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Name: Professional - Layla / Actual (Lana McAran)
Age: 33
Marital Status: Single with an 18 year old daughter (Liana)
Occupation: Entertainer
Former Occupations: None
Education: Before leaving Darkover Afterwards anything she could put her hands
on - songs, myths etc. for as many worlds as possible
Residence: Based in Oz, currently in New York,
Income: Moderate - to fairly wealthy - enough to sustain her house in Oz and
an apartment in New York and travel (Money is obtained through sale of her
recordings)
Politics: Stays well away
Abilities
~Unarmed Combat: Martial arts - quite good
~Armed Combat:
Antique Weapons: Some skill with a quarterstaff and bow
Guns/Lasers: Can use a small handheld weapon
~Vehicle driving: Competent
~Computer use: Very good
~Interpersonal Relations: Very friendly and easy going - problem
shutting her up at times - practical joker
~Weaknesses: Slightly vain, practical joker, temper can flare
dramatically, constantly picks up stray animals
~Appearance: Very attractive, red hair down past her knees, blue/green
eyes, always seems to have a smile
Romantic relationships: nothing lasting, has frequent contact with the father
of her daughter. They're very close friends but there's no real romantic
interest.
Friends/Contacts: Anyone care to know me? I'm more than happy for it. Probably
some of the other Darkovans on Terra.
Hobbies: Collecting of old songs, dances and customs, some antique collecting
Special Equipment/Vehicles/Expensive possessions: Musical equipment, book
collection - mainly mythology and songs etc.
Other Information: Leyla is half Darkovan/ half Terran. Her father had a bad
case of wanderlust in his youth and went world hopping. In doing so he met her
mother - also with a bad case of wanderlust. The usual thing occurred and some
months later on Darkover, little Lana appeared. Her parents managed to settle
down for some years while she grew up but for as long as she can remember, her
life was filled with stories and legends from Darkover and beyond the stars.
Her parents very carefully fostered in her a love of travel and adventure and
were very pleased when she started asking to see the places they had. They
packed bags and left Darkover for the stars. Firstly they travelled as a
family but then Lana started to specialise in what she wanted to know so she
and her parents parted ways - albeit tearfully. They wanted to see more and
more but if Lana heard a snippet of song or tale, she had to track it down to
the end. They still keep in touch.
She would swap tales and songs with other storytellers in order to increase
her collection.
When she needed to supplement her purse, she'd take jobs singing a bars and on
street corners for coins. Exceptionally talented, while singing in a bar on
Terra (she was very pregnant at the time and stayed a lot longer than she
normally would have), she managed to increase trade for the owner. Word of her
singing got out and she was approached by a record producer.
These days between the royalties from the sale of her records and books (she
publishes the songs and tales she's learnt and what get sent to her by her
parents) she lives a very comfortable existence. While she does do the concert
'scene', she remembers very well where she started from and who she owes her
success to and can be found moonlighting at bars and the like in the 'lower'
parts of towns, generally in exchange for a new story from the audience or a
drink or three.
She loves getting together with other Darkovans and singing and dancing the
'old' songs until dawn breaks.
She also sponsors, and runs her own in Oz, animal shelters. Her house and unit
is full of furry, feathered, scaled and finned beings whom she regards as
younger siblings.
Her daughter is the product of a liaison with a member of another race
altogether - of feline descent. She's currently in Oz.
Laran: Animal empathy/telepathy.
E-mail: gryphonvale@ozemail.com.au or ktara@tayledras.zzn.com
ICQ #: 6818830
AOL IM : KTaraV
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