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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yellow Kid" data-source="post: 3027049" data-attributes="member: 42869">Bridget Murphy, Our Lady of VerminBridget "Red" Murphy has had a hard life. She's in her mid 40s, but looks to be in her late 50s.  Born to a large upper lower class family, she grew up on the south side of Chicago. She went to public school and was an average student, clever but not smart; although while there she served a fair amount of detentions / suspensions for tardiness, truancy, fighting, talking back, etc.She worked as a waitress and alientated her family by marrying "A Beaner" (a Guatamalean immigrant named Herbierto). She had three daughters and things went well until Herbie had an accident at his job. He lingered at the hospital for several days before dying. After the funeral, Bridgett tried to keep things together, but it was just impossible. Her family still wouldn't talk to her and her wages + public aid just wasn't enough. The medical bills from Herbie's accident were huge and the hospital was ruthless. She took to the bottle. One thing led to another and DCFS took away her kids and she ended up on the street.She survived on the street for many years. She's been assaulted, spit on, insulted, ignored, and manhandled. She's been in and out of a variety of underfunded and/or corrupt rehab clinics. She's done a bit of jail time for petty theft and vagrancy. She spent most of her time in the bottle, panhandling, doing odd jobs, pretty much anything. Her life finally took a turn for the better when she found Nowhere.Nowhere is a decrepit, rat infested warehouse on the near west side. It is a sort of commune for street people. It had been started and "run" by an ex-Black Panther named Robert "The Breeze" Taylor who had also fallen up on hard times. He invited her in, helped her crawl out of the bottle (mostly) and helped her trust and respect people again. The people of Nowhere looked out for each other and protected their squalid little piece of heaven and after The Breeze died, the commune just kept running. They kept it to about 15-20 people, Red being their token cracker. It was the closest thing she had to a family in a long time.EnoblementNowhere was turned into a chancel one fine morning. Bridgett awoke to find an angel standing threateningly above one of the Nowhere residents. Righteous fury took over and she attacked without thinking. The imperator was angry and amused by this, but saw that it came from a deep sense of justice and concern for her comrade and enobled her for that sentiment. Bridgett's alignment is that of the Angels. That being said, she doesn't like her Imperator all that much. She doesn't think it knows what suffering and pain is and views him more like those faceless angencies and judges and corporations who were always trying to "help" her. She can't argue that people need help, but doesn't think that anyone who hasn't been in the trenches can really get it. Her model for helping people is The Breeze who...in her mind...has risen to nearly demigod status.PersonalityBridget is headstrong and judgemental, but is also kind. Having spent so much time in such a small world (just herself and her survival and then Nowhere and its survival) that she has trouble seeing the big picture. She's quick to act and would rather do SOMETHING NOW than ponder on what may be the RIGHT thing LATER.STATSI leave it to you, Pete, to assign them where makes sense. Let me know if you need me to answer questions to help you figure it out.MIRACLESI've had several thoughts. Let me know what grabs you.- Hard to kill, but always sickly = Like most vermin, she's hard to eradicate. However, being on the edges of society, she's not the healthiest looking / sounding. Maybe she has TB of sorts.- Eat anything = Maybe its part of the above. But she can eat pretty much anything and survive on it. She can also have it taste pretty much as she wants it too.- Command Vermin = well, that's the obvious one. She can talk to and order about Rats, pigeons, cockroaches, etc. (should we define what are vermin and what are not?)- Find the Lost = Things that have been lost or discarded become easy to find.- Lost in the Crowd = It isn't invisibility per se', but more like People ignore her, they don't want to see her, so they don't see her. She'd stand out like a sore thumb in someplace she obviously doesn't belong...but in a crowd or alone on a street, she's hard to see.- Mile in my shoes = She can make someone live a whole lifetime of hunger and suffering in a few moments or hours. I'm picturing this to be a sort of 3 ghosts of christmas type power. It may be linked to her domain somewhat.Does she need more? Less? Do you have any thoughts?Her DomainI would like Nowhere to be a sort of Faerie hole. Time is screwy in it. I liked your idea of the Servants being stockbrokers and bankers and the like. I'd want it to be tied to the Mile in My shoes...ie she selects particularly uncharitable people and hits them with the miracle. They're transported to Nowhere, where their mind lives the hard life that she and others have lived, but their bodies are there to do menial tasks and the like. They may spend years in Nowhere, but when transported back it has been no time at all.</blockquote>

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