Name:Karen Renee Griswold Tradition:Euthanatos


Physical : Strength (3) Dexterity (3) Stamina (3)

Social: Charisma (3) Manipulation (2) Appearance (3)

Mental: Perception (4) Intelligence (2) Wits (3)

Character: Nature-Judge Demeanor-Caregiver/Stone killer Essence-Dynamic


Talents:Alertness(3) Awareness(3) Athletics(3) Brawl(4,Kung-fu) Dodge(3) Empathy(3) Intimidation(3) Sense deception(3) Streetwise(3) Subterfuge(3) Ventriloquism(2)

Skills:Acrobatics(2) Blindfighting(2) Climbing(3) Demolition(2) Drive(2) Escapology(2) Fast Draw(3) Firearms(3) First aid(2) Heavy weapons(2) Interrogation(3) Martial arts weapons(2) Meditation(3) Melee(3) Survival(1) Stealth(4)

Knowledge: Kindred lore(2)Bureacracy(2)investigation(2)Medicine(1)Psychology(3)Wyrm lore(2) Underworld lore(2)

Backgrounds:Allies(4)Arcane(4) Avatar(4),Dream(2)Influence(1)Mentor(5)Node(1)Resources(2) Contacts(4)

Arete:5 Willpower:8

Merits:Insight,Supporter,Prestigious mentor,Reputation,police ties,

Flaws:Enemies(see below) Obsession(see below) Emotional isolation,Hatred(rapists/abusers)


Quintessence:( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) Paradox:
Correspondence:(2-Blindfold) Life:(2-Trance) Prime:(2-water) Entropy:(5) Mind:(3) Matter:(3-weapon) Time:(3-trance)


Equipment: Considering her training, any list of weapons would be very large.(she favors a sawed-off shotgun, 9mm with laser sight, and butterfly knives.) She also carries a pad of post-it notes and a beeper. She also has a stack of credit cards,cash and watches taken off of victims.

Other Notes: Karen is a master of Jeet Kune Do Kung Fu. She favors any manuever that breaks bones.

Appearance:Attractive in a rough sort of way, short black hair and pale blue eyes, Built like a phys ed. major(which she was.) Short and muscular. Dike chic.

Clothing Tendencies:Because of her training, can assume any kind of clothing and carry it off but prefers jean,birkies, A t-shirt and a black trenchcoat that has seen better days.

Known to: Very few...and that's just the way she likes it. Karen maintains an unhealthy distance from people even those she is nominally trying to get close to. (this includes dates and women she's counciling)

Ongoing Projects: See below. it's pretty obvious

Circle and Influence:Among mages, very little, among her girls and certain select police.Huge.

House: a small and ratty apartment.

Library: none really.

Mentor: The Iguana ( Nebbish looking fellow partial to bowties and quiet possibly one of the most dangerous mortal beings alive. Incredibly inscrutable.)

Quintessence source:No regular node

Magickal style : Heavily physical combat oriented magick

Story:

Karen Griswold is a woman forged in iron. The story began when her sister was raped on the Juliard campus. Julie Griswold was a bright,funny intelligent woman with a future as a concert pianist until she was raped and beaten. Still her spirit was stronger than most. she worked closely with the police to nail the serial rapist and with the support of her family brought the scumbag to trial. There was only one problem.

In their eagerness to nail the perp, the police did not properly mirandize the guy. airtight evidence was useless and the case was dismissed. The creep began to make harrassing phone calls to an allready shattered Julie. The only person who knew about the phone calls was Karen. on the night that Julie took an entire bottle of sleeping pills,Karen swore to make the rapist pay.

Karen started stalking the guy and was nerving herself up to do something to him when he caught her in the act. The guy kneecapped her and got ready to rape her too. When Karen's cries drew some attention...

The only name the man gave was The Iguana. He seized hold of the rapist and shredded his pattern on the spot. then he sat on the pavement and healed Karen's shattered leg and said only this." If you would be an instrument of Justice, follow me."

She Did. Karen began an intense training program in every method of killing there is by night, and by day she had changed her major to psychology. She eventually became a therapist for a rape crisis center and now she stalks the night ridding it of men who prey on women.

One unknown aspect of Karen is the fact that Karen is very very catholic....this of course causes some serious problems for her as who she is and what she does runs counter to her upbringing. Mother Catherine knows her and, more importantly, knows about her. She has in the past ministered to her problems of faith and more importantly has sent a few women to Karen's shelter even though it runs counter to catholic policy as regards wife beating and marital rape. Karen would kill or die for Mother Catherine but she has trouble with Mother Catherine trying to set her up with a man of some sort.(Karen is Bi, but as you can imagine is seriously off men.)

In Mother Catherine's absence, Father Joe has started hearing her confessions and he also sends her damaged women when he can...He doesn't try to fix her though...And although Karen is loathe to admit it she kind of misses it.

Story Uses:

Working the other Side: It's happened on more than one occasion that Karen has settled on a target only to find that he's pissed off other people that would like to see him dead. Karen helps these folks along with post-it notes. Her high Entropy, Arcane and other skills make it possible to leave post-it notes anywhere and never be seen or remembered. She occasionally uses others as a stalking horse to rattle her targets into doing something stupid which she can capitalize on and then be gone. It may be a long time before the characters ever meet the woman who's been helping them all this time...it's equally likely that they won't remember it later.

Working the wrong Side: It's also happened on more than one occasion that Karen decides on a target and it turns out that the creep happens to be the one guy that a lot of people want to keep alive for whatever reason. it could be a senator with powerful swing on some environmental legislation who happens to slap around his wife every once in a while. in a situation like this, Karen might find herself in the unenviable position of facing off against Verbena-Dreamspeaker types and the Technocrats who'll inevitably get involved. It won't stop her...and she'll probably still get her target and get away clean.

Working on the right Side: Need a bit of extra fire power? If it advances womens causes or hurts violent criminals then you might be able to get her to help...if you can find her that is.