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EMILY
THE TALISMAN
Profession:
Profession: Laborer
Mental Attributes:
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 4
Physical Attributes:
Physical Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes:
Social Attributes: Presence 2, Manipulation 3, Composure 2/4
Mental Skills: Academics 1, Crafts (Clothing) 3, Medicine (First Aid) 1, Occult
Mental Skills:
(Ghosts) 2
Physical Skills:
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl 1, Larceny 2, Stealth 2/4, Survival (Urban)
2, Weaponry 2/(Straight Razor) 4
Social Skills:
Social Skills: Empathy 3, Intimidation 1, Persuasion (Kids) 3, Socialize
(Neighborhood) 2, Subterfuge 2/4
Merits: Iron Stamina, Fast Refl exes 2, Professional Training 2, Resources 2,
Merits:
Striking Looks 4
Willpower:
Willpower: 4
Morality: 2
Morality:
Virtue:
Virtue: Hope
Vice:
Vice: Wrath
Initiative:
Initiative: 5/9
Defense: 3
Defense:
Speed:
Speed: 11
Health:
Health: 7
Derangements:
Derangements: Fugue, Irrationality, Multiple Personality (traits marked in
italics)
Weapons/Attacks:
Weapons/Attacks:
Type Damage Dice Pool
1(L)
5/9
Straight Razor 1(L) 5 / 9
Straight Razor
Emily, the Talisman killed her. He told her everything. The driver lived only three
streets away. Just killing him wouldn’t send a lesson to all the
Quote: You hurt Bobby. Kyle won’t let you hurt Bobby. other bastards who’d leave a wife without a husband: she had to
Would you like to meet Kyle? I have him right here. make him pay. That evening, she kidnapped the driver’s daugh-
Background: Every city has them: suburbs that stretch ter. Tying the girl to a chair in her basement, Emily took the razor
for miles. They cover perfectly good land in cookie-cutter and carefully sliced off the girl’s face. Emily then pinned it back
houses, separated by mile upon mile of white picket fence. to her head upside down, with two-inch roofing nails. She sent

Emily Gillen lived in one of those homes. She had what she photographs to Daddy, who thought he could buy his daughter’s
thought was a perfect life. Her husband, Kyle, was the local life. Emily knew better. She killed the girl over eight days, egged
mechanic, and the two of them had two sons: Bobby and on by Kyle’s ghost. She hasn’t stopped there.
Steve. Like anything perfect, it couldn’t last. Kyle got out Kyle wants vengeance for his death. He tells Emily about
of work early one day. Driving through an intersection, an the reports the cops buried, the ones that show the real blood
18-wheel truck plowed through his SUV. Emily was out shop- alcohol level of the truck driver. Turns out his brother works
ping, close enough to see the scene while they were cleaning in City Hall and pulled a few strings. Everyone involved is
up fragments of brain and bone from the tarmac. Later, they guilty of letting Kyle’s killer goes free — but Kyle knows who
told her he died instantly. She could see their lies. they are. He tells Emily. She takes their children. She’s never
Two nights later, she started clearing out Kyle’s belongings. fast. It takes her at least four days to torture and kill one of
She hadn’t worked out what she was going to tell Steve and their children, but it’s worth it. She’s sending a message from
Bobby — they were still staying with their grandparents. Taking beyond the grave.
his old pearl-handled straight razor in hand, she heard a whis- Appearance: Emily’s the model of a Stepford wife. There’s
per through her tears. Kyle told her about the driver who had no other way to put it: she’s beautiful. Chin-length blonde
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