Player: Wendy

Gloria Webb is a twenty-three-year-old Caucasian (with possibly a “little extra”) woman who has a BS in Business, and was planning on graduate school when the riot happened. Her freckled face is in a perpetual frown, and she resembles the actress Julianne Nichols. Her parents have been divorced for over a decade and her mother moved to California. Despite this, they remain in business together; they have an empire of sex shops called The Treasure Chest that has adapted to – and profited from – the Internet age. Gloria’s hope to avoid the family business failed when her father was injured badly in the riots of 2008, and she had to put her graduate school plans on hold to take over the flagship store. Her parents had no other children together, but she has much younger half-siblings in California. Now, her bachelor’s degree (with a minor in computer programming) is being used to sell sex toys and oversee the store’s relocation from a side street to Newbury Street, as the riot left many formerly-upscale properties much more affordable. She is also responsible for ten part-time employees. Gloria sublets an apartment and she is actively looking for a housemate; she has put a two-year moratorium on helping her father, who is “recovering” in Mexico. Her only companion is her pet spider. Luckily, Gloria herself was not in Boston during the riots.

Gloria Awakens as a Mastigos mage.

Concept: Jaded sex shop owner

Age: 24

Path: Mastigos

Order: Free Council

Virtue: Diligent

Vice: Cynical

Obsessions:

Aspirations: Delegate authority (ST), Get out of the family business (LT), Learn magic (LT)

Mental Attributes: Intelligence 3, Wits 3, Resolve 3

Physical Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2

Social Attributes: Presence 1, Manipulation 2, Composure 4

Mental Skills: Academics 2, Computer 3, Crafts 1, Investigation (Relentless) 3, Occult 2, Science 1 Physical Skills: Larceny (Theft Prevention) 2, Stealth 2 Social Skills: Intimidation (Glare) 4, Streetwise 2, Subterfuge 1

Merits • High Speech 1: Xpo can use High Speech as a Yantra in spellcasting. • Occultation 2: When someone attempts to scrutinize Xpo’s Nimbus to identify her or track her, she subtracts 2 from their rolls. The Withstanding level of sympathy for spells targeting her has a minimum of 2. • Resources 3: Xpo has a nice, upper-middle-class life. Every item has an Availability rating; once per chapter, she can procure an item at Availability 3 or lower without issue. Obtaining an Availability 4 item reduces her effective Resources by one dot for a full month, since she has to rapidly liquidate funds. She can procure Availability 1 items without limit (within reason). • Status: Free Council 1: Xpo is a probationary Libertine and receives a +1 bonus to any Social roll involving those over whom she has authority or sway. Additionally, she can access Artifacts, Imbued Items, mentors, libraries, Grimoires, and other magical resources. The Storyteller should assign an Availability rating to the item she seeks, related to the power level or regular Merit rating. Xpo considers her Status dot as Resources for procuring these magical resources. Merits suitable for requisition include Alternate Identity, Grimoire, Hallow, Imbued Item, Library, Mentor, Resources, Retainer, Safe Place, and Sanctum, all with Availability equal to their dot rating.

Wisdom: 7 Willpower: 7 Initiative Modifier: +6 Defense: 2 Armor: 0 Size: 5 Speed: 9 Health: 7

Gnosis: 3 Mana/per Turn: 12/3 Nimbus: The sounds of a delivery truck (Immediate), a tracking number (Signature) Nimbus Tilt: -1 Resolve, +1 Presence Dedicated Magical Tool: Smartphone Arcana: Mind 1, Prime 1, Space 3, Time 1 Arcana Attainments: Counterspell •(Mind, Prime, Space, Time): Xpo can attempt to disrupt a spell using the specified Arcanum that is about to be cast. Counterspell is a Clash of Wills, pitting the acting mage’s Gnosis + Arcanum against Xpo’s Gnosis + Arcanum. She can attempt to counter any spell that uses the Arcanum, even if it uses other Arcana as well, but always counters the highest Arcanum of a target spell. Countering the spell of a mage with a higher rating in the target Arcanum requires Xpo to spend a point of Mana. Counterspell requires an instant action. If Xpo is employing Active Mage Sight, she can attempt to counter a spell of the appropriate Arcanum in combat, regardless of her position in the Initiative order, provided she has not used her action yet. Lesser Utility Attainments • Space 2 – Sympathetic Range: Xpo can cast spells using her sympathy to a subject she cannot see. She requires a sympathetic connection to the subject, and a Yantra symbolizing that subject to use as a focus for the spell. She must be casting a spell at sensory range, use a sympathy Yantra, and spend one Mana. The spell is Withstood by the fragility of the sympathetic connection between Xpo and her subject, but if Xpo does not know the sympathetic name of the subject the Withstand level increases by one. Mage Armor Mage Armor requires a point of Mana to activate with a reflexive action, whereupon it remains active for the scene, even if Xpo falls unconscious, unless she dies. Xpo can only benefit from one form of Mage Armor at a time but can spend Mana to change between Arcana as a reflexive action. Mage Armors that increase Defense work against surprise attacks. • Space Armor: Xpo adds her Space rating to her Defense. She also applies her Defense to firearms attacks. In addition, if Xpo successfully Dodges an attack, she can spend one point of Mana to redirect the attack to another applicable target. The attack hits with successes equal to Xpo’s Space Arcanum rating.

Praxes: Rotes: Rote Skills: Crafts, Persuasion, Science