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Manifestation: Materialize, Twilight Form Max Essence: 20
Max Essence: 25 Ban: Strait must follow police procedures as long
Ban: Nose shows up in photographs no matter as it maintains this identity.
what state of manifestation it is currently in. Bane: Doughnuts (they represent the comical, ab-
Bane: Latex. surd perception of law enforcement, and as such
can damage its Infrastructure).
OFFICER STRAIT POLIS MEN

The Squares of the City — p. 203
Sister City — p. 201
Mission: Officer Strait was created with the task of facili-
tating the rearrangement and editing of the city in the Tale, Mission: The Polis Men are angels locked into the city of Seattle
The Squares of the City. Its primary task is keeping people itself — both versions, in fact. Their task is to keep the cities separate,
off the streets at night so that they don’t witness the build- and to eliminate anyone that can cross between them. As the cities
ings shifting around — until the characters become involved. merge, this might become impossible, but the Polis Men don’t have
When they start looking into the matter and (worse) find much in the way of agency or free will. They continue following
the rails beneath the city, Strait appears to warn them off. their orders until the cities either merge or are separated completely.
Description: Officer Strait appears as a black man in his Description: The Polis Men are part of the city. They appear
early 30s, who wears a police uniform appropriate to the city from wrought-iron fences, chalk drawings on sidewalk, statues,
in question, but has a patch on his jacket with an intricate, geo- graffiti, and billboards. As such, they can resemble almost any-
metric symbol that other policemen don’t recognize (or even thing. The angels are not actually animating statues or artwork,
acknowledge, unless it is pointed out to them). This symbol is just borrowing their forms temporarily. In their natural forms, Polis
a mystical emblem that helps cement Strait in its role as a cop. Men are humanoid, featureless, and an ugly grayish-green color.
Methods: Strait isn’t an unpleasant fellow, and actu- Methods: These angels aren’t subtle. They chase down
ally performs its job as a cop with enthusiasm and aplomb. offenders and beat them to death with chunks of sidewalk,
However, it is not a human being. It’s an angel, and that throw them into traffic or off of buildings, and otherwise use
means the mission comes first. Its primary concern is keeping the city itself to kill them. They do not speak and they do
people away from the rails and keeping them from witnessing not respond to reason. If their quarry escapes (see the chase
moving buildings at night, and if those orders conflict with rules on p.84) they merge with the city and wait.
“protect and serve,” the orders win out…at least initially.
Strait prefers to avoid violence, but is willing to arrest Virtue: Observant
people and let the courts take care of the problem. It’s also Vice: Violent
willing to shoot people, if necessary, but it’ll dutifully fill out Rank: 1
the paperwork afterwards.
Attributes: Power 4, Finesse 4, Resistance 3
Virtue: Just Influence: Seattle 1
Vice: Procedural Corpus: 8
Rank: 2 Willpower: 7
Attributes: Power 6, Finesse 5, Resistance 5 Size: 5
Influence: Streets 2 Speed: 13
Corpus: 10 Defense: 4
Willpower: 10 Initiative: 7
Size: 5 Armor: 1
Speed: 15 Numina: Blast, Essence Thief, Firestarter
Defense: 5 Manifestation: Discorporate, Materialize,
Twilight Form
Initiative: 10 Max Essence: 10
Armor: Bulletproof vest 1/3 Numina: Left-
Handed Spanner, Seek, Speed Ban: Polis Men can be commanded to stand
down by anyone holding a Seattle (or Old
Manifestation: Discorporate, Materialize, Seattle, depending on where the altercation takes
Twilight Form place) police badge.

Bane: Out-of-state license plate.

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