Dark Man
From Gothpoodle
Lesser Jaggling, Conceptual Spirit, Emotional Choir
Dark Man was master of the Dark Alley until it consumed The Man and became Liberal Anxiety.
Description
He appears as a silhouette of a huge man and only in shadows, usually where he can be backlit. He radiates pure menace but has no features or distinguishing characteristics, those that see him tend to project their own fears on him.
Storytelling Hints
This spirit is a rape facilitator and goes through great effort to arrange acts of sexual violence in the alley where its locus sits, then it feeds off of the fear these acts engender in the desperate men and women who prostitute themselves in the neighborhood. It is a supporter of the Phoenix Court as an urban predator, though it encourages decay and poverty as they drive more people to sell themselves on the street. This puts it at odds with Haight-Ashbury and the idealistic members of its brood.
Stats
- Rank: 3
- Attributes: Power 6, Finesse 6, Resistance 8
- Willpower: 14
- Essence: 25
- Initiative: 14
- Defense: 6
- Speed: 22
- Size: 6
- Corpus: 14
- Influences: Fear 2, Lust 1.
- Numina: Clasp, Concealment, Damnation’s Path, Fearstruck, Harrow, Material Vision, Seek.
- Bans: It can only use its Damnation Path’s numina on people with the Lust vice.
Background
The Dark Man was a spirit of rape, primarily the fear of it, and the lust which drives people to chance it in dark places where there is no escape. He has lurked in the city since the Barbary Coast days, slowly gaining power, and was drawn to the Haight in the 60s, when desperation, poverty, and ideals of free love encouraged risky sexual encounters and it hasn’t had reason to leave since. It feeds primarily off of the street kids who flock to the neighborhood and end up in a life of prostitution and drug use. At the beginning of April 2007, it consumed The Man, a spirit of police violence and grew to become a Greater Jaggling. Now it demands more violent violations and drives those it influences to greater violence when engaged in rape. He is a spirit of the dark side of humanity, the offenses they commit against their fellow man when out of sight.
