Blackjack's People #080
Nasty Nuns
By Blackjack [Blackjack's Shadowrun Page: www.BlackjackSR.com] [BlackjackSRx@gmail.com] [@BlackjackSRx]

Posted: 1999-03-15

Mother Christina

Archetype: Human Nun

Now in her late 80s, Christina is confined to a wheelchair. She speaks at a low volume in a cracked voice and everything she says is from the bible.

Mother Christina is completely unaware of the goings on at the Highland Abbey. She simply wheels around all day giving readings to various inanimate objects and occasionally mumbling "thou shat not fornicate" when people stand too close together, even if they are all nuns.

Sister Sarah

Archetype: Human Mage/Nun

About forty years old, Sarah is a cold woman who never wastes words and simply walks away from a conversation when she feels it is over. She is rather ugly and comes off as being ten to twenty years older than she really is.

Sister Sarah is in charge of Highland's ritual blood sorcery group. She initiates all spell casting and personally retrieves all necessary DNA samples from the target. To do this she masquerades as a Diplomat from any number of countries and has a few illusion spells and a large collection of forged materials to back up her identity. Although a force to be reckoned with while using ritual sorcery, alone, as are the rest of the Highland group, she is rather weak.

Sarah is also in charge of getting a hold of the "sacrifices" needed to complete a spellcasting session. These sacrifices require her to do as little as go hunting and shoot a sparrow or as much as using illusion and manipulation spells to coax a living person up to the abbey.

Sister Rachel

Archetype: Human Mage/Nun

Average size with a beautiful face. She constantly has a big grin on her face and her fingernails are long and painted black.

Rachel is very bad at the act of playing a nun and for that reason is usually kept in her cell during outside visits. She is also an incredible flirt and once pinched the hindquarters of a visiting priest when he passed her in the hallway. She is also magically active and possesses a wide variety of manipulation spells.

Sister Emily

Archetype: Human Mage/Nun

Very petite she always has her head hung low and continuously mumbles the lord's prayer.

While performing ritual sorcery Emily is down right evil. During a sacrifice she will often strip off her clothing, shriek and holler and cover herself in the blood of the victim, sometimes even drinking it. She specializes in a small number of damaging manipulation spells which are personally designed to do grotesque things to her target, mainly involving rapid loss of blood. She dreams of one day becoming a vampire.

Sister Melissa

Archetype: Human Mage/Nun

Five foot eight and a hundred and twenty pounds. She has fire red hair and piercing green eyes.

Melissa fills in the combat and detection areas of the Highland group. She has never said a word. Her spellcasting is quite dramatic, with an uncommonly large amount of light and sound accompanying the process.

The Death Drones

Archetype: Zombie

Ten of these zombies roam the Abbey and are somewhat cleaner than the normal variety.

The Death Drones are around for two primary reasons: First to keep unwanted intruders away, and second to masquerade as other nuns when visitors arrive.

Using a special illusion spell the Drones can be transformed to look like traditional nuns. They never talk, explained by a vow of silence, but all it takes is a simple assencing to realize their true form. For this reason the other nuns never allow magicians into the compound.

While not being used as "nuns" they are kept in the ritual sorcery chamber located beneath the abbey where they are permitted to feed off the remains of the sacrifice. At night four or five are allowed to roam the grounds as security.