We have an Explorator with Unremarkable (from the Origin Path). One of the players questioned how this could be. As I read Unremarkable, it just means that you're good at blending into the background among others without calling attention to yourself. This would mean that Unremarkable does nothing to make him look like anything other than a Tech-Priest (he has a Utility Mechadendrite), it just makes him easy to overlook amongst a crowd since he knows how to avoid calling attention to himself. Is this correct, or should I be having more of a problem with an Unremarkable Explorator?

In this case it's more a matter of your Explorator being indistinguishable from other Tech Priests.

A witness trying to identify him from a line up of 8 random citizens would be able to pick out the Tech Priest.

A witness trying to pick out a specific tech priest from a group of 8 would have a very difficult time picking the "unremarkable" Tech Priest out. With a high probability of choosing the wrong one.

In a large crowd, such as a hive street, he would blend into the crowd more than a normal Tech Priest would. He's not going to be pushing people out of his way with his mechadendrites and won't be drawing attention to himself.

The way you seem to be doing it is what I would consider correct.

I'm sure i read in one of the novels out there that most imperial cities have many tech-priests and because they pretty much keep to themselves and don't interact with others, everyone ignores them.

I can well see an unremarkable explorator being the guy that people just don't pay attention to as they assume he is just some low level lexmechanic there to fix a water valve or something.

Where it becomes hard is when the explorator (or any other PC for that matter) has the unremarkable talent but dresses lavishly with awesome armour, funky weapons and dripping with bling. Thats harder to square with unremarkable.

I suppose to us a tech-priest of any stripe would be very remarkable but many imperial citizens see them all the time, have always seen them all the time. Its nothing special for them.

Where it becomes hard is when the explorator (or any other PC for that matter) has the unremarkable talent but dresses lavishly with awesome armour, funky weapons and dripping with bling. Thats harder to square with unremarkable.

That's pretty much where unremarkable becomes fun. People see him and remember "that guy in the lavish robes", not the person in them. A quick change of clothes later and he'll be taking witness statements about "that violent lexmechanic with the robes" fighting to keep a smirk of his face.

I think of unremarkable as being good at blending into a crowd given that the look of the character is not unusual for the location.

Graspar Said

That's pretty much where unremarkable becomes fun. People see him and remember "that guy in the lavish robes", not the person in them. A quick change of clothes later and he'll be taking witness statements about "that violent lexmechanic with the robes" fighting to keep a smirk of his face.

I like that. Might have to remember that for my game.