About Ashley Kusuma Na-ti. . . Background:
In some cultures, the professional entertainer is a prestigious role. Specially trained entertainers called geisha are praised for their appearance and skill at conversation, music, dancing, singing, poetry, and calligraphy. A geisha provides social intimacy and status but not physical intimacy. Name: Ashley Kusuma Na-ti Age: 17 General Appearance: immaculately tended red hair (naturally straight); purple-blue eyes; skin paled by extensive time indoors, careful grooming, and disease (at birth and youth his hair was a deeper shade of red-brown and his skin naturally gold-bronze skin); at 5'3" and 130 lbs., he seems an extremely small and fragile man, though very cautious about his choices and interactions as a result. His ears, and many features seem almost elven, though he is a full-blooded human. Bio: Born early to a ruined and disgraced geisha mother who effectively died in the process and an unknown father, Kusuma was a bastard, an orphan, an outcast, and unwanted... by most. But as grace would have it, a kindly visiting Irrisien witch found the broken, bruised, starving child, and heard the last gasp of his mother, naming him "Kusuma". Discerning the local history (and the likelihood of his secretly-powerful and vicious father) she decided to take the infant on a journey across the crown of the world to find safe-harbor among some of his own kind, temporarily hiding him by naming him "Ashley" and passing him off as her own for the journey. She delivered him and the basics of his situation to a newly-opened "geisha house" seeking legitimacy, admonishing that his survival was the basis on which the house's livelihood depended. With that obscure prophecy (generally believed to be a falsehood to ensure the house's compliance), she vanished, never to be seen again. He was raised in the ways of his people in that place, and for thirteen years was a magnificent up-and-comer, absorbing every scrap of lore, skill, and test that could be placed before him. Where he shined the most, however, was the tea ceremony, though he built that up to a love as a master of all beverages and cheeses and a chef par excellence. Words to describe you character: (consummate) professional, (extremely) charming, (very) careful; meticulous, quiet, and kind History: an apparently-Abyssal pact was made by "Grandmother" - the "kindly" Irrisien witch who took him from his home country across the world to this one on a grand journey during his infancy. Who was she, really? He doesn't know.
. . . "Ashley" Kusuma Na-ti
Attributes
BAB: +0 Fighting Fan
HP: 6 (1d8 - 2 Con per Level)
CMB: -2 (0 BAB - 2 Str)
Fort -2 (+0 Base -2 Con)
For Free: Craft (beverage) and Profession (chef)
Notes:
Propitiation (Religion) - Your knowledge of the gods tells you precisely which gods have jurisdiction over which aspects of your life, and you can call upon the appropriate deity for help even if that deity is not your patron. At the start of each day, pick one of the following skills: Appraise, Bluff, Craft, Diplomacy, Intimidate, or Knowledge (local). Benefit(s) You gain a +2 trait bonus on that skill until the start of the next day. Patient Calm (Faith) - As a child, you struggled to suppress a sharp temper, but the care and patient respect of a trusted community leader rubbed off on you. As you grew older, you developed a remarkable ability to keep calm and collected when performing tasks familiar to you. Benefit(s) Choose one Craft or Profession skill. Whenever you take 10 on that skill, determine the result as if you had rolled a 12 instead of a 10. Amiable Blunder (Social) - Your easy-going demeanor allows you to sometimes recover from potentially awkward social situations or even condemnatory faux pas. Benefit(s) Once per day when you fail a Diplomacy check by 5 or more and would cause an NPC's attitude toward you to worsen, you can immediately attempt another Diplomacy check against the same DC as a free action. If you succeed at this second Diplomacy check, the character's attitude doesn't change, as though you had failed the original check by 4 or less. Tainted Spirit (Drawback) - When you were a child, a parent or other person with authority over you made a minor pact with a fiend on your behalf, stealing some of your vitality in exchange for a minor boon. Effect At the end of any combat, you must attempt a Fortitude saving throw. The DC is 10+ the number of rounds you acted in combat. If you fail this save, you become fatigued for 10 minutes per round you acted during that encounter.
Scribe Scroll: You can create magic scrolls. Prerequisite: Caster level 1st. Benefit: You can create a scroll of any spell that you know. Scribing a scroll takes 2 hours if its base price is 250 gold or less, otherwise, scribing a scroll takes 1 day for each 1,000 gold in its base price. To scribe a scroll, you must use up raw materials costing half of this base price. Magic Item Creation(Geisha Bonus Feat) Eschew Material Components: You cast many spells without needing to utilize minor material components. Benefit: You can cast any spell with a material component costing 1 gold or less without needing that component. The casting of the spell still provokes attacks of opportunity as normal. If the spell requires a material component that costs more than 1 gold, you must have the material component on hand to cast the spell, as normal.(Human Bonus Feat) Skill Focus (Craft [Beverages]): Choose a skill. You are particularly adept at that skill. Benefit: You get a +3 bonus on all checks involving the chosen skill. If you have 10 or more ranks in that skill, this bonus increases to +6. Special: You can take this feat multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a new skill.(Level 1 Feat)
Proficiencies - All simple weapons, plus the fighting fan. No armor or shields. The Geisha spellcasting suffers from spell failure from armor and shields. Geisha Knowledge - +1/2 Bard Level on Craft (calligraphy), Diplomacy, Knowledge (nobility), and Perform checks, minimum 1. You can make checks with these skills untrained. Performance (8 / Day) - You are trained to use the Perform skill to create magical effects on those around you, including yourself, if so desired. You gain the ability to use Performance for a number of rounds per day equal to twice your level + your charisma modifier + 2 (so 4+your charisma modifier at 1st level). Each round, you can produce any one of the types of Performance that you have mastered, as indicated by your level. Starting a Performance is a standard action, but it can be maintained each round as a free action. Changing performances is a standard action. A performance cannot be disrupted, but ends immediately if you're killed, paralyzed, stunned, knocked unconscious, or otherwise prevented from taking a free action to maintain it each round. You can't have more than one Performance in effect at one time. At 7th level, it can be a move action instead of a standard; and at 13th level it can be a swift action instead of a standard. Each Performance has components, usually audible, visual, or both. A bard that lacks the appropriate sense (such as a deaf bard attempting a performance with audible components) suffers a chance to fail when attempting to use a Performance with that component (20% if deaf with audible components, and 50% if blind with visual components). If he fails, the attempt still counts against his daily limit. A potential audience must be able to sense the Performance for it to have any affect on them (for example: deaf creatures are immune to bardic performances with audible components, while blind creatures are immune to Performances with visual components). Some components are also [language-dependent].
Cantrips - You can cast your Cantrips at will.
DC: 10 + Spell Level + Charisma Modifier
Gold: 0 Silken Ceremonial Armor Stored
Fighting Fan
Masterwork Tea Set Usually In Room
Calligraphy and Cheese tools Stored
Chef's Uniform (2) Stored (1 of 2)
Chef's Apron (4) Stored (3 of 4)
Keys (3 {different}) On Person
Diagram of a Basement
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Ashley's Tower Room
Ashley's Room wrote:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tower LayoutRestaurant and Kitchen Kitchen Workstations General Menu Control Water and Magic Big basement (well-stocked and well-organized), with methods of keeping things cold; where I'll brew stuff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooibos
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