# The Revolutionary
The Revolutionary
The Revolutionary Quote: If you could take the larger view, you would see that your death validates the revolutionary struggle as your life validated the existing order. But I see you have too much blood in the way.
Prelude: You grew up not very far from the brink of starvation in Sicily. Your family lost a lot of its land in “reforms” after World War II and never recovered from it. When you were old enough to leave home, you set out to make your fortune elsewhere. After a year of wandering, you ended up in Rome.
Rome wasn’t the greatest place to be poor during the 1960s. The combination of rampant corruption and clerical interference kept everyone without connections constantly on edge. You could be arrested on trumped-up charges and put to work on someone’s estate, or simply harassed into leaving a particular neighborhood because the cops didn’t like your style. Had they deliberately set out to make a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary of you, they could scarcely have done a better job.
You suffered a crisis of conscience after kidnapping and torturing an innocuous South American businessman. It’s one thing, you reasoned, to strike at the agents of tyranny. While in important ways all bourgeois are collaborators, was this actually helping your cause? When you asked questions, your comrades were only too happy to beat you within an inch of your life, frame you for drug charges and let the police haul you away. Rome wasn’t a good place to be imprisoned during the ‘60s, either.
So it was, twenty years after leaving home, that you ended up back in Sicily. You were still driven to do something but had no clue as to what. Your parents Clanbook: Lasombra were long dead by this time, and your relatives didn’t want to see you. You wandered the island, visiting tourist attractions. And you started hearing voices. Shadows spoke to you as you camped outside old castles, telling you of a great war that your Marxist revolution couldn’t begin to approach. You were pretty sure you were going insane, but you listened and sometimes carried out the daylight tasks the shadows asked you to.
One night, the shadows came alive to reveal a nattily dressed old man, who told you the rest of the story. He explained about the Antediluvians, for whom capitalists are only the most recent pawns, and about the Sabbat, the ultimate vanguard party in all of history. He showed you how the dialectic of history made sense only in light of facts that dialectical materialism couldn’t allow. Then he offered you the opportunity to join the struggle. Of course you accepted.
Concept: You’re a neonate amid elders. Still, you show the fervor that makes Sabbat founders smile, and if they seem sometimes like part of the problem, that’s a matter for another night. From Sicily, you and your fellow neonates strike out at Camarilla targets all around the Mediterranean. You don’t really belong to a permanent pack yet — your mentors are testing combinations for maximum efficiency. You aim to prove yourself worthy — who knows, someday you may strike against these elders as they struck against theirs.
Roleplaying Hints: There’s so much to learn! Everything you assumed about the world seems false. You try never to admit your fear, only your ignorance: You’re quite willing to ask honest questions in search of answers. You also seek to find suitable allies, the ones who show themselves most flexible and determined. Let th Equipment: Disguises, collapsible firearms GENERATION: 11th HAVEN: CONCEPT: Revolutionary ATTRIBUTES NATURE:Rebel DEMEANOR: Visionary 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