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her formidable personality and the supernatural talents to back them up, Peter agrees that it is
likely she would have made a strong impression by now, and approves this purchase of Covenant
Status. Not seeing any Flaws that she likes, Maggie is fi nished purchasing with this section.
STEP SEVEN: ADVANTAGES
Once the numerical statistics have been decided upon, Alyson must determine her
character’s advantages. Adding her Resolve and Composure, she records a Willpower score
of 5 on her character sheet. Her Humanity score starts at the standard 7, and Alyson chooses
Fortitude as Maggie’s Virtue and Wrath as her Vice. (A true believer, Maggie is willing to
endure a great deal in the name of her faith. When angered, she has a nasty tendency to
exhort her followers to destroy that which displeases her.)
Adding her Size factor of 5 to her Stamina, Alyson determines that Maggie has eight dots of
Health, and draws a dark vertical line to the right of the eighth box on the Health Chart. Combining
her Dexterity with her Composure, she determines her Initiative to be 4, and notes her
Defense of 2, as her Dexterity is lower than her Wits. Finally, she notes the standard Acting Speed
of 5, and adds her Strength + Dexterity + 5 to fi nd her Running Speed, which she records as 9.
She asks Pete if he is using the optional rule regarding awarding additional experience during
character creation, and he tells her that he doesn’t plan on doing so. He wants the characters
to be relatively weak when the game begins, the better to intensify their scramble for power.
STEP EIGHT: SPARK OF UNLIFE
Alyson has a pretty good grasp of her character at this point, at least conceptually, but the
specifi c details of appearance and relationships are still a bit hazy. She looks over the questions
on p. 119 to further round out some of the specifi cs regarding Maggie’s background.
She decides that Maggie was an only child who came from a relatively normal middle-class
family. She grew up in a suburb across the river from Philadelphia, where she developed
from a bookish child into a rather serious student of the occult. Enduring the usual fi ghts
with her parents over what they saw as her increasingly deviant beliefs, she was eventually
kicked out of the house and went to live in a small communal home with a number of her
pagan friends. Always interested in learning for its own sake, she managed to scrape together
enough money working various jobs to go to community college part-time, and was close to
getting her degree in history when she was Embraced. Finding the time to fi nish school and
receive her degree is still one of her goals, though the harsh demands of the Requiem are
rapidly smothering that particular fl ame.
From early adolescence on, Maggie’s defi ning relationships have been in the context of her
pagan beliefs. Although at fi rst an avid reader and practitioner of many well-known modern
texts, she became increasingly disillusioned with the rites she encountered. Her search led
to her meeting Daron, the woman who would eventually be her sire, whom she fi rst spotted
sitting away from the fi re at a drum circle one summer night. Though somewhat necessarily
distant due to the fact that Daron is a Carthian with only passing interest in the Old Ways,
Alyson decides the two still keep in touch from time to time, and may even do favors for each
other every so often. As for romance, Alyson fi gures that Maggie always avoided any serious
relationships in favor of pursuing her studies as a priestess, a decision she regrets now that
her mortal life has ended. She tries to make up for this by throwing herself into the politics
of her clan and covenant and telling herself it was for the best.
As the chronicle starts, Maggie has altered her previous life to suit her undead condition, keeping
those friends and resources she needs to fuel her occult studies while discarding many of her
unnecessary ties to her old life. Alyson notes that combined with her rising interest in Crúac, this
callous attitude toward her mortal friends and contacts does not bode well for Maggie’s Humanity.
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