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Tricky
Jun 12, 2007

after a great meal i like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage



Tsukino Faolan, Attorney-At-Law
(Art Source)

For all that Grand Cross is a powder keg just waiting to blow, it's a pretty nice place to live if you've got hustle and don't mind eating instant ramen and aren't particularly claustrophobic. Luckily, Tsukino is just the sort to thrive in the hustle and bustle. For certain definitions of thrive. It'd really help if her YourTube channel finally cracked the algorithm and started driving more business to Faolan Legal. Or got her more than a pity subscription to her Hi-Fives from her folks. It's sweet, and great for buying exactly one tall drip coffee per month, but it's not exactly a tool for financial independence.

Still, there's a certain fulfillment to an actual legal practice of her own that never could be matched with a cushy Cartel gig. Even if that Omnidyne recruiter did promise the latest model as a signing bonus... but no! She resisted. Barely. Besides, her trusty Fenrir is too good of a companion to give up, even if it needs a particular series of raps to the engine block to fire up in the morning, and the HUD swaps to Touhou sometimes when she's driving. She's... she's gotten pretty good at multitasking on the longer trips cross-station. It's fine, it's great, she loves that drat thing. Though the Fenrir Mk.X has an integrated smart-companion AI that's supposed to be great company and laugh at all your jokes...

Anyways, things are great. Even the things that aren't. Especially the things that aren't! There's nothing to do but keep on grinding, keep on hustling, and if she needs to spot Granny Su another month's rent (or five, now), that's just how things go. It's Space Town, right? When you're here, you're family. Specifically, the kind of family that your other family members keep asking for a little scratch. Or legal advice, which you have to keep coaching in very careful terms of how you're not giving them actual legal advice since they're not paying you, so there's no attorney-client relationship, and...

Well, it's a living.

quote:

Name: Tsukino Faolan
Pulsar Handle: @TheWerewolfLawyer
Cool Crime Alias: Luna (everyone calls her something like Three Wolf Moon though, rip)
Pronouns: She/Her

Origin: Crosser
Occupation: Fixer
Burden: 2
App (if any): N/A
Personal Goal: Drop a really sick video about Werewolf Law on YourTube to build the brand.

Cool: +3 (10)
Clever: +2 (9)
Tough: +0 (7)
Quick: +1 (8)

Traits:
Gregarious
You’re generous to a fault, even when you can't afford to be, but what goes around comes around. Increase your starting Burden by 1. The first time you spend Cash in a session, you also gain one Personal Prep for every Cash you spend.

Well-Traveled
You've been all around Grand Cross and know it like the back of your hand. You have Advantage on all rolls that rely on your knowledge of the station's layout. Frequent traveling means shopping and transport costs; if you roll to lose unspent Cash at the end of a session, roll with Advantage.

Talents:
Gift of the Gab
You take +1 on all Social rolls made during any Mood other than Hostile. During a Hostile Mood, you instead take +1 on your first Placate roll in this scene.

Plausible Deniability
You have Advantage on all Social rolls made to cover up, lie about, or conceal your or an ally’s involvement in dubious or criminal activity.

Specialties:
+1 Action: Bullshit
+1 Action: Charm
+1 Action: Interrogate
+1 An Actual Lawyer
+1 Budding YourTuber
+1 Motorcycles
+1 Grey-Market Goods and Services
+1 Archaic Tabletop Game Deep Lore

Assets:
Trendy Wardrobe
In the distant future of 2020, this kind of clothing is called "fly." When you have time to change before a Social situation, choose a Mood. You have Advantage on all Social rolls while that Mood applies.

Small Local Business (Faolan Legal)
You operate or own a small business: a corner store, a café, a modest rented office, a handyman business run out of a van, a tabletop gaming studio in your apartment's backroom, etc. It gives you a little splash money to throw around. Gain 2 Cash at the beginning of a mission unless you suffer Economic Shock.

Membership (Grand Cross Bar Association)
You are a member of something exclusive, like a club, union, activist group, or the inner circle of a political party. Take +1 to all Social rolls if they relate in some way to your membership. You can call on the group like you would a community resident (p. 58) once per session.

Vehicle (Omnidyne P85X Fenrir)
You own, or have access to, a vehicle (you’re assumed to know how to drive it.) Most vehicles on Grand Cross are scooters, bikes, or motorcycles; larger vehicles are usually business-related, as individual ownership is discouraged unless you're rich (see p. 105).

You can get around Grand Cross without relying on public transport or your Multipass (making it harder to electronically track you) in addition to ferrying loads and passengers beyond manportable limits. Take +1 on any task if your vehicle can significantly help, such as ramming open a gate or pretending to be here on business. You also have Advantage when chasing or evading someone in your vehicle, so don't be afraid to try cool stunts.


Augments:
Wolf Ears and Tail (cosmetic)
code:
Breakdown of Specialties:
Origin: Crosser (+1 Action: Bullshit, +1 An Actual Lawyer)
First Occupation: Fixer (+1 Action: Charm)
Level 1 Occupation (+1 Action: Interrogate, +1 Budding YourTuber)
Three Free Picks (+1 Motorcycles, +1 Grey-Market Goods And Services, +1 Archaic Tabletop Game Deep Lore)

Tricky fucked around with this message at 21:46 on May 5, 2021

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Tricky
Jun 12, 2007

after a great meal i like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage


I'll tap Granny Su as my contact. She organizes the Saturday flea market and, while it never seems to make any money, you can find some great old world memorabilia if that's your jam. Tsukino mostly picks up rare Touhou doujins and the like. Granny Su is cantankerous, liable to guilt you for slights both real and imagined, and chronically unable to make rent. Needless to say, she's been in Space Town since it was nothing more than a tent and some exposed girders (she will tell this story at length, given the slightest provocation) and nobody can really imagine the place without her.

Tsukino probably knows Rowan and Blake, also as business owners slash people on the hustle, and may or may not have provided some legal consultation to Condor. She's a hopeless Vtuber mark and thus probably subs to Irma's channel... and probably did a case study in law school about the Sunset Overdreck fiasco.

Speaking of law school, Tsukino fielded a handful of offers from Cartel corporations right after graduation. None of them felt like the right fit, which led her to opening her own practice. The Omnidyne offer was easily the most tempting, since it played directly on her interests, but Tetsuo put out a very competitive offer as well. Her parents were... confused, to say the least, though they're mostly baffled and vaguely supportive in that out-of-touch well-off parents way. The vibe is very much that they're waiting for this phase Tsukino is going through to work itself out, at which point it's time for a cushy corporate gig and a smattering of grandchildren. They are likely to be waiting for a very, very long time.

Faolan Legal itself mostly gets by on small consultations. She does a lot of legal paperwork for people in the community, but we're talking a bunch of small one-off gigs that are billing an hour or two here and there. It'd be enough to be comfortable if she was a little bit better at saying no when people hustle her for a little financial help, but she isn't. It pays rent, and Touhou doujins, and some Vtuber subs, and some red superchats here and there and... well, okay, maybe it's just that she's kind of bad with money in general.

Tricky
Jun 12, 2007

after a great meal i like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage


If Irma makes her a mod in chat: yes, yes forever she's a big enough simp.

Tricky
Jun 12, 2007

after a great meal i like to lie on the ground and feel like garbage


3 is probably best for showcasing the system, I think.

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