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===Summary===
===Summary===
A vampire mage seeks to join the Black Lodge - the real Black Lodge, not the knock-off her parents are in.
A vampire mage seeks to join the most elite circles of magic - whatever those are. Whatever means necessary, whatever that takes.


She's not telling anybody about that, though. Nope! Just a genuinely great person, here. No problems whatsoever.
She's not telling anybody about that, though. Nope! Just a genuinely great person, here. No problems whatsoever.


===Goals===
===Goals===
* Join the Lodge. Fully. Whatever that means, whatever that takes.
* Grow more powerful. Obviously.
* Grow more powerful. Obviously.
* Gain friends (minions) to help her position.
* Gain friends (minions) to help her position.
* Acquire more money.
* Learn the identity of the vampire who turned her.


===Goals She Won't Admit to Herself===
===Goals She Won't Admit to Herself===
* Make friends. Actual friends.
* Make friends. Actual friends.
* Get over her aversion to herself.
* Get over her aversion to herself.
===Silas Vespasiano's Goals for Gehenna===
* Develop this ant into an asset.
* Build more mechanisms of control over this potential asset.


==Background==
==Background==
A child of privilege - relatively speaking - Gehenna was born to hangers-on of the Black Lodge's outer circles. The family would host parties, make political donations, and provide behind-the-scenes support for them. This structured lifestyle was one that Gehenna resented - so she rebelled by throwing parties, sneaking out, and doing whatever she wanted. All the while, she was growing as a mage - spells only, her self-centered attitude drove the spirits away.
A child of privilege - relatively speaking - Gehenna was born to friends of a certain member of the Black lodge - one [[Silas Vespasiano]]. The family would host parties, make political donations, and provide behind-the-scenes support for him. Her father, Ferdinand Sinclair, works as an architect for the city, and is responsible for several structures downtown. Her mother Beatrice comes from a family that has been in real estate for generations in the area. Their connections in Seattle's that scene provided fine opportunities for providing building plans, information on secret tunnels, the ability to sneak clever escapes or passages into structures for later use by their allies - all things which the Black Lodge would like to know about and have access to, naturally. And when their daughter awakened as a Mage, well - all the better.


It all went away, though, when she received the shock of her life. On the way back from a party, she was intercepted by someone who seemed to know she was coming.
The structured lifestyle of the rich did not suit Gehenna - so she rebelled by throwing parties, sneaking out, and doing whatever she wanted. She even rebelled by selling secrets online - eventually, even getting into infobrokering circles in the shadows, trading data back and forth. Her biggest score, the one that got her onto The Nexus, was a set of dozens of floor plans for buildings down town, up to date with secret passages, security measures, structural failure points, saferoom locations and safes. A big score, which marked her as a troublemaker on Vespasiano's radar. It was natural that he'd take action to put this problem  under control.


A vampire. Though she couldn't have known it - and still doesn't - her parents had arranged for her to be turned without her knowledge, in the hopes that a more powerful caster as a daughter would bring them further into the Lodge's good graces. They'd promised to develop a mage in the shadows, one who'd labour to the Lodge's ends. One who could bring them filthy lucre. They documented her as dead, and explained that she should build a reputation in the shadows, to build up to proper membership.
It all went away, though, when she received the shock of her life. On the way back from a party, she was intercepted by someone who seemed to know she was coming. A vampire.  


Their daughter Vivian will obey - and use the power she gains to get out from under her thumb.
In the name of keeping order, Silas influenced her parents into a method of "developing their daughter into a better mage." Though she couldn't have known it - and still doesn't - her parents arranged for her to be turned without her knowledge, in the hopes that a more powerful caster as a daughter would bring them further renown. This, of course, came with the added benefit that Silas would be able to add a powerful mage to his stable of runners that he can keep under his thumb. The family documented her as dead, and explained that she should build a reputation in the shadows, to build up to a new debut in society.
 
Their daughter Vivian Sinclair will obey - and use the power she gains to get out from under her thumb. For now, she'll start by leveraging those she knew while flipping info to the right buyers and leaning on her reputation as a mage.
 
But eventually, she'll uncover the truth behind her turning, and the truth behind the powerful figures her parents consorted with - even as they drip feed her clues as to the nature of the organization she sees in the shadows.


== Narrative Significant Qualities ==
== Narrative Significant Qualities ==
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===Negative===
===Negative===
* Dependent (Inconvenience) - Drinking & Smoking
* Leaning Tower of Ego (Poor Self Control (Vindictive), Social Appearance Anxiety, Superhuman Psychosis) - Gehenna has a fragile, fragile ego. When someone challenges her or gets one over on her, she can't let it go, and anything that gives them ammo to insult her is unwelcome. Pawns should stay in their place.
* Distinctive Style - Fiber Optic Hair, LED tattoos of the sun and milky way, stars in her cybereyes, and an obvious cyberarm. There's nothing subtle about Yue.
* Driven (Join the Black Lodge) - Surprise of surprises, she wants to get back in her family's good graces by joining the Lodge.
* Impassive - Not the most emotional of characters, and her flattened affect is offputting.
* A Horror in the Mirror (Social Stress (Infected), Unsteady Hands) - Gehenna's deadly afraid of infected. Her nerves are tight as piano wire. And any time she's forced to acknowledge herself, she's as terrified as she is by any other infected. It's easy to leave her shaking in her boots.
* Phobia (Uncommon, Moderate) - Being trapped
* Big Regret (Triad Mage) - The traces of her old Triad tattoos are visible around the edges of her LED panels laid atop them. Nobody who puts the pieces together about a mage who used to work with the Triads is likely to view her favorably, even active Triad members.


==Run History==
==Run History==
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Joe Smith
|Name=Silas Vespasiano
|Loyalty=3
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=-1
|Chips=Even
|}}
 
{{HasContact|
|Name=News Van Dan
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|}}
 
{{HasContact|
|Name=Liam Montgomery
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}
 
{{HasContact|
|Name=Cascade
|Loyalty=3
|Chips=Even
|}}
|}}


{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Quanxi
|Name=John Baptise
|Loyalty=2
|Loyalty=2
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Exeunt
|Name=Alias
|Loyalty=1
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
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{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Star Man
|Name=Lt Payne
|Loyalty=2
|Loyalty=1
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
|}}
|}}


{{HasContact|
{{HasContact|
|Name=Stella
|Name=Mr Anderson
|Loyalty=2
|Loyalty=4
|Chips=-1
|}}
 
{{HasContact|
|Name=
|Loyalty=
|Chips=Even
|Chips=Even
|}}
|}}
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{{GroupContactTable|
{{GroupContactTable|


 
{{GroupContact|
|Group=The Nexus
|RepBonus=0
|RepExpense=0
|Position=Probationary Member
|DateJoined=2084-08-25
|}}


}}
}}


===Allies===
===Allies===
 
+2 Black Lodge Reputation
[[Farraday's Clinic]] +5 Rep
 
[[Gates of Ishtar]] +3 Rep
 
[[Followers of the Iron Thorns]] +5 Rep


===Enemies===
===Enemies===
 
-2 Urban Brawlers
[[Compulsory Execution Unit]] -10 Rep
-50 Ancients - we started a war and they have her signature, oops. Also, they know she's a vampire.
 
[[People of Redmond]] -2 Rep


=In Character Information=
=In Character Information=


==Symbols and Signatures==
==Symbols and Signatures==
If there's any symbol most associated with her, it's the shimmering stars in her eyes and the constellation running up her arm and onto her back.


==Matrix Search Table==
==Matrix Search Table==
{{SearchTable|
{{SearchTable|
|LowResult= A form of torture by severing limbs. Favored by the Triads for those whom they view as traitors.
|LowResult= A biblical reference. Also, apparently a screen name for some mage spinning secrets.
|MidResult= A relative nobody mage, with weak magical force due to the indignity of hosting used cyberware. Her eyes are stars, and her skin a constellation.
|MidResult= A relatively trusted infobroker on the Nexus. Recently started running as a mage, rather than sticking to infoselling.
|HighResult= Thorough traces of her image place her back in the Triads just a month before she arrived in Seattle, with all limbs and ordinary eyes intact. Instead, she sported the sorts of tattoos one might expect of a member of the Triads - the type that enforce obedience.
|HighResult= There are reports in KE's hands of a woman matching the runner's description being attacked and killed by a vampire.
}}
}}


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{{SearchTable|
{{SearchTable|
|LowThreshold=1
|LowThreshold=1
|LowResult= A relatively weak mage. The only noteworthy thing about her is that she can at least hold a gun to make up for her mediocre casting.
|LowResult= A decent mage, with a few connections in high society.
|MidThreshold=3
|MidThreshold=3
|MidResult= A mage of the Cosmic tradition, with striking looks that make her memorable to almost anyone on the streets. She refuses to hide the LED tattoos and refuses to change the lenses of her cybereyes to something reasonable. Triad members have a distaste for her.
|MidResult= An infobroker with expensive taste. Often found at parties, usually with a drink in hand. Dresses like she thinks she's important.
|HighThreshold=5
|HighThreshold=5
|HighResult= Burned by the tattoos the Triad once had binding her, this mage apparently had her arm cut off to escape the trap of bondage.
|HighResult= A mage, who's not shy about using spells others might find distasteful.
}}
}}


==Assensing Table==
==Assensing Table==
{{AssensingTable|
{{AssensingTable|
|Result1=
|Result1= Somewhat sickly. Generally calm. Awakened.
|Result2=
|Result2= No 'ware. This is a mage.
|Result3=
|Result3= ESS 5, MAG 6. Vampire!!
|Result4=
|Result4= No bioware.
|Result5=
|Result5= Geneware - Synaptic optimization, geneopts for WIL/CHA. Is not a techno.
}}
}}


==SINs==
==SINs==
Mei Li (Fake, Rating 4, UCAS)
Rating 4: Penelope Montblanc, Rating 4, UCAS
* Mage License (Fake, Rating 4)
* Firearms License (Fake, Rating 4)


==Appearance==
==Appearance==
Short of stature, but that's not the first thing people notice. Her cybereyes have stars in them - artificial ones. Her hair is ordinarily black, but at night, it lights up: mirroring the milky way, a comet occasionally streaking along one of the strands. On her (non-cyber) hand, one small LED panel has a sun and moon, circling with the time of day. Up along her arm trail constellations, and across her full back is the entirety of the draco constellation - not that it gets shown often. It is there to replace the swirling dragons whose traces remain in the skin separating the edges of the panels.
Short, pale eyed, white haired. Calm, smiling, eager to be helpful.


=== Clothing ===
=== Clothing ===
Long pants, heavy coats, short sleeves - something to let her arms remain free, to show the changes she's made to herself. Yue will not allow others to view her in the old light, not that many in Seattle would have even known who she was back then.
Fancy coats and dresses.


===Matrix Persona===
===Matrix Persona===
On the Matrix, she appears as a humanoid constellation - a hollow space of darkness, interspersed with stars and swirling planets.
An old-fashioned, Victorian era dress, with a face like a UCAS dollar bill and the All-Seeing-Eye for its eyes. Custom work, expensive looking.
 
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==Media Mentions==
==Media Mentions==

Latest revision as of 03:15, 10 October 2024

Gehenna
Gehenna.png
Machiavellian Monster
Vivacious Vampire
Unknowing Black Lodge Apprentice
Discord@lhog
Redditelleelleellehawg
MetatypeHuman
Street Cred0
Notoriety0
Public Awareness0
CDP16
D.O.B.January 18 2059
Age26
Folder[1]
PriorityMetatype - C
Attributes - A
Magic/Resonance - A
Skills - E
Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension5
# Optional Infected powers allowed4


Character Information

Summary

A vampire mage seeks to join the most elite circles of magic - whatever those are. Whatever means necessary, whatever that takes.

She's not telling anybody about that, though. Nope! Just a genuinely great person, here. No problems whatsoever.

Goals

  • Grow more powerful. Obviously.
  • Gain friends (minions) to help her position.
  • Acquire more money.
  • Learn the identity of the vampire who turned her.

Goals She Won't Admit to Herself

  • Make friends. Actual friends.
  • Get over her aversion to herself.

Silas Vespasiano's Goals for Gehenna

  • Develop this ant into an asset.
  • Build more mechanisms of control over this potential asset.

Background

A child of privilege - relatively speaking - Gehenna was born to friends of a certain member of the Black lodge - one Silas Vespasiano. The family would host parties, make political donations, and provide behind-the-scenes support for him. Her father, Ferdinand Sinclair, works as an architect for the city, and is responsible for several structures downtown. Her mother Beatrice comes from a family that has been in real estate for generations in the area. Their connections in Seattle's that scene provided fine opportunities for providing building plans, information on secret tunnels, the ability to sneak clever escapes or passages into structures for later use by their allies - all things which the Black Lodge would like to know about and have access to, naturally. And when their daughter awakened as a Mage, well - all the better.

The structured lifestyle of the rich did not suit Gehenna - so she rebelled by throwing parties, sneaking out, and doing whatever she wanted. She even rebelled by selling secrets online - eventually, even getting into infobrokering circles in the shadows, trading data back and forth. Her biggest score, the one that got her onto The Nexus, was a set of dozens of floor plans for buildings down town, up to date with secret passages, security measures, structural failure points, saferoom locations and safes. A big score, which marked her as a troublemaker on Vespasiano's radar. It was natural that he'd take action to put this problem under control.

It all went away, though, when she received the shock of her life. On the way back from a party, she was intercepted by someone who seemed to know she was coming. A vampire.

In the name of keeping order, Silas influenced her parents into a method of "developing their daughter into a better mage." Though she couldn't have known it - and still doesn't - her parents arranged for her to be turned without her knowledge, in the hopes that a more powerful caster as a daughter would bring them further renown. This, of course, came with the added benefit that Silas would be able to add a powerful mage to his stable of runners that he can keep under his thumb. The family documented her as dead, and explained that she should build a reputation in the shadows, to build up to a new debut in society.

Their daughter Vivian Sinclair will obey - and use the power she gains to get out from under her thumb. For now, she'll start by leveraging those she knew while flipping info to the right buyers and leaning on her reputation as a mage.

But eventually, she'll uncover the truth behind her turning, and the truth behind the powerful figures her parents consorted with - even as they drip feed her clues as to the nature of the organization she sees in the shadows.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

  • Towering Ego (Dedicated Spellslinger, Metaviral Attunement, Too Pretty to Hit) - Gehenna considers herself to be above others, to the point that she will not deign to work with spirits and is happy to impose her will upon others.
  • Relentless Gossip (Prime Datahaven Membership) - Being enough of a gossip to get good info has led Gehenna to interesting circles.

Negative

  • Leaning Tower of Ego (Poor Self Control (Vindictive), Social Appearance Anxiety, Superhuman Psychosis) - Gehenna has a fragile, fragile ego. When someone challenges her or gets one over on her, she can't let it go, and anything that gives them ammo to insult her is unwelcome. Pawns should stay in their place.
  • Driven (Join the Black Lodge) - Surprise of surprises, she wants to get back in her family's good graces by joining the Lodge.
  • A Horror in the Mirror (Social Stress (Infected), Unsteady Hands) - Gehenna's deadly afraid of infected. Her nerves are tight as piano wire. And any time she's forced to acknowledge herself, she's as terrified as she is by any other infected. It's easy to leave her shaking in her boots.

Run History

NameGMMetaplotThreatDate of Run
An Ace Up One's SleeveSarcarianHigh1 May 2085
Front Point & CenterAsmodeusHigh24 April 2085
Uncle Silas Asks a FavorSarcarianHigh10 April 2085
Pretty Fly For A Fly GuyAnumatiMedium26 March 2085
Two Greys Make a GreyezeneMedium13 March 2085
Mostly ArmlessjitMedium18 February 2085
B Positive, Young VampirejitLow17 January 2085
Shakedown BreakdownjitCompound InterestMedium16 January 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact Connection Loyalty Archetype Profession Aspects Chips
Silas Vespasiano 5 3 Fixer Black Lodge Fixer Black Magician, High Society Socialite, Made Man, Politico, Talismonger, Theory Savant Even
News Van Dan 3 2 Legwork Guerilla Reporter (Infobroker) Infobroker, Conspiracy Theorist, Drone Operator, Hacktivist Even
Liam Montgomery 4 3 Service Lawyer Cui Bono, Bona Fide, Bona Vacantia, Corpus Delicti, Habeas Corpus, Amicus Curiae Even
Cascade 4 3 Service International Smuggler and Fence It's not fun if there's no Risk!, Smuggler Specialist, Garage of Ganked Gear, Stimulant Savant, Getaway Driver, Driver picks the Music, Passenger shuts their trap Even
John Baptise 2 2 Service Taxi Driver Reliable, Voodoo, No Questions Asked Even
Alias 5 1 Gear SIN Forger SIN Forger, Police Contacts, Disguise Enthusiast, Hacker, Infiltrator, College Educated Even
Lt Payne 4 1 Generalist Lieutent in the Spikes Gang LOOKSMAXXED, Love my truck., You upset the baby, Aint No Thang Even
Mr Anderson 6 3 Service VTOL Hot Extract Professional I'm your huckleberry, Expert Pilot, Its a hot zone, I know a thing or two., Don't rush me., Okay We need to rush, Well Traveled -1


Organizations

Contact Position Connection Faction Rep Archetype Health Location
The Nexus Probationary Member 5 9 Datahaven Maintaining Denver

Allies

+2 Black Lodge Reputation

Enemies

-2 Urban Brawlers -50 Ancients - we started a war and they have her signature, oops. Also, they know she's a vampire.

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Matrix Search Table

Threshold Result
1 A biblical reference. Also, apparently a screen name for some mage spinning secrets.
3 A relatively trusted infobroker on the Nexus. Recently started running as a mage, rather than sticking to infoselling.
6 There are reports in KE's hands of a woman matching the runner's description being attacked and killed by a vampire.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold Result
1 A decent mage, with a few connections in high society.
3 An infobroker with expensive taste. Often found at parties, usually with a drink in hand. Dresses like she thinks she's important.
5 A mage, who's not shy about using spells others might find distasteful.

Assensing Table

Threshold Result
1 Somewhat sickly. Generally calm. Awakened.
2 No 'ware. This is a mage.
3 ESS 5, MAG 6. Vampire!!
4 No bioware.
5 Geneware - Synaptic optimization, geneopts for WIL/CHA. Is not a techno.

SINs

Rating 4: Penelope Montblanc, Rating 4, UCAS

Appearance

Short, pale eyed, white haired. Calm, smiling, eager to be helpful.

Clothing

Fancy coats and dresses.

Matrix Persona

An old-fashioned, Victorian era dress, with a face like a UCAS dollar bill and the All-Seeing-Eye for its eyes. Custom work, expensive looking.

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when she's in use. If you want to use them in a run unrelated to Fennec, please ask first.

Aspect Information Related Run(s)
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Media Mentions

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