Kakeru Tanuki
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Backstory
Kakeru Tanuki was born in the city of Hope, the gateway to the Outback Prefecture of Saigoth. Her mother died in the effort and her father vanished scant years later, leaving her in the care of her uncle, a minor warlord in the region. As a child, the only love she knew was more that of her uncle's favoured pet than anything resembling familial ties.
As she grew older, however, it became clear that she had inherited her mother's good looks as well as learning the art of deception at her uncle's knee. 'KT' began working cons, theft, and blackmail before her years numbered in the double digits, playing a key part in the increase of her uncle's influence over the coming years.
By the time she hit puberty, her notoriety in Hope's underworld grew to the point where whispers of a silver-tongued girl with eyes the colour of madness became common for those in the business. At this point, her uncle also increased her duties to include upper class (for the Outback, at least) prostitution as well as occasionally servicing him. This trend continued more or less for the next few years until her uncle, just like her father, vanished without warning in the night.
Her uncle's organisation split into three factions, eventually splintering entirely as the other two proved incapable of cooperating with the business model of KT's. In charge of her own agenda for the first time in her life, she led herself and a tight band of followers (mostly young, but adept cutthroats and hustlers) away from the warring and maneuvering for political power and into the mercenary existence.
The legend of the silver-tongued girl with eyes the colour of madness grew and grew with the continued success of Tanuki's mercenaries. Despite holding no territory of their own, they grew to be one of the most powerful organisations in the city of Hope. Eventually drawing the attention of the wardens.
Ironically, it was in a mad, desparate frenzy to fend of the Lunars who had come to take her to the port of Mercy that KT exalted. Despite her Second Breath, she was still just a kit in the face of the two veteran wardens that came to extract her, though her Exaltation did result in her being shuttled from Luthe to the Blessed Isle rather than being shipped off to a Frontier colony.
KT's life has forged her into a strange combination of jaded con artist, adroit team leader, and scared orphan. While her ingrained tendency may be to swindle and cheat those around her out of their hard-earned gains, Tanuki's desire for positive attention and constant company serves to reign in many of her more antisocial behaviours.
Info
Name: Kakeru 'KT' Tanuki
Lunar Name: Tanuki Riverguard
Caste: Waning Moon
Totem: Crab-eating Raccoon
Tell: Black pigmentation around the eyes and on the bridge of the nose to the forehead.
Motivation:
Intimacies: +Kore, +Mischief and trickery, -Loneliness
Age: 28
Height: 5' 9"
Hair: Dark blue with black in the fore.
Eyes: Green
Attributes
(F)Strength ••• Charisma •••+3 Perception •••
(C)Dexterity ••••• (C)Manipulation ••••• Intelligence ••
Stamina ••• (F)Appearance ••••+4 Wits •••
Abilities
War Life Wisdom Archery Craft Bureaucracy Athletics ••• Larceny ••• Investigation • (F)Awareness •••• Linguistics • Lore • Dodge ••• Performance Medicine Integrity ••• Presence ••• Occult • (F)Martial Arts ••••• Ride Craft (Air) Melee Sail • Craft (Earth) Resistance • Socialize ••• Craft (Fire) Thrown (F)Stealth ••••• Craft (Water) War •• Survival • Craft (Wood) Specialties: Dexterity (Martial Arts) ••• Dexterity (Dodge) •• Dexterity (Larceny) •• Languages: Old Realm, Sea Tongue
Advantages
Backgrounds
Artifact ••••• (Moonsilver Celestial Battle Armour)
Manse ••••(Candent Carbuncle)
Wealth ••••
Allies ••• (Cackling Kore)
Manse •• (Gem of Seduction)
Artifact • (Skin-Like-the-Mountains Oil)
Heart's Blood •
Reputation •
Solar Bond •
Virtues
Compassion •••
Conviction ••
Valor ••••
Temperance •
Willpower
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Health Levels
0 [ ] -1 [ ][ ] -2 [ ][ ] -4 [ ] Inc [ ] Die [ ]
Essence
Permanent 3
Personal 17 (17)
Peripheral 36 (52)
Committed 16
Limit
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Great Curse
Curse of the Raging Bull
Charms
Claws of the Silver Moon 4-8m, 1wp or 1-3m committed in Warform.
First Dexterity Excellency 1m
Flawless Dexterity Focus
Third Stamina Excellency 3m
Relentless Lunar Fury 1m, 1wp
Outworld-Forsaking Stance 3m
Third Appearance Excellency 3m
Knacks
Deadly Beastman Transformation
- Fur, Tail, Wolf's Pace, Night Vision, Water Adaptation, Impossible Joints
Changing Plumage Mastery
Prey's Skin Disguise
Combos
Forms and Mutations
Heart's Blood
- Person of Sea
- Firemane Horse
- Average, run-of-the-mill mortal
- Scarlet Crane
Debility: Delusions "There is nothing wrong with me borrowing without asking."
Combat stats
Human Form
Join Battle
Join Battle: 9
Soak
Natural: 3B / 1L / 0A
Armor: 15B / 17L (Hardness=5)
Total: 18B / 18L / 17A
DV
Dodge DV: 7
Dodge MDV: 7
Attacks
Unarmed
- Punch: Speed 5, Hit 14, Damage 5B, Parry 8, Rate 3, Tags N
- Kick: Speed 5, Hit 13, Damage 8B, Parry 7, Rate 2, Tags N
- Clinch: Speed 6, Hit 13, Damage 5B, Parry N/A, Rate 1, Tags C, N, P
Claws of the Silver Moon
- Punch: Speed 5, Hit 24, Damage 10L, Parry 8, Rate 3, Tags N
- Kick: Speed 5, Hit 23, Damage 13L, Parry 7, Rate 2, Tags N
- Clinch: Speed 6, Hit 23, Damage 10L, Parry N/A, Rate 1, Tags C, N, P
Baneclaw
- Speed 4, Hit 16, Damage 8L, Parry 10, Rate 3, Tags D, M
War Form
Join Battle
Join Battle: 9
Soak
Natural: 4B / 2L / 0A
Armor: 16B / 18L (Hardness=8)
Total: 20B / 20L / 18A
DV
Dodge DV: 8
Dodge MDV: 7
Attacks
Unarmed
- Punch: Speed 5, Hit 15, Damage 6B, Parry 8, Rate 3, Tags N
- Kick: Speed 5, Hit 14, Damage 9B, Parry 7, Rate 2, Tags N
- Clinch: Speed 6, Hit 14, Damage 14L/5, Parry N/A, Rate 1, Tags C, N, P
Claws of the Silver Moon
- Punch: Speed 5, Accuracy 26, Damage 14L, Parry 9, Rate 3, Tags N
- Kick: Speed 5, Accuracy 25, Damage 17L, Parry 8, Rate 2, Tags N
- Clinch: Speed 6, Accuracy 25, Damage 14L, Parry N/A, Rate 1, Tags C, N, P
Baneclaw
- Speed 4, Accuracy 17, Damage 9L, Parry 10, Rate 3, Tags D, M
Equipment
- Maiden By the Moonlit Pond [Moonsilver Celestial Battle Armor] (Artifact •••••) Soak +12L/12B Hardness 8L/8B Mobility -0 Fatigue 1 Attune 10
- Collar of Dawn's Cleansing Light (Artifact •)
- Sorcery-Capturing Cord (Artifact ••••)
- Skin-Mount Amulet (Artifact ••)
- Aegis-Inset Amulets (Artifact •)
- Skin-Like-the-Mountains Oil (Artifact •) 12L/10B 9 Hardness
- Silken Armour (Artifact ••) 5L/3B
- Essence Capacitors (Artifact ••••)
- Necklace of Solar Charisma (Artifact •••)
- Jump Harness (Artifact ••)
- Moonsilver Baneclaw (Artifact •)
- Manacles of Night (••••)
Notes
Talons of the Argent Colossus
Cost: +2m, +1wp; Mins: Strength 4, Essence 3;
Type: Permanent
Keywords: Combo-OK, Gift, Obvious
Duration: One scene
Prerequisite Charms: Claws of the Silver Moon
This charm enhances its prerequisite, allowing the Lunar to spend additional motes and willpower to enlarge their claws to Warstrider scale. If the Lunar is not in a warstrider, these claws are cumbersome and oversized, levying a -3 mobility penalty on the Lunar which is reduced by one for each dot of Strength above 4. The benefit of this charm is that the Lunar's claws add (1/2 Strength rounded up for Lunars, rounded down for all others) to their damage calculation in addition to the formula provided by Claws of the Silver Moon. This charm is incompatible with all but natural weapons.
Lunars who wish to incorporate this charm into their war form may do so by spending 1wp and committing a single mote of essence when they assume their war form which must remain committed until they relinquish that form.
MS CBA
Cackling Kore, Spotted Hyena Totem Lunar
Experience Progression
Total XP: 15
Spent: 15
Banked: 0
