Bestiary

These tragic horrors are the result of a number of Pentex projects started during the late 1980s to crush the wills of homosexual men and women through “curative therapy” programs. The ultimate result of the program is a Normalite: a faceless, sexless fomor capable of instinctively detecting the presence of supernatural entities, and filled with an equally instinctive desire to destroy them. Pentex First Teams use packs of these baying, featureless monstrosities to hunt Garou and Kinfolk, and then neutralize their Gifts while strike teams take them apart.

In the twenty-first century, much of the developed world is more accepting of homosexuality than it was, thus it’s much harder to start up the programs needed to make Normalites. Production is mostly concentrated in the United States, Italy, and Africa; Russia started a couple of experimental programs, but hasn’t had time enough to show success. Pentex remains dedicated to expanding their presence abroad by any means necessary, however; they’re simply too useful to give up on.

Attributes: Strength 3, Dexterity 4, Stamina 3, Charisma 1, Manipulation 1, Appearance 1, Perception 3, Intelligence 2, Wits 3

Abilities: Alertness 3, Brawl 3, Intimidation 4, Primal-Urge 2, Stealth 2

Backgrounds: None

Backgrounds: None

Powers: Homogeneity, Immunity to the Delirium, Sense the Unnatural, Venomous Bite

Willpower: 3

Equipment: Generally none, not even clothes.

Image: A Normalite’s bone structure distorts, allowing it to run on all fours. Its body is hairless, sexless, and without distinguishing characteristics such as scars or tattoos. The Normalite’s pigmentation shifts over time until the fomor is an unearthly paper-white. The Normalite’s facial features disappear save for a gaping mouth; somehow, this fails to impair their keen senses.

Genesis: The first Normalites were the products of a Pentex subsidiary known as Homogeneity, Incorporated, a business centered around “curing” homosexuals of unwanted sexual desires through a $2,000, ten-week course of isolation, religious services, and hypnotherapy. Project Iliad has since diversified, branching out from the original company to sponsor the use of its methods by a number of homosexual “rehab” programs, both Pentex-sponsored and wholly independent. In recent years, it has expanded its operations to include “treatment” of transgendered individuals as well. The banes that create Normalites prey on self-loathing and identity conflicts, and the programs that create Normalites create and magnify these feelings to a disturbing degree. Full possession and transformation takes between six and ten months. The psychological changes begin in a matter of weeks, while physical transformation doesn’t begin until the final month of the process.

In countries where homosexuality isn’t broadly condemned, Pentex funnels significant funds to hate groups, preachers of intolerance, and socially conservative political movements in the hopes of wedging open markets for more projects like Homogeneity, Inc. The Normalites are among their most useful fomori for finding and targeting the Wyrm’s enemies, making further expansion of the program that creates them a vital priority.

Roleplaying Notes: At first, the program seemed like it worked. You realized that your desires were disgusting and wrong, but over time, they faded away. Granted, no heterosexual impulses rose up to replace them, but that was okay, it was enough just to be free, for a while. Then your other desires began to fade as well, even as you became acutely sensitive to the freaks around you. Your rage toward anything “abnormal” grew, even as everything else dimmed out, you managed to become normal, so why couldn’t everyone else? Worst of all were the freaks — and you knew them to be freaks — who seemed completely normal on the outside.

By the time your genitals atrophied away, and your smooth flesh reabsorbed your eyes and nose, all you could think of was to hunt down the other, hate the other, kill the other. That’s when the nice men from Project Iliad came, and showed you how you could help shut down all deviation, once and for all.