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Saroko Aoni – Magi-tech geek-girl and technophile

Background

A daughter of a minor Gentes, Saroko Aoni was apparently destined to lead the life of the many hundreds of other such; grow up, serve in a Field Force for a term and then life as a citizen of Lookshy.

Her childhood was unremarkable, as such things go, making friends and enemies through school, learning mathematics and geography and history and music and the other things that the children of the Seventh Legion are taught as they grow up. She had crushes, made a fool of herself on more than one occasion, but these were the minor trials of life as a mortal child, and in the great scheme of things they didn’t affect her future overly. All of that changed at when she was fourteen.

During a trip with her classmates to visit one of the Seventh Legion’s many occult workshops she saw a trio of sorcerer-technicians busily repairing one of the mighty gunzosha suits that are the preserve of the best mortal soldiers the city can muster. Enraptured by the workings of jade and prayer, reagent and enchantment, she left the group behind and spent the rest of the day talking to the occultists – only leaving when her exasperated teacher pulled her away for the fourth time.

She knew that day what she wanted to do, and studied frequently through the nights, reading the publicly available texts on sorcery and the occult, learning everything she could. She shunned the company of her fellows, completely fascinated by the interactions of Essence, and her social skills soon fell by the wayside, the petty intrigues of her classmates no longer of any interest.

When Aoni reached adulthood she looked forwards to her service with the Legion, sure that her magical talents wouldn’t go unnoticed. That this happened was, to be fair, less due to her own knowledge, and more to one of the sorcerer-technicians she had spoken to for hours years before, who had recognized the talent in the small girl and quietly passed her name on for consideration to the Intelligence Directorate.

She passed through basic training, and then entered the school for shugan-junai, her natural occult talents finally being stretched for the first time, as she was exposed to the dense curriculum that covered such subjects as the Old Realm language, gods and elementals and demons and the correct methods for approaching them, the proper prayers and correct alchemical mixtures to use when servicing a suit of ashigaru armour, and so on…

Exaltation

The moment of her Second Breath came during a particularly stressful period for Aoni, studying as she was for her the examinations that would grant her full shugan-junai status, or leave her languishing (or worse), depending on the results. As the Varangian clockwork timepiece on her wall (a gift from her father for her birthday) chimed midnight, a text that had previously been barely comprehensible to the young woman suddenly swam into clear focus, and the other technical manuals that were spread out across her bed likewise became simple to navigate, information practically leaping out of them as she studied.

She passed the final test easily, graduating with a score higher than that achievable by a mortal of her age – the understanding of Essence instinctive to the Exalted causing her to answer certain questions in a way that betrayed this knowledge.

The news quickly spread, the Exaltation of a Saroko cause for celebration in the house she had grown up in, for such an event, while not unheard of, was unlikely in the extreme. As she had later cause to bemoan, however, becoming one of the Chosen merely meant that her workload increased, as she was seconded to the Academy of Sorcery, there to learn how to manipulate and wield the magics of the Emerald Circle, that she could better maintain the equipment and contribute to the defence of a Field Force.

Appearance

Saroko Aoni is short, barely topping 5’ in height (something she usually offsets with footwear that adds 2-3”) and relatively slight, two traits that often cause those seeing her for the first time to underestimate her. When she’s not wearing the Dragon Armour that has been assigned to her by the Seventh Legion she prefers to wear the work-armour of a sorcerer-technician, and only rarely will she be seen without smears of grease or some strange alchemical mixture on her face and hands, and she often finds herself tinkering with any spare piece of equipment that comes her way.

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Character Sheet

Nature: Explorer

Attributes

Strength 2, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3, Charisma 2, Manipulation 2, Appearance 3, Intelligence 4, Perception 3, Wits 3

Virtues (Virtue Flaw)

Compassion 3, Conviction 2, Temperance 2, Valour 2

Abilities (Aspect, FavouredMoxiane/SarokoAoni/I>):Archery 2, Athletics 1, Awareness 1, <I>Brawl 3Moxiane/SarokoAoni/I>, Bureaucracy 1, <I>Craft 5Moxiane/SarokoAoni/I> (First Age Weapons +2, First Age Devices +1), Dodge 3, Endurance 1, <I>Investigation 2Moxiane/SarokoAoni/I> (What’s this button do? +1), Larceny 1, Linguistics 3 (Native: Riverspeak, Arcanix, Forest-tongue, Old Realm), Lore 4 (The Dead +1), Martial Arts 0, Medicine 0, Melee 2, Occult 4, Performance 1, Presence 1, Resistance 0, Ride 1, Sail 0, Socialise 0, Stealth 2, Survival 0, Thrown 4 (Aerial Combat +1)

Backgrounds

Artefact 3, Breeding 2, Connections (Stores Directorate) 2, Manse 2, Resources 2, Sorcery 3

Charms

Blade-Deflecting Palm, Elemental Bolt Attack, Elemental Concentration Technique, Flaw-Finding Examination, Flickering Candle Meditation, Indisputable Physical Analysis Technique, Seeking Throw Technique, Terrestrial Circle Sorcery,Wind-Carried Words Technique

Spells

Incantation of Effective Restoration, Infallible Messenger,Ritual of Elemental Empowerment

Anima Effects

5m – triple leaping distance & take no damage from falls for the scene.

Flaws

Vice (2pt): Temperance “New Toys” (Aoni, as a quintessential geek, can be easily distracted from her duties by a shiny new piece of magitechnology or other artefacts.)

Anima Banner

When it achieves full totemic potency, the anima banner of Saroko Aoni resolves into intricate patterns of lightning that fill the air around her.

Initiative: 7

Dodge Pool: 10

Soak: 16L / 16B (Air Dragon Armour 15L/13B, Fatigue 1)

                                        Speed  Accuracy  Damage  Defence  Rate  Commitment
               Dragon Armour Smashfist    +3      +1      +6L      +2      4        5m

Her time at the Academy of Sorcery was well spent, her tutors in the magical arts teaching her both to manipulate her own Essence with greater facility and a trio of spells useful to one destined to become a <i>shugan-junai.

Free Stuff

The Most Terrifying Armour of the Air Dragon (Artefact ••••, Repair 3)

A large suit of First Age era magitech powered-armour. Its powers and stats are listed below for ease of reference:

• • +2 dice to all Endurance & Resistance checks to fight off the effects of poison, disease or infection.
  • +2 dice to all Awareness checks (1 mote per minute of use). Also grants Essence sight (costs 2 motes per minute).
  • +2 Strength for all tasks involving brute power - this includes damage in combat.
  • +2 difficulty on all Awareness checks for someone to spot the armour provided they are at least 10' away (costs 1 mote per scene).
  • +2 difficulty on all astrology and divination checks to divine the location or intent of the wearer. This specifically includes Sidereal astrology (5 motes & 1 Willpower per day of use).
  • Doubles the wearer's ground speed.
  • Comes equipped with an elemental lens.
  • Has a Lightning Corona that can be used in close or ranged combat (see above for stats).
  • The armour can fly at a speed of 45 yards per turn for a number of turns equal to the wearer's Essence (costs 3 motes). For an additional mote the winds this power creates also increase the difficulty of ranged attacks against the wearer by 1.
  • The armour can fly at a speed of 60mph for an hour (costs 5 motes). Manoeuverability is highly limited, requiring a difficulty 2 Dexterity + Athletics check.

• • The armour has been modified, decreasing the cost of the Lightning Corona by 1m in all modes, and adding +4L to it's basic damage.

                                                          Soak      Mobility  Fatigue  Commitment
        The Most Terrifying Armour of the Air Dragon   15L / 13B        0        1          7

XP Expenditure

• 03-12-04: Spent 1xp to raise Stealth from • to ••
• 10-12-04: Spent 7xp to raise Craft from •••• to •••••
• 05-02-04: Spent 10xp to purchase Seeking Throw Technique and 5xp to raise Thrown from ••• to ••••