Mitzi Schultz

Description

• Family: Namtaru.
• Hunger: Collector.
• Horror: The Sun Dog. A monster halfway between canids and arthropods that needs no eye to be watchful. Tends to appear at the most unexpected locations at the most unexpected moments, jumping from the shadows forming its home.
• Concept: Off-the-grid Hacker.
• Appearance: Mitzi is a lanky 23-year-old young woman with straight long hair, all dyed in shades of green from teal to lime, that never seem to be disciplined. Slight tan. Tends to wear either punk-ish or comfortable clothes, always with a bandana.
• Personality: Aloof, yet tends to bond quickly with some people with little regard for common interests. Talks little about herself, mainly because she doesn't believe she's really got anything to reveal. Tends to feel personally concerned, or even offended, by problems and situations around her she believes she can fix.
• Background: Mitzi vaguely remembers her parents; they weren't very present, but she loved them. Nonetheless, she entered early in her life the foster care system. At first, the reasons were beyond her grasp, and when they weren't anymore, she'd simply stopped giving a shit. Until her late teens, she regularly changed foster families. Often, she would lose belonging in the process, either lost in the shuffle or stolen by her "siblings". It seemed natural for her, after a while, to stop getting attached to material belongings and instead embrace the virtual world; even when leaving one family for another, she could always expect to be able to login sooner or later back to her blog, her favourite sites, her social networks. Similarly, she learnt hacking very smoothly, at first trying to unlock library computers to gain access to forbidden sites and programs. The foster parents who were confronted to her shoplifting problem encouraged her to opt for seemingly more legal activities in front of a computer.

Eventually, when she turned 18 and was thrown out into the streets to fend for herself, she found that nobody had really bothered to teach her life skills; or maybe had she not bothered to remember those lessons? At any rate, resuming her illegal activities became a matter of survival, but not just money-wise. Indeed, as far as she could remember, Mitzi always dreamed of a not-dog following her closely, and only embraced the Horror as part of her own soul at adulthood. After years of data theft, identity theft, and varied forms of extortion, the Beast has finally constituted herself something approaching regular earnings. She met an odd guy, one year or two ago, seemingly old enough to be her father, actually old enough to be at least her grand-grandfather. Frederico. A Mekhet, he calls his own specific kind, and he'd slumbered through one or two wars, which explained why he looked so completely lost in 2017's New Orleans. Mitzi made it a personal challenge to teach him what she knew, not just to manage to basic, everyday aspects of existence, but also to earn the money he judged necessary to rebuild what he'd lost. Despite the difficulty of the lessons, he hangs on. Recently, he introduced her to the Covenant he'd just formed. Maybe that's what having a grandfather is supposed to feel like.

• Legend: Unexpected.
• Life: Selfless.
• Aspirations:
  • Exchange services with a vampire.
  • Feed alongside another Beast.
  • Add a new Chamber to her Lair.
• Additional Notes:

Attributes

Physical

• Str: 2
• Dex: 2
• Sta: 2

• Athletics 1
• Larceny 3
• Stealth 3

Social

• Pre: 2
• Man: 3
• Com: 2

• Streetwise 2 (Black market)
• Subterfuge 2

Mental

• Int: 3
• Wts: 2
• Res: 3

• Academics 1
• Computer 4
• Investigation 3 (Cryptography)
• Occult 2
• Politics 1 (Vampires)

The Sun Dog

• Power 3
• Finesse 3
• Resilience 3

Advantages

Traits

• Defense 3
• Willpower 5
• Size 5
• Health 7
• Initiative 4
• Speed 9
• Satiety: 6

Lair: 1

• Traits: Poor Light, Razored.
• Heart Chamber: old, concrete rooms linked in strange way; a careful look reveals it's a sideways apartment complex. Sharp concrete bits of varying size, like a glitched videogame, jut out at odd angles. The only light comes from randomly flickering neons on the wall that ought to be a ceiling, reading obscure made-up words that are actually passwords. There's a stark contrast between the sickening glow of the neons and the midnight black, bizarre, angular shadows from which the Sun Dog could run out any moment.
• Chamber 1: a streetcar, accelerating and slowing down depending on the Beast's emotions, in the night, the lampposts' lights flashing by at random intervals. It only stops when accessing a Burrow. There's no driver at the controls, only a silhouette target on the seat. Based on the Riverfront Line, driving at night.

Powers

Nightmares

• Run away.
• You Are Not Alone.

Atavisms

• Shadowed Soul.
• Mimir's Wisdom.

Equipment

• Laptop (+2)
• Smartphone (+1)
• Mace (+1)

Merits

• Anonymity 4.
• Contacts 3 (vampires).
• Encyclopedic Knowledge (Craft) 2.
• Resources 2.
• Sleight of Hand 2.
• (Eidetic Memory from Mimir's Wisdom).