Judas +Archer (Festy_Dog)
Name: Judas Archer
Concept: 'Warrior scholar businessman'
Perception/Surprise ***** *
Resist Frenzy***** Initiative: ***** or ***** ** with gun in hand)
Defense: ** Speed: ***** ****
Weakness: take an additional point of aggravated damage from sunlight and fire
[sblock=Key pools]
See through Obfuscate (Wits + Invest + Auspex) ***** ****
Shoot guns ** ** + equipment mod
Read a scene (Manip + Empathy) *****
Listening in without showing it (in situations where something is comfortably within aural range) (Wits + Subterfuge) ***** *
Notice activity/wake during the day (Wits + Aus) ***** *
Remembering something ***** *
Read Aura (Int+Emp+Ausp) ***** ** (- target's comp)
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[sblock=Stats]
Name: Judas Archer
Apparent Age: Thirties
Virtue/Vice: Temperance/ Apathy
Clan/Covenant: Mekhet/ Invictus
Willpower: 00000
Blood Potency: o
Humanity: ooooo
Blood Pool: ?/10
Defense: 2
Health: 0000000
Initiative: 5
Speed: 9
Unspent XP: 1
Attributes
Mental: Intelligence ooo , Wits oooo , Resolve oo
Physical: Strength oo , Dexterity oo , Stamina oo
Social: Presense o , Manipulation ooo , Composure ooo
Skills
Mental: Academics (research) ooo , Craft o, Computer o , Investigation (enigmas)ooo , Occult oo , Politics (conflicts) ooo , Science o
Physical: Firearms oo , Larceny o , Stealth o
Social: Empathy oo , Intimidation o , Persuasion o , Socialise o , Subterfuge oo
Merits
Barfly o
Combat Marksmanship o
Mentor (sire) ooo
Technophile (firearms) oo
Language (Arabic) o
Language (Mandarin) o
Resources o --> Need to get new bank card issued
Disciplines
Auspex oo
Obfuscate o
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[sblock=Character Information]
Appearance
Judas is friendly on the eyes but utterly forgettable. He's fairly average when it comes to height and weight. He is just another white guy, and his quiet and unthreatening demeanour means he is easily looked over. To be more specific regarding his appearance; deep-set grey-blue eyes, short brown hair tinged with blonde at the temples, a well-trimmed coppery goatee and a warm smile. He usually changes his appearance to suit the venue he is going to be working at, but when he has a choice of what to wear he favours heavier, more conservative outfits in dull, earthen tones. Since his embrace, due to the gunshot wound to his neck, Judas has taken to keeping his neck heavily bandaged. The bandages are usually obscured by shirt collars, scarves or turtlenecks.
While Judas puts forward a reserved, almost librarian, appearance underneath his heavy apparel he possesses a number of tattoos. The largest is a six-armed crucifix that takes up a large portion of his back. Each of its six points has a latin phrase written around it. The next is a tattoo of the Hanged Man tarot card on his upper right arm. The last is a yin-yang symbol over his heart. He still keeps hold of a pair of round-lensed sunglasses that he used when he was alive. These nights he uses them in the presence of large quantities of artificial lighting, as being Mekhet he finds exposure to such unpleasant. Judas has an accent that defies origin, much to his sire's irritation as she still doesn't know everything about Judas and wants to know where he hails from. Most assume his accent to be Canadian but it changes subtely now and then.
How old are you?
Judas is 33, but his appearance is such that he can be mistaken as being anywhere from his mid-twenties to early forties. He's shown a surprising amount of maturity and wisdom since his youth, earning him respect where such qualities are valued. He's only spent a very short time as a vampire, but he appears to be adapting well and laying the foundations for future successes.
What was unique about your childhood?
Nothing. Judas lived a generic, middle-class upbringing. He always had a roof over his head and food on the table. His parents didn’t get along, but whose did? He saw good and bad (mostly good) and in the end doesn’t see anything unique about his youth. All things considered, he realises how fortunate he is compared to others whose upbringings were far, far worse. It makes him wonder how and why he has become the man he is now.
He has always had an interest in the supernatural since his youth, and developed an interest in firearms when his career interests turned towards the military. While his interest in the military eventually faded, the interest in firearms didn’t. Neither did he see any potential for a career in his supernatural studies. As far as hobbies go he enjoys tabletop war games, and has meagre talent for painting the miniatures required. Presently however such things, and the rest of his possessions, are at home and a long way from the city he presently feels trapped in.
Throughout his youth he didn’t move much, and maintained contact with a loyal and long-lasting group of friends during his education years. He also showed a certain tendency to make friends wherever he went. He performed well academically, and went on to earn a couple of degrees at university, although he doesn’t discuss what they were and where he earned them. He lost contact with many of his friends once he entered his professional career, but as he tends to leave a trail of friends in his wake it’s in all likelihood that people are going to notice his absence once he’s gone too long, especially his employers.
What kind of person were you?
Judas puts forward the persona of a kind-natured, absent-minded, bumbling intellectual. This is made easy by the fact that he is actually a kind-natured, absent-minded, bumbling intellectual. The demeanour that usually provides his cover is simply an aspect of himself. The other half of himself; the ruthless, efficient, covert operative, is kept out of the way to allow for ease of interaction with other people. This appears when violence is called for, or when a risky situation falls apart. More often its influence is subtle. Admittedly, it's unsurprising that he's done more than a few nasty things in his time, but such is the way of his profession. Judas has learned from the experiences. He doesn't know why he's able to perform the harsher elements of his work that are sometimes called on, it's not as though he had an abusive childhood or anything, but when there's dirty work to be done he has no qualms doing it. After all, someone has to.
What was your first brush with the supernatural?
While Judas was always fascinated with the supernatural in his youth, he never actually encountered anything that he couldn’t explain away logically. He revelled in finding information of merit and quality nonetheless, but never encountered anything personally to confirm the material he had read. Now that he knows that vampires are real he has shown great curiosity as to whether other things he had previously been uncertain about are also real. His inner intellectual is waiting patiently for him to resolve his neonate dilemmas before demanding exploration and discovery.
In what he believes to be his first true brush with the supernatural, Celeste Choi, he never even suspected anything was amiss. He had simply come to the conclusion that the friendly young Korean-American woman he had met was a little strange. After all, strange was a matter of relativity. Judas wasn’t the kind of guy to jump to the conclusion that someone was a movie-esque monster just because they were different from him. He suppressed the signals his instincts were giving him, and only at the very last moment did he realise his instincts were correct. It frustrates him how often his instincts are correct, because he doesn’t as often trust them.
How did the Embrace change you?
More than anything else, Judas' embrace was painful. Minutes before his embrace he held in his hand a cd with the information he was pursuing on it, and Celeste's retainer was pointing a suppressed pistol at him. Celeste was explaining to Judas that he had to throw away the cd, forget about the job, and join her because there weren't any other options left. Judas couldn't, he had a job to do. There could be no compromise. Judas said he was leaving and Frank Torvelli, Celeste's ghoul retainer, shot him in the neck. Whether this was an accident or not both Celeste and Judas are unsure, but Judas was lucky and it didn't kill him instantly. The last thing Judas can remember before he lapsed into unconciousness is having his hand clamped over the exit wound and trying to gargle insults at Celeste and Frank through the blood filling his throat, while Celeste was holding him in her arms and looking panicked. When he woke up, he was a vampire. Both the fact that he woke up, and that he was now a vampire were quite surprising. His embrace and subsequent vampiric state had prevented the gunshot wound in his neck from killing him, but it had only partially fixed the injury and left him with a rather unpleasant and permanent wound.[/sblock]
[sblock=Experience]Skills:
Craft * (3 xp)
Talents:
Language (Arabic) * (2 xp)
Language (Mandarin) * (2 xp)
Resources * (2 xp)
Exp Remaining: 5/14
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