Ji Pa

Ji Pa is a member of the Wu-Keng and resides in Hong Kong, China.

Background

Raised from infancy by her family of sisters, Ji Pa serves as an aunt who performs tasks for their sprit masters, those who give them the Way. She is disguised as a street vendor in Wanchai where she hawks her wares daily. She is constantly alert to the people around her.

Since she knows no other way, Ji Pa is quite comfortable with the inherent contradiction of her being a woman in a man’s body dressing as a woman. She in fact didn’t know she was a man until recently. She only has lived as a family of women who traditionally conceal their identities through masking of their gender. She accepts the rules under which she lives and to obey her the elder of her family and perform the assignments given to her by her spirit master. She is unaware, as are most Wu-Keng, that the spirit masters have a demonic nature.

Ji Pa exerts some control over the protection racket in her part of town through use of food and advice to a local triad boss who visits her daily. The assignments given to her by her Spirit-masters take her out of her comfort zone occasionally. The duties tax her usual calm demeanour and require her to assassinate or torment those the spirits desire to be punished. She does not question her role she simply accepts it and returns to her hidden existence.

Appearance

''Ji Pa appears as a middle-aged peasant woman, with bound feet and a weathered, friendly face. Within the safety of her family, however, she dresses more elegantly, dropping 10 years of false age in the process. (World of Darkness: Hong Kong, p. 117)''

Character

Nature: Autist

Demeanour: Conformist

Essence: Pattern

Physical: Strength: 2, Dexterity: 3, Stamina: 4

Social: Charisma: 2, Manipulation: 4, Appearance: 2

Mental: Perception: 3, Intelligence: 3, Wits: 3

Abilities: Alertness: 2, Brawl: 1, Dodge: 2, Enigmas: 2, Etiquette: 1, Investigation: 2, Linguistics: 1, Medicine: 2, Melee: 2, Science (Toxicology): 2, Stealth: 4, Streetwise: 4, Subterfuge: 3

Backgrounds: Allies: 2, Avarae: 1, Resources: 1

Spheres: Entropy: 2, Life: 2, Matter: 2

Arete: 2

Willpower: 6

Quintessence: 7

Paradox: 2