Friday, July 20, 2018

Lucy West - Chosen Scion of Kali - The Forgotten Victim



Background: Lucy woke up with almost no memory to speak of. She had some vague memory of being helpless and immobile, but now she'd suddenly found herself looking about to see a pristine, almost unnaturally clean, room with harsh light streaming in from the window and setting a glare on everything around.her. She'd later come to learn that this was a hospital of some variety.


Her condition brought a lot of questions to the staff, as did her speech, which they informed her was slightly archaic. People came to ask her questions claiming to be police officers, though one was a woman curiously enough. Lucy wasn't sure why she would consider that curious. Regardless, she couldn't answer how she had fallen into a state of catatonia or who left her to be found by the hospital with only the name "Lucy West" attached to her blouse. Eventually they left her alone.

When the hospital released her, she wasn't sure what she would be doing. She was given an address to go to and find work, but with what little training she had she didn't think it likely. And there was something else. Dreams she had every night that she couldn't clearly remember and would wake up with a lingering urge to do...something. Night was possibly a broad term as she would often linger awake far past the setting of the sun, feeling almost more alive at that time, and sleep almost up until noon in the day.

Description:  A young woman who is somewhere between 18 and 22. She has a distinct pallor to her features that most people notice. Her hair is a gold like healthy wheat fields and her eyes are just the slightest bit bloodshot. Her slight frame appears attractive but also on the edge of starving, even with regular hospital care and provided nutrients. Quite often she wears sunglasses, as she finds bright lights harsh and uncomfortable


Divine Patron: Kali

Origin Level

Primary Path: Supernatural Path: A Predator on this Earth - Integrity, Close Combat, Subterfuge
Contact: Wilhemina Morris, a cryptic scholar
Connections: Medical doctors, occultists, dieticians
Access: Underworld

Lucy doesn't quite know what she is but she has been receiving mysterious notes from a Ms. Morris suggesting that the other woman has part of the answers. In any case, she finds herself heavily appreciative of raw meat. She's also found that she is preternaturally aware of when anybody around her is suffering a state of injury, and it fascinates her when an injured person is around. All of these things quite worry her.

Secondary Path: Pantheon Path: Touched by Dreams Unremembered - Athletics, Occult, Survival
Contact: Dr Edwards, psychiatrist for the state
Connections: Psychiatric community, dream readers, oracles
Access: Dreams

Every night, Lucy has dreams that she feels are saying for her to do something but she isn't quite sure what yet. She has asked for opinions of these dreams from anybody who would be willing to give answers to a penniless woman with barely more than a name which may have been faked for all she knows.

Tertiary Path: Origin Path: Amnesiac Hospital Patient - Empathy, Integrity, Academics
Contact: Detective Trisha Edwards
Connections: Police, Reporters
Access: Half-way houses, Welfare

Having no past makes life more than a little difficult, and she's only just starting to learn this fact. Upon waking up she made a hefty effort to replace as much of her lost memories as possible and has thus pushed herself to study hard. She's finding strange difficulties, such as how the language seems subtly off to her, though most people have told her that its obviously because she's British rather than American. In any case, she pushes on.

Abilities:  
Academics *
Athletics **
Close Combat *** (Clawing and Biting)
Culture *
Empathy **
Integrity **** (Tracking)
Firearms
Leadership
Medicine
Occult **
Persuasion *** (Projecting Innocence)
Pilot
Science
Subterfuge *** (Stalking)
Survival **
Technology

Attributes:  Favored Force - Physical, Social, Mental
Force
  • Intellect ***
  • Might ***
  • Presence ****
Finesse
  • Cunning **
  • Dexterity ***
  • Manipulation ***
Resilience
  • Resolve **
  • Stamina *****
  • Composure ***

Legend: 0


Calling: Vampire *

Innate Power: Always know when someone in your presence has taken lethal damage.
Flaw: Attacks using the Sun purview have +1 Scale against her. Rolls using her senses in the daylight have +1 Difficulty.

Custom Supernatural Path by a friend, I'm not publishing the full bits as they are not yet finished with it.

Knacks: As Mist, Charming Glance, The Dead Move Fast

Hero Level

Description:  Her pallor is more pronounced dependent on how well she's fed recently, but Lucy is quite clearly a vampire for anybody who pays attention. She makes little to no attempt to conceal that fact. However, her expression betrays a distinct sense of purpose to her existence.


Primary Path: Supernatural Path: A Predator on this Earth - Integrity, Close Combat, Subterfuge
Contact: Wilhemina Morris, a cryptic scholar
Connections: Medical doctors, occultists, dieticians
Access: Underworld

Lucy knows that she's a vampire and that she was named after a character from a particular book. According to Ms. Morris, Lucy became a vampire, not due to being attacked by one, but because she had been forgotten by everyone, including her own killer. There was some further talk about the way this affected her spirit, but she had had trouble following the technical matters. What mattered was that she had been murdered and then forgotten about.

Secondary Path: Pantheon Path: Touched by Dreams of Purpose - Athletics, Occult, Survival
Contact: Dr Edwards, psychiatrist for the state
Connections: Psychiatric community, dream readers, oracles
Access: Dreams

Lucy wasn't just randomly found and deposited with that hospital. No, she has a purpose, something that is part of a long scale strategy. As of yet, she has no idea if her purposes is a grand portion of the plot or something humble and almost forgettable. What she does know is that Kali has chosen her for some task. In the meantime, she applies her vampiric nature to hunting down demons that would pray on humanity.

Tertiary Path: Origin Path: 19th Century Woman - Empathy, Integrity, Academics
Contact: Detective Trisha Edwards
Connections: Police, Reporters
Access: Half-way houses, Welfare

Lucy is in an interesting position of predating most means of identification. Detective Edwards is among those handful that know the truth about her. But since her realization, more and more of her previous existence has started to return to her. The police woman keeps a close eye on the vampire, in case she begins to prey on others, but also keeps her around in case something else supernatural comes up.

Abilities:  
Academics *
Athletics **
Close Combat *** (Clawing and Biting)
Culture *
Empathy **
Integrity **** (Tracking)
Firearms
Leadership
Medicine
Occult **
Persuasion *** (Projecting Innocence)
Pilot
Science
Subterfuge *** (Stalking)
Survival **
Technology

Attributes:  Favored Force - Physical, Social, Mental
Force
  • Intellect ***
  • Might ***
  • Presence ****
Finesse
  • Cunning **
  • Dexterity ***
  • Manipulation ***
Resilience
  • Resolve **
  • Stamina *****
  • Composure ***

Legend: 1

Calling: Vampire **, Guardian **, Hunter *

Keywords: Blood (Vampre), Forgotten (Vampire), Chosen (Guardian), Defender (Guardian), Predator (Hunter)

Title: The Forgotten Victim

Innate Power: Always know when someone in your presence has taken lethal damage.
Flaw: Attacks using the Sun purview have +1 Scale against her. Rolls using her senses in the daylight have +1 Difficulty.

Custom Supernatural Path by a friend, I'm not publishing the full bits as they are not yet finished with it.

Knacks: As Mist (Vampire), Charming Glance (Vampire), The Dead Move Fast (Vampire), Children of the Night: Cats (Vampire), A Fortress (Guardian), A Purpose: A Demon to fight Demons (Guardian), Most Dangerous Prey (Hunter)

Purviews:
  • Innate - Yoga
  • Innate - Darkness
  • Deception (Guide)
  • Epic Stamina
  • Beasts (Vampiric Associations)

Boons: Adamant Body: Poison, Dreamweaver

Birthrights:
  • Wilhemina Morris - Guide ***
    • Lucy is fairly certain the woman's name is fake given how it is similarly pulled from the same Stoker novel.
    • Asset Skills: Occult, Subterfuge
    • Stunt: When you are attempting to lie or deceive an open enemy outside of combat, you may spend 1-3 successes in order to place a (1-3) Complication on the enemy's next initiative roll. Failing to pay for this Complication causes the enemy to hesitate upon suddenly realizing the deception and lose a number of spots on the initiative tracker equal to the unpaid portion of the Complication.
    • Purview: Deception
  • Vampire Cross - Relic ****
    • A simple cross on a black leather strap that grants Lucy primal powers.
    • Purview: Beasts (Vampiric Associations), Epic Stamina
    • Motif: Wild and Iron Nature


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