IN> Shun, Renegade (Tolerated) Habbalite of Factions

[William Keith]

Shun
Renegade Habbalite of Factions

Attributes: ST 14 [0], DX 16 [20], IQ 16 [20], HT 14 [0]

Secondary attributes of note: Will 19 [24]

Advantages: Habbalite of Factions template(Renegade version, see 
Disadvantages), Force distribution (2/3/4) [0]; *not* being hunted 
(buys off Enemy from Renegade template) [15]; Vessel (obese middle-aged 
Han Chinese man) [30]; Role 3 (Father Jing Shanxi, priest with Chinese 
Patriotic Catholic Association, Ecclesiastical Rank 1) [20]

Disadvantages: Renegade [-30]; Corporeal Discord 1 (Fat) [-15]; 
Fanaticism (CPCA) [-15]; Secret Identity (Father Shun, underground 
priest, faces social disgrace and possible imprisonment) [-10]

(105 points)

Skills: Chinese, Mandarin dialect (native)-16 [0], Chinese, Cantonese 
dialect- [2], English-16 [2], Helltongue (native)-16 [0], Bard-17 [4], 
Writing-17 [4], Guns/TL7 (Rifle, familiar with AK-47)-19 [2]; Karate-15 
[2]; Theology (specialization, CPCA)-21/15 [4], Fast-Talk-16 [2], 
Politics-15 [1], Stealth-16 [2], Philosophy (Mao Zedong Thought)-14 [1]

Songs: Charm (Celestial)-14 [4], Possession-13 [2], Healing 
(Corporeal)-12 [4]

* Skill levels listed are effective skills on Earth.

Equipment: AK-47, Corporeal Artifact/5, Summonable [5]; Second Chance 
Standard Kevlar vest (PD 2, DR 14); sundries of a settled bachelor 
civil servant (80% Average wealth), remaining cash

This is it, you see.  This is the means whereby God will shatter the 
Papist Antichristian power structure, throw the Pope's puppet Archangel 
from his post as Commander of the Host, and manifest fully on Earth as 
an embodied, immediate ruler of the living world, enforcing His will 
upon the infinitesimal specks of His Creation.  The Chinese Patriotic 
Catholic Association is His Vessel, as surely as this body is Shun's.  
First, though, we must break free of foreign influences: the Church 
must be moved to declare the CPCA's believers in schism, true heretics, 
and its followers exhorted to abandon the (un)Holy See as any moral 
guide.  Shun realized himself that in order to more closely bind the 
CPCA to its corporeal manifestations, he himself had to disavow his 
Demon Prince, despite the risk to his own skin, in order to devote 
himself completely to the People's authority.  This he did, spitting in 
one of Malphas' eyes, shattering his Heart and daring the Game to come 
after him.

To his astonishment, they didn't.  Malphas examined Shun's work -- 
ministering secretly to the underground Chinese Church, encouraging 
them to see themselves as true Catholics and to hate the followers of 
the CPCA, propagandizing among his legal followers to regard 
underground Catholics as agents of a foreign power -- and decided that, 
for the moment, the demon continues to serves Malphas quite well.  The 
Habbalite's delusion of independence spurs his activities, and as long 
as he is fomenting tensions Malphas is quite willing to ask the Game to 
let him work.  Eventually, there will probably be some sort of 
resolution to the matter, at which point Malphas intends to let the 
Game collect Shun and have some torturers explain a few things about 
having loyalty to human governments, but that will be in the future.

As might be surmised from this history, Shun is considerably more 
strong-willed than smart.  He is fairly bright -- nobody survives this 
game for very long without being able to juggle identities and move 
smoothly from one line of snake-oil to another -- but by far more 
supernaturally capable than strategically foresighted.

(As an unrepentant demon priest who maintains his associations with the 
CPCA, Shun is formally excommunicate in the Catholic hierarchy and his 
sacraments are invalid for supernatural purposes that require them, 
such as Khalid's Rites of Faith Attunement.)

Shun has -55 points in Disadvantages once the reduced value of Renegade 
is taken into account.  He is otherwise a balanced, 100-point GURPS 
starting character.