Editing Marlen Roy (section)

==Abilities==
Marlen is a drifter, someone that used the [[Demesnes]] ritual to disconnect from earth.<ref>Marlen was a drifter.  Some practitioners tried to tie themselves to a place and its power.  She’d done the opposite.  She’d ritually disconnected herself from Earth and the earthly at a young age, with the consequence that getting in touch with her was hard.  Which was largely the point.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/fall-out-14-z/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> 

She is highly elusive, has great situational and environmental awareness as well as danger sense and enhanced mobility.<ref>“Marlen Roy, drifter.  To call her elusive is understating things.  Ritually enabled situational awareness, environmental awareness, danger sense, enhanced mobility.  Courier, sometimes an assassin, sometimes a spy.  Fairly detached from the world of innocents.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/fall-out-14-z/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> All this also makes her hard to read.<ref>“She’s hard to read,” Miss murmured.  “For the same reason she’s hard to get a good hold on.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref> She is also extremely light<ref>With all of her weight at his shoulders so she could raise herself up, it didn’t feel like she weighed more than five pounds.  As if she were a living echo.  He’d worn coats that weighed more than her.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26/fall-out-14-z/ Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> and gravity seems to work differently for her.<ref>She pulled her helmet off, fixing her hair.  Lucy couldn’t help but feel it was taking longer to fall into place than hair should.  As if gravity worked differently around this woman, but only by hundredths of a second. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref> These abilities are based of off both [[Lost]] and [[Nomad/City Mage|City]] magic.<ref>“Let me finish.  She’s a drifter.  You’ve read about the Lost?  You’re partially informed?”<br><br>“Yeah.”<br><br>“And city magic?”<br><br>“Yeah.”<br><br>“She utilizes parts of both.  She is a mote of dust in the wind that evades your grasping hand, augmenting herself and altering environment.  She’ll be on an enchanted motorcycle and she’ll have any number of tricks ready.  Slipping by is what she focuses on, practice-wise.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>

Some of the rituals she's performed mean she rarely needs to eat or use the bathroom.<ref>“Wait, you don’t have to go to the bathrom or eat, normally?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Very little,” Marlen replied, glaring at Verona.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/21/left-in-the-dust-16-4/ Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.4]]</ref>

She owns an motorcycle that's enchanted to control how her abilities effect it.<ref>The movement of the tire kicked it up into the diagonal struts that attached the back end of the motorcycle to the wheel.  The stick was trapped there, end dragging, bucking wildly-<br><br>And Marlen struggled to control the bike.  But the struggle was ''weird''.<br><br>It wasn’t until the bike bucked and slid out from under her and Marlen leaped into the air, landing in a decidedly ''odd'' way that Lucy got any idea of what was going on.  The maneuver earlier, with the odd shift in weight?  That had been Marlen’s ''normal.''- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>

See owned a magic egg beater that exploded when she used it to fix her motorcycle.<ref>The sudden movements seemed to provoke Marlen.  She grabbed the egg beater, held it down at the side of the bike, jammed in the most damaged part, then kicked it, hard.<br><br>The egg beater exploded into the various ‘repair’ energies that had driven it, and the bike was more or less restored.  A burst of restoration at the cost of a magic item. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/16/playing-a-part-15-6/ Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.6]]</ref>