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World of Darkness

James D. Morrison

Quote- "You're lucky you met me. You would not like my colleagues. Murders, rapists, devil worshipers... Do they know how much this company funnels to the marketing department to undo all that reputational damage? Well they better learn. Because you're going to assist me in making sure they pay back everything they owe. With interest!"

Entity - Mage (Mind, Time, Correspondence)

Affiliation - Pentex

Position - O'Tolleys C.F.O.

Real World Connections (NPC)

• Removed staff from locations by introducing ordering kiosks.
• Increased ROI per customer by increasing burger prices to $15.
• Closed 100's of unprofitable locations.
• Stopped marketing to children - Removed mascots and play-places.
• Reduced burger size (and demonic presence) by 50%.
• Removed 24/7 service. Service only available during peak hours/witnesses.

Awakening
James Morrison was an accountant working for the mega-corporation Pentex. The pay was commensurate with the amount of soul he gave to the company. Which in his estimation was a pretty good deal as far as mega-corporations are concerned. He felt nothing when it comes to the moral decay Pentex promoted and thrived on. The only feeling he could muster was a dissatisfaction that the company was not pursuing a more efficient use of resources.

This callous attitude caught the attention of a Nephandic higher-up. Morrison was eventually summoned to her office for a 'promotion'. She believed that Morrison had a disdain for human life and would benefit from the presence of a bane eating at his soul, deepening this disdain. However she was wrong. His disgust was at inefficiency. And humans while inefficient were not doomed to stay that way. He knew things could change.

The door to her office closed behind Morrison. And as his superior talked, he noticed something. That the rot of inefficiency was here too. Not just the 'rule-by-committee' he was used to seeing in Pentex. Her words turned to gloating as the very walls of the office started making him sick. It wasn't the 'committee' that was rotten. It was the committee members. All just like the corrupt woman standing before him. Too concerned about her pet-project of demonic possession to even think about next quarter's earnings or the next five years of expense projections.

In that instant, he heard a whisper in the back of his mind. 'Of course they don't value your input. You're not one of them.' Morrison staggered back when he looked again at his superior. Standing behind her was a malformed creature; like an elf turned inside-out with butterfly wings made of intestine. He could see through the walls and ceiling of the office. He saw that on every floor there were more horrible 'things' then the floor below it, bigger 'things' too. He stared until he saw the top. Nightmares...

That whisper was right. He was not like them. But what if they thought he was? Would it really be that hard to play the part? And in the meantime root-out all of Pentex's unprofitable pet-projects? Yes. He was just like them. They knew it. Everyone knew it. There was not a person alive or dead, past, present, or future that didn't know it.

"Why are you talking to me like I'm new?" Morrison asked.

His superior stopped to think. She squinted trying to concentrate. Her head was foggy. 'Why am I acting like he doesn't know anything?' Eventually she answered back "Sorry. I had called you into my office for a promotion, but I must have gotten carried away."

"Okay. Now that we are back on track, what are my new responsibilities?" Morrison replied with a wry grin.

Manifesting the Magic
His foci are financial reports, projections, accounting documents, and data forgery.

He uses financial reports and projections to hijack the mind of his victims. Within only the first couple of slides of his presentation, nearly everyone in the meeting becomes increasingly confident in the future predicted and agrees that his is the most reasonable course of action.

He befuddles the mind of others into an uncertain fog where his victims becomes incredibly suggestable. He provides the victim with various contradictory accounting documents to confuse the timeline of events where the victim relies on 'the genius accountant' to sort it all out for them.

The most common way he practices his time and correspondence magic is by changing dates on shipping invoices. By adjusting shipping dates, the expected time of arrival for needed goods becomes closer, and unwanted goods tend to get lost with constant delays. He will also change dates of meetings, purchase orders, product launches, and 'synergy initiatives' and smooth over questions about missed or rushed events with his mental influence.