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    Circe's Avatar
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    Circe

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    Her skin turns a slate-blue and her hair bone white. The whites of her eyes are blood red, the irises are purple with cat-slit black pupils. The helix of her ears elongate out 2" inches ending in a tip. Her features sharpen and her figure has an unnatural, inhuman litheness that can be intellectually disturbing.
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    Her skin brings to mind Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Asian races, though her high cheek bones and sharp facial structure don't match. Most assume she is of mixed ancestry given the pale blonde hair. Alias Mary Maniscalo.
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    The "Rogue Mobile" might not be impressive by any estimation. Even if the blue Beetle was at least matching in color, if not shade, now it still didn't seem at all impressive. But it was what Circe had to work with for right now as far as driving was concerned. If she was going to use it at all for work, or as a backup escape ride, she needed it to be way, way, significantly way less pathetic.

    Sure, it couldn't haul much but once she recreated her old setup for smuggling that wouldn't matter. Hollows were brilliant for smuggling, turning any vehicle into a clown car. But she couldn't do that yet. She needed time, reputation, resources, and a lot of other stuff before she could do it.

    For now, she'd do what she could with what she had. Work may be small time with her having to respect small fishes, but she was making some coin. And making some connections too. She didn't know if the garage was a front or if the beef cakes had gone legit at some point but they were a contact.

    Plus, she'd been able to afford the parts she needed from the guys. No way were they going to respect Circe for her tiny car, but they might respect her for working on it. Considering how cheap it was to improve the engine, she might just tool it up for fun. Replacing a handful of engine parts to give a minor speed increase?

    Sounded easy to Circe! Even with just a multi-tool it shouldn't be that hard, right?

    1st day

    Date Action Roll Result
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [03] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 3, 5, 3, 2 failure
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [02] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 7, 10, 1, 7, 9 2 successes
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [01] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 5, 6, 1, 6 failure
           




    Six hours of work and Circe had to call it a night. This was a lot harder then she expected. She'd hit it in the morning or some shit like that.

    2nd day

    Date Action Roll Result
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [07] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 2, 2, 10, 5, 9 2 successes
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [06] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 3, 3, 1, 9 1 success
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [05] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 3, 2, 6, 6 failure
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [04] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 6, 8, 2, 8 2 successes
           




    Circe was cursing in Italian after 4 hours of working on the Volkswagen for a second day. She was less then thrilled. She gave it four more hours that day before giving up in frustration. Maybe she'd try again tomorrow.
    3rd day

    Date Action Roll Result
    2017-05-13 20:09:49 [08] Circe rolls 4 to Int + Craft + Tools (10 Again) 3, 10, 9, 9, 10, 3 4 successes
           




    Circe finally finished swapping out the parts. She was proud until she recalled: it took her three days to do this and it was still a Volkswagen Beetle.

    She'd spent three days on this project and felt less then happy. "Okay...okay, not doing this again without a garage. And a car worth tooling up. And knowing more about what I'm doing...fanculo, this was a waste of money."

    ooc: vehicle upgrade RAR in Armory: first speed upgrade parts cost the vehicle's cost minus 1 or 1 Resources, whichever is higher. Subcompact cost 1, so upgrades are also 1. Truth in Television: mechanics often practice upgrades on them because its cheap and easy.

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    Extended Tasks in NWoD are limited to a number of rolls equal to the dice pool (NWoD, p.128).

    Circe would be allowed four rolls, resulting in a failure.

    This sort of thing really needs a Workshop, regardless. You can't work on an engine with a multitool.
    Last edited by West; May 13th, 2017 at 08:42 PM.
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