Post by e on Sept 9, 2010 19:58:19 GMT -8
Penelope {Penn} Dymond
class: the Inside Woman
XP:
Reputation:
Attractiveness: 1 Buzz: Specialties:
Misdirection: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Tech: Buzz: Specialties:
Lore: Buzz: Specialties:
Persuasion: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Intimidation: Buzz: Specialties:
Sparkle: Buzz: Specialties:
Luck: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Empathy: Buzz: Specialties:
Lie: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Sleight-of-Hand:2 Buzz: Specialties:
Lockpick: Buzz: Specialties:
Sneak: Buzz: Specialties:
Connections: Buzz: Specialties:
Read: Buzz: Specialties:
Notice: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Rep: ----- Specialties:
Fasttalk: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Research: Buzz: Specialties:
Dirt: Buzz: Specialties:
Raised in London, college in New York City, Penn is a city girl. She's always put together and always has an opinion. She's smallish, with dark straight hair past her shoulders and brown eyes.
She got into hustling early, when her daddy not so rarely used her as his "lucky piece" when she was still young enough to sit on his knee and tell stories, jokes or sing a little tune for his visitors.
She tried to quit smoking a few years back and then realized it would be such a disaster in her line of work that she decided she couldn't be arsed and uses a cigarette now and again (and again) to her great advantage in meeting people and teasing information out of them.
Penn is superstitious individual. She has been for years, stemming from a period soon after hopping the pond for school when she was mostly alone and as a result of loneliness and the stress of being in New York and unable to leave while her younger brother called with daily updates full of guilt about their mother's failing health. She had always been the one to look after the family and so it was quite a shock to be unable to help with her mother's illness and subsequent passing, for her and for the rest of the family who immediately assigned all the blame for their hurt to Penn.
It was after a particularly upsetting phone call from her brother that Penn began to see things differently... a penny on the street lying faces or tails marking a day as an opportunity or a trap, the phase of the moon as a guide to the best time to strike up meaningless conversation with the chap in her finances class who's a bit of alright, having to use the middle stall in the loo as a portent of coming ugliness.
She's generally able to disguise this particular part of her when she's on the inside but if someone's watching carefully there will be hints of her affair with what her brother calls juju. In the company of close friends Penn is unapologetic and will often offer advice based on her particular vision of things.
Penn occasionally sings in jazz clubs for a little extra cash. She's been doing it since college when she paid for books that way and though she only occasionally sings now, the thrill of getting up on stage and crooning out The Night Has a Thousand Eyes or It's Only a Paper Moon never wears thin. Up in front of a crowd under the smokey lights her voice glows and she can turn heads in a fashion she usually has to vie for in daylight.
class: the Inside Woman
XP:
Reputation:
Attractiveness: 1 Buzz: Specialties:
Misdirection: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Tech: Buzz: Specialties:
Lore: Buzz: Specialties:
Persuasion: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Intimidation: Buzz: Specialties:
Sparkle: Buzz: Specialties:
Luck: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Empathy: Buzz: Specialties:
Lie: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Sleight-of-Hand:2 Buzz: Specialties:
Lockpick: Buzz: Specialties:
Sneak: Buzz: Specialties:
Connections: Buzz: Specialties:
Read: Buzz: Specialties:
Notice: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Rep: ----- Specialties:
Fasttalk: 2 Buzz: Specialties:
Research: Buzz: Specialties:
Dirt: Buzz: Specialties:
Raised in London, college in New York City, Penn is a city girl. She's always put together and always has an opinion. She's smallish, with dark straight hair past her shoulders and brown eyes.
She got into hustling early, when her daddy not so rarely used her as his "lucky piece" when she was still young enough to sit on his knee and tell stories, jokes or sing a little tune for his visitors.
She tried to quit smoking a few years back and then realized it would be such a disaster in her line of work that she decided she couldn't be arsed and uses a cigarette now and again (and again) to her great advantage in meeting people and teasing information out of them.
Penn is superstitious individual. She has been for years, stemming from a period soon after hopping the pond for school when she was mostly alone and as a result of loneliness and the stress of being in New York and unable to leave while her younger brother called with daily updates full of guilt about their mother's failing health. She had always been the one to look after the family and so it was quite a shock to be unable to help with her mother's illness and subsequent passing, for her and for the rest of the family who immediately assigned all the blame for their hurt to Penn.
It was after a particularly upsetting phone call from her brother that Penn began to see things differently... a penny on the street lying faces or tails marking a day as an opportunity or a trap, the phase of the moon as a guide to the best time to strike up meaningless conversation with the chap in her finances class who's a bit of alright, having to use the middle stall in the loo as a portent of coming ugliness.
She's generally able to disguise this particular part of her when she's on the inside but if someone's watching carefully there will be hints of her affair with what her brother calls juju. In the company of close friends Penn is unapologetic and will often offer advice based on her particular vision of things.
Penn occasionally sings in jazz clubs for a little extra cash. She's been doing it since college when she paid for books that way and though she only occasionally sings now, the thrill of getting up on stage and crooning out The Night Has a Thousand Eyes or It's Only a Paper Moon never wears thin. Up in front of a crowd under the smokey lights her voice glows and she can turn heads in a fashion she usually has to vie for in daylight.
