Bestiary

Mike Dragons-Wrath

Subdivision Director, Pentex Security (SEC)

While many of the other nominees got their position through back-room deals or improving Pentex’s efforts to defile the world, Mike Dragon’s-Wrath doesn’t care for subtlety. He got his Board seat the old-fashioned way: by killing anyone who gets in his way.

His pack, including fellow nominee Ash Pyralis, had worked with Pentex first as arms dealers, then as independent contractors when even a number of First Teams would have failed. After racking up a number of successes around the world, including more than one successful clash with the Sept of the Green in New York, he has come to the attention of both Benjamin Rushing and Peter Culliford, while Ash had come to the attention of Harold Zettler for her bizarre and disturbing premonitions. With the Nameless Tower building up in New York City and Zhyzhak’s arrival, Mike knew that his pack needed all the help it could get, and Pentex was the obvious tool for the job.

His first obstacle was becoming an employee. His pack fabricated evidence that the current Chief of Pentex Security, Persephone Tar-Anis, had used First Teams for her personal vendettas — including assassina­ tion attempts against at least two other Board members. Mike then slaughtered her in an orgy of violence that left no recognizable body parts. Though she was Zettler’s childe, Ash managed to sway the Director to her side. He replaced Persephone with Mike, and installed Ash as his immediate deputy. Impressed with their apparent loyalty — as well as their willingness to murder who ever he asked — lead Zettler to nominate both Mike and Ash for the board.

Early in the campaign, Ash fell victim to a surprise attack. Unhappy with the idea that two Black Spiral Dancers from the same pack might get sets on the Board, unknown nominees launched attacks against her in the media and infected her with a strange poison that crippled her despite her Garou physiology. Mike, how­ ever, powered through. His direct style was a refreshing counter to the business bullshit of other nominees, and he quickly gained first supporters, and then a seat on the Board of Directors.

Mike is suspicious of both of his fellow new Direc­ tors, and doesn’t care who knows it. While he’s happy to seem loyal to Zettler, Culliford, and Rushing, he has no time for Chase Lamont or and thinks Francesco is a pathetic waste of a Black Spiral Dancer. He is willing to dress in a suit and play the corporate game for as long as it takes, in between visiting the front lines with his pack, building up goodwill. In the long run, he wants to kill the other Directors and install his packmates in their stead — with him as alpha.

The Losers

Not every candidate for election was so lucky, how­ ever. The other candidates have not yet met a fatal end, but many shareholders believe it’s only a matter of time.