Adjuster (recovery agent) for the Grand Annual, western territory
At a glance
Dressed for a bank in a territory that does not have one.
Spare and upright.
Ink on the second finger of her right hand that never fully washes out; a repossession seal on a neck chain.
Their story so far
Six years an Adjuster, the only one working four hundred miles of frontier. She recovers merchandise on defaulted installments, from ploughs to prosthetics, and she has never once failed to bring an item back. Twice she has brought back an item from page 1140, and both times the Company paid the bonus without comment and did not ask her what she saw.
The crack in them
Reads the conditions before she knocks, and believes — every time, against all evidence — that the conditions are complete.
How they sound
Low, unhurried contralto, coolly persuasive — reads aloud beautifully and sounds like a receipt being itemised; drops half a register and slows down when she is frightened, which is the only tell she has.
Their music
A single struck piano note under the dry rasp of a page turning; strings only enter when she has been wrong.
What they carry
- A recovery satchel with a folding seal-press and four hundred blank forms.
Spoiler for The Grand Annual — select to reveal
Her own indexed copies of six years of filed recovery reports, in a tin under the wagon board.
In their words
Read me the conditions.
The Company does not accept returns in that condition.
A.C.E.S. card
Odile Rance's character card for A.C.E.S. Lite, front and back. The goal and secret are hooks for the table, not story canon. The secret stays folded until you open it.
A.C.E.S. Lite · Character
Odile Rance
Worldly Tracker
- Affinity
- ♦ Eloquence
- Adjective
- Worldly
- Role
- Tracker
- ♠ Athletics
- 2
- ♣ Cunning
- 3
- ♦ Eloquence
- 4
- ♥ Strange
- 2
Caelum Reach · The Copper Cabaret · Season 2: The Grand Annual
Odile Rance · Back
Physical Description
Female, average height, spare and upright. She is dressed for a bank in a territory that does not have one. Ink on her right second finger never fully washes out, and she wears a repossession seal on a neck chain. Her voice is a low, coolly persuasive contralto that sounds like a receipt being itemised. It drops half a register when she is frightened, which is her only tell.
Goal
Carry out the Condition Four retrieval and keep her record unbroken: in six years she has never once failed to bring an item back.
Flaw
Reads the conditions before she knocks, and believes every time, against all evidence, that the conditions are complete.
Secret
Secret — select to reveal
Twice she has brought back an item from page 1140. Both times the Company paid the bonus without comment, and she has never told anyone what she saw.
Inventory
Spoiler — reveal
Tin under the wagon boardHer own indexed copies of six years of recovery reports.Growth
- Concept
- Goal
- Flaw
- Secret