Editing The Orphan Of Ages:Character Creation (section)

==Phase Two==

'''Morgan Hart Williamson'''

'''Relate to a PC'''

What if Erica is Morgan's pregnancy doctor and also her Guru? Feels like a very clingy Sociomancer situation.

'''Add Another Identity'''

I think ''Friendly'' is a good choice for who I am.

'''Link Two Elements'''

The Maman Statue is connected to Morgan. She's been dreaming about it.

The Dream:

A dull perception of the world around as you dangle in the egg sack of a sleek and monstrous metal spider, life throbbing in her. It is warm and comforting and as it should be. But the spider crawls over the bones of countless humans, small and pitiful below. The bones of adults and children, fading slowly to dust.

And with her, in the egg sac, eyes closed and oblivious, are other women, each large with a child of her own. United. 

The dream used to be a reassuring thing. The bones were creepy, but they were always distant. It was safe inside the great spider. Inside Maman.

Then things changed. The women inside the spider woke up. They started fighting with each other. Their labias peeled back to reveal pedipalps and chelicerae of a spider, as well as a horrible phallic spike that emerges. They fight until is in position, and then that hairy arthropodal spike bursts into a rivals womb, and drinks the child within. There's no escape, just struggle and infantophagy. 

In the center of it all is a dead woman, her face no more than a skull. Within her body a child laughs, a horrible hyena cackle, but no one has yet laid their pedipalps upon it.

'''Relate to the Cabal'''

The Cabal is probably my Mentor, I'd think.

'''Create Clout'''

''The Sh!t Noone Meant to Tell You'': A baby book enchanted with infinite use Crowd Source.


'''Emily Reed'''

'''Relate to a PC''': Responsibility: Morgan

'''Add Another Identity''': Alpha Bitch

'''Relate to the Cabal''': Guru

'''Link Two Elements''': Shana Gyllenham, is or was part of the cult that snuck it's founders bones into the shrine of the National Basilica.

'''Clout''': The Coffee Klatch ritual
This ritual is designed to help the caster gather information.

The caster and at least two other participants must be biologically female. Men may participate but may not cast the ritual.

The caster must announce to at least two non participants that “I'm going to have coffee with the girls”. This statement may be repeated by any other participant to strengthen the ritual.

The participants (who do not all have to be chargers) must meet in a single family home that has been occupied for at least five years. Apartments are also acceptable provided they meet these requirements.

The ritual must last at minimum one hour.

During the ritual the participants must consume at least three cups of coffee and at least two alcoholic beverages. A participant may announce to the others “I'm pregnant” to avoid this requirement. (A non pregnant participant who uses this caveat more than twice in similar rituals will shortly find out they are pregnant. Despite any birth control or gender requirement)

During the ritual the participants will engage in small talk and gossip of a general nature. As the ritual reaches its peak the participants will begin to dispense news of an occult nature. This is often without any previous knowledge of the situation.

The ritual ends when one or more of the participants announce “I have to go fix dinner”

The caster must prepare a single course meal and serve it to another person within one hour of the ritual's end or roll a memory test to retain any information gathered.



'''Erica Raynor'''

'''Relate to a PC''': Favorite: Emily, former roommate and only confidante.

'''Another Identity''': Women's Doctor

'''Link Two Elements''': Mark Thompson, Emily's ex, is making a documentary about Shana Gyllenham, writer of "The Mommy's Guide to Living" and it's getting picked up by the Lifetime Channel. This is a big break for both of them and it's so annoying. 

'''Relate to the Cabal''': Mentor: she has a million questions about how the occult works and how to avoid getting hurt and sees the Cabal as her little network of female energy in a harsh male-dominated world.

'''Clout''': The Oracle Baby. This is one of the weird occult things she got involved with at work, a woman brought it in one day and wanted to know what to do with it. Erica knows perfectly well that a real doctor would know what to do with a tiny baby floating around in a big pickle jar, but she doesn't... and the baby talks to her sometimes, in a tiny little voice in her head. It knows things! A charger she showed it to once told her that it was called a Tiresias Bottle, and that it was probably created unconsciously by someone with natural talent, but she just calls it the Baby. She hides it in the back of the fridge and keeps telling herself she needs to find a better place for it. It's saved her life at least once with a cryptic warning in it's tiny little psychic voice.