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having Kalka appear in mirrors or behind corners occasion- Discorporate, and wait 24 hours before reappear-
ally, just out of interest in who these people are. ing (this limitation prevents it from entering the time
stream twice at the same point).
Virtue: Patient Bane: Digital alarm clock sounds.
Vice: Curious
Rank: 2 MIRROR VULTURE
Attributes: Power 5, Finesse 6, Resistance 4
Influence: Time 1, Patience 1 Wake the Dead — p. 214
Corpus: 9 Mission: Some people die before their time. They die
Willpower: 10 by horrible accident or murder and everyone says it was
Size: 5 before their time, or that they were too young to die. The
Speed: 16 God-Machine couldn’t agree more, and since time is of the
Defense: 5 essence, it has sent the Mirror Vulture to find the man who
died before his time. The Mirror Vulture is anything but
Initiative: 10 subtle, but it can cover a large amount of ground quickly.
Armor: None Description: The Mirror Vulture is an immense carrion
Numina: Fate Sense, Hallucination, Innocuous, bird, with a wingspan wider than most SUVs. Its feathers are
Omen Trance, Sign made from dusky, mirrored glass, and its talons are metal that
Manifestation: Discorporate, Materialize, carries an intense, though not fatal, heat. Its eyes are silver
and reflective, but it has perfect eyesight.
Twilight Form Methods: The Mirror Vulture is looking for Lucien
Max Essence: 15 McJack (see p. 244), but Lucien isn’t really himself anymore.
Ban: Kalka can only remain Materialize or in As such, the Vulture only knows it’s looking for a person
Twilight for 71 minutes at a time. It must then that died and then revived, so it’s flying around the area of
Lucien’s death grabbing up the walking corpses,
examining them, and then releasing them. It
doesn’t really care about the walking dead; its
mission is to find McJack as quickly as possible.
The Vulture is aloof and animal-like; it bobs
its head like a bird and isn’t above “feasting”
on the carcass of a fresh kill. Of course, the
angel being what it is, its favorite “fresh kill” is a
newly-wrecked car. It is capable of human speech
and is reasonably intelligent, though it will only
converse with a person if it thinks the person can
help it on its mission. It is capable of combat, but
it would rather fly away if attacked.

Virtue: Precise
Vice: Hungry
Rank: 3
Attributes: Power 6, Finesse 4,
Resistance 5
Influence: Death 3
Corpus: 11
Willpower: 11
Size: 6
Speed: 20
Defense: 6
Initiative: 9
Armor: None

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