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My character in the last LARP Chronicle was an old school biker Brujah named Lynch Pin.  A native of Brooklyn (born on the day the town of Gravesend became part of the city of Brooklyn, four years before NYC absorbed it), he fought in WWI, saw his family torn apart by the death of two of his brothers (in the war) and his father (from grief), and became an expatriate and member of the Lost Generation, wandering for a time across America and Europe during the 20s.  He found himself in Wiemar Germany, he was eventually ghouled in 1928 by a Brujah.  Unfortunately, that Brujah, long in search of  a cause, found it in the rise of Nazi Germany.  Eddie discovered that he was immune to the blood bond and secretly spied on his master and the Nazis until caught by his regnant's sire, who turned out to have similar beliefs to him and became an ally.  When Germany collapsed finally under the weight of the Allies' war machine, his regnant tried to flee, and his master's sire and her allies attacked as he attempted to escape a concentration camp with stolen treasures.  Eddie saw his moment, when his one ally was at the mercy of his master, and killed him with his own pistol.  His former master in turn took him under her wing and eventually sired him.  When he returned to the U.S., he saw the beginnings of the biker gangs, so similar to his own Lost Generation, and formed one that included his younger brother and various other Brooklynites returning from the war.  Over the decades he often roamed and returned, and took in other recruits from other wars.  He was strong and charismatic and often hid behind the bruiser Brujah stereotype, using it to let him speak hard truths others couldn't always, but those who knew him often came to realize there was much more to the man, including an education. During the Vietnam era he became enamored with tattoos and opened a parlor next to his gang's clubhouse. During the course of game he wound up Brujah Primogen and Keeper of Elysium, as well as the ringleader of a large coterie including a number of influential PCs and a few NPCs, all operating out of Gravesend, Brooklyn, under his protection.  Eddie took the name Lynch Pin after he grabbed one and used it to beat down a rival Brujah years earlier, and it's been his lucky charm since, kept on a thong of red leather in his shirt pocket and taken out when he is on edge or about to hit something... or somebody.  Despite the fearsome reputation of the Brujah, Lynch Pin was the voice of reason with surprising frequency, and proved to be a capable Keeper of Elysium, partially by secretly taking over a security firm.  His gang included a number of ghouls and mortals alike, and various Kindred members abroad (including his brother, whom he embraced to save from cancer), and his coterie included the enigmatic Malkavian Dr. Blood, harpy, visionary tattoo artist, and heavily-scarred Nos (actually a Toreador adopted into the clan) P. J. Fish, his hot-headed British Nosferatu sergeant-at-arms, Francis York (dubbed 'Sarge' by Lynch Pin), Malkavian tattoo specialist Angelique, Ventrue financier Mr. Phoenix, Toreador sculptor Natasha, Gangrel Primogen (eventually) Nora, and Brujah Sheriff Soriah (an NPC).  He also regularly had to ride herd on Otto von Jaeger, a clanmate, occultist, and former Nazi with whom he had an understandably tumultuous relationship.  Lynch Pin was also on good terms with many others, including Malkavian Primogen Squid and the Tremere child Seneschal Ophelia, and he and his allies proved instrumental in preserving the city from a number of bizarre threats after the mysterious disappearance of the city's Sabbat and restoration of Camarilla control.  Most of all, he wound up helping to talk Cain himself into seeking redemption, thus depriving a rising cult trying to take over Kindred society in his name of leadership... though in the process he wound up drinking from Cain's separated beast, and now wrestles with a shard of it in himself.  All at 13th Generation.  Not bad.
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