Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

Cursebearer
I have no redemption.
Player	Asmodeus
Metatype	Fomoraig
Street Cred	2
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	2
Titles and Awards	0
CDP	8
Age	Biologically 41
Folder	[1]
Priority	Metatype - A Attributes - A Magic/Resonance - D Skills - E Resources - D
Initiate Grades Unlocked	9
Initiations Taken	2
Fomoraig Powers	4

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​I live in fire, I am discord. I destroy. I am a demon.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​My hand is firm upon the wheel. I control. I am the demon.

​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​-- Word of Shura

Background

Whispers. Thoughts in his mind that do not belong to him. These are the everpresent companions Judas Foreman lives with. They're at the edge of his consciousness, wisps of smoke that barely breach the dark beyond his awareness. His body is an improvement on natural selection, this much he is aware of. His blood falls apart, bones crack and heal, organs wrench and break. The pain he feels within is a welcome distraction to the maddening silence in his mind and a past that he cannot remember but weighs on him at all times. When his body recovers and heals, he seeks out more suffering. He doesn't know why, but all agony feels deserved, earned. The people he visits in critical care and SINless warrens are innocent most of the time. His touch heals most and makes them jump with joy, yet he can't feel happy about any of it.

There is a darkness in his mind that he cannot recognize. Whatever the circumstances are for his existence, the lack of a childhood and a blank canvas for a life, he is both terrified and desperate to learn it. What if the sinking feeling in his gut is a subconscious disgust at what he did or was? What if he was a hero? The fear of reaching out and pulling the cloak off the unknown stops him from changing. He feels like an abomination even among his own kind without understanding why and the sleepless nights he goes through are filled with torment that oblivion claims come evening and wakefulness.

Work beyond law has its own reward. He keeps everyone that works with him alive, thrusts himself into the deadliest melees and bears the burden of others without complaint. It's a stigma that silences the constant guilt he feels and offers something he's too much of a coward to do himself. Death.

Significant Things for Narrative

• Heritage of Evil - Whatever his origin is, it keeps Judas Foreman guessing. All of his intuition, gut feelings and nightmares point towards one suspicion: it is pure evil.
  1. Insomnia - There are dark visions in his sleep. These would be sweet dreams for a psychopath. His empathy and guilt turn them to nightmares.
  2. Fomoraig - Foreman is forever robbed of skin contact. He can't hug someone and feel their cheek against his. Instead, his hands are only good for destroying everything.
  3. A Terrible Fascination - Knowledge that he never asked for runs afoul in Foreman's mind. No matter how much he tries, he cannot get rid of it and it calls to him.
  4. Illness - A metastasized genetic cancer that would kill those of lesser constitution writhes and ravages Judas' insides.

• Hand of Light - Despite that darkness within him, the Black Sabbath is a name known in the Barrens for kindness and life-giving miracles.
  1. Quick Healer - Foreman's hands and body align with positive energies. Having memorized the Buddhist Mantra of Light for purifying a rebirth of sin, he is apt at removing suffering from the world.
  2. College Education - Knowledge of medical science and genetics is something he can absorb better than anything else. He doesn't know why, but it's one of the most fulfilling hobbies he knows.
  3. Local Fame - Word of a healer exists in the Redmond Barrens. SINless with nowhere else to go and those bleeding out in alleyways are sometimes visited by a giant figure, their wounds miraculously gone after his touch.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Die Hand Die Verletzt	Scarcarian		Medium	21 October 2085
Viral Dispute	Sleevey		Low	15 March 2085
Runnin' from the Dock of the Bay	LHOG		Medium	27 February 2085
A Wolf In Wolf's clothing?	Bulldogc	Trophäenjagd	High	6 January 2085
Redmond Rage	Sample Text	Compound Interest	High	31 December 2084
A Beautiful Song	Fangblade_		High	25 November 2084

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Adeptus	2	3	Fixer(N,A,K,G)	Fixer	Spirit Expert, Magical Appraiser, Location, Location, Location	Even
Chantal Houellebecq	6	1	Gear	EVO Miami Deltaware Clinic Head	EVO Loyalist, Working Hours, My Grandkids Were Visiting, Cybersurgeon, Beta Is Better, An Arm and a Leg, Got a Spine, Cybernetic Charm, Bioware Buff, Genemod Geek, EVO Insider, Changeling Community, This Old Drone	Even
Handyman	2	2	Service	Alchemist	Inordinately Creepy, Alchemist, Glory Seeker, Idle Hands, Necromancer	Even

• Positive Reputation

Faction	Reputation

• Negative Reputation

Faction	Reputation

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	Metal band from the Fifth World. Top of the charts in their time!
3	Frequent sight in the Redmond Barrens' various clinics and hospitals. He's known to miraculously heal many people in critical condition of their injuries.
6	Few nurses have seen him coughing blood after his mystical treatments, but he refuses treatment himself. Known to destroy various items by touch, leaving plastic objects a molten, smoking pile.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	A lower end runner that has saved the lives of his teammates without fail as far as anyone's aware. Often brings even enemies back from the brink if they're in critical condition.
3	Always wears gloves. It's suspected that he carries HMHVV given how hesitant he is to ever make skin contact, as if he was contagious.
5	Assensing has often made him look dark and unnatural. At times, his astral form looks twinned, as if there were two versions of him overlapping. One of these is said to wear a malignant expression.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Description
1	Awakened.
2	Physical Adept and dual-natured. Assumed to be Infected, though he doesn't look like it. Has a datajack in his neck.
3	HMHVV Strain 2.
4	Bears augmentations that appear inherent to his being. He also doesn't seem to spread the virus with his touch.
5	Not a technomancer.

Plot Hooks

Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Heritage of Evil	Black Sabbath doesn't know it, but he's a clone. An imperfect, failed clone cursed with nightmares, a voice in his head, a mentor he doesn't want and a cancer in his veins. He's not even sure if he wants to know what happened to him or where his childhood went. Truth is, he never had a childhood, having woken from his gene vat as a fully grown adult. Garry Foreman's death triggered his awakening as a failsafe and would've led him straight to one of the geneticist's diabolical projects if the system hadn't broken along the way. Now he's a wandering, misplaced part of a larger whole and he's terrified of what he'll find if he goes looking for his identity.
Wracking Guilt	Judas wakes up every night in cold sweat. He feels filthy no matter how much he showers. An undefinable, nagging sense of remorse gnaws at his soul with each passing day. He suspects he'd find out what causes it if he went looking for his past (see Heritage of Evil) but he's scared of the answers he may find. As a result, Judas is trapped in a purgatory of unease and anxiety, feeling like he is responsible for things both great and terrible yet never finding a source for these feelings. In an attempt to alleviate his own anguish, Foreman pushes himself into danger and crisis, attempting to save as many lives as he can. His fervent desire to repent for crimes unknown shaped his adept abilities into martyrdom incarnate. Where will he turn his attention next in the quest for absolution and forgiveness -- and whose lives will he save next?