ADOPTED DAUGHTER OF THE UNCONQUERED SUN
Disclaimer: I own nothing except Yuki Samada.
Note: This is the story of a Japanese schoolgirl drawn in the world of Exalted. I have been inspired by numerous fan fictions (one about Ranma) and the superb manga of Red River (unfortunately non available in France).
Character sheet:
Name: Yuki Samada. Concept: extra-dimensional exiled. Nature: caregiver. Caste: eclipse. Anima: sun corona. Hair: Black. Eyes: Hazel.
Strength: 2. Charisma: 4. Perception: 3.
Dexterity: 4. Manipulation: 3. Intelligence: 2.
Stamina: 3. Appearance: 4. Wits: 3.
Caste abilities: Bureaucratic: 1. Linguistic: 3. Ride: 2. Sail: 2.
Socialize: 3.
Favourite abilities: Martial arts: 3. Medicine: 2. Presence: 1. Athletic: 2.
Dodge: 2.
Others abilities: Melee: 1. Endurance: 1. Performance: 1. Resistance: 1.
Survival: 1. Awareness: 1. Stealth: 1.
Backgrounds: Artefact: 3. Familiar: 3. Manse: 1.
Charms Bureaucracy: Frugal Merchant Method (cost: 1, instant, simple).
Charms Linguistic: Whirlwind Brush Method (cost: 4, one scene, simple).
Charms Ride: Master Horseman's Eye (cost: 1, instant, simple).
Charms Sail: Salty Dog Method (cost: 3, one day, reflexive).
Charms Socialize: Wise-Eyed Courtier Method (cost: 3, instant, simple).
Charms Martial Arts: Striking Cobra Technique (cost: 3, instant, reflexive).
Charms Endurance: Ox-Body Technique (cost: none, permanent, special, one 0 health level).
Charms Presence: Harmonious Presence Meditation (cost: 6, one hour, simple).
Charms Resistance: Durability of Oak Meditation (cost: 1 per 2 dice, one scene, simple).
Charms Medicine: Body Mending Meditation (cost: 10, one day, reflexive).
Charms Dodge: Reed in the Wind (cost: 1 per 2 dice, instant, reflexive).
Merits : ambidextrous (can use both hands equally well and no off-hand penalty, 1 pt), visual and audio eiditique recall (nearly perfect visual and audio memory, 2 pts), tactical instincts (wits + lore roll to create a pool, 3 pts) and jack of all trades (no penalty to attribute roll if lacking an appropriate ability, 4 pts).
Flaws : unusual appearance (she is a Japanese, 1 pt), nightmares (the divine essence of her exaltation have unbalanced her inner self, 3 pts), barbarian (she has no knowledge of the rules of society in this world,1 pt), secret (she's coming from another world, 2 pts) and child (she's only fifteen and a little small, 3 pts).
Virtues: Compassion: 3. Temperance: 3. Conviction: 2. Valour: 2.
Virtue flaw: compassionate martyrdom.
Willpower: 6. Essence: 2. Personal motes: 12.
Peripheral motes: 30. Initiative : 7.
Health: 8 two 0 health levels, two -1 health levels, two -2 health levels, one -4 health level and an incapacitate health level.
Bashing soak: 3. Lethal soak: 1. Aggravated soak: 0.
Weapons: Knife: speed 7, accuracy 6, damage 4L, defence 3 and rate 4.
Short sword: speed 9, accuracy 6, damage 5L, defence 5 and rate 3.
Equipment: common clothes, knife, short sword, black warhorse Arislan, hearthstone bracers of orichalcum (+2 dice damage to all attacks and +3 dice bonus to dodge) and a hearthstone of wood (stone of healing+3 dice to all medicine rolls).
PRELUDE
She should have known. It always happened in the anime. Why couldn't have she shut her mouth. Fate do not like being poked, especially by a fifteen years old girl.
It has begun by the typical and extremely boring excursion of her class to the Tokyo tower. It was the most cliché outing of her life. What will she not give away to be bored now.
Of course, the others schools have had the same idea and so the observation deck was literally crowed by a vast majority of teenage girls who were making enough noise to attract or repel Godzilla. Yes, being devoured by Godzilla sound a good option.
And then, then she has the brilliant idea to copy one of her preferred anime. Correction, one of her hatred anime now: Magic Knight Rayearth. Oh yes she was very intelligent.
She located the exact centre of the observation deck and imagined herself hearing the voice of the Pillar of Cephiro. The Goosebumps should have warned her that something was not right, but no!
Not only, she felt deliciously happy at this moment, but she was also looking for a 'little adventure'. There was time when one wish for a broken limb.
It was not the instant transition of one world to another but Death and Rebirth. The pain was the first and last memory of the passage. She was sure that the windows of the observation deck had been shattered by her scream.
She felt like an army of ants had slowly cut her in millions of pieces. Then, after the digestion, the army had taken her away as she endured agony upon agony.
Upon her arrival (she thinks it was an arrival), she has been EXCRETED by the said army of metaphysical ants and reassembled like a puzzle. Unfortunately, no one was sure of the final appearance of the puzzle and she was not sure to have been properly 'reconstructed'.
And, of course, the reassembling of her body has been a descent to hell. Wave and wave of very intense pain. The only bonus? She was sure that no one was in the vicinity after hearing her screams.
She was still sobbing when she managed enough brain power to discern her environment. She was lying in foetal position on dense and tall grass. It was dawn: That was the first clue that something was wrong. It was the afternoon when she was at the Tokyo tower.
She was still clad in her seifuku (school uniform) and exterior shoes but that was the only things with her. She didn't even have her watch and she distinctly remembered checking the hour during the boring excursion. Well, it's was far from being boring now.
She slowly stood up on her feet. The brutal transition has left her dizzy. The setting held no recognition on her. It was a vast grassy plain with clump of little hills. The only problem with this pastoral vision was the complete absence of any type of civilisation. Absolutely NOTHING!
She was not dreaming. The still lingering pain of her whole body was proof. So where was she and what happened to her?
