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John's been in Prospect about a year, now. He's assumed proprietorship of Off the Record, a local media shop and cafe that caters to the quiet, intellectual occultist and obscure music aficionado; you aren't likely to find much in the way of massively popular music or 'literature' there. However, what he does have in stock is fascinating, and the coffee's outstanding. Studious and slightly acerbic, John's occasionally dreamy, out-of-focus personality belies a razor-sharp wit, and he is far more perceptive than generally given credit for; he sharpens those wits by indulging his seeming obsession with puzzles at any opportunity. Recently, he has been being tutored by Stella Amunet; given that he doesn't attend college at all, this could be seen as kind of an unusual arrangement.
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John, a recently-widowed Chicagoan,  has been in Prospect for close to a decade, now. For the past six years he's owned [[Off the Record]], a local media shop and cafe that caters to quirky, spoopy Goth-Industrial fans and adolescent occultists. You aren't likely to find much in the way of massively popular music or 'literature' there, but what he does have in stock is darkly entertaining, and the coffee's outstanding. Sometimes he DJs at [http://coh.spork.com/index.php?title=ClubRhapsody Rhapsody], an all-ages club he owns as part of the LLC, A Balancing Act, that he operates  with [[Ethan Sienna]], his best friend and manager at Rhapsody. Their holdings also include [[Steamed and Hammered Tavern]], Feather of Maat Bookstore, and Furor Poeticus, a mixed-use arts space and cafe. Dreaming-side, he has a storefront, [[Rêves à Vendre]], in the Lost in Time Market, where he deals in bespoke dreams. He has also accepted an administrative position at the [[Covey-Fychell College]] of Fae Arts, Laws and Courtly Etiquette, a school for Unsained Kithain Nobility, Commoners, Kinain, and those undergoing their Dream-Dance. He also holds the status of Third Degree Practicus within the Hermetic House Merinita, though currently belongs to neither cabal nor chantry. Notable are the symbols he wears around his neck: the silver Owl of the [[Arcanum]], the copper sigil of the Cult of Isis, and an unusual violet and silver starburst.
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* '''Stella''': Mentor. Friend. Surprisingly human.
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*'''[[Lee Dalton|Lee]]''': Never thought I'd be a widower at thirty-two. Fucking hell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL3Q-5MjaIw "I Want to Live" - This Mortal Coil]
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* '''Vervane''': Way more interesting than I would have ever given him credit for.  
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*'''[[Ethan Sienna]]''': Best friend, 'little brother' and business partner. Respect and responsibility look good on you. Congratulations.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amMztp1y4i4 "Nightclubbing" - Reznor/Murphy/White/Pop]
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* '''Ellie/Ellen''': It's good to be acknowledged. We can hang any time.
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*'''[[Simone]]''': Wish granted?  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ "Song to the Siren" - This Mortal Coil]
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* '''Oswald''': Formidable, but there's the soul of a poet in there somewhere.
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*'''[[Nicky]]''': You're needed here. Meet me in the frunchroom. [https://youtu.be/Fc1ldXDJicY "Thieves Like Us" - New Order]
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* '''Keris''': Truly mysterious, magical, noble and /funny/.  
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*'''[[Ambrosine]]''': It's gratifying when someone realizes your worth. Mortifying when you disappoint them. [https://youtu.be/JD9zmHUU2jE "Starblood" - Cranes]
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* '''Simone''': You seemed more genuine before. Pity you have a creeper cousin.
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*'''[[Nova_James|Nova]]''': ... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI11s8fim_o "Remorse" - Front Line Assembly]
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* '''Mindy''': You're really funny for a Republican.
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* '''[[Emrick]]''': It's refreshing to see the Dreaming through the eyes of someone who really wants to learn about it. [https://youtu.be/jaWxIagPPFE "Bio-Mechanic" - Front Line Assembly]
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*'''LilyJane''': How can someone so small be so hugely insipid and tedious?
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*'''[[Velvet]]''': Werk it, boi. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL_y4I7xDv8 "The Dame" - Charlie Hides]
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*'''[[Larry]]''': You're really good for her, Councilman. I approve. [https://youtu.be/33W3kMS2vp0 "Penthouse and Pavement" - Heaven 17]
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*'''[[Chastity]]''': He really digs you. And he's still an important part of our lives, too. Please remember that. [https://youtu.be/HZg2SjtNb5w "Blood Bitch" - Cocteau Twins]
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*'''[[Thoreau]]''': A living, breathing myth. Holy shit, wee green dude. [https://youtu.be/lRgHSxWnhqk "Everything's Gone Green" - New Order]
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*'''[[Felicite]]''': Barf up that many rainbows, you've gotta be destined for greatness. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-WM3cHvTSE "Rainbows End" - Modern English]
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*'''[[Locke]]''': While you eschew the formalities I now see you deserve the title. Y'know, when you're around.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGwpmd8oPV4&list=PLwIKPGoLUjo1sE-E9-SAgR0fqYNlK_-d2&index=71 "Big Strong Boss" - Swans]
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*'''[[LaWolfe]]''': If anyone will find Arcadia, you will. [https://youtu.be/KG44JJ6Ihyo "Deep in Vogue" - Malcolm McLaren]
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*'''[[Carolyn]]''': I did what needed to be done. Nothing more, nothing less. Fly on, brave Raven Queen. [https://youtu.be/E-pgYiFbaLo "Every Colour You Are" - David Sylvian]
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*'''[[Erin]]''': In. It. Ia. Tive. Try taking it sometime. [https://youtu.be/pp4hXEm0Ses?list=PLUU5dNa0NP3Xg6EfHsXtvHrUHcWQJXOwT "Whipped Cream" - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass]
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*'''[[Sterling]]''': 50 years Chrysalized, lived through several wars, never Undone from the Banality. Also, he's a doctor. Huh. [https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM "Common People" - Pulp]
 
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* '''Occultism''': More than merely fascinated with it, it is his very life's blood and raison d'etre.
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* '''Occultism''': How far down that rabbit hole do you want to go?
 
* '''The Art of Divination''': He practices it - to rather eerie and uncomfortable effect. He's no charlatan, but a Cassandra.
 
* '''The Art of Divination''': He practices it - to rather eerie and uncomfortable effect. He's no charlatan, but a Cassandra.
 
* '''Industrial Subculture''': He's neck-deep in it. He'll deign to go to Neofolk/pagan and Goth events, too.
 
* '''Industrial Subculture''': He's neck-deep in it. He'll deign to go to Neofolk/pagan and Goth events, too.
 
* '''Problem-Solver''': Got an enigma to deal with? Perhaps a conundrum? He's brilliant with puzzles.
 
* '''Problem-Solver''': Got an enigma to deal with? Perhaps a conundrum? He's brilliant with puzzles.
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* '''Esoteric Media''': Like weird books and weirder music? So does John. He could probably even sell you some.
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* '''Esoteric Media''': Like weird books and weirder music? So does John. He could probably even [//http://coh.spork.com/index.php?title=Off_the_Record sell you some. ]
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* '''Mummies''': He isn't an Egyptian scholar, but something more vital than that. Gateway to Isis' secrets, perhaps?
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* '''Merchant of Dreams''': Kith and Kin seeking Dreams need only visit his shop [http://coh.spork.com/index.php?title=Reves_a_Vendre Rêves à Vendre] in the Lost in Time Market.
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* '''Hermetic House Merinita''': He is a member of it, a Third Degree Practicus by rank.
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* '''Nightmares''': Do you suffer from them? He can help you with them better than drugs or a psychiatrist could.
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* '''[[Barony of the Shadowed Souls]]''' - John is sworn to its Holder: [[Ambrosine|Baroness Philomène Antionette De LiliJudicaël of House Beaumayn]].
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* '''[[Covey-Fychell College]]''': Rumored to be teaching the Polemics Against the Prodigals class when the College opens.
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* '''Alternative Entrepreneur''': He owns [[Off the Record]], an industrial record store/cafe; [http://coh.spork.com/index.php?title=ClubRhapsody Rhapsody], an all-ages club, and co-owns both [[Steamed and Hammered Tavern]], a steampunk bar and Furor Poeticus, an arts performance space. Recently acquired [[FOMbooks|Feather of Maat Bookstore]].
 
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*'''"The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)" - Coil''' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCt1Ch0bsSo
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*'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mji35dlfrMQ "I Believe" - Conjure One''']
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*'''"Dogstar Man/Helter Skelter" - Meat Beat Manifesto''' http://youtu.be/VxETr_igHhw
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*'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii8Rp0A-QU4 "Inhabits Eternity" - Rhys Fulber''']
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*'''"Psychonaut" - Fields of the Nephilim''' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dUyc1wR-h0
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*'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCt1Ch0bsSo"The Snow (Answers Come in Dreams II)" - Coil''' ]
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*'''"Who By Fire" - Coil/Leonard Cohen''' http://youtu.be/VteYF3P_9W0
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*'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dUyc1wR-h0"Psychonaut" - Fields of the Nephilim''' ]
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*'''"Sumerland" - Fields of the Nephilim''' https://youtu.be/LYwYfPnjL78
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*'''[https://youtu.be/ObF01oXNNmo?list=PLbSV_YpZURlPUdOVTZyfkQPE9WIxBgLUE"We Live as We Dream Alone" - Gang of Four''' ]
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*'''"We Take Mystery (to Bed)" - Gary Numan''' http://youtu.be/X6nmepWa3fE
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*'''[https://youtu.be/LYwYfPnjL78"Sumerland" - Fields of the Nephilim''' ]
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*'''"Ghosts" - Japan''' http://youtu.be/7zzLU1ato2w
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*'''[https://youtu.be/4FV27v0tuho?list=PLbSV_YpZURlPUdOVTZyfkQPE9WIxBgLUE"Dream Aid" - Haujobb''' ]
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*'''"Mirrors Fade" - ∆AIMON''' https://youtu.be/Qy2TvMugKnI
 
 
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| '''Owns [[Off the Record]].'''
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| '''Cousin of Spiders, Torchbearer of Isis, Avatar of Tutu, Father of Dreams, Vanquisher of Nightmares.'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Oneiromancy'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Intelligence'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Fortune-Telling'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Intuition'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Lucid Dreaming'''
 
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| class "left" | '''Occult'''
 
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| class="left" | '''Kinain'''
 
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Latest revision as of 14:02, 25 June 2023

“For I am I...my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex — asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.”
- Austin Osman Spare

Biography

John, a recently-widowed Chicagoan, has been in Prospect for close to a decade, now. For the past six years he's owned Off the Record, a local media shop and cafe that caters to quirky, spoopy Goth-Industrial fans and adolescent occultists. You aren't likely to find much in the way of massively popular music or 'literature' there, but what he does have in stock is darkly entertaining, and the coffee's outstanding. Sometimes he DJs at Rhapsody, an all-ages club he owns as part of the LLC, A Balancing Act, that he operates with Ethan Sienna, his best friend and manager at Rhapsody. Their holdings also include Steamed and Hammered Tavern, Feather of Maat Bookstore, and Furor Poeticus, a mixed-use arts space and cafe. Dreaming-side, he has a storefront, Rêves à Vendre, in the Lost in Time Market, where he deals in bespoke dreams. He has also accepted an administrative position at the Covey-Fychell College of Fae Arts, Laws and Courtly Etiquette, a school for Unsained Kithain Nobility, Commoners, Kinain, and those undergoing their Dream-Dance. He also holds the status of Third Degree Practicus within the Hermetic House Merinita, though currently belongs to neither cabal nor chantry. Notable are the symbols he wears around his neck: the silver Owl of the Arcanum, the copper sigil of the Cult of Isis, and an unusual violet and silver starburst.

Contacts
RP Hooks
  • Occultism: How far down that rabbit hole do you want to go?
  • The Art of Divination: He practices it - to rather eerie and uncomfortable effect. He's no charlatan, but a Cassandra.
  • Industrial Subculture: He's neck-deep in it. He'll deign to go to Neofolk/pagan and Goth events, too.
  • Problem-Solver: Got an enigma to deal with? Perhaps a conundrum? He's brilliant with puzzles.
  • Esoteric Media: Like weird books and weirder music? So does John. He could probably even sell you some.
  • Merchant of Dreams: Kith and Kin seeking Dreams need only visit his shop Rêves à Vendre in the Lost in Time Market.
  • Hermetic House Merinita: He is a member of it, a Third Degree Practicus by rank.
  • Nightmares: Do you suffer from them? He can help you with them better than drugs or a psychiatrist could.
  • Barony of the Shadowed Souls - John is sworn to its Holder: Baroness Philomène Antionette De LiliJudicaël of House Beaumayn.
  • Covey-Fychell College: Rumored to be teaching the Polemics Against the Prodigals class when the College opens.
  • Alternative Entrepreneur: He owns Off the Record, an industrial record store/cafe; Rhapsody, an all-ages club, and co-owns both Steamed and Hammered Tavern, a steampunk bar and Furor Poeticus, an arts performance space. Recently acquired Feather of Maat Bookstore.
Stereotypes
  • Changelings: Give sanity a longer leash, some of us have sharper teeth.
  • Shifters: The tenderness of wolves.
  • Vampires: Under shivering stars the sickness is gliding.
  • Sorcerers: Seduce, let loose the vision and the void.
  • Psychics: See the future leaking through.
  • Mages: At the heart of it all.
  • Wraiths: Who should I say is calling?
  • Demons: This is not paradise lost, but paradise disowned.
  • Mummies: Whilst I, my sovereign, watch the clock for you.
Theme Songs
Gallery

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John Balance
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Birthday: March, 1986
Occupation: Owns Off the Record.
Nature: Visionary
Court: Seelie
Sphere: Sorcerer/Changeling
House: Beaumayn
Tradition: House Merinita
Race: Sluagh Kinain
Craft Name: Cousin of Spiders, Torchbearer of Isis, Avatar of Tutu, Father of Dreams, Vanquisher of Nightmares.
Paths/Magic
Oneiromancy 6
Divination 3
Hellfire 2
Mind Shields 2
Pyrokinesis 3
Telepathy 3
Attributes
Intelligence 4
Perception 4
Wits 5
Abilities
Awareness 4
Empathy 5
Enigmas 4
Fortune-Telling 4
Gremayre 5
Intuition 3
Investigation 4
Lucid Dreaming 5
Melee 4
Occult 5
Research 4
Lores
Demon Lore 1
Fae Lore 5
Mage Lore 3
Mummy Lore 2
Sorcerer Lore 3
Vampire Lore 2
Wraith Lore 1
Merits/Backgrounds
Homebase 5
Demesne 5
Dream 5
Kinain 4
Library 2
Oracular Ability 3
Resources 5
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