<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=258865.msg12791412#msg12791412">Quote from: Muse on 21-11-2016, 05:17:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/3/35/Troll_Lady_Knight.jpeg/422px-Troll_Lady_Knight.jpeg)</div><strong>Sami "Jade" Jameson</strong> (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eYNzaLbfmHH0dq3oXHkYF2MQYxi-V8m40UNz-lFv4SM/edit?usp=sharing): Free Thinking Tomboy/Bootlegger (Driver)/Mechanic<br/><br/>   “You're looking for Jade?”  The girl's voice came out from under the hood of the sporty Ford with the big trunk.  “I haven't heard that name much since Congress repealed the Eighteenth.”  <br/><br/>   Straightening up the girl dropped the hood of the car.  She was very pretty, with full lips, wide, Asian eyes, and an extremely generous bosom.  What initially grabbed most people's attention, though, was that she was wearing a man's shirt with the sleeves rolled up.  “Pass me that rag,” She pointed with an oil smudged hand.  <br/><br/>   “It's just Sami now,” she explained, wiping her hands clean, then rolling down her sleeves and buttoning the cuffs.  Despite the cross-dressing, there was no doubt from the size of her bosom there was no doubt of her gender.  “Sami Jameson.”  <br/><br/>   She gave a crooked grin at the look in your eyes.   “Were you expecting someone older?  Or maybe  a skirt?”  She rolled down her sleeves and buttoned the cuffs.  “Prohibition was hard on the family vineyard.  Harder on my dad.  He loved mom a lot—had to too marry a Japanese girl—but he loved wine just as much.  While the rest of the family were capitalizing on Mr. Welch's charming lies to sell grape juice, Dad moved us to the countryside and set up a still.  Most moonshiners were amateurs.  Their product was inferior, sometimes dangerous.  Dad was a professional.”  <br/><br/>   Sami donned a suit jacket next as she continued her story.  “We were making quite a cozy little fortune, and had the sense to put a lot of it aside, which is why I have this nice house now.  We stocked seven speakeasies.  The cops didn't like us.  The Godfather was continually put out that we didn't want to join his organization.  The other bootleggers hated us.  I was still pretty young when the pressure got bad enough that dad started carrying a gun.  <br/><br/>   “That's also when dad moved in Grandpa Katsu.  <em>Ojii-san</em> had taught me a little bit about Japanese fighting before, but knowing that we were in danger, even in our homes, he got serious.  <br/><br/>   “By the time I was fifteen, the heat scared off half my dad's team.  I drove half a delivery for him before he realized it was me the first time. <br/><br/>   “He was <em>pissed.</em>  <br/><br/>   “Obviously, what man wants his daughter pulling hairpin turns to outrun the cops on a winding road?  What man wants the Godfather's men holding a gun at his daughter's head to try and get you to sign over your business?  (Let me tell you, the guy with the gun was not a happy camper in the morning.  I just broke his wrist and took away the gun...)  <br/><br/>   “Father got used to it eventually.  Even when I got a reputation for introducing assholes to the business end of a crowbar.  <br/><br/>   “I'm stubborn.  I always have been.  No one tells me who to be.”  She donned a bowler hat.  “People want me to be the china-girl who does their laundry.  People want me to look to a man for protection, not save my father from the Mafia.  People want me to get married to a Japanese man and spend my life cooking for him.  People want me to wear a skirt.”  <br/><br/>   She picked up a solid steel crowbar and slipped it throuhg a belt loop.  “People can go to hell.  I'm Sami Jameson.  I wear what I want, drink what I want, drive what I want, fight who I want, and work how I want.  If I ever get married, it'll be my choice.”  <br/><br/>   She drew an ivory tiled puzzle box out of the car and began to arrange the tiles.  “I guess I learned this from Grandpa Katsu.  He fought on the wrong side in a war between the Shogun and the Emperor.  After peace was made, the emperor told him to break his sword over his knee.  <br/><br/>   “He came to America instead, and that sword still hangs over his hearth when he's not training with it.”  <br/><br/>   Tiles arranged, the catch on the puzzle box clicked, and Sami pulled out a small Japanese saber and a Jade mask.  “So, tell me about this help you need.  The life of a rich girl is getting boring.  Maybe it's time for Jade to drive again.” <br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I can't wait to see her character sheet.  Sounds like fun.<br/><br/>