Talent: John Henry's Stamina

Talent: Tennis -- Like so many other South Indian kids, she went to tennis camps aplenty, though carpal tunnel (combining tennis and programming is a BAD idea!) has kept her from progressing further in the U.S.T.A. rankings of late. (I anticipate this coming in handy in melee-style combat, mostly, with dodge and WHACK rolls?).

Nice concept! I like that your stats are fairly equally distributed, to reflect your Jack-of-All-Trades background. I'm wondering about your talent. Could you see yourself being able to apply it to, say, an Academics roll, or a Contact roll? Again, it can add an extra die if it applies to the situation. And I'm guessing that that stamina comes from perhaps working some of those jobs in parallel? Teacher by day, taxi driver by night, for example?

Yes! That's the idea. 12 hour work days, grading endless papers, driving endless circles around the city, standing for hours on end in front of the club or in a hot kitchen. I couldn't think of a better name for it.

OK. I'm still not sure if there's a possible situation where it might apply to, say, Academics, but we can run with it.

From an InSpectres standpoint, a truly useful Talent is one applicable to all four skill rolls at some point or other. Combat is generally an Athletics roll, and yes, Tennis could easily apply there. It's nice to turn that "2" into a "3". How could you apply it to Academics? Technology? Contact?

Looks good. Weird agents aren't in the free Startup guide; you want to give Krishna and Mario a brief rundown on how they work? And...a weird agent isn't *required*. It sort of looks like you're doing it reluctantly. If you'd rather be another normal agent, go for it.

I need to think about this one more, or think of a new Talent, perhaps.

Tennis sounds pretty good for Contact and Athletics. I reckon you could stick with it and see what kind of tennisy stories it inspires. While you're tinkering with the character sheet, I think you spent one too many points on abilities (should be a total of nine points for non-weird agents).

There's a thread of academia in the character backstories, so the franchise could be in a university town, perhaps as an industry partner of the Faculty of Paranormal Studies. If so, then many of the franchise staff could be students doing a prac subject. And maybe the franchise owner is a current or former dean.

I've seen a number of start-up companies arise from university research, so sure, this makes good sense. (Now I'm thinking out loud here...) A university professor has some new theories, so he/she establishes an Inspectres franchise in town to put some of those theories to the test. I could totally see this happening in Berkeley. Flora, a botany professor from UC Davis (a university with a strong agricultural history (my wife has a Botany M.S. from UC Davis ) *and* strong ties with UC Berkeley) could have been pulled into this by the Berkeley professor after her "accident" took place, or maybe it's even Flora herself whose established the franchise.

More thoughts?