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==Background==
==Background==
A traveller back from decades past, Plaguemaster's origins much like everything else about him are lost. He has a foreigner's Japanese accent but speaks on a native level and finds a deep fascination in medicine and pathology. He wanders Seattle's underground network in search of peculiar diseases, on occasion providing treatment to strangers from disinfection to diagnosing symptoms and writing prescriptions of cheap drugs the person can go buy for their ailment. In other cases, he intentionally coats his scythe in phlegm and sinks it into the flesh of those that threaten him, spreading viral contagions by wielding them as a weapon. He cures and inflicts, spreading plagues and promoting health according to whatever byzantine code he believes in.
A traveller back from decades past, Plaguemaster's origins much like everything else about him are lost. He has a faint, difficult to place accent and finds a deep fascination in medicine and pathology. The goblin wanders Seattle's underground network in search of peculiar diseases, on occasion providing treatment to strangers. This may range from from disinfection to diagnosing symptoms and writing prescriptions of cheap drugs the person can go buy for their ailment. In other cases, defends himself with the claws of the dead, pulling once dead bodies back into life to protect him from those that would accost a seemingly defenseless, decrepit old man.


On occasion, fixers in need of more manpower call upon him to help out with shadowruns involving capture and delivery due to his ability to both harm and heal. Few truly like him or even try to understand him, but this suits Plaguemaster just fine. He staves off the influence of toxic magic by providing treatment as much as he provides ailments; he doesn't want to watch the whole world burn in rampant contagions. Then again, he's also not going to stop it from happening. Those who are in the delirium of aggressive pathogens are blessed in his eyes, suffering the true struggle of living beings. He aims to spread fever dreams, shortness of breath and constant sleepiness since in his eyes they are an euphoric experience no drug can match.
On occasion, fixers in need of more manpower call upon him to help out with shadowruns involving capture and delivery due to his ability to both harm and heal. He staves off the influence of toxic magic through his staunch beliefs and core principles which aid in grounding his mind on the side of sanity; he doesn't want to watch the whole world burn in rampant contagions. Then again, he's also not going to stop it from happening. Those who are in the delirium of aggressive pathogens are blessed in his eyes, suffering the true struggle of living beings. Unlike truly toxic disease mages, however, Plaguemaster doesn't see the march of disease as the end goal, but rather as an obstacle to overcome. He views sickness as a purifying trial for both body and mind, thus earning him the ire of those he'd otherwise be lumped together with.


Plaguemaster is a self-taught doctor and a pathologist. He fuels his continuing travels in the Ork Underground with the life essence of those who try to stop him, himself becoming a cancer on Seattle. What else could be more tempting than for him to become a pox-marked blight on his enemies with his very existence? Toxic whispers echo in his mind from time to time, but he pays them no need. The cure and the disease are not opposites. They are symbiotic and both are required for the true experience in life.
Plaguemaster is a self-taught doctor and a pathologist. Toxic whispers echo in his mind from time to time, but he pays them no need. The cure and the disease are not opposites. They are symbiotic and both are required for the true experience in life.


==Goals==
==Goals==
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==Personality==
==Personality==
Plaguemaster adores the art of medicine as much as he adores the tenacity and raw power of various diseases. He wants to master both sides, the crafting of illnesses and improving their vectors as well as how to cure them. The people that he inflicts his plague upon are a secondary concern; after all, he can just treat them later if it's important for whatever reason. He has a detached sense towards the sanctity of life, yet at the same time he views all life as sacred and worth admiring, if not preserving.
Plaguemaster adores the art of medicine as much as he adores the tenacity and raw power of various diseases. He wants to master both sides, the crafting of illnesses and improving their vectors as well as how to cure them, yet he views all life as sacred and worth admiring, if not preserving.


==Positive & Negative Qualities==
==Positive & Negative Qualities==

Revision as of 12:17, 23 January 2024

Plaguemaster
Plaguemaster.png
The Wandering Pox
Die young and leave a purulent corpse.
PlayerAsmodeus
MetatypeKoborokuru Goblin
Street Cred0
Notoriety0
Public Awareness0
CDP0
D.O.B.Unknown
AgeAncient
Folder[]
Priority
Metatype - C
Attributes - A
Magic/Resonance - A
Skills - E
Resources - E
Initiations Unlocked3
Initiations Claimed0
Optional Infected Powers Available2

Background

A traveller back from decades past, Plaguemaster's origins much like everything else about him are lost. He has a faint, difficult to place accent and finds a deep fascination in medicine and pathology. The goblin wanders Seattle's underground network in search of peculiar diseases, on occasion providing treatment to strangers. This may range from from disinfection to diagnosing symptoms and writing prescriptions of cheap drugs the person can go buy for their ailment. In other cases, defends himself with the claws of the dead, pulling once dead bodies back into life to protect him from those that would accost a seemingly defenseless, decrepit old man.

On occasion, fixers in need of more manpower call upon him to help out with shadowruns involving capture and delivery due to his ability to both harm and heal. He staves off the influence of toxic magic through his staunch beliefs and core principles which aid in grounding his mind on the side of sanity; he doesn't want to watch the whole world burn in rampant contagions. Then again, he's also not going to stop it from happening. Those who are in the delirium of aggressive pathogens are blessed in his eyes, suffering the true struggle of living beings. Unlike truly toxic disease mages, however, Plaguemaster doesn't see the march of disease as the end goal, but rather as an obstacle to overcome. He views sickness as a purifying trial for both body and mind, thus earning him the ire of those he'd otherwise be lumped together with.

Plaguemaster is a self-taught doctor and a pathologist. Toxic whispers echo in his mind from time to time, but he pays them no need. The cure and the disease are not opposites. They are symbiotic and both are required for the true experience in life.

Goals

  • Learn more about medicine and pathogens
  • Understand HMHVV and its strains in particular
  • Grow in power to be capable of healing and treating any ailment
  • Resist toxic taint of any kind

Appearance

Plaguemaster is a hooded, robed figure with nylon and kevlar intervowen into his dirtied, old clothes. He walks around with a cane that doubles as a scythe, but behind the mask he's a hairless, skin-and-bones husk of a dwarf with vaguely Asian features and pale skin. He has a pox-scarred back, implying he may have had a severe viral infection in early childhood.

Personality

Plaguemaster adores the art of medicine as much as he adores the tenacity and raw power of various diseases. He wants to master both sides, the crafting of illnesses and improving their vectors as well as how to cure them, yet he views all life as sacred and worth admiring, if not preserving.

Positive & Negative Qualities

  • Infected: Goblin - I burn, yet do not burn. I spread, yet stand still. I am the fever. I am the pox.
    1. Celerity - Moving at the speed of plague.
    2. Aged - As long as the idyllic river of bacteria flows, so too shall I.
    3. Impassive - Every year, up to 500,000 people die from influenza. How, exactly, are you unique?


  • Student of the Poxmother - Birth of our suffering, the nurse and her lamp, the warm embrace of fever. She sees our torment and would have us surpass it.
    1. Mentor Spirit - She arrived to me in a fever dream. Knowledge and vision flows to those who comprehend the world beyond our eyes, for it is her that knows all.
    2. Mentor's Mask - The green miasma of the Poxmother's influence is as carrion winds before me. When I tap into her gifts, so too shall I bring her mists to this world.

Run History

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Affiliations

Contacts

Contact Connection Loyalty Archetype Profession Aspects Chips
Father Midnight 5 2 Fixer(G,N,K,A)
Gravekeeper
Underworld, Undead, Undertaker, Underground, Reaper's Harvest, Forensics Even
Bubblegum 1 1 Gear Fake SINner Corporate Forger, SINner, Nothing Lasts Forever, Knows How She Got Here Even


Matrix Search Table

Threshold Result
1 ERROR, NO RESULTS FOUND
3 ERROR, NO RESULTS FOUND
6 ERROR, NO RESULTS FOUND

Shadow Community Table

Threshold Result
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3
5

Assensing Table

Threshold Description
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2
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5

SINs