Ma Lei, Midwife

[William]

Molledet
Mercurian of Creation, IST Children (originally IST Flowers)

Attributes: ST 14 [0], DX 13 [-10], IQ 18 [45], HT 15 [10]

Advantages: Mercurian of Creation "IST" template, Force distribution (2/5/2) [29]; Vessel (aged Chinese woman, Struggling wealth) [20]; Role 4 (Ma Lei, grandmotherly local midwife) [20]; Extended Rite (Eli's expanded Rite "Deliver a baby.") [2]; Ally group (small group of fellow Mercurians of Creation, 100 points, appears rarely, 6 or less) [10]

Disadvantages: Social Stigma (Criminal Record) [-5]; IST Christopher [-5]; Code of Honor (Never talk about former clients; no sex selection, ever; don't charge if they can't afford) [-5]; Dependent (Lian, adoptee, 12 years old; 30 point build, loved one, appears on 12 or less (x2) ) [-24]

Skills: Chinese, Wu dialect (native)-19 [1], Angelic (native) [0], Calligraphy (Chinese)-12 [1], Literature (specialization, 20th century Chinese)-16 [1], Diagnosis/TL7-17 [2], Physician/TL7-18 [4], Area Knowledge (poor Shanghai neighborhoods)-18 [1], Streetwise-17 [1], Knife-13 [1]

Songs: Artifacts (Ethereal)-18 [0*]

*Mercurian of Creation Attunement

Equipment: lodgings and spare sundries of a poor Chinese woman supporting a granddaughter alone (80% "settled" portion of wealth); $1500 in surprisingly modern ob/gyn equipment hidden away in a secret room of the house; 2 talismans (Wu Chinese, 1 point each) [1]

Molledet is a balanced GURPS starting character.

"Molly," about a hundred years old, has spent almost that long in China and is nearing the useful end of her current Role's plausible lifetime. This is especially true since she is now in the public records, having been arrested multiple times for assisting local women in getting around China's "one child" policy. The existence of this blasphemy against the Word of Creation is something that infuriates Molledet, as it does most Creationers and the Archangel himself, and since the first moment the People's Republic instituted it, she has been helping women break it. She is a skilled doctor with a decent stash of equipment, some bought on a black market, some issued through Heaven's resources, and some traded for from local hospital officials sympathetic to her work.

Molly keeps in touch with a few local Mercurians of Creation that get together to pool Essence on quick talisman projects every now and then, and will vouch for each other's Roles. If some angels from out of town drop by, she hasn't picked up English yet, but she has a couple of talismans for Shanghai's most common dialect. She can also quick-shot a half-point talisman for any of the skills she knows, from medicine to local area knowledge to the art of calligraphy, if she has some way of accessing an additional 6 Essence (she'll need a big reliquary, or someone else that knows Ethereal Artifacts).

A dozen years ago, she adopted a child that would have been born into particularly dire straits; this is usually frowned on by Heaven, since you can't adopt them all and kids should be raised by humans, not angels, but generally speaking Heaven is understanding when an angel just can't do anything else. Lian is a bright girl who has gotten a superb education in more ways than one, from rigorous book-learning to an escapade with a Windie Cherub to seeing her "grandmother" attacked by evil men, rescued by men with magic powers, and regularly interrogated by some strange government officials that seem to dislike her, but whom she treats with utmost respect. She is still a child, however, and Molledet will go to great lengths to protect her. Demons who get a whiff of that factoid would doubtless make trouble.

[Moe Lane]

"Demons who get a whiff of that factoid would doubtless make trouble."

Up to the moment that they find out who the IST is to, of course. Then it's time for the stopping and the cold sweating and the running away quickly...

;)