Stabernide -
Subject: emerald hammer
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 03:53:26 PST
I have a few Karotechia NPC's for you to use and abuse as you see fit;-
first off there's a Bischoffe; Mark Stancher
The Seventh Son
Whatever dark and spidery shape lurked in the branches of the Stancher
family tree; it was in evidence long before Carl Stancher bore his
seventh son. The first Stancher to set foot in the New World was
Heinrich; a ruthless Prussian nobleman excommunicated by the Vatican,
who made his fortune in America by selling smallpox-ridden blankets to
natives and claiming their tribal land.
His son was Ernst; who sold arms to both sides in the civil war, and his
son was Harald, who was hung for dynamiting a mine full of workers in a
land dispute. Carl Stancher was a wealthy East-coast industrialist by
the 1930's; but he risked it all in 1941 by condemning the US decision
to join the war against the Axis powers. Rather, he decided, they should
side with a Europe united under Nazi rule against the communist threat.
His wife left him, taking his four sons with her, and Stancher only
narrowly avoided prison. The government however, seized control of his
factories under allegations of fraud and treason. At the end of the war,
Stancher liquidated what assets he still possessed, and returned to the
Old World to see what opportunities he could exploit in the Marshall
plan. After several years earning a crust out of the economic upheaval
in Austria, Stancher met a wealthy English widower called Diana in
Vienna. Ever the opportunist, Stancher married her quickly, and moved
to England, where he used her large fortune to buy a motor car
manufacturer called Leopard that was based near a town called Brichester
in the Severn valley. Stancher established himself in the area, and
Diana began to bear his children. She had the third in 1958. Mark.
Always a sick and somewhat depraved child, his parents became accustomed
to covering up his 'indiscretions'. The 8-year old girl he 'raped' when
he was 10. The time he broke into a funeral home when he was 14 - and
was caught doing something to the bodies.And of the course the horrific
injury he inflicted upon a fellow student during his first (and last)
term at Oxford whilst felating him. After being thrown out of
University, his Father bought him the flat he was always pestering for
in London and then washed his hands of the troublesome youth, suspecting
his heroin habit, but not his dabbling in druidic practices and hoping
he would either burn out or fade away.
Mark knew only a little magic; but he had the aptitude. He was
fascinated by the decadence and violence of druidic lore and the power
he believed it could give him to live out his by now rather depraved
fantasies. As young as 14 he had begun selling sex to wizened second
hand booksellers in Brichester and reclusive academics in Wychhill in
return for paltry magic tricks they knew - only some of which worked;
druidism being riddled with the worship of Shub-Niggurath of course, but
not a viable form of magical power in itself. By the time he 'came out'
in London society however, he was enough of a student of the black arts
to impress the likes of Malcolm Maclaren and Vivienne Westwood, and
became a regular at their parties and their scene. For the most part,
however, London's occult underground shunned him. Stancher was
ultimately just another know-nothing with a few parlour tricks and a
twisted libido. Meat for some dark shape somewhere.
Eventually Stancher's tiresome shallowness and depraved sexuality bored
even Maclaren, and Stancher left London society for New York. At a The
Teardrop Explodes gig at Club Apocalypse, Stancher came face to face
with real power for the first time. Robert Hubert. High on a horse/booze
combo, Stancher challenged Hubert to a magical due. Hubert responded by
burning the druidic spells Stancher was trying to cast onto his body;
branding him all over with strange runes and sigils. Two adepts then
dumped the screaming youth's body into the gutter, and Hubert turned his
attention to something a little more interesting.
Haunted by the memory of the terrible might he had witnessed, Stancher
stalked the NY Occult scene like a wraith for the next few years, crazed
for power and heroin. He attempted to perform even more debauched and
bloody druidic rituals, with mixed results. It was during this time that
he killed his Father - who in his final years had decided to come to
America and 'save' the child he had abandoned years before. Stancher
raped and murdered him in an attempt to see into the future. As his
occult power began to increase - however slowly - he began to perform
low-level magical hatchet-work for various criminal elements in return
for heroin. This brought him to the notice of Estevenza - Bitterich's
talent scout - at a swing club in Manhattan. Estevenza talked to
Stancher for some time, fascinated by the markings on the sick creature.
Stancher was so pleased to be taken so seriously for once he even forgot
the craving for heroin that had brought him there to try and sell
himself. When Stancher revealed his German heritage, Estevenza decided
to 'audition' Stancher using a prostitute they acquired at the club. As
they had sex with the unfortunate woman, Stancher demonstrated the
Shrivelling spell on her - one of the few genuinely dangerous spells he
knew. The pair left for La Estancia the next morning.
Nobody much liked Stancher. He was not intelligent, far from the epitome
of the Aryan ideal physically, and his only desires revolved around his
sexual urges;- which by this point were far too much or even some of the
hardened sickos the Karotechia had attracted. But despite his branding,
and the fact he was now far from young, he retained a youthful build and
appearance; and in particular boyish blue eyes that attracted the
attention of Bitterich. The ageing nazi found Stancher's wholehearted
devotion to him endearing, and ultimately, arousing. The two became
lovers. Bitterich also recognised Stancher's aptitude for magic - and
began to tutor him. Stancher quickly became the formidable mage he had
always wanted to be. His debt to Bitterich is one he knows he can never
repay, but one he will always try to.
then there's a Ritter;-
Alan McCormick (Die Ritter)
A long serving member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, following his
dismissal from the Royal Ulster Constabulary for 'extreme brutality' in
1977, McCormick turned Professional terrorist in 1986, after killing
prominent Sinn Fein spokesperson Sheila Kennedy in a Derry car bomb and
shooting to the top of the IRA's 'legitimate target' list (although his
most infamous and gruesome exploit remains the dismemberment and
subsequent cooking of informant Jerry Campbell in 1981; obstensively to
mask the identity of the corpse once police had found it).
McCormick spent the next few years selling his services to hard right
organisations around the world - principally in the Middle East. It was
during this time that he met Reinhard Galt - the two are believed to be
responsible for the murder of Mossad undercover agent Hiram Rivlin in
Damascus circa 1989.
In august, 1994, following the first of the IRA's "cessation" of
violence, and the most positive sign the Northern Ireland peace process
could begin in earnest, McCormick was summoned to La Estancia through
the mercenary grapevine. Galt spent a few days showing McCormick
selected parts of the operation. Giving McCormick the chance to assess
the Karotechia and of course, vice versa. Galt was particularly
impressed with McCormick's nonchalant acceptance of his 'diet'.
The Karotechia had grown concerned that any attempt to push through a
Northern Ireland peace agreement would damage their sphere of influence
in the British Isles area. A combination of strict gun laws, intense
media hostility, and police crackdowns on traditionally fertile fascist
breeding grounds had left many British hard right organisations
virtually impotent; with only the Northern Ireland groups providing a
strong and effective paramilitary presence. The Karotechia had decided
to establish and fund extremist organisations on both sides in order to
destabilise the peace process and to provide a firm base of power in the
area. McCormick was to head up the strong-arm branch of the main
loyalist group - Association of the Ulster Right (AURa). McCormick
accepted - for money rather than ideology, and returned to Belfast to
recruit.
McCormick is much like Galt;- a soldier who likes to follow orders and
appreciates organisations that order him to do what he does best. It's
true that his beginnings are rooted in ideology - if you can call
mindless sectarianism ideology - but this veneer has long since been
dropped to reveal what really motivates him;- conflict and violence and
the power that it brings him.
McCormick stands around 5 11", has a rakish build, and long unkempt dark
brown hair. He usually dresses scruffily and portrays a carefree
nonchalance towards everything. He speaks with a slow and measured
Belfast drawl and smiles a lot whilst he works. In combat, he moves like
lightning and kills without hesitation. He enjoys extensive contacts not
only in most of the loyalist paramilitary organisations, but in the RUC
and Special Branch as well.
And finally a hard right front organisation for the Karotechia;-
AURa (Association of the Ulster Right)
Formed by McCormick in early 1995, AURa members tend to be made up of
the older, more professional elements of the Loyalist paramilitaries;
men who have enjoyed far too much power and kudos for far too long to
let it be pissed away in the name of peace. Many represent criminal
elements in Belfast and associated Northern Irish cities as well, and
all enjoy good and extensive contacts throughout Ulster and British
cities where the Orangemen are strong (i.e. Glasgow).
To destabilise the peace process, McCormick has stayed clear of the kind
no street violence that is characteristic of most sectarian organisations
- instead targeting prominent Republicans and 'enemies of the union' in
the same way the IRA themselves operate. So far, the most high profile
killings have been an Amnesty International investigator ('IRA
apologist') in Belfast, an RUC officer who criticised the forces
occasional concentration on republican violence rather than Unionist,
and most surprising of all Shaun Macdonald, a known American IRA
sympathiser and industrialist, spectacularly assassinated outside a
Boston night-spot. McCormick has also hinted he is willing to strike on
the British mainland against politicians who he feels 'are selling the
union down the river';- unheard of in any other loyalist faction.
Hope this will be of some help.
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