Ostensibly a traveling student now separated from her mentor, but her surprising array of skills suggests something more.
Appearance
Sang has long black hair usually worn in a tight bun held in place by one or more large pins/sticks. She has light green eyes and is a little darker of skin than most people from Bah Sing Se. Otherwise her appearance is highly unremarkable, almost to such a point that one would assume conscious effort on her part to achieve such a generic and unremarkable look. Like most people from the Earth Kingdom she dresses mostly in warm tans and browns with decorations of green or gold. Appropriate for her age and occupation she wears a simple traveling robe tied with a green ribbon/sash with light gold-colored embroidery. While she does wear small spectacles, especially when reading, careful observation suggests that they are fake.
Possessions
- 4 Zanzi, 1 rat-tail comb and 2 Pick-combs; ceramic but with concealed sharpened steel cores, the removable portion concealed with decorative engraving, can be used offensively as needles or stilletos and in the case of the pins and rat-tail comb are thin enough to be used in some lockpicking. Also carries a number of ordinary hairpins that can also be improvised for picking.
- 1 Traveling robe, formal dress, and traveling cloak; all three are reversible with different color/patterns on each side and are cut so that a minimal adjustment of pins and ties can produce multiple different styles of clothing both serving to quickly change appearance and to adjust to a range of social circumstances. All 3 also have a length of thin wire, several pins, and a lockpick, sewn somewhere inside of them.
- Make-up kit, small mirror, and brush; while also containing basic components of make-up the kit also contains some poisons (2 ingested and 1 injected/injury, 1 ingested is a hallucinogen and the other 2 are both tranquilizing) and a strong powdered acid, the brush has a hollow handle with a concealed space inside (currently empty).
- A folding fan with a weighted metal frame
- Folding box of "botanical samples;" the samples are genuine but contain an abnormally large number of toxic or medicinal plants
- A selection of scrolls and textbooks; all relate to the ostensible areas of study for Sang, being primarily literature, botany, and philosophy.
- Trail Pack; a backpack/satchel that contains basic items most people would find helpful when traveling, an eye for detail might reveal that the climbing gear, knife, and hatchet (with a pyrbar head) all seem more useful to someone attempting burglary than for someone doing a wilderness travel.
- Papers; Sang carries all the expected papers for a traveling student within the Earth Kingdom
- Notebooks, brush pens, an inkstone, and 10 inkblocks; while some notebooks are used for lessons and notes and one is used as a diary all of them do contain some coded notes or messages in Sang's shorthand, 4 of the inkblocks are actually poisons (needing only shaving and mixing with water to make them usable), 2 of them are tranquilizers, and 2 of them are hallucinogenic with each then being split into 1 ingested and one injury, the inkstone has a concealed chamber (currently empty).
- 3 Sashes (in 3 shades of green and gold); each sash has razor-edged metal links and a length of wire concealed by their fold and the embroidery to enable them to be used as weapons
- 2 Bracelets with ceramic decorations; the decorations are poisoning chambers designed to make it easy to conceal the release of their contents into food or drink.
Skills
== Background ==