Post by Narg on Sept 6, 2018 8:51:28 GMT
Character Name: Jolene “Mama la Fleur” Abernathy
Character Type: NPC
Supernatural Type: Vampire
Concept: Wild West Parlor House Madame
Nature: Guru
Demeanor: Gallant
Morality: Path of Typhon 9
Clan: Follower of Set
Sect: Independent Alliance
Titles: Setite High Priestess
Physical Appearance:
Personality:
Biography:
Attributes: Place specialties in parentheses
Strength:3
Dexterity:2
Stamina:3
Charisma:4 (hospitality)
Manipulation:3
Appearance:4(Mouthwatering)
Perception: 2
Intelligence:4 (Setite theology)
Wits: 3
Abilities: Place specialties in parentheses
Alertness 2
Awareness 2
Empathy 4 (Sensing Vice)
Brawl 2
Leadership 3
Subterfuge 2
Streetwise 4 (Power dynamics)
Etiquette 4 (southern hospitality)
Firearms 1
Performance 1
Stealth 2
Survival 2
Professional skill, prostitute 3
Finance 3
Law 2
Setite lore 5 (Setites Clanbook revised) (Doctrinal and Prophetic analysis)
Politics 2
Occult 2
Backgrounds:
Herd 4
Contacts 4
Domain 5 (Size 3, Security 2)
Generation 5
High influence 3: Vice division of the OPD, Bank of the Forlorn Isles, FIMSA (Forlorn Isles Media Standards Association).
Resources 5
Age 3
Haven 4 (Occult, Security, Library, Guards)
Status 5
Fame 3
Disciplines:
Thaumaturgy: Path of corruption 5
Thaumaturgy secondary path: Weather control 3
Serpentis: 5
Presence: 5
Obsfucate: 5
Combination Disciplines:
True loves face (presence 3, obsfucate 3) (Lore of the Clans)
Weigh the heart (auspex 2, serpentis 5) (Lore of the Clans)
Elder Discipline Powers:
Serpentis 6: Cobra fangs
Presence 6: Love
Obsfucate 6: Soul mask
Virtues:
Conviction 4
Self control 5
Willpower: 8
Maximum Blood Points/Blood per turn: 15/3
Merits: Addictive blood (3 pt)
Flaws: forked tounge (2 pt)
Character Type: NPC
Supernatural Type: Vampire
Concept: Wild West Parlor House Madame
Nature: Guru
Demeanor: Gallant
Morality: Path of Typhon 9
Clan: Follower of Set
Sect: Independent Alliance
Titles: Setite High Priestess
Physical Appearance:
Jolene is a short curvaceous woman, seemingly of around 40, whose skin is pale as Ivory. Her lips are red, and her eyes are a deep oceanic blue. Her features are soft and her cheeks would be round and rosy were she not an undead of about two hundred years. Her hair is strawberry blonde, with a hint of red, and oftentimes done up like the pinup models of the forties. Her tongue is ever so slightly split at the end, and pupils are slightly elongated, hinting at her Setite origin. Most people think the choice cosmetic. Besides, in her business there has been much weirder. She tends to dress in conservative cute boutique clothing, and has a certain obsession with floral patterns.
Personality:
Jolene has worked in the sex trade for hundreds of years. Vice is her expertise. There is not a lewd act on planet earth that Jolene has not facilitated. Men have snorted cocaine off of her tits, licked her feet, and masturbated to her stroking a chicken and feeding it corn. Nothing is off limits from her patrons, and she does her very best to facilitate all needs and vices. Why not offer a service to someone that will bring them closer to eternal liberation in the Primal Oceans of Nun? The liberation of the world from the Aeons begins with each individual. No vice is too perverse to fulfill, for the salvation and freedom of every creator soul demands it.
She strongly believes that vice is the starting point of spiritual liberation. To know addiction is a metaphor for the Aeons’ false reality. It is something that you cling to assuming it is necessary, when the truth is that, though abandoning it hurts, you become free after leaving it behind. She spreads the net of Setite proselytization wide by dealing drugs, running clubs, brothels, and pornography sites. Those who seem adept are brought into the cult, while the others are left to experience more before being ready to accept Set’s doctrine. She has an eternity to liberate the souls of the world, there is no reason to think you must catch all the fish in the first go.
She strongly believes that vice is the starting point of spiritual liberation. To know addiction is a metaphor for the Aeons’ false reality. It is something that you cling to assuming it is necessary, when the truth is that, though abandoning it hurts, you become free after leaving it behind. She spreads the net of Setite proselytization wide by dealing drugs, running clubs, brothels, and pornography sites. Those who seem adept are brought into the cult, while the others are left to experience more before being ready to accept Set’s doctrine. She has an eternity to liberate the souls of the world, there is no reason to think you must catch all the fish in the first go.
Biography:
Jolene Leopold was born in 1823 in St. Louis Missouri. She lived with her mother Adelaide Leopold and Jedidiah Leopold, as well as her two younger sisters. Her early childhood had to do with helping on the cattle farm just outside the city. She grew up in the early days of Missouri statehood during the debates over whether or not slavery would be allowed in the states. A wealthy plantation owner, James Abernathy, met her while purchasing livestock for his plantation down in Louisiana. She got married and took the name Abernathy in 1838. She had twins, Delia and Lucile Abernathy in 1840. James died of tuberculosis in 1849. The plantation had been failing for a while due to his illness, so they had no means to take care of themselves once he did die. Jolene’s decision to move out west, when the gold rush hit, was a risky move. The risk was not rewarded, ad Delia died during the journey to California.
As a widow and mother with no skills and no work experience other than farming, Jolene had no option but to turn to prostitution to make ends meet. She worked in a brothel in Coloma California near Sutter’s mill, where the miners first struck gold. Her Madame worked the girls hard and paid them pence, taking most of the profits for herself through high rent prices in the parlor and by taking off the top of the fees. In 1854 she demanded that Lucile start working for keep. Jolene refused, leading to her and Lucile being cast out on the street.
She and her daughter spent many cold nights on the streets of Coloma, harassed, outcast, and not given a second thought, other than a two bit whore and her sorry daughter. The only kindness she ever received was from a strange man in a bowler hat who brought them in to a fine hotel, fed them, and gave them a good night’s rest one strange night. This man was Jonathan Mendel, a surveyor for the southern pacific railroad company. What he offered them, however, was different. He offered them acceptance in Los Angeles. He offered community, power, and control over yourself through the liberation found in amoral thinking. Desperate, and longing for personal freedom, Jolene accepted Johnathan’s offer to return with him to Los Angeles and join the setite cult
Jolene took to the Setite teachings with eagerly, first through her understanding of vice, and later thrived in the theological settings of Setite doctrine and worship. She served as Johnathan’s ghoul for many years, learning how to run a brothel for herself, and the finer points of illicit financial endeavors. Jolene became the Madame of a parlor called The White Rose, which gained a lot of popularity in the new city. She catered to failed prospectors who had nothing but a cent to their name and a need for a drink, to the frustrated husband who was mad at his wife, and to the wives who longed for a woman’s touch but had only a husband. Any who had hit rock bottom like she had, could come and find liberation in Set. All were welcome at The White Rose, and Mama la Fleur could provide. All was for the benefit of liberating the eternal soul back to Nun, freeing mortals from the moral shackles of the Aeons.
She was embraced by Johnathan in 1864, having proven herself devoted to Set and the teachings, and having shown aptitude in liberating the souls of others through vice. The White Rose was given entirely over to Jolene, as Johnathan had to continue his work with the railroads, an effort to help expand the Clan’s influence and mobility throughout the vast United States. She was initiated as a priestess of Set and began her walk down the path of Typhon, having already spent her time learning the theologies of the clan as a ghoul. She expanded the business to more than sexual entertainment, becoming prominent in the dealing of drugs, and the brewing and selling of alcohol. Her fortunes became vast and invaluable to the clan at large. By the 1920’s, with tinsel town on the rise, Jolene’s business had thrived. Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, and perversion dominated the culture of the city. Her blood cult and followers were direct influencers in Los Angeles politics through blackmail and connections.
As time went on, Jolene found herself more and more encompassed by the workings of her business than by devotion to Set and the liberation of the soul. She realized that it was time for a change of pace. There were many Setites working to liberate the souls of the masses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Her competition with other Setites for worshipers and business opportunities had become the focus, Her capitalistic behavior the chains of the Aeons. It was time to leave LA and recommit herself to the teachings of Set in a new place. With renewed reverence and conviction in the Setite scriptures, Jolene made her way to Oddhaven in the early nineties, just before the false Gehenna, and, in the opportune chaos, established herself as the High Priestess of Set.
She runs the latest iteration of The White Rose, now called La Fleur de Blanc, as a nightclub in a renovated part of the Van Buren Works, and has worked to establish a system of drug dealers and smugglers all across Oddhaven. In modern nights her use of prostitution has also extended to pornography and has her own studio known White Rose films, “Satiate your Desire.” She also owns hotels in old town that she runs her porn business and prostitution out of.
“To know addiction and vice is to know the chains of the Aeons. Through this knowledge will we liberate our souls.” --Jolene Abernathy.
As a widow and mother with no skills and no work experience other than farming, Jolene had no option but to turn to prostitution to make ends meet. She worked in a brothel in Coloma California near Sutter’s mill, where the miners first struck gold. Her Madame worked the girls hard and paid them pence, taking most of the profits for herself through high rent prices in the parlor and by taking off the top of the fees. In 1854 she demanded that Lucile start working for keep. Jolene refused, leading to her and Lucile being cast out on the street.
She and her daughter spent many cold nights on the streets of Coloma, harassed, outcast, and not given a second thought, other than a two bit whore and her sorry daughter. The only kindness she ever received was from a strange man in a bowler hat who brought them in to a fine hotel, fed them, and gave them a good night’s rest one strange night. This man was Jonathan Mendel, a surveyor for the southern pacific railroad company. What he offered them, however, was different. He offered them acceptance in Los Angeles. He offered community, power, and control over yourself through the liberation found in amoral thinking. Desperate, and longing for personal freedom, Jolene accepted Johnathan’s offer to return with him to Los Angeles and join the setite cult
Jolene took to the Setite teachings with eagerly, first through her understanding of vice, and later thrived in the theological settings of Setite doctrine and worship. She served as Johnathan’s ghoul for many years, learning how to run a brothel for herself, and the finer points of illicit financial endeavors. Jolene became the Madame of a parlor called The White Rose, which gained a lot of popularity in the new city. She catered to failed prospectors who had nothing but a cent to their name and a need for a drink, to the frustrated husband who was mad at his wife, and to the wives who longed for a woman’s touch but had only a husband. Any who had hit rock bottom like she had, could come and find liberation in Set. All were welcome at The White Rose, and Mama la Fleur could provide. All was for the benefit of liberating the eternal soul back to Nun, freeing mortals from the moral shackles of the Aeons.
She was embraced by Johnathan in 1864, having proven herself devoted to Set and the teachings, and having shown aptitude in liberating the souls of others through vice. The White Rose was given entirely over to Jolene, as Johnathan had to continue his work with the railroads, an effort to help expand the Clan’s influence and mobility throughout the vast United States. She was initiated as a priestess of Set and began her walk down the path of Typhon, having already spent her time learning the theologies of the clan as a ghoul. She expanded the business to more than sexual entertainment, becoming prominent in the dealing of drugs, and the brewing and selling of alcohol. Her fortunes became vast and invaluable to the clan at large. By the 1920’s, with tinsel town on the rise, Jolene’s business had thrived. Sex, Drugs, Alcohol, and perversion dominated the culture of the city. Her blood cult and followers were direct influencers in Los Angeles politics through blackmail and connections.
As time went on, Jolene found herself more and more encompassed by the workings of her business than by devotion to Set and the liberation of the soul. She realized that it was time for a change of pace. There were many Setites working to liberate the souls of the masses in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. Her competition with other Setites for worshipers and business opportunities had become the focus, Her capitalistic behavior the chains of the Aeons. It was time to leave LA and recommit herself to the teachings of Set in a new place. With renewed reverence and conviction in the Setite scriptures, Jolene made her way to Oddhaven in the early nineties, just before the false Gehenna, and, in the opportune chaos, established herself as the High Priestess of Set.
She runs the latest iteration of The White Rose, now called La Fleur de Blanc, as a nightclub in a renovated part of the Van Buren Works, and has worked to establish a system of drug dealers and smugglers all across Oddhaven. In modern nights her use of prostitution has also extended to pornography and has her own studio known White Rose films, “Satiate your Desire.” She also owns hotels in old town that she runs her porn business and prostitution out of.
“To know addiction and vice is to know the chains of the Aeons. Through this knowledge will we liberate our souls.” --Jolene Abernathy.
Attributes: Place specialties in parentheses
Strength:3
Dexterity:2
Stamina:3
Charisma:4 (hospitality)
Manipulation:3
Appearance:4(Mouthwatering)
Perception: 2
Intelligence:4 (Setite theology)
Wits: 3
Abilities: Place specialties in parentheses
Alertness 2
Awareness 2
Empathy 4 (Sensing Vice)
Brawl 2
Leadership 3
Subterfuge 2
Streetwise 4 (Power dynamics)
Etiquette 4 (southern hospitality)
Firearms 1
Performance 1
Stealth 2
Survival 2
Professional skill, prostitute 3
Finance 3
Law 2
Setite lore 5 (Setites Clanbook revised) (Doctrinal and Prophetic analysis)
Politics 2
Occult 2
Backgrounds:
Herd 4
Jolene’s blood cult is prolific and filled with followers. She cares for all of them greatly and even embraces some when the time is right for them to take on Set’s gift of immortality. She tends to embrace those who take the orthodox teachings to heart just like she did. She particularly has a soft spot for prostitutes to be in the main blood cult, and to be embraced.
Contacts 4
Jolene has contacts within the mortal drug dealing communities and the OPD, acting as a guardian angel keeping them from being thrown in jail, unless it suits their enlightenment. She works closely with OPD vice division and sometimes the Oddhaven chief of police.
Domain 5 (Size 3, Security 2)
The main Setite temple in Oddhaven is a large complex of factory buildings in a renovated part of the Van Buren Works. La Fleur de Blanc is at the forefront of this complex, the reception area for the uninitiated and unenlightened. Two other buildings are storerooms for the development of various drugs, and the distillery for hard liquor. The underground portions of the complex are the temple proper, where ritual is practiced and meetings of the blood cult are held.
Generation 5
High influence 3: Vice division of the OPD, Bank of the Forlorn Isles, FIMSA (Forlorn Isles Media Standards Association).
Resources 5
Most of Jolene’s holdings are tied up in capital and businesses that she helps manage and run with other priests of her sect and her blood cult. This includes White Rose Studios, which shoot out of various high class hotels on The Shore. Her Brothels are around similar tourist heavy areas, The Northern Star Hotel being her most profitable and protected brothel in the city. La Fleur de Blanc is her most successful pet project yet, being both parts nightclub and distillery of fine spirits. Not to mention the considerable holdings and businesses that are still Accruing wealth in LA. Her tastes are befitting of her worldly success, and yet her trappings and tastes are relatively humble considering. She has more money than any being could ever need, and all funds are going towards the liberation of all worldly souls through Set’s teachings.
Age 3
Haven 4 (Occult, Security, Library, Guards)
Jolene’s haven resides deep within the maintenance tunnels of the complex just outside the Temple Proper. In it she has her Library of Setite scriptures and her coffin, adorned with a Typhonic head. The furnishings inside are that of the Antebellum south. Fine woodwork and comfortable seating make her haven perfect for discussions of theological importance with the other priests in the city, and an excellent place for diplomatic and business discussions of importance amongst the Consuls of the Alliance.
Status 5
While not the station of a prince, Jolene is the foremost Setite theologian in the Isles and widely respected across her clan, and by other members of the alliance. While other factions and Paths of enlightenment across the Isles do not always agree with her orthodox interpretations of the doctrine, they recognize her effectiveness in proselytization and leadership even in the wake of the false Gehenna. She leads the largest cult in Oddhaven, and even practices the Thaumaturgical art of Corruption.
Fame 3
Jolene is famous in the Oddhaven and LA nightclub scenes and a well known name in the criminal underworld. She is not directly feared, but the power and influence she wields is.
Disciplines:
Thaumaturgy: Path of corruption 5
Thaumaturgy secondary path: Weather control 3
Serpentis: 5
Presence: 5
Obsfucate: 5
Combination Disciplines:
True loves face (presence 3, obsfucate 3) (Lore of the Clans)
Weigh the heart (auspex 2, serpentis 5) (Lore of the Clans)
Elder Discipline Powers:
Serpentis 6: Cobra fangs
Presence 6: Love
Obsfucate 6: Soul mask
Virtues:
Conviction 4
Self control 5
Willpower: 8
Maximum Blood Points/Blood per turn: 15/3
Merits: Addictive blood (3 pt)
Flaws: forked tounge (2 pt)