Stitches

Thoughts on discord RP?

I've been tossing the idea around for a while now of opening up a discord RP server but I thought I'd ask some pbp RPers what their take on it is, and whether or not it's a good idea to store character sheets/do applications on RPerguild - I couldn't find anything in the rules that said no. Just want to open up a conversation about it and see what people's experiences of this medium are.

The Saltaire District

I'm so sorry for the delay, Dino had guests until very recently so it was difficult to get a moment to sit down and type. Responses will be much quicker with conversation, so if @Arkitekt wants to do a bit of back and forth, I won't mind chatting.

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Victor and Adrian: Central District, Trade District
Morning - Early afternoon.

Adrian stared at Roman, seemingly unimpressed. Nevertheless she nodded and went back to peering around the room, absorbed in her own contemplations. Victor's brow furrowed as he listened to Roman's words with intrigue but he didn't have any questions to ask. Once the talk was over and they were permitted to leave, Adrian was the first to trot outside and stretch. She looked up at Victor dully.

“He didn't understand,” Adrian grunted.

“It’s fine, we’ll have to figure it out with the others.” Victor reassured her.

“Was it my fault?” Adrian asked, following Victor through the neat cobblestone streets of the central district.

“No, you’re just small so people understandably gloss over you.” he nodded.

Adrian made a thoughtful grunt and pulled on her bandana again. They squeezed their way through the trade district and up towards their tavern room; most of their gear was spread out across the floorboards. It didn’t take long to figure out the essentials, under the assumption that there wouldn’t be any civilised facilities inside of the district; things like torches, rations and water cantines were packed first alongside first aid kits and potions. Tonics and toxins were next; simple poisons and their antidotes alongside painkillers and fortifying brews made for strength and staminia. Two long coils of rope were attached to the pack with twine.

It started to become more tricky when they approached the issue of preparing for a particular beast, because no beast or being they’ve ever encountered before had any sort of similarity with the witness reports. “Eyes, flesh and cocoons. Sounds like...spider?” Adrian dug through the myriad of large, small and equally as dangerous weapons before her. “Many people lost, in short time. Whatever did it is big, many, or sneaky.”

“For all we know it’s not even a beast.” Victor remarked, making sure they keep their minds as open as possible when threatened by the unknown.

“Still could be many, big and sneaky,” Adrian pointed out. “What do you think it is?”

Victor let out a deep sigh, seemingly lost without any form of real evidence to go off of. “There’s a myriad of creatures that can cause something of this scale, especially in a crowded city…” he went quiet, seemingly lost in thought as he stared at the pieces of equipment they were packing. “I couldn’t tell, not this early.” he went back to packing.

Adrian made a quiet noise of acquiescence. She slipped in two invisibility potions into the pack as an afterthought but let Victor decide the majority of the equipment they would bring. Once everything was buckled up and ready to move, Adrian set about clearing up the non-essentials.

“We should meet the others. Didn’t someone welcome others to a drink?” Victor enquired.

Adrian nodded, but her expression was one of confusion. Similar to the meeting in the central district, she was woefully inexperienced with larger social gatherings that included more than two other people and drinking in a tavern was a foreboding prospect. “Yes. Why?” she asked, hoping to glean some more information from her travelling partner.

“We should take them up on it, it’ll be a good way to get to know our peers.” he explained, aware of her confusion.

“Like tracking a monster,” Adrian responded helpfully, trying to translate it into something she knew a bit more about. She nodded and poked her head out of the window - judging by the position of the sun it was coming close to noon. “Not yet, but soon,” she pointed out.

After some brief debilitation as to what they should do with their remaining time, Victor persuaded Adrian to plunge back into the hectic market for some supplementary supplies; notably, herbs that were as fresh as they could find within the city, a few spare vials and some extra antiseptic to widen the variety of potions Victor would be able to brew. Typically Adrian would have helped find the best specimens, but the sheer overwhelming amount of smells and sights made it difficult. She loitered in the back and helped with the shopping list instead.

Once they had their gear in order, they ventured into the Lazy Pheasant Inn and were perplexed to see that nobody was there yet; they had arrived somewhat early. Victor bought himself some ale, ordered a glass of apple juice for Adrian and they settled on some potage for lunch as they conversed quietly amongst themselves, waiting for their fellow adventurers to filter in (or, in Y'vanna's case, stumble downstairs.)

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Brilliant, thank you for the information!

The Saltaire District

@Lord Orgasmo would Victor and Adrian recognise any sort of monster/entity that uses the abilities you described in y'vanna's response? Asking for the Collab.

The Saltaire District

Wonderful posts everyone, I'm really glad we've made it through the Christmas period and I'm looking forward to posting more frequently with all of you. I'll work on a Collab with Dino tomorrow!

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Thanks so much for accepting her, I'm glad I managed to get it right on the first try. Just to double check, is this going to be an 18+ roleplay? My character's pretty dark (compared to what I usually make) and I want to know just how explicit I'm allowed to be. Is drug use, violence and the mention of erotic things (without going into detail on those things) acceptable or should I tone it down into mere implications?

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Susan Kelby - BAMBI

Citizen Registration: 6987541
Name: Susan Kelby
Alias: BAMBI
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Blood Type: B-
Height/Weight: 5’6/110lbs
Occupation: Actress/Movie Star/Dancer
DOOM Counter Reading: 98yrs 10months 33weeks 6days 12hrs 34mins 19secs

Physical Description:
As if you need a description of BAMBI. Her face is plastered literally everywhere - anything with a price tag on it, anything that could be and would be sold, has her modelling it with a smile. Her porcelain features and proportions are just too good to be true, her hair is always flawless and her outfits perpetually revealing. She’s slim, athletic, pale, with almond shaped eyes, smooth skin and pink hair that slips into blue curls. Her profile is vaguely asian, but it’s been perfectly manufactured to be a default and statistically appealing for the largest range of demographics. This isn’t the only face she ever wears, though - an intense array of cybernetics have allowed her extensive control over her appearance to better suit her career and role (see History and Enhancements).

Personality:
If we’re looking at Susan instead of her stage persona, then she can briefly be described as defeated. She’s bitter, resentful of her life, but sees no better alternative nor any easy escape, so she suppresses her own thoughts and opinions whilst regurgitating whatever her managers tell her to. She suffers from an identity crisis, meaning she often feels disassociated from her surroundings, lost, or apathetic after years upon years of being someone you really aren’t. Susan teeters on the edge, obsessed with any brief glimpses of privacy or freedom. She’s observant, quick-witted and paranoid - as anyone would be after an extended period of captivity.

BAMBI on the other hand is the epitome of pop idol. She’s sweet but sultry, playful and provocative - she adapts according to the situation and the mood to a different flavour of attractive, according to the wishes of her superiors. She meticulously organises her life to portray it as fantastical and sweet because the cameras are always watching. Contrary to popular belief, it’s been proven that BAMBI directs most of her day-to-day activities from the plating of her meals to the uniforms of her staff. She’s a people pleaser at heart.

Summary:
When Susan (then Susie) Kelby was chipped, she did what many other starving, vaguely pretty teenage girl would unfortunately turn to in order to make a bit of cash. This was the start - and the end - of her life as she knew it; moving from mediocre pornography to networking her way into television, she took on the alias of BAMBI to protect her anonymity. Work absorbed her life; it was too dangerous for young girls to be walking the streets during Happy Hour so she used her free time in a dingy apartment practicing, and practicing, and perfecting her acting abilities in front of the tarnished mirror. She would study and use the internet for references whilst becoming a bit of a shut-in, ordering most of her things to be delivered to her door. Her only interaction with people came through the job, and all those pent up emotions were translated beautifully onto the screen. She made friends, and made connections. She went out a bit more - but only to particular social events with particular people in it. From the very start, Susan knew exactly what she needed to do to survive. She had a plan.

With nothing to her name, Susan profited from her body. Anything that involved showing a bit of skin became an option; people still needed waitresses and bar staff for Happy Hour and she took it willingly. She devoted hours on end to practicing make-up, working out and carefully choosing her outfits. There were no other hobbies and she didn’t have any ‘free time’. Susan never transitioned out of that feeling of being a captive and she did not integrate with the society she was thrust into beyond showing herself off for them. All the while, the figures in her bank account increased and people started to take notice. As Susan diversified her acting abilities and took audition after audition, bribing and negotiating her way into larger gigs, she started to wade into the celebrity status and her income swelled significantly.

This was Susan’s first foray into cybernetics. It was the plastic surgery of the future - changing her eye colour at will was the first augmentation, then it was skin that’ll heal over at surface level to remove acne, wrinkles, scars...all of them were subtle and discreet. They didn’t go too far into her body and were almost entirely cosmetic. This helped her qualify for different roles, because she could make herself appear older and younger without CGI or extensive make-up. The voice became her trademark feature but the rest of her body was malleable and she broke into film because of it.

This is when BAMBI started to take over her life. Susan’s second (leading) role in “Download Diaries”, an action thriller where she played the busty no-nonsense Lieutenant Kyomi hunting down her lost memories from her time in the hands of the enemy, was the one that really kickstarted her life of fame and fortune. She bought herself bodyguards, she had her own entourage. Her life became as staged as the sets she worked on. Gone were the days of isolation in her apartment, and with it came a new influx of intrigue in the more explicit forms of media.

Susan never wasted anything. She could sell discarded lingerie, locks of hair, even the spoons she used for her cereal - at this point she had the money to replace them anyway. She had the regulars of her staff wearing masks to preserve anonymity. Instead of waiting for someone to inevitably hack her surveillance, she just put it behind a subscription paywall. Her privacy disappeared; even in the bedroom she would take requests from her fans. She never got into any committed relationship for fear of breaking the fantasy of her more ‘dedicated’ fanbase. The few channels of communication that she kept private were encrypted and protected a thousand times over, thanks to a few ‘favours’ she did for the Ministry. Tiered subscriptions kept cycling her audiences through her day to day life - as the hours got late, the family-friendly tier swapped into something a bit more adult. There were no guarantees of any performances unless she took back to her roots, which she did from time to time to keep people’s interest.

And behind all of this, Susan pulled the strings and dictated what went where alongside teams of designers. She was the star of her own perpetual performance, and whatever was left of her personality now had a pricetag. Somewhere deep down, buried under layers of silicone smiles and haute couture, laid a hollow shell of a very lonely girl. The allure and the varnish faded, but with nowhere else to go but up, BAMBI continued to thrive off the attention and Susan withered because of it. She became paranoid to the extreme, knowing full well that her private shows for the Ministry have put her DOOM counter up to an obscene level. More than anything, she wanted to send her business empire crashing down; destroy it all and go back to being a nobody. These days she knows the blind spots in all her usual routes and indulges herself in a game of cat and mouse, using her cybernetics to turn into a plain, slightly ugly stranger to give herself a fresh breeze of anonymity. This is where she finds her thrills these days. This is how she will escape - one day.

Cybernetic Enhancements: As stated in her backstory, Susan/BAMBI have delicate, high-end cybernetic enhancements that allow her to significantly change her physical appearance. The only dead giveaway is her DNA these days; she’s continued to modify, specify and intensify the level to which she can customise herself so she’s capable of evading security systems all over New Babel with the sole intent of getting some alone time. Some of the augmentations are Hyperion-approved - some of them are not. She keeps a mix and often switches between official and unofficial providers to avoid any hacking or interference from either end.

Possessions:
At this point, it’d be easier to list what BAMBI doesn’t have. Assuming that we were to list what she will always be seen carrying on her person regardless of circumstance, she has:

Ultrasmart Phone: A communication device with internet access, state of the art encryption and guaranteed privacy. One cannot have enough discretion these days...It is equipped with a flashlight, scanner (which then researches the scanned object to bring up information) and a camera with an impressive amount of zoom. Solar powered, too!

EMP Lipstick: A short-range EMP mine disguised as a woman’s essential. Functions as lipstick too, it’s merely the base that contains the machinery. Susan had this nifty tool commissioned after a paparazzi leak; it is reusable, but requires recharging for half a day to get back to the right intensity. Good to use when you want to get rid of all the cameras and microphones.

Holomirror: Exactly one second after opening this compact mirror, it produces a fullbody hologram of whatever Susan happens to be wearing. These things aren’t exactly state of the art technology, and you could find them in almost any sort of drugstore, but they’re just good to have around to check for wardrobe malfunctions. They also record the clothing you’ve worn, provided you use the same mirror each time.

Pocket Knife: No amount of technology can surpass the efficiency of poking a six-inch hole into somebody’s torso.

Skills:
Entourage: BAMBI isn’t just a pretty face; she’s a brand, and any good brand needs employees to maintain it. Provided she has access to the internet, BAMBI can ask trusted members of her entourage for help. (To balance this ability, the NPCs should be GM controlled so that their usefulness is not decided by the player, conforms to the limitations of the setting and doesn’t derail the plot. Limited 3 uses per in-game day.)

Chameleon: Susan didn’t spend all that money on Cybernetics just for show; she is capable of changing her physical appearance, from facial features to skintone. The only limitations are her physique (Aka skeletal structure and muscle/fat ratio) and her voice.

Actress: Susan lies for a living. It only makes sense that her acting abilities justify her fame. Whilst she has a range of accents and voices under her belt, it’s probably her achilles heel.

Get Me Out Of Here: Susan’s acute obsession with escape has affected the way she sees things. At the cost of paranoia and anxiety, Susan is very observant about her surroundings. She picks up on things like the subtleties of body language to the position of surveillance cameras faster than the average joe.

Deficits:
Since my character has a lot of money and connections that might overpower her in the RP, I have decided to make a list of weaknesses that should bring her down to a reasonable level. Let me know if I should add any more, these are all I could think of.

Celebrity: The first, and biggest, is that everybody knows BAMBI. If she’s too sloppy with her disguises she risks detection. There are paparazzi on her heels almost constantly. It’s harder to pass through surveillance unnoticed. Not to mention the stalkers and particularly violent perverts that lurk the darker corners of New Babel...

Bullseye: BAMBI’s DOOM counter is so high that she’s on a wanted list for every man who wants a longer life.

Civilian: It would have ruined BAMBI’s innocent persona to gain any meaningful combat training or appropriate means of self defence. Strip her of her bodyguards, her fancy cars and her connections, and she’s pretty much dead meat.

Pampered: BAMBI hasn’t had to deal with hardship in a long, long time. She’s used to free internet, copious amounts of electricity, central heating and three meals a day. Taking away her luxuries throws her off at best, and can make her more prone to illness. She’s quite useless living ‘rough’.

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I hope you're still open. I'd love to join this! My friend DinoNuts is working on a CS to work as my character's 'bodyguard'. Excuse the lack of formatting btw, I could never get the hang of it ^^" TLDR, she's That One Cyberpunk Girl On All The Billboards In Every Cyberpunk Setting Ever - a disillusioned celebrity trapped in a gilded cage.

(Edit: I should probably warn that there are explicit themes in her backstory. Nothing overt or graphic save for mentions and implications of sex and pornography.)

Susan Kelby - BAMBI

Citizen Registration: 6987541
Name: Susan Kelby
Alias: BAMBI
Gender: Female
Age: 35
Blood Type: B-
Height/Weight: 5’6/110lbs
Occupation: Actress/Movie Star/Dancer
DOOM Counter Reading: 98yrs 10months 33weeks 6days 12hrs 34mins 19secs

Physical Description:
As if you need a description of BAMBI. Her face is plastered literally everywhere - anything with a price tag on it, anything that could be and would be sold, has her modelling it with a smile. Her porcelain features and proportions are just too good to be true, her hair is always flawless and her outfits perpetually revealing. She’s slim, athletic, pale, with almond shaped eyes, smooth skin and pink hair that slips into blue curls. Her profile is vaguely asian, but it’s been perfectly manufactured to be a default and statistically appealing for the largest range of demographics. This isn’t the only face she ever wears, though - an intense array of cybernetics have allowed her extensive control over her appearance to better suit her career and role (see History and Enhancements).

Personality:
If we’re looking at Susan instead of her stage persona, then she can briefly be described as defeated. She’s bitter, resentful of her life, but sees no better alternative nor any easy escape, so she suppresses her own thoughts and opinions whilst regurgitating whatever her managers tell her to. She suffers from an identity crisis, meaning she often feels disassociated from her surroundings, lost, or apathetic after years upon years of being someone you really aren’t. Susan teeters on the edge, obsessed with any brief glimpses of privacy or freedom. She’s observant, quick-witted and paranoid - as anyone would be after an extended period of captivity.

BAMBI on the other hand is the epitome of pop idol. She’s sweet but sultry, playful and provocative - she adapts according to the situation and the mood to a different flavour of attractive, according to the wishes of her superiors. She meticulously organises her life to portray it as fantastical and sweet because the cameras are always watching. Contrary to popular belief, it’s been proven that BAMBI directs most of her day-to-day activities from the plating of her meals to the uniforms of her staff. She’s a people pleaser at heart.

Summary:
When Susan (then Susie) Kelby was chipped, she did what many other starving, vaguely pretty teenage girl would unfortunately turn to in order to make a bit of cash. This was the start - and the end - of her life as she knew it; moving from mediocre pornography to networking her way into television, she took on the alias of BAMBI to protect her anonymity. Work absorbed her life; it was too dangerous for young girls to be walking the streets during Happy Hour so she used her free time in a dingy apartment practicing, and practicing, and perfecting her acting abilities in front of the tarnished mirror. She would study and use the internet for references whilst becoming a bit of a shut-in, ordering most of her things to be delivered to her door. Her only interaction with people came through the job, and all those pent up emotions were translated beautifully onto the screen. She made friends, and made connections. She went out a bit more - but only to particular social events with particular people in it. From the very start, Susan knew exactly what she needed to do to survive. She had a plan.

With nothing to her name, Susan profited from her body. Anything that involved showing a bit of skin became an option; people still needed waitresses and bar staff for Happy Hour and she took it willingly. She devoted hours on end to practicing make-up, working out and carefully choosing her outfits. There were no other hobbies and she didn’t have any ‘free time’. Susan never transitioned out of that feeling of being a captive and she did not integrate with the society she was thrust into beyond showing herself off for them. All the while, the figures in her bank account increased and people started to take notice. As Susan diversified her acting abilities and took audition after audition, bribing and negotiating her way into larger gigs, she started to wade into the celebrity status and her income swelled significantly.

This was Susan’s first foray into cybernetics. It was the plastic surgery of the future - changing her eye colour at will was the first augmentation, then it was skin that’ll heal over at surface level to remove acne, wrinkles, scars...all of them were subtle and discreet. They didn’t go too far into her body and were almost entirely cosmetic. This helped her qualify for different roles, because she could make herself appear older and younger without CGI or extensive make-up. The voice became her trademark feature but the rest of her body was malleable and she broke into film because of it.

This is when BAMBI started to take over her life. Susan’s second (leading) role in “Download Diaries”, an action thriller where she played the busty no-nonsense Lieutenant Kyomi hunting down her lost memories from her time in the hands of the enemy, was the one that really kickstarted her life of fame and fortune. She bought herself bodyguards, she had her own entourage. Her life became as staged as the sets she worked on. Gone were the days of isolation in her apartment, and with it came a new influx of intrigue in the more explicit forms of media.

Susan never wasted anything. She could sell discarded lingerie, locks of hair, even the spoons she used for her cereal - at this point she had the money to replace them anyway. She had the regulars of her staff wearing masks to preserve anonymity. Instead of waiting for someone to inevitably hack her surveillance, she just put it behind a subscription paywall. Her privacy disappeared; even in the bedroom she would take requests from her fans. She never got into any committed relationship for fear of breaking the fantasy of her more ‘dedicated’ fanbase. The few channels of communication that she kept private were encrypted and protected a thousand times over, thanks to a few ‘favours’ she did for the Ministry. Tiered subscriptions kept cycling her audiences through her day to day life - as the hours got late, the family-friendly tier swapped into something a bit more adult. There were no guarantees of any performances unless she took back to her roots, which she did from time to time to keep people’s interest.

And behind all of this, Susan pulled the strings and dictated what went where alongside teams of designers. She was the star of her own perpetual performance, and whatever was left of her personality now had a pricetag. Somewhere deep down, buried under layers of silicone smiles and haute couture, laid a hollow shell of a very lonely girl. The allure and the varnish faded, but with nowhere else to go but up, BAMBI continued to thrive off the attention and Susan withered because of it. She became paranoid to the extreme, knowing full well that her private shows for the Ministry have put her DOOM counter up to an obscene level. More than anything, she wanted to send her business empire crashing down; destroy it all and go back to being a nobody. These days she knows the blind spots in all her usual routes and indulges herself in a game of cat and mouse, using her cybernetics to turn into a plain, slightly ugly stranger to give herself a fresh breeze of anonymity. This is where she finds her thrills these days. This is how she will escape - one day.

Cybernetic Enhancements: As stated in her backstory, Susan/BAMBI have delicate, high-end cybernetic enhancements that allow her to significantly change her physical appearance. The only dead giveaway is her DNA these days; she’s continued to modify, specify and intensify the level to which she can customise herself so she’s capable of evading security systems all over New Babel with the sole intent of getting some alone time. Some of the augmentations are Hyperion-approved - some of them are not. She keeps a mix and often switches between official and unofficial providers to avoid any hacking or interference from either end.

Possessions:
At this point, it’d be easier to list what BAMBI doesn’t have. Assuming that we were to list what she will always be seen carrying on her person regardless of circumstance, she has:

Ultrasmart Phone: A communication device with internet access, state of the art encryption and guaranteed privacy. One cannot have enough discretion these days...It is equipped with a flashlight, scanner (which then researches the scanned object to bring up information) and a camera with an impressive amount of zoom. Solar powered, too!

EMP Lipstick: A short-range EMP mine disguised as a woman’s essential. Functions as lipstick too, it’s merely the base that contains the machinery. Susan had this nifty tool commissioned after a paparazzi leak; it is reusable, but requires recharging for half a day to get back to the right intensity. Good to use when you want to get rid of all the cameras and microphones.

Holomirror: Exactly one second after opening this compact mirror, it produces a fullbody hologram of whatever Susan happens to be wearing. These things aren’t exactly state of the art technology, and you could find them in almost any sort of drugstore, but they’re just good to have around to check for wardrobe malfunctions. They also record the clothing you’ve worn, provided you use the same mirror each time.

Pocket Knife: No amount of technology can surpass the efficiency of poking a six-inch hole into somebody’s torso.

Skills:
Entourage: BAMBI isn’t just a pretty face; she’s a brand, and any good brand needs employees to maintain it. Provided she has access to the internet, BAMBI can ask trusted members of her entourage for help. (To balance this ability, the NPCs should be GM controlled so that their usefulness is not decided by the player, conforms to the limitations of the setting and doesn’t derail the plot. Limited 3 uses per in-game day.)

Chameleon: Susan didn’t spend all that money on Cybernetics just for show; she is capable of changing her physical appearance, from facial features to skintone. The only limitations are her physique (Aka skeletal structure and muscle/fat ratio) and her voice.

Actress: Susan lies for a living. It only makes sense that her acting abilities justify her fame. Whilst she has a range of accents and voices under her belt, it’s probably her achilles heel.

Get Me Out Of Here: Susan’s acute obsession with escape has affected the way she sees things. At the cost of paranoia and anxiety, Susan is very observant about her surroundings. She picks up on things like the subtleties of body language to the position of surveillance cameras faster than the average joe.

Deficits:
Since my character has a lot of money and connections that might overpower her in the RP, I have decided to make a list of weaknesses that should bring her down to a reasonable level. Let me know if I should add any more, these are all I could think of.

Celebrity: The first, and biggest, is that everybody knows BAMBI. If she’s too sloppy with her disguises she risks detection. There are paparazzi on her heels almost constantly. It’s harder to pass through surveillance unnoticed. Not to mention the stalkers and particularly violent perverts that lurk the darker corners of New Babel...

Bullseye: BAMBI’s DOOM counter is so high that she’s on a wanted list for every man who wants a longer life.

Civilian: It would have ruined BAMBI’s innocent persona to gain any meaningful combat training or appropriate means of self defence. Strip her of her bodyguards, her fancy cars and her connections, and she’s pretty much dead meat.

Pampered: BAMBI hasn’t had to deal with hardship in a long, long time. She’s used to free internet, copious amounts of electricity, central heating and three meals a day. Taking away her luxuries throws her off at best, and can make her more prone to illness. She’s quite useless living ‘rough’.

Let me know if anything needs fixed, especially in the balancing of her power. I wanted to make an investigative/helper build instead of anything combat orientated, so whilst she's really good at getting names and snooping around, she's not so good in hardship.

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Is this RP still around?