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A unique recruit wandering the streets of Bark who costs just 150 Cats. She picks your pocket first — and how you go about getting the money back decides whether she joins you.

Ah, to hell with it, I've got nothing left to lose apart from the rags on my back! And there's something about you, you seem like my kinda guy. Let's go, you and me, we stick together! — Red

Red is a unique recruit who wanders the streets of Bark. Her personality is Brave.

Under the face-obscuring Straw Hat and the rags she has bright red hair — quite possibly the source of the nickname.

Note"Red" is this character. She has nothing to do with the Red Sabres, the bandit faction.

She robs you first

Red's recruitment is one of the strangest sequences in the game, because she starts it.

When both of the following hold, she has a chance to pick the player's pocket as soon as you are in talking range:

Once the money is gone, you can talk to her immediately to demand it back. This is the decisive moment: choose the non-aggressive dialogue options and the conversation eventually arrives at asking her to join. She returns the stolen money once she is in your squad.

TipAt 150 Cats she is one of the cheapest unique recruits in the game. Trading one pickpocketing for a squad member is an extremely good rate.

She can also just run

There is a ceiling: if the player is carrying more than 100,000 Cats and more than one backpack, Red will not join — she runs away instead.

It reads like a joke, but the design is sound. A pickpocket with nothing looks at an obviously wealthy caravan and does not think join; she thinks stay away. Be rich enough and she will not go with you.

Statistics

StatValue
Stealth20
Athletics20
Thievery10
Assassination10
Toughness / Dexterity / Melee Attack / Melee Defence / Katanas5

Randomised by ±3. Gear is Shoddy, manufacturer unknown.

Her combat value is essentially nil, but Stealth 20 out of the gate is genuinely usable in the early game — she was never meant to be a fighter. She also carries a colour scheme, so her armour and clothing take dye.

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