User blog:SensibleCenobite/Esmeralda Bright Blast: 13th generation Tremere Anarch programmer.

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'''WARNING: Suitable for all Sires and Neonates. NOT FLEDGLINGS. This is a character for Vampire the Masquerade 5th edition. I made this one slightly grimier than my previous posts, but it should be tame enough for most sires, neonates, and most fledgling. Just read it first, monitor your fledgling, and use your best discretion. MONITOR YOUR FLEDGLINGS.'''

Who 'Then': Becky Jo Stalker

What 'Then': Student at the University of New Mexico computer science department.

When 'and Where Then': 2011. Right after graduation day. Piss drunk on the couch.

Who Now: Esmeralda Bright Blast

When and Where Now: Works online for a game programming studio. Anywhere...

Description: A young blond curly haired woman that is in her mid twenties. Esmeralda Bright Blast is only about 5’0” and very petite. She is slightly hunched from reading and programming all day. Esmeralda speaks quietly and hesitantly, so she comes off a little timid. She is fairly good looking and dresses in whatever this season’s fashion is. Usually wears fork and spoon earrings with a cute pair of black rimmed glasses.

Clan: Tremere : Anarch on path to Golconda

Generation: 13th

Bane: Impossible or very difficult to bond targets. Requires more blood if possible.

Sire: Provost Ludmilla Carlisle, Esmeralda’s main instructor.

Attributes:

Charisma 3, Manipulation 3, Composure 1

Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2

Intelligence 4, Wits 2, Resolve 3

Esmeralda was always intelligent and could focus her efforts into one thing until it was complete. She never did like sports and grew up scrawny for her age. To compensate, she learned to be very nice and say the right things to father. Esmeralda was never very confident growing up and would avoid direct eye contact for too long. To avoid confrontation of any kind, Esmeralda got good at knowing how people felt without asking. This made her seem much less intelligent during her childhood. Then again, seeming dumber than your mark is smart, right?

Skills Physical: 

Athletics 0, Brawl 0, *Craft 0 [], Larceny 0, Melee 0, *Stealth 3 [Break ins], Survival 0, Esmeralda is not physically active in any sense of the word. Out of need, she got rather good at sneaking into the rooms of her renters at night to feed. However, even though she despised sports, she always attended her college boyfriend’s soccer games. At the same time, she was on her local bowling league playing for the Hot Ass Roosters!

Skills Social:

Animal Ken 0, Etiquette 2, Insight 2, Intimidation 0, Leadership 0, *Performance 0 [], Persuasion 3, Streetwise 0, Subterfuge 0, Esmeralda likes to focus on getting her way with words, rather than using violence. “Make your words impeccable” an old master of Esmeralda’s used to say. Bartering with father made her skilled at always coming up with WIN/WIN scenarios.

Skills Mental:

*Academics 2 [Bronze Age History], Awareness 1, Finance 1, Investigation 1, Medicine 0, Occult 0, Politics 0, *Science 3 [Physics], Technology 4 [Coding/Debugging], Esmeralda went to the University of New Mexico and got a broad education with a focus on physics, history, and game programming. She has a doctorate degree in computer science, bachelor degree of physical sciences, and an associate degree of history. She took up reading financial books and detective novels in her free time during winter time break. It must have been all those long days in the library that taught her how to spot things that were out of place.

Disciplines:

*Obfuscate: 1 [Silence of Death pg261], Esmeralda uses her Silence of Death every night to help her break into her renters’ rooms.

Dominate: 1 [Compel pg 256], Esmeralda doesn’t have a good temperament to Dominate people. Esmeralda isn’t above trying to Compel someone into giving her what she wants if she thinks it’s the best course of action. Nerd rage is a very scary sight to see coming out of a 5’0” tall shorty.

Auspex: 2 [Heightened Senses pg 249, Premonition pg 249], Esmeralda uses her Heightened Senses and Premonition to help her debug code more efficiently. Her ability to casual scan tens of thousands of lines of code and find obscure bugs impressed her old office buddies. Whenever there is a critical deadline, Esmeralda is pulled off her current task and given the reigns to save the day.

Predator Type: Stalker: Specialty [Stealth:Breaking ins]; +1 Auspex; +1 Resources, Esmeralda doesn’t like the thought of living on blood and prefers it if her renters are unaware of the “tax” she charges them to stay overnight. She has slowly been coming to terms with being a prime specimen. A prime specimen is kind of like an apex predator, but can acknowledge their individual nature. Who wants to be thinned with the heard when you could be a mighty diamond?

Advantages:

*Resources 3, Golconda Lore 3, Week of Nightmares Lore 2, Mawla 3

Esmeralda receives most of her income from programming over the Internet and a little on the side from renting out to her Mawali’s contacts. She lives in a creepy run down mansion filled to the brim with roaches and various rodent life. The property is ten acres with desert wildlife all around it. The driveway is all natural and pock marked with gaps two feet wide. Her only real possession of childish value is her 1959 Porsche Spider parked out front next to her Mawali’s Class B RV. Esmeralda’s Mawali are a group of Ravnos gypsies that push people on to a new life, or else. The father’s name is Djordje, the mother’s Antanasia, the daughter’s Shivaughn, and the son’s Rusheed. They try to use non violence whenever possible, but will kill any target if they are getting dangerous AND unwilling to change. Esmeralda's Mawali are the ones that changed her name and gave her a new programming job with Dick Harriet. When Esmeralda was finally ready, they taught her lore about her “new” heritage. After she could recite all the lore back and forth without hesitating, they taught Esmeralda to meditate. When Esmeralda finally got control over her Beast, they gave her a hand written copy of the Master of Raven’s book, “One True Way.” Esmeralda is on the path to Golconda and is willing to talk to anyone who is actually ready to move.

Flaws:

Haven:Creepy -1, Haven:Haunted -1

Esmeralda lives in a haunted mansion that she rents out to her Mawali and their traveling buddies. The Wraiths that have lived in the mansion are mostly friendly, but fights have broken out between the renters and travelers. There are a ton of barrels around the house filled with animal carcasses and god knows what else from her Mawali’s mobile kitchen.

Convictions:

Never expose children to violence → Dick “Lord Tetris” Harriet. Leads a team of programmers at a puzzle game studio. Got introduced to Esmeralda by Antanasia. Antanasia helped Dick move on to non violent video games after Dick lost a conversation about evolution, god, and existence.

Ambition: Education at the Chantry is way too expensive. Esmeralda wants to replace formal education and the Chantry system with video games designed by her and her company.

Motivation at game start: To finish beta testing for the new puzzle game the company has been developing for the last two years.

Humanity: 7

Blood potency: 1

Prelude: I wanted to get started with this post first since I filled in a lot more detail this time. I’m writing the prelude now, or write your own in the comments.

Sensible Cenobite