Topic: Official Handbook of the Occult Universe

Blep

Date: 2015-05-02 14:12 EST
Name: Zofie Asenath Kaminsky

Family Name/Nickname: Peri, meaning "sprite/fairy"

Species: Stranger, "Hermetic" Cavalier

Ethnicity: Jewish/Iranian

Age: 25 (5 May)

Place of Origin: Columbia, SC

Height: 5'5"

Weight: 132 lbs.

Eyes: Acidic Green.

Hair: Midnight purple, hip-length when down.

Occupation: Special Effects/Set Design

History Blurb: Conceived during a businessman's failing marriage and a party girl's impending nervous breakdown, and subsequently born in Columbia, SC, Zofie Asenath Kaminsky was recused to the care of her grandparents after her mother was arrested days after her birth. Her stubbornness and physicality found temperance in gymnastics and art classes, leading her to construct her own playgrounds with her grandfather. On graduation from USC, she moved to Charleston, SC to follow her job prospects, unknowingly landing her in a hotbed of Fiend-Cairns freshly opened from the Brink. During one fateful night of urban exploration with a few of her friends, Zofie stumbled into one of these dangerous pits to the unknown, causing her life to change irrevocably.

Skills: Zofie is a competent gymnast and choreographer, which she has since translated into a keen cinematic mind as the co-founder of Simurgh Film Effects. She has a knack for acquiring and using materials in unconventional ways to create audiovisual effects in her film work. She's a capable, if amateur hunter, with the clumsy hallmarks of being self-taught out of necessity, and a novice practitioner of Chow Gar (Southern Mantis Kung Fu) and Hapkido. Thanks to her weird diet, she has developed a broad, deep palette for all sorts of cuisines.

Special Abilities:
Physical Prowess- The Cavalier body optimizes the hominid form, increasing performance to superhuman degrees while still retaining the strengths and shortcomings of the subject's frame. The substances, metabolism, and internal structure also broadens the range of comfortable temperatures to extremes both high and low.

Psychokinesis- Hermetic Cavaliers develop abilities centered primarily on kineticism, gravitation and orientation, focused through the Cavalier's own proclivities. Zofie utilizes this primarily for her animation, able to move and manipulate numerous small, complex objects simultaneously. She has proven capable of floating and gliding,

Sensory Feats- First and foremost, Zofie's kinesthetic and tactile senses are extraordinary, allowing her to maintain her balance regardless of the conditions around her. A "motion sense" compensates for her poor eyesight, letting her judge the size, mass, and kinetic interactions of matter in her surroundings (but not necessarily quantify them).

Charge- The function and character of a Cavalier's abilities manifest through a sentient program, labele a 'Charge' after heraldic terminology. When a Charge manifests physically, the Cavalier retains only the most rudimentary of physical augmentations. In spite of the relative vulnerability, the mutable relationship between Cavalier and Charge offers tremendous insight and, on occasion, esoteric knowledge. Zofie's Charge manifests as a female sphinx, sharing her hair and eye color while also sporting wiry golden fur, black avian wings and a violet-tufted tail.

Appetite- The Cavalier body requires a high amount of energy, running like the famed "Mr. Fusion" from Back to the Future. Zofie can bite through steel and digest a huge range of substances to meet the strange nutritional needs of her body.

Flair Swansong

Date: 2015-05-03 11:46 EST
Name: Flairiana "Flair" Swansong

Species: Hob

Age: 19

Place of Origin: Torreya, Florida

Height: 5'5

Weight: 140lbs

Eyes: Pink

Hair: Blue

Occupation: Fabricator; owner of Trashtastic!

History Blurb: Flair was adopted at the age of three months by the kind, middle aged Robert Swansong and his wife Lena. Her odd first name is a throwback to some eccentric ancestor of Robert's. Curious to the point of troublesome, Flair's nightly romps became almost too much to handle for the aging Swansongs.

Not a wild child, not in the sense of drinking or partying, Flair was a creature given to nature. The forests were a balm for her, a place of peaceful reflection and inspiration. On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, fate decided to really nail home the Swansong's concerns for their daughter.

While her parents slept, Flair was two hours into a moonlit hike through the Appalachicola forest when she noted how strange the trees looked; over-saturated greens where muted autumns had been. With her curiosity getting the best of her, Flair moved deeper towards the anomaly and right into a Nightfield.

What returned to Robert and Lena wasn't the tanned, brown haired, green eyed girl that they knew, but a creature marked up like a panda bear with blue hair, pink eyes, and most disturbingly, paws attached to digitigrade legs.

But she was still their little girl.

Skills:

Just Makin' Stuff: Flair has a knack for building the seemingly impossible. Her store is filled with everything from a sentient cat shaped couch, an overlarge mousetrap made of realistic looking foam (perfect for parties!) to normal things like boots and shirts. Give her the time and she can build anything from anything.

Special Abilities:

I'm So High Right Now, You Guys: Hobs enjoy the vices of life to keep them from working themselves to death. Flair is no different, but her bread and butter happens to be the wacky 'baccy. Standing close to her, however, will turn even the staunchest straight edgers into giggling, red eyed, Cheeto eating fiends.

Gimme A Little Speed: Flair is fast. Super fast. The nature of her legs, and the balance that comes with having to adjust to them, gives her an unfair advantage in most races. Also, her ability to jump could make a kangaroo sit down and asks itself the hard questions.