Ramona Fé

Clan Lasombra
Counselor of the Black Sword

Description


~Tall and stately Spanish beauty announces her arrival. Ramona is a full-bodied Puerto Rican woman waxing her 20s. She boasts illustrious dark-brown hair usually set free, allowed to flow down her back and catch in the night wind. Her eyes possess a chocolate brown warmth, yet this contrasts immensely with her pupils. Those points are as black as anyone else's pupils, except hers seem deeper and far more abyssmal. Her pupils are impossibly black, swallowing up the world's forgotten secrets like a whirlpool churning life straight down to hell. Besides her eyes, however, Ramona seems to be a normal professional woman who's just rising on top of the world. She favors an assortment of different outfits, usually in neutral and conservative colors: grays, blacks, dark-blues. Her clothing might consist of a 3-piece suit, either with slacks or a skirt. Sometimes she prefers an evening gown of varying lengths, though all display her long and supple limbs well. Most often, Ramona is found in a pair of khakis or slim-fitting denims with an accompanying blouse or knit sweater. Everything is designer label, of course. Jewelry is not unheard of, in addition to a pair of sunglasses. Ramona could be found wearing silver or gold rings, bracelets, anklets, crucifix medallions, and even tiaras...whatever catches her fancy (or is it whatever she catches?). Whatever she dons, Ramona carries herself with noble and even haughty pride and self-assurance. Her fingers are often steepled together, perched before her chin or apart at her hips. An even expression presides most often over her full maroon lips, though Ramona can smile. And she does smile!...when things go her way. Her steps are typically unhurried, and while slow they command a high level of self-motivation and determination. Ramona is on the hunt tonight.~

OOC: Appearance 3; Clan Prestige 1

"Having thought this through, I've determined that it rightfully belongs to me. All of it."

History


Youth

San Juan, Puerto Rico -- here Ramona Fé was born in 1974. Her family was somewhat lower class in financial standing. Most of her friends went onto factory jobs like their parents. But not Ramona! She struggled and achieved in school. Her ambitious drive for academic success helped her graduate with honors. Ramona even earned a scholarship to a number of different universities, including in the USA. It was the University of California in San Diego that caught her eye.

Luckily, Ramona was an only child. Her parents had saved for possible college tuition for their only daughter. She definitely wanted to go to university. Ramona refused to end up like so many of the other women in her neighborhood, in her financial caste. She didn't want to be nothing more than a good baby-making Catholic wife. Hmph. So without a look behind, she left her family and traveled to San Diego.

Pirate Path

Hungry for knowledge, Ramona carried something ancestral in her blood: a zeal for digging up treasure. Perhaps that was what drew her to archaeological sciences. She had always loved to read about ancient worlds, peoples, and things anyway. Combined with her love for the sea, marine archaeology is the degree upon which she set her sights by her sophomore year.

For the next several years, she labored at UCSD. Ramona struggled for her Master's degree in Marine Archaeology. That meant spending days spent out on the Pacific Ocean serving her internship. She hated taking orders from salty boat captains and nerdy science geeks. To her, archaeology should be an adventure! It should be more exciting than studying a bunch of graphs that they let some robot identify. Where was the real legwork? But Ramona paid her dues so she could graduate with her degree and be able to appeal to scientific foundations for charity grants, like most field scientists.

Once she completed her program in California, Ramona returned to the Caribbean. She lost her already waning connection with her family and had no interest in renewal. Instead, she focused on her work. With a starting grant, she chartered a research ship and struck out with only a handful of clues she dug up back in university. Over the next couple years, Ramona explored the sea with the desire to find shipwrecks of former explorers and pirates. Many she knew would be laden with gold and wealth. But she wasn't after money. She was after treasure. And that could take many forms.

Welcome to the Night

Her initial successes won her grants for further research and exploration. Whether she was lucky or just tenacious, her research associates were in debate. She could be quite a demanding bitch at sea. However, she caught the attention of something far darker than a little joking "mutiny". Eduardo Vega of Clan Lasombra was on the hunt for an ambitious treasure hunter with maritime knowledge. And Ramona Fé fit the bill.

Like any Sabbat, Eduardo accosted Ramona at her apartment home in Caguas. He cornered her, informed her of his intentions, and found her less shocked and afraid than he expected. But that was a good thing! And so, he tore out her throat (which she didn't appreciate, but too bad), drained her blood, and replaced it with some of his own. Dazed and hungry, she lacked the strength to even pose with dignity as her sire dragged her to the beach. His pack already prepared the area. She was boated out a good distance from the beach and thrown into the water. She promptly sunk to the bottom; lots of chum was thrown into the water, too. But she didn't benefit from the chum. Oh, no. That was to make this Funeral Rite special...it attracted sharks. Ramona flailed and swam back towards land, hysterical despite not needing to breathe. Sharks approached and snapped at the water nearby, but fortunately they weren't starving enough to bite her. The chum was enough. But it was a close call. Proving herself as reborn to the darkness and death, she was accepted as Eduardo's protégé until she proved herself True Sabbat.

Commanding the Seas

Her opportunity soon came. Her sire's pack was sent forth by gunboats to confront and sink a bunch of Setite drug runners coming up from Columbia. This vigilante action had nothing to do with the USA's "War on Drugs". This was a territorial pissing; besides, the Setites were just foul, and sworn enemies of the Sabbat. Ramona was dragged along for the ride not to watch but to fight and prove she had the pluck to be a Daughter of Caine and not cattle or chattel to be used and thrown away. The battle was short and vicious, hallmarked with greasy machine guns, flare guns, and even a face-to-face spear gun duel. She remembered the cheers of sadistic delight as she put one of those Sand-Snake's eyes (and brains) out with a lucky shot. The Sabbat won the night on that maritime field of battle. The drug shipment was claimed. Ramona was honored as True Sabbat thereafter.

Eduardo reminded her then that she was chosen for her mind, not her body. She was relieved of that, of course. Ramona was an explorer, not a crusader. Her sire wanted her to continue what she had been doing as a mortal. But he wanted her to focus on artifacts and lost treasures left behind by Lasombra sailors in the centuries prior. She was more than happy to help.

So Ramona was given a new vessel, a new crew to command, and the open seas to enjoy. Her sire handled any red tape human bureaucracies posed and paid for whatever she needed. From 1999 onwards, she delved into the Caribbean with the kind of vicious zeal that only the Lasombra demonstrate. She discovered a shipwreck site all herself -- something that would have acquired her an interview by National Geographic. Ramona also explored two other shipwreck sites deeper than other human archaeologists had.

Treasure Hunter RE

One of Ramona's most effective tricks of exploration was her lack of breathing. Pressure was a threat to vampires, but she never had to dive that deep. Having to explore at night was a hindrance, but enough searchlights could make things as bright as day. So she crawled over shipwrecked sites with preternatural agility and hefted heavy pieces without the need for blundering robot arms.

The three Spanish galleons she explored included the Northwest Antilles Site, the Tobago Site, and the Charlotte Bay Site (off the Virgin Islands). She gathered a handful of registered Lasombra relics from those sites, too. Elders commended her discovery of the lost Lasombra pirate Vasquez the Black's favorite quill pen, laughed coldly when she presented the Virgen Azul's Shark-Slayer silver-tipped harpoon, and chuckled at the finding of the Black Gloves, the preferred weapon of an affected Gangrel antitribu lady named Eldrina Morris. The last they let her keep, though warned her that the slain Eldrina's malicious spirit might haunt the gloves' mild sorcery. For any treasure, that was a risk Ramona was willing to take.

The De Soto Connection

But perhaps her most vital discovery was at the Northwest Antilles Site. In a watery sea log untouched by other archaeologists for fear of disintegration, she found that Lasombra that accompanied Hernando De Soto into mainland America -- as far as modern Missouri -- had left a treasure hidden there somewhere. Perhaps some trove was awaiting her in some cave or lake?

With her sire's permission, she was transferred from the Caribbean region to the Centropolis diocese. Here it was felt she could work in the region without the major politics of neighboring Kansas City distracting her. Though the log she found warned that Lupines might have actually stolen and hidden the Lasombra artifacts, this failed to dissuade Ramona. She would reclaim her clan's honor and rise in glory in the sect. Ramona would take it back. All of it.

Pack (Black Sword)


Ramona is the Counselor of the pack, the Black Sword. This pack specializes in combat, hunting, tactics, and all-out Jyhad. It was the pack leader's distaste of religion that made him design the pack in a secular fashion. Winston Simons is pack captain. Ralph Nolan is just rank-and-file in the pack. Together they train and stalk their enemies, to the end of the earth if need be. Ignoblis ritae include rites like "Brother of the Blade", "Onyx Steel", "Separation of Church & State", "Sunrise Service", and of course Vaulderie.

Special Gift


Black Gloves
Cost: 4
Origin: This Sabbat artifact was discovered in a shipwreck off Saint Lucia island.
Description: They are a pair of lacy, velvet black gloves. They cover up to the elbows with a slim lady's design. The nails are not evident until summoned. When extended, the nails look like metal extensions from the gloves themselves.
Effects: 1) Grow sharp nails that act like ** Protean, Wolf's Claws.
Blood Costs: 1) none
Activation: 1) Flex fingers into fist and concentrate on the nails' growth.

Weakness
Merciless Eye


Ramona has no compassion or pity for anything that stands in the way of her search for glory and treasure. She is as cruel and heartless as a pirate...or her conquistadore forebears. However, unlike Ponce de Leon or Cortez, she carries no hypocritical crusade of Christianity. She doesn't even pretend to be religious, unlike some of her clanmates. She's a bottom-of-the-line woman.

Likelihood of Corruption


Very high.

Though her Path encourages a certain amount of self-contemplation, her life is driven solely by ambition now. Her want for success matches her need for blood. In short, she's already corrupt. Any true enlightenment her Path could promise is blocked off by her inner nature.

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