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DUCHENE “DUKE”
MALOVASH
Profession:
Profession: Soldier
Organization: None (formerly Task Force: VALKYRIE)
Organization:
Mental Attributes:
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 3
Physical Attributes:
Physical Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 4
Social Attributes:
Mental Skills: Academics 4 (Field Tactics), Crafts 2 (Improvised Traps),
Mental Skills:
Investigation 3, Medicine 3 (Field Triage), Occult 5 (monster group dynamics),
Politics 3 (US Military)
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl 2, Firearms 4 (Rifl e), Stealth 2, Survival
Physical Skills:
3, Weaponry 3 (Knife)
Social Skills:
Social Skills: Intimidation 2, Persuasion 2 (Orders), Subterfuge 2
Merits:
Merits: Contacts (Task Force: VALKYRIE) 1, Fast Refl exes 2, Quick Draw,
Unseen Sense
Willpower: 7
Willpower:
Morality: 5
Morality:
Virtue:
Virtue: Prudence
Vice:
Vice: Sloth
Initiative:
Initiative: 9
Defense: 3
Defense:
Speed: 12
Speed:
Health:
Health: 7
Weapons/Attacks:
Weapons/Attacks:
Type
Dice Pool
Type Damage Damage Range Range Dice Pool Special Special
5(L)
200/400/800
Rifl e 5(L) 200/400/800 13 - -
Rifl e
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tique weapon, he’s still capable of causing great harm. Duke Over the years, Duke’s once-flagging Morality has slowly
still sports the high-and-tight crew cut he wore throughout returned to a fairly normal human level. He’s regained most of
his military career. His skin is leathery and mottled with sun- his sanity along with it, and it’s possible that characters who
spots where it has been exposed to decades of harsh climates, approach him for advice may be able to receive information

and pasty fish-white where it has not. His eyes are as sharp as or education from him, although it would take something
they ever were, and he looks at the world over an eagle-beak pretty significant (like having the identity and whereabouts

of a nose that he once claimed had the ability to “smell trou- of Geri’s killer presented to him) in order to spur him back
ble coming.” Both upper arms have been marked with now- into physical action once more.
blurred purple-blue ink tattoos: the eagle, globe and anchor
of the Corps on the right, and a pin-up of a woman in a grass Rogue Hunters
skirt (demure by today’s standards) on the left.
The hunt requires dedication and focus. Sometimes, espe-
Storytelling Hints: After his wife’s death, Duke left Task
cially for those hunters who belong to compacts and conspira-
Force: VALKYRIE, but he still lives in the tiny town and the
cies, something happens to shake that devotion to the Vigil.
little house that he and Geri had retired to after the Marine
Perhaps they’re pulled in another direction, perhaps they lose
Corps. To those who have no idea about his past, Duke’s little
faith in the hunt, or they’re caught in the web of infl uence of
more than a feature of the town. He goes about his daily busi-
someone (or something) that deviates from their path. Regard-
ness with an automaton’s precision. Inevitably, every few years

less of the reason, they find themselves no longer going in the
someone from the Task Force stumbles across his existence and
same direction as their former cell members and organizational
seeks him out for “just one more job.” His answers are always
higher-ups. Some retire from the hunt in this case (see Duke
the same. He’s done with the hunt. He’s left the killing and the
Malovash as an example, above), but others just find that their

death behind him. Unfortunately for Duke, he seems to have
Vigil shifts, attaining a new or additional focus.
left any enjoyment he got out of life behind as well.
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