Dark Room Vivian Blackstone

Vivian Blackstone

Virtue: Uplifting • Vice: Selfish • Aspirations: Understand the Dark Room Path: Mastigos • Order: x • Legacy: x • Cabal: x • Obsessions: x

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 Combat: – Awakened: Dark Room 5, Dream 2, Supernal Watcher 2

Advantages

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

Gnosis

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

Magic

Arcana: Mind 1, Space 2 Rotes: x Praxes: x 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

x

Ruling Arcanum: x Attainments: x Yantras: x Oblations: x

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

Disquieted You have been disturbed on a fundamental level, leaving you unable to concentrate and vaguely disquieted. You must spend 1 additional Willpower the first time you spend Willpower in a scene, and you lose 10-Agains on Perception checks. Possible Sources: Experiencing something strange, mental powers, spiritual Breaking Points Resolution: Regaining Willpower from your Virtue. Beats: n/a

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: x
• 1982: x
• 1983: x
• 1984: x

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
  • establish a new identity
  • 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

• Japanese 1
• Meditative Mind 2
• Barfly 2
• Trained Observer 3
• Table Turner
• 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)

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

Experience

• x skill points held in reserve
• x merit points held in reserve

5 practical experience