Dubbiel
Renegade Habbalite of Fate
Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence:
8 Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 5 Will:
12 Perception: 8
Vessel: human male/4, Charisma +1
Skills: Climbing/1, Dodge/6, Emote/3, Fighting/4,
Knowledge (AK: Home Area/4, Christian Theology/2, Fate/3, The Game/3),
Language/3 (Spanish), Large Weapon/6 (Sword), Lying/2, Move Silently/3, Ranged
Weapon/5 (Shotgun), Survival/3 (Urban)
Songs: Attraction (Corporeal/4), Blood
(Celestial/3), Entropy (Ethereal/3), Essence (Corporeal/2, Celestial/2),
Healing (Corporeal/2), Motion (Ethereal/2, Celestial/6), Nimbus (Corporeal/5,
Ethereal/4, Celestial/3), Numinous Corpus/6 (Wings), Shields (All/2), Succor
(Corporeal/3), Thunder/6, Tongues (Ethereal/2)
Attunements: Habbalite of Fate, Impudite of Fate,
Bad Company, Fated Future, File Extraction
Discord: Merciful/3
Role: Bum/6, Status/2 (Long story, so read it below)
Artifacts: Sword: Corporeal Artifact/4 with the Summonable Feature; Cup (Reliquary/2)
OK, so possibly he isn't an angel, after
all. But Dubbiel isn't convinced that
he's a demon, either. Right now, he's
not sure just what he is.
There's nothing wrong with his memory, though. The Habbalite quite clearly remembers what
the original Plan was. It wasn't the
greatest Plan in the world, maybe, but it had potential, dammit. Why hold your light under a bushel when you
could set yourself as a minor god... err, 'Messenger of Christ'... somewhere
nice and out of the way? If the humans
were going to be pitifully weak, one might as well get some benefit out of it.
The setup itself was quite simple, actually. Obviously, Dubbiel wasn't about to get
permission to pull this off without some fairly onerous (if not eventually
fatal) restrictions built in, so he'd have to go Renegade. Easy enough to contemplate - the Habbalite
is often wistful of the days when he was sure that he was an angel doing
Christ's work - but a little trickier to pull off. First he had to know his enemy (that'd be the Game and his former
coworkers, mind you), then he had to set up a good cover identity without
anybody knowing about it, plus the necessary course of study to pick up all of
the tricks that he'd need, and then of course there was the issue of losing his
dossier... it took him a while, but eventually it was all set up. All that remained was to break his Heart and
run.
He wasn't expecting to end up with the Discord that
he got, though. Of course, it could
have been worse: he might have ended up being Selfless. That would have sucked.
It wasn't until he started the Plan anyway that
Dubbiel started to realize just how badly things were going to go. Being Merciful isn't just a reluctance to
kill innocents: if you happen to be very intelligent (like Dubbiel) and fully
versed in the likely consequences of your actions (like most Servitors of Fate)
and good at judging emotions (like most Habbalah) - you end up with some severe
psychological issues. In short, he's
begun to develop the working approximation of a conscience, and he doesn't like
the sensation at all, at all.
Not that Dubbiel's a Redemption candidate, either:
he still wants to be set up somewhere where he can indulge his every whim and
desire (even if he's got nicer whims and less dark desires these days), and the
Habbalite is pretty sure that becoming an Elohite will put the kibosh on that
fairly quickly. So, the Plan is still
in effect: he's still going to get his pampering, except that Dubbiel will
actually have to actually do things to earn it. That can be managed and worked around.
Maybe. The
Habbalite is having a bit of a problem keeping a properly low profile: you
would think that a respectable Habbalite could walk past a brat dying of
pneumonia without twitching a muscle, but it's the damn crying. You can't kill it, and you can't resonate it
into being quiet for long, so it's just better to heal it so that it'll shut up. Do that a couple of times, and word gets
around: good for business, but Dubbiel wasn't planning to be the Hobo King, or
any crap like that. Just try to get out
of a hundred different Role-relationships when any one of them might be tangled
up with the continued preservation of a human life, though. Just try, and see where it gets you.
Pretty soon he'll start to make waves that will be
Officially Noticed, by either Side.
That's not necessarily good news - for anybody, really (but especially
the poor buggers tasked to go get him).
You see, Dubbiel may not be an angel, and he's certainly no proper
demon, but there is still one thing that he most definitely is.
Scary.