INGRESOS Y GASTOS

Quotes: “Get down on the floor and put your hands

on your head!”

“If you don’t do as I say, I’m going to shoot.” “Glory to Hamunshere!”

Background: The cultist-guards at Hamunshere’s

warehouse, where Khenafsaa’s pitcher is kept, come from a fairly thuggish and violent sect. They’re just the sort of guys to employ to knock heads and keep sightseers at bay. Raised in their mistress’ cult, they do as they’re told and don’t ask too many questions.

Description: Tall and broad-shouldered, with powerful

limbs and thick, scowling faces, these brutish men are the result of centuries of selective breeding under the direction of a bellicose immortal. To a one, they wear forest green security uniforms, and all carry truncheons. A couple are also outfitted with handguns.

Storytelling Hints: Speak a bit too loudly, while

leaning forward in an aggressive posture. Always keep at least a hint of a threat in your tone of voice. Practice strength (and boldness) in numbers.

Concept: Violent Guardsman

Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 2, Resolve 3; Strength

4, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3; Presence 2, Manipulation 2, Composure 2

Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl (Ganging Up) 3, Computer

1, Drive 1, Firearms 2, Intimidation (Blatant Threats) 3, Investigation 2, Larceny 1, Medicine 1, Occult 2, Stealth 1, Streetwise 2, Weaponry (Club) 2

Merits: Brawling Dodge, Iron Stamina 1, Language

(English), Strong Back

Willpower: 5 Morality: 4

Virtue: Faith (The mistress’ will is everything. What she

commands is law. This place and its contents must be defended against intruders.)

Vice: Wrath (If it’s possible to bust some skulls in the

process of enforcing the mistress’ will, so much the better.)

Derangements: Suspicion Initiative: 4 Defense: 2 Speed: 11 Size: 5 Weapons/Attacks: Fist 0B Club 1B Light pistol 2L

DAVID HWANG

Quotes: “I’ll help if I can. I guess that’s why I’m here.”

“I’m not like other ghosts. I don’t know why.” “Have you seen my wife and son? They’re dead, too.”

Background: In life, David Hwang was a devoted

husband and a loving father. The car accident that took his wife and son left him a hollow shell of a man. If he’d been aware of it while it was happening, he’d have considered the aneurism that killed him, four years later, to have been a blessing. But, when he came to his senses as one of the restless dead, his family was nowhere to be found. He could move between their graves and his

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favorite of the family photos, but he could find no trace of them in the afterlife.

Damning the fates that would free him from a life without his loved ones and then refuse him the joy of reunion, David honed his ghostly abilities with a fierce resolve rarely found among the dead. He pushed himself further and further from the ties that chained him to those stones and that picture, hunting after any sign that his wife and child were out there. By sheer force of will, he learned to attach himself to other people who he believed might be able to help him discover what became of his family — the priest who came to comfort his grieving parents, the visiting “psychic” who his mother believed could help her to communicate with him. Soon, he figured out how to “jump” from one lead to another, exchanging newly-forged anchors, struggling ever outward in his quest to find the twin lights of his life and the sole solace of his death.

It was in this manner that he stumbled across the first person to see him and know him for what he was. She was one of the Heretic’s disciples. The mummy’s expression betrayed no sign of noticing David, though she nevertheless passed word along to her teacher of this young but extraordinary shade. Observing David from afar, the Heretic found him equally remarkable and

worked necromantic magics unknown since the days of the Nameless Empire to give him a secondary purpose as an agent of Apotheosis. And, though David doesn’t know it, he has a powerful friend indeed quietly seeking any news of Kylie and Jared Hwang, among all of Neter- Khertet’s numberless dead.

Description: David’s ghost appears as a relatively

handsome man of Taiwanese descent, in his late 30s, a bit on the tall side, with dark brown eyes and close-cut black hair. He has dark circles under his eyes, as though from a chronic lack of sleep, and he looks just a little underweight.

Storytelling Hints: You still don’t entirely have a handle

on being a ghost. You’ve been testing the boundaries of your condition so much that you have little in common with most of the shades of the restless dead. Normally, you speak and act decisively and with confidence, but this new mission on which you find yourself — for reasons you don’t really understand — has thrown you for a bit of a loop, so you’re willing to look to others for guidance. If those others can possible help you to find Kylie and Jared, so much the better.

Concept: Persistent Shade

Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 4; Strength

2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3; Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 3

Skills: Academics 2, Animal Ken 1, Athletics 1, Brawl 1,

Computer (Programming) 3, Drive 1, Empathy (Motives) 2, Expression 1, Investigation 2, Medicine 1, Occult (Ghosts) 1, Persuasion 2, Science 2, Socialize 1, Stealth 1, Streetwise 1, Subterfuge 2, Survival 1

Merits: Language (English, Taiwanese) Essence: 10

Willpower: 7 Morality: 7

Virtue: Hope (You will find them and be a family, again,

even if it takes you a thousand years. What do you have, if not time? Only in your very darkest moments since you first came to understand that you were dead have you ever held even the slightest doubt that you will eventually be reunited with your wife and son.)

Vice: Pride (Most of the rest of the dead are broken

records, playing out meaningless performances for empty theaters. You’re better than they are. Stronger. You’ve had to be. What you’re fighting for, after all, is far more important than whatever reasons most of them had for sticking around.)

Initiative: 6 Defense: 3

Speed: 15 (species factor 10) Size: 5

Numina: Lucid Dead, Spectral Toughness, Stalker Weapons/Attacks:

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