Captain Yu-Okonkwo
Third-generation captain of the HSV Pilgrimage, eighty-seven years old, sixty of them in command.
Captain Yu-Okonkwo is eighty-seven. She has been in command of the Pilgrimage for sixty years, the third generation of her family to hold the bridge, and she has been making decisions in the dark for longer than the Confederation has had a name for itself.
She is steady and she is frightened, and she has learned that those are not opposites. Sixty years of standing in front of people who are afraid has taught her to do it without letting her hands move.
Three parties have filed on her ship within a day of its arrival. A Confederation adjutant wants the crew processed and the vault catalogued. A Family bondholder wants the arcHive and does not want the crew at all. A Day One speaker wants the crew and nothing else, which is the offer she finds hardest to dismiss and least able to trust.
Her daughter Ada can restart the reactor. Her ancestor Asha built something into the hull that the family has been arguing about for three generations. Neither fact is public and she will decide, herself, when either becomes so.
She is not for sale. She is, however, out of time, and knows it.
Rules Reference
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Abilities / Cha | 15 |
| Abilities / Con | 10 |
| Abilities / Dex | 9 |
| Abilities / Int | 14 |
| Abilities / Str | 8 |
| Abilities / Wis | 18 |
| Armor Class | 12 |
| Base Attack Bonus | 1 |
| Creature Type | Humanoid |
| Flat Ac | 11 |
| Hd Count | 2 |
| Hd Sides | 8 |
| Hit Dice | 2d8+2 |
| Hit Points | 11 |
| Hp Bonus | 2 |
| Initiative | 0 |
| Languages | Continuist ship-creole; archaic English from the archive; Trade Cant learned in nine days from a phrasebook |
| Senses | Failing eyesight, corrected; sixty years of knowing what her own hull sounds like; passive Perception 15 |
| Size | M |
| Skills / Bureaucracy | 2 |
| Skills / Notice | 7 |
| Skills / Persuasion | 6 |
| Skills / Sense Motive | 9 |
| Skills / Tactics | 5 |
| Speed | 20 |
| Threat Rating | 2 |
| Touch Ac | 11 |
| Xp | 300 |
| Dialogue Path | game/dialogue/npc-yu-okonkwo.yaml |
Attacks
Ship's mallet
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
bonus | 1 |
category | melee |
damage | 1d4 |
name | Ship's mallet |
notes | A tool for freeing a seized hatch. She will not fight, and treats the suggestion as a failure of manners. |
Special Abilities
Sixty Years In Front Of Frightened People
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | passive |
name | Sixty Years In Front Of Frightened People |
description: Yu-Okonkwo cannot be rushed, flattered or frightened into a decision. Attempts to hurry her are DC 20 and, if failed, she simply waits until the speaker has finished. Player-visible: she lets a silence run for as long as it needs and does not fill it.
Not For Sale
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
actionCost | passive |
name | Not For Sale |
description: No offer of money moves her; offers concerning her crew's safety, their standing as people rather than cargo, and the ship's continuation do. Player-visible: the number in an offer is the part she does not respond to.