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Example: Fabrice stepped out of his car and faced the old But the afternoon soaps were starting, and Catherine decided
mansion. Four centuries of French weather had taken its toll on the the Harcourt stuff was just rumors. Besides, she had a baseball bat
once regal place. The setting sun stretched shadows across the in case any boogey men came calling. She unplugged the phone and
façade, highlighting every flaw and crack, and throwing a distorted let her ass warm the couch. The lights could wait another day.
shadow over the front door like an evil omen.
By avoiding work despite the repercussions, Catherine indulges
Haunted indeed. her defining Vice and regains a point of spent Willpower.
When the unkempt, ill-mannered student had shown up Other Names: Apathy, cowardice, ignorance
to his lecture and publicly challenged the professor to spend one Possessed by: Couch potatoes, trust-fund heirs, wel-
night in the mansion, how could the foremost debunker of fare cheats
mystic nonsense decline?
Fabrice was sure he had more to fear from the house Wrath
collapsing than from evil spirits. Yes, he was quite sure. The Vice of Wrath is the sin of uncontrolled anger. The
By refusing to back down to the challenge, and reveling wrathful look for ways to vent their anger and frustration on
in his own self-assurance, Fabrice people or objects at the slightest provocation. In most cases the
indulges his defining Vice and reaction is far out of proportion to the perceived slight. A wrathful
regains a point of spent Will- person cut off on the freeway might try to force another driver
power. off the road, or a
wrathful cop
Other
Names: Arro- might delight in
gance, ego com- beating each and
plex, vanity every person he
Possessed arrests, regardless
by: Corporate of the offense.
executives, Your char-
movie stars, acter regains one
street thugs spent Willpower
point whenever
Sloth he unleashes his
anger in a situa-
The Vice of tion where doing
Sloth is about so is dangerous.
avoiding work un- If the fight has
til someone else already begun,
has to step in to get no Willpower
the job done. points are re-
Rather than put in gained. It must
the effort — and take place in a
possibly risk failure situation where
— in a difficult situation, the slothful person simply refuses to do anger is unwarranted or inappropriate.
anything, knowing that someone else will step in and fix the Example: As April staggered in, Rebecca surprised her at
problem sooner or later. The fact that people might needlessly the door, demanding the month’s rent. April had gotten hooked
suffer while the slothful person sits on his thumbs doesn’t matter on the new drug that had hit the streets. She had spent most of
one bit. her time day-tripping and having paranoia attacks about “things
Your character regains one Willpower point when- eating through the walls of the world.” Rebecca didn’t care
ever he successfully avoids a difficult task but achieves anymore, and when the usual litany of excuses began, Rebecca
the same goal nonetheless. hit her. Blood ran from April’s nose and down her mouth.
Example: Catherine pretended to listen as the fourth
tenant that day called to tell her, the superintendent, that the “I want… the damn… rent,” Rebecca yelled, punctu-
security lights were out. Some asshole had gone and broken ating each statement with another blow until April was on
all the lights around the apartment building. the ground, balled up and crying.
By beating the money out of April, Rebecca indulges
Sure, she’d heard stories about the Harcourt building,
where the lights were shattered one night and there were her defining Vice and regains a point of spent Willpower.
break-ins the next. Depending on who was telling the story, Other Names: Antisocial tendencies, hot-
some weird shit happened over there. headedness, poor anger management, sadism
Possessed by: Bullies, drill sergeants, street thugs

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