Campaign:The Black Parade/Phoenix Wrong

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Basics

Name: Barrister's Falling Phoenix Rises Into Objectionable Fallacies
Campaign: Phoenix Wrong
Concept: Pyromaniac Lawyer.
Caste/Aspect: Moonshadow
Motivation/Urge: To set all of creation aflame.
Intimacies: (Negative) His home town.
Anima Banner/Totem: What appears to be a burning house.
Anima Effect/Tell:
Experience: 0/78

Background

As a mortal, Falling Phoenix was something of a town-hero, renowned for his valor in something of a small capacity. He was always willing to stand up for the little guy, or protect a beleaguered woman. One day came, though, that a fire began in a home in his small town. The villagers came to his house to bid him in to save a trapped child. He hesitated - but only for a moment before heading inside. The hesitation was enough, and the house collapsed soon afterwords, crushing him and the child inside.

After he entered the Underworld, his rather disillusioned soul caught the eye of the Mask of Winters. The Mask snagged up his soul, and placed it into a Monstrance. The Mask offered him many things as the torture began.. but it did not last long. His virtues he had held as a mortal had all but inverted, and he no longer cared for creation. He accepted not but a few scant minutes after he realized what was going on. The Mask gave him a new name, and bid him to forget his old one. It was as Phoenix nodded, that the Black Exaltation took him. His already-charred skin solidified to his bones, unmoving, and no longer healing. He felt his seething hatred for a world that had given him a poor, sad end bubble over.

Appearance

He is little more than he was as he died, a smoldering corpse of a man. He is disheveled at best, with only a few rags and medical bandages hanging mainly around his face, leaving room for two smoldered-black eyes. He isn't tall, and moves with a sort of slow lankiness. He does not speak often, but when he does his voice is best described as someone hacking words through smoke. He now also wears a stolen set of silk armor robes from Thorns, which are white and red. The flame-motif woven into them seems a little excessive against the splashes of blood which remain on them.

Trophies

• The Defiled Maw of Pasiap In the sacking of thorns, he only managed to get the killing blow on a single Dragonblooded exalt, an earth caste who attempted to stop him and his comrades at the gates. Once the battle died down and Thorns was theirs, Phoenix took the man's lower jaw for his own. He took it, and singed it black over a fire lit by the earth caste's comrades bodies. Once it was charred black, he soaked it in the blood of some of the 'innocent' plain citizens of Thorns, letting it stain the cracked black surface of the burnt bone. And last but not least, while he and his compatriots spent the next two years getting the new Thorns in working order, he left it.. under the ground. He dug a little hole where he knew only he would find it, and left the black-and-red bone in the soil of the grand new Shadowland his master had crafted. He retrieved it one year and one day later, and set it over his own jawline. He used the many bandages which wrapped his face to pin it there, tightly, but not so much as to make it hard to see.

Attributes

Strength  ●●     Charisma       ●●●●● Perception   ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●  Manipulation   ●●●●● Intelligence ●●
Stamina   ●●     Appearance           Wits         ●●●

Abilities

Archery            Integrity         Craft               Athletics       Bureaucracy ●●●
Martial Arts ●●●●●  Performance       Investigation ●●●●●   Awareness       Linguistics ●●●
Melee              Presence   ●●●●●  Lore          ●●    Dodge     ●●●●●   Ride        ●       
Thrown             Resistance ●●●●●  Medicine            Larceny         Sail        ●   
War                Survival          Occult              Stealth         Socialize   ●●● 

Languages : Old Realm, Low Realm(Native), High Realm, Riverspeak

Specialties

Lore +1 on Ghosts. Martial arts : Razor Claws. +2

Backgrounds

Manse: ●●●
(Gem of White Heat.) Produces an anima identical to the fire aspect dragonblooded's. Double the effective cost of spent motes for this flame.
Liege: ●●●●
Whispers: ●
Artifact: ●● Silk Armor.

Charms

2nd MA excellency. 2m per +1 success. reflexive.

Blood-Scenting Hunger (Ma 2, Ess 2) 2m. Reflexive. Combo-OK. Once scene. Know all essence-users within (Essence x 5) yards. Choose one. Spend 1m to learn their essence pool, wound levels, and note whenever they use essence (But not how much)

Lunging Phantom Method (Ma 3, Ess 2) 4m. Supplemental. Attack becomes a surprise strike, unless a reflexive Wits+awareness from the target scores as many successes as the attack.

Shrouded Claw Attack (MA 2, ess 2) 3m. supplemental combo-ok. obvious. Halves the DV of the target against the attack.

Leaping Horror Approach (MA 4, ess 2) 3m. Supplemental. Combo-ok. obvious. Alows the exalt to leap between targets, giving him a full move between each attack. Adds +MA to DV's if leaping away from a counterattack only.

Hungry Ghost Form. (MA 4, ess 2) 6m. Simple (Speed 5)Form-type, obvious. One scene. Entr a partially controlled beserk anger. Ending the charm early costs an additional willpower. Allows use of LPM, SCA, or LHA as an innate power once per turn. Allows grappling against dematerialized beings. +essence for natural soak while form is active.

Unnatural Shambling Deftness (MA 4, ess 2) 3m + 1 wp. Extra action. combo-ok. Obvious. Allows you to make a perfect flurry of (Essence) MA attacks.

Screaming In Silence (Ling 3, Ess 2) 5m, Como-OK. Stackable. Speak to a known target within Ling x 100 yrds without words.

Second Presence Excellency

Poisoning The Will (Pres 3, Ess 2) 10m, 1wp. Simple. Combo-Ok. Compulsion. Manip + presence vs target MDV to leave a compulsion

Lurking Malice Insinuation ----- Makes Poisoning the Will last for an entire month. Increased effects at higher essence levels = 4+ the charge can be made 5 wp off the bat instead of 1wp per day. At 5+ the cost of Poisoning the Will becomes only the target's essence score.

Dread Lord's Demeanor (Pres 4, ess 3) 7m. Reflexive. Combo-ok. Obvious. Social. One Scene. Unnatural mental influence, any attacker must make a reflexive resistance roll with valor 1 or willpower 2. Any character can spend three willpower to ignore this charm for a scene.

Killing Words Technique (Pres 4, ess 3) 1wp. Supplemental. Makes the wp cost of each charm or social attack a health level cost instead.

Injury Absorbing Discipline (Res 1, Ess 1) 10m. Supplemental. One hour, Stam + resistance to increase healing by 10.

Spirit Hardened Frame. (Res 2, Ess 1) 3m. Combo-OK. Reflexive. Gives hardness 8 against a single attack.

Second Resistance Excellency. (res 5, ess 1)

Wounds Means Nothing. (res 5, ess 3) 4m. Reflexive. combo-ok. mirror. obvious. Perfectly soaks an attack. Temperance flaw.

Essence

Essence: ●●●
Regeneration: Normal + hearthstone(6)
Personal Essence Pool: 16/16
Peripheral Essence Pool: 25/37
Committed Essence: 12

Willpower

Willpower: ●●●●●●●
Temporary: □□□□□□□

Virtues

Virtues:

• Compassion ●
  
• Conviction ●●●●
  
• Temperance ●●●
  
• Valor ●
  

Channels:

• Compassion □
  
• Conviction □
  
• Temperance □
  
• Valor □
  

Flawed Virtue: Valor
Limit Break: □□□□□□□□□□

Inventory

Not much beyond flame-resistant rags and his hearthstone, and whatever Mask of Winters has provided him, a pair of Soulsteel hearthstone bracers, and a set of Soulsteel Razor claws. The claws usually remain hung loosely from his belt at his sides, underneath small excesses of his various rags where they can remain mostly unseen until he needs them.

Soulsteel Hearthstone Bracers: ●● Reduces target's bashing and lethal soak by 2, but not below 0. Increases dodge rolls by 3. Attune 4.

Tormenter Claws of the Phoenix: Soulsteel Razor Claws. ●● Speed 5. Acc +6. Damage +5L. Defense +2. Rate 3. Attune 6. Drains motes of essence equal to wielder's permanent essence score when at least one lethal damage is dealt. Also adds 2 dice to climbing rolls.

Silk Armor: Taken in the sack of Thorns, this silk armor is a robe reminiscent of fire dragonblooded designs. He has not washed the blood off of it. Attune 2. +5L/+3B soak.

Manses and Heartstones

When the Mask of Winters brought his exaltation into him, Phoenix asked for only one thing. To bring the world to burn, as it had done to him. The Mask was reluctant at first, but he knew that a time was soon coming in which that sort of.. pressure may need to be applied to creation.

Eventually this brought to Phoenix's use a creationborn manse near Chaya. He was surprised, at first, and immediately went about spending a while doing whatever the Mask asked of him until he felt the debt repaid. The manse was quite the sight, with beautiful white walls and a rather pristine garden. Phoenix couldn't very well have that, and as he took his newfound hearthstone he pledged to turn the manse's grounds into a shadowland someday. Someday soon.

The Gem of White Heat which he obtained from that manse acts as a conduit for essence, producing an anima effect identical to Fire Dragonblooded's, other than it does not increase with just the expenditure of peripheral essence. On the other hand, each used mote of essence to power the anima counts as double.

Combat

Dodge DV: 8
Dodge MDV: 5
Parry DV 7
Parry MDV 5
Soak: B:6 L:6 A:0
Soak (Piercing): B:4 L:3 A:0
Hardness: B:0 L:0 A:0

Attacks

Tormenter Claws of the Phoenix : Speed 5. Acc + 6. Damage +5L. Defense +2. Rate 3.

Regular punch: Speed 5. Acc: +1. Damage : +0. Defense +2. Rate 3.

Kick: Speed 5. Acc : +0. Damage : +3B. Defense -2. Rate 2.

Clinch: Speed 6. Acc : +0. Damage +OB. Defense : +0 . Rate : 1.

Health

□ -0
□ -1
□ -1
□ -2
□ -2
□ -4
□ Incapacitated

Advancement

2bp on presence
2bp on MA
2bp on resistance
2bp on +1 Lore specialty and +2 razor claw specialty
3bp on Conviction 4.
2bp on dodge 5<bt/> 2bp on inves 5

6exp on Artifact 2.
16 exp on Ess 3.
8 xp on Dread Lord's Demeanor
8 xp on Wounds Mean Nothing.
8 xp on lurking malice insinuation.
8 xp on killing words technique.
8 xp on leaping horror approach
8 xp on Hungry Ghost Form.
8 xp on unnatural shambling deftness

Campaign: The Black Parade