Max Stat: 6
Blood Pool: 20 / 20
Blood Usage / Turn : 4
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Rotschrek: Courage (5) vs Varies
Frenzy: Self Control (4) vs Varies
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Minimum Road Wrongdoing: Breaking Word to Peer
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Combat:
Initiative: 1d + Dex (2) + Wits (4) = 1d6 + 6
Attack
-Melee: Dex (2) + Melee (0) = 2d vs 7
-Archery: Dex (2) + Archery (1) = 3d vs 6
-Brawl: Dex (2) + Brawl (0) = 2d vs 6
Defense
-Block: Dex (2) + Brawl (0) = 2d vs 6
-Dodge: Dex (2) + Dodge (0) = 2d vs 6
-Parry: Dex (2) + Melee (0) = 2d vs 5 (Shield, Small) vs 7 (Broadsword)
Soak
-Bashing: Sta (2) + Fort (0) + Armor (1) = 3d vs 6
-Leathal: Sta (2) + Fort (0) + Armor (2) = 4d vs 6
-Aggrevated: Fort (0) + Armor (0) = 0d vs 6
Damage:
-Crossbow, Light: 2L
-Broadsword: Str + 4L
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Hunting: Perception (1)
-Constantinople: Difficulty = 4
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Equipment:
-Weapons
--Crossbow
--Broadsword
-Armor
--Light Armor
--Shield, Small
-Vehicles
--4 Horse Chariot
-Other
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Disciplines:
Obtenebration:
-Level 1: Shadow Play: Control Ambient Shadows, +1 die to Intimidate/Stealth rolls for scene, +1 diff to be hit with ranged attacks. OR, create flapping shadows over target causing -1 to stamina and soak rolls, if mortals are reduced to 0 they suffocate. Mortals must make a Courage roll vs 8 or Flee. Costs 1 blood, no roll.
-Level 2: Shroud of Night: Create a cloud of Darkness. Each succes increases the size of the cloud to 50 maximum. Thos caught in the cloud suffer +2 diff to most actions, reduces stamina and soak pools by 2 (same effects as Shadow Play). Mortals must make a Courage Roll vs 8 or flee. Costs 1 blood.
Presence:
Level 1: Awe: Impress a Crowd. Charisma + Expression (Difficulty: 7)
Level 2: Dread Gaze: Scare onlookers and force them to flee. Charisma + Intimidation (Difficulty: Target's Wits + Courage)
Dominate:
Level 1: Command: Give 1 word command, with eye contact. Manipulation + Intimidate (Difficulty: Target's Permanent Willpower)
Level 2: Mesmerize: Implant a false thought, or hypnotic suggestion. Manipulation + Leadership (Difficulty: Target's Permanent Willpower)
Level 3: Reveler's Memory: Remove, recreate, and discovering tampering of memories. Wits + Subterfuge (Difficulty: Target's Permanent Willpower)
Dice Pools:
Obtenebration 1: N/A
Obtenebration 1: 7
Presence 1: 7
Presence 2: 7
Dominate 1: 7
Dominate 2: 7
Dominate 3: 7
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Domains:
None
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Resources:
Lucious has substantial letters of credit and resources as a result of his father's mercantilism business.
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Description:
Lucious Gious is a tall confident man, usually clothed in grays and blacks he seldom is seen in anything but impecible clothing and style. He has dark eyes and long black hair that usually hangs down freely acoss his tanned angular face. What he lacks in looks he makes up for in natural charm and charisma.
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Birth Year: 478 AD
Birth Location: Rome
Age: 32
Apparent Age: 22
Sire: Dariush Aerious
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Personality:
Lucious is a confident, even arrogant in his demeanor. He attempts to be a man of the people but sometimes struggles to trully grasp where they are coming from, this seperation has only heightened more post embrace. Amongst peers Lucious tends to act slightly aloof but friendly.
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Backstory:
Lucious was born the first son of Brutas Gious, a merchant who had acquired a great deal of wealth in the trading of goods between western Rome and the Eastern reaches of the Empire. During Lucious's youth he would assist his father in the family business and eventually developed a respectable knowledge for commerce. His real passion, however, was attending forums with his father. Brutas was an outspoken advocate for business and the merchant guilds within Rome, over time he became well known and was highly respected by several senators. Eventually this led to the Senators calling on Brutas for advice on policy matters. While Brutas never considered himself a politician, Lucious watched with awe as his father used the political system to better the life of himself, his family, and the population of Rome. Lucious came to view the life of Politics as the greatest road to power, influence, and importance. Over time Lucious would concern himself less with mercantalism and more with the empires politics. When forums were open to the public, Lucious would attend and watch the debates. When alone Lucious would read the Greek philosophical works and attempt to further educate himself on worldly matters. It wasn't long before the Senators began recognizing Lucious as a source of data as well.
Lucious wasn't a particularly large or impossing teenager and as a result found himself at the mercy of bullies on several occassions. After several altercations with one particular bully, Lucious began looking for ways to even the score. At first these started out as embarrassing pranks that usually led to bigger retaliations by the bully. As time progressed and the nature of the hazing became more violent and Lucious began looking for more permanent alternatives. Rome, ever the hotbed of supernatural activity, soon gave him an answer. A reclusive wealthy widow was actively seeking uncommon wares, and had hired Brutas to locate and purchase the items. When the items were all retrieved, Brutas commissioned his son to take them to the woman. The old Crone was kind to Lucious and invited him in where he saw a number of interesting and exotic things that he just couldn't describe as anything but occultic and heretical. The woman seemed able to peer into Lucious's soul and extract what he was thinking, and eventually Lucious found himself discussing his problems with the woman, over time he was invited back and the two would continue their conversations. Eventually Lucious began asking about the contents of the house and the woman began to explain that their were always more powerful forces in the world. After months of meetings the old woman finally revealed to Lucious that she was an infernalist, a person who speaks with and makes pacts with demons. At first Lucious was horrified with the prospects of making pacts with demons, but after some conversation with the old woman, he came to understand that trully wary and intelligent souls can gain tremendous power without sacrificing their souls. Lucious's trips to the crones house continued and eventually she began to educate him on demonology and allow him to witness some of the rituals. During one of the visits one of the summoned demons took a liking to Lucious, and began following him around tempting him to stop straddling the line and give himself over to infernalism fully. Knowing he needs to be careful with any pact that he makes, Lucious has been cautious in not making a pact until he knows exactly what he wants. After nearly a year of visits with the crone, Lucious arrived to her home to see it in flames. He never saw her again afterwards.
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Sire:
Dariush Aerious was a senator and opposer of the Roman Empire, he worked for nearly a hundred years to undermine the work of Emperors and bring more power to the Senate, hoping that one day Rome would be a republic again. When the Germanic tribes began their assault on Rome Dariush went into hiding in the hills near the city. During the exile he began looking for a successor. Dariush's leading candidate was Lucious Gious, the charismatic son of a local well to do merchant who had previously been a vocal voice for the people within the forum.
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Embrace:
It took time, but Dariush eventually convinced himself that Lucious was the right man to earn the curse of caine. Lucious was outspoken, intelligent, and more likable and charismatic than Dariush would ever be, and he was young enough to still mold into his own image. Dariush was unaware of the molding that had alreaady been done by the old crone infernalist. Knowing the loyalty that Lucious had for his father Brutas, Dariush decided that Brutas had to die. Dariush started by becoming a client of Brutas's and through Brutas was introduced to Lucious. Lucious was fascinated with meeting a real senator and they conversed during Dariush's trips to their house. Once Dariush was confident that he had earned Lucious's trust, he arranged for an accident to befall Lucious's father at the hand of some highwaymen during routine trip out east. When word reached Lucious of his fathers death he was distraught, and Dariush used it as a means of implanting himself as a surogate father to Lucious.
Dariush bided his time, waiting until Lucious was fully into the grieving process and then used his grief to convince Lucious that death did not ever have to come to him, and that he could use immortality to accomplish many amazing things. For Lucious in his reduced state the pitch was appealing and in his fathers house, Dariush took Lucious as his childe.
For the next year Lucious learned from the Senator the most important lessons that he could learn from any person looking to seek power through the manipulation of others... the disciplines of Dominate and Presence.
That first year there was so much to learn and study that Lucious and Dariush didn't have much time for ideological discussions. During the second year differences of opinions began to emerge between progenitor and childer, and Dariush began to consider whether his choice of childe may have been better. The budding curiousity regarding infernalism only heightened with the embrace in Lucious, when the reality of his damned and cursed state became apparent to him. Coupled with his little demon hound showing less interest in him post embrace, it made his desire for the secrets and power even more palpable. Dariush was a skilled politician and could sense that something was incongruent between Lucious's behavoir and what was circling around in his mind. Being a master of Dominate, Dariush routinely attempted to route out the secrets, but only too late did he realize that he had taught Lucious enough of the discipline to block his attempts. As time progressed the rift grew larger, and Dariush began to feel desperate to find a common cause to focus their attention on before Lucious was completely lost to him. His solution was an attempt to infultrate the poltical ranks of the germanic holders of Rome.
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Failure and Exile From Rome:
Dariush was a strong opposer of dictorial rule and hated the Germanic tribes invasion of Rome. His master plan was to infultrate the political ranks and to weaken them from within, eventually forcing them out and alowing Rome to once again rule its own fate.
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Drives/Goals/Motivations:
Lucious is mostly driven by a desire for power and influence, he sees politics as the ultimate reach of that power. After his failure in Rome, Lucious flees to Constantinople in order to remake his image and rise through the political ranks. His driving goal is to be in a position to dictate policy.
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Game Goals:
-Find a Ghoul: merchant type
-Find a Domain: probably temporarily take ghoul house.
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Hidden Secret:
Has a fascination and has considered the possibility of Infernalism as a fast path to Power.
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Unknown Secret:
The old infernalist crone still lives. She is a vampire of the Malkavian clan. The fire was set by Dariush to remove anyone close to Lucious.
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Enemies:
Hektor Aralious: Roman Politican of Germanic descent. He was the initial object of Dariush's plans to begin to overthrow the new Roman government. When Lucious failed in his task Hektor began squeezing Lucious out of Rome until he had no choice but to flee to Constantinople.
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Demons:
Azikeal: A lesser demon that is in the service of a more powerful demon. It is it's job to weaken Lucious's resolve, when it's time to make a pact the greater demon will present himself. Azikeal often appears as a cat with wings or similar small creatures. At one point Azikeal was a bound familiar to Ruphaela (the old crone), it is likely it knows the details of her fate.
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Friends/Acquaintences:
Dariush: After Lucious's failure in Rome the strained relationship between childecand sire broke. Dariush began severing ties with Lucious while they are still civil, Dariush would be reluctant to help his progeny without good reason.
Ruphaela Deynarian: The old crone. Thought to be dead, but actually still alive. An infernalist from clan Malkavian. A ginger, the Roman prejudice of Gingers originally made her turn to infernalism.
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Ghouls/Retainers/Thralls:
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Blood Bonds:
Niobe: 1 Step
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Introduction:
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Known Languages:
-Latin
-Greek
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Notes:
Night 1: twondays out from Constantinople. Meeting at Triple A's tent, learn about Constantinoples political factions.
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Experience: 2 / 7
-Earned: 7
--022112: 5, Prelude
--031612: 2, First Night in Constantinople
-Spent: 5
--022112: 5, Obtenebration 2 |
