I found a typo, so I have reposted this.  I hope it comes out in the right order.  If not, I suppose you'll all live.

This is a tribute to one of my favorite DC characters.  The conversion isn't quite perfect, but it does well enough.

The Perfect Weapon

Character type: Champion

Attributes

Strength: 5 (+1 from Demon Hunter, + 1 from Athlete)
Dexterity: 5 (+1 from Athlete)
Constitution: 5 (+1 from Demon Hunter)
Intelligence: 2
Perception: 5 (+1 from Demon Hunter)
Willpower: 4

Life Points: 65
Drama Points: 10

Qualities (20 + 10 from Drawbacks)

Demon Hunter, Athlete, Attractiveness Quality: 3, Nanjin Adept, Supernatural Senses - Empathy (from Perfect Weapon), Hard to Kill: 5 (From Perfect Weapon), Natural Toughness (from Perfect Weapon), Situational Awareness (from Perfect Weapon), Nerves of Steel (from Perfect Weapon), Fast Reaction Time (from Perfect Weapon), Perfect Weapon,

Drawbacks (10)

Physical Disibality - Impaired Language: 3 (from Perfect Weapon), Adversary ("Father"): 5, Adversary (Various): 1 (From Demon Hunter), Antisocial Impulses (Violence): 1 (from Perfect Weapon), Honorable: 2, Mental Problems - Delusions (Supernaturals are evil): 1 (From Demon Hunter), Outcast

Skills (30)

Acrobatics: 5, Art: 0, Computers: 0, Crime: 4, Doctor: 1, Driving: 0, Getting Medieval: 6 (+1 from Demon Hunter), Gun Fu: 0, Influence: 0, Knowledge: 0, Kung Fu: 6 (+1 from Demon Hunter), Languages: 0, Mr. Fix-it: 0, Notice: 5, Occultism: 3, Science: 0, Sports: 4, Wild Card: 0

 

Combat Moves

Maneuver	Bonus	Damage	Notes
Catch Weapon	8	None	Ranged Defense Action
Decapitation	8	Varies	Total damage x 5
Disarm (GM)	11	None	Resisted by Parry
Disarm (KF)	10	None	Resisted by Parry
Dodge	13	None	Defense Action
Grapple	15	None	Impairment Varries
Jump Kick	10	18 bash	Dex + Acrobatics roll adds SL to damage
Kick	12	12 bash
Parry	13	None	Defense Action; -2 against ranged attacks
Punch	13	10 bash
Stake	13	10 slash
Through the Heart	10	10 slash	x 5 damage for vampires; x 4 for other folks
Sword	13	20 slash
Takedown	13	5 bash	Knocks target down

Background on the Perfect Weapon

Words are... hard for me.  I was raised with no words.  My... father... made sure no one spoke to me.  Where you learned to speak, I learned to... move.  I learned to fight.  I learned to kill.  He wanted me to be... like him?  Worse?  Better.

Someone else can say it better.  Words are hard for me.

We found her in the midst of a pack of Nosferatu, killing them at least as easily as a young Slayer might.  As best I've been able to determine, her "father" was a member of the order of Turaka who killed any mortal parents she might have had and took her to raise himself.  This behavior is not unknown amongst vampires with sufficient age to have become sentimental and sufficient willpower to be able to resist the lure of easy food.

What is unusual is what he did with her.  He made sure she never heard human speech at all.  Instead, from the time she could walk, he forced her into a regimen of physical training, teaching her acrobatics, stealth, and combat... all in complete silence.  I can only imagine how that worked.

She has been trained by the best warriors, hunters, and assassins on the planet, and possibly beyond.  Her body and mind have been honed into perfect tools of violence.  Her abilities border on supernatural.  She "reads" people's body language as easily as you or I would read a book.  She knows what you're going to do as soon as you do.  She can see your every weakness, possibly even know what you're thinking.

And she always wins at Roshambo.

She is not the most forthcoming, but I have managed to piece together the rest.  Her "father" intended to allow her to reach physical maturity, then slay her so she'd rise again as a vampire herself.  He did not reckon on her extraordinary perception.  She saw his intentions at some point and broke away, and now she hunts vampires with all the fervor with which she would have hunted humans.

We have more or less adopted her, if only to keep her under nominal control.  Left to her own devices, she has no sense of perspective and no idea when to quit.  She also has almost no ability to deal with modern society.  She can only barely speak a few words, and is completely illiterate.  In fact, I think she's severely dyslexic.  Her spatial and linguistic thought centers are irrevocably intertwined.

Nonetheless, I hope we will be able to improve her quality of life, and god forgive me, we need her on our side.

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Roleplaying the Perfect Weapon

You're a highly-trained, utterly ruthless assassin, except that you have a deep regard for life.  You don't mind killing vampires.  In fact, you like it.  But you don't want to kill humans.  Hurting them is fine, though.

You're also a teenage girl (or boy, if you'd prefer.  We're not sexist here), with all the hormone-driven insanity that brings.  And things are really complicated for you.  On one hand, you have no social skills at all.  On the other hand, you can tell what other people are thinking by just looking at them.

So now you hunt monsters, knowing that at some point a showdown with your "father" is inevitable, and you try to figure out how to be a person instead of just a weapon.

Sample Equipment

Sword, Leather armor, Throwing Knives (bat-shaped shrunken optional)

 

Character Sheet by UniForge Version: 1.1. Last Modified 2006-08-07 17:25:32

Comments: As I said, not quite perfect.  Cassie should be able to understand any language, which is an ability worth two or three points.  But then again, she probably understands only basic, declarative, concrete concepts, so I guess it all evens out.