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New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Gig sounds good to me! I’ll move my CS and get a post up when I get home later today!

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Steele

Name: Harvey 'Steele' Kowalski

Age: 72 (looks 25

Gender: Male

Clan: Caitif

Generation: 11th

Occupation: Full time musician

Appearance: Harvey's facial features are distinctly Eastern European with some high cheekbones and deep eyes but most would hardly be looking at Harvey's facial features when first meeting him. His outfits are a blast, harkening back to when leather pants were all the rage and big hair wasn't just an eyesore. Standing at a modest 5'9" at 160 lbs, Harvey's hardly an adonis but he's managed eek out his own timeless (to him) style. His wardrobe usually consists of darker colours, playing into the his MO that's heavily inspired by KISS (his band's sets are predominantly made up of KISS covers), with the only real main-stay is his aviator sunglasses and black headband that he wears at most times.

Personality: Steele is lazy but on the surface he doesn't really seem to do much. Spending most of his time soaking in the admiration of those that like him and blowing off those that don't is a typical night for Steele. He's very decisive amongst the local music scene and he wouldn't have it any other way. He's hardly a shut book, spouting off just about anything that comes to mind in a smug but cheerful manner. While he likes to pretend he's hot-stuff, in recent years he's been getting more worried about his dwindling humanity. His close proximity to humans every night acts as a mirror to show Steele just how cold he's gotten in comparison. While he wouldn't admit it outright, Steele still wishes he could dump the vamparism but that's one tune he'll need to forget.

Background: Born sometime during the second Word War in America to a loving mother and father who wasn't his mother's husband, Harvey Kowalski had a rough but not impossible lot in life. The shame his mother endured after her subsequent marriage to her affair partner after her husband never came home trickled down to the Harvey who had no idea what he did to deserve people's ire. He had some trouble making friends and when meeting new people he would down play or lie about his home life or the specifics of him coming to be. Like the ugly duckling, Harvey would grow to be a handsome and silver tongued young man with a blossoming skill for the guitar. Taking some inspiration from the Monkees with his guitar work catapulted Harvey into the land of Rock and Roll and into the loving grasp of his first band.

The band became pretty locally famous when the lot of them moved to down to LA in the hopes of making it big, however it wasn't just mortal eyes focused on the group. One night after a relatively big show, Harvey was approached by a woman introducing herself as Sarah. Usually being the one to lay on the charm, Harvey was pleasantly surprised to be the one serenaded by smooth words and sweet nothings. These eventually lead to the duo breaking away from the crowd and heading off into the night. The night is a blur to Harvey but he remembers the sting in his neck, his life and blood leaving his body and something else returning.

In the years following his Embrace, Harvey would try to track down a cure for his affliction but his undead heart was drawn back into the world of music as the age of glam-rock and hair-metal came to be. The style spoke to him and music was violent enough to reflect his feelings on his life as he knew it but soft in spots that reminded him of who he once was. He didn't mean to get into the music industry again but going under the moniker of Steele, Harvey began playing for various random bands on electric guitar before his touring brought him back to New York where he finally settled in with Mrs.Adamson and Mr.Strauss' family.

Skills:


Notes:

Allies:
Lindsey 'Magnum' Kim (drums) and Royce 'Farce' Cross (bass) are Steele's bandmates and good friends. Magnum also runs a club the band regular at and Royce is a high ranking manager at a Apple store.

Herd:
Some groupies that have an unhealthy obsession with the band and more specifically Steele. Usually decked out in the band's merch (most of which is unofficial, home made items).

Fame:
In his drifting days, Steele learned what to say, how to say it and to who to say what to. Coming back to New York let Steele get his face back out there and said face has begun to spread thanks to his band's performances.

Riturals:
-Domino of Life: Using this ritual adds one die to the caster’s dice pools when attempting to pass as human. Un- less onlookers are especially wary, the Domino of Life should fool them into thinking the caster is mortal — not that they should have any reason to suspect otherwise.

Lemme know if there's anything I should change and sorry again for the wait!

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

@Eviledd1984

No, no sweat man. Should have my sheet done tomorrow when I have a bit more time to work on it. Sorry for the wait!

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Okay, kids I've posted an update. Would you guys want me to make a Discord server or do you guys want to talk here?

@Eviledd1984

I’m good with either, personally.

@Shovel@rocketrobie2

Okay for the sake of consistency, you can use the freebie points.

@Eviledd1984

Sorry, just wanna make sure; those abilities with 4 points did come from freebies? Hate to sound like a broken record but being newish to the system I wasn’t sure if it was just freebies used to bump stuff up to 4 dots or if there was some other way. Thanks for the clarification anyhow!

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

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I am not allowing the use of the freebie points as the skill sheet is mostly used to see how proficient your character is at something.

@Eviledd1984

How do people get some of their abilities to 4 dots? I think I might be missing something in character creation (also, just about finished my sheet, should hopefully have it done by tomorrow)

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Ah man, I completely forgot about the “being together for around 100 years” thing. Might need to go back to the drawing board. Thanks for reminding me.

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Wouldn’t mind some two cents from y’all I’m that case. The one thing I’m settled on is making a Caitif but here’s my different ideas;

First one is a 80s cover band rocker type guy, really leaning into the stereotype and having a bit of a more casual attitude to keeping up the masquerade, shrugging off any big accusations of his undead hood to his rockstar image. He’d be a bit famous to locals but not a real big shot.

Second idea is a more techie type, not sure about daytime occupation but in his mortal life he would spend hours on the computer writing on cryptic forums and investigating sightings. Now that he’s in the other side of the investigation he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

A third one that I haven’t put as much thought into but could be fun; a used car salesman. He’s got the gift of gab and the know how to back it up. Like I said, less developed but might be fun to flesh out

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Hopefully I’ll have my CS whipped up before then. Been ping ponging between two character ideas right now and I’m having trouble pulling the trigger on either.

OUTLAW SPACE

Happy late holidays y'all

Ok, lemme know if this idea works/doesn't overlap with anyone boss-man:

A gung-ho Cult-y pilot with some whacky cybernetics that border on psychic. The big inspirations I've got here are psykers and (to a much lesser extent) orks from 40k. Basically his sect believe there's something beyond just AIs, literal ghosts in the shell and each has their own affinity for different technologies which is augments by cybernetics that have been reversed engineered on multiple occasions only to determine that they shouldn't work. He'd be really Zealous and have parchments written out and stuck around the cockpit (where he'd also sleep), trying to preach his gospel anywhere the team goes. However, he'd always try to avoid any other members of his sect and get really clammy when interacting with them (I can spill the beans on why if ya want in DM or out in the open, just like adding a little dash of mystery).

Does that sound ok? If the psychic-y bits are pushing it too far I can change it to a more physical interface thing (like pluggin into the ship).

New York By Night (A Vampire The Masquerade RP) (CLOSED)

Gonna get a sheet up hopefully today. Like I said before I'm pretty new to the system so I'll fire you over my sheet (it's from another VtM game I played on here a while ago, really liked the character but didn't get to use him much).