Robin Khan always loved Spring Break in Miami. She loved it so much that she is still going, now rapidly closing in on 30. But now she is on the side of the counter that serves the drinks. In school, she didn’t amount to much, and she has mastered the art of surviving in the urban jungle by taking on any kind of work that one can do without a degree. She always planned to focus on enjoyment, partying, that kind of thing, not money. Bartender, waitress, those are her kind of work. But now she has a string of increasingly bad jobs and bad relationships behind her, and reality cannot be denied any longer. And now the situation has hit the fan.
You see, she had realized that her latest partner, a guy called Brad or something, was really bad. As in “slinging drugs to teenagers” bad. So she decided to break it off. But she learned long ago that timing and choice of place are crucial in these kinds of things, and ‘middle of the night in a small alley behind the local IHOP’ does not work. You see, Brad was meeting someone about some supplies. There was the noise of some argument, then a flash, and then Brad’s head rolled out of the alley. She screamed. And then a tall man with a weird gas mask came out of the alley, walking with purpose towards her. He had an honest-to-god spear in his hand, and murder in his eyes. Robin decided to run and tried to get into Brad’s car. Except something struck the car, and a giant hole with glowing edges appeared in the door before her eyes. She turned, shocked, and saw the stranger taking aim with his weird spear, and knew she was dead. That is when suddenly someone threw themselves into the path of the shot, firing some other strange weapon. The tall man who had tried to kill her looked at the crumpled mass, dropped his spear, and fished out a large knife. Robin grabbed the weird lizard-like creature that had just saved her life, heaved to help it into the car, and somehow made an escape. The knife the stranger wielded left a large scar in the side of the car.
Robin is sure that she somehow got involved in a fight between aliens, but the weird lizard tried to save her. And now it is lying on her couch, breathing erratically, and she doesn’t know what will happen next. She has bound its wounds; maybe it’ll help.
Robin’s Role is that of The Nobody; she gets a point in the attribute Smooth and in the skills Fight, Shoot, Survival, Leadership, Speech, Detect, Fix, Heal, Know, and Dexterity. Her Feats from the role are Silver Tongue (she is good at lying, charming people and so on), and I’ll make a Phone Call (she knows a lot of people and can call them to get information, clues, and the like). She owns a beaten-up station wagon that her last boss gave her instead of her last two months of salary; it has a speed of 0. She got rid of the broken car of Brad or whatever. Choosing a Trope was tricky, but in the end, I went with Good Samaritan. That gives her Smooth or Focus (so Focus), the Feat Selfless (which means she is very good at helping others, for example dragging them into a car to help them escape), and a point each in the skills Endure, Cool, Shoot, Speech, Style, Detect, Heal, and Know. Her two free skill points go into Flirt; it seems criminal to just leave it at 1.
Now for the final detail; she gets the same 1 Cash, 1 Adrenaline, and 1 Spotlight everyone gets. She is 29, so an adult. Her catchphrase is ”Heya!”, and her flaw is that she avoids confrontation until she snaps.
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