Broker for the Damned

# Broker for the Damned

Broker for the Damned

Broker for the Damned Quote: It’s all about leveraging your core competencies.

Prelude: All your life you had a very simple goal: You wanted to be rich. You got off to a good start, with a decent enough middle-class upbringing and an okay college education and a better business school and a lucky break at a big Wall Street brokerage. You flourished in the ‘80s, exploiting regulatory chaos with the best of them and twice managing to change jobs just before the SEC ruined the party. You almost wondered if someone were looking out for you, some God of Leverage.

Then things got interesting, when the weirdoes started calling you in for nighttime consultations. Their money was good so you didn’t mind, but when you asked if they were vampires or what, they didn’t exactly laugh.

What the hell. You kept working for them.

Then came the night when it all changed. One of the weirdoes actually burst into your office and fucking drank your blood. Right there. Half a dozen of the other weirdoes came in and smashed up that first one pretty bad. As you lay dying, they debated whether to give you hugs — at least that’s how you remember it. (You’ve since learned of the “Embrace.”) They poured some of their own blood down your throat and you came back to life, or at least back to something like life.

You’d like to still work as “a broker for the Damned,” the title you use sometimes, but it’s hard when you can’t go to the market floors and have to break off a planning session just because the sun is rising. The guys you used to work with are doing a lot better than you are, and they’re going to keep pulling ahead because you can’t. Ever.

Catch. Up.

Concept: You’re a vampire on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

You cannot maintain Chapter Three: New Shadows GENERATION: 12th HAVEN: CONCEPT: Broker for the Damned ATTRIBUTES NATURE:Thrill-Seeker DEMEANOR: Conformist CLAN: Lasombra NAME: PLAYER: CHRONICLE: SOCIAL MENTAL Charisma_________________ Manipulation_____________ Appearance_______________ PHYSICAL Perception_______________ Intelligence_______________ Wits___________________ Strength_________________ Dexterity________________ Stamina_________________ OOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO ABILITIES SKILLS KNOWLEDGES Animal Ken______________ Crafts___________________ Drive___________________ Etiquette_________________ Firearms_________________ Melee____________________ Performance_______________ Security__________________ Stealth___________________ Survival__________________ TALENTS Academics________________ Computer________________ Finance__________________ Investigation______________ Law_____________________ Linguistics________________ Medicine_________________ Occult___________________ Politics___________________ Science__________________ Alertness_________________ Athletics________________ Brawl___________________ Dodge___________________ Empathy_________________ Expression_______________ Intimidation______________ Leadership________________ Streetwise________________ Subterfuge________________ OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO BACKGROUNDS ADVANTAGES DISCIPLINES VIRTUES ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Generation Dominate Obtenebration ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Conscience/Conviction OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO Self-Control/Instinct______ OOOOO Courage____________ OOOOO MERITS/FLAWS HUMANITY/PATH HEALTH __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ ____________________________________________________ __________________________ __________________________ O O O O O O O O O O __________________________ Bruised Hurt Injured Wounded Mauled Crippled Incapacitated WILLPOWER O O O O O O O O O O BLOOD EXPERIENCE POOL the routine you did in life, and you don’t yet know of any alternative that you find satisfying.

You’d probably respond to a carefully crafted pitch to join someone else’s cause, unless you can manage to invent one for yourself.

Roleplaying Hints: Panic. Don’t show panic. Show confidence. But confidence in what? You know you’re not the broker you used to be, and it’s probably just a matter of time until the pack figures it out, too. Ditch them? Maybe get leverage on them. Blackmail? Don’t show panic.

Equipment: Last year’s suits, portfolio