The Contessa

Here's the character for a session of the new Doctor Who role-playing game. I really enjoyed playing The Contessa, and she had a lot of fun interaction with the other PCs.

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“The Contessa”

NAME: Contessa Penelope Whitmore

ATTRIBUTES

Awareness: 4
Coordination: 3
Ingenuity: 4
Presence: 2
Resolve: 5
Strength: 2

(total spent: 20)

SKILLS

Athletics: 1
Convince: 3
Craft: 0
Fighting: 2
Knowledge: 3
Marksman: 0
Medicine: 1
Science: 4
Subterfuge: 1
Survival: 1
Technology: 4
Transport: 0

(total spent: 20)

GOOD TRAITS

Boffin (can create gadgets)
Brave (+2 Resolve to show courage)
Time Traveller (Familiar with technology level 4)
Time Agent (Familiar with Technology level 8, possess vortex manipulator, gain vortex trait as bonus)
Vortex (+2 any roll to control vortex manipulator or time travel)

(total spent: 6, plus 2 story points)

BAD TRAITS

Adversary (Minor) (rivalry with Time Agency)
By the Book (follows protocol, and deviation requires Ingenuity+Resolve+2;+2 to resist Hypnosis/Possession)
Distinctive (dressed as upper class Victorian female, carries parasol)
Obligation (Minor) (member of the Time Variance Authority)

(total gained: 4)

EQUIPMENT

Vortex Manipulator (parasol)
Time variance detector & tempoeral manacles (gold pocket watch) (2 points)
Retractable spyglass

STORY POINTS: 8

APPEARANCE

See picture (taken from Soulless by Gail Carriger)

BACKGROUND

Contessa Penelope Whitmore (“The Contessa”) is a junior member of the Time Variance Authority (“TVA”), a 51st century organization devoted to finding and correcting variances and anachronisms in the timeline. The TVA is a rival organization to the Time Agency. Whereas the Time Agency is known for a free-wheeling, gunslinging mentality (as demonstrated by Captain Jack Harkness and Captain John Hart), the TVA models itself after Victorian England: its members believe in caution, decorum, and protocol.

The Contessa travels through time with the aid of her Vortex Manipulator, cunningly concealed in her parasol. Once she arrives at the correct time, she uses a Time Variance Locator concealed in a gold pocket watch to help find the exact cause of temporal anomalies. The Contessa specializes in 18th to 20th Century variances, but hopes to broaden her knowledge in order to be promoted within the TVA.