Shadowwalkers: Cortex Prime by Night - Raven

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Rosalind "Raven" Park :: Bloodless

Attributes

Physical Attributes

DEXTERITY

STRENGTH

Mental Attributes

PERCEPTION

REASON

Social Attributes

AFFINITY

WILLPOWER

Roles and Knacks

FIXER

Comforting/Soothing

INFLUENCER

PERFORMER

Drawing Attention

Acrobatics

RESEARCHER

SCRAPPER

Thrusting weapons

Distinctions/SFX

Bloodless

A vampire tried to make Rosalind his eternal bride after seeing her dance. She managed to fight him off at just the right time for the process to leave her not quite living or undead, then left him staked in the sun. Vamps seem to expect her to look for a job taking care of daytime dirty work for their kind, and she's leveraging that to try and get the worst members of the 'sanguinarian community' staked or exiled. She spends most of her working time providing a lower-intensity alternative to help people get over the effects of bite addiction.

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

Working girl

The only euphenism she'll accept, as it at least acknowledges the work part. Stripping and occasional booking as an escort kept her from racking up college loans for a degree she ended up not getting, and her new 'day job' is more than intimate enough to qualify even if it doesn't always go there. She's used to being looked down on by many people who know what she does, and sometimes gives into the temptation to throw it in their faces - or actively use it. Also, she tends to be particularly cagey around any sort of law enforcement even when not doing anything that would legitimately merit suspicion. She'd rather have been a professional ballroom dancer, but that's a real long shot and it's not like those lessons went entirely to waste...

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

One of those girls: You know the rep you carry and how to use it... but society always pushes back. When drawing attention by violating social decorum, step up or double Performer and take a d6 social complication (or step one up) representing social opprobium (like 'That shameless hussy!') or undesired levels of attention (like 'entitled stalker').

Survivor

That which doesn't kill you has made a tactical error... but it's probably going to try again. Rosalind's seen some shit and got scars on her very soul, but she's still here.

Hinder: Sometimes your distinction works against you. Gain 1 plot point when you roll a instead of a to represent your distinction.

Only way out is through: Pain can give you a rush of adrenaline. Shame can flare into righteous anger. Maybe you can push past it... or run right into the wall. Spend 1 PP to treat a complication as an asset for a single roll, but if it fails, take the complication die as stress.

Bloodless Power Set

An encounter with vampires left you half in and half out of their world. As one of the Bloodless you are not burdened by a need to breathe, and cannot be killed by any means that rely on lack of oxygen to bring about death.

Powers: Rank one power at and two at

Vamnpric Form: A host of physical changes come over the bodies of the Bloodless as they take on the mantle of potential immortality.

Blood Soak: You have inherited the tireless stamina of the corpse and are able to absorb a certain amount of mortal damage without taking stress.

Blood Strength: Your physical prowess exceeds that of mortal men.

Blood Speed: You are incredibly fast, faster than most mortal eyes can track. Your reflexes are unmatched in the mortal realm.

Red of Tooth and Claw: You are able to use your body as a vicious and brutal weapon.

Nighteyes: You can see in all manner of dark as easily as in the day.

Vampric Mind: There is just something about the Bloodless' presence, the way they move, the intensity of their gaze, the cadence of their speech. You have inherited this ability to reach beyond the conscious mind and tap into the subconscious, influencing and even overwhelming the thoughts of the one you focus on, leading them to do your bidding.

Flight of the Harbingers: You can explode into a murder of crows and move anywhere within 50' of your starting point provided you can see it. Any mortal stress taken while in swarm form is halved, round down. At the end of the turn the Bloodless must reform.

SFX: Spend a pp to perform a single power in a high stakes action without needing to roll the dice.

Limit: [Conscious Activation] If taken out, asleep, or unconscious, shut down the Bloodless Power Set. Restore Bloodless Power Set when you awake.

Limit: [Hunger] Shut down any Bloodless power to gain a pp. Activate an opportunity to restore the power.

Stress Tracks

Mortal Stress

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Psychic Stress

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Spiritual Stress

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Bio/Background

"...look. I don't really want to talk about the creep who wanted to make me the Bride to his Dracula. He's ash in the wind, and nobody in the city now is part of his strain. Even some of the vamps double-take when my eyes go black. How? I don't know. I think I just got lucky, he got careless, and I took the opening. I don't think there's much that separated me from the victims who get turned into blood dolls or drained corpses (or both in order, all too often) or dragged into and back from the grave and... Ugh. Fuck. Yeah, I felt pretty badass, at least until the hunger pangs hit, but I can't... Bragging about it feels like blaming all the other victims for not being strong enough to overcome a literally superhuman predator."

"And fuck that. Because that's what they do. Not all of them, it's not like it's hard-wired. One vamp I met sticks to the polycule he was in before getting turned and that's all the blood he needs and arguably nobody gets really injured but also it's not like any of them could want to leave him now since yeah it's addictive so relationships are going to be inherently unequal and... ugh, sidetracked. Enough bloodsuckers don't give a shit about consent that normies who can recognize one have every reason to feel unsafe unless they know them, and even then there's always that nagging possibility. And even a lot of the so-called 'good ones' get itchy fangs when you start calling shit out. Hashtag not-all-vampires."

"Stake and a sunrise is the nuclear option. Not that I haven't used them, but free-wheeling vigilante justice goes bad places, and the Bloodline gets really on edge when it looks like vampire hunters are rolling in. So... when a bloodsucker turns into a festering parasite, I let their 'peers' use me to slap them down. It's not quite a happy accident that breaking their little Masquerade usually involves wantonly abusing mortals, and if someone's being awful but quiet then getting them to stumble into the spotlight is... possible, at least. With the other bloodsuckers making sure their support network is tied up, I can make the problem go away while it's naptime. There's always some that the system twists itself to protect from consequences, of course. But even they have enemies... which means I need to make friends I really don't like, but smiling through that sort of shit was already in my job description before any of this happened. Shit, I'm talking like I'm Jane fucking Wick but aside from my would-be Sire there's been two in the two years since I got this way and, uh, I still get shaky. And it's like... they seemed to expect this of me, once they found out about me. It's where their system tries to put people like me. That doesn't feel great."

"Now, me, I don't actually need to drink blood, and I couldn't live off it alone either, but I get the pangs, and it does make it easier to go full queen-of-the-night. My bite kinda does the same thing, too, makes people feel good... Look, hey, even if I was just putting on costume teeth, there's enough people out there who fantasize about this shit enough that, well... you can make money catering to that niche. Not that I ever really wanted to except around Halloween. Yeah, I've always had a basement tan and leaned on the gothy side but come on... Anyway. Um. Most vamps (and honestly, anything about them has to be prefaced with 'most', because there's all these little variations, like my weird eyes), their bite is addictive as hell. Not that I've ever shot it up myself, but people who've had both tell me it's close to heroin. So if vamps are like heroin, then I'm like methadone. And... yeah. I pretty much support myself right now by providing that substitute, nibbling on former victims desperate to find someone to open their veins to. Yeah. I know methadone treatment isn't perfect and that part of the analogy definitely holds and I hate thinking about that but a girl's got to make a living, and I feel like I'm doing more good than going back to dancing in clubs. I think I've managed to keep any of my clients from getting hooked on me so far, but... I don't know what to do if that happens. Tell myself it's probably still better than being some cackling Bela Lugosi wannabe's blood doll? No. Need to find a better option... Maybe I should go back to school, get a psych degree? It's not like they cover guidelines for this sort of thing. Hell, this city, maybe they do if I look hard enough."

"Because vampires aren't the only spooky things out there and they're all here. Once I got a little spook in me I started seeing that. Most just wanna do their thing, some are predators, some are helpful or at least trying to be. And then there's people like me who just have one foot on the other side; even though we're all different, those are the people it's easiest for me to relate to now. Even if I don't feel like I can let them in on everything I do."

Housing/Work

Raven lives in a basement apartment in a converted Victorian-esque townhouse near the west corner of downtown, a couple blocks south of the riverfront where there's less tourist traffic, lower property value and more 'seedy' entertainment. She very definitely doesn't work there, and overall avoids bringing anyone but trusted companions (a circle not likely to be much beyond the fellow PCs) there. The entryway and living room are set up to give the impression of tasteful, if dark and minimalist, design, while the kitchenette and bedroom are generously described as 'organized chaos' (and less generously as 'disaster areas'). She sleeps on a bed, not a coffin or anything crazy like that, though her sleep schedule is 'messed up' to say the least and generally so is her bed. (She's settled into something vaguely anti-crepuscular, usually getting half her sleep in the morning a little after dawn and early evening before proper dusk.)

Her 'day job' mostly takes place in rooms at the Hotel Riviera, once a city landmark but now distinctly out of vogue as it slumps in the shadow of the highway spurs that come from the north (where Purple branches off of Yellow). Its decor was classy in the 50's, and hasn't been updated. Or even refurbished for the most part.

Vehicle

Raven has a 2023 Yamaha YZF-R3 in phantom purple. Don't mention the Vespa she used to ride.

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