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Name: River Tam
Alternate IDs:
Player: Summer Glau

Val Char Roll Notes
8 STR 11- HTH Damage 1 1/2d6 END [2]
14 DEX 12- OCV 5 DCV 5
8 CON 11-
8 BODY 11-
30 INT 15- PER Roll 15-
15 EGO 12- ECV: 5
10 PRE 11- PRE Attack: 2d6
16 COM 12-
2 PD
2 ED
3 SPD
4 REC Run: 8"
16 END Swim: 2"
16 STUN Leap: 1 1/2"

Disadvantages Pts
Normal Characteristic Maxima 0
Damaged Brain
1) Confused: Stress (Common), go 11-, recover 11- 20
2) Psychological Limitation: Schitzophrenic (Very Common, Total) 25
Fugitive
1) Hunted: Blue Sun Group 14- (Mo Pow, NCI, Mildly Punish) 25
2) Social Limitation: Bounty (Frequently, Severe) 20
Psychological Limitation: Coward (Common, Moderate) 10
XP

0

Base : 100
Disads : +100
XP Spent : +0
Total = 200
55 : Characteristics Cost
59 + Powers Cost
86 + Martial Arts/Skills/Perks/Talents Cost
200 = Total Cost
Campaign Use: River can be used as a PC, but should probably be considered an NPC with Plot Device powers.
Personality/Motivation: River is a tortured soul, unable to filter her own emotions, and lost in the madness her abilities have burdened her with. She loves her bnrother, Simon, and follows his lead.

Pts. Power/Skill/Perk/Talent END
Powers
Altered Brain
20 1) Telepathy: Telepathy 5d6; Receive Only (-1/2), Requires A Power: Psionics Roll (-1/2), Side Effects (Causes Stress; -1/2) plus + 5d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2); No Conscious Control (-2), Receive Only (-1/2) 2
19 2) Latent Precognition: Precognitive Clairsentience (Sight And Hearing Groups), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2); No Conscious Control (-2), Precognition Only (-1) 0
20 3) Accelerated Intelligence: +6 Overall; No Conscious Control (-2)
Skills
Accelerated Intelligence
9 1) Power: Psionics (EGO-based) 15-
2 2) Computer Programming 15-
3 3) Cryptography 15-
2 4) Deduction 15-
2 5) KS: Computer Databases (INT-based) 15-
2 6) KS: Computer Hacking (INT-based) 15-
2 7) KS: Computer Interfaces (INT-based) 15-
2 8) KS: Computer Networking (INT-based) 15-
2 9) KS: Starships (INT-based) 15-
2 10) SS: Astrophysics (INT-based) 15-
2 11) SS: Biochemistry (INT-based) 15-
2 12) SS: Cosmology (INT-based) 15-
2 13) SS: General Science (INT-based) 15-
2 14) SS: Gravitics (INT-based) 15-
2 15) SS: Holography (INT-based) 15-
2 16) SS: Hyperspace Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 17) SS: Kinetics (INT-based) 15-
2 18) SS: Mathematics (INT-based) 15-
2 19) SS: Metallurgy (INT-based) 15-
2 20) SS: Meteorology (INT-based) 15-
2 21) SS: Nuclear Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 22) SS: Petrochemistry (INT-based) 15-
2 23) SS: Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 24) SS: Planetology (INT-based) 15-
2 25) SS: Quantum Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 26) SS: Radio Astronomy (INT-based) 15-
2 27) SS: Solid State Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 28) SS: Starship Engineering (INT-based) 15-
2 29) SS: Stellar Evolution (INT-based) 15-
2 30) SS: Sub-Atomic Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 31) SS: Tachyon Physics (INT-based) 15-
2 32) SS: Thermodynamics (INT-based) 15-
2 33) Systems Operation 15-
3 34) Scholar Enhancer
3 35) Scientist Enhancer
Fugitive
3 1) Concealment 15-
3 2) Stealth 12-
Coreworlder
0 1) AK: Coreworld 8-
0 2) Acting 8-
0 3) Climbing 8-
0 4) Concealment 8-
0 5) Conversation 8-
0 6) Native Language: Sino-English (idiomatic; literate)
0 7) Paramedics 8-
0 8) Persuasion 8-
0 9) Shadowing 8-
0 10) TF: Personal-Use Spacecraft
Base OCV: 5 Base DCV: 5 Base ECV: 5
Adjustment + Adjustment + Adjustment +
Final OCV: Final DCV: Final ECV:
Levels: +6 Overall; No Conscious Control (-2)



DEX: 14 SPD: 3 ECV: 5
Phases: 4, 8, 12
2 PD (0 rPD) 2 ED (0 rED) MD: 0
END: 16 STUN: 16 BODY: 8


Height: 1.67 m Hair: Brown
Weight: 60.00 kg Eyes: Blue
Appearance:
Quote:"These are the ones that take you. They're the ones reaching and doing. They're the ones. ...everywhere, and the hands go everywhere... when you brush your teeth and, and nobody said anything... And then they come."
Background: A hyper-intelligent child of privilege, River found the Academy she was sent to to be more of a torture center than a school. No one knows yet what The Academy did to her before her brother Simon stole her back, because she's still too traumatized to tell them.

But she and Simon need to keep running?because the Academy wants their experiment back.

Even at a young age River had an exceptionally intelligent mind. While Simon was smart enough to become a gifted doctor, River was so bright she corrected her brother's homework when they were kids and even found errors in his textbooks. Their parents spoiled them and lavished them with luxuries, even signing River up for the best of all possible education programs: The Academy. Simon and his parents thought nothing of it; she was an exceptional child and belonged in a private education institution that could cater to her needs?but a few months after she had been away Simon began getting perplexing letters from her. There were misspellings and references to events or individuals who did not exist. Simon theorized that the letters were actually written in some kind of code. His parents were oblivious to any of this, and refused to entertain Simon's notions that his sister might perhaps be in some sort of trouble.

They were wrong.

While her family thought she was safe in a private education institution, in point of fact she had been taken to a scientific installation (possibly or probably funded by the Blue Sun corporation). Simon decoded his sister's letters and set out to try to get her back, seeking someone, anyone?even those living in Blackout Zones?who could help him help his sister escape. Money changed hands, and soon after Simon found himself captured by the local federal authorities?his father had to come down to bail him out. Upset that he'd had to tarnish his reputation, Gabriel Tam basically told Simon to either drop these absurd attempts to rescue his sister or not return home.

So.

Simon made arrangements, then made his way to Persephone and the Eavesdown Docks slums. There, he met with the people delivering cargo containing his sister in stasis from which she was later awakened on the Firefly Transport Serenity.

Unfortunately, the story of River Tam's history doesn't quite tell us who she is, but where she comes from. Exactly what River is now remains uncertain. River's brain was operated on countless times while The Academy had her in its clutches and she was treated for all intents and purposes like a laboratory animal. They still consider her their property, stolen by Simon Tam, and they will stop at nothing to get River back so they can finish whatever it was they were doing to her. (Simon knows for certain that, among other things, they cut into her brain. They even removed her amygdala, which is a part of the brain used to control emotional responses and 'filter' incoming information. As he describes it: "She feels everything; she can't not.")

Powers/Tactics: River's brain has been altered by the doctors of the Blue Sun Group. She has heightened psionic potential, limited telepathy, and other strange abilities (represented by the overall skill levels and massive skill list).


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