Campaign:Exalted MODERN/Mark

Basics

• Campaign: MODERN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
• Name: Mark Letov
• Concept: Expedition leader
• Caste/Aspect: Waning Moon Lunar
• Motivation: ???
• Positive Intimacies: Pretty things, cats, the joys of spring, discovering new people and new civilizations, ???
• Negative Intimacies:
• Anima: A dancing silver crane
• Totem: Demoiselle Crane (Anthropoides virgo)
• Tattoos: None
• Tell: White hair-antennae just above the ears, shooting straight back
• Experience: 13/50

Background

• Born 7 Dec 1972
• NYC public school 1978-1990

  Learned Hebrew at temple due to kvetching from grandparents -- they were growing up when it was made illegal

• NYU late 1990 -- early 1994; archaeology/biology

  Met David in Bio 101.

  Studied abroad in Buenos Aires for senior year; learned Spanish, studied Inca ruins

  Met Carmen at the start of senior year, late 1993

  Graduated in the middle of the pack

• Spent 3 months in late 1994 in Siwa Oasis, Egypt on a dig looking for Alexander's tomb; needed money to make ends meet

  Learned Arabic; discovered a demand for something he could supply

• Decided on running the expedition business with Carmen
• Started a website in 1995 to handle scheduling customers, but it didn't take off as well as Amazon did; struggled for a while with part-time jobs in between the occasional expeditions.

• SEALED BY ORDER OF THE MAIDEN OF SECRETS

  Is it boring? Is it exciting? Is it both?! IT IS A MYSTERY

• He loves nuts and seeds: cashews and sunflower kernels particularly. He gets secondary screening every time he gets in an airplane.

Appearance

• Wavy black hair, not as curly as his mother's.
• 6'6", 205lbs: tall and bulky; not fat, but by no means small or thin.

Attributes

Strength  ●●     Charisma     ●●●●●  Perception   ●●
Dexterity ●●●●●  Manipulation ●●●    Intelligence ●●
Stamina   ●●●●   Appearance   ●●●●●  Wits         ●●●●●

Abilities

Archery      ●●●    Craft              Bureaucracy   
Athletics    ●      Larceny     ●      Investigation ●●●●●
Awareness    ●      Linguistics ●●     Lore          ●●
Dodge        ●●●    Performance ●      Occult        
Integrity    ●      Presence    ●●●●●  Medicine      
Martial Arts ●      Ride        
Melee               Sail        ●
Resistance   ●      Socialize   ●
Thrown              Stealth     ●●●
War                 Survival    ●

Specialties

Martial Arts (Hugs) ●
Presence (Hugs) ●
Presence (You are safe with me, my friend) ●●
Presence (Ladies) ●●
Investigation (Over dinner) ●●

:+1bp

Languages

• Germanic

  Native: English (American), Brooklyn middle-class

• Semitic

  Learned: Hebrew (Liturgical)

  Learned: Arabic (Eastern Libyan)

• Romance

  Learned: Spanish (Rioplatense)

Backgrounds

Resources:    ●●●    Income from business
Heartsblood:  ●●●
Contacts:     ●      Major: David; minor: Extreme survivalists
Contacts:     ●●     Major: Ex-wives; minor: Ladies~

Heartsblood forms

• Calico cat (Felis catus)
• Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)
• House sparrow (Passer domesticus)
• Beagle (Canis familiaris)
• Sea otter (Enhydra lutris)

• Eastern Cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus)
• Red rock crab (Grapsus grapsus)
• Elk (Cervus canadensis)
• Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)
• Cascavel pit viper (Crotalus durissus terrificus)

• Mule (Equus caballus + E. asinus)
• Crested owl (Lophostrix cristata)
• Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris)
• Yellow-naped Amazon parrot (Amazona auropalliata)
• Dyeing dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)

• Helmeted gecko (Tarentola chazaliae)
• ???
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• ???
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Merits & Flaws

• Unskilled 1
• Virtue weakness 1: Conviction (Anything for a beautiful lady -2)

Knacks

• Humble Mouse Shape (Ess 2 Sta 3 p132): Targets as small as a mouse are valid.
• Prey's Skin Disguise (Ess 2 App 3 p132): Human targets are valid.
• Life of the Hummingbird (Ess 2 Wit 3 p135)
• Quicksilver Second Face (Ess 2 Dex 4 p137): Change shape as Speed 3 misc for +1m.
• Lightning Change Style (Ess 3 Dex 5 p137): Change shape as reflexive action for +3m.

Charms

Dexterity

• 3rd: 4m

Stamina

• 3rd: 4m
• Bruise-Relief Method (Sta 2 Ess 2 p160): 1m/level, Reflexive, Combo-OK Gift, Instant.

Charisma

• 1st: 1m/die

Appearance

• 3rd: 4m
• Perfect Symmetry (App 3 Ess 2 p177): 4m, Simple (Speed 6, DV -1), Combo-OK, One scene.
• Glance-Oration Technique (App 4 Ess 3 p178): 5m 1w, Simple (Speed 6, DV -1), Combo-OK Obvious, One scene.

Essence

• Essence: ●●●
• Regeneration: 4/hour relaxed, 8/hour sleeping
• Personal Essence Pool: 19/19
• Peripheral Essence Pool: 48/48
• Committed Essence: 0

Willpower

• Willpower: ●●●●● ●●●
• Temporary: □□□□□ □□□

Virtues

Virtues:

Compassion ●●●●●
Conviction ●●●
Temperance ●
Valor      ●●

Virtue flaw: Mother Hen (Compassion)

Limit condition: Suppressing Compassion; resisting UMI; when touched by the light of the full moon

Limit: □□□□□ □□□□□

Inventory

• Ballistic jacket

Combat

Dodge DV: 6

Dodge MDV: 6

Soak: 0A/2L/4B

Pierced: 0A/2L/4B

Hardness: 0

Attacks

Punch:       Spd 5 Hit 7     Dmg 2B    PDV 4   Rate 3
Kick:        Spd 5 Hit 6     Dmg 5B    PDV 2   Rate 2
Clinch:      Spd 6 Hit 6     Dmg 2B            Rate 1 Piercing

Health

□ -0

□ -1

□ -1

□ -1

□ -2

□ -2

□ -2

□ -4

□ -4

□ Incapacitated

□ Dying

□ Dying

□ Dying

□ Dying

Background characters

• Paternal grandmother: Ekaterina Georgievna Letova (maiden name Makarova); b. 1920 Tsaritsyn, Russian SFSR; d. 2001 Volgograd, Russia

• Paternal grandfather: Vladimir Alexandrovich Letov; b. 1918 Kamyshin, Russian SFSR; d. 5 Oct 1942 Battle of the Stalingrad Tractor Factory; Junior Sergeant

• Maternal grandmother: Anna Tairova (maiden name Schachter); b. 21 Aug 1927 Koenigsberg, East Prussia, Wiemar Republic; moved to NYC 1971; Motivation: WHY DON'T YOU SETTLE DOWN WITH A NICE JEWISH GIRL

• Maternal grandfather: Tal Evgenevich Tairov; b. 1921 Odessa, Ukrainian SSR; d. 2004 NYC; moved to NYC 1971

• Father: Veselin Vladimirovich Letov; b. 2 Oct 1941 Stalingrad, Russian SFSR; moved out before the Siege; ultimately a descendant of the Golden Horde, though mixed with ethnic Rus now; chess nerd (ICC rating 1821), educated in engineering and conscripted as a fighter pilot in the USSR ('58-'71), became test pilot in USA ('72-'82), now retired and only tinkers; easily distracted, thrill-seeker

• Mother: Nadezhda "Nadya" Talovna Letova (maiden name Tairova); b. 15 Mar 1946 Odessa, Ukrainian SSR; ethnically Jewish though not particularly devout, managed to get her family out of the USSR in 1971 (arriving NYC 16 Nov, brought parents, husband) by using the ethnic Jewish exemption; professional chess player (FIDE peak 2418, IM); wants the best for her family and works FAR TOO HARD to get it

  "I work hard all my life for my family, and this is the thanks I get?!"

• Crazy militia guy: "David Matthews" ("Don't call me Dave!") born Harbert Marion Mortenson, changed in 1990; b. 8 Nov 1972 Rome GA USA; crazy militia guy who sits in his bunker in Montana watching for signs that the revolution is about to start; trains extreme survivalists; watched constantly by the FBI, but considered low-threat since he's basically a turtle in its shell; brown hair, bald, always dirty, grizzled, and unshaven, like he's been crawling through the mud and sleeping in a pile of leaves (which he usually has); 5'9" 190lb

• Ex-Wife 1: Carmen Quintana; b. 28 Jun 1973 Oberá, Misiones, Argentina; married 9 Apr 1994, divorced 2 Jun 1997; toxic relationship -- a little bit of a drug is fun, but a lot is deadly

• Ex-Wife 2: Niamh Ní Braonáin; b. 13 Aug 1980 Derry, Ireland; married 19 May 2001, divorced 20 Apr 2003; still amicable, since she slept around just as much and each knew this about the other -- marriage was on a whim, but turned into meaningless words on paper -- "Why did we get married?" "... Because it was fun?" "I'm bored, let's get a divorce." "Okay!"; red hair, green eyes, and acts the part; parents were IRA hardliners but the family has calmed down slightly since Bloody Sunday; now works PR for Sinn Féin

Advancement

• (15bp start + 2bp Flaws)
• 4bp Abilities
• 5bp Specialties
• 2bp Backgrounds
• 6bp Virtues
• (50xp start)
• 4xp Strength 2
• 8xp Manipulation 3
• 4xp Perception 2
• 2xp Lore 2
• 2xp Linguistics 2
• 1xp Add Arabic to Semitic language family
• 8xp Quicksilver Second Face
• 8xp Lightning-Change Style

Shopping List

No particular order. Also not really complete.

• 16xp: Willpower 9 (instant)
• 18xp: Willpower 10 (instant)