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About Penny Etal

The Shiny P. Etal: Quartermaster of the Rustbucket
Female human bureaucrat[ns] mystic (free trader) 4 Character Operations Manual, 18
LE Medium humanoid (human)
Init +2; Perception +14
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Defense SP 24 HP 28 RP 7
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EAC 13; KAC 14
Fort +1; Ref +3; Will +9
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Offense
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Speed 30 ft.
Ranged tactical semi-auto pistol +5 (1d6+2 P; analog)
Spell-Like Abilities (CL 4th)
. . At will—mindlink (once per individual each day)
Mystic Spells Known (CL 4th)
. . 2nd (3/day)—predict foe[COM], zone of truth (DC 18)
. . 1st (5/day)—baleful polymorph (DC 17), detect thoughts (DC 17), mind thrust (DC 17), mystic cure
. . 0 (at will)—daze (at-will) (DC 16), detect affliction (at-will), detect magic (at-will), grave words (at-will), psychokinetic hand (at-will), token spell (at-will)
Connection empath
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Statistics
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Str 8 (-1); Dex 14 (+2); Con 10 (+0); Int 10 (+0); Wis 20 (+5); Cha 13 (+1)
Skills Bluff +10, Culture +4, Diplomacy +10, Disguise +5, Mysticism +12 (+16 to recall knowledge when using a library chip in conjunction with a tier-0 or better computer), Perception +14, Profession (cook) +13, Profession (merchant) +17, Sense Motive +14, Survival +9; (reduce the DCs of Profession (merchant) checks by 5 when recalling knowledge about your governmental agency)
Feats Skill Synergy (bluff, diplomacy), Skill Synergy (sense motive, perception), Spell Focus
Languages Aklo, Common, Vesk
Other Abilities empathy, greater mindlink, healing touch, merchant savvy[COM]
Other Gear second skin, tactical semi-auto pistol with 9 small arm rounds, datapad[AR], library chip[PW], professional's tools, professional's tools, credstick (272 credits); Augmentations mk 1 synaptic accelerator (wisdom), pressurized lungs[AR]
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Her Duties:
The quartermaster of the ship is responsible for making sure all the supplies the ship and its crew needs are present when they need it, and wasting any of it is frowned upon. Buying, selling, and storing cargo is also under the quartermaster's duties, leaning on her skills for negotiation and knowledge of the hoops custom agents require you to jump through.
Their quartermaster also handles the nightly meals for the crew, not only to control the rampant use of salt and brandy by SOME members but also because she'd rather eat her own cooking then suffer another night the s+*$s that comes from a rotating schedule.
It has been mentioned that their quartermaster lacks human empathy, which is false. She has it, just understands when it is useful, and when it is not, the latter being the majority of situations.
The quartermaster is crisp in dress, softly pretty, and can read minds so BEWARE.
The quartermaster is also a felon who served their time with good behavior and plans on never going back.

Appearance-ish: Average height (short for a featherlight), thin though she would say 'graceful'. Short bob of pale blonde hair pulled under a cap on most days. Clothes crisped to a point each morning. Dark colors are her preference with shiny buttons.

Mini-life: corporate parents with no love shared between them, met Ben as kids in corp functions, parents died in a fire, orphanage, military as a Supply Officer, smuggling ring of To Be Destroyed chemicals and munitions, Stewards broke it up, explosion at the arrest. Destroyed her lungs and her memory. New lungs, got most of her memory back while serving her prison sentence.

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The Life of Penny Etal, a series of cold official documents.

Absalom Station Census records show her to be the only daughter to two employees of the Evgeniya-Jaimisson Corporation. --- "Soulless corporate drones, with no love in their hearts for each other much less their daughter. Just checkboxes to success. I hated them I think, they didn’t care enough to hate me back."

Registration Forms of Open Arms Care House #2399:12 taking over her care after a fire of an unidentified origin kills her parents in their sleep. --- "I can remember standing the flames, screaming in rage at… something. Them I assume, but not why. I think I started the fire. I think I killed my parents. That thought stirs nothing inside."

A recommendation from her drill sergeant has her becoming a Supply Officer in the Army Corps. --- "A bureaucrat among warriors. Distant feelings, conflicting ones. Bone grinding monotony, Finding meaning in numbers and details."

A Steward’s incident report has her in an accident involving a smuggling ring, followed by the arrest warrant soon following. Selling caustic chemicals scheduled for destruction to black market contacts. --- "Just a smell remains of this, and pain as the chemicals got into my lungs, eating them."

Patient records from the Steward vessel the Steadfast has her spending most of her incarceration in the infirmary being treated from the accident. One line stands out. DEAD ON ARRIVAL. Eight minutes she was dead. A reprimand of the Steward’s strike team is attached indicating the Steward’s accepting the medical bills for reconstruction do to ‘overzealous gunfire’ resulting in the explosion. --- "Memory returns at this moment. A dark blanket, a stirring at being noticed, then waking up screaming. Just how everyone is born."

This is Penny’s life. Or was. The explosion damaged her brain, wiping most everything from her head. Electronic files scattered with notes of what she could piece together, things she wasn’t even certain was Truth. It mostly came back but by that point, it was like watching a television show of You as a different person.

Love of order, an abundance of time, and a prison chapel gave her the opportunity to find a connection to the divine lord of cold commerce. That combined with her own insight into people, got her a job as a corporate cog, not an easy feat for one with a record like hers.

Ben: Her parents had wanted her to "climb" the corporate ladder anyway she could so she was pushed toward Ben at every function. Neither of them was interested in doing what their parents wanted them to. Bonding over mutual disinterest, they decided to Fake a relationship cause it kept her parents from trying to push her on someone else and it irritated the heck out of his parents. Then the fire happened and she never saw him again, until she was looking for work and he appeared.

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