Wasting Death
From Gothpoodle
Lesser Jaggling, Conceptual Spirit, Ideological Choir
Wasting Death used to be the pack totem of the Plague Prophets and leader of the brood which occupies the Universal Faith Free Clinic and Hospice. It has now run to ground at the Underhill Nest.
Description
Wasting Death appears as a gaunt, disease-ridden human of indeterminate gender, oozing with sores and pustulence, and with eyes of pure black.
Storytelling Hints
It lingers around those dying of slow, wasting illnesses. While it is a spirit of death, primarily, it is in no rush for the dying to expire. It will use its influences to draw out the experience as much as possible.
Stats
- Rank: 3
- Attributes: Power 5, Finesse 5, Resistance 5.
- Willpower: 10
- Essence: 20
- Initiative: 10
- Defense: 5
- Speed: 20
- Size: 5
- Corpus: 10
- Influences: Death 1, Pain 1, Disease 1.
- Numina: Chorus, Corpse Ride, Dessication, Drain, Material Vision, Plague of the Dead, Spirit Venom.
- Ban: It can only use Corpse Ride and Plague of the Dead on people who died of disease.
Pack Totem
- Bonuses: Gift: Corpse Witness (pack), Gift: Death Sight (given), Gift: Wasting Sickness (story).
- Ban: At any given time, the pack must provide one sacrifice. This sacrifice must be dying of a lingering, fatal illness and must be allowed to suffer with no medication or respite from his symptoms, just what attention is necessary to keep her alive. Should the sacrifice die, the pack has three days to acquire another.
- Cost: 32
Background
Wasting Death has lurked around the city for a long while, spawned from victims of lingering, terminal diseases. It increased in power dramatically with the onset of the AIDS epidemic, feasting in the Castro on essence and spirits of its ilk. It was saved the devastation of the Castro War through its alliance with the Pure and was safely out of range of the rite which decimated its former haunts. Now it shepherds its new servants and feeds off of their offerings. It teaches its children the secrets of death.
