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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhialto" data-source="post: 2439995" data-attributes="member: 630">Francis Fulk Fitzwarren, the Great Beast of LondonMale Dilletante/Occultist 4 Defensive OptionHeight: 5' 6"Weight: 128 lbsHair: BlackEyes: HazelSTR   10 (+0)DEX  13 (+1)CON  12 (+1)INT 18 (+4)WIS 14 (+2)CHA 15 (+2)HP: 25AC: 11 (+1 Dexterity)Init: +1Speed: 30'Sanity: 70Saving ThrowsFort: +5Ref: +2Will: +6BAB: +2Melee: +2Ranged: +3SkillsDiplomacy +9 (7 ranks, +2 Cha)Gather Information +9 (7 ranks, +2 Cha)Innuendo +9 (7 ranks, +2 Cha)Knowledge (Occult) +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)Psychic Focus +9 (7 ranks, +2 Wis)Speak Ancient Egyptian +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)Speak Arabic +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)Speak Chinese +8 (4 ranks, +4 Int)Speak French + 7 (3 ranks, +4 Int)Speak German +8 (4 ranks, +4 Int)Speak Greek +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)Speak Latin +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)Speak Spanish +7 (3 ranks, +4 Int)Spellcraft +11 (7 ranks, +4 Int)LanguagesEnglish (native), Ancient Egyptian, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Latin, SpanishFeatsSensitive, True Seeing, BiofeedbackWealthSavings: $14,000Income: $7,000HistoryThe Fitzwarrens were one of the London's many aristocratic families, like so many others divided into their businessmen and their eccentrics.  Francis Fulk Fitzwarren, or "Francie", as his mother liked to call him, fell firmly into the latter camp.  Born in 1889, the brilliant, but undeniably odd Francis was spoiled by his overindulgent parents, and kept out of the schools to educate himself according to his whims and desires, which soon lead him to the vast collection of occult books assembled by his ancestors.  While his stolid older brother Edward was learning to run the family business, Francis was translating the Hermetic Papers, and learning about the life of Saint-Germain, as well as discovering a true genius for tongues.  The deaths of his parents when he was 12 did nothing to stop his interest--if anything it flamed it higher, as he began to hold impromptu seances, and looked everywhere for some way to pierce the veil that seperated this life from the next.  By the age of 20, Francis had joined no less than seven occult brotherhoods, though most of these hadn't lasted beyond their initial meeting.  Over the next two years, he would join a dozen more such groups, several of which he would found himself.  These associations would have an important effect on Francis.  He discovered, much to his own surprise, that he was a person that people liked, that they enjoyed talking to, and who could liven up parties with interesting discussions and a certain amount of cutting wit. And he discovered he liking being such a person, enjoyed parties, and enjoyed--well, enjoying himself.  He became a fixture of society's scandal set.  He also developed a lifelong rivalry with Aleister Crowley, after being thrown out of a Silver Star meeting for hissing at "the wickedest man in the world's" speech.  Shortly thereafter, Francis declared that he was in fact the Great Beast that Crowley claimed to be, and that Aleister was a "poor impostor", beginning a lengthy round of arguments, retorts, accusations, and "magical" dueling that's been the talk of the occult world for years.  (Since Crowley's rather public expulsion from Italy, Francis has been claiming victory.)  In 1910, Francis left on a world tour, visiting America, Hong Kong, Calcutta Istanbul, and Alexandria.  He was in Egypt when the Great War broke out, and wound up serving British Intelligence as a translator and a cryptographer, using his genius with language to break enemy codes.  Finally returning to London in 1918, he quickly reentered his old life, now full of even more tales to amuse people at parties with, and generally considered one of the most knowledgable men on occult topics, even if he was something of a gadfly.  Christened the "Great Beast of London" by papers to distinguish him from Crowley, Francis's life is at the present a blend of celebrity and notoriety.  He has taken up apartments in Plum Tree House, a Oriental-style novelty mansion built by an ancestor and fellow eccentric.PersonalityAcerbic and just a tad hedonistic--but always very refined--Francis is a definite Presence dispensing cynical wit and outrageous statements, as well as ingesting a great deal of alcohol.  A lifetime of dealing with frauds has dented his enthusiasm for the occult slightly--it has diminished to a mere hobby, in many ways--and yet despite himself, he is still filled with a impression that there is something out there.  Self-sufficiently wealthy, Francis can afford to live to amuse himself, and does, with no apologies.</blockquote>

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