Maryam "Mud"

### Status

Up-and-coming agent almost ready to be made (Hecata), Treacherous Hecata (Camarilla), treacherous Hecata (anarchs)

## Psychology

### Conviction #1 (Touchstone)

Strife is good (Juniper Wolfe, a descendant or relative who is pushing back on poverty and direct pressures on their own life, ultimately thriving and being stronger for their ability to come back thrashed by their universe)

### Conviction #2 (Touchstone)

Death to kings (Summer Sahara, Prince Amanda Kohler’s mortal girlfriend)

### Conviction #3 (Touchstone)

Structure leads to rigidity leads to collapse (Jamison Maverick, whom Mud calls Jonathan Slack, person who works at slack started in the mailroom and is now an executive, used to be radical and worked with character but now is part of the system)

Blackbeard’s monologue about strife in Black Sails.  Piracy is war against civilization.  Association with/practice under that sort of ideology.  By bringing prosperity we are bringing civilization.  Death & resurrection.  Resurrecting not just people but ideology.

## Mortal Days

As mortal, violent revolutionary ideology ~ FLN.  Lebanese Civil War period (1950s).  Period of intense revolutions against imperial powers.

Life event:  being involved in Battle of Algiers and then the war

Life Event:  You two fucking fight to the death and the survivor dies but rises as a vampire

## Kindred Nights

Old, whose sire/initial mentor came up in Nassau in the 1700s, slipped thru the cracks of the Lamiai pogrom.  Militarized sense of survival plus action on the world.  If you inflict pain that’s hurting them; if you kill them, it hurts others or their culture.

**Bane:** *Painful Kiss:* Steeped in death, the fangs of Mud bring not bliss, but agony. Victims caught unawares will violently resist unless restrained, and few people submit willingly to the torture that is the Hecata Kiss. When drinking directly from a victim, Mud may only take harmful drinks, resulting in blood loss (Vampire: The Masquerade, p.212). Unwilling mortals not restrained will try to escape, and even those coerced or willing must succeed in a Stamina + Resolve test against Difficulty 4 in order not to recoil. Coerced or willing vampire victims of the Hecata bite must make a frenzy test against Difficulty 3 to avoid falling into a terror frenzy.

**Compulsion:** *Morbidity:* a sense of morbid curiosity. The Hecata's Blood urges them to study the individuals around them for signs of illness, frailty, or impending death. Until they have either predicted a death or solved the cause of a local one, the vampire suffers a three-dice penalty to other rolls. Their conclusions do not need to be absolutely correct, but should stay within the boundaries of the possible.

## Domain and Haven

### Summer Sahara

*Dibs on her murder!*

Really into YA fiction because it's much more diverse and actually really mature, if you think about it. Rails against pretentious gatekeepers. NaNoWriMo. Really likes hanging out at coffeeshop and bookstore to get into the headspace of writing and what her characters want. Fat, white, knit in greens and blues, frizzy hair amd tortoiseshell glasses. Loves going to conventions. Favorite author: audrey Colthurst. Knows Amanda is a vampire, but isn't good at keeping it secret (cis girls dating trans girls). Needs to read Count of Monte Cristo based on Mud's suggestion.

### Josephine

*Talked (and maybe topped) . . . after*

One of Lee Bridge's cult of go-go dancers, whom Lee accidentally drank dry

### Becca/Queen Bitch

*Tool in progress, also good gossip*

Goop's best friend in high school who was ghouled by the Ministry and then killed by Lee

## Kindred Relationships

*Calling the Family Reunion 🩸*

*Hecata Status 🩸🩸 (so equivalent of 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 for information or small favors)*

*Suspect by the Camarilla 🩸*

*Suspect by the Anarchs 🩸*

### Coterie

*Reb (ideological rival)*

*Goop (the world needs ditch-diggers)*

*Lee (has potential; needs work)*

## Character Sheet

Animal and bagged blood slakes half Hunger

Strength 🩸🩸 / Charisma 🩸🩸🩸🩸 / Intelligence 🩸🩸

Dexterity 🩸🩸🩸 / Manipulation 🩸🩸 / Wits 🩸🩸🩸

Stamina 🩸🩸🩸 / Composure 🩸 / Resolve 🩸🩸

Blood Surge adds 2 dice

Health 🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸 / Willpower 🩸🩸🩸

Heal 2 points of Superficial Health damage per rouse check

Athletics 🩸 / Animal Ken / Academics 🩸 Classical Literature

Brawl 🩸🩸🩸 Grappling / Etiquette / Awareness 🩸🩸

Craft / Insight / Finance 🩸

Drive 🩸 / Intimidation 🩸🩸🩸 / Investigation 🩸🩸

Firearms 🩸🩸 / Leadership / Medicine

Larceny / Performance 🩸🩸 Storytelling / Occult 🩸

Melee / Persuasion 🩸🩸 Rhetoric / Politics 🩸

Stealth / Streetwise 🩸🩸 / Science

Survival / Subterfuge 🩸 / Technology

Add 1 die to Discipline power rolls

Reroll rouse checks for Discipline powers of level one

Oblivion 🩸🩸 The Binding Fetter, Where the Shroud Thins

* *Level One:* Summon Spirit
* *Level Two:* Compel Spirit

Fortitude 🩸 Resilience

Potence 🩸 Lethal Body

Gorgon 🩸🩸🩸🩸 Medusa's Gaze