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==Tristesse "Tess" LeCrux==
[[File:Tess.jpg|245px|thumb|left|]]
===Background===

Anne Frank once wrote in her diary that, "I can shake off everything as I write, my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." I do not write (at least not until now), but I read, and so it is the same with me when I hold a book and my mind is filled with the images the author's words draw in my mind. My sorrow and this life I lead is gone, and I live another one that the author whispers to me through the dark bold strikes of letters on crisp white paper. Their book takes my hands and leads me to the world the author has created. But like Anne Frank I know, no matter how much we wish it were not so, that mere words cannot keep the monsters at bay.

Hezekiah told me I needed to write down who I am, before I can truly know myself. I guess if it was good enough for Samuel Pepys, it is good enough for Tess LeCrux, though I promise not be as detailed as Mr. Pepys. I guess I should introduce myself and if I may steal from Mr. Melville...Call me Tess. If there is a white whale in my words it is my family...and that path is likewise riddled with pursuits and obsessions. And perhaps I will speak more of them later, but for now lets speak of my birth. I was born with my face hidden. They call it a caul, a black veil covered my newborn face when I entered this world and in some ways I have worn it ever since. Some say to be born with a caul is a sign of luck. However, unlike ice cream, luck only has two flavors and I'm not yet sure which one the caul brought to me. My parents named me Tristesse but I chose to go by the name Tess. In Greek, Tess means harvester or reaper and somehow it seemed appropriate given present circumstances.

For you see, I am a harvester of books and knowledge and a reaper of well...other things. If you were to come to my little studio apartment in the Arborville Estates Apartments on Telegraph Hill, which will never happen, as I do not invite visitors, you'd find it overflowing with books on all manner of subjects. Yes little Tess of the Arborville's (apologies to Mr. Hardy) shares her place only with the dead. The only furniture you will find, besides my large comfy bed, are bookshelves after bookshelves, crammed and creaking in protestation under the weight of many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, but alas no raven, evermore...and more books.

How I wish I could cradle grieving Edgar Allan's hand in my own. I wish I could have been in the Villa Diodati with Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and Dr. Polidori and heard their ghost stories. I wish I could have given a sisterly embrace to dear Emily Bronte and told her how much she means to me. But while I can do none of these things, I can let their words touch my heart. I can see the shadows beyond their words and the truths they have hidden behind the guise of fiction. I am a pathfinder amongst the whispers of the dead.

I look in the mirror before me and the one in the pages that I write. I see a young woman of 23, my hair is already gray. We LeCrux women go gray early, my family says. My sister colors her hair, but I refuse to. The gray in my hair reflects the world I live in and I cannot hide the truth of it. My family...my family tree that grows on the blood of those who use the drugs my family traffics in. Salem is their home and my birthplace. I left that place for Boston, thinking I could grow out from under the shadows of that tree. But the roots grow deep.

My father once had an associate called Alciste the Corsican. He made trouble disappear for my father and for that reason my father looked away from his...peculiarities. The week after my fourteenth birthday, by force he took my innocence. The week after my eighteenth birthday, by force majeure I took his life. It was not a fair exchange. His bones are in a suitcase in my closet. I wonder if someday I will make use of them. I light a cigarette, my mother calls them my coffin nails which seems appropriate. Alciste's skull sits atop one of my bookcases. I blow smoke in what would have been his face and it also clouds the mirror obscuring my face. Sometimes life is good. Sometimes death is better.

===Stats===
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{|

| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+
|-
|'''Bloodline'''
|'''''Half-Blooded'''''
|-
|'''Archetype'''
|'''''Necromancer'''''
|-
|'''Arcana'''
|'''''The High Priestess'''''
|-
|'''Scene Points'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''Father'''
|'''''Gerard "Lord of Salem" LeCrux (Associate of the Boston Mafia and drug lord of Salem)'''''
|-
|'''Mother'''
|'''''Amelie LeCrux (not in the family business)'''''
|-
|'''Sister'''
|'''''Angelique "Angel" LeCrux (heir apparent to the family business)'''''
|-
|'''Status/Wealth'''
|'''''Middle Class, $2,500 monthly'''''
|-
|}
| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Talents
|-
|'''Haunting Presence'''
|''''' '''''
|-
|'''Skilled Raiser'''
|''''' '''''
|-
|'''Silent Caster'''
|''''' '''''
|-
|}
| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Languages
|-
|'''English'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''French'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''Latin'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|}
| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Attributes
|-
|'''STR'''
|'''''3'''''
|-
|'''HLT'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''REF'''
|'''''3'''''
|-
|'''WLP'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''CHR'''
|'''''4'''''
|-
|'''INT'''
|'''''3'''''
|-
|'''HP'''
|'''''53'''''
|-
|'''MP'''
|'''''25'''''
|-
|'''Heal Rate'''
|'''''8 HP/day'''''
|-
|'''Magic Rec.'''
|'''''4 MP/hour'''''
|-
|'''Initiative'''
|'''''1d8+3'''''
|-
|'''Movement'''
|'''''9'''''
|-
|'''Dmg. Mod.'''
|'''''+1d3'''''
|-
|}
| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Skills
|-
|'''Alchemy'''
|'''''1d10'''''
|-
|'''Athletics'''
|'''''2d6'''''
|-
|'''Augury'''
|'''''2d6'''''
|-
|'''Blades'''
|'''''1d8'''''
|-
|'''Crafting'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''Escape'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''Fast Talk'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''First Aid'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''History'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Intimidation'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Law'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''Magic Lore: Necromancy'''
|'''''3d10'''''
|-
|'''Occultism'''
|'''''1d10'''''
|-
|'''Persuade'''
|'''''1d8'''''
|-
|'''Poison'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|'''Streetwise'''
|'''''1d6'''''
|-
|}
| width="10%" valign="top" |
{| class="wikitable"
|+Spells
|-
|'''Necromancy'''
|''''' '''''
|-
|'''Control the Dead'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Feign Death'''
|'''''1d10'''''
|-
|'''Raise the Dead'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Rotting Flesh'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Soul Blast'''
|'''''1d10'''''
|-
|'''Speak to the Dead'''
|'''''2d10'''''
|-
|'''Steal Spirits'''
|'''''1d10'''''
|-
|'''Summon Ghost'''
|'''''2d6'''''
|}


|}

===Equipment===

Hunting Knife (1d6+1) (Etched onto the blade is the name Letumferre.)</br>
Service Weapon & Bulletproof Vest</br>
Ring of Extra Energy (Attuned)</br>
Potion - Armor (10 doses)</br>
Potion - Charm (10 doses)</br>
Potion - Heal (10 doses)</br>
Potion - Power Elixir (10 doses)</br>
Talisman - Shield</br>
Wand - Ice (Attuned)</br>
Ashen Remains from a Corpse (2 Packets)</br>
Morning Dew (5 Vials)</br>
Basic First Aid Kit</br>
Handcuffs</br>
Evidence Collection Kit</br>
Flashlight</br>
$19,665 cash in bank</br>