Corporeal Forces: 5
Strength: 12
Agility: 8
Ethereal Forces: 5
Intelligence:10
Precision: 10
Celestial Forces: 5
Will: 12
Perception: 8
Well, he was like that, before being broken out of his
celestial jail along with his Prince. After roughly
thirty seven celestial combats (and a seriously
annoyed look by Gabriel), it's more like:
Corporeal Forces: 2
Strength: 2
Agility: 6
Ethereal Forces: 3
Intelligence: 4
Precision: 8
Celestial Forces: 3
Will: 4
Perception: 8
Vessel: burly male/5, -1 Charisma
Again, this was only true before the Calabite had a
really, really bad day - and a fairly excruciating
stay in Limbo. These days, it's:
Vessel: baby/1
Skills: Dodge/6, Fighting/6, Large Weapons (club/4,
sword/4)
Songs: Blood/4, Entropy (Ethereal/4), Feedback/6,
Light (Celestial/6), Numinous Corpus (Acid/3, Barbs/3,
Claws/3, Feet/3, Tail/3, Tongue/3, Wings/3), Shields
(All/4), Thunder/6
Attunements: Calabite of Cruelty, Ferocity, Lash,
Captain of Sadists
Discord: Ugly/3
Well, that stayed: just add Bound/5. Veischax really
wanted to get out of Limbo.
Veischax used to agree that Hell is other people.
"Other people" being defined as "minions of Magog
trapped in a prison with only each other and the
Prince of Cruelty to keep each other company", of
course. Still, one could argue that the entire
experience was goo... that is, 'useful' ... for the
survivors. After all, anyone that survived the
experience would be ready for anything, right?
Wrong. When Veischax got himself trapped in the first
place, humans were hitting each other with sharpened
bronze sticks. When he came out, ten feet tall and
farting fire, it was a bit of a shock for him to
encounter such minor improvements as steel, gunpowder,
dynamite, napalm and depleted uranium slugs. Things
got very, very messy after that. So did Veischax: by
the end, it was down to a choice between Limbo and
soul-death.
Amazingly, Limbo wasn't what you'd call fun, either.
Sure, the lack of tormented Servitors of Cruelty
serving their collective Word was a plus at first, but
that palled, fast. Veischax isn't precisely what
you'd call an introspective sort of demon, so being
forced to be so went right past 'trying' to hit
'excruciating' dead center. He very quickly came to
the conclusion that a vessel - any vessel - would be
preferable.
Unfortunately, that meant cutting a few corners. This
wasn't particularly smart - but the major thing to
remember about Veischax is that he hasn't quite gotten
it through his head yet that he's about half as
powerful as he used to be. The automatic reflexes are
all calibrated to 'bad-ass' rather than 'barely
fledged', you see - and the Calabite has precisely the
wrong sort of personality to hope for getting by on
charm. Saminga has more charm than this Calabite.
Again, if Veischax had been a bit brighter he probably
wouldn't have come back with a baby vessel - but then,
if he had been brighter he wouldn't have been too
surprised to find that someone had thoughtfully
arranged for the smashing of the Calabite's Heart.
The delayed reaction to that has pretty much forced
him to keep the vessel that he has until he can find
his Prince. True, that might not be the wisest thing
to do, under the circumstances - but, really, how can
things be any worse?
Don't answer that.
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