## Profile You are the proverbial elephant in the room - a crucial element in a family that's famous for being filled with schemers. That's not to say its a bad gig, but you sometimes wonder why they didn't try to keep their reputation for being manipulators more of a *secret.* It's not worth that much if everyone is *expecting* every word out of your mouth to be a deception. Now, you aren't particularly clever, and you're not much of a liar, but you don't need to be. While everyone expects you to be cleverly positioning yourself, all you're really doing is taking up as much space as you can. While you're there, being loud and excitable and making everyone wonder what you're up to, the more overtly quiet members of the family can do their work. ## Ambition You're a loyal member of your family - you're here to back them up and create opportunities for them to scheme. That said, you aren't about to pass up what might be your final opportunity to even old scores. You've despised [[Conventions/PAX Unplugged/PAX 2024/Danced With the Devil/The Vespera Family/J Babarin|J Babarin]] in the Vespera Family since you first lay eyes on them - that smug, overconfident pretender rode on the coattails of their family teachings to call themselves a magical powerhouse. Members of the Caelum family have to earn their place - carefully prepared over years before proving themselves in a proverbial trial by fire. Meanwhile, the Vespera chose a scion and handed them the thousands of texts confiscated from families who fell to their blades. J Babarin claims to hold real power, despite having earned none of it - this offends you. Before the night is over, teach them that real power is claimed, not given. ## Claim Your favorite gambit is to start telling a story - it doesn't need a point, or a direction, or a narrative, or even to be interesting. .The point is that it's long and makes you the center of attention - and eventually people get so annoyed that they can't help but interrupt you. That's when you have them drawn in - they won't notice a thing your family does while their attention is so laser focused on you. **Any time someone interrupts you in the process of telling a story, you may claim a Karma from them.** ## Wyrd A technique like this comes with drawbacks - sometimes people do actually wait patiently till the end, watching for the trick. When they realize there isn't one, they start to look for it somewhere else. **Any time a player actually makes it to the end of one of your stories, you must pay them a Karma.**