IN> Ma Lei, Midwife

[William Keith]

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.