Samantha Johanson

Talents: Alertness 2, Artistic Expression (Singing) 3, Athletics 3, Brawl 2, Style 2, Subterfuge 3

Skills: Firearms 2, Melee 2, Etiquette 2, Misdirection 2, Stage Magic 3

Knowledge: Academics 3, Psychology (Criminal Profiling) 4, Investigation 3, Medicine 3

Spheres: Mind 3, Time 2, Entropy 2, Prime 2

Backgrounds: Genius 4, Status 2, Allies (Alex Whatley) 1, Certification 4 – FBI, Certification 4 – Licensed Psychologist, Alternate Identity 3, Arcane 1 (Alternate Identity), Wonder 1 – Polarizing Shades

Merits: Eidetic Memory, Language: Russian

Flaws: Hit List (-4) – Russians, Family Issues (Twin Brother PTSD) -2

Enlightenment: 3

Fate:

Willpower: 7

XP:

Background Descriptions:

Status (Technocracy) 3 - Agent Johanson, through her work with the Hounds of Anubis amalgam, has demonstrated her commitment to the Technocratic Union and the protection of Sleepers from monsters both human and inhuman. She is credited for her ability to work well with agents from other Conventions, and her close relationship to a Void Engineer has given her an authenticity within the Union that most NWO members lack.

Status (New World Order) 2 - Agent Johanson is a rising star within the New World Order. Her skills in psychology are much prized, and while some members would prefer if she entered a counseling career track rather than a field agent, her successes have allowed her to keep her position. Because most psychiatrists are sent to the White Tower, she has managed to make herself useful to agents in the trenches, and that has earned the respect of her superiors.

Allies – Alex Whatley – Void Engineer - Samatha’s best friend, partner, and comrade. The two met in New York when Alex was transferred to Earth Realm from the Lunar Colony and she was brought in from California. Neither one is quite sure why they were brought together but the pair melded well, and are now very close.

Certification 4 (FBI) - Samantha is an Agent with the FBI. While the Technocracy doesn’t control the Bureau, they do have enough influence that they manage to steer investigations in a direction the Union desires.

Certification 4 (Licensed Psychologist) - Samantha is a Board certified psychologist, with a license to treat patients and write prescriptions.

Alternate Identity 3 - Ellen Ripley - Samatha’s recent run-ins with the Russian mob has created a healthy degree of paranoia for her safety. Quietly, Sam’s established a second identity, taking great pains to protect it from discovery from anyone, including the Union (Arcane 1).

Wonder 1 - Polarizing glasses Personal Instrument (-1 to Mind) - a simple pair of glasses that have the ability to polarize, becoming dark, mirrored, or tinged with a certain color. A gift from Sam’s trainer and mentor, using them she has a -1 difficulty to any Mind procedures.

Flaws: Hit List - Samantha’s most recent case involved a human trafficking ring operated globally by a Russian syndicate and supply humans to order. People would inform the group what they desired, whether it was for prostitution, hunting, or human sacrifice and the group would hunt down the desired invidiual and deliver them. Sam was instrumental in bringing the group down, winning a commendation from Intelligence (Director Adam Veil) but has also put a price on her head.

Family Issues - Ethan - Sam’s twin brother, a vetreran who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, is finally out of the service but is struggling to return to civilian life. Nightmares. Flashbacks. And she suspects he’s begun abusing drugs. Sam has entered him into an in-patient clinic run by the VA, hoping that they have the experience to help Ethan with his challenges.

PARADIGM

Transcend Your Limits – Sam’s life has been a struggle to overcome her past and her station in life, to excel and succeed when the world had set her up for failure. At an early age she learned that the shackles society places on you don’t need to hold you back if one has the drive and is willing to work. One needs to have a goal and push forward toward it. Magic is no different. The world creates a track for people to follow, and it is only the brave few willing to step off that track and push back against the natural and artifical limits in place to become something greater.

PRACTICE

Art of Desire – A manipulative practice, the Art of Desire is about using other peoples wants to enact the Mage’s Will, but to be truly effective it’s important for a Mage to know herself. How many people have chased after the pretty boy or girl, only because they were attractive as long as they were unattainable? Or how about the promotion that isn’t everything one thought it would be. How many people really know what it is they desire?

TOOLS

1. Eye Contact – The eyes are the window to the soul. The attention of a pretty woman or the soulless gaze of a woman in a dark suit and mirror glasses

2. Fashion – The black suit uniform of a monolithic entity, a pretty dress of someone ready to party

3. Meditation – mastery/knowing oneself

4. Thought Form – Investigator, Profiler, Trickster

5. Social Domination – The heartless agent or the heartbreaker

6. Tricks and Illusion – Misdirection. Focusing on the wrong thing. Tricks used to right wrongs and humble the arrogant

7. Music – the universal language