Michael Lefebvre @Møry_R.T.

Name:  Michael Lefebvre (Møry_R.T.)    Mask:  Scholar                                                              Clan:  Mekhet Player:  CadejoNegro                            Dirge : Spy/Hacker                                                        Bloodline:  Lynx Chronicle:  Oxford By Night                  Concept:  Obsessed with discovering the hidden.       Covenant/College : Ordo Drakul/Worcester College  _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Intelligence:      ooo      Strength:      oo             Presence:            o Wits:                  ooo      Dexterity:     oooo        Manipulation:     oo Resolve:             oo         Stamina:      oo             Composure:        ooo ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Skills Mental  (-3 Unskilled) Academics (Sociology of Organized Crime): o  Computer (Hacking): oooo Crafts:    Investigation: oo Medicine:  Occult:   Politics:   Science:  ____________ Physical  (-1 Unskilled) Athletics: ooo Brawl (Grappling): o Drive:  Firearms: o Larceny: ooo Stealth : ooo Survival:  Weaponry:   ___________ Social  (-1 Unskilled) Animal Ken: Empathy: o Expression: Intimidation: Persuasion: o Socialise:  Streetwise:  Subterfuge: oo _________________ Disciplines Auspex:  Celerity:  Obfuscate: ooo Web: __________________ Merits Acute senses: o Dream visions: o Parcour: o Resouces: ooo Safe Place: o Haven: o Contacts (Online Hivemind): o Contacts (Organized Crime): o ____________________ Devotions None Aspirations Infiltrate Oxford's computer systems. Find Silas or at least what happened to him. Find where his daughter is.  Banes The Tenebrous Curse Connection to his Network _____________________________________________________ Conditions Addicted (Silas' Blood). Need to indulge regularly or obtain Depraved condition. Resolution - lose or gain Integrity, or exceptional success on a breaking point. Beat - ignore an obligation to get a fix.  Charmed (by Liam, 2 nights). Beat - divulge a secret or performer a service.  Wanton (2 nights then résistant for a month). - 2 to Resolve or Composure rolls. Resolution - reach a breaking point.  _____________________________________________________ Health ooooooo / / / / / / /    Current: (7/7)  Bashing: 0  Lethal: 0  Wounding: 0 ___________________________________________________ Willpower: ooooo Blood Potency: o _____________________ Vitae (Max 10) 8 Spent: 2 _______________________ Humanity: 10 9 8 7 o 6 o - Lock of hair from his daughter 5 o  4 o 3 o 2 o 1 o _______________________________________ Size:  5             Speed:  11 Defense:  6 Initiative Mod:  7 Beats:  0 Experience:  0

Background Summary Michael has come from Canada on a Postdoc Fellowship at Oxford on the Sociology of Organized Crime. His Mekhet sire sent him here to discover what has happened to Silas Malloc, a Childe of the Prince of Montreal. Silas was posing as a senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and has gone missing. Michael doesn't know much about Oxford or Vampire society yet.  Michael has had a secret life as a hacker and corporate spy, stealing and selling information in a wild virtual world that is just opening up to phones with internet and video streaming services through a combination of digital skills and old-style break-and-entering. He had the misfortune of trying to steal data from a Ventrue corporation. He was saved and embraced by a Mekhet, who had been watching him and was interested in the power of computers to obtain information. 

Backstory - as a human The police came for Michael Lefebvre at his middle-class French Canadian home when he was six years old. He had wracked up over a thousand dollars of calls to China by Phone Phreaking. His parents gave him the strap, grounded him from using his Comedor 64 for a month, and told him they hoped he had learned his lesson. He had. He learned that he needed to be better, and he needed to be invisible—a shadow.  Primary school was a flurry of beatings and insults. His parents put him into jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, and finally, aikido classes. He never learned to fight well, but he did learn to dodge, and block, and run.  He did make friends and contacts through his computers. First using his 300 baud modem and BBS's, to telnet and FTP, and then the new and ponderously slow World Wide Web, IRC rooms, and what would later be called the dark web.  In university, he studied sociology rather than computer science. The dot com crash convinced his parents there was no future in the field, and they thought he might meet a different type of person. They were right on the second point. Michael was immediately drawn to the Sociology of Organized Crime. That there was such an important social, political and economic system hiding in the shadows fascinated him. He used his computer and stats skills to track down unexplained money flows; then, he talked to the people behind the masks.  It turns out that crime bosses were just as happy as anyone else to talk about their jobs and passions as long as they knew they could remain anonymous. And before he realized it, he was doing a doctoral degree.  His foray into the criminal world had other benefits. He discovered how to use his knowledge of computer systems to gather information from companies. He created the online persona Møry_R.T for his less-than-legal activities. They set him up with a partner, Kiara. She taught him the physical side of breaking into office buildings. Their shared passion for discovering the unknown led to other passions. The day after his doctoral defense, he received a message from her saying that she was pregnant, was breaking clean, and he wouldn't see her again. Despite searching everywhere online and off, he has not been able to locate her anywhere. A year later, he received an envelope with a lock of hair and a note with a name printed on it, 'Michelle.'  Wildly unhappy, Michael decided to break into the central office of a corporation that had been blocking all his attempts to learn more about it. He came across more than he bargained for. 

Backstory - unlife as a vampire Inside the office building, Michael came across beings that moved too fast and were too strong to be human. He was caught, beaten, released so he could try to run, and then caught and beaten all over again. He knew he was going to die, and he did.  Although that should have been the end, it wasn't. Lydia Lezczenska, a vampire of the Mekhet clan, had been watching him for a long time. When he made the error of walking into a Ventrue's property, she simply walked in, picked up his bloodied corpse, and walked out again, with no one seeing her do it.  Michael woke to a world of new sensations and, above all, the overpowering thirst. He was not as shocked as he might have been if he hadn't grown up reading Anne Rice novels and dreamt of gliding through the night as a powerful immortal.  His sire was primarily interested in his computer skills. She understood the growing importance of the internet to store, transfer, and steal information, but she did not understand how it worked. She taught him the arts of their clan, focusing first on how to hide from sight.  Then she sent him to Oxford. Silas, a member of the Ordo Dracul and a Childe of the Prince of Vancouver, had gone missing, and Michael was sent to find him or at least uncover what had happened. All he knows is that he was to go to Worcester College under cover of a postdoctoral fellowship that someone from the Ordo Dracul named Harry has arranged for him.  Ways his backstory may come back to haunt him: Is he being hunted by the agents of the Ventrue in whose corporate offices he was caught?  Are human digital law enforcement agencies trying to find him?  Did his friends in the criminal world have enemies who might see him as a weak link?  What really happened to the mother of his daughter?  Where is Silas?

Ocecat

Notes Harry, Worcester College, contact between Prince of Montreal and Oxford  Dr. Richard Smethurst, Provost, Worcester College, Ordo Dracul Silas lived at 5 D'avenant Road, Summertown Met Liam "Nova" Casanova (a vampire) and Mehdi, who looks identical to Silas, at Silas' place.