Tortured Soul

== Attributes ==
 STR: 125 INT: 30
 
 AGL: 95 WLP: 35
 
 DEX: 75 FTH: 25
 
 REF: 85 FOC: 75
 
 FOR: 180 PSY: 20
 
 PER: 15 LCK: 10
 
 FEAR: 90
== Abilities ==
*Alter Reality (40)
*Antitime (60)
*Appear (70)
*Apport (60)
*Astral Drag (90)
*Curse (60)
*Curse Location (65)
*Curse Object (70)
*Damnation (80)
*Darkness (Power) (110)
*Disfiguration (80)
*Dreamscaping (90)
*Enthrall (60)
*Hallucination (80)
*Hellgate (40)
*Hound (200)
*Madness (Power) (60)
*Magick (110)
*Mind Reading (80)
*Misdirect Portal (80)
*Phasing (180)
*Realm of Fear (80)
*Realm of Madness (80)
*Secret Knowledge (90)
*Temporal Distortion (80)
== Characteristics ==
*Aura of Dread
*Damned
*Dark Vision
*Electronic Disruption
*EMF Source
*Heightened Senses
*Image Burn
*Immortality
*Needs Nothing
*Oddly Appealing
*Single Purpose - Punish sinners
*Spectral Entity
*Spiritual Interaction
*Superhuman Strength
*Superhuman Speed
*Undead
*Variable Substantiation
== Description ==
This Sisyphean entity is the soul of a person being punished for eternity, bound to repeat the same actions while being horribly tormented. Their bodies are kept physical in the afterlife so they can experience physical as well as mental and spiritual torture. They are often sliced, flayed, filleted, and bound with sharp wire in many different torturous ways.
== Location ==
Tortured Souls normally travel wherever they can to punish those who helped them find themselves in their current terrible predicament.
== Modus Operandi ==
A Tortured Soul appears one year after they died, normally by being summoned by someone who doesn’t know any better. They will murder this person violently, and bathing in their blood will regenerate them, so they often keep it somewhere safe and return there nightly. They will then seek out everyone that contributed to the life that caused them to be tortured in the afterlife and destroy them in similar ways, bringing their bodies to the place where they are hiding and adding their flesh and blood to their current supply. They continue until there is no one else, and then they will begin to do the same to anyone they see, envying their life and vitality. They will never stop.
== Neutralization ==
Tortured Souls can be neutralized with magick, but it requires keeping them inside the magick circle the entire time the one-hour-long ritual is taking place. This is, unfortunately, the only  way to defeat a Tortured Soul. For non-magicians to defeat them, the information can most likely be obtained (very difficultly) from a grimoire (check the library!), and the rituals most likely can be followed without knowing magick. Unfortunately, this will probably drain the Psyche at a rate of 1d10, PERMANENTLY, for every terrible step the caster must undertake.
== Story Seed ==
A famous mob boss dies in a shootout between his and a rival gang. In the months to follow, the city is pleased to hear that most of his lieutenants begin to die every few days. However, once the entire organization has been brought to its knees, people living in the apartment complex next door to the boss’ old hideout begin to die horribly.
Category:Creatures
Category:ESPER