Lou Parker

Lou Parker
Former Cop
A former Atlanta Police detective, Lou Parker had a knack for not letting a case go. That served him well until it got him killed. Running down a lead in a whodunnit case everyone else had given up on, Lou started to see a pattern of killings in the city — heavy blood loss, people who wouldn’t be missed, etc. As he dug up old cases and pulled long nights, he found himself under pressure from above and without. Eventually scandal and a whispering campaign cost him his shield, but still he wouldn’t give up. What he found was a vampire, one who gave him the Embrace.

In the few years since. Lou has been unable to determine if his sire intentionally lured him in or even why he was Embraced at all. (Flip answers from his sire suggest only, “for your skills.”) Distanced from his sire, he has become something of a troubleshooter for low-level Invictus in the city, serving as a private detective and even maintaining his mortal identity as one. He had some standing in the First Estate and was a coterie-mate of Eric‘s.

Lou disappeared in November, 2005, while working an investigation for the court at the bequest of his secretive mentor, Mr. Never.

(Lou was written and played by Phillipe Boulle.)

 

Isaac

Isaac is rumored to be one of the oldest Kindred in Atlanta, an early immigrant to the English Colonies in the New World. They say he came to Atlanta in the first nights after the Civil War, when the city was being rebuilt and a vampire could entrench himself in the deepest layers of the new metropolis. Tonight, he sits in the thick of the Kindred court, delicately balancing his visible relationships with the Invictus, the Sanctified and the Carthians to maintain his personal treasure: regency over a small domain he inhabits entirely by himself.

With his wavy white hair and old-fashioned mutton chops, Isaac has some trouble going unnoticed in mortal society, so he mostly stays clear of it. How exactly he hunts, and where, is a minor mystery. For a vampire of his age, the answer may well be “where he likes.”

Isaac presents something of an eccentric’s demeanor, hinging on his old-man’s posture, handsy dialogue and a limp that is almost certainly habitual, not actual. In private, with those whom he can trust with some version of his real self, some of those affectations slip away.

In addition to his precarious neutrality, Isaac is said to be one of the founding members of a secret society within the secret culture of the Damned — a chapter of the occulted Order of the Dragon.

“If you’re looking for some evidence, some proof that not all things can be understood through science alone, you are it. You are your subject, doctor. And you have a hundred years to conduct your work. In two hundred years you had best be a hundred years smarter than any living man who’s come before you.”

In Play

Isaac was created to characterize Eric Torillo‘s dots in the Merits, Mentor and Covenant Status: Ordo Dracul. Isaac uses his age and experience to give Eric an elder’s perspective on the city’s politics, in addition to being Eric’s contact within the secret society of the Ordo Dracul. Through play, and Eric’s own political machinations, Isaac has also spent some time teaching Dr. Walsh about the quasi-scientific methods of the Order of the Dragon. Whether Isaac knows that Dr. Walsh is now working (and getting blood) for Mr. Never, as well, is unclear.