Revision as of 06:48, 9 January 2024

Character Information

Gehenna
Machiavellian Monster
Vivacious Vampire
Black Lodge Aspirant
Discord	@lhog
Reddit	elleelleellehawg
Metatype	Human
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	16
D.O.B.	September 4th, 2054
Age	31
Folder	Drive
Priority	Metatype - C ; Attributes - A ; Magic/Resonance - A ; Skills - E ; Resources - E
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Summary

A vampire mage seeks to join the Black Lodge - the real Black Lodge, not the knock-off her parents are in.

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

Goals

Join the Lodge. Fully. Whatever that means, whatever that takes.
Grow more powerful. Obviously.
Gain friends (minions) to help her position.

Goals She Won't Admit to Herself

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

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.

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. 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.

Their daughter Vivian will obey - and use the power she gains to get out from under her thumb.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Lucky - Even with all that's happened, Yue was born under a lucky star - must have, just to survive.
Daredevil - Yue makes terrifically bad moves.
Spirit Whisperer - There is a desire to understand the world around her and a desire to be understood in turn. Perhaps spirits have taken notice.
Analytical Mind - She's caught an asteroid in a decaying orbit around a black hole - on the astral. Dead reckoning of physics and mathematics is one of the cosmic mage's strong suits, and it shows.

Negative

Dependent (Inconvenience) - Drinking & Smoking
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.
Impassive - Not the most emotional of characters, and her flattened affect is offputting.
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

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
An Ace Up One's Sleeve	Sarcarian		High	1 May 2085
Front Point & Center	Asmodeus		High	24 April 2085
Uncle Silas Asks a Favor	Sarcarian		High	10 April 2085
Pretty Fly For A Fly Guy	Anumati		Medium	26 March 2085
Two Greys Make a Grey	ezene		Medium	13 March 2085
Mostly Armless	jit		Medium	18 February 2085
B Positive, Young Vampire	jit		Low	17 January 2085
Shakedown Breakdown	jit	Compound Interest	Medium	16 January 2085

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Joe Smith	3	2	Fixer(N,K,G,A)	Fixer	Procurer of exotic goods, Hang gliding enthusiast, Linguist, Smuggling expert	-1
Quanxi	5	2	Networking	Translator	Wanted - Triads, Private Information, Ex Triad, Identical Twins, Wuxing, Magic Tradition - Wuxing, Fae Knowledge, Awakened Hangouts	Even
Exeunt	1	1	Service	Street Doc	Past Paranoia, Critical Condition, Metahuman Jury-Rigger, Cyberdoc	Even
Star Man	2	2	Service	Free Spirit	Spirit of Guardian, Astrology Man, Just Likes a Good Time	Even
Stella	2	2	Gear	Cosmic Magic Talismonger	Overworked, Space?, Space!, Talismonger, UDub Grad Student	Even

Organizations

Contact	Position	Connection	Faction Rep	Archetype	Health	Location

Allies

Farraday's Clinic +5 Rep

Gates of Ishtar +3 Rep

Followers of the Iron Thorns +5 Rep

Enemies

Compulsory Execution Unit -10 Rep

People of Redmond -2 Rep

In Character Information

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

Threshold	Result
1	A form of torture by severing limbs. Favored by the Triads for those whom they view as traitors.
3	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.
6	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.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	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.
3	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.
5	Burned by the tattoos the Triad once had binding her, this mage apparently had her arm cut off to escape the trap of bondage.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1
2
3
4
5

SINs

Mei Li (Fake, Rating 4, UCAS)

Mage License (Fake, Rating 4)
Firearms License (Fake, Rating 4)

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.

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.

Matrix Persona

On the Matrix, she appears as a humanoid constellation - a hollow space of darkness, interspersed with stars and swirling planets.

Media Mentions

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 ==Background==
-The daughter of rich parents, Yue isn't her given name - but the old one is burned. Perhaps even literally - the damage of breaking her oaths was extensive.
+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.
-Initiated into the Ten Thousand Lions Triad at an early age, Lingchi was a faithful servant and a faithful mage until a breach of her trust and an insult that went too far. Her attempts at retaliation were ineffective, and quickly her family paid the price for her insolence. The Triad uses magical tattoos to keep their people loyal - and Yue was forced to take more bindings than most. Her magic, her sight, her physical strength, all bound up in the tattoos covering her. For some time, she lived in bondage. But when it became too much, she hatched a plan - cut the chains tying her, and pay whatever cost is required to escape.
+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.
-She set a date with a doctor - one belonging to the Yakuza. A stack of nuyen - only her own - paid for the cost of the used 'ware she would need. And then? To cut her way out of the ties that bind? To break the magical power flowing through the tattoos? Lingchi had the doctor cut her arm off, knowing full well what came next. The backlash was ferocious, the damage massive, and her magic would never be the same. She was freed - but it cost her an arm and her eyes. Where she could, the old tattoos have been replaced. Her old hair has been replaced. Days of recovery later - she fled across the sea.
+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.
-On the boat over, the person next to her asked her name, but the dazed mage could only mutter about what she saw in the sky hanging above. Yue Liang. 'Bright moon.' They called her that the rest of the voyage. In Seattle though? She got nicknamed by disdainful members of the Triad. They wouldn't go after her - but they ensured that she'd be reminded every day of what she'd done. Lingchi. Death by a thousand cuts. An execution by dismemberment, reserved for traitors. For now, Yue owns the name, for that is the name that gets her work.
+Their daughter Vivian will obey - and use the power she gains to get out from under her thumb.
-Her old name? It should never come up, and she will be outraged if it does. But when someone calls her 静怡 (Jingyi) - she is outraged. Not that it shows, of course.
 == Narrative Significant Qualities ==

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