<strong>Claudia Adler (Vanholm)</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Character sheet</div><div class="spoiler_body">Name:  Claudia Vanholm (goes by Claudia Adler)<br/>Career:  Seneshal<br/><br/>Age:  20<br/>Height: 5’5”    <br/>Weight: 113<br/>Skin:    Pale ivory<br/>Hair:    Pale blond       <br/>Eyes:    Pale blue<br/>Style:    Pale.  Or rather, robes or dresses that go with someone pale, usually green or white.<br/><br/>EXP        5,000/000<br/><br/>Weapon Skill    34                Wounds        8<br/>Ballistic Skill    39<br/>Strength        34                Fate            2<br/>Toughness        31                Fortune        2<br/>Agility        37<br/>Intelligence    48<br/>Perception        40                Corruption        d5<br/>Willpower        37                Insanity        2d5<br/>Fellowship        54<br/><br/>Skill:                        +0    +10    +20            Total<br/>Awareness (Per)                *                    40%<br/>Barter (Fel)                *                    54%<br/>Charm (Fel)                *                    54%<br/>Commerce (Fel)                *                    54%<br/>C.L. Underworld (int)            *                    48%<br/>Deceive (Fel)                *                    54%<br/>Dodge (Agi)                *                    37%<br/>Evaluate (Int)                *                    48%<br/>Forbidden Lore: Arcanotech (Int)    *                    48%<br/>Forbidden Lore: Pirates        *                    48%<br/>Inquiry (Fel)                *                    54%<br/>Literacy (Int)                *                    48%<br/>Sleight of Hand                *                    37%<br/>S.L. High Gothic                *                    48%<br/>S.L. Low Gothic                *                    48%<br/>S.L. Valkhausen Hive Dialect                        24%<br/>Tech Use                                        24%<br/><br/>Talents:  <br/>Basic Weapon Training: Universal<br/>Enemy: Underworld<br/>Pistol Weapon Training: Universal<br/><br/><br/>Origin Path: <br/>--Hive World<br/>Accustomed to Crowds: Hivers grow up surrounded by crowds. They are used to weaving through even the densest mobs with ease. Crowds do not count as Difficult Terrain for hivers, and when Running or Charging through a dense crowd, hivers take no penalty to the Agility Test to keep their feet.<br/>Caves of Steel: To a hiver, surrounded at all times by metal, machinery, and industry, the lesser arcane mysteries of technology are not so strange. Hivers treat the Tech-Use (Int) Skill as an untrained Basic Skill.<br/>Hivebound: Hivers seldom endure the horrors of the open sky or the indignity of the great outdoors. They suffer a –10 penalty to all Survival (Int) Tests, and whilst out of a “proper hab” (e.g., places without manufactured goods, solid ceilings, and electrical power) the hiver suffers a –5 penalty to all Intelligence Tests.<br/>Wary: Hivers are constantly alert for the first hint of trouble, be it a gang shoot-out, hab riot, or hivequake. All hivers gain a +1 bonus to Initiative rolls.<br/>--Scapegrace<br/>--Enemy: Hunted by a Crime Baron<br/>--Dark Voyage<br/>--Pride<br/><br/><br/>Advances:  <br/>Simple Advance: Intelligence<br/>Simple Advance: Fellowship<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">background and description</div><div class="spoiler_body">Background:  Born on Valkhausen Hive, Claudia is the daughter of Breago Vanholm, a powerful figure in black and grey market business.  The family is a new one, Breago having inherited the business with a very hostile takeover.  With his future secured, he set about creating what he hoped would become a dynasty.<br/><br/>    To Claudia’s father, sons were a precious commodity, his legacy.  Daughters were tokens to be exchanged for favors or alliances.  And when Claudia came along, she was not the first token; she was born the eighth child, and fifth daughter.<br/><br/>Claudia scarcely saw either of her parents while growing up.  Tutors were made available, but only enough to make her a good conversationalist, and ensure that she was well versed in etiquette, the better to one day find a husband.  This left many hours free in each day, to wait and imagine a more exciting future, while knowing what was promised.<br/><br/>So Claudia decided to educate herself.<br/><br/>It was at the age of twelve that she managed to become a member of a gang of pickpockets.  A few years later, and she became the head.  Likewise, she managed to eavesdrop on a number of her father’s business activites; no one cared if a teenage girl happened to be sitting nearby.  Study materials that her tutors showed her “disappeared”, and could be consumed at proper length at a later date.  It was one of her older brothers, however, who taught her how to shoot.<br/><br/>Claudia’s wedding date was set for her sixteenth birthday.  It was to a much older man, a former rival of her fathers, his business now being enveloped.  Her father sought to tighten the hold with the marriage, and also ensure that the remaining shares might pass to his family once the old rival died.  It never happened.  Claudia slipped out the evening before with the aid of a stolen key.  The deal fell apart as each blamed the other, each side losing a great deal of money and face.<br/><br/>Claudia managed to get a berth on an outgoing ship, and has been traveling ever since, sometimes running as agents of her father or her “fiancee” try to track her down.  In a bit of ill-luck, that voyage was captured by pirates.  Luckily, Claudia was a late bloomer, and managed to disguise herself as a boy.  She joined on with the ship that rescued her, and has been working for that family ever since.  Her latest promotion came when, as she was doing an inventory count, she noticed a few discrepancies, almost, but not quite covered up.  She reported to the seneschal, but he told her it was unimportant.  A bit of investigation turned up a side business on his part, where he sold inventory and cooked the books to hide his crime.  She was promoted into his place.<br/><br/>Description: Claudia goes back and forth between two modes of behavior.  The first is as a intelligent, extremely proper, and fairly unassuming young woman, as she was taught.  The other is as the cocky impulsive pickpocket gang leader as she learned.  Which one will be in the forefront is dependant on situation, although sometimes the latter will bleed into situations where the former would be more appropriate.<br/><br/>As a hiver, Claudia’s skin is exceptionally pale; fortunately, her elegant beauty means that it is described as “ivory”, and seen as a part of her beauty.  Her eyes, are similarly pale, an almost reflective blue-grey.  Her blonde hair is almost always done in a braid, draping down over the front of her right shoulder.  No longer would she be able to disguise herself as a boy, as her figure has become extremely feminine, with full, generous breasts, and gently curving hips.</div></div>