Frederick
Calabite Knight of Judgement
Demon of Chainsaws
Corporeal Forces: 4 Strength: 9 Agility: 7
Ethereal Forces: 4 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 10
Celestial Forces: 5 Will: 10 Perception: 10
Word-Forces: 3
Vessel: human male/4
Skills: Artistry/3 (Ice Sculpture), Dodge/3,
Driving/3, Fighting/3, Knowledge (Undead/3), Large
Weapon/6 (chainsaw), Ranged Weapon/3 (shotgun),
Tactics/2
Songs: Entropy (Celestial/2), Feedback/3, Fire
(Corporeal/3), Form (Corporeal/3), Healing (All/2),
Light (Celestial/3), Might (Corporeal/3), Motion
(Celestial/3), Retribution (Corporeal/3), Shields
(Corporeal/3)
Role: "Frederick Jones" (paranatural investigator/6,
Status3)
Discord: Angry/2 (he's gotten brighter since, not to
mention more careful)
Attunements: Calabite of the Game, Humanity, Knight of
Judgement, Demon of Chainsaws
Demon of Chainsaws: Frederick can add his normal
resonance to any attack made by a chainsaw.
Special Rite: operate a Chainsaw for an hour.
Relics: "Honey" (Chainsaw/6; also a Talisman/3 (add)
for Large Weapon: Chainsaw. Honey also has the
Indestructible feature and growls whenever within 10
yards of an Undead)
Frederick has the best job in the whole wide world.
He knows this, because he used to have the worst.
Frederick (never Fred, never Freddie, certainly never
Frederino. Frederick) started out working for
Saminga: it was sort of OK, except that he never felt
appreciated. Sure, they promoted him, got him a Word,
let him break stuff, but nobody ever seemed to really
care. Everyone was too busy kissing up to the Prince
and coming up with more and more dumb ways to kill
things. Frederick could never figure out why they
bothered. Hey, over here's a chainsaw: over there is
something living. Intersect the two, then repeat.
Simple, right?
Worse, there were all these Undead running around.
Frederick doesn't like Undead: zombies smell, vampires
whine and mummies act too smug for words. Saminga,
though, doesn't like it when his toys get broken, so
Frederick had to reign in those destructive impulses.
Not so great a scene, but Frederick could deal. Then
the worst happened.
Saminga took a liking to him.
After three months of having to actually listen to
Saminga, close up and all, Frederick was ready to take
a chainsaw to his own head. The Prince of Death isn't
precisely what one would call a scintillating
conversationalist: that, coupled with the fact that
Saminga also seems to labor under the delusion that he
has a sense of humor, made each day sheer torture for
the poor Calabite. There were more zombies, too.
Frederick really hated zombies after that. Would you
believe that Saminga actually asks their advice?
Anyway, when the Game started dropping a feeler or
two, Frederick was out of Abaddon and into Hades so
fast that no one had the chance to explain to him that
they actually wanted a spy. Asmodeus might have done
something memorable to him about that, but Saminga
showed up ranting... and the Prince of the Game was
struck with an idea. A thoroughly nasty one: in fact,
it almost made him smile.
Frederick has been permanently assigned to the
corporeal plane - with the Role of, well, a zombie
hunter. They exist, although nobody really admits
that they do: most people who discover evidence of the
Undead usually get swept up to one side or the other
(or end up dead), but there's a few people who get a
fairly steady business from eliminating the critters.
Saminga is particularly careless about leaving the
damned things around, so it's in Hell's best interest
to keep the numbers down. Plus, there's always a
renegade vampire or mummy out there that can't be
reliably kept under control.
Frederick loves working for the Game: good hours,
lots of zombies to kill, and best of all, a Prince
with a working brain. Thanks to his specialized
knowledge, he gets called in when the Game needs to
deal with Undead problems - and they listen to him.
Actually, most of the time he works freelance:
Asmodeus is pretty good about warning him when a
particular nest is to be left alone, so he usually
just takes whatever jobs come his way. You'd be
surprised at how many county sheriff offices have his
business card on file.
Personally, Frederick is kind of frightening. First
off, he's ... presentable. Frederick washes
regularly. He brushes his teeth. He changes his
clothes every day - and puts on clean ones (including
the bits you never see). He irons. He does
maintenance on his equipment. He washes dishes
instead of breaking them. Of course, he goes through
a lot of stuff, thanks to his resonance, but he makes
an effort.
Worse is his attitude. Frederick likes Asmodeus.
To him, the Prince of the Game is the most wonderful
demon in the universe, worth whatever respect and
dignity the Calabite can muster up. The Boss (in
public, of course, it's Dread Lord or whatever else
fits the bill, but in the privacy of his head
Frederick just calls him The Boss) is distant, of
course, but that's to be expected from such a busy
personage.
What's important is that every day working for the
Game is one day not listening to the same damned
stupid three jokes and not stopping every few minutes
to put some damned stupid nose back on some damned
stupid corpse. Instead, he gets to go out and carve
them up with a chainsaw. That's worth more than you
can possibly imagine. Asmodeus doesn't even mind his
hobby of ice sculpture (a surprisingly common hobby
among Calabim: they like the idea of creating art that
gets destroyed even as you watch). Saminga always
laughed at him for that.
Of course, by now a few servants of Heaven have
figured out that this new zombie killer isn't a normal
human. However, the general consensus is that
Frederick is a Renegade of some kind, and so they're
holding back until they can work out a good Redemption
angle. They needn't bother - the Calabite may not
care too much about the War (everyone who likes
zombies is bad; everyone who wants to blow them apart
or away is all right), but he's not about to switch
sides.
Unless the Boss does, of course. However, seeing as
Belial isn't ice-skating on the Lake of Fire, that
isn't too likely, no?
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