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The Mirror People

“Look at me.”
Background: You’ve been told that mirrors work How many things within arm’s reach can reflect your
on principles of reflected light. Maybe, if you’re of image? A bedroom mirror? Your smartphone? What
a superstitious bent, you believe they show you your about the glass fronting that framed photo of your
soul. Maybe you’ve heard that breaking a mirror family? Once you’ve got their attention, the Mirror
brings bad luck, or that an uncovered mirror can People can follow you through any of them. And
steal the soul of the recently dead. once you’ve got their attention, you can bet they
will.
Most of the time, that’s all true. But some mirrors
— and no one can really say which, or why — are Attributes: Mirror People have the same Attributes
different. Sometimes the light you see coming out of as the person they mimic. If their victim’s Strength is
a mirror isn’t reflected at all, but shining out of the lower than 4, the Mirror Person has a Strength of 4.
Place on the Other Side. It’s a world as full of life
and energy as our own, but it only exists when it’s Skills: Mirror People have the same Skills as the
being observed. When no one’s looking, it’s just a person they mimic.
void of unreality. Our doubles cluster at the mir- Merits: Mirror People have the same Merits as the
rors, hungry for those few moments a day when we person they mimic.
brush our teeth or check our makeup. Mostly they’re
content to mimic us, or maybe that’s all they can do, Potency: 3
but every once in a while the membrane of silvered Willpower: 6*
glass thins. Stare at your reflection too long in a dim
room, or catch it out of the corner of your eye, and Virtue: Patient
they can come through. And oh, they want to come Vice: Spiteful
through. They want to exist when nobody’s looking,
to be really, wholly real, and they don’t care who Aspiration: To exist.
they have to drag screaming into the Place on the Initiative: 7*
Other Side to get there.
Defense: 4*
Description: They look just like you. Just like you,
only ever so subtly flipped on the long axis. If you’re Speed: 15*
left-handed, they’re right handed. That mole on Health: 4*
your right cheek is on their left. If you cut them open,
you’ll find that they suffer from situs inversus totalis: Bans: Mirror People can only cross into our world
mirrored internal organs. But then, so do about one when their double sees her reflection do something
in ten thousand people born right here on earth, unexpected in dim light.
so you have to look for more than that to tell them
for what they are. Like when their smiles warp into Banes: Shards of the mirror they came through
funhouse horror masks, limbs stretching like images Dread Powers: Chameleon Horror, Snare,
in rippled glass, reaching out to seize and drag and Surprise Entrance
stuff you back through grandma’s old gilt-framed
Victorian. Because just one of them escaping is Weapons/Attacks:
never enough. They want to bring all their brothers
and sisters through with them. Type Damage Range Dice Pool

Storytelling Hints: You’d think they’d be easy to Grapple 0B Melee 8*
avoid. Just stay away from reflective surfaces, right?
Easier said than done, especially in the modern * These values replace those of the person the
post-industrial world. Look around you right now. Mirror Person imitates

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