Ken

Ken is a vampire.

Description

• Ken
• male
• dark brown buzzcut hair
• blue eyes
• 5' 10"
• 165 lbs
• age early/mid 20s when embraced
• born in 1940
• 8th Generation
• Survivor (Caregiver)
• XP Spent: 0
  • 4 XP for Willpower 5th dot
  • 3 XP for first dot in Occult
  • 3 XP for first dot in Empathy

Attributes

Physical		Social		Mental
Strength	ø ø o o o	Charisma	ø ø o o o	Perception	ø ø ø ø o
Dexterity	ø ø ø o o	Manipulation	ø ø o o o	Intelligence	ø ø o o o
Stamina	ø ø ø o o	Appearance	ø ø o o o	Wits	ø ø ø ø o

Abilities

Talents		Skills		Knowledges
Alertness	ø ø o o o	Animal Ken	ø ø o o o	Academics	o o o o o
Athletics	ø o o o o	Crafts	o o o o o	Computer	o o o o o
Brawl	o o o o o	Drive	ø o o o o	Finance	o o o o o
Dodge	ø ø o o o	Etiquette	o o o o o	Investigation	ø o o o o
Empathy	o o o o o	Firearms	ø ø ø o o	Military Tactics	ø ø ø o o
Expression	o o o o o	Melee	ø o o o o	Linguistics	o o o o o
Intimidation	ø o o o o	Performance	o o o o o	Medicine	ø o o o o
Leadership	ø o o o o	Security	o o o o o	Occult	o o o o o
Streetwise	ø o o o o	Stealth	ø ø ø o o	Politics	o o o o o
Subterfuge	ø o o o o	Survival	ø ø ø o o	Science	o o o o o

Advantages

Backgrounds		Disciplines		Virtues
Generation	ø ø ø ø ø	Protean	ø ø ø ø o	Conscience/Conviction	ø ø ø ø ø
		Fortitude	ø o o o o	Self-Control/Instinct	ø ø ø ø ø
				Courage	ø ø ø o o

More Stuff

Humanity/Path
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Willpower
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Blood Pool
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Merits and Flaws

• (-3) Driving Goal
  • Enable a lasting truce/cease fire between Kindred and Garou
• (-1) Prey Exclusion
  • Women
• (-1) Nightmares
  • War flashbacks
• (-1) Overconfident
• (-1) Skeleton in the Closet
  • Garou daughter
• (-2) Open Wound
  • Gunshot suffered just before his embrace
• (+2) Baby Face / Sanguine Humour

Backstory

• Grew up in semi-rural Pennsylvania
• Middle of his class in HS
• Got in to a ROTC program (maybe Penn State?)
• Met a girl training to be a nurse in college, fell in love
• Finished college, commissioned into the Army
• Stayed with his girlfriend
• Became part of a special ops team
• Sent to Vietnam during the big ramp-up of US involvement, maybe like 1961 or 1962
• Proposed to his lady the night before he left
• She accepted
• He left for the Vietnam war
• Lots of successful operations
• Then, one operation went wrong...
• Whole team was killed, he was shot and bleeding to death
• Just as the world started to fade, a young woman appeared and bit him
• He woke up later, and she was still there. And he was a vampire...
• To this day, he still has that bullet wound
• The Army declared him MIA
• His sire, the young woman, stayed with him and traveled with him for a long time
• She had been a priestess in medieval times
• She taught him great control over himself and the beast now within him
• Her teachings meshed well with the self-discipline he had learned in the armed forces
• After traveling for about a decade, they came back to his hometown
• His girlfriend was still there -- with her 9-year-old daughter
• She was still wearing the ring he gave her on a gold chain around her neck
• Their daughter was a beautiful young girl
• He stayed a near them for a few years, working to come to terms with himself and his feelings
• During this time, their daughter started to have some odd problems as she grew up
• One night, he heard howling echoing through the woods
• He knew there was no pack in his woods
• He followed the sound, and found a clearing with a young wolf
• Her eyes closed and as she fell asleep, her form flowed back to that of his daughter
• He held her into the night, and a few hours before dawn, she awoke
• She recognized him from her mother's pictures
• He told her everything would be okay, and that he would be out in this clearing again the next night
• Any night he heard her howling, he would find her
• He helped her through the Change, and to cope with her new self
• She discovered that her great-grandfather knew of an ancestor who suffered the same "affliction"
• After a while, her mom found out
• She brought her mother one night to see Ken
• Ken hoped to set her (the mom) free from him finally. Asked her to go ahead and live her life, as he could no longer join her
• Promised to keep an eye on (their daughter) for as long as he could
• Traveled on and off, but came back every few weeks to spend at least a month in his woods, watching out for them
• Early in this time, he scouted a couple of the closest werewolf packs he could find
• He told (the daughter) about them so she could choose one to go to for better guidance
• He cut back on his visits after she graduated from college
• Still, he continues to visit her every now and then, even though she is quite grown up
• He can occasionally slink through her territory in wolf form to visit her