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"Come around, young ones." The grizzled Moondancer made a motion indicating that the young metis cubs should form a semicircle around the fire. "I will tell you a story of one of your kind. It is a story of great accomplishment - and even greater sorrow. So driven was this young metis to overcome his handicap - one that had plagued him from birth (yes, young one, a handicap on par with your twisted arm) that he succeeded. I see you smile with hope, but let me assure you that this is not a story of hope. I am going to tell you the story of how Sees-Through-Tunnel found his eye." The children gasped and growled. They had heard rumours of Sees-Through-Tunnel. They had heard the names the other garou called them. Sees-Through-Tunnel received even worse epithets. The oldest among them, those who had recently gone through First Change, remembered Sees-Through-Tunnel. He had left the sept a decade before. There had been much blood shed that night.

The Galliard gazed at the twisted pups. They needed to know the truth, no matter how awful it was. "Some among you have heard that Sees-Through-Tunnel sold his soul to the Wyrm for his eye. This may be true. I will tell the story, but I will not judge. I will leave that to you."

"Sees-Through-Tunnel was born strong of body and mind. He was born under the New Moon among the Get of Fenris. The Get, as you know, have little enough use for the Ragabash among us, and you know their opinon of the Metis, I'm sure. There is a reason we suggest you stay out of sight when they come to the caern. That Sees-Through-Tunnel was permitted to live to first change speaks more about his strength and resourcefulness than I could. His deformity, I can see, most of you know. He was born with only one eye, like a cyclops."

"The Get, though they respected his prowess, are not known for their kindness. Sees-Through-Tunnel grew up in the Sept of the Stone Blade, among the Get of Fenris and a few Silver Fangs. He was not treated nearly as well as you. I know your lives have not been idyllic here. Imagine what he must have gone through. Like you, he grew to hate what he was. Like many of you, he focussed upon a physical manifestation. He grew obsessed with the fact that he only possessed a single eye. Shortly after his First Change, he set out to gain a second one."

"The Ragabash are known for accomplishing the impossible. Sees-Through-Tunnel came to the conclusion that his heritage promised that - for him - the impossible was possible. He concluded that it was his destiny to overcome his handicap. Unfortunately, he may have been correct."

"It was during a great battle with undead minions of the Wyrm that See-Through-Tunnel first saw the three-eyed creatures. They fought valiantly. Even the Get of Fenris admit this, and they are not light with such compliments. I cannot imagine how Sees-Through-Tunnel must have felt. To see a great enemy with an excess of that which you have lacked your entire life is no mean insult. The wyrm-things were splendid in battle, but they were outnumbered, and no matter how powerful an enemy is it will likely fall to the power of Gaia's warriors. Sees-Through-Tunnel suggested that one of the creatures be taken captive, so that it might be questioned. The Get do not take prisoners, but Sees-Through-Tunnel had a sly tongue and convinced his Alpha that the wounded creature would not be suffered to live and spread wyrm-taint, but that was no reason to lose whatever information it might have concerning other mynions of the Wyrm. At the time, no one realized that Sees-Through-Tunnel had ulterior motives. His plan made sense."

"When Sees-Through-Tunnel was guarding the prisoner, he offered it a chance to escape if the prisoner would reveal the secret of how he acquired his third eye. The prisoner refused. It was not to proteect the secret of the eye, though. It had no desire to escape once it had been bested in combat. It possessed a code of honor unusual among the creatures of the Wyrm. It told Sees-Through-Tunnel that it would reveal the secret of the third eye from him if he would do two things."

"First, the two of them would fight a duel to the death. The wyrm-thing, wounded, knew that it was no match for Sees-Through-Tunnel, but wished to die in battle. The second would be that Sees-Through-Tunnel would take an oath to fight against certain wyrmish enemies of the creature." The children looked confused, and the Galliard nodded indulgently, "I know, it makes little sense for this wyrm creature to exact a promise that Sees-Through-Tunnel fight against other Wyrm creatures. It is the nature of the Wyrm, though, to devour itself. There is no unity in decay. I know little of the creatures that Sees-Through-Tunnel pledged to destroy other than that they are sorcerous blood-drinkers."

"Yes, Sees-Through-Tunnel accepted the creature's terms, and the creature gave him a wyrmish second eye. By allowing the Wyrm into himself, Sees-Through-Tunnel became an abomination. He had two eyes. It was all he thought he had ever wanted. He failed to realize, though, that he wanted a second eye for a reason. He wanted to be normal. He wanted to be treated as another member of the pack. He wanted to remove the visible reminder that told the other Garou that he was metis." One of the young Garou began to whine softly. "Instead, he accomplished none of these things. He alienated himself not only from his pack but from every other Garou in the Nation. He traded the visible manifestation of his tainted birth for a visible reminder of his betrayal. So single-minded was he about acquiring a second eye that he never considered where it would appear. When his second eye manifested, it did so directly above his first." The Galliard took a burning branch and twisted it in the smoke above the bonfire, producing a pair of smoke rings. The metis cubs gazed at them in wonder and horror as if they were the eyes of Sees-Through-Tunnel themselves. "You might wonder how I learned this story. When Sees-Through-Tunnel realized his error, he also realized his pack would no longer accept him and would seek his death. He left them immediately and silently, before they could discover what had become of him - and he came here. He knew the Children of Gaia were more accepting of the metis than other tribes. He thought we might accept him despite what he had done. He was wrong. We accept you all because - even though you are born from sin -- you have done no wrong and you are still Gaia's creatures. Sees-Through-Tunnel had become something else. He came to our moot. He told us his story and begged us to accept him into our sept. We answered him with claws and klaives, but he escaped us. His touch burned like silver, and he killed many warriors of Gaia that night. One day, we will repay the favor."

Sees-Through-Tunnel was a one-eyed metis until he was embraced as a Salubri-antitribu Abomination and gained his second eye (directly above his first). He also has a conformist nature.

- Stuart Broz

Vampire
Clan: Nosferatu (Looks like the Swedish Chef)
Merits/flaws:
Sire's Gift: Master crafted or Kindred Warded frying pan
Speech impediment: Sounds like Swedish Chef ("Und noo buys und gurls, ve'll lurn to coook the chickees! Bork bork bork!")
Lunacy
Eat Food

Derangements: Hysteria, Obsessive/Compulsive(cooking)

Other stuff:
Ghouled lobster

Animalism 3(usually calls chickens and the occasional moose)
Humanity 3 or 2
cook 4

- Carl Anderson

I've got a great R&U character for you. It combines almost every Storyteller game system into one, happy, angst-filled bundle. I can't take full credit for this one, as my room-mate Brian Anderson had to help me with the Wraith part. Ready? Here we go:

We start with Ned the Nagah, happily swimming along in the Ganges river in India. "Ned" isn't his real name, as he was born a cobra, but it'll do. Ned leaves the river to evaluate the local shape-changer population from the shadows and kill the ones that are out of line, as is his Gaia-born duty to do. Ned also happens to be a mirror-image twin, unbeknownst to him, which gives him the 3 pt. Physical Merit Misplaced Heart.

Ned doesn't realize it, but someone's taken quite an interest in him. Maybe its his skill at assassination, maybe they have a Mage friend in common (Supernatural Ally, 4 pt. merit), maybe it's a certain jen es se quos, but in any case, a vampire takes it into her head to Embrace our friend Ned. He feels a tap on his shoulder, turns, and is Dominated into submission and embraced by Nadia the Nagaraja. Nadia is a quite old and powerful Nagaraja of the seventh generation (making Ned eigth gen, if you're keeping track), and knows enough not to stick around for the post-Embrace Shapechanger frenzy. Trusting in the Dominate commands she implanted into Ned to bring him to her once he's calmed down (in, say, a week), she gets out of the immediate area before Ned wakes up.

Ten minutes later, Ned wakes up. Having botched his Gnosis test, he wakes up Undead rather than Dead. Ned doesn't take being a vampire well, especially one that needs to consume human flesh as well as human blood. He reacts in the predictable, Rage-filled manner and frenzies. After killing and eating a few innocents, he calms down a bit and decides to go home before dawn hits to think things over.

"Home" is a wani-realm (I used Background points to buy it at character creation), an under-water Umbral den realm. A day's rest and contemplation allows Ned to adjust to and rationalize his new condition. "It must be my Karma," he thinks, "Maybe I'm supposed to judge vampires now, instead of shapechangers." Ned is now at peace with being a Nagah/Nagaraja Abomination. Rationalization complete, Ned feels Nadia's Dominate command to come and find her kick in.

Ned finds Nadia in short order (finding supernaturals, is, after all, his kinds' business) and she explains the vampiric condition to him and begins tutoring him in his In-Clan discipines of Auspex, Dominate, and Necromancy. Ned is delighted to learn more about himself and other vampires, knowing that every jot of information he learns will help him in his "new, Gaia-chosen duty" to slay vampires who step out of line.

Necromancy especially intrigues Ned and he accidentally attracts the balefull attention of Sid the Spectre, master of the Dark Arcanos Corruption. Sid the Spectre, seeing a useful tool in Ned the Nagah/Nagaraja decides to use level five Corruption, Blissful Conformity, to create a place for himself in Ned's mind and whisper his commands into Ned's ear.

Sid/Ned is quite the supernatural. The shape-changing might and spiritual gifts (those that don't require Gnosis) of Ned's Nagah body, his Mage buddy, and the powers of his vampiric condition make a nice addition to Sid's Arcanoi and Spectre connections. Unfortunately, this also means a lot of book-keeping: the amounts of Rage, Blood, Willpower, flesh consumed (Ned's clan disadvantage), entropy (from consuming Wraith's corpus--gained from Vitrious Path Necromancy), Angst, and Being all have to be kept track of.

Rather than giving up, Sid/Ned go looking for another means of gathering power. Using Ned's mage connection, Sid/Ned gets a good idea of where to find Nick, a Nephandus mage. Rather than killing the Nephandus, as Ned's friend had hoped he would, Sid/Ned decides to make friends with him. Nick is surprised to learn the nature of his new visitor, but considering Sid/Nick's willingness to become a student in the Dark Arts, Nick agrees to help Sid/Ned sell Ned's soul (Sid only controls Ned, he isn't a part of him).

Sid/Ned and Nick summon up Nick's patron, Dave the Demon, and a deal is struck. In exchange for Ned's immortal soul, Sid/Ned get tutoring in Dark Thaumaturgy and the Demonic Investments of flight (huge bat wings) and resistance to fire.

Thus, Sid/Ned is an Infernal Nagah/Nagaraja Abomination necromancer and thaumagurge with a misplaced heart, the ability to fly, and resistance to fire being controlled by a Spectre Dark Arcanos master with a True Mage ally and an underwater Umbral pocket-realm for a haven.

I hope this one wins, but I think I have stiff competition. I know Brian and myself were chortling with glee when we thought this monstrosity up. I don't suppose I'll be allowed to play it, will I?

- Andrew Brown

I'll start with a fomor
It's a hermphadite with savage genitilla TWICE

Then I'll add in a Malkavian with the derangement nymphomania.

For flavor I'll make it a Kinian with Fae Blood. It has the Flaw Oathbound Health.

Now here's the kicker, it has taken a vow of celebecy so everytime it engages in any type of sexual activity, it starts to die.

Hey wait this is starting to sound like fun. Can I play this?

- Nate Hargis

My R&U humor character was Embraced in Southern California in the early seventies by a Malkavian Anti-Trib who appreciated his cult-building skills and thought he'd make a good pack priest. The twist? Well, he's a Scientologist, and aside from having the Malk derangements that Caine is Emperor Ximu, the antediluvians are actually the evil Thetans, and that you can reprogram people from their negative behaviors (including vampiric troubles) by holding a couple copper tubes to achieve "clear," he has True Faith in all these things so he can actually get them to work, not to mention Fist of God focused through this copy of Dianetics. He has now, also, converted to becoming a Child of Osiris, using those disciplines in pursuit of helping vampires via Scientology, and also has a Salubri as mentor teaching him Obeah so he can take out their souls to do the same.

Oh, yes, and my Scientologist Malk/Child of Osiris is also a famous historical character--L. Ron Hubbard himself. What, you didn't think he actually died, did you? And how did he manage to write all those books after he supposedly kicked off?

L. Ron has the highest level members of the Church of Scientology in on his secret, as they are his personal ghouls, as are some of the more famous poster-kids. A few points of the "Exceptional Ghoul" merit should do well to represent John Travolta and Tom Cruise (Tom's recent breakup with Nicole was caused by the evil Thetans).

Obviously, L. Ron he has lots of Finance, Media, and Fame as well, and has no problem using those.

Do you like this character concept? May I play him?

- Kevin Murphy