¶ Background
Rudy Holcomb, a stringy teenager with furious eyebrows and a penchant for living dangerously, couldn't remember life before her durance. Everything, as far as Ruby could remember, began in the womb of the desert sun. A retched stench. The metallic smell of blood. The wreak of fear and persistent wrath churning like a slushy of shit in her chest.
Deprived of food, water, and sanity, she remembered long days of fasting. Like a convent of nuns, her fellow flock huddled in a sorrowful row to stay warm at night, their plucked feathers useless against the wind that wrapped itself into every corner of the nest. It was on these nights when the madness struck. One by one they'd jump from the nest, praying that their pathetic plume of down would lift them safely into the dark, black sky. Then, the final thump and crunch of body hitting ground. After a rough night- a night when Ruby considered making the jump herself- she decided it was time to get out by any means necessary.
Some consider manipulation of game of wits and strategy, but Ruby preferred the metaphor of a horse's reins. Sometimes "pulling the reins" required insistent flattery. Other times Ruby relied on her "girlish" charm. But, on the night that she finally escaped the Vulture, she put a righteous, piteous and short-lived bout of fear into the garbage birdman, before grabbing his neck scruff and steering his head into a wall.
The garbage heap was filled with unmentionable horrors, but these horrors were liquid and squishy- the type of horror that would break a fall. So Ruby squeezed herself into a sack of filth and rolled over the side of the nest and into the canopy below.
Escaping from the Vulture's menu wasn't simple, escaping from her ranks was nearly impossible- and yet- Ruby stood at the bottom of the grotesque tree-tower, sinew and grime coating her hair, nails, and ear canals. But she didn't mind. She was free.
Age: 18
Apparent Age: 18
Date of Birth: May 2nd, 1972
Date Taken: August 19th, 1990
Hair: Dark Brown, Knotted
Eyes: Dark Brown
Race: Caucasian/ medium skin tone
Nationality: American
Height: 6"1
Weight: 160-170
Sex: F
¶ Illustration
¶ Character Sheet
AVAILABLE XP: 59
EXPENDED XP: ~603
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Wrath
Concept: Retched Grunge Youth
Seeming: Beast
Kith: Hunterheart
Court: Summer
MAX HEALTH: 10
MAX WILLPOWER: 7
WYRD: 5 (Perception -1)
GLAMOUR: Max (14); Per Turn: (5)
CLARITY: 6
Entitlement:
Size: 5 (Humanoid)
Speed: 12
Defense: 2
Armor: 1 (against bashing from Aggressive Strike; against lethal and bashing from Berserker)
Initiative Mod: 6
¶ Attributes
| Intelligence* | O | Strength | OOOOO | Presence | O |
| Wits | OO | Dexterity | OOO | Manipulation | OOOO |
| Resolve | OOOO | Stamina | OOOOO | Composure | OOO |
*no 10 again on int rolls
¶ Skills
-4 unskilled (from seeming)
| MENTAL | SPECIALTIES | DOTS | NOTES |
| Academics | |||
| Computer | |||
| Crafts | O | ||
| Investigation | Scavenging | OOO | |
| Medicine | |||
| Occult | O | ||
| Politics |
OO | ||
| Science |
-1 unskilled
| PHYSICAL |
SPECIALTIES |
DOTS |
NOTES |
| Athletics |
Talons | OOOOXXX | |
| Brawl |
All-Out-Attack | OOOOOXX | |
| Drive |
O | ||
| Firearms |
OOO | ||
| Larceny |
|||
| Stealth |
OOXXX | |
|
| Survival |
OO | ||
| Weaponry |
-1 unskilled
| SOCIAL |
SPECIALTIES |
DOTS |
NOTES |
| Animal Ken |
Scavengers^ | OOO | 8 again |
| Empathy |
OOXX | ||
| Expression |
O | ||
| Intimidation |
Angered | OOOO | |
| Persuasion |
O | ||
| Socialize |
OOO | ||
| Streetwise |
|||
| Subterfuge |
OX |
^from kith
¶ Contracts
Fang and Talon OOOOO
Fleeting Summer OOO
Eternal Summer OOO
Stone OOOO
Dream OOO
Elements (Air) OOO
Darkness OO
Wild OOO
Spellbound Autumn O
¶ Merits
Mantle (Summer) OO
Iron Stomach OO
Aggressive Strike OOOO
Berserker OOOO
Aikido OO
Combat Marksmanship OOO
Brawling Dodge O
Meditative Mind O
Direction Sense O
Resources XX
Danger Sense XX
Contact (Fitness) XX
New Identity XX
Hollow (Detroit) O
Hollow (Home) O
Iron Stamina OOO
Old Gaelic O
¶ Seeming
SEEMING BLESSING: 8 again when using animal ken skill/ specialty with scavengers when using animal ken/ can add glamour to dice pools involving presence and composure
SEEMING CURSE: -4 to untrained mental skills/ do't re-roll 10s on INT rolls
KITH ABILITY: Tooth and Claw- can inflict lethal damage when fighting unarmed
¶ Tokens
¶ Glamour Bank (10/20 Successes)
It's a brown rabbits foot. Kinda funky smelling. Patchy in places.
Action: Instant (cannot spend glamour to retrieve)
Mien: The skin melts away and reveals dark black bones.
Drawback: *unofficial* Feeling what the rabbit felt before it was run over by a semi, you are frozen in fear. -1 dexterity for the scene. OR speed halved for a scene.
Catch: *unofficial* The rabbit's etherial form comes to take its revenge and scratches at the user causing the same number of bashing as glamour retrieved.
¶ Ruby Inspirations
leather jackets
rust smell
making bad decisions
motorcycle rumble
big dogs
tousled hair
sharp objects (e.g. claws)
flea markets
loud raspy voices
nostalgia
feeling full
vengeance?
snap decisions
sarcasm
gossip
high places (e.g. cliff sides)
gun smoke
songs out of key
striking matches
avoidant behaviors
bad crowds
talking the talk
empty pools
drunken nights
false sense of security
fighting friends
misdemeanor
walking tornado
rooftops
high winds
low-stakes competition
roulet
scraped up knees
wrinkled clothes
holes in the wall
shitty grammar
writing in all caps
tears of frustration
cheap beer
trailer trash
sleep in the day
clenched fists
steel toe boots
running away
relentless
driving too fast
not giving a shit
bonfires
shattering glass
wildflowers in concrete
aching hands
procrastination
dark eye circles
sad songs
herringbone
bruised bloody knuckles
*She is someone who talks the talk but is generally avoidant of her problems and doesn't know how to handle most situations.