Sloane
Lilim of Death (or Cows)
Captain of Swank
Demoness of Fashion
Corporeal Forces: 3 Strength:
4 Agility: 8
Ethereal Forces: 5 Intelligence:
10 Precision: 10
Celestial Forces: 6 Will:
12 Perception:
12
Word-Forces: 5 and dropping
Vessel: Cow/2, +3 Charisma
Skills: Detect Lies/6, Dodge/3, Driving/1, Emote/6,
Fighting/3, Knowledge (Fashions/6, Psychology/3), Languages (English/6,
French/3), Lying/6, Ranged Weapon/3 (pistol), Savoir-Faire/6, Seduction/6
Note that Sloane cannot use weapons, speak or use
tools while in cow form.
Songs: Charm (All/5), Healing (Corporeal/4), Motion
(Celestial/3), Shields (All/4)
Role: "Bessie the Wonder Cow" (cow/3,
Status/3)
Attunements: Lilim of the Media, Lilim of Death (or
Cows), Fifteen Minutes of Fame, You'll Never Do Lunch in this Town Again,
Jingle, Captain of Swank, Demon of Fashion
Demon of Fashion: Well, she used to be able to
detect precisely what an individual's particular fashion weakness would be -
good shoes, nice car, a particular favorite color - and get an automatic Geas/3
if she was able to indulge that person's weakness. That went away; so did her +(Corporeal Forces) to any attempt to
detect celestials or ethereals solely from their dress. She can still make anything look good on
her, though... except, of course, that she's only got a cow vessel.
Rites: She used to get 3 Essence/day from her
ability to set fashion trends; now she gets only one.
Discord: Bound/6
Sloane understands the score quite well; her former
boss has marked her for death. In any
other society, the Lilim would be wondering why a Demon Prince would pick such
a baroque method of execution; in this one, such behavior is its own excuse, at
least if you're Nybbas. Not that this
is more of a comfort, but there you go.
Not that the Lilim would ever admit it, but there is
a case to be made that her current 'reassignment' to a Prince incapable of
either helping her maintain her Word or keeping out of her way while she does
it herself was not entirely, well, uncalled-for. Small screw-ups can mean demotion; medium screw-ups can mean
death. Big screw-ups are what the Game
is for. But the really, really big
screw-ups - well, that's when Demon Princes try to be creative.
Allowing the Host to blow up every Tether to the
Media in Denmark counts as a really, really big screw-up. Granted, there weren't all that many to
begin with, but still, it was a whole country, and the disaster could all be
traced back to one Lilim Captain not being where she was supposed to be at
precisely the wrong moment in time.
That was the 'why' for the death sentence; the being assigned to Saminga
part was for allowing forty-five seconds of dead time to take place on the air.
The binding into a cow part was just Nybbas amusing
himself.
So... she's a cow. She's a famous cow, to be sure - part of a big ad campaign - but
still a cow that can't abandon her vessel.
But she still needs to support her Word. And the Word of her new boss. And stay clear of his dissonance conditions. And keep her vessel's current job,
which happens to be the mascot for a health-food store chain. And do all of this without the use of
either hands or mouth. As you can
guess, by now Sloane's a bit - well, more like exceptionally - frantic about it
all, as the first few Word-Forces have started to waste away. Sloane's not yet at the point where she'll
be just about ready to make a deal - any deal - that'll save her life, but that
day can't be all that far off.
Now, believe it or not Saminga is not ignorant of
the fact that Nybbas is essentially using him as a proxy executioner's
block. The Prince of Death is dumb, but
he isn't that dumb. Unfortunately for
Sloane, Saminga is actually quite keen to see how long it takes for a
Word-bound to die from not being able to promote her Word, so this was more of
an odd sort of gift than anything else.
Of course, should Sloane somehow manage to serve both Death and Fashion
while remaining a cow, obviously the experiment would have to be put on the
shelf for a while. Business before pleasure,
after all.
The question is, would it be more amusing to let
Sloane know this, or not?
Special Note: Alternatively, Sloane could have been
reassigned to Ronald, Prince of Cows.
In this case, she would not be under effective sentence of death; the
relief would allow her natural personality (only moderately bootlicking and
barely catty) to reassert itself. She
would mostly be scheming to have the Bound Discord removed. Ronald, of course, would have no idea of why
he was given Sloane, and would insist that the Lilim make cows fashionable.