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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8902614" data-attributes="member: 30538">Biānpào/鞭炮<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-BNd4SQC/0/7b8abad3/M/firecracker_jinx_by_monorirogue_d8escfd-fullview-M.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />As one of the most publicly visible members of the Sīfa Zhuānjiā, much has been revealed (and confirmed) about the personal history of Yang Dongmei, alias Biānpào ("Firecracker"). Born in Beijing in 1992, she was only thirteen years old when, for the first time in decades, fireworks were permitted as part of the celebrations for the Spring Festival. She remembers staring up in amazement at the lights in the sky, and claims that she knew what she wanted to do with her life at that moment. The latter part might be exaggerated, but she did grow up to work in a fireworks factory (and suffered a serious hearing loss while doing so.) Her dream was that one day she would get to work in designing the displays. To that end, she did a great deal of private study of how they worked, in the process developing a number of inventions of her own. Unfortunately, by the time she was in her early twenties, public opinion had shifted against fireworks once again, and Dongmei found herself not only frustrated in her ambitions, but out of even the job she was doing to support them. Supposedly, she considered using her inventions to go on a criminal rampage, but stopped herself before she started. She was someone who wanted to share beauty with the world, not terror. To do that, she was going to have to break the law, but she would have to do this in a smart way. So she got in touch with the Sīfa and began to use her talents and inventions for them. In the process, she learned that she had a very minor superpower and was able to calculate the passage of time down to the thousandth of a second, which she employs to set up her fireworks to go off with exacting precision. Dongmei has also studied with the hyperbrains of the group, unable to imitate their discoveries but able to incorporate some of them into her devices.Biānpào is currently planning to accompany a small group of the Sīfa on an expedition to the Sprawl, and expects to learn a lot to advance her gear. Plus, it sounds like a blast! (While taking her work of bringing beauty -- and thus truth -- to the world seriously, she also intends to have as much fun as she can doing so.)Biānpào -- PL 10Abilities:STR 0 | STA 3 | AGL 3 | DEX 3 | FGT 5 | INT 5 | AWE 0 | PRE 1Advantages:Accurate Attack, All-out Attack, Attractive, Defensive Roll 2, Evasion, Fearless, Improvised Tools, Inventor, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 3, Uncanny Dodge.Skills:Close Combat: Unarmed 4 (+9), Deception 7 (+8), Insight 10 (+10), Perception 10 (+10), Persuasion 8 (+9), Ranged Combat: Fireworks 6 (+9), Sleight of Hand 8 (+11), Technology 7 (+12), Vehicles 6 (+9).Powers:Expert Timing: Senses 1 (time sense) - 1 pointFirecracker Arsenal: Array (25 point); Removable (-6 points) <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 反沖/Blowback: Linked Ranged Burst Area Damage 5; Linked Burst Area Move Object 5, Limited to moving away from the center of the effect - 25 points</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 輝煌/Brilliance: Linked Ranged Damage 6; Linked Ranged Cumulative Affliction 6 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Fortitude; Visually Impaired, Visually Disabled, Visually Unaware), Limited to One Sense - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 燃燒/Combustion: Ranged Damage 8, Secondary Effect - 1 point </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 混亂/Confusion: Ranged Cumulative Perception Area Affliction 8 (Resisted by Fortitude; Dazed, Compelled, Controlled), Limited to compelling or controlling erratic behavior - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 閃電/Fulmination: Ranged Multiattack Damage 8 - 1 point</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> 著迷/Spellbound: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 6 (Resisted by Dodge, Overcome by Will; Hindered & Vulnerable, Defenseless & Immobile, Paralyzed), Extra Condition - 1 point</li> </ul>Protective Costume: Protection 2; Removable (-0 points) - 2 pointsOffense:Initiative +2Unarmed +9 (Close Damage 0)Fulmination +12 (Ranged Multiattack Damage 8)Combustion +12 (Ranged Damage 8)Brilliance +12 (Ranged Damage 6 and Affliction 6, Resisted by Dodge)Spellbound +12 (Ranged Affliction 6, Resisted by Dodge)Blowback -- (Ranged Burst Area Damage 5)Confusion -- (Ranged Perception Area Fortitude 8)Defense:Dodge 7, Parry 9, Fortitude 5, Toughness 10/8/5/3, Will 7Totals:Abilities 40 + Powers 27 + Advantages 14 + Skills 33 + Defenses 17 = 131 pointsOffensive PL: 10Defensive PL: 10Resistance PL: 6Skill PL: 7Complications:Thrills--Motivation. Hard of Hearing (wears hearing aid, Disabled on auditory Perception checks without it.) Hunted by the Authorities. "Let's Get Loud" (subtlety is not an option.)Note: Inspired by EternalPhoenix's <a href="https://www.echoesofthemultiverse.com/viewtopic.php?p=170979#p170979" target="_blank">Firecracker</a> archetype.</blockquote>

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