Barbara Wilson

Pagan Soldier (Eris)

Corporeal Forces: 1 Strength: 2 Agility: 2

Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 6

Celestial Forces: 2 Will: 4 Perception: 4

22 year old female, +1 Charisma

Skills: Computer Operation/1, Dreaming/3, Emote/3, Knowledge (psychology/3, history/3), Language/3 (Greek), Ranged Weapon/2 (pistol)

Songs: Charm (Corporeal/2), Dream (Corporeal/2), Healing (Corporeal/2)

Barbara Wilson is a Pagan Soldier whose deity - Eris - has recently come to the attention of Hell. This is the modern, hip Eris, by the way: the ethereal is so new that this may be the first time that the goddess has attempted to gather Essence on the corporeal plane. Barbara was her first real worshipper, so she got to be high priestess. Eris will probably regret this, if she doesn't already: Barbara's bright enough, and was a sweet person, but she was never too tough (either physically or spiritually). The Balseraph of the Media that discovered her found Barbara easy to dominate.

Frankly, Nybbas is salivating over this opportunity (most of his work has been with established faiths). The opportunity to design an entire new faith from the ground up (and one that gives proper value to the Media, unlike those irreverent, wise-ass, guerrilla ontologist Old Discordians) thrills him. He can experiment, fiddle, and generally practice designing a religion with proper priorities (that is, one eye on the cameras and the other on the Essence). It'll be prime, baby: prime. He's already got some of his hottest rising young talent assigned as interns on this one. It'll be fabulous.

Alas, Nybbas really should have checked out this situation personally.

Barbara

Ofanite of Creation IST the Wind

Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 9 Agility: 7

Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 8 Precision: 8

Celestial Forces: 6 Will: 12 Perception: 12

Young human female/4, +1 Charisma

Skills: Computer Operation/3, Dodge/4, Dreaming/3, Emote/6, Fighting/6, Knowledge (psychology/3, history/3), Language/3 (Greek), Lying/6, Ranged Weapon/6 (pistol)

Songs: Charm (Corporeal/2), Dream (Corporeal/2), Entropy (Ethereal/4), Healing (Corporeal/2), Light (Celestial/6), Motion (Ethereal/1, Celestial/2), Shields (Corporeal/3, Ethereal/2, Celestial/1)

Role: "Barbara Wilson" (new ager/6, Status 4)

Attunements: Ofanite of Creation, Malakite of Creation, Ofanite of the Wind, Swipe, Abracadabra

Barbara and Janus have been planning this stunt for years. There's no Eris (well, if there is, she isn't working for them), no weak-willed high priestess, no worshippers: there's just a bunch of incredibly strong-willed angels, Saints and one or two Soldiers. The real trick was keeping the Shedim away, but a combination of good luck and better planning dealt with that problem.

The 'cultists' have swallowed every possible humiliation and condescending comment, hiding their rising gorge behind empty smiles. Barbara has endured the most and smiles the widest, patiently waiting until she has sufficient demons on call to justify acting. She's almost there: the 'cult' has expanded enough that the Media will be sending over specialists in "ethereal relations" soon. Very, very soon.

Once that happens, then the smiles drop, and the knives come out. If they strike hard enough, the 'cult' will be able to both decimate Nybbas' pantheon experts and prune the brightest new buds of the Media tree. Really, it's a shame that Eris isn't involved in this one.

This has the hallmarks of being a classic OM…