Michael Tripman
Contents
Concept
- Nature: Competitor
- Demeanor: Capitalist
- Concept: Dot Com Billionaire
- Clan: Ventrue
- Generation: 13th
- Sire: Gerard Arroyo
Attributes
- Physical
- Str: 2
- Dex: 2
- Sta: 2
- Social
- Cha: 3
- Man: 3
- App: 2
- Mental
- Per: 3
- Int: 5 - Problem Solving
- Wits: 4 - Changes in Strategy
Abilities
- Talents
- Alertness: 2
- Athletics: X
- Awareness: X
- Brawl: X
- Empathy: 3
- Expression: X
- Intimidation: X
- Leadership: X
- Streetwise: 1
- Subterfuge: 3
- Skills
- Animal Ken: X
- Crafts: X
- Drive: 1
- Etiquette: 1
- Firearms: 1
- Larceny: X
- Melee: X
- Performance: X
- Stealth: 2
- Survival: X
- Knowledges
- Academics: 1
- Computer: 4 - Designing & Creating Applications
- Finance: 3
- Investigation: 3
- Law: X
- Medicine: X
- Occult: X
- Politics: X
- Science: X
- Technology: 3
Advantages
- Disciplines
- Dominate: 3
- Fortitude: 1
- Presence: X
- Backgrounds
- Resources: 5 (billionaire venture capitalist)
- Fame: 1 (minor nerd celebrity)
- Herd: 1 ('girlfriends')
- Retainers: 2 (driver and personal assistant)
- Contact: 1 (Cindy, mid-level pot dealer)
- Allies: 1 (Sgt. Waitlin, UNO Campus Police)
- Virtues
- Conscience: 2
- Self-Control: 5
- Courage: 3
Other Traits
- Humanity: 7
- Willpower: 8
- Flaws
- Prestation Debt (Prince): 2-pt
Experience
6
Appearance
Michael is 5' 10" and on the thin side. He's got dark brown shaggy hair that's usually stuffed under something, and he wears a lot of jeans, sneakers, and ironic t shirts and hoodies of all kinds. Though since the embrace he's been wearing a lot more black and dark grey. If the situation demands he's got a couple suits but he hates the things and only wears them if forced.
Background
Michael was an upper middle class suburban kid. He played video games, smoked weed, dressed like a skater, and hated almost everyone. Fairly typical. But what set Michael apart was that he was a bona fide programming genius. He started out modding Quake and ended up writing a file sharing protocol that earned him threatening letters from several companies. It also earned him a spot at Harvard. There he met the folks with whom over the next four years he would found, expand, and then eventually sell a social networking website. After the sale Michael decided to get into venture capital and became interested by the financial world. He began traveling around to colleges, partying with fellow computer science geeks and seeing who was doing cool shit that a rich investor might be interested in while. Most of these investments led to nothing, but a couple ended up being big enough that he can comfortably use the 'B' word to describe himself. It was on one of these trips, his first to New Orleans, that he caught the eye of an opportunistic Ventrue and, well, he hasn't seen a sunrise since.
