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''Hunter in Darkness Cahalith (Lodge of Ashes)''
''Hunter in Darkness Cahalith (Lodge of Ashes)''
==Description==
==Description==
===Hishu===
===Hishu===
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An overweight Japanese woman in her late-70s with long white hair down to the tops of her thighs (often in a long, intricate braid) and dark green eyes. She wears a white kimono without decoration, fastened with a jade green belt, worn with wooden platform sandals. A small bronze mirror hangs on a thin chain around her neck. She speaks softly, but forcefully, and is unfailingly polite, even when giving orders.
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A lanky Black woman in her late 50s with gray dreadlocks reaching down to the backs of her knees and intense, dark eyes. She wears bell-bottom jeans, a fringed leather jacket over a tie-die shirt, and a beaded headband. When the weather is poor, she wears a poncho and a cowboy hat with a beaded band. She is always carrying her saxophone on a strap and has a coronet strapped to her rucksack that supposedly belonged to her father. She makes an effort to shower regularly and get her clothes cleaned, but is still a street denizen.
===Urhan===
===Urhan===
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A large, fat white wolf with blue eyes and black tips to its tail and ears.
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A lanky, graying dark brown wolf with a white spot at the tip of its nose. With Anybeast, she appears as a graying doberman.
==Storytelling Hints==
==Storytelling Hints==
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Okasan is a very maternal figure, interested in the problems of those she talks to and offering help (often to the extent people might complain of meddling) to fix things. She loves her granddaughter [[Takami Ishikawa|Takami]] deeply and is fond of [[Kathy Young|Kathy]] and [[Dave Carson|Dave]], whom she sees as adopted children. She gently tries to convert any Uratha over to her lodge's view of the world, carefully pointing out any failures they have had with the traditional approach. She loves to cook and feeds people who come to talk to her.
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On one hand, Kathy is a friendly hippie who loves to perform for people and hear their stories, protective of the other homeless in her neighborhood, and generally laid back. On the other, she is a hardened idealist who brooks no disagreement to her hardline philosophy which rejects spirit slavery and dominance. She has little tolerance for immorality or excuses for such. Though she doesn't seem violent, she is capable of it easily when her territory or ideals are threatened. She could easily be beta but has no desire to be. She has great respect for Okasan, is wary of Dave as both a former soldier and a cop, and is very fond of Takami.
==Stats==
==Stats==
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*Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 4
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*'''Mental Attributes:''' Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 5
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*Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 3
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*'''Physical Attributes:''' Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4
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*Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3, Composure 4
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*'''Social Attributes:''' Presence 4, Manipulation 2, Composure 3
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*Mental Skills: Crafts (Cooking) 3, Investigation 2, Medicine (Herbal) 2, Occult (Ghosts) 3, Politics 1.
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*'''Mental Skills:''' Crafts 2, Medicine 1, Occult (Uratha) 4.
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*Physical Skills: Brawl 3, Drive 1, Larceny 1, Survival 2, Weaponry 1.
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*'''Physical Skills:''' Athletics 1, Brawl 4, Larceny 2, Stealth 3, Survival 4.
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*Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Empathy 1, Expression 2, Intimidation 2, Persuasion (Compromises) 3, Socialize 1, Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 3.
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*'''Social Skills:''' Animal Ken 1, Empathy 1, Expression (Jazz) 4, Intimidation 2, Persuasion 3, Socialize 3, Streetwise (Fillmore) 4, Subterfuge 1.
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*Merits: Allies (Japantown) 2, Contacts (Food Industry) 1, Fame 1, Language (First Tongue, Japanese) 2, Meditative Mind 1, Resources 2.
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*'''Merits:''' Allies (Homeless) 3, Chain-Breaker 4, Contacts (Homeless) 1, Iron Stomach 2.
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*Primal Urge: 4
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*'''Primal Urge:''' 4
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*Willpower: 8
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*'''Willpower:''' 8
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*Harmony: 7
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*'''Harmony:''' 10
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*Virtue: Justice
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*'''Virtue:''' Fortitude
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*Vice: Gluttony
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*'''Vice:''' Lust
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*Health: 8
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*'''Health:''' 9
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*Initiative: 7
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*'''Initiative:''' 6
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*Defense: 3
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*'''Defense:''' 3
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*Speed: 10
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*'''Speed:''' 11
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*Renown: Cunning 4, Honor 2, Wisdom 5.
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*'''Renown:''' Cunning 2, Glory 3, Honor 2, Purity 5, Wisdom 3.
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*Gifts: (1) Death Sight, Shadow Speaking, Two-World Eyes; (2) Read Spirit, Ruin, Scent of Taint; (3) Gauntlet Cloak, Luck-Eating; (4) Between the Weave, Lordly Will; (5) Ward of Spirit Slumber.
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*'''Gift Lists:''' Dreamer's Moon, Elemental, Father Wolf, Gibbous Moon, Inspiration, Knowledge, Mother Luna, Nature, Stealth.
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*Rituals: 4; Rites: All first through fourth-level rites including: (4) Obon Temae.
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*'''Gifts:''' (1) Call Water, Know Name, Pack Awareness, Sense Malice*, Speak with Beasts, The Right Words, Wolf-Blood's Lure; (2) Anybeast, Blending, Plant Growth, Resist Pain, Traveler's Blessing; (3) Rallying Cry, Sagacity; (4) Know the Path, Unspoken Communication; (5) Call of Glory, Communion with the Land.
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*Notes: She gains an extra Essence when drawing from a locus and gets an extra +1 for using a reflexive surface while crossing.
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*'''Rituals:''' 2; '''Rites:''' (1) Funeral Rite, Rite of Dedication, Rite of the Spirit Brand, Shared Scent; (2) Cleansed Blood, Rite of Contrition.
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==Abilities==
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*'''Chain-Breaker:''' She spends one point of Essence and rolls Harmony versus the fetish owner's Resolve + Composure + Primal Urge. On a success, the spirit in the fetish is released unless the owner spends a dot of Willpower. On an exceptional success, the owner can't stop it.
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==Combat==
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{| border=1
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|-
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|Type || Damage || Hishu || Dalu || Gauru || Urshul || Urhan
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|Bite|| 2 (L) || || || 12 || 11 || 9
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|-
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|Claw|| 1 (L) || || || 11 || 10 ||
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|-
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|Grapple || 0 (B) || 7 || 8 || 10 || 9 || 7
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|}
==Background==
==Background==
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Hirumi Ishikawa was born in 1930 and spent her teenage years in a Japanese interment camp with her family. It was in the camp that she Changed, her parents trying hard to guide her through it despite their lack of first-hand experience, but eventually she made contact with other Japanese Uratha and joined them on their release. She learned all she could and then returned to San Francisco and fought to get back the property that her grandfather had owned, increasing awareness of the injustice of the interment and making friends within the struggling remains of Japantown. Once she had the locus back, she tended it on her own for many years with only the occasional assistance of other members of her lodge in the Bay Area. She married another refugee from the interment who started a restaurant and they had several children. Her husband died in the eighties of a stroke and none of her children seemed to inherit the wolf-blood. At about the same time, she found two new Uratha and formed a pack. One Changed in the neighborhood and Hirumi helped her through it. The other had Changed in Japan and she found him through his frequent visits to the Buddhist temple. The pack claimed an actual territory centered on Japantown immediately after. Toward the end of the century, her granddaughter unexpectedly Changed and she brought her into the pack. She still runs her husband's restaurant (called Okasan, or "mother") and is well-known in the city for her fine traditional rustic Japanese cuisine.
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Kathy Young was born in 1950, during the redevelopment of the Fillmore District. Her mother told her that her father was Louis Armstrong and she grew up with a love for jazz. However, the two of them ended up on the street when they were forced from their home when she was five. She was left on her own at the age of nine when her mother died, but managed to get by because of a talent for music but went through hard times until her First Change in 1967. She wasn't aware what had happened to her and nobody was available to explain it to her until a visitor to the city noticed her on the street. He was a hippie but also an Uratha. He taught her who she was, what it meant, and inducted her into his tribe and, eventually, lodge. She spent five years with him both in the city and traveling to communes in the Bay Area before he went his way and she returned to her home. Revitalized, with new purpose, she began to try and establish a territory in the Fillmore on her own and ran into Okasan. The two collaborated, found they had similar views, and agreed with the approach of each other's Lodges. They worked together in the neighborhood informally until the 1980s when Okasan's husband died and Dave showed up and the three decided to become a pack. She stays on the street, mostly because of her dedication to [[Uprooted]], who has been watching over her since well before her First Change.
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==Renown==
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*'''Purity 4:''' Spent a year in the wilderness living without the use of spirit gifts, attaining Harmony 10, to prove her dedication.
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*'''Purity 5:''' Was hunted, attacked, caught, and tortured by the McLellans in the early 80s but never entered Death Rage, never fought to kill, and mutilated herself to prevent a rape that might result in a Ghost Child. (She was eventually saved by Okasan.)

Latest revision as of 05:46, 11 July 2009

Hunter in Darkness Cahalith (Lodge of Ashes)

Description

Hishu

A lanky Black woman in her late 50s with gray dreadlocks reaching down to the backs of her knees and intense, dark eyes. She wears bell-bottom jeans, a fringed leather jacket over a tie-die shirt, and a beaded headband. When the weather is poor, she wears a poncho and a cowboy hat with a beaded band. She is always carrying her saxophone on a strap and has a coronet strapped to her rucksack that supposedly belonged to her father. She makes an effort to shower regularly and get her clothes cleaned, but is still a street denizen.

Urhan

A lanky, graying dark brown wolf with a white spot at the tip of its nose. With Anybeast, she appears as a graying doberman.

Storytelling Hints

On one hand, Kathy is a friendly hippie who loves to perform for people and hear their stories, protective of the other homeless in her neighborhood, and generally laid back. On the other, she is a hardened idealist who brooks no disagreement to her hardline philosophy which rejects spirit slavery and dominance. She has little tolerance for immorality or excuses for such. Though she doesn't seem violent, she is capable of it easily when her territory or ideals are threatened. She could easily be beta but has no desire to be. She has great respect for Okasan, is wary of Dave as both a former soldier and a cop, and is very fond of Takami.

Stats

  • Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 5
  • Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4
  • Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 2, Composure 3
  • Mental Skills: Crafts 2, Medicine 1, Occult (Uratha) 4.
  • Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 4, Larceny 2, Stealth 3, Survival 4.
  • Social Skills: Animal Ken 1, Empathy 1, Expression (Jazz) 4, Intimidation 2, Persuasion 3, Socialize 3, Streetwise (Fillmore) 4, Subterfuge 1.
  • Merits: Allies (Homeless) 3, Chain-Breaker 4, Contacts (Homeless) 1, Iron Stomach 2.
  • Primal Urge: 4
  • Willpower: 8
  • Harmony: 10
  • Virtue: Fortitude
  • Vice: Lust
  • Health: 9
  • Initiative: 6
  • Defense: 3
  • Speed: 11
  • Renown: Cunning 2, Glory 3, Honor 2, Purity 5, Wisdom 3.
  • Gift Lists: Dreamer's Moon, Elemental, Father Wolf, Gibbous Moon, Inspiration, Knowledge, Mother Luna, Nature, Stealth.
  • Gifts: (1) Call Water, Know Name, Pack Awareness, Sense Malice*, Speak with Beasts, The Right Words, Wolf-Blood's Lure; (2) Anybeast, Blending, Plant Growth, Resist Pain, Traveler's Blessing; (3) Rallying Cry, Sagacity; (4) Know the Path, Unspoken Communication; (5) Call of Glory, Communion with the Land.
  • Rituals: 2; Rites: (1) Funeral Rite, Rite of Dedication, Rite of the Spirit Brand, Shared Scent; (2) Cleansed Blood, Rite of Contrition.

Abilities

  • Chain-Breaker: She spends one point of Essence and rolls Harmony versus the fetish owner's Resolve + Composure + Primal Urge. On a success, the spirit in the fetish is released unless the owner spends a dot of Willpower. On an exceptional success, the owner can't stop it.

Combat

Type Damage Hishu Dalu Gauru Urshul Urhan
Bite 2 (L) 12 11 9
Claw 1 (L) 11 10
Grapple 0 (B) 7 8 10 9 7

Background

Kathy Young was born in 1950, during the redevelopment of the Fillmore District. Her mother told her that her father was Louis Armstrong and she grew up with a love for jazz. However, the two of them ended up on the street when they were forced from their home when she was five. She was left on her own at the age of nine when her mother died, but managed to get by because of a talent for music but went through hard times until her First Change in 1967. She wasn't aware what had happened to her and nobody was available to explain it to her until a visitor to the city noticed her on the street. He was a hippie but also an Uratha. He taught her who she was, what it meant, and inducted her into his tribe and, eventually, lodge. She spent five years with him both in the city and traveling to communes in the Bay Area before he went his way and she returned to her home. Revitalized, with new purpose, she began to try and establish a territory in the Fillmore on her own and ran into Okasan. The two collaborated, found they had similar views, and agreed with the approach of each other's Lodges. They worked together in the neighborhood informally until the 1980s when Okasan's husband died and Dave showed up and the three decided to become a pack. She stays on the street, mostly because of her dedication to Uprooted, who has been watching over her since well before her First Change.

Renown

  • Purity 4: Spent a year in the wilderness living without the use of spirit gifts, attaining Harmony 10, to prove her dedication.
  • Purity 5: Was hunted, attacked, caught, and tortured by the McLellans in the early 80s but never entered Death Rage, never fought to kill, and mutilated herself to prevent a rape that might result in a Ghost Child. (She was eventually saved by Okasan.)
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