Dark Room Vivian Blackstone

Vivian "Leila" Blackstone

Virtue: Uplifting • Vice: Selfish • Aspirations: Path: Mastigos • Order: x • Legacy: None • Cabal: x • Obsessions: Understand the Dark Room

Attributes

Intelligence 4, Wits 4, Resolve 3 Strength 1, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2 Presence 2, Manipulation 3, Composure 3

Skills

Mental: Academics 1, Investigation 4 (Codebreaking), Occult 1 Politics 1 Physical: Firearms 2, Larceny 1, Stealth 2 (Surveillance) Social: Empathy 3, Expression 3 (Painting), Persuasion 1, Socialize 3, Subterfuge 2

Merits

Mental: Meditative Mind 2, Japanese 1, Trained Observer 3 Physical: – Social: Barfly 2, Table Tuner 1, False Identity 2 Combat: – Awakened: Dark Room 5, Dream 2, Supernal Watcher 2

Advantages

Health: 7, Willpower: 4/6, Wisdom: 7, Size: 5, Speed: 8, Defense: 2 (Armor: 0), Initiative: 6

Gnosis

Mana: 10/1 • Yantras: 2 • Ritual Interval: 3 hours • Arcana Limits: 3/2 • Paradox: 1 • Combined Spells: 1 Obsessions: 1

Magic

Arcana: Mind 2, Space 1, Spirit 1 Rotes: x Praxes: Mental Scan, One Mind Two Thoughts, The Outward & Inward Eye, Exorcist's Eye Magical Tools: x

Attainments

• Counterspell: Mind & Space spells • Sympathetic Range: May cast a spell targeting someone out of sensory range. • Space Armor: Spend 1 mana to add [Space] to Defense, which maybe applied against firearms. When Dodging, spend 1 mana to redirect the attack against another applicable target, hitting with [Space] successes.

Nimbus

Song of the Sirin Effects: The Sirin's song is the pumping of blood through veins, and the thrill of passion unleashed. Those affected by this Tilt gain a +1 to Presence tests. Cause: Being in Viv's vicinity when she casts a spell, and having a Resolve lower than the nimbus' Power. End: End of scene. • Spend 1 Mana to activate Immediate Nimbus (roll Gnosis for Strength) • Spend 1 Mana to deliberately place Signature Nimbus on person, place, or object.

Mage Sight

Warlock's Sight: Detect the presence of thinking beings, including what condition that mind is in (sleeping, comatose, awake, meditating, projecting out of body, etc); also able to sense when someone in sight gains or spends Willpower. Detect precise distances, range bands, and cover (allowing knowledge of mechanical bonuses/penalties), as well as spatial warps, scrying windows, and the presence of other spatial phenomena.

• Peripheral: Always Active. Automatic sensory awareness of supernatural phenomena. • Active: Reflexive Action. Perceive Ruling Arcana phenomena for [Gnosis] minutes or one scene (1 Willpower); -2 to non-magic rolls while active. Instant Action. Spend 1 Mana/Arcanum to add a Common or Inferior Arcanum. • Focused: Used to engage in Scrutiny and Revelation of Mysteries.

Legacy

None

Ruling Arcanum: – Attainments: – Yantras: – Oblations: –

Other Abilities

• Pattern Restoration: 3 Mana to heal 1B or 1L or 1 Mental Condition or 1 Physical Tilt • Pattern Scouring: Physical Attribute -1 or 1 resistant Lethal to gain 3 Mana

Current Conditions

Pneuma-Souled Your soul's pattern is filled with pneuma, the rarified magical power of the Supernal untainted by the Fallen World. When using mana, your mana cost drops to 0, you cancel all Paradox dice, and you win all Clashes of Wills. When you use mana, the pneuma has a chance of sublimating into normal mana. Roll a number of dice equal to the points of mana you would have spent, plus 2 dice for each time you have made this test previously. Failure causes you to retain your pneuma, and a dramatic failure resets dice from previous tests to 0. Success sublimates your pneuma into one point of mana per success; an exceptional success instead fills your mana pool entirely with mana. Possible Sources: Close soul-contact with the Supernal; typically only after Awakening. Resolution: Pneuma sublimates into mana. Gain an Arcane Beat.

Background

Age: 64
DOB 2/13/1921

Downtime Life

• 1976: Events of Maple Shade
• 1977: x
• 1978: x
• 1979: x
• 1980: Mt. St. Helens erupts.
• 1981: Vivian Dies of lung cancer
• 1982: x
• 1983: x
• 1984: Surprise bitch!

Personality

• Virtue: Uplifting. Regain all spent Willpower when you motivate or uplift someone.
• Vice: Selfish. Regain one spent Willpower when you look out for number one.

• Aspirations:
  • find out what has happened to my friends and family
  • Learn some magic
  • Encounter a Fae creature
  • x

• Obsessions:
  • Understand the Dark Room

Equipment

• Possessions: paintings, art supplies, art books
• Weapons: service pistol
• Other Notes: x

Conditions

• xxx

Merit Details

• Striking Looks 2
• Japanese 1
• Meditative Mind 2
• Barfly 2
• Trained Observer 3
• Table Turner
• False Identiy 2
• The Dark Room 5
• Dream 2 - Once per chapter, char can dig in dreams for answers to primordial truths
• Supernal Watcher 2 - rank 1 entity, when you attempt to summon only requires 5 successes instead of 10, when activating mage sight can spend 1 pt of will to have it be present (functionally improves casting)
• High Speech 1

Friends and Family

• x

Lifestyle

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Apartment xxx

A description of your characters day to day life.

• Money: knows how to make "starving artist" look like "Bohemian Grande Dame"
• Clothing & Jewelry: Caftans, scarves, fascinators, big jewelry
• Communication: phone, in person
• Food: basic when not entertaining
• Housing: art and scarves and beaded curtains, incense always burning
• Days: whatever
• Evenings: she wants

Mana

4

Character Experiences

• Current Beats: 0 • Unspent Experiences: 0 • Spent Experiences: 6

Experiences Earned

x

Purchases

x

Arcane Experiences

• Current Arcane Beats: 4 • Unspent Arcane Experiences: 3 • Spent: 4