Terry Lodewijk, the Veteran
Look and Demeanor
Male, Caucasian, Dirty Clothing. Demeanor: Crass
Stats
Moves
Old Friends, Old Favors
When you first encounter an NPC, you may declare them an old friend instead of Putting a Face to a Name and roll with Mind. On a hit, they offer you comfort and aid, even if it exposes them to danger or retribution. On a 7-9, tell the MC why you owe them
a Debt. On a miss, tell the MC why they want you dead.
Too Old for this Shit!
When you get caught up in a fight you tried to prevent, you get armor+1 and take +1 ongoing to seeing yourself and others to safety.
The Best Laid Plans
When you work out a plan with someone, roll with Mind. On a 10+, hold 3. On a 7-9, hold 2. You can spend your hold 1-for1, regardless of distance, while the plan is being carried out to:
- » Add +1 to someone’s roll (choose after rolling)
- » Dismiss all harm someone suffers from a single attack
- » Ensure your people have the exact gear they need on hand
On a miss, hold 1, but your plan falls apart at the worst possible moment.
Drama Moves
Corruption Move
When you knowingly head straight into danger, mark corruption.
Intimacy Move
When you share a moment of intimacy—physical or emotional—with another person, tell them a story about the past and the lessons you learned. Choose 1:
- You both take +1 forward
- You take +1 forward and they take -1 forward
- Hold 1. Spend the hold to Lend a Hand to that character from any distance
End Move
When you die or retire your character, choose a character to inherit your Workspace and True Artist.
Workspace
You have a Workspace that includes a large space for your tools and/or supplies. When you go into your Workspace to work on something, the MC tells you what it will take to complete. The Workspace includes: automotive hoist and tools, a junkyard of raw materials, a scattering of ancient relics.
Items created in Terry’s garage are safe from the MC. They can’t be destroyed or taken without your permission, even if you sell or give them away to another character.
Gear
- An apartment above the garage
- A Harley
- A smart phone
- A Pump-action Shotgun (3-harm close loud reload messy)
Corruption
☐ ☐ ☐ ☐ ☐
Harm
☐ Faint
☐ ☐ Grievous
☐ ☐ Critical
Questions
Who are you: Terry Lodewijk is 52 years old and runs a hot rod garage in the warehouse district. Back in the day, he ran with a very rough crowd and was connected to gangs and drug traffickers in North Africa, South America, Germany, and the US. In his 40s, he fell in love with Nadya, the woman who ran the kebab shop, and when they had a little girl, he opened his garage and went straight. He’s still a big, burly guy, and nobody messes with him. But these days he’s more likely to use his garage to fight the Vamps than pick fights in the street.
How long have you been in the city: Terry was born in Amsterdam, his parents were hippies who moved there in the 60s. So he tolerates hipsters and weirdos.
What was your greatest accomplishment in the city? Others would tell you that Terry’s greatest accomplishment was holding off an invasion of vampires from the Centraal Train Station with nothing but a blow torch, a doner kebab and a couple of welded railroad ties. Terry would tell you his greatest accomplishment was the birth of his daughter. But he rarely talks about his daughter now.
Why did you stop? When he became an enemy of the Vamps, they killed his wife Nadya, and took his daughter, Ayesha. He still doesn’t know what happened to Ayesha, but he senses she is alive. The Vamps taunt him with her constantly. When he lost Nadya and Ayesha, something broke in Terry. He’s retreated to his workshop and quietly works to get his daughter back, and get his revenge. He has been studying the occult and has a few occult relics scattered around the garage. He hates the Vamps. He’s not crazy about the gentrifying developers, either.
Nadja died near the Vondelbunker. If Terry goes anywhere near the park at night, vamp-y people come up to him and insinuate that his daughter is inside.
What do you desperately need? He needs to know what happened to Ayesha and, if possible, bring her back.
How did you discover the Vamps' natures, originally? Who else was involved? There have always been rumors of the Vamps among the hard drug underbelly of the city. They were rumored to prey upon the less-connected junkies and backpackers, picking them off the edges of the scene like wounded gazelles. Like most people, Terry thought it was bullcrap, but one time back in the 80's, he stumbled on two of them in the back room of a party in an abandoned tenement, attacking a young backpacker from Australia. He and his friends Diwan and Rasheed fought them off and saved the backpacker. But after that, he was on the Vamps radar.
Who do you still trust, from the old days? Diwan and Rasheed, two brothers from Istanbul who used to run hashish up from Morocco. They can usually be found hanging out at the cafes in the Red Light district. They are still good friends and I would trust them with my life. As outsiders, they were never deeply involved in the gangs, always up for a good time and didn’t take things too seriously, which is why I gravitated towards them in the first place. In fact, their aloofness has a touch of an otherworldliness to it, but I put that down to them being stoned most of the time.
Who do you end up hanging out with nowadays most? I don’t see Diwan and Rasheed as much as I might like to, just cause I'm not partying as much as I used to. But I still consider them close friends. The only other person I really make an effort to see is Soraya. I worry about her. I help her score opium for her grandmother sometimes, because I can, and because she needs it. But I think she’s wasting her life in that store, and I don’t like her sisters.
Do you have other family, beyond Nadja and Ayesha? Parents, siblings? Were you estranged from them already in the pre-Nadja days? Do you still have any contact with them? My mother is in England somewhere. I think. Haven’t seen or heard from her since the last century. My father is in a really run down retirement home. He’s been suffering from dementia for so long, I barely remember what it was like when he wasn’t. I visit him on holidays, and then wish I hadn’t.
Of the people of Noord nowadays, who worries you most, and who do you find yourself taking care of? Soraya. I worry about her. I help her score opium for her grandmother sometimes, because I can, and because she needs it. But I think she’s wasting her life in that store, and I don’t like her sisters.
Debts
TO DO
» Someone relies on you for training or knowledge. They owe you 2 Debts.
Hassan comes to Terry for local knowledge (when he or his clients need to track somebody down, or find leverage on a small business that won't sell, or find a guy who knows a guy). Terry, being already wracked with grief, doesn't experience any change when Hassan bedlams him with his grief, so he's the only useful asset Hassan has left for the "word on the street"
Hassan owes Terry two debts
» You’re working on something big for someone, and it’s nearly ready. They owe you a Debt.
Terry has asked his friends to set up a supply of Heroin for Ima. Dileep says he knows a guy, and Terry made a traded a suitcase of phosphorus grenades as a down payment.
Soraya owes Terry a debt.
» Someone keeps pulling your ass out of the fire. You owe them 2 Debts.
More than once, Jan has saved Terry's ass when he's waging his wars on the rival clan of vampires. Terry suspect's Jan is using him, but he owes him.
Terry owes Jan 2 debts