Grouse

Chanti Park
Basic Information
Pronouns	she/her/hers
Aliases	Grouse (hero name) Blue Fin (cover identity with Thresher)
Place of Origin	Bluff City
Connections
Re­la­tion­ships	Waxwing (mentor) Mother and father (unnamed)
Meta Info
Season	Bluff City
Game	Masks Capers
Player	Janine Hawkins
Appears In	When Justice Is Done Extracurricular: Out Of Time
Debut	Bluff City 12: When Justice Is Done Pt. 0

“

I prefer to think of myself as a trouble-solver, but that’s not everyone’s perspective, I’m sure.”

– Grouse, Extracurricular: Out of Time

Chanticleer "Chanti" Park, also known by her hero name Grouse, is a superhero in Bluff City. She is Waxwing's sidekick.

Appearance

Chanti’s is described as looking like Black-Korean rapper Yoon Mi-rae. She has slightly looser curly hair and a lean and toned body. He dress sense is fashionable and her civilian clothing includes lots of chokers and velvet.

Her superhero costume is based off of the greater sage-grouse bird: it is colorfully black, brown, and white with lots of texture and stripes and a big fluffy white collar piece around her neck and shoulders. She wears a mask with yellow eyes, and keeps her hair in two tight braids in tall ponytail. She changes into her superhero costume by running through a cloud of birds who dress her.

During her time in Blough City she has fun being “away from the pressures of home” and leans into the fashions of the time, wearing marabou-trimmed jackets over her dress. This style is based on Anna May Wong and Josephine Baker (i.e., extremely fashion forward, lots of feathers, lots of headpieces). She wears her hair slicked down like Josephine Baker or in a teased-out style.

At Gale Green's party in Blough City, Chanti wears a gold fringe dress with sequin laurel leaf motif and a fascinator with a small live gold bird on it. After being touched by the Gloam, her outfit changes and appears to acquire an oil-slick, iridescent quality.

Personality

She is "not much of a party person" due both to her more reserved nature and the expectations of the parental figures in her life.

After returning from Blough City via the Tunnel Project, the Gloam causes her to bring some of Blough City back with her. It makes her feel as though Bluff City is more "grey" than when she left it.

Anchors (Capers)

• Identity: The Stickler: You try to be perfect in everything you do. Gain Moxie when you make your way through a significant encounter and you do everything right.
• Virtue: Reliable: You’re always there when the chips are down.
• Vice: Arrogant: You simply do not back down when you think you’re right.

History and Involvement

She first met Waxwing when Waxwing went to handle a dangerous situation involving Rupert, the awful bird, and found a teenage Chanti handling the situation with her bird powers. Waxwing offered to train her and Chanti accepted because she didn’t know what else to do with her developing powers.

Prior to teaming up with the Paternoster and Mr Good, she and the Champ teamed up a couple of times. This mostly occurred by virtue of the two of them being in the same place at the same time.

Chanti is 18 or 19 years old and a newly-graduated senior from Bluff City High during the events of "When Justice Is Done". She is currently trying to choose her major. Her mother wants her to go into orthology/biology, but Chanti feels like it’s too on the nose or too hard because she can talk to the birds she would be studying. Instead, she is thinking about going into nursing.

When we see Chanti in "Extracurricular: Out Of Time" she is in her first year of undergrad, although her major is still undecided.

Relationships

The Champ

Elena Flores, a.k.a. The Champ, is Chanti's teammate. Chanti's bond with The Champ in Masks is "[me] and The Champ teamed up a few times before the rest of [us] came together."

Mr Good

Frankin Bano, a.k.a. Mr Good, is Chanti's teammate. Chanti has Influence over him.

Paternoster

Hilda Quick, a.k.a. Paternoster, is Chanti's teammate. Chanti's bond with her is "my mentor is cautious and asked me to keep an eye on Paternoster," though Chanti doesn't feel suspicious of her. Chanti has Influence over her.

Waxwing

Waxwing is Chanti's mentor.

Parents

Chanti's mother is Black and her father is Korean. Her mother knows about her powers, but her father does not; he is a "little uptight".

Rupert

She appears to be the only person that Rupert has positive feelings towards.

Abilities

As the mentee of Waxwing, Chanti has access to information on supervillains and other superheroes of Bluff City, as well as a range of gadgets. Chanti‘s superpowers include stealth, bird telepathy, and bird telekinesis.

Moves (Masks)

• Been Reading the Files (Superior): You’ve earned about the superhuman world through your mentor’s resources. When you first encounter an important superpowered phenomenon (your call), roll +superior. On a hit, tell the team one important detail you’ve learned from your studies. The GM will tell you what, if anything, seems different from what you remember. On a 10+, ask the GM a follow-up question; they will answer honestly. On a miss, the situation is well outside your base of knowledge; the GM will tell you why.
• Venting Frustration (Savior): When you directly engage while your are Angry, you can roll + the Label your mentor denies and clear Angry.
• Be Mindful of Your Surroundings: When you assess the situation before entering into a fight, you may ask one additional question, even on a miss.

Moves (Capers)

Skills

• Diplomacy involves the ability to speak eloquently, rally others, and convey thoughts clearly, all while being honest and forthright.
• Humanities covers the human sciences of art, literature, geography, linguistics, politics, philosophy, and religion.
• Insight involves perceiving others’ intentions as well as their strengths and weaknesses.
• Stealth covers the ability to remain unseen and unheard.
• Sciences covers the hard sciences of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and the like.

Touched/Call Upon The Gloam

You summon the power of the Gloam to aid you in your endeavor. Free action, Instantaneous. You gain one additional card flip during a trait check or power check. You must use the result of this additional flip. Once you use this power you cannot spend moxie to aid your check in any way this turn. If you succeed at this check you succeed as per the normal rules but you also remove that card from your deck permanently. If you fail this check, you do not lose a card from your deck. You can Call Upon The Gloam a number of times per game session equal to your shade track rank.

Minor Powers

• (Bird) Telepathy: You can read thoughts and project your own thoughts to others (birds). At rank 1, you can hear the target’s thoughts for 1 round. The target knows someone is listening to their thoughts but doesn’t know who. At rank 2, you can project your thoughts into a target’s mind. The target hears you, but is not compelled to do anything.
  • Emergency Boost: Instead of standard effect, you mentally contact one willing target within one mile instead of the normal range. You project one short sentence (ten words or less) to this target. They can respond with an immediate one-word reply.
  • Group Boost: You share thoughts with up to six willing targets within range.
  • Range Boost: The range of this Power increases to 100’ until the beginning of your next turn.

• Puppeteer: You control small objects from a distance. You move the unattended object up to 30’ cause it to “activate/deactivate”, or otherwise influence it in subtle ways.
  • Damage Boost: Instead of standard effect, the object launches and deals Color Hits damage to a target within 30’ of it. If the object is sharp or otherwise dangerous, it deals Suit Hits damage.
  • Range Boost: The range of this Power increases to 100’ until the beginning of your next turn. / Steal: You can target objects held by another character. Getting the object out of their hands requires a Power Check vs. the target’s.
  • Twin Boost: Apply standard effect to two items of the same weight/size if they weigh 30 lb. or less.
  • Weight Boost: The object can weigh up to 60 lbs.

Possessions

• Casual dress
• Fancy dress
• Hat, purse
• Women's shoes (pumps)
• Watch
• Necklace and bracelet set
• Bramley corsele (corselette)
• Stockings
• Makeup set (lipstick, cake mascara, rouge, face powder)
• Pet leash
• Cigarette holder

Trivia

• Janine originally conceived of Chanti as a sidekick to Rupert the bird. Austin talked her out of it.

Gallery

• 

  Grouse by milkybootscomix.

• 

  Chanti and her teammates by Pewterbee