Afriel's Path

[Starnaess]

Eccentric Specialist (stealth + observation)

Rank: "C" Always 20 Training Points

Skill: Supplementary

Effect: User is focused in an unusual area of study for a member of the user's profession.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: Choose any 2 Skills. These skills the user may gain an extra +1 per die roll when learning the skill and the user gains a +5 insight bonus on all checks with these skills. The user can learn this technique multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time the user selects this technique it applies to a new set of skills.

Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.

Afriel has been through alot. Most of her experiences during childhood were rough ones. She was an orphan, her parents either ran away or died. She was all alone in a cruel world that couldnt care less about if she lived or died. She had to care for herself, provide for herself in any way she could, and often that meant stealing.



She didnt like nor dislike stealing from people , it was just what she was accustomed to – it was normal for her. In order to do her job properly a necessary set of skills was necessary. She had learned this set of skills often at her expenses. Getting caught by the various guards or even her victims often resulted in a beating or jail time if she was lucky.



However because of these experiences, she considered herself a rather good thief. Her stealth , while at first rough, had developed in a form of art. Thanks to her tiny body and quick feet as well has her experience she was able to sneak past anyone without them noticing allowing her to get closer to their target.

[Starnaess]

Post 2



Observation was another skill that had saved her many times, and not just from getting caught but also from various traps set up by their victims beforehand in order to protect either themselves or their belongings. Before even entering a building or going near their victim, she would begin by observing them - their behaviours their routines, the location of their target.



Only after making sure she had memorized every single detail she had gotten through her observation, she would then try to get closer to her objective through the use of stealth. The combination of these two skills resulted in her transformation from a victim to a perpetrator. That by itself had shifted the way she thought about people and the world.



This made her cold, distant toward other people seeing them only as targets and nothing more. To support that theory , her backgrounds were always there ready to remind her of her situation daily either through physical pain, or mental pain. Her life was rough but it was starting to polish her up from a rough diamond to a sparkling one.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Learned.

[Starnaess]

Eccentric Specialist (acting + sense motive)

Rank: "C" Always 20 Training Points

Skill: Supplementary

Effect: User is focused in an unusual area of study for a member of the user's profession.

Special: ---

Drawback: ---

Description: Choose any 2 Skills. These skills the user may gain an extra +1 per die roll when learning the skill and the user gains a +5 insight bonus on all checks with these skills. The user can learn this technique multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time the user selects this technique it applies to a new set of skills.

Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.



Another set of important skills were both acting and sense motive. Using her young girly and slender figure to her advantage she would often lie to people in order to get what she wanted. Randing from information to personal detail that she would later exploit against their victims. While nobles paid no attention to her, common folks tended to trust her and feel no threat coming from her, she was too tiny, too frail , atleast in appearance, to strike fear.



And when acting did not work against the nobles, she would use the information gathered from the common people as a tool to learn information about those that paid no attention to her. And the nobles were her most favorite victims. They were so full of themselves and thought so little of poor people that they often left their guard down.



Thinking that because they were poor they were also without resources or smarts they never considered the possibility that they would attack them - the “mighty and very rich nobles”. They were their favorite victims not only because of their stupidity but because she hated them and she liked to inflict some pain onto them,, so they too could feel a slice of what she feels everyday.

[Starnaess]

Post 2



Sense motive was an important survival skill. The place she lived was full of people like herself – some more fearsome than others. Each one of them wanted to survive and often they would beat on the weaker ones, or force them to join their organization to then abuse of them and make them do dangerous and risky jobs and they would never do themselves.



Sense motive allowed here to discern danger before it even happened. This skill was developed mostly because alot of people used to take advantage of her especially when she was younger. She was too weak to protect herself so she ha d to develop a skill that allowed her to avoid danger before it even happened.



Like an ever watching third eye, always present even as she slept. Even thought as she gre up and developed her skills she became stronger than most people in the slums , she never joined nor created organizations. She did not trust anyone but herself and that often led her to living in solitude.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Learned.