Mother Vigilant

Mother Vigilant is a Hunter in Darkness Irraka member of The Brotherhood of Eshu’s Cap.

Overview

Keeping an urban locus safe has never been easy, but Mother Vigilant (sometimes called Mother May-Eye) and her packmates have done their best. The locus - a never-empty garbage Dumpster in the middle of the worst part of town - attracts all manner of hungry spirits, and for a long time was a beacon to the city's homeless population, too. A Dumpster that never goes empty? That never gets picked up by the sanitation trucks? It was a bountiful cornucopia of semi-edible garbage.

And it was killing the locus. So, Mother Vigilant decided to do something about it. The local homeless and the other vagrants and gang members would be the vehicles for some scary urban myths. With the help of a local duguthim calling itself "the Coprophage" (possessed of a cockroach-spirit), Mother concocted a phony legend about a man-eating serial killer dwelling within the ranks of the homeless and living near the never-empty Dumpster. The illusion was easy to create: find a dead bum (one of the many frozen to the sidewalk during winter) and fill him full of trash, shit and butcher's scraps. Then, let the Coprophage go to town, eating the meal from within the corpse's icy guts somewhere the other vagrants can see. It worked. The story spread like wildfire. Occasionally, the story needs some refreshing: letting the Ridden leave behind a half-chewed body never hurts (he never kills them, he only eats what he finds already dead).

For the last couple of years, the territory is all but a ghost town. The alley and the two streets bookending it are desolate and dead, just how Mother wants it. But now she faces a new challenge: urban renewal. Developers have been poking around, and they're not so easily swayed by stories of cannibalistic serial killers. Worse, they've brought the cops in to come sniffing around, something that the vagrants and gangbangers would never do.

Mother Vigilant is a sage, old woman with a twinkle of madness in her one good eye (the other is a milky cataract). She's as nice as cookies, until she's forced to be otherwise. Soon, she's afraid that being nice will no longer be a luxury she can afford.

Stats

Tribe: Hunter in Darkness
Auspice: Irraka
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 4, Resolve 2
Physical Attributes: Strength 2 (3/5/4/2), Dexterity 1 (1/2/3/3), Stamina 3 (4/5/5/4)
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 4 (3/4/1/4), Composure 3
Mental Skills: Computer 1, Investigation 2, Occult 1, Politics 1
Physical Skills: Brawl 1, Larceny 2, Stealth (Silent Observer) 3, Survival 2, Weaponry 1
Social Skills: Animal Ken (Vermin) 1, Empathy (Read Intention) 3, Expression 1, Intimidation 2, Persuasion 2, Socialize 1, Streetwise (Gangs) 4
Merits: Direction Sense, Fast Reflexes 2, Fetish (Fireflash) 2, Inspiring, Resources 1
Primal Urge: 3
Willpower: 5
Harmony: 6
Max Essence/Per Turn: 12/1
Virtue: Hope
Vice: Gluttony
Health: 8 (10/12/13/8)
Initiative: 6 (6/7/8/8) with Fast Reflexes
Defense: 1 (1/2/3/3)
Speed: 8 (9/12/15/13)
Renown: Cunning 4, Purity 3, Wisdom 1
Gifts: Feet of Mist, Loose Tongue, Blending, Sand in the Eyes, Playing Possum, Running Shadow, Double Back
Rituals: 3; Rites: Banish Human, Rite of Contrition, Rite of Ajogun

References

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