Havens...
The Apartment: Penthouse of a large apartment
building overlooking the French Quarter, a key is needed to make it to the
Penthouse floor from the elevator. Once the elevator opens there is a small
hallway leading to two large extravagant double doors. Once inside these doors
there is another long hallway with numerous rooms leading off on the left and
right. The first door on the right is a study with numerous books on the broader
subjects of the occult, torture, evil with more in depths books on infernalism,
vampirism, wraiths, and garou. The door across the hallway from the study is a
padded cell with a padlock and bolt on the outside, nothing resides inside the
room, looking like its been ripped straight from a mental asylum. Further down
the hall are another two double doors, once opened a guest bedroom is revealed,
everything inside expensive, a Japanese theme to this room. There’s a bathroom
across the hall from the bedroom, green marble covers the floor and the sink as
well as the tub and showefluid and other body preserving qualities. Within every
wall of the apartment is sound proofing to muffle screams.
Wilson Storage: Wilson Storage is a huge storage
complex nestled within the heart of the city. It’s large and black, looming on
the horizon and over most other buildings in close proximity. There are three
large doors, loading bays, on each side of the building, though there are only
two sections of doors. Once these doors are open large loading bays for cars and
trucks lead into the front of the building with a small office overlooking each
loading bay. There are elevators for carrying cargo up and down the three levels
of the building, level one and two are literal labyrinths of storage space with
varying sized rooms for different things. 87 of the 600 storage rooms are
already filled, with helpless victims, bound and tied and kept alive, tortured
constantly within Valor’s private Hell. The rooms are filled with varying types
of torture, one room has only one metre of shade during daytime as Valor’s made
a large hole in the top of the roof and another room is filled with mutated
ghoul rats that feed on the victim inside. Constant elevator style music plays
eerily throughout the complex the whole time and the lighting deliberately
flickers and sizzles. The third level is Valor’s own fantasy world, as soon as
the elevator opens large pillars greet whoever is lucky enough to venture to the
top floor. The pillars are black and spiralling, complete gothic architecture.
The floor itself is covered in a fine film of water, making it look like a
reflective glass surface, giving off the whole miracle of walking on water.
Water also slides down all walls and columns, though it never seems like there’s
an overflow of liquid. From the roof hang bodies, a celebration of Valor’s
morbid sense of humour, they’re held up with hooks under their shoulders but
none of them are killed. Instead they’re fed blood at selected times daily,
tubes are fed into their throats and diseased blood is simply pumped into their
body. Though the victims are dangerously sick they look perfectly normal, sort
of, their skin is spayed with adhesive superglue to keep it stiff and slick but
not for long, soon the skin decays as the body decomposes, an artificial shell
created by the glue. These bodies are taken down before they drop though. Once
they’re taken down a fresh batch of victims are stuck to the hooks, the old ones
left to rot inside the walls of the complex, stuffed between concrete while
still alive, they’re scratching and moans pleasantly lingering in the complex.
Fires burn in braziers leading to a blackened thrown, made from human skin and
bones like Valor’s bed, the whole place smells of burnt flesh and ash. Under the
water that flows down the walls ancient Arabic scrawlings are carved into the
stone and demonic runes.
Equipment:
Of course Valor has high security in both Havens though it
continues to increase as police investigation is increasing. At Wilson Storage
the garage is full of expensive cars Valor owns. A 1956 Jaguar Roadster is the
car he drives most frequently, kept at the apartment but he also has a large
black Range Rover Four Wheel Drive, a Porsche Boxter, Alfa Romeo Spider, three
Mercedes, a BMW Z3 and an Audi A4. None of his cars are equipped with
bulletproofing as he’s too arrogant to do so.
Valor’s wardrobe is extensive with usually two forms of
dress.
Work: Valor wears seductive clothing, tight fitting
silk shirts, suits, tasteful sunglasses, polished black shoes, all of his
clothes extremely expensive and chic. Usually by Gucci, Armani, Calvin Klein,
Krizia Uomo, Brooks Brothers, Adriondack, Ralph Lauren, Luciano Barbera… you get
the idea.
Work: Leather pants, straps, bondage
type of clothing, whips, studded clothing, clothing with spikes, a varied supply
of different stabbing, burning, electrocuting implements.
Valor has weapons if he needs them, though doesn’t like to
use them, too impersonal.
The Greater Key of Solomon:
Valor has come to acquire one of the Grimoires, one of the
infamous ‘black books’ made from human skin. This book, which is called the
Greater Key of Solomon is far more than a simple book though. It has mysteries
of the ages within it, revealed in esoteric language, it features living
diagrams, foldout pages, captured winds and generally fucked up things in it.
This book summons, wards and binds all kinds of spirits making it a powerful
find.
With this power Valor has bound minor demons into animal’s
and corpses to create guards for his Havens.
Demonhound: Bateman (That’s what Valor calls it)
Possessed by spirits of the Pit, these demonic hounds grow
lean and sinister. Balefire eyes blaze from skeletal heads and boiling spit
bubbles from flaming jaws.
How to summon these creatures is a fun treat. Small animals
or children are fed to slavering hounds, which are butchered and tossed into an
iron cage. Within the cage a glowing pentacle binds the demon-dogs to the spot;
until summoning is complete, the cage is kept shut.
He is pretty disturbed…
