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A senior member of the Anti-Slavers, known to everyone as "Big Bo". Elite in Stealth, Athletics and Assassination, yet close to a civilian in a straight fight — and the conditions for recruiting her are among the harshest in the game.
"So you're the new girl around here, are you… How about the two of us go find some fun?" — Bo
Bo is one of the few members of the Anti-Slavers with her own dialogue and her own wanted poster. She is always sitting in the Tech Hunter bar or the waystation in Black Scratch, with an Anti-Slaver Jonin at her side as a bodyguard.
Small as she is, her colleagues call her "Big Bo" to a man.
The wanted poster
Both the United Cities and the Holy Nation have a price on her head:
WANTED: "Big Bo" Race: Scorchlander / Sex: Female / Age: estimated forty Crimes: terrorism, spreading anti-labour propaganda. Target is hostile and extremely dangerous. Bounty: 30,000 Cats
The wording of the charge is worth pausing on: "anti-labour propaganda". The empire does not recognise slavery as a crime — only the obstruction of production.
She cannot actually fight
Open her stat sheet and a contradiction appears: this "extremely dangerous" terrorist fights about as well as a civilian.
| Aspect | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Stealth | 84 | Top tier for any NPC in the game |
| Athletics | 84 | Fast enough to get away |
| Assassination | 70 | Professional assassin territory |
| Swimming | 70 | |
| Lockpicking / Thievery / Field Medic / Robotics | 50 each | All-round support |
| Katana | 20 | |
| Melee Attack / Melee Defence | 15 each | Extremely low |
| Perception | 1 | Effectively zero |
Her role is not muscle but infiltration and rescue: get into a slave camp, pick the locks, let people out, run. What you recruit is a finished assassin and lockpick, not a front line.
The table above is taken from the raw FCS values; racial modifiers still apply on top of them.
Recruitment conditions
To take her in, the state of the world has to be on your side first. Any one of the following three paths is enough:
- Become an ally of the Anti-Slavers, and have killed or imprisoned any one of the following: Eyegore, Lady Kana, Longen, Emperor Tengu, any Slave Master, or any noble.
- Be hostile to the Traders Guild, the United Cities or the Slave Traders, and additionally take a noble prisoner.
- Simply capture her yourself — as long as the player is not allied with the United Cities, the Holy Nation or the Traders Guild, a captured Bo can still be recruited.
Seen from the other side, she is also thirty thousand cats sitting there ready to be collected. The person or the money: the player picks.
Calling in a bodyguard squad
Once she has joined, Bo can occasionally hail an Anti-Slaver patrol on the road and ask them to escort the player's squad for three days. The feature has a famous side effect: it works on Tinfist's own squad as well, which in theory lets Tinfist and Grey trail along behind you.
World states
If the player kills or imprisons Bo, Grey and Jaegar all three while Tinfist is still alive, the Anti-Slavers will send troops to raid the player's base outright.
Gear and cautions
She permanently wears a Karuta Zukin, Assassin's Rags, a dark leather shirt, ninja pants and Drifter's Boots, with a Ninja Blade hanging from her belt. At the default squad size multiplier (1.0) she appears to always spawn carrying a Masterwork dark leather shirt.