The Ticket Taker

The Ticket Taker is a Spirit from Chicago, Illinois.

Background

Once the ghost of the founder of the Pullman Palace Car Company, this spirit has become less of an individual and more of an idea. Devoted to the community he envisioned, in which every worker lived according to his station and remained that way, Pullman's concept has transformed into a vengeance-powered spirit of an ideal. This makes the spirit less susceptible to attempts to contact the individual; on the other hand, those canny enough to counter it with forceful reasoning against its ideals may weaken or temporarily discorporate the spirit.

Description

This spirit takes the form of a railroad ticket-taker of the latter half of the 19th century. The Ticket-Taker's size and appearance are perfectly ordinary - medium height, weight and build, with short, dark hair, a mustache and hazel eyes. The Ticket-Taker guards the portal to Pullman's idealized town and allows no one to pass back into the material world without a "ticket."

Storytelling Hints

Anger and a desire for vengeance are the forces that drive this spirit. It is angry for a lost ideal and desires to avenge itself against anyone who it perceives as keeping it from realizing that ideal, i.e., anyone who attempts to put it to rest or otherwise battle it. Possession and Compulsion are its favored tools. Strikes or protest of any kind tend to draw it from its resting place.

Stats

Rank: 2
Attributes: Power 2, Finesse 3, Resistance 7
Willpower: 9
Essence: 12
Initiative: 10
Defense: 7
Speed: 15
Size: 5
Corpus: 12
Influence: Order *
Numina: Chorus, Iron Rending (as the werewolf Gift), Possession
Bar the Gate: No Gifts, Numina, spells or other powers that affect that material world from Twilight, the Shadow Realm or other such areas can be used within 20 yards of the Ticket-Taker without succeeding in a contested roll of Resolve + Presence versus the Ticket-Taker's Power + Resistance.
Ban: The Ticket-Taker cannot oppose any character or creature that bears a ticket for a Pullman train.

References

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