8, 2023 15:25:59 GMT
Oh no, absolutely not! Grace is a good girl (and laying low); these days she's working up her Exceptional skill tree, relying on Fishing Business and Navigation to help pay down the bills. Some of her fellow crewmate-stakeholders haven't even seen her use Streetwise; none of them are aware of her secret third skill tree.
Probably nobody on Poseidon is, which is an entire tackle box of plot hooks right there. (And if you want to explore them, the optional New World, New Me track is in her writeup for a reason.)
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Post by Pawel on Jun 8, 2023 15:35:52 GMT
Oh no, absolutely not! Grace is a good girl (and laying low); these days she's working up her Exceptional skill tree, relying on Fishing Business and Navigation to help pay down the bills. Some of her fellow crewmate-stakeholders haven't even seen her use Streetwise; none of them are aware of her secret third skill tree. Probably nobody on Poseidon is, which is an entire tackle box of plot hooks right there. (And if you want to explore them, the optional New World, New Me track is in her writeup for a reason.) New World, New Me is a fantastic track! I love it. |
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Post by allie on Jun 8, 2023 17:10:23 GMT
New World, New Me is a fantastic track! I love it. I included Grace's tracks because I felt like they could fit with a lot of character concepts; feel free to use them! (Tbh I'd probably change the -2/+2 to "Backsliding" in general use; "As bad as him" feels too Grace-specific.) Unrelatedly, Cognition -1 isn't Grace being generically dumb, it's Grace having a visibly patchy education that can interfere with her life. Instead of upgunning vehicles into Mad Max war machines she's doing stuff like "using computers" and "getting applications approved by the port authority," and she's less familiar with that than she ought to be, so it's easy to dismiss her as "immigrant with an accent who struggles with paperwork" and not see past that. |
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Post by Pawel on Jun 8, 2023 17:31:07 GMT
New World, New Me is a fantastic track! I love it. I included Grace's tracks because I felt like they could fit with a lot of character concepts; feel free to use them! (Tbh I'd probably change the -2/+2 to "Backsliding" in general use; "As bad as him" feels too Grace-specific.) Unrelatedly, Cognition -1 isn't Grace being generically dumb, it's Grace having a visibly patchy education that can interfere with her life. Instead of upgunning vehicles into Mad Max war machines she's doing stuff like "using computers" and "getting applications approved by the port authority," and she's less familiar with that than she ought to be, so it's easy to dismiss her as "immigrant with an accent who struggles with paperwork" and not see past that. Oh yeah, the whole deal with just four attributes is for them to be very narrative, so Cognition -1 can mean a great many things. |
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Post by neil on Jun 8, 2023 20:23:13 GMT
No comment other than I love this character!
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Post by allie on Jun 19, 2023 4:41:25 GMT
Looking back over the v2 books and it's kinda funny that Philip Jamhuri, who I completely forgot about, has a backstory that fits so well with Grace's.
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Of course her past is a fascinating thing, but I also do wonder what does she actually do for a living these days. She a pirate?
