Nekomimi-Maiden/Kei

Name: Resounding Bliss Kei
Caste: Chosen of Serenity
Motivation: To bring unification, peace, and prosperity to the East.
Anima: The sapphire blue of a meditation pool, rippling to the notes of an unheard song.
Concept: Peaceful Wandering Musician
XP: Spent/Total: 460/415

Attributes
Strength ••, Dexterity ••••, Stamina ••
Charisma ••••, Manipulation •••, Appearance •••••
Perception •••, Intelligence •••, Wits ••••

Abilities</b>
<b>Journeys:</b>Ride 1, Survival 2
<b>Serenity:</b>Craft (Fate) 3, Craft (Wood) 3, Dodge 4, Linguistics 4, Performance 5 [+2 Song, +1 Prayer], Socialize 4
<b>Battles:</b>Athletics 1, Melee 4, Presence 2
<b>Secrets:</b>Larceny 1, Lore 3, Occult 3, Stealth 3
<b>Endings:</b>Awareness 3, Bureaucracy 4, Integrity 3, Martial Arts 5, Medicine 3

<b>Virtues</b>
<b>Compassion •••••, Conviction ••, Temperance •••, Valor ••
Limit0

Willpower ••••••••/8
Essence •••••
Personal 18
Peripheral 50
Committed 5m Starmetal/Orichalcum Infinite Resplendence Amulet, 5m Incomparable Array of Harmony

Intimacies</b>
Love of Maya, love for Sesus Viola, friendship with Alita, friendship with the God of Created Life who gave her Maya, hatred of the Neverborn

<b>Backgrounds:</b>
<b>Artifact(4) •••• (Infinite Resplendence Amulet)
Artifact(4) •••• (Incomparable Array of Harmony)
Backing: Convention on the East ••
Celestial Manse ••
Familiar (Companion Cat, Maya) •••
Salary ••
Savant •
Sifu ••

Health Levels</b> -0*1, -1*2, -2*2, -4*1, Incap

<b>Charms</b>
<b>[Survival]</br> Primordial Ship's Wheel (Survival): Becoming the Wilderness (Solar Attunement) [12] [Craft]
Primordial Peacock (Craft): Immaculate Spirit of Husbandry [--]

• Techniques: Sorting the Dragon's Seed
  

[Linguistics]
Primordial Pillar: Always Coming Home [1m per technique, per scene]

• Techniques: Faultless Ceremony (perform any formal or religious ceremony without error, act as a priest of any god)
  

[Performance]
Second Performance Excellency [2m/succ]
Fateful Performance Excellency [1-3m or 4m1wp]
Primordial Musician: The 10,000 Dances [Permanent, variable motes]

• Techniques: Dance of Shining Joy [+Performance to Dodge DV, actions do not impose DV penalty, no Onslaught or Coordinated Attack penalties; must dance every action as Speed 5, DV -0, diceless misc action (can be flurried), or else charm ends]
  Dance of Perfection in Life [5m, Cha+Perf vs highest MDV of audience; success = everyone watching regains 1wp as Emotion effect]
  Dance of Spirit Persuasion [5m1wp, Dex+Perf vs spirit's Dodge MDV; Spirit becomes Ally and Positive intimacy (Servitude, 1wp resists); gains +3 dice vs demons]
  

Ascending Musician: Heart-Brightening Presentation Style [6m]: Beneficiary of blessing's social influence carries a second, UMI attack, which uses the original roll as well and creates an Emotion effect of happiness, relaxation, and being carefree. This is in addition to normal influence and must be resisted separately
Descending Musician: Dissonant Harmonies Influence [6m]: Roll Manipulation+Performance vs target's MDV, inflicting two unnatural mental influences: First, Emotion effect of frustration and despair; can be ended by spending [Sidereal's Temperance] wp. Second, Compulsion effect preventing any natural or unnatural mental influence.
Resplendent Musician: Harmonic Completion [16m1wp1lhl]: Sidereal blinds herself with Scripture of the Dancer, which stays for five days. All Performance rolls convert dice to automatic successes. Anyonel istening gains positive intomacy towards Sidereal. Sidereal's DDV and DMDV raise by unmodified Performance.
[Melee]
Primordial Spear (Melee): Raw Recruit's Fortune [Varies]

• Impeding the Flow [3m]: Attack's successes reduced to 0
  

[Lore]
Primordial Treasure Trove: On the Shape of the World [5m]: Perception+Lore when sleeping, apply successes to techniques

• Techniques: Lucky Break [1 success / -1 TN applied during the day]
  

[Stealth]
Primordial Mask: Soft Presence Practice [4m]; Manipulation + Stealth vs Dodge MDV, Illusion effect per technique

• Technique: Underling Invisibility Practice (Character seems unimportant, unworthy of attention or harassment, so long as they act obsequious and do nothing suspicious)
  

[Bureaucracy]
Primordial Haywain: Terminal Sanction [8m]; Cha+Bur vs target's MDV, Compulsion effect: Materialize and stay material for the scene. Costs [Sidereal's Temperance]wp to resist, must be resisted when first rolled.

• Techniques: Task, Destruction
  

[Integrity]
Primordial Rising Smoke: Idealism of Youth Attitude [--]: Augments virtues

• Techniques: Compassionate Essence Replenishment: Recover (Comp x2) motes when channeling Compassion and succeeding.
  

[Martial Arts]
Second Martial Arts Excellency [2m/succ]
=Dreaming Pearl Courtesan=
Demure Carp Feint [4m]: +Essence to DVs.
Pearlescent Filigree Defense [1xm]: +XL/2XB soak, max x = essence
Lethal Paper Fan Attack [3m]: Decorative nonweapon becomes weapon, weapon gets +[Essence] to Speed, Acc, Dam, or Def for one attack
Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Form [5m]+MA to Presence and Socialize rolls, control [Essence] props
Vindictive Concubine's Pillow-Book Understanding [3m]: Ignore Essence+MA armored soak
Flurry of August Leaves Concentration [2m/weapon]: Magical flurry, single MA attack, applied up to [Essence] times - once per weapon
Resplendent Sash Grapple Technique [3m/action]: Counterattack, Dex+MA to entangle attacker; see charm info
Fragrant Petal Fascination Kata [10m1wp, Indefinite]: Cha+MA social attack within [Essence] yards, transfix those who fail, -[ESsence] to all dice pools for those who succeed. Transfixed people can be commanded, ignoring intimacies and motivations
Seven Storms Escape Prana [8m1wp]: Teleport [MAx5] yards as simple action.
Invoking the Chimera's Coils [15m1wp, +1wp to end charm]: +6L/+12B armored soak, fly at 45mph, deal +3 Damage, cannot be surprised or lied to, Actions are speed 6 but allow [Essence] individual actions.
=Quicksilver Hand of Dreams=
The Quicksilver Staircase [--]: Hold dreams, lucid dreaming, one step closer to Creation
Dream Ravager Hand [2/4/6]: Steal a target's dream
Peaceful Repose Touch [2/4/6]: Put a target to sleep
Fervent Night Phantasm [2/4/6]: Make a target dream

Combos</b>
None

<b>Combat Stats</b>
<b>Join Battle 7, Soak 3B/2L/1A (Infinite Resplendence Amulet), Dodge DV 6

Social Combat Stats</b>
<b>Join Debate 7, Dodge MDV 7
Presence Speed 4, Accuracy 6, Parry 6/2, Rate 2
Performance Speed 6, Accuracy 8, Parry 8/2, Rate 1
Investigation Speed 5, Accuracy 3, Parry 3/2, Rate 2

Colleges</b>
(Cerulean Lute of Harmony)
The Ewer **
The Musician ***
The Peacock *
(Forbidding Manse of Ivy)
The Sorcerer **
Resplendent Destiny: V'Neef Alara, Explorer [Duration: One Month, Endurance: 3]

Appearance

Kei stands just over 5' tall, a slender, unimposing figure, attractively curved though obviously trying to hide it. Long white hair with black stripes runs down in a braid, twin feline ears perking out of the locks, her long bangs left free to frame and sometimes hide her face. Most often dressed in blue, more out of habit than anything else, she rarely goes without her silver-and-golden amulet, or her silver-steely bracelets. She has begun to develop a tan, creating a deeper contrast in the faint striping of her skin as well.
When not expecting trouble, she wears a long-sleeved blouse of sorts above the waist, wrapped about elegantly rather than buttoned with silvery threaded embroidery. Her midriff is often bared, at least an inch or so, and below, she wears a long skirt down to her ankles, slits cut up the left side to bare a tantalizing glimpse of leg, though never showing more even with the twitching of her long feline tail. She often has an instrument of starmetal out, whatever she feels like playing for whatever audience manifests.
When the more elegant outfit would be inconvenient - generally such as in combat - her clothing shifts. The sleeves fade away into metallic silken wrappings from hand to elbow, the skirt shortens and socks become similar footwraps up to just below the knee, and she wields whatever instrument she carried as if it were a weapon.

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