Ok so I might give Underrail another chance since
Modron said that Styg added katanas in the expansion. But I need some feat and attribute/ skill recommendations for my character build, because when I read the feat descriptions nothing really jumps out. I just want an rpg where I can play some version of my pet cyberpunk rpg character, Qinalo, a female cartel assassin. The original Underrail didn't let me do that so hopefully with the expansion I can do that and at least finish the game (or get to the Caverns). Yes I know that Underrail is not cyberpunk, so I realize that part of the problem is that I'm trying to play a cyberpunk character in a post-apocalyptic rpg.
Qinalo is inspired by
Katherine Hart from Shadowrun and
Shadow from the fighting game Eternal Champions.
Katherine Hart, aka Katherine Roe was a professional shadowrunner of considerable reputation in mid-2050s.
A beautiful elven woman with a taste for expensive fashion, Hart was an accomplished magician. Hart's partner was a feathered serpent dracoform named Tessien.
Yamoto was a corporate assassin working for the
Black Orchid Corporation. Her job was to liquidate certain individuals whose activies were at odds with the group's international business 'objectives'. She continued in this line of work, never questioning the morals of her missions, until she discovered that failure to complete a task meant that another assassin would come looking for her, ready to eliminate her. Disillusioned, she resolved to expose the terrible corruption she saw all around her. Unfortunately, before she could do so, she was pushed from the 101st floor of a
Tokyo tower block.
This is a brief description:
Cartel Assassin for scifi/ WoD/ AoD - Qinalo (Alesio Qin, female, Latina/ Asian mixed ancestry, religious/ spiritual, drug addiction, Queen of Blood Diamonds, serpent themed). STRIKE HARD. STRIKE FAST. NO MERCY.
She is also based on real life female cartel assassins, especially La China (Melissa Magarita Calderon) and Claudia Ochoa Felix.
So I want skills and feats that you this think character would have.
I also use these illustrations to help define Qinalo:
Gregz said I should describe what Qinalo does in combat. Hart was a 1/2 mage adept, 1/2 physical adept who used magic to enhance her combat senses and her accuracy with sniper rifles and other long range items (so in Dragonfall terms, she was a self-buffing mage). Qinalo should have some viper-like abilities, such as poisons. For example, in Dragonfall, she had the cyberware lung replacement where she could breathe poison gas. In WoD she is a Setite cartel assassin with Mask of 1000 Faces and Majesty vampiric powers. She is not a sniper specialist, nor is she a very stealthy character (although she could be a little stealthy. But she's an assassin, not a thief). She's a vicious melee fighter who does not wear combat armor. An article describes La China's tactics here -
La China
reportedly works with other women, specifically Gabriela Hulzar Lopez, or "La Gaby," to lure and kill their rivals, authorities told local news outlets.
In one documented case, which has been said to be their typical modus operandi, La Gaby pretended to be drunk outside of a bar, falling down, with her skirt nearly above her waist. When the intended target stopped to try to help the woman, La China emerged from the darkness, guns blazing.
So basically Qinalo uses disguise and distraction to get close and then uses guns or knives to quickly overpower and kill the target. She's probably not too different from Chigurh in
No Country for Old Men, except her combat abilities are slightly enhanced by supernatural powers of religious or mythological nature (i.e. Santa Muerte or Coatlicue).