It Slices! It Dices!

While my Nine Princes in Pulp adventures will be noted elsewhere, I had had at least some background in the system (for us needing remedial instruction) the day before to start making a character.

I had spent the drive up trying to come up with a better concept for a character than I had had the day before, something that would be comfortable but still push the envelope a little for me. Amanita Grey had started as a dilettante. I knew she had money, and more, I knew she knew how to use it. When I started writing her stuff up, though, at the game, I realized she wasn't just an heiress, she had a criminal background.

"I wonder how much trouble, `My Mom Did What?' would give me as an aspect."
"There's no such thing as too much trouble." (consensus)

I think of her mom as someone like Mata Hari, but that's partially because Doyce encouraged me to use Amanita's mother as the patron contact with the Century Club. I am reminded of what I told the Barbarian in regards to having dead people as contacts - "That means they're out of trouble now, but can still get you into more."

For her second, "during the war," aspect, I kind of envisioned something like Lady Sybil Vimes of Discworld and her finishing school connections (ala The Fifth Elephant and Thud! which lead to her becoming a suffragette, as well as a diplomat. The perfect courier, I realized, as I was writing it up - she could be a reporter (mostly of the "gossip column" style to start) and rub elbows with the hoity-toity. (The "hoity toity" being several steps removed from the "hoi polloi," of course.)

It wasn't until the skills selection that I realized Amanita didn't know how to drive. That gave way to "I have people for that," which, like, "I can buy one of those," suggested Resources as a top priority. I need to look through the Stunts - I'm not fixed on the ones I've got quite yet, and I still need to choose one.