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“SHAKES”
Mental
Mental: Intelligence 2, Wits 4, Resolve 2
Physical
Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 4, Stamina 2
Social
Social: Presence 3, Manipulation 3,
Composure 2
Mental Skills:
Mental Skills: Crafts 1, Investigation 2,
Medicine 1, Occult 1
Physical Skills:
Physical Skills: Athletics (Flee) 3,
Larceny (Pickpocket) 4, Survival 1
Social Skills:
Social Skills: Empathy 2, Expression 2,
Persuasion 1, Socialize 3, Streetwise 1,
Subterfuge 1
Merits
Merits: Allies (other changelings) 3,
Danger Sense, Direction Sense, Fleet of
Foot 3
Willpower: 4
Willpower:
Morality
Morality: 7
Virtue
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Sloth
Vice
Health
Health: 7
Initiative
Initiative: 6
Defense: 2
Defense
Speed: 14
Speed
Dread Powers
Dread Powers: New Face 2, Lurker in Darkness
2, Strange Form (Ice-encased limbs, +3
Dexterity, +1 Strength) 2
Special
Special
Knock, Knock: Shakes can use any door to earn her escape. She simply knocks
Knock, Knock:
on the door, spends a Willpower point and steps through. Hunters might see
a glimpse of thorns or a dark forest, but if they follow through, they go
wherever the door is supposed to go (bathroom, closet, outside, whatever).
Shakes, though, went…somewhere else. She can appear out of any door this way,
too, though only doors she’s actually been through previously.
to entomb her with all the others she could see, their breath cloud- telling her story, not when someone asks. She cries hot tears

ing the ice, smeared by fingerprints and desperate faces. and she opens her heart, and her poor audience can’t help
He never did, though. She never gave him the chance. but listen and feel the icy stab in their own heart. Is she just
th
One day, her 17 birthday, she snapped off one of the angel’s manipulating them? Or is she honestly this sad?
icicle toes and stabbed herself through the heart with it. Her
heart’s blood was red and hot and endless. It melted away the The Reanimated
floors and the prisoners and all of her prison, and Camilla

Some things should not be attempted.
found herself shivering not far from home.
This is the deal: sometimes, a rough semblance of life can
Appearance: In her own washed-out way, Shakes is beautiful.
be charged into a days-dead corpse or even a collection of ill-
The dishwater hair, the dreamy eyes, the skin that never seems to
stitched parts, and that monster will tear its way free from the

blemish. And she’s little, too — five foot two and rounded in a way
examination table, and smart money says that the creature
that makes everybody want to look out for her.
won’t be happy. It doesn’t know who it is or where it came
Storytelling Hints: Shakes still has the icicle in her
from; it only knows that somehow, the spark of life has been
heart. That’s probably why she shivers. Or maybe it’s because
cast into it and yet the soul to go with it hasn’t. They’re hol-
she knows what happens when she opens up. She can’t resist
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