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perfect, until Anne got pregnant. At first they were elated. paranoid and suspicious of everyone he meets, as though he
But complications arose, and she needed to go to the doctor is losing his grip on which time he is living in at any moment.
for regular checkups. Wesley got the first of a series of strange Storytelling Hints: Wesley must kill while time traveling.
phone calls during the second of these visits, while he and He isn’t stupid about it, but it must always be at the same time
Anne sat out in the doctor’s waiting area. The voice sounded and in the same way. He is evasive and tries to keep other
familiar, though at the time he couldn’t place it. people out of his problems. Wesley loses sleep over what he
“Don’t let them take Anne to the blue room,” it said des- has done, but it gets easier the more he does it. Normally,
perately. When Wesley tried to learn more the line went dead. he picks a victim at random to satiate his desire to kill. He
He told Anne about the phone call. When he mentioned the has killed once or twice in the present to deal with someone
blue room, she was just as confused as he had been. Wesley who caught him in the future, which prevents it from ever
received the same phone call with the same message three happening. Wesley would love to seek help for his problem,
more times over the course of four weeks before the day but he doesn’t know who to turn to or trust. He is afraid of
Anne started bleeding. They rushed to the emergency room going to jail for these crimes, especially because he isn’t sure
and the doctors told Wesley it was a miscarriage. They would that prison could keep him from committing them.
have to perform surgery to remove the placenta. Heartbroken, Wesley is The Key (p. 208). Perhaps in some yet-unseen
he waited with Anne until the doctors came to prep her for future version of himself, he knows that his power and his
surgery. They assured him that everything was going to be orders come from the God-Machine. As it stands, he is trying
fine, that Anne would be fine; the surgery was minor and she to reinvent himself so that he has always been The Key, and
could go home that night. As they wheeled her away, Wesley then maybe Anne would never have met him.
could see that the surgery room was painted a sedate blue
color. Panic gripped Wesley and he tried to fight the doctors, Virtue: Generous
but they just ignored him and had orderlies restrain him until Vice: Untrustworthy
he could no longer see his wife. He never saw her alive again.
Wesley was devastated by the death of his wife, and he never Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 4,
forgave himself for letting her go to the blue room. Resolve 3
After Anne died, his life started to fall apart. He lost sec- Physical Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 3,
tions of time and began to experience déjà vu. He told his Stamina 4
mother about the problem, and she tried to keep an eye on Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3,
him, but it wasn’t easy on her. She told him that he would Composure 4
disappear at night and come back covered in blood. At first he Mental Skills: Computer 2, Investigation 2,
didn’t believe her, but she forced him to wake up the second Medicine (Anatomy) 1, Occult 2
time it happened, and he saw the blood for himself. Wesley Physical Skills: Athletics 1, Brawl 2, Drive 1,
decided that sleeping was what was causing it, but he learned Stealth 3 (Staying Quiet), Weaponry (Knives) 4
quickly that this was not the case. He was time traveling, or
traveling through space and time, he wasn’t sure which. Once Social Skills: Intimidation 3, Persuasion 2,
Socialize 2, Streetwise 3, Subterfuge 2
he started paying attention to what was happening, he could
remain aware of himself on these sojourns. Merits: Cheap Shot, Fast Reflexes 1, Quick Draw
However, this is what broke Wesley. He had control over (Melee), Resources 2, Shiv 3, Street Fighting 4
himself, but when he went into different times, he had a mis- Health: 9
sion and he knew it. He had to kill. He didn’t know how he Willpower: 7
knew it, but it was nearly instinctual. Once he completed the
task, he would return to his time and be free again for a while. Integrity: 2
Wesley drew a sketchy connection between the start of Size: 5
the time traveling and the death of Anne and decided that Speed: 12
her death was the cause of his problems. That was when he Defense: 4
started trying to call himself whenever he was in the same
time to warn him not to let Anne go into the blue room. Initiative: 8
As he kills more often, however, he loses track of the gentle
man and good husband he was. And as the future Wesley WEST NAUTICAL 36
travels back in time and gives lessons in temporal manipula-
tion, murder, and body disposal to teenage Wesley, present
Wesley wonders if the good man ever existed. North Sea oil platform.
Description: Wesley is a pale, gaunt man with dirty blond Background: Arnold Diefenbach worked for an oil
hair and gray-blue eyes, shadowed from lack of sleep. He is an company that specialized in offshore drilling. He spent eight
intense man whose gaze unnerves those who look at him for months out of the year on the oil platform West Nautical 36,
too long. He smells of old blood and decay, as though he can monitoring oil purity and refinement. He thought of West
never wash away the evidence of his deeds. He always seems Nautical 36 as his home. He would find himself anticipating
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