Name:   Michael Forster<br/>Concept:   Spirit warrior.<br/>Player:   Muse<br/>Style:      Native American Wrestling<br/>School:   Grandfather’s cabin in the countryside.<br/>Signature:   Stand straight, nod politely, “I look forwards to learning from you.”<br/>EXP      0/0<br/><br/>Strength         4<br/>Dexterity         2<br/>Stamina         4<br/><br/>Perception         3<br/>Intelligence         3<br/>Wits            3<br/><br/>Charisma         2<br/>Manipulation      1<br/>Appearance         3<br/><br/>(9/7/4)<br/>Alertness         3<br/>Interrogation      1<br/>Insight         3<br/>Streetwise         0<br/>Subterfuge         0<br/><br/>Blind Fighting      0<br/>Drive            1<br/>Leadership         1<br/>Security         0<br/>Stealth         1<br/>Survival         1<br/><br/>Arena            1<br/>Computer         1<br/>Investigation      1<br/>Medicine         2<br/>Mysteries         3<br/>Style Lore         1<br/><br/><br/>Resources         1<br/>Sensei         2<br/>--Group Pool      2<br/><br/>Chi            3/3<br/>Willpower         4/4<br/>Health          10/10<br/><br/>Athletics         0<br/>Block            3<br/>Focus            3<br/>Grab            3<br/>Punch            0<br/>Weapon: Tomahawk   1<br/><br/>Back Breaker<br/>Bear Hug<br/>Regeneration<br/>Suplex:  Speed +0, Damage +2 and Move One victim lands one hex behind wrestler (attacker's choice) and suffers knock down<br/><br/><br/>Anya Mountain Shadow was born 44 years ago on a Reservation.  Her father and older brother both practiced a martial art, a civilian evolution of spiritually powerful traditional native American combat styles including animal based techniques.<br/>She left the reservation to attend University of Texas at El Paso and married a white man named Gregory Forester.  They both became teachers in the El Paso school system.  They had a son, Michael, and a daughter three years younger, Sessory.<br/>Michael Forester had a basically normal life up to his 12th year, when he came down with schizoaffective disorder—which he had inherited from his paternal great grandfather.  By the time he was fourteen, he was well medicated but still had lingering effects which only grew worse because he was too scatterbrained to stay properly on the medicine.  He went to live with his uncle and—through the martial arts—gained much needed discipline and emotional balance.  By the time he was sixteen, he was developing strong physical and spiritual power.  Sometimes he felt the spirits would ask him to help someone.  At first he prided himself on this, though when it interfered with his teenage love life it started aggravating him.<br/>The subject of his adolescent affections was a deaf girl called Dancer In Silence.  They both wished to go ta concert one night, but before he could ask her, the call of a neighbor’s need drew his attention to an old man about to fall of the wagon after seven years.  He threw his tomahawk through the bottle of whiskey the shaking man was about to drink through.<br/>For all the frustration of that night, he would remember it afterwards as an important night, staying with the old man while he fought through his attack of addiction.<br/>Later, he would finally get Dancer in Silence’s attention.  They would fall in love, become engaged, and conceive a child.  Things were not as blissful as they seemed, though.  A crime lord named Mischa bribed and blackmailed the elders into opening a casino on the reservation, using it as a den of drugs and prostitution.  In a hot headed moment, Michael ransacked the casino, defeating several of the security men only to be beaten half to death by Mischa and only escape with his life by leaping out a second story window—through the pain of glass—and fleeing the reservation, leaving his fiancé, newborn daughter, and sensei beyond his reach.<br/><br/>