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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davies" data-source="post: 8308808" data-attributes="member: 30538">Warning: Disturbing content ahead.Roderick Ashe<img src="https://photos.smugmug.com/My-First-Gallery/i-gPHJZPX/0/ad15420b/S/o-MASON-VERGER-facebook-S.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The complicated origins of the House of Ashe has already been told in the biography of Penelope Ashe, better known as Penny Lane. For three generations after Timothy Ashe took that as his name, his family made an apparently sincere effort to move away from the degenerate practices of their forebears, making alliances through intermarriage with other families of the secret aristocracy of America, in the belief that this would restore the family's latent powers. Shortly before the turn of the twentieth century, these efforts finally began to bear fruit, with the birth of a number of children who possessed the sensory faculties that their ancestors had known.These children of the House of Ashe were encouraged -- or perhaps compelled -- to marry within their small circle. The results were mixed, with only some of the children demonstrating greater aptitudes for psychic talents, and others demonstrating only questionable sanity. The damage had been done, however, and the next generation of the Ashe family would become even more disturbingly inbred, as was Nicholas Ashe.Roderick Ashe, the current head of the house, rose to that position in 2008, when he was forty-four years old. (In the interests of not disturbing the readers of this document, the simplest terms for the familial relationships between members of the House of Ashe will be used hereafter.) The former head had been his mother's older brother, and was known not to think highly of Roderick, who seemed to take no real interest in the family business of vice, preferring to engage in what the Ashes considered to be artistic pursuits.In 1994, however, Roderick became the father of a daughter named Penelope. Sadly, the child's mother died shortly after giving birth, due to an unfortunate accident with the pieces of a shattered hand mirror. Initially, Penny was of very little interest to Roderick, and her care was entirely given to a series of nannies. But when it became clear that she was an actual mind reader, at around thirteen years of age, she became the subject of a great deal of extremely prurient interest from the male members of her family. This lead her to run away from home within the next yearA few months after that happened, Roderick seized control over the House of Ashe, killing only a few of his rivals in the process, preferring to intimidate them so that he could make use of their talents later. He laid down a single simple rule for the family -- Penelope was to be left entirely to her own devices until such time as she returned home of her own volition. Any attempt to coerce or compel her to do so would be met with extraordinary sanction. With that done, Roderick turned to the business of running the business. In addition to the family's traditional vice, he's moved into information brokerage, and does a great deal of business with the Combination, Jolene, and the Schemer.Of course, Roderick fully intends to one day bring Penny back home as a bride and the mother of more of his children, who will ideally have her telepathy as well as his own psychometry, the tool that has ensured he knows nearly everything that goes on in Baltimore. While it would have been nice if she'd rejected the world as an Ashe is supposed to do, the fact that she's been gone for more than twelve years suggests that this won't happen. So she'll have to be brought back forcefully, and the edict was always meant for everyone else, not himself. The alliance she's made with that obnoxious construct Machinanima complicates matters, but Roderick is quite confident that he can overcome this obstacle, too. The possibility of using Machinanima to eliminate another of his problems, namely Corentin Van Damme, also intrigues him. If the operation succeeds, he is sure to be recognized as the leader of all the families, and get started on the grand project of bringing them all around to the House of Ashe's way of thinking. What a gift that would be to give his first grandchild ...Roderick Ashe -- PL 8Abilities:STR 0 | STA 2 | AGL 1 | DEX 2 | FGT 2 | INT 3 | AWE 7 | PRE 3Powers:Shielded Mind: Impervious Will 6, Limited to Mental Effects - 3 pointsSupreme Psychometry: Enhanced Advantage 1 (Ultimate Effort [Investigation]), Quirk (only for Well-Informed checks); Mind Reading 8, Limited to Emotions, Only while Remote Sensing; Remote Sensing 13 (all senses), Medium (inanimate object touched within the last twenty-four hours), Simultaneous; Senses 4 (Postcognition), Limited to inanimate object as subject; Senses 2 (darkvision), Only while Remote Sensing - 60 pointsAdvantages:Assessment, Benefit 5 (billionaire), Connected, Contacts, Improved Initiative, Languages 3 (many), Skill Mastery (Perception), Well-informed.Skills:Deception 8 (+11), Expertise: Business 8 (+11), Expertise: Criminal 8 (+11), Insight 5 (+12), Investigation 10 (+13), Perception 6 (+13), Persuasion 7 (+10), Sleight of Hand 8 (+10), Stealth 8 (+9).Offense:Initiative +5Unarmed +2 (Close Damage 0)Defense:Dodge 5, Parry 6, Fortitude 3, Toughness 2, Will 7Totals:Abilities 34 + Powers 63 + Advantages 14 + Skills 34 + Defenses 9 = 154 pointsComplications:Power--Motivation. Completely Depraved. Obsession (Penny Lane.) Secrets (many.)</blockquote>

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