# The Baleful Avenger
The Baleful Avenger
The Baleful Avenger Quote: Something’s under your bed, in your closet and looming up behind you. It’s me.
Prelude: As a child, you lived in a vivid fantasy world and dreamed of being a superhero. You continued to visit that realm in daydreams as you matured. It kept your hope alive amid crumbling family and personal circumstances. Visions of secret power kept you stable through two divorces, the suicide of one sibling and the murder of another, two roommates convicted for felony fraud schemes and a whole lot of other complications.
Your future sire never explained just how he noticed you in the first place. In a bookstore? Overheard conversation among friends? Random selection? All you know for sure is that gradually this tall, skinny guy began showing up more and more often on the fringes of your social scene.
The nightmares began not long thereafter. Antidepressants couldn’t keep the vivid hallucinations about animated shadows at bay.
Somehow it came as a bit of an anticlimax to learn that you hadn’t been hallucinating.
One night the shadows disgorged that tall, skinny guy, and he demonstrated genuine powers to you. He told you that you were right to think that the world had many wrongs to redress, though you were kidding yourself when you thought that there were all that many good people to protect. Vengeance and fear, he said, not justice. He offered you the chance to test out your theories. You accepted.
You soon realized that your sire saw you as an expendable experiment. As far as he and most of the other vampires around you are concerned, you’re a nut case. That’s fine — you’ve been odd man out before. The power to see into men’s souls has confirmed your sire’s skepticism about the goodness of humanity and made you much more comfortable with your role as predator. But more sinners and fools need punishment than you could have imagined. You’ll be busy for a long time.
Concept: You’re your own nightmares come true, out to haunt others. If you weren’t actually good at what you do, you’d be one more buffoon bound for self-destruction.
As it is, you’re the sort of wild card that keeps the Sabbat competitive — the sect’s enemies don’t really expect to see cloaked avengers leap through windows, Chapter Three: New Shadows GENERATION: 13th HAVEN: CONCEPT: Baleful Avenger ATTRIBUTES NATURE:Martyr DEMEANOR: Judge 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 ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ _________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Auspex Dominate Obtenebration Potence 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 shouting about the reckoning for secret crimes.
Roleplaying Hints: Deep inside you, something yearns for a peace that can only come from doing good deeds, as you once thought of them. But the world as you now know it has no place for that. You’ve settled for the next best thing and try to make the most of it. The Sabbat often horrifies you, but then so did the material world as it ground you down. You remind yourself that in its own brutal way, the mass slaughter of human predators makes the world a better place, and you keep hoping that something in the undead condition will allow you to escape the whole deep sea of human misery, sometime.
Equipment: matched pair of .45s