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in a number of practical talents. She has seven dots to spend in this category. Alyson puts
two dots each in Brawl and Survival, explaining that her sire took her into the wild early on
and taught her the basics of combat and wilderness lore. She then puts one dot each into
Athletics, Stealth and Weaponry. Maggie still runs with her clan members from time to time
and has also learned when to keep still or move quietly when she must. Alyson says that her
knack for Weaponry comes mostly from her mortal days, when she was fascinated with all
things ancient and used to belong to a medieval re-creation society. She’s a bit rusty, but she
stills remembers the basics.
Finally, Alyson needs to assign four dots to the Mental group. Seeing Peter’s quizzical look,
Alyson explains that although she considered herself quite studious during her breathing days,
most of what Maggie learned turned out to be completely wrong, especially regarding the supernatural.
Maggie has been attempting to re-learn a lot of material, but fortunately her Social
Skills have kept other people from spotting the gaps in her knowledge for the time being. She
puts two dots into Maggie’s Occult Skill, refl ecting what she’s been able to absorb since her
Embrace and her subsequent mystical studies. She’s no rube when it comes to the unnatural,
but she’s still got a lot to learn. She puts another dot into Academics, refl ecting the incidental
forays into history, theology and sociology that Maggie has taken in the course of her lessons.
She’d like it to be a little higher, since Maggie was pretty scholarly in life, but reconciles it with
the knowledge that Maggie has let her other pursuits lapse in favor of her Occult leanings. Her
last dot goes into Investigation, which Alyson sees as a combination of Maggie’s new vampiric
senses and her natural curiosity more than any kind of formal training.
STEP FOUR: SKILL SPECIALTIES
Now that Alyson has assigned Maggie’s Skill dots, she needs to decide where to place her
three Skill specialties. Glancing over the Skills she has chosen, she singles out Occult, Academics
and Persuasion as the most refi ned. Focusing on Occult fi rst, Alyson decides that Maggie
has devoted a lot of time to Celtic mystical traditions. This, indeed, will be the framework
for her new belief system, so she notes “Celtic Mysticism” for her Occult specialty. Likewise,
Maggie has also done a lot of mundane research on the lives and epics of the ancient Celts,
so she makes that her specialty in Academics as well. Regarding Persuasion, Alyson thinks
for a while, and then suggests “Religious Oratory” as her specialty, explaining that Maggie is
normally very convincing, but when she’s speaking from her faith, she’s even more compelling.
Peter looks over these choices and approves them, and Alyson moves on to the next step.
STEP FIVE: VAMPIRE TEMPLATE
Since Peter is allowing his players to choose the circumstances of their Embrace, Alyson now
has to decide what clan and covenant Maggie will belong to. Starting with her clan, Alyson thinks
about choosing Clan Mekhet for Maggie, fi guring it would suit her mystical studies very well,
but instead settles on Clan Gangrel, deciding to focus more on her character’s primal passions
and the deep-rooted sense of self-reliance that has driven her throughout her life and unlife.
Next it’s time to think about her covenant, or where Maggie fi ts into Kindred society. At fi rst
she thinks about the Ordo Dracul — their teachings about vampiric evolution appeal to some
of her character’s beliefs — but on closer inspection, she decides that the pagan mysticism of
the Circle of the Crone fi ts Maggie even better. Aware that all too many games suffer from a
very muddled idea of what is really Celtic, much less Celtic mythology, Alyson assures Peter
that she’ll do her homework and make sure Maggie is no stereotype. She has already settled
on the fact that as her chosen face of the Crone, Maggie will venerate Morrigan, a powerful
Celtic goddess, so Alyson resolves to do the requisite research to speak on the subject with
some authority, or at least enough to sound convincing in game.
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