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, S u b liminal, 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's eventual
revenge 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.
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