Name:Butch "Preacher" Stilman Tradition: Celestial Chorus

Social: Charisma (2) Manipulation (2) Appearance (1)

Mental: Perception (4) Intelligence (2) Wits (3)

Character: Nature-Penitent Demeanor-Honest Abe/Gallant Essence-Questing

Skills:Carousing(4,drink you under the table and your pussy-boy friends too.) Demolition(1) Drive(3) fast draw(3) Firearms(3) Gambling(2)Mechanic(3) melee(3)Police procedure(2)repair(3)Survival(1) throwing(3)

Knowledge:Enigmas(2) Spirit lore(1) Vampire lore(1) Garou lore(2) Sacred scripture(3)

Backgrounds: Allies(fluctautes from town to town)Arcane(2) Avatar(3)Resources(1) Contacts(see Allies)

Arete:3 Willpower:8

Merits:Code of honor,inner strength,Daredevil,Crack driver,supporter,well travelled, Huge size,alcohol resistance,

Flaws:Compulsive speech(won't lie) Intolerance(vampires) uneducated, Noteriety(CC circles only),criminal record, Addiction(cigarettes) Criminal record(long and varied, mostly assault related)

Other Notes:

Appearance:a huge hulking menace with a full beard and shoulder length long hair, covered with tattoos. he has a bald spot on top of his head. He has the kind of face you would expect from 30 or 40 years of riding into the wind and a few missing teeth. he talks like dusty rhodes and has blue eyes that look like they've seen a lot.Oddly, Butch tends to smile a lot.

Clothing Tendencies:Blue Denim and boots and maybe a shirt....unless he goes to church. he actually keeps a black suit in his duffle for church.If you saw him in his suit you would think he was coming to kill you.

Known to:many disparate and sundry. likes to travel

Ongoing Projects:  Looking out for opportunities to help people.Lately he's been thinking about settling down and opening a cycle shop somewhere

Circle and Influence: Virtually none among his own tradition who think he's some kind of neolithic abberation. However there is a devoted core of people who owe their lives and/or souls to him and would help him out if he asked.

House: Owns a mobile home somewhere. if he's planning on staying for a bit in some place he might go fetch it.

Story:Mark was originally from Alabama and volunteered to fight in Vietnam. He came home a very different person.Something really bad happened there.He won't even talk about it when he's drunk. The only thing that enabled him to escape his ghosts was riding his motorcycle and eventually he got involved in one of the riding clubs.

In 1986, while driving to some cycle get-together, He stopped to help a man who had broken down by the side of the road. It turns out that that man was the Reverend Peter Spencely. they nursed his car to the nearest service station and while the reverends car was being fixed they talked all night at a nearby Denny's. 4 days later, Butch Stilman awakened while Reverend Spencely was baptising him. While most of the Celestial Chorus considers him an unlearned boob and/or a menace. He considers himself to be a tarnished knight who still serves the greater good. even if he does like to fuck,and smoke 2 packs of menthols a day,and drink tequila.

He presents a frightening sight to the straights but he also has a winning smile and he really listens to people with problems.

While Butch's knowledge of the World of Darkness is far from complete he can usually spot a vampire or Garou from at 20 paces. He's run afoul of Brujah and some Mexico Sabbat but counts at least one Gangrel among his friends. He's also met a Strider and an Uktena or two. Butch mostly stays clear of Mage society as he rarely fits in and has little patience for high flown metaphysical talk. However if he sees someone having trouble or a crisis of faith his first reaction is to help first and ask questions later.

Role playing notes.

Butch talks like a hick, he's not one. it is important to remember this.he often acts more hickish to draw people out. Butch is also very perceptive and a keen judge of character and can often tell more about a person without using his magely senses.

Butch uses prayer and recitation of relevant scripture as his primary focus and it's a good idea to bone up on scripture before playing him or finding key scripture that fits." Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil."And then his guns co-locate into his hands. or "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." as he co-locates a pool cue out of some guys hands and into his own.

Butch's personal theology is homespun and practical above all else. He does believe in Jesus's divinity but is fairly liberal about everything else and is not a bible thumping fundie freak. These types tend to piss him off. Butch looks at those who consider themselves righteous to be selfish of God's love.(as if only they are the only ones who are worthy of it.) It is entirely possible that Butch does more by buying a cup of coffee for a guy down on his luck than some mages do in an entire year. Butch is big believer in the right words in the right place at the right time. it can act as the fulcrum around which an entire life can turn.

He ought to know. It happened to him.

Butch periodically uses his time magick to find out where he will go next in order to better to serve god's will.