Lauren Darrow

Mental Attributes: Intelligence 1, Wits 4, Resolve 1
Physical Attributes: Strength 4, Dexterity 2, Stamina 4
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation --, Composure 2

Mental Skills: Investigation 3
Physical Skills: Athletics 3, Brawl (Bite) 5, Stealth 2, Survival (Tracking) 4
Social Skills: Intimidation 3, Persuasion 1, Socialize 2

Merits: Iron Stomach 2, Fast Reflexes 2, Danger Sense 2, Fighting Style (

• Hunter's Eye Spend a turn observing your opponent to lower his defense for the remainder of the scene •• Slip Through Attack one turn for no damage to null opponents defense from next attack ••• Pounce If you roll more successes than the targets size it is knocked to the ground under you

Tooth and Claw) 3

Willpower: 3
Initiative: 6 (9 w/ Celerity)
Defense: 4
Health: 8
Size: 4
Speed: 12 (base 7) (48 w/ Celerity)

Disciplines: Celerity 3
Vitae: 4/1

Attacks...........................Damage.....Dice Pool.....Special
Bite................................. 2(L).......... 13

• Proud
• Doesn't like to admit weakness
• GAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY

• Speaks somewhat broken English with a heavy Japanese accent
• Enthusiastic
• Likes Sheridan and outdoor shots
• Likes Lauren

• Old British gentleman
• You can hear his moustache
• From the 1850's
• Like portraits
• Very dignified
• VERY BRITISH

• Previous owner was a Harvard student and reporter
• Calls Lauren "sport"
• Likes reporting!
• Wants to be in the papers!

• Moon's words: “Tick. Tock. About time.”
• The Awfish Thing leads to a large, swampy graveyard full of obsidian mausoleums that seemed very sharp. Each is a foot or two off the ground and surrounded by a decorative iron fence with skulls on each post that have moving eyes. The exit location of the Awfish Thing is roughly three miles to any side of the graveyard. The entire graveyard stretches as far as you can see and covers thirty g'lash.
• Smythe's description: He — and in this Lauren was only guessing — was about five feet, four inches tall, but slender as a rail except for strangely broad, almost triangular shoulders. He was dressed in a broad leather coat, in which Lauren could make out little bits of chainmail, and with a greasy black bandanna around his lank, grey hair. He had a mask on, something that looked faintly like a surgical mask, and his eyes were hidden behind a pair of pale, yellowish lenses. In one hand he held an object that seemed to be both shovel and pick at once, and there was a sack thrown over his shoulders. He lives in the shadow of the Orphanage in the City, with his wife and kids.
• Smythe calls himself a "professional resurrection man." This seems to involve disentombing corpses and taking them off to be sold. He says that he is after a Fourth Lord whose family scrimped on the House Hands.
• He calls Lauren a Cha'annysite. And a heathen. The people of Cha'annys are, he says, very violent and do not entomb their dead. They are from the "New World."
• Smythe fears what he calls "the Hands."
• The Scribe seems to be some sort of god, and is likely from the Abyss. It has twelve fingers. It sounds like people meet him when they die, and the important/pious get good reports written up. Though apparently the Fourth Lord does not get one with his body stolen. It is also known as "the Secret Branch of the Tree of Possibility" and "the Prince of 100,000 Leaves." The latter is a bad omen, and shouldn't be mentioned. It means "that what's real isn't what you think."
• A Scribe's Mark is a bookmark depicting the Scribe made out of a Sixth Lord's skin. It makes Lauren sick, but Erin theorizes that others corrupted by the Abyss might find it comforting. The Mark is used to frighten away the Hands, because in his other skin as "the Secret Branch of the Tree of Possibility," the Scribe gives them life.
• The currency is something called shekels.
• The entire area is corrupted by the Abyss. The Fourth Lord has Abyssal runes etched into his skeleton.
• "Now, keep an eye out and if you spot a Hand, scream like it’s yer first blood-feast and it’s the big lug yonder entertaining you."
• The buried and preserved Fourth Lord seems to be capable of some form of movement, as he twitches and Smythe says he should have pins between his joints. The idea is to stick the body in a pot and... eat it? Use it to make a broth? This somehow helps you when you die and see the Scribe.

• The ring Lauren received is likely from "a theocratic noble in servant of the scribe."
• "[The fingers] are very close to human. If one reads on convergent evolution, one might state they are creatures from a different background that evolved into a similar result. The fingers seem a bit shorter and stronger than human fingers. They also seem to have flatter pads on the fingertips…they may have once been a subterranean race. That may explain why all the individuals I saw were wearing lenses over their eyes.” The fingers have Abyssal runes etched into the bones.
• The Scribe's Mark: “This is another Abyssal sigil. I think it would react with the signs that are on the bones, that we found. Someone with those sigils would find this bookmark comforting, rather than sickening.” It doesn't make Lauren as sick in this world.