Character Creation Challenge 2026

Note: I used the first edition because the second has some of the worst writing I've ever seen. I had no idea how to choose a “Risk Factor” when making this character until I read 1st edition. Character was built from 2-player point value.

Name: Candi Appelcline Player: 张殿李 Character Concept: Slinky Exotic Dancer Risk Factors: Horny, Dismissive Worst Thing Ever Done: Got her job by getting her competition so high that she couldn't perform. Sources of Stability: My secretary roommate, Sandra. My performances. Personality trait: cynical shell. Louis, my manager. My Goal: Get enough money together so Sandra can get her degree.

Candi Appelcline (Candy Apple, as her totally original and inobvious stage name would hvae it) is one of those who was genetically gifted to appeal to the eye … and little else. She was not exactly a Rhodes Scholar. She was not exactly noted for any bankable talent whatsoever. Zoolander-style, though, she was suited for being professionally good-looking.

In her case Patricia-style. Candi, though a dancer, also removed all of her clothing. Because Candi was the best stripper in town her neighborhood. (It's a competitive industry, doubly so for those who don't numb themselves with booze and drugs.)

It was a no-brainer really. Get over the shame and instead of being some phone jockey hit on by men with higher amounts of change lost in their couches than she got weekly as salary, or instead of being some clerk in a sleazy bodega, she can bring in, on a good month, high four digits and sometimes even five digits. And all she has to do is writhe around while taking off clothing, letting the saddest and most desperate men in the world have a glimpse of what lacked in their lives.

Of course she didn't fall into the job. She had to work for it, and she did so by sabotaging the friend she was working with to join the industry. Paulette Carmichael (Polette her badly-chosen stage name) was getting ahead of her and Candi needed the money. So she fed Paulette, her friend, so much in the way of edibles that she got fired for being so high on the job she couldn't stand up. That's how Candi became the top act at Pete's Finger Bar & Girl.

Now of course, easy come, easy go. Candi has all the ability to control her finances that she has to control the water flow of the Mississipi. She gives it to anybody with a hard luck story. She gives it to her roomate, Sandra, who is plain as a dormouse and wants to go to university. She buys all kinds of bric-a-brac that fills her shared apartment. She often reaches the end of the month broke, only to start the cycle over again.

And every night she eats at Lou's, the only diner in the neighbourhood open when she gets off work, meeting up with a bunch of other night owls to shoot the shit and just, well, exist. As opposed to being killed off one by one from supernatural beings from beyond the Veil. Because that's just silly!

ABILITIES

Academic	Rating
Trivia	1

Interpersonal	Rating
Bullshit Detector	1
Flattery	4
Flirting	4
Negotiation	3
Reassurance	2
Streetwise	1

Technical	Rating

General	Rating
Athletics	3
Drive	3
Fleeing	20
Filch	12
Health	10
Sense Trouble	10
Stability	12

Psychic Powers	Rating