Name: Adam Scherer Race: Human Occupation: Journalist Age: 24 Sex: Male Height: 5'11" Weight: 150 lbs. Favorite Food: Potatoes Least Favorite Food: Seafood Hair: Brown Eyes: Green BASE CP: 35 DEFECT CP: 5 EARNED CP: 0 TOTAL CP: 35 Body: 4 HP: 50 Attack: 6 Mind: 8 EP: 80 Defense: 4 Soul: 6 -Attributes- Level Cost Effect Appearance 2 2 Quite handsome; +2 Seduction Art of Distraction 2 2 Distract two people/animals on Soul check Aura of Command 1 1 Inspire a person on Soul check Energy Bonus 1 1 +10 Energy Points Gun Bunny: Dead Eye 1 1 Long range/pinpoint penalty reduced by 3, to min. 0 Heightened Awareness 2 2 -4 bonus to awareness checks Highly Skilled 3 3 +30 Skill Points Kensei 1 1 Blind Fighting Organizational Ties 1 1 Mullenwald News Organizational Ties 3 6 Cipher's Ministry Personal Gear 1 1 1 major, 4 minor items Sixth Sense 1 1 Sense Truth -Skills- Level Cost Specialty Burglary 1 2 Breaking and Entering Cultural Arts 2 2 Occultism Disguise 1 2 Costume Forgery 1 2 Handwriting Gaming 3 3 Gambling/Card Games Interrogation 1 2 Psychological Intimidation 1 3 Political Law 1 1 Political Linguistics 3 4 Common, Code Language, Adaption, 2 other langs. Melee Defense 1 5 Improvised Weapons Navigation 1 2 Urban Performing Arts 1 1 Public Speaking Ranged Defense 1 5 Personal Seduction 1 2 Female Sleight of Hand 1 2 Lock Picking Social Sciences 2 2 Politics Thrown Weapons 1 4 Blades Urban Tracking 1 3 Underworld Writing 3 3 Journalistic -Defects- Level Bonus Details Girl/Guy Magnet 1 1 International Man of Mystery Marked 1 1 Small scar on left shoulder Owned by a Megacorp 2 2 Cipher's Ministry Skeleton in the Closet 1 1 Cipher's Ministry -Personal Gear- Major: 6-point mecha; to be determined in-game. Minor: Combat knife 8 damage, concealable. Trick cards These playing cards have slightly varying patterns on the back. They're difficult to notice, unless you know what to look for. Pen An expensive, imported reporter's pen, designed to write very quickly and reliably. Legibility, however, is not its strong point. Lockpicks A fairly good set of lockpicks, designed for handling a wide variety of situations. Mundane: Clothes, lots of notebooks, etc. -Appearance- Adam is quite handsome, but (being a journalist) often disheveled. -Personality and Background- Adam, a shop owner's son, grew up in a lower middle-class area of Lucia. His family was decently well off, but not as prosperous as they would have liked. Because of this, Adam's father sent him to the public schools, hoping that the education would open new opportunities. Academically, Adam did a merely average job, only excelling in languages. According to his teachers, he was exceptionally intelligent, but rarely made any effort. Socially, Adam did well, and tended to be inconspicuous but popular. In the middle of the fourth grade, his grades rose sharply. Adam's parents were overjoyed that he was finally working hard, but his grades slid back to average near the end of that year, after his teacher was replaced. A chance inquiry revealed that Adam had discovered their teacher's affair with the school's principal. He happened to mention it to a group of friends - who promptly blackmailed her for higher grades. Adam felt very uncomfortable about this, and despite the higher grades, he decided to take the information to the principal. He also took most of the blame, and was expelled from school. His parents were very disappointed, but the principal was honest about what had happened; the situation was such that they couldn't blame Adam. For a number of years, Adam helped take care of his father's shop. He also practiced his newfound natural talent for finding information, through methods both orthodox and otherwise. At the age of sixteen, his snooping revealed that the mayor of Lucia was taking bribes. Unsure of what to do with such serious information, he talked to his family, and finally decided to take it to the Mullenwald News. After a few minutes of stammering, the publisher hired him on the spot. Since then, Adam has taken on most of the newspaper's least pleasant and most dangerous stories, having to bend traditional journalistic ethics and occasionally the law. The publisher's enthusiasm for investigative reporting had lead to the death of two other reporters. Adam quickly learned to handle a knife, helped by his above-average eyesight and aim. When Adam was assigned to investigate the activities of the Ministry, a part of Mullenwald's government, he found out quite a bit of interesting information. Before making use of it, however, he was discovered. The government had heard quite a bit about him, and Adam was given several options. He decided that maintaining the functionality of his internal organs was worth being an undercover agent for the Cipher's Ministry. Adam remains a lowly reporter in public life, but has advanced to become a fairly senior undercover agent for the Ministry. He currently lives in a small apartment above a bakery, in a nice area of Lucia. His natural personality tends towards the quiet and polite. Being a journalist and undercover agent has made him open-minded, but also rather paranoid.