Vigil

Vigil

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Biography

Vigil

Acanthus; Free Council; Sisterhood of the Blessed; Cabal (Position)

Gregory Faust (born Hugh Bachmeier II); Fortitude/Greed; The Spy

Hugh Bachmeier II was born in Michigan a mere three days after his parents, Adelaide and Hugh Bachmeier had attained citizenship in the US. He lived a relatively unremarkable childhood, which would herald a similarly unremarkable era ranging from adolescence to early adulthood. Hugh attended college and then enrolled with the Detroit Police Department (DPD). He wasn't there very long before he began an internship with Interpol, specializing in criminal intelligence surveillance and analysis.

Hugh was working with Project Pink Panthers, an Interpol division tasked with monitoring and capturing members of the Pink Panthers, a group behind armed robberies targeting high-end jewellery stores in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the United States. Foolishness, greed and opportunity conspired and Hugh found himself on the Pink Panthers' payroll after a couple of years on the project. He would see to it that incriminating surveillance would go unnoticed or missing.

Things were going well until he was eventually caught in the act. Hugh had spent days bouncing back and forth from a holding cell and an interrogation room, dreading what could only be a new life of imprisonment ahead of him when he had his Awakening. Everything changed and he knew that his doom was not as certain as he had believed it to be. He could see the threads of fate behind his actions and how they impacted creation. He began delicately tugging upon these threads, pulling them towards and around himself like a comforting blanket, and pushing harmful threads away. Two days later a higher up with Interpol approached him with an offer: all charges would be dropped against him and he would be placed within the witness protection program in exchange for intelligence that would result in a number of high profile arrests within the Pink Panthers, nor would he ever be allowed to work in any sort of law enforcement again. He took the offer with barely a moment of thought about it. There might be consequences in the future, but he'd rather deal with "maybe" in the future over certain imprisonment in the present.

Two years later, following presentation of supposedly destroyed video footage and a number of witness testimonies that resulted in several successful criminal arrests, Hugh Bachmeier II vanished from the face of the planet never to be seen again.

Gregory Faust, native of Chillicothe, Ohio...wherever that is, and happy resident of Portland, Oregon, was retroactively born into the world a few months later. Gregory had an unexpected windfall and a tidy sum of money fell into his lap. How fortunate! He used these funds and started Faust Security Systems, an immediately successful cctv and security system company that performs installation and monitoring services for homes, businesses and government contracts.

Stats

• Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 2; Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2; Presence 2, Manipulation 3, Composure 3
• Abilities: Academics 1, Computer 3 (hacking), Crafts 2, Investigation 1, Politics 1, Science 3 (electrodynamics), Firearms 1, Larceny 2, Stealth 1, Persuasion 3 (sales), Socialize 1, Streetwise 1, Subterfuge 2
• Merits: High Speech, Eidetic Memory, Ritual Improv., Allies (Portland Society Wives) 1, Contacts 2 (police, government), Resources 4, Status 3 (corporate executive), Rank: Free Council 1 (discount: craftsman merits), Make Do 2
• Flaws: Secret Past
• Advantages: Health 7, Willpower 5, Wisdom 6, Size 5, Speed 9, Defense 2 (Armor -), Initiative 5

• Magic: Gnosis 3; Fate 4, Forces 2, Space 2, Time 1

• Nimbus: X

Rotes

• Name: "Effect Name", Arcanum •, Attribute+Skill+Arcanum; Conditions/Bonuses/Nil

Sisterhood of the Blessed

Legacy: Sisterhood of the Blessed; Attainments: 1st — Good Fortune, 2nd — X, 3rd — X

• Good Fortune

Members of this Legacy are blessed with perpetual luck. Unless they exert themselves and deliberately seek to turn fate to their benefit, this blessing is relatively minor, but they can choose to make it more powerful and focused. The Blessed are continually under the benefit of the "Winds of Chance" spell(Mage: The Awakening, p. 150) and need do nothing to gain this benefit. While they cannot use this effect to give others bad luck, they are assured a host of minor coincidences will make their lives slightly easier and more pleasant than they otherwise might be. In addition, by simply wishing for something and making a successful Manipulation + Subterfuge + Fate roll, the Blessed can gain the benefit of the "Shifting the Odds" spell (Mage: The Awakening, p. 153), thus allowing her to cause luck to help her attain a specific goal.

Ownership & Possession

• Possessions: messenger bag, laptop, tablet, smartphone, wireless headphones/mic, couple of books, snacks, journal, pens, bottled water, pocket knife, pipe/tools, tobacco, wallet, keys
  • Magical Items:
  • Magical Tools: smartphone (order), scarab amulet (fate), bracelet made from kite string & key (forces), watch (time), 3' tape measure (space)
  • Weapons: glock 9mm (dmg 2, range 20/40/28, clip 17+1, str 2, size I, cost 3)
• Sympathy Bag:
• Residence:

Experience Points

Earned: 0+0a (arcane) Starting Total: 70 (65+5 from loss of Wisdom) Session 2.6.13: #

Spent: 69; Unspent: 2+0a Purchased: Space 1 (7) Purchased: Space 2 (14) Purchased: Ritual Improv (2) Purchased: Contacts 2 (4) Purchased: Fate 4 (24) Purchased: Make Do 1 (1) Purchased: Make Do 2 (2) Purchased: Status 1-3 (12) Purchased: Allies (Portland Society Wives) 1 (2)