Soul Seek - Revision history

PeepTheDictator at 01:52, 10 August 2026

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	{{SearchTable\|		{{SearchTable\|
	\|LowThreshold=1		\|LowThreshold=1
	\|LowResult=		\|LowResult= "Four arms? 4 eyes? Yeah, I've seen stranger. Think she camps somewhere outside the border. Doesn't bother anybody far as I know."
	\|MidThreshold=3		\|MidThreshold=3
	\|MidResult=		\|MidResult= "Soul Seek, right? Weird one. SINless by choice, apparently. Knows the woods, knows smugglers, knows spirits way better than somebody without Magic really oughta. She's done work around town, but nuyen doesn't seem to be what gets her moving. Point her toward some mage treating spirits like disposable ammo, though? Yeah. That'll do it."
	\|HighThreshold=5		\|HighThreshold=5
	\|HighResult=		\|HighResult= "Don't call her a spirit hunter. Other way around, mostly. Heard she's got this little collection of things spirits gave her—won't buy 'em, won't trade for 'em, won't even ask for one. Apparently she's looking for something. Enlightenment, truth, whatever. Also heard she had a teacher back in India that she walked out on real ugly. Nobody I've talked to knows exactly what happened, but if some conjurer starts getting creative with bindings around her, I'd recommend standing somewhere else.
	}}		}}

	==Assensing Table==		==Assensing Table==
	{{AssensingTable\|		{{AssensingTable\|
	\|Result1=		\|Result1= Naafiri is healthy, if somewhat weathered by a life spent outdoors. Her aura carries an unusual mixture of patience and constant curiosity; even when relaxed, some part of her always seems to be paying attention to something just outside her reach.
	\|Result2=		\|Result2= No cyberware is apparent. Beneath the calm sits an old, well-managed bitterness that becomes considerably sharper around cruelty or coercion.
	\|Result3=		\|Result3= No alphaware is apparent. More strangely given her appearance and manner, she is not Awakened at all. No Magic. Nothing lurking beneath the surface waiting to resolve itself into an obvious aura of power. Just a mundane woman staring very intently at a world she cannot see.
	\|Result4=		\|Result4= No bioware or betaware is apparent. Essence 6, Magic N/A, Force N/A. Her metagenetic alterations seem entirely natural to her body. There is nevertheless something almost uncomfortable about how her aura reacts around active magic. Not magically, but emotionally, like watching someone's attention snap toward a sound you cannot hear.
	\|Result5=		\|Result5= No deltaware, gene treatments, nanotech, or chronic illness are apparent. Beneath everything else is an intense sense of longing. Not envy exactly. She doesn't seem to want another magician's power so much as she desperately wants to understand what they're touching. Around spirits that curiosity becomes softer, almost reverent—but there is no worship in it. She is looking for an answer, and she clearly hasn't found it yet.
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Matrix Search Table

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	==Matrix Search Table==		==Matrix Search Table==
	{{SearchTable\|		{{SearchTable\|
	\|LowResult=		\|LowResult= "Soul seeking" turns up exactly what you'd expect. Meditation hosts, self-help feeds, Awakened philosophy boards, trid documentaries, and several thousand people claiming to have discovered enlightenment for the low price of a subscription.
	\|MidResult=		\|MidResult= Digging into less respectable corners of the Matrix turns up occasional references to Soul Seek, usually attached to border crossings, talislegging chatter, or stories about an unusually distinctive Nartaki woman passing through. There are a handful of blurry images: four arms, strange pigmentation, and what appears to be a third eye. She doesn't seem interested in maintaining much of an online presence herself.
	\|HighResult=		\|HighResult= Old Indian records finally give you something. A girl named Naafiri appears among records surrounding one of the Ganges metagenetic incidents, later receiving unusually extensive magical examination despite never Awakening. Academic references connect her for several years to Dr. Kiran Rao, an Awakened researcher specializing in conjuration and spirit theory. Then the trail ends abruptly. Some years later, fragments matching her description begin appearing along smuggling routes leading west. Whatever happened between Rao and his student never made it into the public record.
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PeepTheDictator at 00:50, 10 August 2026

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	\|Name= Philip		\|Name= "Philip"
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	\|Name= ~~Canadian Pacific Ghost Train~~		\|Name= Adeptus
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	\|Name= ~~Corf~~		\|Name= Canadian Pacific Ghost Train
	\|Loyalty= 3		\|Loyalty= 1
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Contacts

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	\|Name= ~~Ante(Contact)~~		\|Name= Abracadebra
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			{{HasContact\|
			\|Name= Corf
			\|Loyalty= 3
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PeepTheDictator at 00:16, 10 August 2026

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	Some time later the spirit found her again, leaving behind a small object before disappearing. It wasn't much, but being something freely given by a spirit rather than taken from one, Naafiri kept it.		Some time later the spirit found her again, leaving behind a small object before disappearing. It wasn't much, but being something freely given by a spirit rather than taken from one, Naafiri kept it.

			=== Leaving India ===
			After leaving Kiran, Naafiri kept moving.

			Most of what kept her alive came from years spent traveling beside him. Navigation. Tracking. Knowing when a place felt wrong and when it was time to leave. The rest she picked up from the people she crossed paths with. Pilgrims, smugglers, talismongers, people living far enough outside polite society that survival mattered more than paperwork. They taught her how to live off the land, cross borders quietly, and disappear when somebody started asking the wrong questions.

			Seattle became the destination eventually. Not because she wanted the city, but because she knew what lived inside it. Spirits used as tools. Magicians willing to hurt them. Corporations with enough money to make cruelty procedural. It was somewhere she thought she could do some good, and somewhere a few people had already earned her attention.

			So she settled outside the sprawl.

			Close enough to reach it when she needed to.

			Far enough to be safe from it's grasp.

	== Narrative Significant Qualities ==		== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

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	==Background==		==Background==

	===Childhood===		==='''Childhood'''===
	Born within the Indian Union, Naafiri was a rather normal human growing up within the schooling system, when at about age 5, when bathing in the Ganges during Holi along with several of the other women who SURGEd into ~~Narataki~~. Although, unlike much of them, her SURGE did not seem to stop at simply growing extra arms. She continued to change in the coming days, as the festival of color and love seemed to blur into new sensations and feelings, whereafter she was quickly hospitalized due to chronic migraines.		Born within the Indian Union, Naafiri was a rather normal human growing up within the schooling system, when at about age 5, when bathing in the Ganges during Holi along with several of the other women who SURGEd into Nartaki. Although, unlike much of them, her SURGE did not seem to stop at simply growing extra arms. She continued to change in the coming days, as the festival of color and love seemed to blur into new sensations and feelings, whereafter she was quickly hospitalized due to chronic migraines.

			Although much of the panic surrounding the event eventually subsided, Naafiri would experience something of a culture shock in its wake. Nartaki were quickly hailed as ''dhan'ya'': those "touched by the gods". Following that, regardless of the station she'd been born into, Naafiri found herself thrust upward into the Brahmin varna. Her family suddenly found doors opening that they had never possessed the standing to knock upon before; better schooling, religious instruction, private physicians, and patrons eager to involve themselves in the upbringing of one of the strange new children of the Ganges. Her third eye and unusual expression made the possibility of Awakening obvious enough that her patrons arranged for specialists to examine her. She showed no ability to cast, conjure, or perceive the astral, but she could reliably tell them when magic was occurring around her. Although this was eventually determined to be a metagenic change exclusively.

			The migraines persisted after the physical changes stopped, accompanied by sensations she struggled to describe whenever magic was worked nearby. One of those specialists was '''Dr. Kiran Rao''', an Awakened scholar of conjuration and spirit theory. Initially, Rao's involvement was clinical. Although, after some time, Rao eventually stopped bringing only diagnostic equipment and began bringing books.

			By Naafiri's request, and with the approval of those overseeing her education, occasional examinations became formal tutoring. It was beneath his instruction that she first began studying the different forms of magical expression, the competing theories surrounding spirits, and the traditions through which metahumanity had attempted to understand them.

			=== '''The Fall From Grace''' ===
			During her study, she would begin to travel India with her mentor on behest of his divinations. The two of them meeting with local spirits, investigating strange magical sites, and finding bits and pieces of history that didn't quite line up with what Naafiri had been taught. Although whenever she began asking about some of these inconsistencies, Kiran would usually turn her away. Some of what he had found over the years wasn't something he believed should be spread, especially with what knowing the kind of attention that draws.

			As she grew older, the two would begin to disagree more often on his treatment of spirits. Kiran had begun binding them for longer periods of time, and became much more willing to force information from those he thought knew something important. This eventually led Naafiri to decide she was going to leave his tutelage altogether. It was only then that Kiran finally told her why he had become so desperate.

			He showed her pieces of the research he'd kept hidden over the years. Mentions of things beyond the veil which threaten life itself... Kiran didn't know everything about them, nor did he particularly want to. What he did know was enough for him to refer to them simply as '''The Enemy''', and warn Naafiri that learning more about them was dangerous in its own right. Though, in his eyes, that danger made learning what spirits knew about them all the more important. The fight was traumatizing for the both of them, but in the end Naafiri couldn't come to reconcile his actions and left his tutorage. Before doing so, she discovered that Kiran had gotten ahold of the formula of a free spirit and had been repeatedly binding it in hopes of getting information about The Enemy out of it. She destroyed what copies she could find and freed it, burning whatever was left of her relationship with Kiran in the process.

			Some time later the spirit found her again, leaving behind a small object before disappearing. It wasn't much, but being something freely given by a spirit rather than taken from one, Naafiri kept it.

	== Narrative Significant Qualities ==		== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

	===~~Positive~~===		=== SURGE: ===

			* '''''Extreme Awareness:''' (Broadened Auditory System:Infra & Ultra, Vomeronasal Organ)'' ''To awaken in the rivers a new woman, reborn into the world as a woman embodying the karma of my previous incarnations.''
			* '''''6th sense: ('''Magic Sense, Thermal Sensitivity, Electroception [Technosense]''')''''' ''What a gift...''
			* '''Karmic Debt:''' (''Albinism II, Bioluminescence, Scales, Third Eye (4 eyes), Unusual Hair'', ''Critter Spook'', ''Berserker'') ''What a burden...''

			=== Common: ===
			'''Karmic Guide:''' ''Fortune will carry me as far as I'm needed, and then no further...''

			* (''Lucky [8 edge], Beholden to Fate R1'')

			'''Untainted Vessel:''' ''I will not allow my body to be burdened by the machinations of man, to take away from my soul, would be to rob myself of my future incarnations. I will find a way to Nirvana, and I will not allow this life's impotence to impede me.''

			* (''Sensitive System, Slow Healer'',)

			'''Secrets Best Left Buried:''' ''I must do all that I can to prepare for the incoming darkness, people must be brought together... I cannot let my mentor's visions come true.''

	~~===Negative===~~		* (''History is Not As Certain As We Are Taught'')

	==Run History==		==Run History==

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	===Summary===		===Summary===
			A masked drifter who prides themself on their dealings with spirits, they seem to notice everything.

	===Goals===		===Goals===
			- Get magic somehow (spirit pact - 'latent awaken')

			- Hunt Mages who abuse spirits

			- Collect as many spirit tokens as possible

			- Discover the true nature of her fate

	==Background==		==Background==

	===~~A History~~===		===Childhood===
			Born within the Indian Union, Naafiri was a rather normal human growing up within the schooling system, when at about age 5, when bathing in the Ganges during Holi along with several of the other women who SURGEd into Narataki. Although, unlike much of them, her SURGE did not seem to stop at simply growing extra arms. She continued to change in the coming days, as the festival of color and love seemed to blur into new sensations and feelings, whereafter she was quickly hospitalized due to chronic migraines.

	== Narrative Significant Qualities ==		== Narrative Significant Qualities ==

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Character Information

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	=Character Information=		=Character Information=

	===Summary===		===Summary===


	===Goals===		===Goals===