[UA] A new Revenant

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

I was so inspired and flattered by everyone throwing up UA fan pages that I
thought I'd do my part and offer a new type of unnatural creature to put up
on 'em.  Maybe the roots of this from "Spherewalker" show a little, but I
like the idea.  Wish I had a better name: I was considering "Suicide
Kings," but quite a few of them are probably women.  Feh.  

Incidentally, a movie I'd recommend for the more positive side of UA is the
documentary "Cheap, Fast and Out of Control."  There's nothing paranormal
in it, but it's a fascinating study of... well... fascination, I guess.
Plus, the title is, IMO, a perfect description of why people pick modern
magick over the old school stuff.

-G.

Revenant: Suicide Stalkers

	Dying is an art: I do it exceptionally well.
	I do it so it feels real.
	I do it so it feels like hell.
				-Sylvia Plath

In life, those revenants known as "suicide stalkers" were often deeply
romantic, impractical sorts.  They're the kind who conceive grand, mad,
unhinging passions they can never express.  (More often than not, they're
more in love with the idea of their "ideal other" than the actual person,
who no doubt snores, picks her nose or never misses an episode of "Jerry
Springer.")  The necessary combination of shyness, depth of feeling, and
impracticality is thankfully rare, because these revenants don't just
spring up every time there's a suicide of unrequited love.  They are only
possible when the will is strong, the passion is maddening, and the beloved
never even suspects his or her role in the death.

It's galling to be in love.  It's worse when you're sick enough to kill
yourself for it.  But it's worst of all when you die for love and your
"lover" doesn't know it.  That's intolerable.  

That can bring someone back from the grave.

Suicide stalkers have a tough row to hoe.  Their task is to force
acknowledgement from the beloved: only when that is achieved can they rest.
 However, they are completely mute, and do not even retain their pre-mortem
faces.  Instead, they are anonymous, faceless in the same way that
nonentities are (see page 152 of UA.)  The only way they can communicate
with their chosen one is by dying.  And they do it over, and over, and over.

This little passion play is hardly easy for the object of their obsession,
either.  If a suicide stalker latches onto you, strangers suddenly start
dying all around them - jumping in front of your car, hanging themselves in
the tree outside your apartment and jumping off the roof so that they fall
in front of your office window.  Because of the "nonentity effect," the
victim usually has no idea that it's really one entity, trapped in a tape
loop of varied demise.  Lots of them simply lose their minds, battered and
numbed by a hideous succession of random, pointless, gruesome deaths.  

Suicide stalkers aren't malevolent: they just want to be acknowledged.
Often, if their "beloved" is in danger, the stalker will throw itself in
front of the peril.  This usually kills it, but unlike the beloved, the
stalker can come back.  

If the beloved dies before it acknowledges the stalker, the spell is broken
and the stalker proceeds to its eternal reward (or whatever).  The only way
to get rid of one and live to tell is by saving its life.  If the beloved
can successfully spare the suicide stalker - by cutting the noose, or
catching it as it falls, or jumping in front of that train to drag it off
the tracks - then the stalker is given a moment with its old face and its
true voice.  It has this last chance to say "I loved you, and you never
knew" before it turns to dust forever. 

	Suicide Stalkers (Minor)
	*I'm gonna make you love me.  Yes I will.*
	Body: 15 (Easily Slain)
	Speed: 40
	Mind: 40
	Soul: 30