The Orphan Of Ages:Character Creation

Character Creation

Phase One

GM: Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception It is the largest Catholic Church in the United States, second largest in North America, with over 70 chapels dedicated to Mary herself.

Connection: Morgan has connections with a mother cult that snuck the bones of their deceased founder into the Basilica's Crypt three years ago. The group sometimes sneaks in to conduct rituals to this day.

Mr. Prim:

Morgan Hart Williamson

Identity: Sociomancy

Obsession: Becoming a Mommy

Unnatural: 2

NPC: Shana Gyllenham, writer of "The Mommy's Guide to Living" - a self-help guru charger.

Meriss

Emily Reed

Obsession: Become the Mother Humanity needs to improve themselves

Unnatural: 3

NPC: Mark Thompson

Mark is Emily's college boyfriend. He was a film student and heavily into tropes. They drifted apart after college. He's probably a Cinemancer now.

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Erica Raynor Identity: Vestimancy

Obsession: Becoming the best women’s doctor in the country

Unnatural: 5

Location: Maman statue

Randall Thompson

Randall seemed to have it all going for him, a good job, a healthy toddler and a wife pregnant with another child. Then something awful happened, and his family died. It seemed like an awful accident, maybe a grisly car wreck or random assault in their home. Randall saw it, and it seemed to break his mind. He insisted it wasn't something simple like that, but something unnatural. He left everything behind to try to run it down, and dropped away from everything that had seemed to matter in his life.

Identity: Detritomancy (possibly cryptomancy if we want to switch him away from a broken vagabond living rough)

If detritomancy he is living on the streets, probably squatting in an abandoned building, and sorting through things to sort it out.

Secondary Identity: Detective

Obsession: Preventing what happened to his family from happening to someone else (and sorting out what it was). This could hook him in easily to a search for the child, to protect it.

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: ???

Clout: The Coffee Klatch ritual

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.

Phase Three

Morgan Hart Williamson

2 Notches: Helplessness 4/Isolation 6

Link: Let's say I'm connected to Emily. Probably because she is interested in my baby?

Identities: Sociomancy, Pregnant, Friendly

More Clout:

Emily Reed

2 Notches: Helplessness 7/Isolation 5

Link: ???

Identities: Nothing new, Occult Scientist is Obsession

More Clout: Co-Founder of The Daughters of Gaia

Erica Raynor

2 Notches: Violence 4/Self 7

Link: Morgan is my project. She's a friend, sure, but the whole pregnancy thing is something I really got into, kind of living it vicariously through her while acting as the pregnancy expert which I pretend to be. If her baby turns out to be the Messiah then everything will have been worthwhile.

Identities: Party Girl

More Clout: In keeping with the identity above, I'm going to say that Erica's got a lot of "friends", maybe just people that she went shopping with or did blow with in a night club bathroom, or somebody she treated for STD's or sewed up their knife wound. She's pretty indiscriminate and puts everybody in her Rolodex, never know when they come in handy later. (Without knowing the other cabals etc. in the game, it's hard to be more specific.)