Pei-Pei
Shedite of the Media
Corporeal Forces: 2 Strength:
4 Agility: 4
Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence:
9 Precision: 11
Celestial Forces: 6 Will:
12 Perception:
12
Word Forces: 2
Skills: Artistry (Makeup/1, Writing/1), Detect
Lies/2, Emote/6, Knowledge (Contract Law/3, Hollywood politics/3,
Psychology/2), Savoir-Faire/4, Seduction/3
Songs: Attraction (Ethereal/1), Charm (Ethereal/1,
Celestial/1), Corruption/2, Light (Celestial/3), Might (Corporeal/1), Opening
(Ethereal/3), Possesion/3, Shields (All/2), Symbiosis (All/1), Tongues
(Ethereal/4)
Servant: Human Hairdresser (Class 4, level 6)
Attunements: Shedite of the Media, Fifteen Minutes
of Fame, Green Light, Subliminal, Demon of Hairpieces
Demon of Hairpieces: Pei-Pei may automatically
possess any kind of false hair (wigs, toupees, hair extensions, and so
forth). Duration is for however long it
feels like it.
Frankly, Pei-Pei is envied quite a bit by his
colleagues: even in an organization like the Media there has to be some demons with stable positions on the
greasy pole of rank, and the Shedite is one of them. Pei-Pei has a specific set of tasks, and it sticks to them like
spirit gum.
You see, sometimes the Media needs to keep a light
hand on a particular project's reins, annoying as that might be. After all, even in Hollywood there are
people who would balk at having an actual demon sitting in on production
meetings. There are also those annoying
moralists in the Host. Nybbas'
extraordinary success has had some unfortunate consequences for his Servitors:
by now, the first thing that the
average angel does when encountering television or movie people is to
automatically look around for the demons.
When they find them, things get complicated fast. Luckily, many people are vain about their
appearance - from Nybbas' point of view, they had better be; he's spent enough
time encouraging the concept - so there's an easy solution. Find one that sports a hairpiece and make
sure that Pei-Pei gets a chance to set up shop.
This is fairly easy for the Shedite: his generic
servants all come from the most exclusive, most discreet hair studio on the
West Coast. They're so exclusive and so
discreet that merely knowing that they exist indicates that you're either a
player, or at least sleeping with one.
Better and better, they're considered to be lucky for their clients, as
well. This is actually true, given a
liberal interpretation of the word 'lucky'.
What actually happens is that they will sometimes get Pei-Pei's personal
attention, just before a big pitch or meeting.
The Shedite is good at carefully pushing the agenda in directions
pleasing to the Media: judicious use of supernatural abilities can pay great
dividends ('great' also being subject to a liberal interpretation, of course).
Pei-Pei is a bit more patient than most of its
Band-mates (it doesn't have to worry about time limits and/or corrupting its
hairpiece hosts, after all), but it makes up for this minor mercy by being a
stone-cold, ruthless, nasty-minded revolving son of a bitch on wheels. It's a bit of a prima donna, too, which is
why it hasn't gotten a Distinction yet (the other stuff is too common among
Nybbas' people to be an actual limitation).
There was at least one case where a promising (remember the liberal
interpretation bit, please) career was cut short, just because the talking
monkey happened to insult a toupee that Pei-Pei was wearing. Nybbas was careful to make his displeasure
known at what the Shedite eventually made the aforementioned talking monkey
do. There had to be a bit of schedule
juggling, thanks to Pei-Pei's little escapade, and that can make the Telegenic
Prince a mite testy.
Still, Nybbas got some good footage out of the deal,
so it wasn't a total loss.