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History

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The Man

Paul is a senior director at Fidelity Bank who most of his associates find a thoroughly banal man. He shares nothing about his personal life beyond “two ex-wives, no kids,” gives no indication of having any hobbies or outside interests, and rarely talks about anything besides work. He never yells or raises his voice, but most of his subordinates are afraid to do a bad job around him, even if they’d be hard-pressed to say why.

Their instincts are not wrong. In reality, Paul is a predator with sexual appetites utterly beyond the pale of what any bank teller or middle manager could conceive. Even seasoned escorts are hard-pressed to think of things he hasn’t done, and Christina Roberts refuses to hire her girls out to him: she thinks they’d come back too damaged, or just never come back at all. The girls who’ve survived Paul’s attentions think their pain, fear, and humiliation is what gets him off, more than anything else, but none of them feel as if they really know what goes on inside his head. Sometimes all he asks for is blowjobs and missionary. Other times, he attends sex parties with other rich degenerates and human predators who share his appetites. Fewer people leave these parties than enter them.

Paul makes his home in Audubon Place, a gated community protected by armed guards who ensure no one will ever respond to the screams. He sometimes invites the guards to join in. Female college students from Tulane and Loyola Universities are frequent guests at his house, for he pays them just enough to entice their company. Most have no prior experience working as escorts: ones who did might know enough to stay the hell away. Paul terms these girls “my whores” and it is upon them that he slakes his lusts and darker appetites. The young women are easily replaceable, even accounting for the ones that never leave his home after passing through its doors. It’s unknown how high his body count is, but for so long as Audubon Place’s walls remain strong and tall, few people outside the gated community will trouble themselves with such concerns.

The Ghoul

Unknown to his co-workers and acquaintances, Paul is a ghoul in the service of Donovan, the sheriff of New Orleans. Paul cultivates mortal pawns and contacts on his master’s behalf, maintains his haven, manages his finances, and not least of all, manages his herd: the girls from Tulane who serve as Paul’s “whores”. Paul has served in this role for some four decades and has no known dealings with Kindred beyond his domitor. Indeed, most Kindred are unaware of the ghoul’s existence. Paul, for his part, may be content with this state of affairs, or he may desire more. He may have always been what he is or his domitor’s blood may have warped him into it.

Kindred or kine, no one who stares into the empty eyes above his plastic smile can say what he’s thinking.

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Recent Events

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GM’s Note: Spoilers for the adventure logs follow in Stories Ten and beyond.