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Chapter 7 by Zingiber Zingiber

Roll 2d6+COOL(+0) to STALK Karen's visitor.

On a 7+, meet Karen's visitor Ulva Lupino

STALK: 2d6+COOL(+0) = 9, she's interested, you meet her in a public place or with trouble on the way.


A hand with an expensive manicure and blood-red nails parts the bamboo curtain at Karen Yoshida's back door.

Karen's guest is a tall woman with her black hair in a short perm. She's wearing shiny black pumps with gold mock buckles, gray silk stockings, and a gray chalk-stripe skirt-suit.

"Well, what have we here?" she says. "If this is who shows up to clean your pool, Karen, maybe it's time for me to put one in."

Karen's visitor checks you out in an obvious way, tilting her head and looking you up and down and actually licking her lips.

"Pleased to meet you," she says. "I'm Ulva Lupino."

Under her short black perm, Ulva has a face ready for drama, wearing a hungry expression set off with bold red lipstick, heavy dark brows, and a beaky nose. She looks like ten million dollars of lawsuit waiting to fall on you like a building, and she has an Amazon's broad-shouldered build pumped up at an executive gym.

You don't know if you could take her. Of course Karen Yoshida herself is a kickboxer, so you suspect you're completely outclassed. Good thing you're just here to clean the pool.

"I'm Joe, here for the pool," you say. You hold up your picture badge from the pool company. Just a little more work to do for Ms. Yoshida today."

"What a coincidence, so do I."

Is she leading you on?

"If you want to ask about the pool service, I'll be around for a while. Out front in the pick-up truck writing up today's service after I'm done." You hand her the company card with your name, JOE KELLY on it, and the title Technician.

"Ulva?" Karen says impatiently.


Roll +Hot(+2) to entice Ms. Lupino using TELL HER.


Rolls for Karen's curious visitor: One Page Engine NPC: Soldier (social), obvious trait (simple, physical), goal to serve (technical). A negotiator, interviewer, contract lawyer? We already know she is smartly dressed and wearing shoes with clicky heels. -> This is Ulva Lupino, who shows up in another branch as a divorce lawyer for Anne Campion, Joe's boss at his lifeguard job. Obvious simple trait: she's tall, and taller yet in mid-high heels.

Roll +Hot(+2) to entice Ms. Lupino with TELL HER

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