Marie Thibodeux

Marie Thibodeux was a Medium who lived in the 19th century United States.

Biography

Marie doesn't do voudoun, exactly. Nor does she take clients as a medium, at least not exactly. Instead, she just sits, and listens, and lets the ghosts talk to her.

The ghosts, when they come, they tell Marie things. They tell her secrets from their lives - where they hid their money, or their baubles and trinkets, so that the bandits and doctors wouldn't steal it after they died. They also tell her things they've seen in the afterlife - stories of deeds done on earth.

And so when the ghosts come to talk to Marie, telling her these stories, she writes them down and puts the stories in a safe place, trusting one of her nephews or grandsons or daughters with it. Then she wraps herself up to go traveling and makes her way through the streets to the door of someone a ghost's told her a story about. She'll walk up the steps and knock on the door, and whoever answers, rich or poor, always lets her in. They know what's going to happen if they don't.

No one knows what happens once the door swings shut behind Marie. Maybe she helps people. Maybe she tells'em that she knows their secrets. In any case, she always walks out with a handful of money, which she takes home and hides someplace her ghostly friends can watch over it.

Then she sits and wait for the next visitor.

Profile

  • Image: A big-boned woman in her 60s, Marie is still alert and energetic. She wears white cotton, island-style, and never goes out without her head being covered. Her face was beautiful once, and you can still se the traces of that beauty once, and you can still see the traces of that beauty that time hasn't eroded away.
  • Roleplaying Hints: Sit and wait for the ghosts to tell you what you need to know. Never renege on the bargains you make with them; you know better than to do that. Honor their requests, though the ghosts from the Islands are generally more polite about asking you than the white ghosts are. If someone comes to you for help, make sure they're sincere and respectful before offering any - and double-check with the ghosts.
  • Destiny: Marie lives to the age of 103, still passing on tidbits from the other side until the day she dies. The respect the town has for her wanes, though, and her last years are not happy ones. On the bright side, she is warmly greeted by many of her former informants when she crosses over, and eventually becomes an Anacreon for the Iron Legion.
  • Nature: Survivor
  • Demeanor: Survivor
  • Physical: Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 3
  • Social: Charisma 3, Manipulation 4, Appearance 2
  • Mental: Perception 5, Intelligence 3, Wits 4
  • Talents: Alertness 5, Awareness 4, Empathy 4, Expression 2, Spiritual Awareness 5, Streetwise 4, Subterfuge 3
  • Skills: Body Reading 4, Crafts 2, Etiquette 2, Survival 3
  • Knowledges: Enigmas 3, Linguistics 3, Medicine 2, Occult 4,
  • Backgrounds: Allies 3, Contacts 5,
  • Merits and Flaws: Easy Consort, Speaker with the Dead

References

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