Parker speaks seven modern languages fluently, has reasonable which-way-to-the-Coliseum skills in about three others, and has done the research thing many many times. She's also personally familiar with many major cities in Europe and Asia.

She's taken several First Aid classes and survive-the-wilderness classes, used her skills in the field, and is a frighteningly fast driver.

Lastly, she's pushy and manipulative to an extreme, and has (at the request of other character's players) gotten things moving when it would be OOC for a character to take a particular action for themselves.