Metro
REAL NAME: Meghana
Keane
BACKGROUND: Meghana
was born of a
Dublin man and an ambitious
Indian
businesswoman from Liverpool by way of Bangalore. Both were
Sargassos through at least one
of
their
parents. She grew up in the clan and
apprenticed under her father who was a very successful courier. She discovered she had his knack for both
opening up gateways and conjuring, drawing forth objects from elsewhere. It was this conjuring trick that drew the
attention of Kenneth McBride, one of Sargasso’s foot soldiers. She learned from him that at least half the
couriers doubled as trained soldiers to defend the clan.
So while she earned a living on the side
ferrying people and products about, Kenneth taught Mechana the art of
war: how
to shoot, how to stab, how to fight, as well as more practical skills
such as
basic outdoor survival and some nasty tricks a fighter may need to
learn. He especially showed her how to
conjur up
weapons from her own personal arsenal, both mundane and mystic.
Meghana's graduation
was a true baptism of blood,
she was
present when House Sargasso was assaulted by Graves and Tandian
forces. She was
almost mortally wounded and would have died had not Kenneth picked her
up
bodily and tossed her screaming through a doorway and into a hospital
in
Aberdeen. She remained there unconscious
for days, a Jane Doe. By the time she
awoke the Sargassos were on the run, her parents dead.
She got in touch with surviving clan members,
through magic she recovered quickly. She
then set about on the road of revenge and rescue, making Graves
perma-dead and
rescuing the clan children who had been spirited away.
By the time the dust settled the Graves’
ruling body was crippled, their mercenaries killed or forced into
hiding, their
power broken. She had seen more than
enough bloodshed to satisfy anyone and she entered a state of
semi-retirement,
returning to the life of a courier.
All the same, her
arsenal was always ready, guns
greased,
knives kept razor sharp…
PERSONALITY: Meghana
is a fairly stable person who
does still
suffer from the aftershocks of war. She
has killed her fair share of men, women and undead, both at a distance
and very
up close and personal, and these images sometimes haunt her. She is very passionate about causes (she
smuggles thousands of contraceptive devices into Ireland every year,
calling the
country of her birth a “Fundamentalist state run by a pack of sexist
knuckle
draggers”), fiery of temper and slow to trust.
Meghana is not happy
unless she is doing something, anything. She hates just sitting
around and wants to be out and about, or performing some sort of
task. She largely dislikes the internet because using it usually
means she has to sit still. She simply does not get it's appeal
at all. She is almost never able to see a movie in a single
setting.
APPEARANCE: Meghana is
an attractive woman in her mid-twenties, she inherited much of her
mother's beauty. She has thick, dark brown hair she usually wears
shoulder length, often she wears it in a bun to keep it out of the
way. She has warm brown eyes and dusky skin, and most often wears
functional clothing like jeans, work boots and t-shirts along with a
worn black leather jacket. When "working" she will either clean
up and look presentable, or to adhere to any potential cultural taboos
a country she is heading to might possess. When preparing for a
fight she will outfit herself appropriately, often wearing dark gray or
black.
POWERS/ABILITIES: A
“classic” Sargasso, Meghana is
an expert
conjurer, able to summon forth any object of “manageable” size to her
hand
provided she is familiar with it. The
more familiar she is with the object , the easier it is (she can summon
forth
her Triumph motorcycle, for instance, since she has stripped it down
numerous
times. However an object of similar mass
she is barely familiar with would give her great trouble.
She is also able to conjure items she can
see. Meghana is able to teleport
people,
but only if she knows them personally and only if they are willing.
Meghana is able to
open up dimensional gateways via
physical
doorways between places she is familiar with.
A good courier, she has tagged along on numerous runs with
others of her
kind in order to be as familiar with as many places as possible. She is sometimes able to open a doorway to a
place she has not been provided a person she is with has been to that
place and
can form some sort of mental bond allowing her to make the connection.
Meghana is not a very
good teleporter.
She can move at most five or six yards and
only in line of sight, and always she is a bit disoriented.
SKILLS: Meghana knows
very little of other magical
disciplines. She understands the very
basics of alchemy and sorcery and due to the Graves/Tandian war has a
working
knowledge of Necromatic principles, but she is by no means able to put
such knowledge
into practice. She is a decent mechanic
and serviceable electrician, and she is a skilled gunsmith, able to
strip down
and clean just about any firearm and make minor repairs/adjustments.
Meghana is a fair
hand-to-hand combatant and is
quite aware
that she will almost always be fighting out of her weight.
For this reason her style focuses on low
kicks, throws, joint holds. She is a
pretty good knife fighter and has even taken fencing lessons. She is a very good shot with pistols, a good
shot with rifles at medium ranges but mediocre at best at long.
Meghana is a skilled drummer, good enough for a popular bar band and possibly to sit in for a studio recording, but good enough for the big time. Her friends in her sometimes band B-Square nick-named her "Metronome" or "Metro" for short. Coincidentally "Metro" is also her clan nick-name.
Meghana is fluent in
French and Irish Gaelic, and she has an elementary proficiency in
Spanish.
EQUIPMENT: When it
comes to conventional equipment
Meghana is
very well situated. She has a good sized
arsenal of pistols, machine pistols, submachine guns, hunting rifles,
assault
rifles as well as combat shotguns. Her
ammunition ranges from conventional to anti-magic, with some pistols
loaded
with silver bullets. She shies away from
explosives ordnance but does have one assault rifle equipped with a
grenade
launcher, only for extreme emergencies. She
has access to some military hardware but
uses it sparingly
Meghana's magical
arsenal is quite small. She has an
enchanted dagger designed to
“perma-dead” the undead and a few potions of vitality she gets by way
of
payment from a clutch of Alvareses. She
owns a leather long coat treated to be a bit resistant to conventional
and
magical attack.