Tempête Subtile

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**Character Class**: Ranger, Gloom Stalker

Tempête is a 30 year old Tabaxi. She has tan fur, golden eyes and looks like a Mountain lion. She is 5'10" (which is a bit short for a Tabaxi), lean, and has muscular arms from training with her bow. She has a friendly disposition, does her best to listen to other and takes action when she feel it needed.

### Backstory

Tempête was born in Standing Rock in the Pabaksa Tribe. She is an only child to to a Tabaxi mother and a Changeling father (very few people knew his secret and he mostly took the form of a Tabaxi). When she was 4 her small family moved to Montreal, New Quebec for her fathers work. She had a wonderful childhood with loving parents. Her mother thought here everything she needed to know about the Tabaxi customs while her father taught her to use a bow and her Changeling abilities. Her father was assassinated at the age of 9 by a man known as The Coyote.

After her dad was killed, she banded together with her mother to stay strong and get through the tragedy. At school she studied hard and was top of her class. She excelled at tracking, linguistics, and hunting. After school she quickly got recruited by the CPQ at 14. There she surpassed expectations and was soon given harder cases. She is well know and loved in the city for keeping the citizens safe and tackling the cases that the police is unable to.

Throughout all this she never found out why my father was killed but she's determined to discover the truth using her finely honed skills and her connections. Regardless of what has been thrown at her she still remained very spiritual and connected the land thanks to her mothers grounding influence and knowledge.

### Known Associates / Associations

For full details see Known Entities page

* **CPQ - Chasseurs de Primes du Quebec -** Bounty Hunter association located in Montreal, New Quebec. She's been in the association since she's 14 when she got recruited. Her father was also a member before his death.
* **Maxime Lebeau A.K.A Max -** Member of the CPQ. Human male Rogue/Paladin in his late 20's. He's Tempête friend and a fellow Bounty Hunting. Youngest member in history to be honored for his services to the city. He's a handsome womanizer who has her back and makes her laugh. He is one of the few people who know of her shape changing ability.
* **Chloe Laverdure** - Head of the CPQ. Human female Druid in her 60's-70's. She's Tempête boss and total badass. She is very loved and respected in the city Of Montreal.
* **BLBHC - Blue Lake Bounty Hunters of Chicago** - Bounty Hunter association located in Chicago, Great States. Sister organization. Certain members, who respect her greatly, have been helping Tempête track The Coyote.
* **Tide Alabaster** - One of the leaders of the BLBHC. Earth Genasi Gunslinger. He also runs and owns the Establishment the The Violet Hour.
* **Mother** **-** Leader of the Tabaxi peoples. Elder Tabaxi female.

### Known Enemies / Associations

* **The Coffin -** Word renowned Assassins guild. Members speak Abyssal and have lots of fun magical items that help them in their endeavors to kill people
* **Camille Landry -** Green Tiefling with a single side horn. Member of the Coffin. Tempête captured her years 10 ago and put her behind bars for multiple murders. She appears in her first session and tries to kill her.
* **South Paw** - Black Tabaxi with a small white mark on his left cheek. One of the leaders of The Coffin.
* **The Coyote aka John Doe** - Man who killed Tempêtes father.

### Notable Abilities & Items

* **Feline Agility** - Her reflexes and agility allow her to move with a burst of speed. When she moves on her turn in combat, she can double your speed until the end of her turn. Once she use this trait, she can’t use it again until she moves 0 feet on one of her turns.

## Quick Session Recaps

* **Session 1** : **Where she claws a bitch at her own gala -** Recap text goes here
* **Session 2** : **Where she gets almost murdered, again -** Recap text goes here
* **Session 3** : **Where she runs but can't hide from The Coffin -** Recap text goes here
* **Session 4** : **Where she and Max fail to stay low in Chicago -** Recap text goes here

## Full Session Recaps

### Session 1: Where she claws a bitch at her own gala

Starts with Tempête waking up, meditating, leaving the house quietly and doing her daily rounds. When she gets back to the house her mother is awake and they talk about her big night where she is being honored for her work as Bounty hunter in the **CPQ** and protector of Montreal. Her mom then presents her with her fathers old glamoured armor which is enchanted to change to any clothing she want. She thank her mom but realize that she is not feeling well and ask her to go get it checked out. She promises that she will the day after the gala.

Tempête decides to head out and find a secret spot where she change into to a plain looking human female and scope out the venue. The venue is bustling with people and she manages find a spot and stash one of my short swords. she return home to get ready. She glamours her armor to give herself a sleeveless bustier dress in blue with mini Fleur-de-Lys at the bottom and heads to the gala with a short sword strapped to her thigh.

That evening when she arrive at the gala she is greeted by friend and co-worker **Maxime** who jokes around with her that it's about time that she gets honored as he's already been and he's younger than her. He get a phone call as we are talking and he proceeds to tell her that they found **The Coyote** and to be on stand by for news. She's really ecstatic about the news and can't wait to get details. He escorts her in and they get separated as she is told her table is at the front and his in the middle. As she is heading to her table she catches the sigh of an old bounty know as **Camille Landry**, a green Tiefling with one sideways twisted horn who is supposedly in Bordeaux prison, who winks wickedly at her and who then proceeds to sit at **Maxime's** table. She decide to ignore and files it in the back of my mind.

When she arrive at her table she realize that she does not know anyone and they are all looking at her with either loathing or disdain. she tries to talk to the Dwarf in Dwarvish and ask who they are and why they are here. He does not understand and ignores her. She then proceed to chat with the Tiefling in Abyssal asking the same question and he tells her that she will know soon enough. She then gets up excusing herself, pretends to head to the bathroom but then asks a waiter tell her mother to leave as things are about to get bad. she goes back to sit down while keeping an eye on everyone.

**Chloe**, Tempêtes boss, appears on the stage and starts talking to the crowd. She calls her up to the stage to receive her award. As she's walking to the stage **Camille** appears out of nowhere next to her to whisper her congratulations as she stabs her in the side. Being totally caught off guard, having heard about the **Coyote**, thinking to herself that this person should be locked up and not here she turns and rakes her across the face with her claws. Then chaos ensued.

Two people grabbed her mom, 3 people went go for her and all hell broke loose. Tempête gets attacked and almost died. She took her only healing potion. **Maxime** came to help her. Killed an assailant and captured another. **Chloe** also came to her aid: she disintegrated one assassin and tuned into a zombie making the others flee. She then gabbed Tempête and Dimension Doored right in front of her mom who was being hurried away by the Dwarf and the Tiefling. Seeing them appear and knowing that **Chloe** was a powerful threat they Thunder Stepped away causing massive damage instantly killing her mom and knocking Tempête out.

**Chloe** healed Tempête and had tears in her eyes when she announced that my mom was dead and there was nothing she could do. Tempête looking at her mom and realizing she could not do anything ran back inside as one of the assassins was still alive. She started interrogating him and he tried to swallow an cyanide pill only to have her swipe it out of his mouth. she then proceeded to pop her claws one by one around his throat while asking question. He then proceeded to rip out his own throat with the claws and with his last breath utters in Abyssal "Long Live **The Coffin**"

### Session 2: Where she gets almost murdered, again

Tempête looks around to find **Chloe** only to realize that she was standing behind her. She proceeds to tell Tempête that she is very disappointed in her and that she never should have reacted in such a rash way. She then asks for her badge and tell her to go leave and go think about what she did. She then ask very coldly to **Maxime** to dispose of all the bodies and he heads out.

She attempts to talk to **Chloe** again telling her about **Camille** and that she should call Bordeaux to make sure that she is still incarcerated. She tries to tell her more but to no avail as **Chloe** walks away. She then realizes her mother body is out on the street and that she needs to retrieve it. She needs to get her cremated and return her mothers ashes to her homeland of Standing Rock. She runs out to find **Maxime** holding her mothers body and walking away from the building. She then proceeds to tell him he is heading the wrong way when she notices out of the corner of her eye the purple tail of a Tiefling. She turns to **Max** and asks him to drop the body only to hear the vice of **Camille** coming out of his mouth taunting her yet again.

Tempête decides to make a run for it only to be intercepted by the "fake" **Maxime** who used a dimension door to catch up to her and attack her. She tries to run again in the direction she last saw **Chloe** to scream for help. She then gets stabbed by the Dwarf and the the Tiefling who also dimension door and catch up to her. **Chloe** seeing what is happens start running towards her to help. Tempête collapse and the they attempt to finish her off for good. She fails two death saving throws and succeeds the last squeaking by with an 11. **Chloe** then casts Polymorph on her and turns her into a WereBeaver giving her a chance to survive. Tempête attacks one of them and does some damage while two of them attack **Chloe**. After the assassins start taking more damage they all decide to flee. **Chloe** drops Tempêtes Polymoroh and then heals her. At this point a huge crowd has begun to form.

Tempête looks at **Chloe** and tell her that that wasn't the real **Maxime** and that he must have been body swapped in the Oratory. **Chloe** turns around and goes to find the real one. At this point people are coming up to Tempête offering her healing and help. She then looks for her mother body only to find it missing. At the edge of the crowd she spots an all black Tabaxi who smile wickedly at her while shaking his head.

She proceeds to ask a local for their phone and check the security cameras at her home. Once logged on she sees that the case in which her father armor was taken and she is not sure what else. She then uses the phone to call **Maximes** cell phone and **Chloe** answers saying that she found him and that Tempête should not fuck anything else up.

Not sure what to do she looked again for the black Tabaxi and could no longer see him. Extremely discouraged, disheartened and overwhelmed she headed to the forest behind the oratory and climbed up to the tallest part of the Elder tree tended by the Montreal Druids. Having a good view of the city she looked out trying to find the culprits only to see a group of them, carrying her mothers body in the direct of the Quebec/American border.

Tempête climbs halfway down the tree then settles into her favorite spot making sure that no one can see her and silently starts to cry. After she's done releasing her grief she start to meditate to ask for guidance to **Nala the Jaguar Lord**. In the back of her consciousness she hears or feels a voice telling her that she can either follow her mothers killers, try to peruse her fathers killer or simply give up because it would be so easy. Taking a deep breath, knowing she never quits anything in her life she decides to head home to formulate a plan. She finally makes to the front door of her house and that is were the session ends.

### Session 3: Where she runs but can't hide from The Coffin

Tempête stands in front of house, the door is wide open swinging in the wind, someone has unlocked it. It’s very dark, after 9pm. Nobody is on the street, which are partially lit with street lamps every 50ft. The puddles of darkness between the light are sneak-able. She backs away from her home and heads two streets over, to see if there’s anyone around her, hiding. *Spooky Vibe (Insight)check at disadvantage due to exhaustion: 15*. The neighborhood is mostly Tabaxi as they tend to live together in small communities. All Spooky Vibes are remnants of terrible night - a squirrel makes her jump, she’s on edge.

She walks away for about 5 mins, towards **Maxime**’s home, and then melts into the shadows between the lights. She changes form into a black as night human: Black skin, eyes, teeth, tongue, clothes - Black as the night. *Stealth check with advantage: 21*. She slinks into the darkness, her bones softly creaking and cracking as her body slowly shifts to a coal-black humanoid.

Slinking between shadows, she avoids all the bright spots of lamp light. she is searching for a 24hr Dépanneur on the way to **Maxime’s** house. One is on the Main Street, but is obvious, and the other is off the Main Street in a less obvious place. She is wary of the assassins as they can do incredible, strange magic. Her Spooky Vibe check is keeping her wary of all creatures and people but feels she might need to take a chance in order to get a phone. She decides to take the risk, and transforms herself into the plainest looking human male that ever walked the earth. Completely forgettable. *DM - “So Shane?”.* She walks into the Dépanneur and talks to the teenage woman at the counter. She wants to buy 2 burner phones. *Performance check for manliness: 12. DM - “So you ARE Shane” Much love to Shane ensues, everyone drools over how beautiful he is.* She whips out an Irish accent. 17 gp for 2 SIM cards/phone. She looks behind her, the counter lady is checking her out. She winks at her, ad carries on to **Maxime’s** house.

In another pool of blackness, she is Back on Black. She fire’s up her first burner sim, and calls **Maxime**. The phone rings ONE time, and is immediately answered. They discuss that they planned for some shit but never planned for this type of intense shit. She wants to leave the city right freaking now, she has a car stashed somewhere. He asks where the car is, she makes him tell her the first thing he said at Bounty Hunter school. “I told you I had a big package, and you punched me in the face!” She instantly knows that it's him. His breathing is irregular, and wants to know where she wants to go. She says Chicago. He's not enthoused, he thinks Americans are barbarians who can’t cook and he hates visiting the South. She tells him she's on her way and she’ll pop in his window, he wishes her bonne chance.

She snaps the SIM card and stomps the phone, and heads to his place. She climbs up to her ‘normal window’, and looks to see if he’s alone. *Perception check 17.* Maxim’s is 2d floor of an apartment bldg. His place is plain like a bachelor pad. As she peeks in, he’s watching “inappropriate videos” on a very large screen tv, even though he know she’s coming. She ignores the tv and sks if he packed, he turns his head and she sees a massive bruise. He says of course he’s ready to go, and gestures to his ‘go-bag’. She asks what gear he has for her, and he looks at her coal-black self and jumps. She grows horns as a joke. He gets a short sword, tosses to her, *dexterity throw: 12*; and she catches it. An additional Long bow and 12 arrows are given to her from Max’s marvelous closet of weaponry. He also gives her 2 health potions. Maxim flirts with her nonstop. They grab 6 days of rations, but he has no water skin because he’s not a peasant, he only drinks vodka, whiskey, and Cointreau. She asks for waterproof bags, he hands her a single ziplock and she rolls her eyes. She wants to get the burner car she has under a second identity, he says they should to grab their passports and take the train, the most crowded one, to Chicago.

She changes into 27 yr old female human tan skin shoulder length hair, attractive but nothing spectacular. They must pretend to be a couple, which makes Maxim absolutely delighted. He will not stop hitting on her, even though he knows he’s not her type and it will never happen. He offers her his elbow in a style of old, and then go down. **Maxime** says his disguise name is Chuck. Her disguise name is Luna. Chuck says not to take a taxi, instead take a nice midnight stroll. Although he’s teasing, he’s also serious. *Deception check for both as a couple: 11* . Luna feels fine, she’s done this before. But Chuck still looks like Max.

They get to the high-speed train that connects all the nations capitals: Montreal, Toronto, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago, NYC, Atlanta, Tampa, Sand Diego and Sacramento. It used to connect to Salt Lake City until it became an absolute shit show. The train leaves in about 32 minutes to Toronto, and then Chicago. Luna wants to make sure Chuck is wearing a cap. *D20 - nope, his hair is too glorious*. Luna goes to the Dépanneur and buys him a cap to his his hair, face and giant bruise. He brags about how his face is so beautiful and takes work, and exercise, moisturizer, and water to stay so beautiful. She shoves it on his head. He looks like Max, with a cap. Train leaves in 26 minutes.

Luna buys one more burner phone and a paper - 6g 2 copper. The paper is dated Wednesday Aug 2nd, 2250. She asks Chuck if he left his phone at home or if he has one. He says he’s so pretty he doesn’t need one, she gives him the burner, gets 6 gp from Chuck and buys one more burner. The person selling them is looking at her suspiciously. Luna wants to find a place to sit by the train, but safely. *Investigation check: 8 Perception check: 19.* Didn’t choose the best spot, but as she’s sitting looking at the people coming off the Midnight Train they seem preoccupied with their own lives, they’re not paying attention to Luna and Chuck.

8 minutes to board, 12 minutes until the train leaves. She cuddles up to Chuck pretending to be his girlfriend - a routine that they've practiced many time. He tells her that at least 7of her 9 lives are in love with him. Chuck notices an old man, top hat, glasses, chubby, says to kiss him on the check and look at the man. *Perception check: 22*. She can see the split second he looks at her. He’s wearing an white Abe Lincoln top hat and a beige suit. Chuck says he’s been looking at her more than necessary, even though she’s a “pretty lady” (actually so plain). Chuck says it’s not the eyes of sex, it’s the eyes of ‘I want to kill this woman in her sleep”. *(His insight check was at is Nat 20)* Chuck talks about how it’s a look of murder and not a look of skeeze. *History check: 13* - there have been times before that people can see who she is, but usually it’s a spell that sees through the disguise. They can’t see the disguise, only the person under it, using True Sight. They don’t know she can change, but they can see her through the changing.

Luna kisses Chuck and looks for others, but can’t see any. Just the top hat, beige suit, and glasses, reading the paper. The train boards in 4 minutes. Chuck says “Fuck it, lets get on the train, pick a public spot, and if he sits next to us, we think about killing him, but damn, it’s public...”. Luna debates taking out Beige Man here, but worries they’ll miss the train. Luna is worried about fighting in close quarters, but Chuck looks at his sword and and is not at all concerned. They decide to get on the train and ‘hope they don’t fucking die’. They get on the suuuper long train, Chuck on the aisle seat with his hand on his sword, and winks. He can’t wink w his Left eye, so he turns his whole body to wink with his Right eye. They decide the Beige man looks like Popeye dressed like Colonel Sanders, as he comes and sits on the train. The magnetic levitation train takes off, and is soon going 200 mph.

Luna takes out the newspaper and pretends to read it, casually looking at everything else. Headline reads DEBATES PERSIST OVER ELECTRIC BORDER WALL. Luna glances at the top story of each section. Sports - METS STILL SUCK Politics - AN ELECTION COMING UP BETWEEN A NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY-PRESIDENT AND A SOCIALIST (in 3 mos in New America - the Anti-gun people Freedom Figters, Eastern seaboard). Both parties are anti-gun, guns are bad mmmkay. Arts - NEW MUSEUM BEING BUILT IN BOSTON FOR W3, W3 stuff being brought from Ger, Fra, China.

*Perception check: 17.* Luna looks around, Chuck rests his hand on the long sword. A train employee comes up and checks passport - every single person who ever takes this train EVER has their ID scanned to track them. She hands over her alternate ID for Luna LaLune. Passes the scan. *Perception check: 15* - She can hear the names being said as the train person scans IDs. Luna sees a young, busty women she recognizes. *History check: 19.* She remembers her as one of the porn actresses Maxime was watching on his TV when she arrived at his pace. The name that scans is NOT Lovechild Miranda, and Chuck knows that is the wrong instead they hear “**South Paw**”. They look at the fake porn actress, who smirks at Luna and Chuck.

They enter the tunnel that goes under Lake Ontario, and all the lights go out. As the lights slowly come back on, across from Luna, there is a black Tabaxi with a white mark on his left cheek, who’s eyes are always darting around planning his escape, next action, etc. Next to him, a smaller figure with a hooded cape, that swallows their features, like a black hole of nothing. **South Paw** says hello, suggests next time she runs away she doesn’t wear the same glamour studded armor. He can see through the glamour, not the changeling. They greet each other in a standard Tabaxi greeting from Standing Rock, and he gives her the customary signal that she has the power in the conversation for the next few minutes. He says it seems like she has a problem. She looks around, and every single person in the car is wearing a black cloak. He says he doesn’t want to kill her, she’s family. There must be some way to come to a resolution.

He gives her a big bag of money: 7,000 gold (We find out through another session that this was taken from **Bolts**). He want her to take this to Standing Rock. If she does, he will see to it that whatever stupid thing she’s done to **The Coffin**, goes away as long as she doesn’t stir up trouble again. He picked her because she is family and he knows her and will always know her, and calls her by her name Tempête. He will personally make sure that **Camille** - who is on the train car - won’t put her at the end of her knife. He suggests she visit a place in Detroit that has good Milk and Kahlua. If she captures anyone else of The Coffin, their full wrath will be on her. He asks her to take the gold to **Mother** at Standing Rock to help take care of their people. She asks what happened to her mother’s body, she wanted to take it to Standing Rock as is customary. He looks over at one of the cloaked figures, it looks like it’s sleeping and slumped over. It’s her mother’s body. He says to consider it collateral. If she does what he wants, her mother will get the traditional Standing Rock ceremony.

They can feel the train start to slow down as it nears New Chicago (they did not stop at Toronto. TBD). Tempête has about 3-4 minutes before they arrive. She stares at **South Paw** and his silent, hooded faceless companion in. He puts his hand out to signal she no longer has control of the conversation. He puts his hood up, and she can see the magic effect blur out his face until it’s a dark void. *Insight check w disadvantage: 15* - she sees this short person, 4’7”-4’8”, turns and looks hat her, she can feel their stare lingering on her, and then stares at Maxim. They have a very ornate, very long, longbow on their back. They don’t know who it is, but she realizes that she just met Two of The Five leaders of **The Coffin**. As the train come out of the tunnel, all the assassins disappear, leaving Max and her alone on the train with only one other person, who is shocked at what just happened. Tempête smiles at him, and he vomits as they pull into the train station in New Chicago.

### Tempête and John Doe - Session 2

Session 5

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