Martin Larios
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Face
Description
Hispanic, handsome, athletic, well-groomed, simple but expensive clothes, no jewelry but gold watch.
Aspects
- RED COURT COUNT FINANCIER (High Concept)
- MACHISMO (Trouble)
- THIS IS MY TOWN
- I BEND POWERFUL WOMEN TO MY WILL
- FINGERS IN MANY PIES
- I AM KEYSER SOZE
- RICHER THAN GOD
Motivation
Wants to keep the money flowing.
Relationships
- Business rival to Tolliver.
- Master of Tracy Felton.
- Employer of Meriam Trimble.
- Employer of Angelina Alonso.
Skills
- Alertness +2 (+6 initiative)
- Athletics +2 (+3)
- Contacts +5
- Conviction +2
- Deceit +4
- Discipline +6
- Empathy +1
- Endurance +3
- Fists +3
- Guns +1
- Intimidation +3
- Might +2 (+4 grapple)
- Presence +4
- Rapport +1
- Resources +7
- Stealth +1 (+3 in darkness)
- Weapons +1
Stunts
- Calm Blue Ocean (Discipline): +2 to keep emotions under control
- Filthy Lucre (Resources): +2 using Resources for illicit purposes
- Lush Lifestyle (Resources)
Powers
- Addictive Saliva -1
- Blood Drinker -1
- Claws -1
- Echoes of the Beast -1
- Flesh Mask -1
- Feeding Dependency +1
- Cloak of Shadows -1
- Supernatural Strength -4
- Inhuman Speed -2
- Supernatural Recovery -4
- Supernatural Toughness -4
- The Catch +2 (sunlight, holy stuff, belly)
- Refresh Cost: -20
Stress
- Physical: 8 (Armor:2)
- Mental: 3
- Social: 4
- Hunger: 4 + 1 mild consequence
Combat
Fantastic (+6) initiative, good (+3) attacks and defense. Capable of Weapon:6 physical attacks with claws or Weapon:0 mental attacks with saliva. He can inflict a 4-stress physical hit every exchange as a supplemental action in a grapple through blood-drinking.
Notes
Lives in a massive mansion on Nob Hill, works out of the 47th floor of the Transamerica Pyramid.
Identity
Martin Larios legally doesn't exist. There is no paperwork on him at all. He owns Porta Aurea through a regularly changed alias with rock-solid paperwork that he has access to, but he never uses it. Unlike many Red Court Vampires, his flesh mask doesn't reflect his original appearance, but changes with each identity shift. He keeps thralls in positions of power in the second tier who can enact his will for him. He never shows his face to anyone at his companies but his thralls. He meets them at a series of expensive condos he owns throughout the city which he uses only for these meetings. Otherwise, they are occupied by thrall guards, who live there and ensure their security when not on duty. They are also magically protected. His home on Nob Hill isn't known to anybody but its staff, who are all vampires. His current alias is "Carlos Velasquez".
Red Court
Conde (Count) Martín Larios Acevedo is a well-placed member of Red Court nobility, having earned his title with his success in San Francisco and his now international banking interests. His companies support the activities of the Red Court primarily through smuggling and funding.
Porta Aurea Holdings
Larios owns all of the shares of this holding company, which in turn holdings controlling interests in a score of other holding companies, which themselves own most or all of the shares of a hundred or more smaller companies, banks, and investment firms. Nothing in the first two tiers are publicly traded and, thus, there are few, if any, public records about their activities. The only company with Larios' actual name on it is NFH, and only if you dig far enough into the corporate history to get to the original bank.
Some of the notable holdings are:
- Niantic Financial Holdings (banking and investments, oldest, originally Yerba Buena Bank)
- Red Dragon Trading Company (in Chinatown, hides smuggling of humans, antiquities, and contraband)
- Museum of Mesoamerican History (in SOMA, run by Meriam Trimble)
- Millennium Digital Technologies (specializing in wire-tapping)
- Rio de Oro Holdings (mineral rights and real estate)
- Yerba Buena Pharmaceuticals (local drug manufacturing)
- Crimson Biomedical Research (body disposal).
