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Welcome
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In the industrial city of Moorebank, Pennsylvania the chaos is rising. In the wake of a rash of assassinations and abductions the city is trying, and failing, to find peace.
William, the vampire Master of the City, has taken on advisors in an attempt to stabilize his Court, but the addition of a Temoin and a Second and Third is taking some adjustment as everyone settles in to their new roles.
The mad leopard Maalik still rules the pard, the pack has just been taken over by a stranger from out of town and no one knows yet what the new Ulfric, Sebastian's agenda might be. The rats have lost two kings in two months and many ask whether Luke is crazy to try and take on the responsibility for the unlucky Clan.
The city teeters on a knife's edge, balanced between order and chaos, safety and terror. Will the city be able to piece itself back together or will it descend into madness and war?
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Spring, 2012
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 Jacob Finn, strength of body, strength of mind
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Group: Lycanthrope
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Member No.: 14
Joined: 12-September 09
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Jacob Finnit's a damned long trip from what you are to what you want to be Henry Cavill
ABOUT YOU; the roleplayer.
name / alias -- Briar
age & roleplaying experience -- 34, bunches
contact -- Please PM to ask
how did you find us? -- Jenn, natch.
why you chose this character? -- I wanted to play a different sort of Rat King.
other characters you own -- Rebecca Byron, Di Crosby
BACK TO BUSINESS; your character.
full name -- Jacob Rhys Dyfan Finn
age -- 27
nationality -- Welsh
languages spoken -- English, Welsh (Cymraeg)
species -- Lycanthrope: Rat, strong alpha
quirks & habits -- Smokes Gauloises Blondes, God only knows where he gets them, but he's rarely seen without a cigarette in his hand as he tends to fiddle with unlit cigarettes or his battered brass Zippo even when he's not actively smoking. Makes it a point to shift at least once a week, he thinks it keeps him in touch with his animal side. Refuses to date inside the Clan, as he says it leads to jealousy and in-fighting.
personality -- Jacob is an easygoing guy, too mellow to be a rat--right up until the point that it's time not to be mellow any more. He's calm, friendly, patient, even kind, which makes it that much more shocking when he decides that a situation needs him to be lethal and all that cheerful calm drops away to show the killer that he's more than capable of being.
He can play the politics, and does, providing security to the Horseman and other vampire-owned businesses in exchange for relative autonomy for his Clan and maintaining cordial if not exactly pally relationships with the pack and the pard. Given the choice, though, Jacob is straightforward in his dealings with other monsters, and has no problem telling it like he sees it, good or bad.
Deeply loyal to and protective of his people, not one to suffer fools gladly, private about his personal life, Jacob is a smiling enigma to many around the city and frankly happy to stay that way.
hair color & style Brown, slightly curly and worn somewhat long.
eye color Blue
height & weight 6'4", 240 lbs.
build Broad and muscular, though not blatantly bulgy.
hometown -- Cardiff, Wales
family -- Numerous, but he doesn't talk about them.
profession -- Rat King and High School history teacher.
overall history -- Jacob's family have been rats for generations, he grew up in the Cardiff Clan and knew from childhood that he'd be petitioning for infection as soon as he turned sixteen. He was infected by his uncle, Cardiff's King, and immediately started working his way up the ranks of the Clan.
By the time he was twenty-two Jacob was a bodyguard working for the Clan's contracts, and was in line to move up to guarding the King. He'd finished uni and gotten his teaching credential; when other rats snickered about his choice of career, the easygoing young man smiled and laughed with them, then if the teasing went on too long he'd start breaking noses and arms.
But disaster struck, the Cardiff court betrayed the Clan and the rats got trapped in a fight they couldn't win. In a single week the Clan of a hundred rats was smashed and fewer than a dozen survived. The Court outlawed rats in the city, and those who were left scattered, heading anywhere they could find shelter.
Jacob ended up in Moorebank almost by accident. Asagi took him in four years ago, got him immigration papers, adopted him into the Clan. And though he didn't necessarily agree with Asagi's policies or the way he ran the rats, the young Welshman stayed out of loyalty to the King himself, feeling that he owed Asagi repayment.
When Asagi died without naming a successor, the rats fell into chaos. They had been under the ancient rat for so long, nobody could think of what to do without him. Jacob ended up stepping forward only to keep the Clan from falling apart. He's instituted quite a few changes since taking Kingship, most notably moving the rats out of the tunnels under the cemetary and into the old theater that connects to the tunnels but which he feels projects a better image to the rats themselves and the rest of the city--the rats do not cower in the place of the dead, hiding from the world.
Jacob's power is far from sure, there are plenty among the rats who miss the old ways, wish for the gentler reign of Asagi. Still, there's no denying that the rats have come a long way in the past few months, and he's slowly winning his people over not with Asagi's gentleness but with his own easy strength of purpose.
role-playing sample -- The theater that had become the Clan's meeting place was one of the old movie palaces from the 1930s, a gorgeous Art Deco building that had been let fall to rack and ruin by developers over the years. Asagi had bought it several years ago out of sentimentality, hating to see something beautiful be destroyed in the name of progress. Ever since Jacob took over, the Clan was in the process of repairing and restoring the old building, bringing it back to a reflection of its former glory while repurposing some sections of it to make it serve better as both a meeting place and a home for some of the Clan.
Jacob was in his office, which had once been the theater manager's office. The office was clean, but they were still in the process of stripping years of grime and dry rot away and refinishing the walls and floors, and he was making shift with a dented metal desk and modern computer chair while they refurbished the original furniture. He was working on his laptop when a light tap came at the door. "Come!"
In came Timothy, one of the newer rats, looking hesitant at interrupting his King. Jacob pulled his hand back up from beneath the desk where it had been resting handily near the shotgun mounted in the knee space. "Um, Jacob? I have a sort of a problem and I didn't know who else to talk to about it."
Smiling easily, Jacob nodded to the chair opposite the desk. "Have a seat. What's up, Timothy?" As he waited for the young rat to launch into his story, the King started running through what he knew of the kid. Twenty one or twenty-two, married, willing infection, his aunt had been a rat. Wanted kids but didn't make enough money yet, decent instincts in a fight but a lot of training yet to go. He made it a point to know at least the basics about every member of the Clan, more if he could. As Timothy started explaining the trouble he was having at workk, where he was outed and starting to experience some harassment, Jacob lit up a smoke and settled in to see what could be done to resolve things so that his rat wouldn't lose his job.
read the rules: Don't I always?
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