Liú

What a dashing duo of criminals these two make: a spiteful, resourceful woman who illegally changed her academic records with the help of a dark web hacker teamed up with an esper rodent is nearly unstoppable. Liu had a bright future ahead of herself as she stepped out of college and into direct work with NIMH, but not long after she began, word got out that her records were fudged. Stealing unpublished research and a lab rat named Frisby, the two fled the USA and promised to never look back, though the promise of big-ticket guests with loose information attending the Galactree's tenth anniversary ball tempts her more than the target threats from NIMH and a dangerous ring of cybercriminals...

Liú Xú is from Alaska and is Chinese and Russian by descent. She is fluent in American English, Cantonese, and American Sign Language, the latter of which is used to communicate with Frisby when not using ESP.

DEFAULT STAT MODIFIERS: +1 POW / -2 DEF / +2 SPD / -1 VIT (Liu); -1 POW / -1 DEF / +3 SPD / -1 VIT (Frisby)

PERK: Flowers for Algernon
Liu's rapier wit and Frisby's ESP form a powerful, forbidding force. Both get +1 to lie detection and +1 resistance to all unwilling ESP. This bonus doubles when Liu and Frisby are conscious and in the same room.

FLAW: A Tale of Desperaux
Growing up poor and living on the run takes its toll on your patience. Both Liu and Frisby attempting to retry an action after failing suffers a -2 penalty (this will permanently stack for certain actions). The duo also receives a success -1 penalty when Liu's HP falls under 50%.

SKILL: Mousetrap
This ruthless duo has learned a thing or two about how to make money on the dark web... Sometimes you have to kill a man to buy your groceries. Both have a +2 proficiency in grappling. Liu may roll to incapacitate a pinned target for up to four turns (D10, DC 6) twice per challenge, and Frisby may attempt the same feat once per challenge.