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M M O N S T E R H U N T I N G I N T H E C I T R O T H E R L Y L O V E
M MONSTER HUNTING IN THE CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
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THERESE ROSS
ANTAGONIST
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 4,
Mental Attributes:
Resolve 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 2 (5/2),
Physical Attributes:
Dexterity 4 (5/6), Stamina 4 (6/5)
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 2,
Social Attributes:
Composure 2
Mental Skills:
Mental Skills: Investigation 2, Medicine 2,
Occult 1
Physical Skills:
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl (Claw) 4,
Stealth 3, Survival (Urban) 3
Social Skills:
Social Skills: Animal Ken (Dogs) 2, Empathy 1,
Intimidation 4, Streetwise 2
Merits:
Merits: Holistic Awareness, Fast Refl exes
2, Fresh Start, Natural Immunity, Toxin
Resistance
Willpower:
Willpower: 6
Morality:
Morality: 6
Virtue:
Virtue: Justice
Vice:
Vice: Pride
Initiative: 8 (9/10)
Initiative:
Defense: 4
Defense:
Speed:
Speed: 11 (15/16)
Health:
Health: 9 (13/9)
Dread Powers: Dread Attack (Claw, Fang) 3, Fury 3, Gremlinize 3
Dread Powers:
Weapons/Attacks:
Weapons/Attacks:
Type Damage Dice Pool
Bite (Dread Attack) 3 (L) 12 (Hybrid)/10 (Wolf)
Claw (Dread Attack) 3 (L) 12 (Hybrid)
reorganize and take the offensive. For their part, hunters of activity left behind some kind of psychic fallout. Perhaps
North Philly talk about a huge, gray-furred wolf-beast that’s the building itself was in some sense bereaved by its reversal

missing an eye. Drop your weapons and flee, the story goes, of fortune. For whatever reason, the Factory called out to a

and the monster will not pursue; try to fight and it will tear locus beyond space and time, a deeply wounded non-place
you to pieces in a heartbeat. that occultists call the Abyss. The Factory’s loneliness and
brokenness resonated with that crack in reality and drew
Location: The Old Factory down its weird power. Now the Factory uses that power to do
For over 100 years, the building was home to one what it once did: to assemble, to construct, to create.
manufacturing concern or other; its vast machines churned In place of the steam whistle that once summoned its
out everything from barrel staves to buttons to extruded plastic workers to the line, the Factory emits a subtle, steady signal
multi-lumen tubing. Then shifting patterns of economy and that calls to those who feel broken in body or spirit, those
production sucked the life from the industrial complexes who wish to be made into something new or greater. And
of North Philly, and the Factory became one more rusting, they come, they find a way into the bowels of the Factory,

crumbling hulk in a blighted urban dead zone. But the half- they subject themselves to peculiar machinery and painful
collapsed behemoth isn’t as lifeless as it seems. On some nights, reconstruction. Some remain, serving the Factory and
weird vibrations can be felt in the empty lots and abandoned protecting the machines. Others stagger away, trying to make

row homes around it. A flickering blue briefly illuminates one a new life to match their altered bodies and doctored minds.
or more windows. A faint hum, like atonal music, emanates Hunters are as yet unaware of the Factory’s existence. But
from somewhere deep within. Perhaps its years of bustling some have encountered the woman whose clockwork bird-
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