IoQ :: Character App :: Kaiyo

Name: Kaiyo Asa

Level: 12

Total Points/Unspent points: 90/00

        HP: 12                                  FP: 12

        ST: 12                                  DX: 13

       IQ : 14                                  HT: 12

      Will: 14                               Perc: 14

  Speed:  39                             Move: 39

Gender: Female

Age: 20

Birthday: March 12th

Race: Koi Mermaid

Orientation: Straight

Occupation level: Fisherman (5)

Advantages:

• (5) Absolute Direction: +3 to Navigation rolls.

• (5) Luck: Once per campaign, the player may re-roll a bad die, taking the best of three rolls. This only applies to individual character actions, outside events that affect the party, or when you are being attacked (in which case, you may make the attacker roll three times and take the worst roll).

• (5) Alertness: +1 to all sense and Per rolls.

• (15) Combat Reflexes: The player gains +1 when defending and dodging, and can flip a coin to recover from Sleep.

• (5) Manual Dexterity: +1 to tasks involving fine motor skills, such as surgery, parrying, or pick pocketing.

• (5) Rapid Healing: Only available if your HT is 10 or above. +5 to Healing rolls cast on the player.

Disadvantages: 

• (-10) Impulsiveness: 

• (-5) Truthfulness: 

 

Weight:  136lbs

Height: 5'2"

Skills:  325 spent/ 325 total

○ Barehanded hit: 2D-1
• (15) Acrobatics: Player gains +1 to all dodge rolls and against falling hazards.
• (05) Bard: 
• (05) Brawling: Player adds 1/10 of their ST to their total damage when unarmed and gains the ability to parry barehanded attacks.
•*(05) Canning:
• (05) Cleaning: 
• (15) Cooking: 
• (05) Geology: 
• (15) Hand Weapon: The player can use a weapon in battle and gains the ability to parry.
• (10) Map-Making: 
•*(10) Merchant:
• (10) Musical Instrument: 
•*(05) Navigation: The player is allowed to see the full map for their current floor. Whether they choose to share this information with the rest of the party is up to their discretion.
•*(05) Prospecting: Player rolls to receive an additional item when gathering.
• (05) Skinning: 
•*(05) Smoking:
•*(05) Swimming: Basic Speed and Basic Move are not reduced in the water.
• (05) Toymaking: 
•*(05) Tracking: The player may roll to detect monsters in the room. 
•*(05) Weaving:
• (05) Writing: 

Magic:

(15 per level +5 Element =50) Healing (Water) Level 3: (IQ) 4D6+1 on others or 5D6 on self
    • This player can use water magic to heal herself or others.

(10 per level +5 Element =65) Defense (Water) Level 6: (IQ) 6D6+1 Max 32
    • This player can use water magic to form a defensive barrier around herself and others.

(15 per level +5 Element =80) Offensive (Water) Level 5: (IQ) 5D6+5
    • This player can use water magic to attack others.

Liked Gifts:

• Mostly anything with thought put into it

• Hair adornments

• Flowers

• Jewelry

• Anything Musical (Ex: You sing her a song, or give her a hand carved whistle.) 

Disliked Gifts:

• Tacky Gifts

• Anything ocean/water related (Ex: Seashells, fish, ect.) She can get those for herself.

• Soap, perfumes, or other fragrance-y things.

 

Personality:        Inconsistent | Impulsive |  Truthful | Friendly but Awkward| Helpful | Baby Hungry

Inconsistent- Kaiyo has a pretty flexible personality. She grew up without a lot of social interaction, so she isn't positive what is acceptable and what is not acceptable. She tends to try and mimic the personality types of the person(s) she is with.

Impulsive- Kaiyo's urges generally sprout from a desire to touch. When she sees things that she hasn't seen before, or things that look particularily pleasant to touch (Such as something fluffy) she has a hard time restraining herself.

Truthful- She generally just says the first thing that pops into her head without thinking of how it might sound to others. She can come off as rude, and tends to over share unnecessary details.

Friendly but Awkwardly- She desperately wants to be accepted by others, but she doesn't know how to be normal in society. She just awkwardly follows people around and hopes they will like her.

Helpful- Even when she is useless, she likes to pretend like she can make a difference in the world. She will often offer to help when she notices a person working on a task, and she gets quite offended if her offer is not accepted. (Needles to say, she gets offended a lot.)

Origin: Edo Period Japan, Earth

Culture: 

She lived in a secluded place with her father. Not having much social interaction, she didn't learn much about the culture. She only knew what she saw from her father's stall when they would go to market. Occasionally her father would sell fish at festivals and she would get to celebrate a bit. She loved the masks, kimonos, and make up of her culture and often wanted to replicate it though she didn't know the meaning.

Beasts? She didn't ever see any beasts in her regular life, but being a mermaid, she believed the existence of them when she saw artist representations of dragons and other such things. 

Nudity? She doesn't see anything morally wrong with it.

Death? Never had any experience with it, unsure of beliefs.

Bathing? Not a necessity, but a pleasant thing to do.

Medicine? No experience with it.

Religion? Only somewhat familiar with Buddhists beliefs (she'd asked her father questions, and he answered to the best of his knowledge, but not following the religion himself, he found the questions hard to answer), but they seem cluttered and inconsistent to her, so she doesn't claim a religion. Though she does WANT to believe in some sort of a god/gods.

What are the holidays they celebrate? She celebrates anything that others celebrate. She never really bothers learning the meaning behind holidays, but she is familiar with the dates of some Japanese holidays

Life History:

 A wealthy merchant owned a small pond which he kept stocked with lots of beautiful koi fish. One day, a servant was caring for the fish and he mused about a rumor he's heard of mermaids in a pond nearby. Perhaps there was a mermaid with a similar scale pattern? Wouldn't that be a unique addition to the pond?

The wealthy merchant was instantly enchanted with the idea of a mermaid, and he sent his servant on a quest to find him one.

It took several years, and the merchant had forgotten all about his servant and the mermaid, but late one night, the servant returned. He had with him a woman with hair that reached her knees. The wealthy merchant was very VERY fond of the woman that instant. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, but as his eyes followed her hair and landed at her knees, he noticed scales. THIS was his mermaid. He paid the servant well, and kept her as his pet. Mostly, she lived in the pond, and the merchant visited her daily trying to woo her.

What he did not know was that this woman had already been wooed, and she was expecting a child. (She kept the egg hidden in her bun- meaning hair…)

When the child was born, the mermaid lied to the wealthy merchant.

"It's a boy." Having the child stay in mer-form, there was no way for the man to know any difference. He was appalled. Appalled that the mermaid had a child with another man, and appalled that she had the nerve to give birth to a son. Sons would not grow up to be beautiful. Sons would not provide the merchant with any additional entertainment. So, he instructed the servant to return the child to the place he had found the child.

The servant tried to obey his masters orders, but not wanting to stay away from his job for too long, he didn't put as much motivation into finding the pond again. He looked for, about a day, and then gave up, putting the child in the first pond he found.

The unnamed child stayed in the pond for several days, but not knowing how to care for herself, she cried out for help. Her cries caused ripples in the water and a curious young fisherman took a dive and found her. He took her back to the surface, and she instinctively turned to her human form. Seeing her as some sort of blessing, he took her home and raised her as his own daughter.

He named her Kaiyo, meaning forgiveness in hopes that if she ever happened to meet her family again she would be able to forgive them for leaving her.

She was taught basic fisherman skills, and helped her new father with his daily tasks. Though secretly, she wanted to be a geisha, or a musician. When she was about 12 she created her own musical instrument and taught herself to play it, though she never had the courage to play in public.

Before arrival: 
"What's wrong papa?" Kaiyo asked as he let out a sigh when she brought him his tea.

"The net," He commented as he showed her, "It's got a large hole in it, and I'm not catching the fish as quickly as I need to."

 "Oh don't worry about that papa, we can repair that, it should only take a few hours."

Her father smiled at her optimism, he didn't want to destroy it, but he needed to point out the flaw with her logic.

 “We can repair it daughter, but, as you said, it should take a few hours. I need to have a hundred fish by sundown to fill a special order.” Kaiyo frowned as his response. The net could be fixed by sundown, but she wasn’t sure if by then they would have enough time to catch a hundred fish. Why had he taken on such a large order anyway? It must be REALLY special.

“Do not worry papa,” She tried to comfort him again, “You can fix the net, and I will fish while you do so, we will catch enough, I promise.” Her father smiled again, and she shot one back at him, then, dropping her kimono on the dock by him, she jumped into the water, returning to her natural form and began to search for fish. Though she was normally very good at spotting them, there didn't appear to be any in the water, all she could see was a strange light...

Equipment:

• Staff of the Sea
Damage: Thrust +3, Swing +4
Reach: 2 yards
IQ +5, FP +5, Water +3

• Kaiyo's Armor
Damage Resist: +7
IQ +1, Water +2, DX -2

Preferred RP Style:
- Chatroom: Yes
- Comments: Yes
- Google docs: I’ve never done this before, but I’m willing to try.
- Notes: Nope.
- Paragraph: Yes.
- Script: Yes
- Skype: always.ronnie
- Questions? Ask.

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