Poker-Faced

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You rarely show emotion, especially to strangers. Whether you worked to develop this capacity or keeping your thoughts off your face comes naturally, people have a hard time reading you. Happy, sad, surprised, or enraged-most times, you seem equally inscrutable. The calmness of your face and body could reflect an inner pool of peace that shelters you from the storm of emotion that besets so many others. But sometimes you wonder-is your impassivity also keeping you from joy's storied heights? You gain the following characteristics:

• Dispassionate: +2 to your Intellect Pool.
• Skill: You like to keep them guessing. You are trained in all tasks related to concealing your true feelings, thoughts, and knowledge. This extends to being trained in deception tasks.
• Skill: You're strong-willed and are trained in resisting mental effects.

Initial Link to the Starting Adventure

From the following list of options, choose how you became involved in the first adventure.

1. Another PC saw how calmly you reacted in a minor emergency and invited you along.
2. Only through experience does one find true inner peace, so you volunteered to go on the adventure.
3. Living in the moment is part of being impassive, and the adventure began before you realized you'd become part of it.
4. You thought you were signing up for a poker tournament, and then things got strange.