Dark Room Vivian Blackstone

Vivian Blackstone

Virtue: x • Vice: x • Aspirations: x Path: x • 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: x Physical: x Social: x Combat: x Awakened: x

Advantages

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

Gnosis

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Mana: x • Yantras: x • Ritual Interval: x • Arcana Limits: x • Paradox: x • Combined Spells: x Obsessions: x

Magic

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

Attainments

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Nimbus

{{{NimbusTilt}}}• 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

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• 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 my son Spencer
  • Learn more about the occult
  • get the dirt on Russell Diggs
  • become intimate with Lisa
  • x
• Integrity: 7
• Breaking Points:
  • When horror is hidden behind innocence
  • when I am in high places in stressful situations
  • When those I care about behave in self-destructive ways
  • When I feel ignored or abandoned
  • When my bon vivant lifestyle hurts people I love

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