Qralloq's character

This thread is for Qralloq's character generation.

The first part is determining your initial characteristic scores. Will you roll, or will you distribute points?

I will roll the results. I'm initially planning on a social/researcher type, so I'll lean toward those attributes in assigning the rolls:

Group One rolls:

Group One (after dropping lows): 12, 6, 10, 9 ==> Social, Constitution, Isho, Colour

Group Two rolls:

Group Two (after dropping lows): 11, 12, 13, 9 ==> Strength, Learn, Education, Agility

Group Three rolls:

Group Three (after dropping lows): 8, 13, 17, 14 ==> Speed, Aim, Listen, Spot

Well, you'll hear everything!

Edit: if you haven't looked at how your choice of PC race changes your stats, you may consider reassigning those scores. For instance, crugar get +3 to LISTEN and -4 to COLOR, so that might (or might not) affect your choices. Your final COLOR characteristic will be used to determine the number of points into your "moon skills;" you'll need at least a 3 to be able to cast lightning blast.

12, 6, 10, 9 ==> Social, Constitution, Isho, Colour
11, 12, 13, 9 ==> Strength, Learn, Education, Agility
8, 13, 17, 14 ==> Speed, Aim, Listen, Spot

Crugar get +3 to LISTEN, +2 to AGILITY, +1 to SPOT, -2 to SOCIAL, ISHO, EDUCATION, and AIM ranks, and -4 to COLOR

Seems like he would make a funny Querrid, but it would be more on point to be a Jer (with a slight rearranging). I'll plan on Querrid for now, but switch if someone else is going to play one.

I don't want him to be useless, so I may rearrange later to make him more useful.

I think it would be very interesting to have a crugar querrid; it's an interesting story just to imagine how that choice of occupation came to pass, and what sort of personality makes such a choice. Crugar are traditionally aggressive/belligerent, so you could have a querrid who uses force to squeeze people for information, or you could have a mild-mannered crugar daintily turning pages of books with his claws, not fathoming why some people are uneasy around him.

Querrid are information gatherers. Anyone can hire a querrid, but they are usually employed by members of the alien species called Thriddle, because thriddle covet learning in all forms and they're willing to pay for information. Other races have a strange relationship with the thriddle - being gifted at organization, administration, information storage and retrieval, the thriddle have made themselves valued as clerks, administrators and record-keepers, necessary cogs in bureaucracies that are developing with the advance of civilization - but at the same time they are freakishly alien, with their grotesque eye stalks and foul scent communication. Similarly, querrids are useful, but somewhat distasteful in Ardoth for associating so closely with the aliens. To be a crugar on top of that? Brilliant!

Below are the skills for querrids and jers. Each skill has a rank (the number you'd have to roll if a check is required) and a level (which indicates how well you can do the tasks without a roll). The levels are unfamiliar, familiar, experienced, seasoned.

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Querrid
Cost of a querrid occupation is 7, which your EDUCATION amply exceeds. If you choose querrid, you'll have 2 points to use to increase any characteristics you choose. You will also have 2 points to add to the rank of any of the following skills. These are the skills you get from the querrid occupation:

Thriddle interaction 8/Experienced
thriddle language ("triddis") 3/Familiar
Info search 12/Experienced
Fauna recog 12/Experienced
Flora recog 12/Experienced
Weather 6/Familiar
Limilate finding 5/Familiar
Limilate preparation 4/Familiar
1 weapon at experienced (if it's a melee weapon, that's a 13; the rank varies if it's a ranged weapon)
Bargain 6/Familiar

Choose 1 of the following. Then roll 1d6. If you get a 6, choose another.
- Wilderness travel 6/Familiar
- Earth-tec at 6/Familiar
- Shanthic language 3/Familiar AND shantha interaction 4/Familiar
- cutting crystal 4/Familiar
- fast talk 6/Familiar

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Jer
Cost of a jer occupation is 9, which is below your EDUCATION rank, but it would require your moving around several of your characteristic scores to meet the minimums of 13 STRENGTH, SPEED, SPOT, LISTEN. If you choose jer, you'll have 3 points to use to increase any characteristics you choose. You will also have 2 points to add to the rank of any of the following skills. These are the skills you get from the jer occupation:

Flora recognition 12/Experienced
Fauna recognition 12/Experienced
Sword 13/Experienced
Crossbow 5/Familiar
Weather 6/Familiar
Silent Move 12/Experienced
conceal self 6/Familiar
First aid 6/Familiar
+2 to climb skill (athletic skills are part of step five; these points will be added to your initial score then)

Choose 2 of the following. Then roll 1d6. If you get 6, choose another.
- Thikes 10/Familiar
- Limilate finding 10/Experienced AND limilate preparation 8/Experienced
- Geography 6/Familiar
- cleash language 3/Familiar
- set traps 10/Experienced
- tracking 12/Experienced
- cooking 6/Familiar
- Foraging 6/Familiar
- caji etiquette 4/Familiar AND muadra interaction 4/Familiar

I like the idea of an aggressive Querrid. I'm envisioning Conan the Librarian from Wierd Al's UHF, but less barbarian and more D'Artagnan. Hotheaded but curious, eager but lazy. I'm going to make it a her, a fiery red furred cat lady.

I'll keep the stats as above, and choose Thriddle Interaction and Info Search as the two increases. Then I'll take Fast Talk.

OK, so thriddle interaction becomes a 9 and information search becomes a 13 (the levels are the same).

I'm about to post the next step's instructions.

Practical Knowledge Ranks: 33

I want a least one point into each, that uses 9. I like History and Earth-Tec, I'll put 5 more into both. Bio-Tec, Current Events, Geography get 3 each. 33-9-10-9=5 left. I'll put 3 in Fauna Recog, and 2 into Flora Recog - as Querrid skills these are probably common info requests.
- Arithmetic (6) - 1 = 6
- Bio-tec (6) - 1 + 3 = 9
- Current Events (6) - 1 + 3 = 9
- Earth-tec (6) - 1 + 5 = 11
- Fauna Recognition (6) - querrid(12) + 3 = 15
- Flora recognition (6) - querrid(12) + 2 = 14
- Geography (6) - 1 + 3 = 9
- Geology (6) - 1 = 6
- History (6) - 1 + 5 = 11
- Lore (6) - 1 = 6
- Traveler (6) - 1 = 6
- Weather (6) - querrid(6) = 6

Common Skill Ranks: 33
Info search seems important +5. Fast Talk and Bargain +5 each. Bribe, bureau, contacts, search: all +3
Cooking and First Aid as a hobby: +3 each = 33

- Bargain (6) - querrid(6) + 5
- Bribe (6) - * +3
- Bureaucracy (6) - *+3
- Conceal self (6) -
- Contacts (6) - *+3
- Cooking (6) - +3
- Fast Talk (6) - querrid(6) + 5
- First Aid (6) - +3
- Foraging (6) -
- Gaming (6) -
- Getting Around (6) -
- Hide in City (6) -
- Information Search (6) - querrid(12) + 5
- Search (6) - *+3
- Silent Movement (6) -
- Tail (6) -
- Teach (6) -
- Tracking (6) -
- Wilderness Travel (6) -

Agility Skills: these start at 2, but add 11 points to jump climb swim. Jump +8=10, Climb +2=4, Swim +1=3.

Extra Skill Ranks: 12 - these will take some perusing, so I'll edit these in later.

From moon skills (5), ill put 3 into Desti, Tra 1, Shal 1
- Fist (10) MELEE (clawing)
- Story Telling (4) + 2 more = 8
- Writing (4) + 2 more = 6
- Dysha: Lightning Blast (6) +4 more = 9

Money roll

So 130 yules. I start with a melee weapon (staff).
- Backpack - 15
- Water skin - 5
- Durlig (1 week) - 5
- Rations (bland, 1 week) - 20
- Lantern - 35
- Lamp oil x 2 - 10
- Tauther clothing - 30
- Yules remaining: 10

What do you think for your special item? An alien artifact, perhaps? Or some crystals?

Good question. I'll think about it and post later today.

I thought a crystal would be interesting, and rolled on the Dysha skill list, which ended up with a Ping crystal. Sound good?

Background
Origins: Miniri grew up in a city. She was born in a small village in the mountains, but she was the smallest of a litter, which was considered unlucky by her parents. She was abandoned in the wilderness, but after a day, she was secretly rescued by her father who then dropped her off with a travelling merchant, who, for a fee, took her to the city and found her a home.
Upbringing: raised by a muadra sage who was curious about how a Crugar kitten would grow up in an urban setting, surrounded by gentle researchers. Her childhood was mostly academic, and while she tried hard, she wasn't the star the muadra secretly hoped for. Nor did her command of the Isho impress. Still, she had some skill and was of assistance in their studies. [+2 skills from childhood - Ill make this Du 1 and Light Orb (6)]
Leave/Stay: she eventually ran away, her Crugar temperment growing ever more unsuited to life in a library, and, using her skills and training, found her father he recognized her, but they kept her identity a secret from her mother, which was a mistake as she saw in the young cat a rival. They fought and Miniri fled. Miniri returned to the city and made peace with her muadra guardian.
Siblings: [roll 1d6, see next post]
Friends (2): [roll 1d100 twice, for GM to describe]
Closeness: [roll 1d100 for 2 parents, guardian, siblings, and friends; do these twice]
Fascination: [I'm going to roll 1d20. On 1-17, from your list, higher I'll choose something else]

More rolls

And more

Interesting rolls:
- father: enjoy seeing but don't seek out; everything is fine
- mother: close and valued; everything is fine
- guardian: very close and opinions matter; everything is fine
-Friend 1: enjoy seeing; is fine
-friend 2: close and valued; is fine
-sibling 1: enjoy seeing; something bad and avoiding
-sibling2: enjoy seeing; is fine
-sibling 3: not close; is fine
-sibling 4: enjoy seeing; on bad terms / serious issue
-sibling 5: make time to spend; is fine
-sibling 6: enjoy seeing; is fine

Fascination: bio tec

I went though the character, and made a couple edits. I had forgotten that we get some moon skills for free, so I spent those and adjusted the Common Skills, edited into that post. I also picked the two Upbringing skills and edited those into that post. I think there are a couple steps left in the character details that I need to finish, including PC ties.

Adventures

- what am I, a cook book? There was a brief fashionable trend where it became all the rage to find obscure recipes from unusual cultures. The mystique was added if you could say something like, "it's a Shantha recipe that I learned from a Krugar" and so Miniri found herself in some sporadic, time consuming jaunts about to various kitchens, trying to find "old family recipes" from people who really didn't want to share such. Some of that information stuck, and she is turning out to be a reasonable cook in her own right.
- like Krugars and Woffens: there are those who feel that a Krugar Querrid is some sort of affront. Perhaps that is why Miniri has been tasked with a number of bargaining jobs with Woffen merchants. It takes some skill to learn delicate matters from the Woffen when you're really a big cat. Her favorite has been "what's the best place to stab a Woffen in order to incapacitate it with pain?" Turns out there is a nerve center under the arm... Don't ask.

Racial Attitudes

Miniri doesnt really like anyone. She has a sort of an understanding of what it must be to be Woffen or Muadra. Sort of misunderstood, but she has met enough people that she knows that people aren't their race. Except for Bronths, they smell like food.

They smell like food! I love it!

I think we'll be ready to begin tomorrow; I'll look to start the game thread later today.

In case it comes up sooner rather than later, Miniri learns by success rather than failure. She puts failure behind her and doesn't look back.

Wonderful!

It should come up PDQ.

Miniri was on an errand for some thriddle to look up crop yield numbers for the season of Auss in the year 3420. On the way to the Dharsage (royal) archives, she intercepted a group of ruffians beginning to beat a muadra. They were not pleased when a crugar had the audacity to interrupt them...they were even less pleased when they fled, bleeding and howling in pain. The muadra was Lerris, a caji who had fallen on hard times and had become a githerin (thief) diyorda (criminal), and the ruffians were from a rival gang that was upset that he was stealing on their turf. Out of gratitude, Lerris shared his store of crystals with Miniri, granting her a handful of yellow ebba crystals (4 remain).

Using an ebba crystal requires holding the crystal and concentrating on it. The user must spend one isho point and roll a check against his/her ebba moon skill to release the isho as a levitate dysha. Miniri really doesn't use crystals herself, but they are very useful as bargaining chips or for barter.

Character advancement for sequence three:
4 foci: Geography, Flora Recognition, Quaterstaff, Dysha: Lightning Blast