Body: 5
Mind: 8
Soul: 11 (mostly due to the 'harmony with nature' bit)
Hit Points: 70/80
Energy Points: 93/95
Ika-musume is a fearsome and uncompromising squid invader who comes from the bottom of the sea, and burns with a hatred of humanity and the damage it has wrought against nature! Fortunately for humanity, she is easily distracted and/or intimidated, lazy, and a poor long-term planner. If granted any wish, would choose to eradicate 90% of humanity in order to put a permanent stop to ocean pollution. She is, of course, devious enough to only talk about her desire in vague terms as an 'invasion', so the other characters should not know about this. And, having the exterior appearance and personality of a twelve-year-old woobie, no one would even take her seriously if she did admit to her sinister motive.
Traits and Flaws
Tentacles! Instead of hair, Ika-musume has ten prehensile tentacles. These can be used to pick up and manipulate objects (assuming the manipulation can be done without opposable thumbs), lift and (about three to four tentacles are sufficient), and in general Ika-musume will attempt to do all kinds of crazy things with them without a second thought. Of course, she is not in her native environment, and doesn't have very good judgment on what she can do. Any attempt that the DM considers unreasonable can either fail comedically, or require an appropriately difficult roll against the Body trait.
The tentacles aren't particularly durable and could easily be crushed and/or severed. However, eons of evolution have ensured that this is not an unrecoverable condition. When resting at night, Ika-musume can opt to regrow her tentacles instead of recovering hit points.
Squid Ink Spaghetti. (by popular request!) Ika-chan is able to, ahem, dispense her energy points in the form of edible ink which can be consumed by others (gaining the corresponding energy points).
Rules for cooking with ink:
- If the ink is not dispensed onto some form of absorbent food (noodles, bread, tofu, etc.) or into a large container (a bucket, or bowl, or something), half the energy points are wasted (rounding down).
- If the ink is dispensed onto spaghetti or any other form of noodles, other characters will find the concoction incredibly delicious -- assuming you can first convince them to taste something vomited out of a humanoid squid.
We will assume that Ika-chan refuses to eat her own ink, so this trait can only be used to hoard energy points for others.
Non-Human Idiot Savant. Squids have a hyper-evolved brain with zillions of synapses! (In the ocean, however, they don't use it for anything except making their heads glow with extremely complex patterns for communication, the undersea equivalent of spamming each other with emoticons on MSN.) However, when the same brain is applied to something like a book or other document (e.g. on calculus, or biology, or spaceship repair), the hyper-evolved squid brain is able to integrate all of the abstract knowledge contained in the material, and instantly develop proficiency in the topic! (As long as a piece of knowledge can be inferred just from the content of the book, Ika-chan will learn it. Complicated applications of the topic -- e.g. a spaceship repair that isn't strictly 'by the book' -- probably require a roll, just as they would for someone who'd learned the topic normally.) Learning things makes Ika-chan sleepy, so she loses energy points proportional to the volume of knowledge that she has just absorbed.
Absolutely Clueless. Ika-musume has recently come from the bottom of the sea and does not have any knowledge of anything besides shrimp. Unless a topic somehow involves shrimp, or she's had it explained to her by another character, or she has learned it during the game using the Non-Human Idiot Savant trait, she will automatically fail any and all Mind checks associated with that topic.
Moreover, the character will also fail to have knowledge of incredibly obvious things like computers, air conditioning, microwaves, Star Trek, the list goes on and on. (This affects character behaviour rather than stats, but it's worth mentioning here.) For example: she has been known to mistake an inflatable killer whale beach toy for an actual killer whale.
The only exception to the 'Absolutely Clueless' flaw is that, inexplicably, Ika-musume is reasonably proficient in spoken and written Japanese/(whatever language the characters in the game are speaking). Otherwise, she wouldn't have ever been able to invade Japan properly!