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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mal Malenkirk" data-source="post: 4454747" data-attributes="member: 834">Appearance : It's a bit more than just being pretty.  It's also sheer magnetism and sex appeal.  It means having a natural talent for 'presentation'.  Notice that the Intimidation and Style skills are derived from appearance.  In RL term, I could point out many Hollywood actors and actresses who aren't objectively beautiful people but who are quite dashing on the red carpet.  The reverse is true.    So if a Norca with an appearance 1 and Style 0 Shapeshifts into a top-model, she'll have her figure but not her poise.  She'll look like a clumsy, hot librarian.Some men may be turned on, but there will be no doubt that this hottie is no top model and most people may snicker at how gauche she appears and behave.  The power might be used to buy one or two automatic success in a seduction attempt, for example, but that's about it; the rest must be generated by skill rolls.I guess that's a fair warning; there's more to portraying a top-model or copying the CEO of Lumen than just looking the part.  You also have to act the part.  At first glance, your PC isn't good at it.  That's not a criticism; you can't be good at everything, you must make choices!  And indeed, the team was a little lightweight in a fight so it's good to have at least two PCs who are very tough out of five.  Early on it seems like overkill but later on...  Beside, there are many other uses to Transmogrify 3 beside copycat jobs and social infiltrations.  ---While I'm on it, not having firearms at all is a little excessive.  It's cool to focus on martial arts, but at least be trained in firearms.  Sometime, bad guys just aren't within arm's reach and running at them screaming isn't an option...Maybe just one or two social skills would be good also.  Since charisma is your strongest social attribute, a single dot in etiquette and/or savvy could go a long way.  ---The opinion of the importance of the mission is extremely low for everyone concerned except the control agent, Hector Ramirez.  Given the priority level, this mission could have been assigned to a team of two non-psi agent, or at most 1 psion and 1 normal.  But Ramirrez pulled strings to make sure a whole team of trained psion with multiple aptitudes would take it on, even if it meant that most of these psions would be rookies and/or associates instead of senior Trinity agents.  If you are a full Trinity agent, you get the assignement simply because you are a rookie and this is up your alley.If you are a Norça agent, it might be interpreted as a little demeaning to have been loaned for such a low profile assignement.  Usually, it's done for bigger assignment.Age : Psion are dunked when they are found.  If they are mere kids, great.  If they are 50+, so be it.  That's true in all orders, though Norca is more selective.  But if the older candidate is deemed good enough by Del Fuego, he's in.Psion who aren't killed violently probably have a longer life expectancy than normal humans.  But that's mostly because they tend to be healthier (and have easy access to a Vitakinetics).  There is no aging rules in Trinity which is usually interpreted to mean that Psion only suffer the effect of aging in their last years.</blockquote>

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