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WANdERINg mONSTERS
IMP
Virtue: Patient
Vice: Selfish
Lineage: Frankenstein
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 5, Dexterity 3,
Stamina 4
Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 3,
Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics 3, Crafts (Body Parts)
4, Investigation 1, Medicine (Anatomy) 2,
Occult 4, Science 3
Physical Skills: Athletics 2, Brawl 2, Larceny
2, Stealth 2, Weaponry (Machete) 3
Social Skills: Intimidation (Creepy) 3,
Streetwise 2
Merits: Ambidextrous, Double-Jointed, Potency 3
Health: 9
Dread Powers: Absorb Energy (Electricity) 5,
Dead Flesh 5, Degradation 3, Revelation 3,
Revivify 1, Spare Parts, Titan’s Strength 2
Potency: 2
Aspirations: Find a better body part, Suc-
cessfully add a part to her brain, Avoid de-
tection
Willpower: 7
Size: 5
Speed: 13
Defense: 6
Initiative: 6
Armor:
Notes: Imp has a Dread Power called Spare Parts, which allows her to take fresh, non-
decayed human body parts and use them to replace parts of her own body. By doing so, she
can rearrange her Physical Attributes. She needs a supply of body parts, some means of
attaching them, and two hours of work per dot she wishes to shift. Heavy duty thread and
a needle work — the alchemical magic holding her together does the rest.
Description: Walter is beautiful. He has a sleek swimmer’s Alternately, the hunters might run across Walter after he
body, chestnut-brown hair and mirthful brown eyes. His hands has learned the unfortunate truth about Disquiet. When that
are delicate, and his teeth are perfect and white. A tattoo in happens, Walter might try to accrue wealth and comfort at the
blue script, beginning on his left wrist and running up his arm, expense of his lovers’ sanity or lives; the characters might en-
across his back, and down his right arm, reads, “The armies of counter him after following a string of high-profile men who’ve
those I love engirth me, and I engirth them.” either committed suicide or have been reported missing.
When Walter’s disfigurements show, all the perfection goes
away. His teeth are ill-fitting and wiggle noticeably when he speaks. Imp
The tattoo on his arms and back distorts, becoming a random col-
lection of squiggles. His hands and feet seem too small for his body, Not right. Not right. I think it’s my foot. Right one bigger. Not
and his left eye becomes noticeably larger and darker than his right. right. Yours are same size. Hold still.
Storytelling Hints: Walter wants to be loved. He truly Prometheans can’t have children, but that doesn’t mean they
loved his creator, and it was this love that allowed him to learn can’t reproduce. One can create another. Sometimes they get it
much more about the human world than most Prometheans wrong and the body breaks apart into monsters. Sometimes they
manage in a very short time. Perhaps ironically, though, he get it right, but they still get it wrong — and get something like Imp.
doesn’t know much about how to be a Promethean — he re- Imp — short for “Imperfect,” but she doesn’t know that — was
mains unaware of the harsh reality of Disquiet, simply assum- created by a Promethean on his way to achieving humanity. At
ing that all relationships are doomed. least, he thought so. Figuring that all he had left to do was make a
If one of the characters is of suitable temperament, Walter new monster, he slapped together some body parts, performed the
might approach him as a lover or a muse. Walter has expensive alchemical working, and was delighted to see his creation rise. He
tastes, however. even stayed around to help her through her first few awkward days,
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