Riley Black
 Holeshot |
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| Name: | Riley Black | ||
| Superalias: | Holeshot | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Species: | Demon | ||
| Occupation: | Mechanic/Race Fixer | ||
| Citizenship: | US citizen | ||
| Residence: | New Windsor, NY | ||
| Education: | Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, UCLA | ||
| Theme: | Original (OC) | ||
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| Apparent Age: | 23 | Actual Age: | ? |
| Date of Birth | ??? ??? ????? | Played By | Maude Apatow |
| Height: | 5'8" | Weight: | 130 |
| Hair Color: | Blonde | Eye Color: | Brown |
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| Theme Song: | https://youtu.be/o-nr1nNC3ds | ||
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Character Info
Profile
Everyone's favorite Faustian Deal making, Street race having, Hot rod Demoness. Occasionally she moonlights as a little known Vigilante out of Cali, but generally is more chill than anything. If you're a career criminal type there's a good chance you've at least heard of her.
Timeline
Timeline1:
1782: The Demon Botis is summoned by a conjurer in Paris, who immediately loses control over the demon and is possessed. Botis liquidates the conjurer's possessions, moves to Italy and changes his name.
1783:Botis attempts to bring over his top generals, the attempt is only partially successful but alerts the authorities and the church. Only Botis and a single nameless soldier manage to escape, Botis elects to relocate to the new world to hide. He gives the soldier with him a name, to help bind her to the mortal plane. They ultimately flee to America to escape the church.
1786:Botis adopts the name "Otis", and Pediwate becomes "Riley". The duo settle in South Carolina and take over a struggling distillery.
1860:The duo migrate to Kansas City, where Otis opens a new even larger distillery. The pair take over the gambling rackets and for a time run Kansas City.
Timeline2:
1920:Prohibition threatens the small but profitable little business empire Otis and Riley have built, Riley begins smuggling booze and quickly develops a knack for rum-running.
1948:"Otis White" emerges from obscurity as the long-time shadow owner of "White Whiskey" and a string of ford dealerships across the South. He becomes a founding sponsor of NASCAR at Riley's suggestion, and founds one of the original NASCAR teams. "White Lightning Racing" in Mooreville NC.
1952:Riley splits from Otis with his blessing, taking over the Race betting and street racing in California. With Riley in charge, serious street racing is kept away from the public eye and those who race without her blessing tend to end up dead.
1983:Quite by accident Riley stumbles into a street race taking place without her blessing, instinctively she gives chase and wrecks the two cars. News reports both street racers as having long criminal records, the "Holeshot" nickname is coined after a witness saw it painted on her fender.
1988:With the rise of bank robberies in LA going, Riley tightens her grip on wheelmen in LA. She begins regularly chasing down anyone pulling work in her territory without her blessing, blurry photographs of her car begin to emerge reinforcing the "Holeshot" nickname all the more.
1995:When a bank robbery in downtown LA goes bad, the resulting high speed pursuit makes live TV. "Holeshot" makes her prime time debut, neatly wrecking the bank robbers before taking to the freeway to quickly outrun trailing helicopters.
2020:Riley buys a mechanic shop in new Windsor, relocates her operation and revitalizes the shop.
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Personality
Detached:
Humans are all limited, temporary things and largely not worth much investment. Truly she's been around for so long, seen so many die and seen such little change that she long since checked out emotionally. It's not that lacks empathy or a fully developed emotional life, it's just humans she's largely sort of given up on. That said it's not impossible to break through the fog of detachment and make a true connection, it's just far from easy for mortals.
Lazy:
Most days Riley is happiest curled up on the couch, watching TV and getting take out. She might casually poke at a carburator, or rebuild a transmission whilst she listens to a podcast. Indeed when allowed to undertake tasks she chooses for herself, and execute them on her own timeline Riley can seem perfectly motivated. Unfortunately she works on a timescale measured in years, and is generally resentful when rushed. Racing is a favored hobby and so that's one thing she'll happily make time for, and is generally amenable to hustling to that end of course.
Character Sheet
Powers
Contracts:
Riley is empowered to write spiritually binding contracts, which upon execution may secure a mortal's soul and send it directly to hell. To execute this contract Riley has to uphold her side of the bargain but the price may be as cheap as a pack of cigarettes, and upon death the contract is executed. Some of these contracts may include an escape clause, usually at double the price but it's far from standard. If somebody wants a hellcat crate motor, Exotic car, or maybe even somebody killed bad enough though Riley is always happy to make a deal.
Demonic:
Without her disguise Riley is roughly twice as strong as a woman her size and weight ought to be, Dexterity and reflexes twice that of a peak human. She can see in pitch black, Hear slightly above and below the human range and is entirely resistant to mortal sickness and disease. She can heal from any injury which doesn't stop her heart, though something as serious as a broken bone or a gunshot wound might take up to a week.
Skills
Bladework:
The product of daily high intensity sparring sessions with one of hell's best swordsmen, Riley evolved into a profoundly well polished if deeply unorthodox fighter early on. She's a capable fighter with any edged weapon, but to see her at her peak she needs a pair of short swords or -very- big knives. Riley is a extreme defensive specialist, and can fight even multiple skilled opponents to a stand still. This degree of specialization can often confound even the most skilled of swordsmen, or hold down multiple foes with aplomb. Her arsenal of counters, parries and reversals is remarkable but accounts for the vast majority of her offensive output. Riley lacks the sort of physical reach, and on offense she's nothing special.
Brawler:
As a brawler Riley's a straight forward striker, who leans heavily upon raw animal aggression and exceptional speed. Her technique is entirely conventional and straight foreward, with clear evidence that she's had only the most basic of any kind of formal training. Trained fighters will find her particularly guilty of tells, and is generally an easy read to the practiced eye. Still she does have a remarkably well timed counter hit game, which just seems all the more out of place on such a straight forward brawler.
Driving:
Riley has been driving high performance machinery since the thirties, and has made driving powerful cars on surface streets her profession going all the way back to the fifties. She's received considerable formal training over the years, has decades of real world competitive experience and even without her demonic reflexes Riley is a world class driver by any measure. Her ability to handle especially wayward, overpowered, unstable street race machinery is particularly notable. She's a profoundly talented combatant with a vehicle, knows well how to nurse damaged machinery when necessary.
Gunplay:
She picked up her first flintlock during the revolutionary war, and she's been in love with firearms (and their bayonets) ever since. She's a well trained and thoroughly modern shooter with a wealth of real world gunfighting experience, though she's got a pronounced preference for smaller firearms. Heavy weapons, exotic bleeding edge sci-fi weaponry, crew served weapons and anti-tank weaponry is all completely beyond her. That said, give her a carbine and a pistol and watch her push both to the edge of their design envelope.
Mechanic:
Riley is in fact a fully licensed mechanic, and more than able to do just about anything a car might need. Of course she's also been turning street cars into fire breathing high performance machines, and turning wrenches on exotic import machinery since the thirties. She can weld a frame from scratch, machine and hone a block, set up suspension, repair bodywork, paint and wire up anything she fancies. She's also no slouch with a laptop and modern electronic systems.
Resources
Botis:
Otis White jr, Runs the White Whiskey distillery out of Gatlinburg and is publicly a stalwart pillar of morality for his community. He also operates NASCAR's oldest race team, and has a rather serious race shop as a result. He's also Riley's boss, and a High president of hell who's used his wealth and position to secure more than his fair share of souls for hell. Riley's current degree of separation is a strategic decision, but he's able to provide some discrete aid should she need it. He might be able to secure lawyers, secure hard to get race equipment and of course money. In person aid is unlikely though generally speaking, as the whole point is to keep himself safe and free.
Plugged In:
Riley is a Street racer with a reputation, and her shop sees no shortage of cars owned by street racers, professional wheelmen and smugglers. She takes time to make sure fledgeling racers have a somewhat safe place to learn how things work, is proactive in keeping the cops out of their business and can on occasion even be tapped to drive for hire. She can with a few phone calls usually get the low down from the street, and if need be perhaps locate people or things of interest.
Rattler:
"Rattler" is the result of a development program more than fifty years and hundreds of car chases in the making. It began life as a surplus NASCAR 1969 Ford Torino, and evolved to cope with life on the street. It's tube frame chassis is reinforced to survive high speed impacts, and can take a direct forty five mile an hour impact without any mechanical damage. Armor plate around the engine bay and belted around the passenger compartment protects against rifle rounds, with bullet proof glass providing protection against pistol rounds. With all that armor and it's exceptionally large fuel tanks the car weighs approximately 4500lbs wet, which insures the car has enough mass to get "Physical". There's a very large and powerful engine, very trick suspension and a lot of very clever aero work as well of course. Once warmed up it can push close to 2G on the skidpad, and is extremely stable at high speeds. It'll do the quarter mile in low nine seconds on race fuel, or high tens on pump gas. As far as top speed is concerned the car is ultimately drag limited, and given enough room can stretch out all the way to two fifty on race gas or two hundred even on regular pump gas. Her self sealing fuel tanks hold enough juice for a five hundred mile range when driven flat out, and has enough room for storage for basic kit and spare parts. These days the entire car is treated with simple gloss black, complete with a coiled Rattlesnake badge on the fender and "Holeshot" printed on a fake license plate out back.
Stockpile:
Hidden beneath her Mechanic shop's boneyard, in what was once a fallout shelter is where she keeps the real goods. Cash, jewelry, expensive race hardware, exotic cars and all that's just barter for her Faustian deals. It's also where she keeps the "Rattler", a small collection of firearms, personal spares, old junk she isn't ready to throw out and even an emergency supply of her favorite junk food.
The Garage:
Riley does in fact run a wholly legitimate small town garage up in New Windsor, which keeps a few selected old hands employed. "Black garage" curiously maintains -incredible- reviews from the locals, and has a sterling reputation for the quality and low cost of their work. Their work is so well respected locally they let them get a rare permit for a little junkyard outback for spares. This makes it easy to get parts of course, to break down unwanted race cars for parts, and to launder street racing money. It also provides her with a place to keep whatever "conventional" street race car she's tooling around in, and mechanics who can maintain it when she's too lazy.
Weaknesses
Cheap Date:
Riley may be all about the Faustian Deal, but she's actually compelled to complete any and all contracts she enters into. Whilst one might expect a Demon to be some sort of expert contract negotiator, She's a bad amount of lazy and impulsive. She might well agree to a whole lot for a cup of coffee if you get her early enough. Indeed she can often be bought for relatively little, and then she's obligated to carry out whatever she's agreed to. This can get her all manner of wrapped up in other people's nonsense, and for absolute chump change.
Hellborn:
There aren't many who know Riley who would describe her as "Evil", and factually she's generally too lazy to get up to a whole lot of "evil". Still with her disguise dropped she's not difficult to identify as a Demon, and she's vulnerable to a lot of the classic demonic weaknesses. She's entirely unable to walk on holy ground, holy water burns like acid and she can in fact be exorcized from her body. Though she's dramatically too far down the list to be in any tomes, those who know her true name (Pediwate) can even forcefully summon her though her station is -so- low she can't be bound or compelled to do anything but speak truthfully.
Holeshot:
Holeshot has to date never been clearly photographed, and has remained an irregular and mysterious figure going back to '83 in LA. They've demonstrated an uncanny penchant for showing up exactly when and where they need to be, participating in a high speed chase and then vanishing. What little contact they've had with the law over the years can easily be described as antagonistic, and Law Enforcement in California certainly believed them to be a criminal moonlighting as a vigilante to eliminate the competition. The authorities are unlikely to tolerate Holeshot operating in their city, and capes are likely to be incredibly suspicious as well.
Imperfect Possession:
As a result of her frequent prolonged possessions, the host bodies Riley takes eventually adopt a fully demonic appearance. Disguising her demonic nature takes no small amount of what little mystical energy she has at her disposal. Manifesting any superhuman ability breaks her disguise entirely, and well she's fairly easy to identify as a demon without her disguise.
Territorial:
If you're a demon, folk devil or even sufficiently demon-adjacent? It's entirely likely the demonic instincts are going to kick in, and New York isn't going to be big enough for both. No jokes unless they're -way- above her station, or her boss? Yeah it's probably "Fight's on" right there and then, and it's likely to be entirely mutual. Hell has no room for friendships, only rivals and royals.
Role-Play
Logs
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| Title | Date | Scene Summary |
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| A Night in the WOods | May 27th, 2023 | Lydia meets a demon hunter in the woods. No, this isn't a hunter *of* demons. This is a demon who is a hunter. They talk and the demon's prey interrupts much to his detriment. |
| Snakes and Cats | May 2nd, 2023 | Robbery goes off with a complication named |
| Long Term parking | April 26th, 2023 | Hellcat and Holeshot investigate a low stakes mystery. |
| Outlaws | April 20th, 2023 | RIley and Tomie have a little chat about their natures. |
| Powerhouse in the House of Power | April 20th, 2023 | Another night in the Hellfire club, deals are made and unkind things said. |
| Lounging very importantly in the fires of hell. | April 19th, 2023 | Riley and Patsy meet and its love at first sight, Daimon hires Patsy to find his killer. |
| The Car of Presidents. | April 15th, 2023 | Riley and Daimon go car shopping. |
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