Bad House
From Gothpoodle
Lesser Jaggling, Artificial Spirit, Structural Choir
This spirit still inhabits the physical structure which birthed it, the location of the Torture Room locus.
Description
A huge, decaying, imposing Victorian mansion surrounded by a wrought iron fence and dead trees.
Storytelling Hints
The Bad House is a malicious entity who delights in tormenting those that enter it, squeezing them for all the fear it can get.
Stats
- Rank: 3
- Attributes: Power 5, Finesse 5, Resistance 10
- Willpower: 15
- Essence: 20
- Initiative: 15
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Size: 22
- Corpus: 32
- Influences: Fear 1, Houses 2.
- Numina: Fetter, Manipulate Element, Material Vision, Reaching, Savant (Manipulate Element), Stalwart, Threshold.
- Bans: It has no Defense against whomever possesses the house master key (currently in a lockbox in at the First National Bank of San Francisco along with the title and other paperwork being held for the current absent owner).
Background
The Bad House has a long and troubled history. It was built in 1876 by a strict man of severe temperament who made his money in banking, loaning money to prospectors and speculators and then reaping the rewards of their ruin. He ruled over his family with an iron fist, beating his children when they disobeyed him and locking his delicate wife in a basement room when her mental faculties began to fail. His children fled him at the earliest opportunity and he died of a heart attack during the Earthquake of 1906, leaving his mad wife to starve to death in the basement room, her body undiscovered until the next owner found the hidden door in the basement. When the daughter of one of the new owners was impregnated by a black male servant, they were taken to the secret room where she was forced to watch her lover beaten almost to death. Her own trial followed as a doctor was brought in to perform an abortion. She was kept in the room for weeks following the procedure, in pain, in the dark, forced to repent for her sin and indiscretion.
