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|highconcept=Were-Serpent Occult Reporter | |highconcept=Were-Serpent Occult Reporter | ||
| | |trouble=Nature Doesn't Plan, why should I? | ||
| | |aspects="Form of the Serpent" (conditional); Parseltongue; Good Journalist, Bad Agency | ||
|bio= | |mantles=Were-creature/Journalist | ||
Jessica was a pretty typical middle-class kid from Minnesota. She liked exploring the forest near her home, got good grades, fell in love with her high school boyfriend, dumped him to go to college. She majored in environmental studies, marched in some protests, researched food safety and the environmental impact of GMOs and pesticides, got a tattoo of a snake eating its tail on her back. The tattoo supposedly symbolized the constant cycle of life and death, the recreation of what was destroyed, the endlessness of the universe, you know, typical freshman BS. | |bio=Jessica was a pretty typical middle-class kid from Minnesota. She liked exploring the forest near her home, got good grades, fell in love with her high school boyfriend, dumped him to go to college. She majored in environmental studies, marched in some protests, researched food safety and the environmental impact of GMOs and pesticides, got a tattoo of a snake eating its tail on her back. The tattoo supposedly symbolized the constant cycle of life and death, the recreation of what was destroyed, the endlessness of the universe, you know, typical freshman BS. | ||
Grad school took her to Guyana, where she was recruited into an eco-activist organization. What started as a simple protest group rapidly radicalized, with their agenda becoming more and more extreme. Towards the end of her first year, she participated in an infiltration to sabotage corporate equipment that was illegally clear-cutting the rain forest to plant more crops. | Grad school took her to Guyana, where she was recruited into an eco-activist organization. What started as a simple protest group rapidly radicalized, with their agenda becoming more and more extreme. Towards the end of her first year, she participated in an infiltration to sabotage corporate equipment that was illegally clear-cutting the rain forest to plant more crops. | ||
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That’s where things went wrong. Injured by a rent-a-cop with a machete, she wound up getting separated from her group. A couple delirious days in the jungle later, she awoke to a firm hand washing her wound, in what appeared to be a thatch-roof hut. This was a turning point in her life, as the woman – a shaman of some sort – recognized in Jessica something she herself never knew. She said the tattoo – done in a cheap college town piercing shop when Jessie was 19 and drunk – was a sign from the gods. Jessica’s a shapeshifter, a were-snake. They spent several weeks working to tap and refine her abilities, and then the shaman (Jessica never did get her name) returned her to Georgetown. | That’s where things went wrong. Injured by a rent-a-cop with a machete, she wound up getting separated from her group. A couple delirious days in the jungle later, she awoke to a firm hand washing her wound, in what appeared to be a thatch-roof hut. This was a turning point in her life, as the woman – a shaman of some sort – recognized in Jessica something she herself never knew. She said the tattoo – done in a cheap college town piercing shop when Jessie was 19 and drunk – was a sign from the gods. Jessica’s a shapeshifter, a were-snake. They spent several weeks working to tap and refine her abilities, and then the shaman (Jessica never did get her name) returned her to Georgetown. | ||
Her contacts in the protest group welcomed her back, and introduced her to [[Dylan | Her contacts in the protest group welcomed her back, and introduced her to [[Dylan deSoto]] – an escapee from a human trafficking ring. They quickly became friends, and agreed that they would return and gather evidence to motivate the Guyanan police to take down the trafficking ring. Turns out, the Guyanan police were deep in the pocket of the backers of the trafficker, too - a group of Jamaican vampires. Their plan went south, fast, and Jessica and Dylan were forced to flee back to the States. Though she had planned to keep her abilities to herself, Dylan now knows about her shapeshifting, and she knows of his darker nature as well. | ||
They've returned to the States, where Jessie sticks her nose where it doesn't belong for a well-funded but scandalous news blog, and Dylan hunts monsters from the shadows. Where once her writings were mostly about saving the environment, now she is trying to bring awareness to the world of the supernatural predators, and is starting to draw the wrong kind of attention while she does. | They've returned to the States, where Jessie sticks her nose where it doesn't belong for a well-funded but scandalous news blog, and Dylan hunts monsters from the shadows. Where once her writings were mostly about saving the environment, now she is trying to bring awareness to the world of the supernatural predators, and is starting to draw the wrong kind of attention while she does. | ||
|imagename=Jessie.jpeg | |||
|imagecaption=Jessie Olmstead | |||
|contacts={{Contact | |||
|Contact=Dylan deSoto | |||
|Relationship=Ally | |||
|Details=Longtime friends and partners in the Weird | |||
}}{{Contact | |||
|Contact=Stanley Roberts | |||
|Relationship=Adversary | |||
|Details=Rival journalist and all-around sleazebag | |||
}}{{Contact | |||
|Contact=Michael Finn | |||
|Relationship=It's Complicated | |||
|Details=For the right price, Finn can sometimes be persuaded to share some information, but never if there's any chance it can come back to him. | |||
}} | |||
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Latest revision as of 18:01, 17 July 2025
Contacts
- Dylan deSoto
- Relationship: Ally
- Longtime friends and partners in the Weird
- Stanley Roberts
- Relationship: Adversary
- Rival journalist and all-around sleazebag
- Michael Finn
- Relationship: It's Complicated
- For the right price, Finn can sometimes be persuaded to share some information, but never if there's any chance it can come back to him.
High Concept
Were-Serpent Occult Reporter
Trouble
Nature Doesn't Plan, why should I?
Additional Aspects
"Form of the Serpent" (conditional); Parseltongue; Good Journalist, Bad Agency
Mantle(s)
Were-creature/Journalist
Biography
Jessica was a pretty typical middle-class kid from Minnesota. She liked exploring the forest near her home, got good grades, fell in love with her high school boyfriend, dumped him to go to college. She majored in environmental studies, marched in some protests, researched food safety and the environmental impact of GMOs and pesticides, got a tattoo of a snake eating its tail on her back. The tattoo supposedly symbolized the constant cycle of life and death, the recreation of what was destroyed, the endlessness of the universe, you know, typical freshman BS.
Grad school took her to Guyana, where she was recruited into an eco-activist organization. What started as a simple protest group rapidly radicalized, with their agenda becoming more and more extreme. Towards the end of her first year, she participated in an infiltration to sabotage corporate equipment that was illegally clear-cutting the rain forest to plant more crops.
That’s where things went wrong. Injured by a rent-a-cop with a machete, she wound up getting separated from her group. A couple delirious days in the jungle later, she awoke to a firm hand washing her wound, in what appeared to be a thatch-roof hut. This was a turning point in her life, as the woman – a shaman of some sort – recognized in Jessica something she herself never knew. She said the tattoo – done in a cheap college town piercing shop when Jessie was 19 and drunk – was a sign from the gods. Jessica’s a shapeshifter, a were-snake. They spent several weeks working to tap and refine her abilities, and then the shaman (Jessica never did get her name) returned her to Georgetown.
Her contacts in the protest group welcomed her back, and introduced her to Dylan deSoto – an escapee from a human trafficking ring. They quickly became friends, and agreed that they would return and gather evidence to motivate the Guyanan police to take down the trafficking ring. Turns out, the Guyanan police were deep in the pocket of the backers of the trafficker, too - a group of Jamaican vampires. Their plan went south, fast, and Jessica and Dylan were forced to flee back to the States. Though she had planned to keep her abilities to herself, Dylan now knows about her shapeshifting, and she knows of his darker nature as well.
They've returned to the States, where Jessie sticks her nose where it doesn't belong for a well-funded but scandalous news blog, and Dylan hunts monsters from the shadows. Where once her writings were mostly about saving the environment, now she is trying to bring awareness to the world of the supernatural predators, and is starting to draw the wrong kind of attention while she does.
