Emily Zhoa's page

Person of Conviction: Your social presence is tightly rooted in your identity as a person of deep faith. You may use Conviction instead of Presence to determine your social stress capacity (page 137).

Armed Arts: You are practiced with a small number of weapons as part of your martial arts training. Pick two weapons which logically fit in with your training. You may use the Fists skill instead of Weapons when wielding these implements.

Dodge and Strike: On a successful defense with Athletics, you may sacrifice your next action to turn that defense into an immediate and automatically successful attack. Your attacker must be within range of your weapon, and if you’re mounting a full defense (page 199) you do not get the benefit of the +2 bonus when your defense roll converts to an attack roll.

Fast Reload: Provided that you have a supply of ammunition, reloads are rarely an issue. You take no penalty when reloading as a supplemental action (page 213); if you’re in a race to see who reloads first, or anything else having to do with your speed or ability to reload, gain a +1 on the roll

Grandmother (Elsie Myers) Go-to contact for information on monsters as well as a fallback when someone checks on false identities (thinking a Bobby Singer from Supernatural). Elsie is a First Nations woman who is now an old retired hunter who helps out by doing research or providing knowledge of monsters and how to defeat them. (Thinking decent Lore 3, Scholarship 3, Contacts 3)

Emily was born to a well off family in Hong Kong while still under British rule. Both her parents worked hard for in Li & Fung. Emily was the youngest of three children. Emily grew up without seeing much of her parents. She did not have to want for much as they would attempt to buy her love. Emily’s Grandfather, Renshu, was the only real positive influence that she had. He came around when he could but was often away on business.

In her teens Emily was sneaking in late in the evening from a party. As she entered the family’s home, she immediately felt that something was off. Her first sight was her older brother sprawled on the floor. She wanted to scream but a large bang in the room made her hold her shock. She quickly ducked into a side room. Several dark shapes move by in the hall. One stopped a moment and peered into the darkness of the room where Emily was not hiding. After several tense moments the shape continued on, departing the home. Continuing on in the house Emily found her sister and parents also dead.

Following her Grandfather’s instructions she fled the home to an arrange location, called him, and waited.

Coming to his grandaughter’s aid. Renshu investigate the scene before the authorities were called. Renshu was not happy with what he found and after having the authorities clearing Emily, whisked her away to Canada.

Once in Canada and in the following years Emily learned what not only her Grandfather, but past generations of the Zhoa family, did… slay monsters. Renshu explained to his granddaughter of the organization that he an many others were associated with, the Venatori Umbrorum over the last several hundred years.

The attack on the family was not only revenge on Renshu, but for what they learned and were about to report of Li & Fung, which had was in the control of the Jade Court of Vampires. They made they mark known and had hopped to cease the family’s monster slaying days.

The next few years while Emily grew up in her new home in Canada she was taught how to defend herself with an array of weapons. She also learned of the many dangers that actually existed. Upon reaching eighteen, she inducted into the Ventario Umbrorum.

Over the years Emily has built up many contacts both mundane and much more supernatural. Her sources had a scoop for some power First Nations artifacts stolen. She has able to pass the information on to a contact with Monoc Securities. She also received more information a few days after of the shifters that had the artifacts, but could not get in touch with her contact.

Kenshu say this as an opportunity for Emily to make her own decisions, he took her aside at the airport before she departed for New Orleans, and gave her a small book bound in the leather of some strange beastie. Within, was centuries worth of information that the had been passed from generation to generation of monsters and how to effectively hunt and slay, or at the least defeat them.

Emily was off to New Orleans and arrived on one of the last flights just as Hurricane Katrina was to hit the city. Through some contacts she was able to get in touch with a police officer, David Monroe. She was able to give him information that would lean him to the shifters and their dark ritual.

Emily tagged along on her own and was able to help slay the lead alpha was attempting to flee out the back as he let his fellows take on a small force arrayed against them. The small sawed off shotgun proved most valuable. Not waiting for any lime light of her kill, she departed and left the others to gather what was they came for.

Emily had heard through her contacts that something nasty was going to happen at a local event that had a band by the name of Blood of the Witch playing. The contact did not know exactly what was happening, but knew that the fae were involved.

Arriving she joined the many others listening to the band when all hell broke loose. Her Monoc contact came running through and attacked the bouncers who turned out to be trolls and some redcap attempted to cause some trouble. There was a gun shot and a terrible scream and the nasty little beast was horribly wounded and turned and ran. The chase for Emily was on. She got in her old VW Camper Van colored a modern blackberry pearl. She tailed the beastie to it’s lair and was able to put the creature down, never to harm another mortal.

At hearing that several of her contacts were heading into a den of shifters, Emily tagged along in the shadows to watch their backs. Lucky she did as she spotted the alpha shifter in an off room watching a trio taking on his kin. Readying to strike a her new cop friend, David Monroe, Emily let loose and blasted the alpha with two shotgun blasts. The alpha only seemed incapacitated but not out, Emily closed for her first solo kill. Looking at the beast and knowing what he intended, Emily took out one of blades and ended it’s life.

Seeing the others finishing of most of the other shifters Emily took the cue to leave, before she had to answer any questions.