New Ways Old Grudges Werewolf Thomas

• Name: Thomas Means
• Ritename: Uktena's Gentle Touch (Alternately, Plays-With-Fire when messing with his stolen chemistry equipment)
  
• Breed: Lupus
• Auspice: Ragabash
• Tribe: Uktena
• Concept: Sneaky Wolf
  

• Campaign: New Ways, Old Grudges
• System: Werewolf: The Apocalypse, 3rd Edition

Description

Appearance: Thomas "Tom" Means is so dark in his human skin most people think he's completely full-blood Indian - and in lupus or other fur-bearing forms, Shadow Lords wonder if he somehow got away from them. His long, straight black hair and dark eyes only add to the impression. In his birth form and shapes related to it, every individual hair is pitch-black and rarely makes even the rustling sounds associated with so much fur. The one behavioral commonality between the two is the constantly flicking eyes - his human ears would if they could, but Gaia saw fit to make wolves that way, not people. In man-skin he usually sports worn blue jeans or Carhartts and old T-shirts with soft, well-worn sneakers. From time to time he is seen with a small skull on a buckskin cord around his neck.

Background

Attributes

Physical: Strength: •• Dexterity: ••• Stamina: •••

Social:' Charisma: •• Manipulation: •• Appearance: ••

Mental: Perception: ••• Intelligence: ••• Wits: •••• (Fast)

Abilities

Talents: Alertness: ••• Athletics: •• Brawl: •• Dodge: • Expression: • Intimidation: • Primal Urge: •••

Skills: Animal Ken: •• Stealth: ••• Survival: ••• Performance: • Meditation ••

Knowledges: Enigmas: •• Linguistics: • (English) Rituals: • Science: • (Chemistry) Occult: •• Herbalism: •• Wyrm Lore: ••

Backgrounds:
Numen: • (Raven Gaffling - Wisdom)
Spirit Heritage: •• (Night spirits)
Totem: •
Contacts: • (Clear Sky Over Still Waters)
Ally: • (John "Jay" Crowfeather, Magpie's Envy)
Kinfolk: • (Sibling)
Resources: •
Fetish: • (Bell of Ice)

Gifts:
- Blur of the Milky Eye
- Heightened Senses
- Shroud

Miscellany

Gnosis •••••• Rage •• Willpower •••••

Renown:
Wisdom ••
Glory •

Rank: Cliath

Flaw: Slip Sideways

Freebies

- Linguistics • (English) - 2
- Meditation •• - 1
- Wyrm Lore •• - 1
- Science • (Chemistry) - 2
- Fetish • (Bell of Ice/Skull Rattle) - 1
- Resources • - 1
- Willpower •• - 2
- Rage • - 1
- Gnosis • - 2
- Kinfolk • (Sibling) - 1
- Ally • (John "Jay" Crowfeather, Magpie's Envy)
- Herbalism •• - 1 (From Slip Sideways)

Motivation

Thomas' Rite of Passage wasn't all that long ago, but working alone is not an option and his friend Jay has been incorporated into a different pack that valiantly swore it couldn't in good conscience deprive a future pack of both Jay and Tom. He also knows you don't get to choose your pack until you're older, stronger, and wiser than he is now. Consequently, especially as a local, he's been eyeballing new arrivals to see if they would fit, given the sept's scant few other packless cliath. In terms of what that pack would do, Thomas knows that getting anyone to follow him is unlikely, especially with the usual homid prejudice against lupus ideas unless they involve wolves or the humanless outdoors. In addition to those basic things, which are a given anyway in a rural sept with lupus members, Thomas knows that dogfighters bring all kinds of evil - some bigger than others - and he knows that there were survivors from the barn incident. They are unlikely to have all died, disappeared, or given up.

He also knows that there are witches scattered among the humans - they are few and they are hard to find, but they are there and they should be found. They must be found, because he also knows that there are Wyrmish mystics out there - he killed one himself in a distant South Dakota farmhouse not too long ago. Sometimes they are new arrivals, sometimes they are longtime locals fallen into evil habits. There were no electronics to steal at that man's house, and most of his possessions were unfit for anything but burning. However, there was a cryptic notebook written in a foul-smelling ink, and the strange pictographic writing may well reveal the hiding places of other mystics or their secrets...