Plato the Banana Slug is a Chimera and mascot of the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Overview[]
Plato began as a minor banana slug chimera when the University was founded, but grew more powerful when the student body elected to name themselves the Banana Slugs, and he became the campus mascot. Of course, this was unofficial, and when, in the early 1980s, the University established an official basketball team, the administration chose the sea lion to be the school's mascot. Even a nearly unanimous vote by the student body for the banana slug over the sea lion failed to change their minds on the issue. However, a prolonged boycott of the University's "official" sea lion merchandise (and the underground manufacture and sale of banana slug T-shirts) eventually forced a change. The financial scandal in the chancellor's office didn't hurt either. The banana slug is now the official mascot.
(See also Terebinthea)
Stats[]
Attributes: Strength 2, Dexterity 3, Stamina 4, Charisma 5, Manipulation 3, Perception 4, Intelligence 6, Wits 2
Abilities: Alertness 4, Empathy 4, Leadership 3, Performance 3, Stealth 4, Enigmas 2, Law 4, Linguistics 7, Mythlore 3, Occult 2, Politics 5, Science 4
Glamour: 7
Willpower: 7
Health Levels: OK, -1, -1, -2, -2, -5
Attacks: None
Powers[]
Plato has only one power, but it is a significant one: he knows everything about the university. Everything. This ranges from the personal politics and private lives of all the students and faculty to each word in every book in the McHenry library and all the unpublished research notes of the university professors and graduate students, including what can be accessed through the internet. Of course, he also respects privacy and scholarship, so he doesn't generally volunteer any of this information unless it is somehow necessary for the survival of the university or the student body. Also, by appearing in the dreams of students and alumni, or by asking changelings outright, he can successfully influence the course of university events.
- Note: As mascot, Plato is the personification of the collective unconscious of the University... it's zeitgeist... and while his chimerical form may be disrupted, he will always reform so long as the University and the student body still exists. The only way to destroy Plato is to destroy the University itself.
References[]
- CTD: Freeholds & Hidden Glens, p. 116-117