Samantha Lapointe

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• Name: Samantha Adélaïde Lapointe
• Physical Details: She wears her long black hair in a braid, with an ornament attached at the bottom of the braid. She dresses practically, in shorts and a t-shirt (usually, but not always, blue). She usually wears a black belt. She is above average height, and has brown eyes.
• Equipment: Katana, machine-gun (Colt M4 Carbine, licensed in Canada; uses 30-round clips usually fired in 3-round bursts), POST, and a pouch of six mana stones which she wears on her belt. She often carries up to 5 spare clips in her pouch as well.
• Abilities: She is a master of unarmed combat, and an accomplished swordswoman and markswoman. For ranged combat, she favours firearms, but she also knows how to use a bow or crossbow (though not as well). She also makes use of magic in battles, though she will use it only sparingly if her opponent does not have magical ability. Her hair ornament is hard and heavy enough to be used as a flail if necessary, though she doesn't do this much. This can be done either while it is still in her hair, or by removing it and attaching it to the end of her belt.
• Powers: Sam has the ability to manipulate Qi, altering the world to her will. The most common example of this is telekinesis, but many other things are possible. (Think the Force from Star Wars if you're not sure what I mean.) In addition, her mana stones bring certain useful effects to her fingertips.
• Personality: She has an irrevocable(?) sense of honour, and will always treat a fight with the formality of a duel. This does not in any way impede her effectiveness, for she does not assume that her opponent will do the same, and is always alert for anything that may catch her attention.
• Other: Before joining the Board and (later) coming to Tandy, she worked as a teacher of martial arts, both armed and unarmed, in Montréal.

Mana Stones

Each stone has certain properties, and will be depleted if used a certain number of times. They may be replenished through meditation.

• Blue: Weather manipulation, especially rain. Each may only be used once, for this is quite complex. Because of this, she usually carries at least two of them.

  • Material: Aquamarine (rough/uncut)

• Red: Fire in all its forms. This stone may be used five times before being depleted.

  • Material: Garnet

• Yellow: Lightning. This stone may be used seven times before being depleted.

  • Material: Amber

• Green: Healing. Depleted by a mere two uses, but unlike the others it replenishes itself over time.

  • Material: Peridot

• Brown: Sight, and truth. Unlimited use – while holding it, she sees through any and all illusions, holograms, etc. She also uses it as a lie detector. In addition to this unlimited use, it can be used twice for x-ray vision, after which it will no longer be useful for truth-seeing.

  • Material: Tiger's Eye Agate

• Grey: Magnetic; its natural magnetic field can be amplified with the use of qi energy. This stone cannot actually store energy, however.

  • Material: Magnetite

• Green: Luck and mental shielding. This stone can be used up to six times to shield against mental attacks; while charged, it also acts as a luck charm.

  • Material: Jadeite

Since the Board's mission to reclaim Mohaborad, Sam has acquired more stones. She now has eight seven blue stones, three red stones, three two yellow stones, and five green stones (still only one brown stone, though). She doesn't carry them all around, though.

In her match with Farlance, one blue and one yellow stone were destroyed.

The POST

The POST is a standard issue Boardie device which is capable of a number of functions, including communications, teleportation, and magical spells. Sam typically does not use it in sanctioned matches since she feels it is cheating; however, if she's hard pressed she will sometimes turn to it. The POST has two main functions which may be relevant in a match.

1. There is an attachment where she can slot in an empty clip from her gun. The clip will be refilled after a few seconds, effectively granting her infinite ammo when she chooses to make use of it.
2. The POST includes several quickspell buttons to which she has assigned spells from the POST's extensive database. Typical spells to be found there are "Teleport home" (which of course she'd never use in a sanctioned match), "Haste", and "Holy Water". The exact contents of the quickspell slots vary a bit, since she can reassign them when she has time.

Samantha is a member of the Board, and as such is hooked up to their RESPAWN system. This has no practical effect on anything she does on the Wotch forums, except that if she were to be killed she will eventually be fully resurrected (a week or two later).