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Derrick Boone Boone is a vampire who was a man turned old before his time; He went to war and its horrors had absolutely no involvement in his prematurely aged, cantankerous nature. Living in seaside Oregon during the early stages of WW2, Derrick had a little bit of involvement in the flurry of activity in building new ships after Pearl Harbor. That lasted right until his number came up for army service. Deployed in the Pacific theater in 1942, Boone saw action on many islands and learned several asian dialects in the course of his 2-year stint. His service ended the night a Japanese mortar landed on the other side of his foxhole, sparing him a grisly death, but opening up a steep drop into a small cavern. The thing in the shadows did not care for intruders. The vampire was hideous and Boone said as much. It laughed at his bravado, but kept him as a source of information in the modern world for some time. The tramping of many booted feet had awakened it, it had said, and needed to get its head wrapped around the current climate in the south pacific. Once it had wrung as much information as it could from Derrick, it embraced him so it would have a new servant in this brave new world. Sadly, the tunnels that his sire had long since hidden away in were found by Japanese forces and used for storage. When the US forces came through them to clean out any resistance remaining on the island, they came across Boone's new home. Luckily, instincts took over and he was able to remain hidden. Boone's sire couldn't help but lose a few precious seconds to amazement at the technology of modern warfare. When WW2 ended, Boone returned to the US, moving around as much as he could and picking up various news updates and tidbits from the local supernaturals around the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, the run-in with his sire stirred up a lot of questions in his mind. Boone traveled to Asia and spent years studying history, philosophy and mythology, all of which were fascinatingly richer than his own culture. Despite his new worldly learning, Boone remains a curmudgeon. The kind of guy who's always neck deep in it, and always because of someone else's stupidity. Still, his familiarization with the locals earns him a lot more respect than most outsiders. Speaking fluent Japanese is a hell of a way to make an introduction. • Tell about the time you hit rock bottom, the time where you were most open to the supernatural and the Embrace. At your lowest point, who did you end up leaving out in the cold? Boone is "lucky" enough that his most vulnerable state came out of nowhere. There was no courtship, no half-glimpsed shadows following him from dark alleyways. He fell right into the nest and got caught by an elder recently awakened from the Requiem. As a dead man, Boone knew he could never go home. All there was for his family was a folded flag and a letter of condolence from the State Department. Why show up and cause more misery? Still, he had other people he could bother. Working down at the docks, you meet a lot of unsavory characters. They knew where to get things, who to talk to for night work that required a good deal of heavy lifting. That worked, for a while. Then the questions started to bubble in Boone's mind. He had to get answers. Shishi-do was a demon from the East. Where better to travel for answers? • Who is the vampire you identify with the most? This may or may not be your sire, but this is the vampire you look at a model to compare other Kindred against. Dracula, if Boone had to guess. Isn't he THE vampire? But then, he was a lord before his death. You don't really hear much about the vamps living on the streets, the ones who get by without the visions of servants long dead attending to their every need. But Dracula wasn't anything like what Boone is now. He can go unseen, crush brick in his hand, and all manner of powers to terrify the humans. Not that he's into that, but it's a useful tool if you need it. Boone's been quiet, keeps to himself. Even when researching his own condition, he never actively sought out other vampires to ask about being a vampire. Instinct is apparently supernatural as well as biological, so his needs were attended to, but beyond that it was all myth and speculation. The only supernatural creature he can respect is the Green Lady, and he's not so sure that she is what she claims to be. • What is about the vampire curse that scares you? Excites you? Tell me about another Kindred in this city who exemplifies everything you're afraid to become. Boone may not like people, but to have to prey on them to survive is a bit of a sore spot. He'd be happy if everyone on earth but him were to disappear, but he's not someone who'd be first in line to put it into effect. On the other hand, he can disappear or lift a motorcycle over his head. The blood makes for a powerful ally when you need it, and in a society of backstabbing bloodsuckers, you need it often. As for what he's afraid to become, there's a creepy vampire in Okinawa called Face-Jacket. The guy (?) likes to spy on crowds. If he sees a face he likes, he draws it on the walls of the sewer he stays in. Eventually, he... collects that face. • Someone knows your secret, part of it at least. You either told them, or you allowed too much of nature to slip for them to ignore it. Who are they and why are they still part of your life? There's plenty of folks back in LA who know Boone, though they're all 'in the life', so to speak. Very few mortals, though. A few of the more trustworthy gangbangers from the early days, but most of those are long gone. Here in Japan, he's once again gravitated toward the gangs. There's a group of bōsōzoku bikers who have made their territory near Boone's haven. Not all of them know what he is, but the gang's boss Toku knows that Boone is some kind of demon, or something else other than human. Despite this, they keep civil after Boone demonstrated that he can snap their baseball bats with his bare hands. Hell, they like him more now that he did it. As Boone plays the part of the troubleshooter in the city, he farms out a few jobs here and there when he needs errand boys or messenger girls during the daylight hours. There's a mutual respect there, and he's started to come to like them. • Outside the protection of the zaibatsu, how do you survive your day to day hours? Who keeps you safe when you sleep, whether they know it or not? Toku and his gang have a few of their new recruits keep an eye on Boone's building during the day, but they're young and more interested in other things. They don't know who lives there, but they act as a deterrent. If any of the other gangs decide to roll up on them, they scatter. But Toku is usually pretty good about protecting his turf. In exchange, Boone keeps them up to date on things that affect them and even finds a way to get some of them paid when he contracts out to them. • How did you first come in contact with the Maeda Group? Who did you have to impress to get the zaibatsu to notice you? After Boone arrived in Tokyo, he put out a few feelers. While none of the saibatsu groups would give him the time of day, occasionally someone would require an 'outside consultant'. Recently, Boone was asked to remove a fledgling vampire who was causing a stir in Shinjuku. Using his status as an outsider, it was fairly easy to provoke the fledgling into a duel. Boone got rather competent with using a sword in his time, but it's usually raw brute power over finesse in his case. The blood makes that sort of thing his go-to maneuver these nights. Still, it was a hard-pressed battle. The new kid knew his techniques for the puffed-up forgeries they were and was able to keep Boone on his toes. But in the end, Boone brought back the head of a problem. The man who had hired him was Maeda Keiji. It seems like after a few years of here-and-there contract work, they're sufficiently impressed with Boone's record of success. Vicissitude fucked around with this message at 04:23 on Apr 17, 2014 |
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I think I'm done with mine. Lemme know if I'm missing something. I haven't done nWoD in a long time, and I'm new to the whole Blood and Smoke thing
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