Whispering Vault Characters

Emma Steele, Secret Agent

At GenCon 1998, I played in a Whispering Vault demo game, where I got to create my own character. Now, remember that a major part of the beginning of the game is what is called “the Summons”, that is the year that the “Avengers” movie came out, and in the original series, there was the summons “Mrs. Peele, we’re needed.” Thus, Emma Steele was born.

Avatar Attributes

Aware 5

Insight 5

Presence 5

Willpower 7

Vessel Attributes

Dexterity 6

Fortitude 6

Strength 4

Disciplines

Conjure (just the thing for producing those amazing spy gadgets on demand)

Dominate (Mastery) (her training in Eastern mysteries and mysticisms)

Translocate (for getting in and out of tight places)

Whisper (for silent communication with her fellow Stalkers)

Servitors

Glamours (Mastery)

Ferretters (Mastery)

Nightwings

Awareness Skills

Mending +0

Perception +2

Sensitivity +1

Insight Skills

Deduction +2

History +0

Occultism +1

Presence Skills

Banish +0

Bind +0

Charm +3

Evoke +2

Intimidate +2

Mask +7

Dexterity Skills

Attack +4

Defend +5

Stealth +5

Keys

Empathy

Pride

Honor

Doubt

Compassion

Focus Skills

Codes / Cryptography

Vitality: 14

Karma: 5

Description

Tall, slender but not skinny, with long brown hair, and dressed in a tight-fitting leather cat-suit: that’s Emma Steele.

Domain

Emma’s Domain is a mod-60’s London, where famous landmarks stand side-by-side with faceless, mirror-windowed office buildings that house the Intelligence services. The streets are crowded with bright mod-60’s colors, London bobbies and double-decker red buses. Emma’s own lodgings are in a fashionable apartment block, where she occupies the entire floor.

Prelude

Emma Stavrosky was a code clerk in the British Intelligence service. It was a job that was mostly devoted to filing, indexing, retrieving, and more filing. It was boring, and she secretly fantasized about being a secret agent, like the one that the British author Ian Fleming was writing about. But then British television began broadcasting a new TV series called “The Avengers”. At first, Emma was taken by the suave, debonair character of John Steed, but when the character of Emma Peele was introduced, Emma Stavrosky knew without a doubt that she wanted to be just like her.

But it wasn’t to be. Emma was not secret agent material. She was politely rebuffed when she asked for transfer to the active section. But when a Stalker discovered her unknown talent for Stalking, she became in truth what she secretly wanted to be; Emma Steele, secret agent!