MARI ODUYA TALK · THE MATRIARCH

Frozen 1999, terminal illness; woke cured — and billed for it. Everyone she froze herself for is centuries dead; the company outlived them, and it still owns her.

Anything else: 🟩 × characteristic.

Talent — Head of the Table: once per session, one reasonable instruction to an NPC (or small group) who can hear her. They follow it. No roll. (GM: if it skips a climactic scene, narrate a cost.)

Combat button: talking down scared crew mid-fight IS her attack — Coercion vs minion groups is a full combat action.

Era shock (play it for 🟦): she invokes her name, money, standing — and learns she isn't a person in any registry. Just an asset number.

Epilogue beat: her manifest file's next-of-kin field isn't blank — an unfamiliar name with her family surname, updated eleven years ago. "Open it now, or later?"