Rod Coddpeace

### **Profile**

**Aliases:** Roderick Brodrick Coddpeace (full name); Rod Coppice; Richard Copper

**Clan:** Ventrue

**Rank:** Questor ( < Quimm ; ≥ Uranus ; > Bollocksham)

**Sect:** Camarilla

**Status:** 2 (Ancilla): Influential, Known, Resourceful, *Parsimonious*

**Merits/Flaws:** *Elysium Regular, Clan Enmity: Brujah* (q.v. *Rumors*)

#### **Bio**

One of the upstart neo-conservative Puritan capitalist Ventrue who endorsed a credit-based economy supported on a woven net of debt, he emigrated to the Colonies to escape the decadent excesses of the papist dandies. Seized an opportunity in westward expansion, but his conservatism and reluctance to flexibility have prevented any real gain. His money is now so old that no actual capital ever moves: all commerce transacted via good-name credit. Wealth this *deep* needn't involve vulgar *cash*.

### **References & Other**

* Manages the Ventrue domain of Old Fig Garden, with the weight of that old money behind him.
	+ Takes *Christmas Tree Lane* as serious as death.
		- Keeps dossiers on Clovis knock-offs *Candy Cane Lane* and *Santa Claus Lane*.
			* Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?
				+ Inferior rip-offs masquerading as competition only tarnishes the experience.
		- How'd the Tremeres get the Brujah in on disrupting Christmas Tree Lane?
			* Man ain't *nobody* like Rod.
			* Maybe if anyone patronized your imitation displays, you'd see your share of troublemakers too.
	+ Was surprised and some say annoyed when Bevis Nobbend made his brazen play for Primogency: it being well known among Ventrue of quality and standards that the domain of Fig Garden is the traditional stepping stone to the Downtown territory, *and* Coddpeace's play having already been *four years in the crafting* when Bevis shit on decorum like a prat.
		- Some also say he was more than *surprised*, he was *taken aback.*
		- Bevis wasn't even *next* in line for Aedile.
			* Luckily, it's *meritorious*, not *a bloody queue*.
			* He was *never even promoted to Primogen*, why did he make Aedile?
				+ Aedile *de facto* still gets a metal nameplate, apparently.
				+ And the Downtown domain...
	+ Investment in Ed Dena's Auto Center in Dinuba, about half an hour Southeast on the 99.
* Confirmed non-blood discipline: *Auspex* power *Heightened Senses*.
* It's said he had Thresher's hands cut off once, and displayed them on a serving platter at a board meeting like a centerpiece. (He grew them back.)
	+ Being fair, Thresher had *ashed* Coddpeace's *only childe*.
		- Guess *Rod* shouldn't of sent him to try to take over City College, then.
		- That was *never* taken before the Court.
	+ Thresher was eventually ejected from Elysium for brutally assaulting Rod in front of witnesses.
		- Coddpeace started it.
			* That's not against the law.
			* What the hell were they tussling over?
				+ Some stupid list Andale Pues was trying to smuggle in.
		- How come he only ate a temporary ban?
			* Witnesses and cameras saw Rod's hands on him the whole time.
				+ So what. That's not violence.
					- The one who hits harder gets punished.
					- The one with *less Status* gets punished.
						* The one with more melanin.
		- I heard he laid ol' Rod flat out.
			* Punched all his front teeth down his throat.
				+ And the thug is still remorseless about it.
* Minor harpy scandal when it was discovered he was using his influence to reduce police coverage West of the 99. The cops avoiding the Southwest District is *old news*, now.
	+ There's a reason it's the *wrong* side of the tracks, gentlemen...
* Awarded Nobbend a Minor boon for killing that Anarch (before the *Primogen fiasco*, obv).
	+ Also: several Trivial boons to Mr. Pecker for "services to law and order".
	+ Also: every year at the Christmas Ball, like clockwork, used to re-affirm publicly his (and everyone's!) Blood-debt to the personification of the domain's respect for Law and Decency, embodied by the former Sheriff of Ashtown: Mr. Bronze, who never even responded.
		- Hasn't offered no debts to Aboo yet.
			* He hasn't been at the yuletide Blood Nog either, *wait for the Ball homes.*
			* Old Rod isn't so enthusiastic about *this* appointment...
	+ *Tried* to offer respectful *prestation to His Grace* in support of a declared Blood Hunt.
		- The Prince: "If I *ever* require a boon of you, I'd imagine you should hear of it."
		- Wasn't it that Brujah who was embracing everyone down in Sunnyside?
			* Of *course* it was a Brujah.
			* I mean, Xiong signed the warrant when he said he didn't know her.
* Threatened to hurt Nina Naira Mendoza to punish the Brujah. She's just a kid, dude.
	+ He only pointed out that her haven address isn't hard to find out.
		- *Neither is his.* Paul will sell it to you cheap, or *free* if you're a Brujah.
			* I want this *Anarch* brought in for making threats against statused members of the Camarilla.
				+ Oh so giving out people's address *is* a threat now, Rod?
					- Mr. Coddpeace is an *ancilla* and not to be questioned by the likes of you.
				+ You think you give orders to the Sheriff, Roddie?
				+ How you convince your betters to send their Rooks out hunting down Anarchs for you?
					- Pardon *you*, we are all of us *peers*.
					- It sure as fuck wasn't GHLP the Rooks were trading bullets with.
						* If he needs someone to find Big-mouth Paul, *I'll* hang around the Meat Shake for one of them duffel bags full of money he gave the Bronze to hand out...
	+ Ex*cuse* me, threatened *whomst motherfucker?*
* Has seen The Video.