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be North African, Greek, Turkish, or Sicilian, depending Weapons/Attacks:
on who you ask. She dresses in a cheap-looking, apparently
store-bought princess costume, the kind that consists of a Type Damage Range Dice Pool
pink leotard, tutu, and conical hat with gauzy veils streaming Shark Bite 3L Melee 14 dice
from the tip. She’s usually encountered innocently playing Dread Powers: Hypnotic Voice, Natural
and humming to herself someplace where her life could be Weapons •••
threatened at any moment: places like active construction
sites, shipping yards, or truck depots. She never speaks to Rachel Hrafn
anyone, and when her victims are lured in close and she
prepares to feed, it’s easy to see why: her eyes roll back in her I remember what you did.
head till they show only white, her face splits open nearly to Background: It made the local papers, back in 1995. A lo-
the ears, and she opens a maw filled with row upon row of cal activist for the homeless, Rachel Hrafn, and her boyfriend
jagged, razor-sharp teeth. For such a little girl, she can still were brutally murdered in a home invasion gone awry. Police
consume a full grown adult in just a few gulping, rending never found the culprit, and after a couple of weeks with no
bites, leaving nothing behind but a smear of blood. developments the news cycle moved on and the investiga-
Storytelling Hints: Pretty, Pretty Princess is a straightfor- tion fell into the cold case cabinet at SPD. In time, no one
ward Horror. She doesn’t have any real hidden layers, she just even remembered the crime — except for Rachel herself. Her
wants to hunt and kill and eat. Like most such monsters, she restless spirit raged for years, anchored to her bones, until
works best when she’s turned loose on a group of characters something intervened. Whether it was the hand of a higher
in an isolated, contained environment from which there is power, a random mystical convergence, or a side effect of
no escape. From her siren days, she still harbors a fondness the splintered timelines that sometimes appear in Seattle,
for places associated with sea travel and trade as hunting some force stuffed her soul back into her body, restored it
grounds, so she might stalk the night shift staff of one of to a semblance of health and vigor, and imbued her with a
those freeway truck stops in the middle of nowhere: once singular drive: to avenge herself on her killers.
Pretty, Pretty Princess shreds the tires or the fuel hoses of Rachel’s murder was, of course, not a simple home inva-
the trucks parked in the lot, escape becomes a question of a sion gone awry. It was a conspiracy, aimed at silencing her
fifty-mile hike along the freeway or hoping a car comes along opposition to a new zoning law that would have demolished
in the dead of night. Or the crew of a commercial fishing one of the region’s largest tent cities. At the time, the con-
boat might find her adrift in a lifeboat, the sole presumed spirators were city councilmen, local gangs, and construction
survivor of a cruise ship lost at sea. companies, with a smattering of paid-off police officers to
make the whole thing go away. In the twenty years since,
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 4, Wits 4, though, Rachel’s killers have advanced themselves consider-
Resolve 4 ably, both in wealth and power. The shade of Rachel Hrafn
Physical Attributes: Strength 6, Dexterity 2, has its work cut out for it.
Stamina 6 Description: Rachel is a solidly-built woman of above-
Social Attributes: Presence 4, Manipulation 2, average height, who dresses much as she did in life, in the
Composure 2 alternative fashions of the mid-1990s. Though by all rights she
Mental Skills: Crafts 3, Occult 2 should have decomposed to a skeleton by now, whatever force
reanimated her restored her body as well. She is unmistak-
Physical Skills: Athletics 6, Brawl 8 ably dead, with waxy white flesh and petechial hemorrhaging
Social Skills: Expression 6 from her strangulation that has left deep black stains around
Merits: Small-Framed, Grappling ••, Inspiring, her eyes, lips, and throat. Her voice is a low rasp, and she
Sympathetic frequently pauses mid-sentence to swallow painfully.
Storytelling Hints: At first blush, Rachel might seem
Potency: 4 like a sympathetic Horror. After all, she’s just looking to
Willpower: 10 get justice for her murder. But her methods are bloody and
Virtue: “Harmless” sadistic — since she rose from her grave, she’s already killed a
Vice: Hungry half-dozen people in spectacularly brutal ways in her attempts
to find and punish her killers. So far she’s only taken out
Aspiration: To feast. foot soldiers and lackeys; the men and women responsible for
Initiative: 4 her killing are now rich, powerful, and very well protected.
Defense: 8 Even an immortal undead killer might not be able to take
Speed: 12, Swim 24 them on alone.
A precise list of Rachel’s targets isn’t provided, so that
Health: 10 Storytellers can tailor them to her chronicle. The number
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