Laura's Character: Arielle Allais du Crieux
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 9:05 pm
Hello fellow lovers of the old 7th Sea system! I saw these games on the Gencon event list and was thrilled to get a spot in the 9 AM game Thursday. I haven't played this for a decade, but I still have all the books and went on a skimming-binge this weekend. Of course I waited until the weekend before Gencon to finally make my character...oops.
Thoughts or feedback are greatly appreciated; I haven't played this in forever. I have a character with 135 points, and know how I want to spend the 8 XP. My biggest outstanding question at this point is what on earth should my enterprise/business be? I will hash out appearance and starting equipment before game time. Here is the sheet and story thus far:
Arielle Allais du Crieux
8 Brawn 2
16 Finesse 3
16 Wits 3
8 Resolve 2
8 Panache 3
Reputation- 0
Advantages:
10 Inheritance (a thriving business, wine? Cheese? Textiles?)
10 Noble (Allais du Crieux family)
5 Membership - Invisible College, “Dabbler” style
5 Montaigne Servant (Porte Messenger)
0 1 pt connection (invisible college), contact in Montaigne
1 2 pt connection (invisible college), contact in Vaticine in Altamira)
2 Spark of genius - accounting
2 Linguist
6 two specialties (accounting, shopping)
-10 Arcana: Ambitious
Languages:
0 Montaigne r/w/n
1 Castille r/w
1 Vodacce r/w
2 Thean r/w
1 Avalon
1 Vendel
Skill and Knacks:
25 Bonita School
0 bind 1, disarm 1, wall of steel 2, exploit weakness 1
0 Athlete
2 climbing 1, footwork 3, sprinting 1, throwing 1
0 Fencing
4 attack (fencing) 3, parry (fencing) 3
2 firearms
0 attack (firearms) 1
5 courtier: dancing 1, etiquette 1, fashion 1, oratory 1, politics 1
4 scholar: history 1, mathematics 3, philosophy 1, research 1
0 accounting 1 (specialty)
0 shopping 1 (specialty
8 xp: 2 pt for lip reading 1, 4 pt for accounting 2, 2 pt for law 1
Appearance:
Equipment:
Arielle grew up in an atmosphere of scholarship, her father being an accomplished inventor and member of the Invisible College. Despite the current fashionable trend in Montaigne, Arielle’s immediate family is devoutly Vaticine. Her family’s estate is extremely profitable, being enhanced by her father’s inventions (windmill powered irrigation, advanced harvesting methods, etc.). Her father/family has been instrumental in increasing the wealth and power of the Allais du Crieux family. This family already known to be easier on the peasants than others when it comes to taxes, her particular branch has taken it a few steps further. Her father started a tradition of extremely good relations with the serfs and servants of the estate: creating gadgets that make their lives easier, and paying them far more than is the norm elsewhere in Montaigne (the family is rich enough to afford it). He also ties a bonus to how well the business does, giving them incentive to take pride in their work, the land, and the business. Arielle continues to act in this vein.
Arielle’s mother died of the flu when she was very young. She has a younger sister, Corrine. Both children were very close with their father, Bastien Allais du Crieux. While growing up, Arielle’s tutors quickly noticed she had a sharp mind for math. Delighted, her father found specialty tutors and helped her develop this talent. By the time she was a teenager, she became very interested in the accounting of the family business. Studying the books, she became adept at strengthening the business from an accounting standpoint.
A year ago, her father’s health deteriorated. Just before he passed away he revealed to the 18 year-old Arielle that he was a member of the Invisible College. For years, he had been helping smuggle scholars away from the Inquisition. They had always been welcome to stay in hiding at the business, or simply use the estate as a stopping point before traveling on to Avalon, Vendel, and other places where the Inquisition had less reach. He introduced Arielle to his primary Montaigne IC contact before his death. As dangerous as the work was, it seemed far more dangerous to allow so many brilliant minds and their work to be snuffed out from the world. Stunned by this news but impassioned by the cause, Arielle readily agreed to carry on in his stead. Since his death, she has inherited and taken over the business. She continues to enhance it with her math and business acumen. Publicly, she attributes the success and business cunning to employees. The IC knows the truth, and every now and then she receives a math-code message with a business problem or idea, seeking her advice.
She has great ambitions for the business, seeking to grow it into a thriving multi-national empire. She has combined this goal with a new one: to travel abroad to Altamira and help scholars flee the inquisition from Castille itself. Under the guise of traveling there for business and as a flamboyant noble, she hopes a loud, ostentatious presence and throwing expensive parties will distract any potential Inquisition notice away from her true purposes. The IC has set her up with a contact in the local clergy to help her in her search for any people in immediate or future danger of the Inquisition’s attentions. She plans to use her wealth and influence to send people to her estate, where they can remain in hiding or then continue on to other nations. She also plans to make connections there that can help her grow her business. Though abroad from home, she still runs the business from afar, using a pair of Porte servants who pass a chalkboard back and forth from Altamira and the family estate in Crieux. Rather inexperienced but very ambitious, Arielle has big plans for her time in Altamira. While she knows the courtier basics, her family had never been big on court intrigue and politics, so she knows she needs to learn fast if she is going to survive these dangerous games. It is time to get her nose out of the books, and into the world.
Her sister still lives at home, and is now 15 while Arielle is 19. Her sister has more of a propensity toward being a tinkerer, taking after their father. She is good at keeping up his previous inventions, and seems poised to start making some of her own soon. She does not know of the family’s involvement with the IC.
Thoughts or feedback are greatly appreciated; I haven't played this in forever. I have a character with 135 points, and know how I want to spend the 8 XP. My biggest outstanding question at this point is what on earth should my enterprise/business be? I will hash out appearance and starting equipment before game time. Here is the sheet and story thus far:
Arielle Allais du Crieux
8 Brawn 2
16 Finesse 3
16 Wits 3
8 Resolve 2
8 Panache 3
Reputation- 0
Advantages:
10 Inheritance (a thriving business, wine? Cheese? Textiles?)
10 Noble (Allais du Crieux family)
5 Membership - Invisible College, “Dabbler” style
5 Montaigne Servant (Porte Messenger)
0 1 pt connection (invisible college), contact in Montaigne
1 2 pt connection (invisible college), contact in Vaticine in Altamira)
2 Spark of genius - accounting
2 Linguist
6 two specialties (accounting, shopping)
-10 Arcana: Ambitious
Languages:
0 Montaigne r/w/n
1 Castille r/w
1 Vodacce r/w
2 Thean r/w
1 Avalon
1 Vendel
Skill and Knacks:
25 Bonita School
0 bind 1, disarm 1, wall of steel 2, exploit weakness 1
0 Athlete
2 climbing 1, footwork 3, sprinting 1, throwing 1
0 Fencing
4 attack (fencing) 3, parry (fencing) 3
2 firearms
0 attack (firearms) 1
5 courtier: dancing 1, etiquette 1, fashion 1, oratory 1, politics 1
4 scholar: history 1, mathematics 3, philosophy 1, research 1
0 accounting 1 (specialty)
0 shopping 1 (specialty
8 xp: 2 pt for lip reading 1, 4 pt for accounting 2, 2 pt for law 1
Appearance:
Equipment:
Arielle grew up in an atmosphere of scholarship, her father being an accomplished inventor and member of the Invisible College. Despite the current fashionable trend in Montaigne, Arielle’s immediate family is devoutly Vaticine. Her family’s estate is extremely profitable, being enhanced by her father’s inventions (windmill powered irrigation, advanced harvesting methods, etc.). Her father/family has been instrumental in increasing the wealth and power of the Allais du Crieux family. This family already known to be easier on the peasants than others when it comes to taxes, her particular branch has taken it a few steps further. Her father started a tradition of extremely good relations with the serfs and servants of the estate: creating gadgets that make their lives easier, and paying them far more than is the norm elsewhere in Montaigne (the family is rich enough to afford it). He also ties a bonus to how well the business does, giving them incentive to take pride in their work, the land, and the business. Arielle continues to act in this vein.
Arielle’s mother died of the flu when she was very young. She has a younger sister, Corrine. Both children were very close with their father, Bastien Allais du Crieux. While growing up, Arielle’s tutors quickly noticed she had a sharp mind for math. Delighted, her father found specialty tutors and helped her develop this talent. By the time she was a teenager, she became very interested in the accounting of the family business. Studying the books, she became adept at strengthening the business from an accounting standpoint.
A year ago, her father’s health deteriorated. Just before he passed away he revealed to the 18 year-old Arielle that he was a member of the Invisible College. For years, he had been helping smuggle scholars away from the Inquisition. They had always been welcome to stay in hiding at the business, or simply use the estate as a stopping point before traveling on to Avalon, Vendel, and other places where the Inquisition had less reach. He introduced Arielle to his primary Montaigne IC contact before his death. As dangerous as the work was, it seemed far more dangerous to allow so many brilliant minds and their work to be snuffed out from the world. Stunned by this news but impassioned by the cause, Arielle readily agreed to carry on in his stead. Since his death, she has inherited and taken over the business. She continues to enhance it with her math and business acumen. Publicly, she attributes the success and business cunning to employees. The IC knows the truth, and every now and then she receives a math-code message with a business problem or idea, seeking her advice.
She has great ambitions for the business, seeking to grow it into a thriving multi-national empire. She has combined this goal with a new one: to travel abroad to Altamira and help scholars flee the inquisition from Castille itself. Under the guise of traveling there for business and as a flamboyant noble, she hopes a loud, ostentatious presence and throwing expensive parties will distract any potential Inquisition notice away from her true purposes. The IC has set her up with a contact in the local clergy to help her in her search for any people in immediate or future danger of the Inquisition’s attentions. She plans to use her wealth and influence to send people to her estate, where they can remain in hiding or then continue on to other nations. She also plans to make connections there that can help her grow her business. Though abroad from home, she still runs the business from afar, using a pair of Porte servants who pass a chalkboard back and forth from Altamira and the family estate in Crieux. Rather inexperienced but very ambitious, Arielle has big plans for her time in Altamira. While she knows the courtier basics, her family had never been big on court intrigue and politics, so she knows she needs to learn fast if she is going to survive these dangerous games. It is time to get her nose out of the books, and into the world.
Her sister still lives at home, and is now 15 while Arielle is 19. Her sister has more of a propensity toward being a tinkerer, taking after their father. She is good at keeping up his previous inventions, and seems poised to start making some of her own soon. She does not know of the family’s involvement with the IC.