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VANIDA QUAKER
Q
NETWORK ZERO FREELANCER
Profession: Artist
Profession:
Organization: Network Zero
Organization:
Mental Attributes:
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3,
Wits 3, Resolve 3
Physical Attributes:
Physical Attributes: Strength 2,
Dexterity 3, Stamina 2
Social Attributes:
Social Attributes: Presence 3,
Manipulation 2, Composure 2
Mental Skills: Academics 2, Computer
Mental Skills:
(Editing) 2, Investigation (Video) 4,
Occult 3
Physical Skills:
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Drive 1,
Stealth (Hiding) 3, Weaponry 1
Social Skills:
Social Skills: Expression (Spoken Word)
2, Persuasion 1, Socialize 1
Merits:
Merits: Allies (University) 3, Fleet of
Foot 3, Meditative Mind, Status (Network
Zero) 1
Willpower:
Willpower: 5
Morality: 7
Morality:
Virtue:
Virtue: Justice
Vice:
Vice: Pride
Initiative:
Initiative: 5
Defense:
Defense: 3
Speed:
Speed: 13
Health:
Health: 7

has collected several dozen examples of what she calls the flaws or software glitches (and some say that’s all they are).
“invisible voices.” In a few instances, she seemed to put an Network Zero hunters in Philadelphia have reported that the
anxious voice to rest by passing its message on to the intended things sometimes appear in or near areas where ghosts have
recipient. Vanida’s increasing obsession with these phenomena, been sighted. Afterwards, the reports state, a ghost that’s been
and her subsequent involvement in Network Zero, has not sighted repeatedly for decades is never seen again; or, if it was
come without cost. Inattentiveness to her studies has caused a particularly active and communicative ghost, it appears as a

her to lose most of her financial aid package, so she’s had to faint blur that speaks only nonsense. Null Mysteriis has found
reduce her course load and take on a string of low-wage jobs. that people with prolonged or repeated exposure to rods and
Returning to more conventional projects is not something orbs sometimes develop problems speaking or writing, or
she’s considering, though. Especially since she can still hear comprehending written or spoken language. Such effects are
the sound of the Weeping Man every night. She believes that temporary, though they’re disturbing to those so affl icted.
until she fi nds out what he wants, she always will. Although (probably) not spirits, rods and orbs exist in
an immaterial, twilight state, and can be harmed by anything
Antagonist: Rods and Orbs that harms such beings. Magic or magical abilities that have
Like ball lightning or a will-o’-the-wisp, these “creatures” other effects on twilight beings — spells for controlling or
seem to straddle the line between mindless phenomenon communicating with a spirit, for example — do not affect
and self-aware beings. A few accounts by spiritualists of the them, however.
early 1900s match their description, but it wasn’t until the Attributes: Power 2–4, Finesse 3, Resistance 3
1990s that consistent reports about them began to appear in Willpower: 5–7

annals of the paranormal. Difficult to see with the unaided Initiative: 6
human eye, they’re sometimes glimpsed as faint shapes on Defense: 3

film or video or with electronic imaging equipment. As Speed: 15
their names imply, they appear as spherical or cylindrical Size: 2
translucent forms that resemble artifacts caused by lens Corpus: 5
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