Mr Hobbes
Personal Information
Appearance
Mr Hobbes sinewy muscles belie an inhuman strength. His posture is commonly bent and animal like. Bestial cold eyes stare forth from behind the human flesh mask he always wears. Around his neck he wears a string of mementos from past victims. His clothes are water logged, blood stained and fetid. He regular appears to be listening intently at unheard noises and anyone who spends time in conversation with him will feel the caress of ghostly hands.
Personality
To the court Mr Hobbes appears predatory, short with words and to the point. His voice is guttural and cold. However, a beastly temper dwells just below the surface and Mr Hobbes is not afraid to let it come out.
To his covenant mates Mr Hobbes is a philosophical ascetic, always willing to discuss the occult and his eugenic theories.
To his clan mates he's a concerned patriarchal protector, loyal and infinitely accepting.
To his prey he is a nightmare made flesh.
To the kine he is the source of many an urban myth and ghost story and a reason not to stray alone at night.
Information Known by Kindred Society
Mr Hobbes is the Priscus of the Nosferatu Clan of Sydney and member of the Ordo Dracul. He lives in the catacombs beneath the city with the rest of his clan. He is a dangerous individual.
Timeline - Unless otherwise stated, this information is not commonly known IC
1853 - Caleb Hobbes is born in Hull City, England
1861 - Is sent to work the coal mines
1870 - Seeking an escape from a life of drudgery in the mines takes part in illegal catch wrestling bouts for money
1874 - After taking a dive decides to skip town to avoid criminal retribution. Jumps a ship heading for the gold fields of Australia
1875 - 1877 - Blown way off course the ship runs aground against an island in the Lesser Antilles. With dwindling food and no rescue in site the crew resorts to cannibalism. Full and strong, Caleb makes a raft and travels to one of the main islands where he stays with the Carib people. He takes part in their customs with great enthusiasm, takes a wife (Maria) and has a child. It is the happiest time of his life and he almost pushes the darkness of his past out of his mind. However an unknown Noctuku who lived on the island, embraced him, and in a fit of rage he killed his wife and child. From that point forward his wife was forever bound to him, knowing that the only way for her to pass on is for Caleb to be destroyed and not willing to be party to that. He would never see his child again which damaged his mental health. Eventually a merchant vessel came to the island which he boarded and returned to France with it.
1878 until 1914 - takes advantage of the new more liberal France under the Belle Epoque to score easy meals and cheap entertainment. However, pressure from the strongly Invictus/Lance kindred court forces him to flee Northward where he finds himself caught up in the beginnings of the great war.
1914 - 1916 - He wanders the killing fields aimlessly preying on dying soldiers and giving himself over to the beast.
1917 - Whilst bunking down in a monastery in Bulgaria he meets a kindred monk who introduces him to a set of practices to calm his beast and unbeknownst to Caleb gives him his first taste of the Ordo Dracul.
1918 - Sees out the rest of the war under the tutelage of the monk who doesn't realise that Caleb harbours a dark and neverending hunger
1919 - After his dark secret was revealed to the monk, Mr Hobbes flees into the foot hills of the Carpathian Mountains where he feeds off the peasants whilst living in caves and watching constantly for the monk.
1921 - Caleb is caught in the act of cannibalism by a band of dragons who threw him into a pit in their lair in a misguided effort to "cure" him of his curse.
1923 - The Monk finds him in their lair and bargains for Calebs freedom. Mad with rage, fear and hunger, Caleb destroys the dragons and the monk too once released.
1924 - 1945 - This time is all but lost to Caleb as he was little more than an animal at this stage, living moment to moment and preying on human and neonate alike. What is known is twofold. Firstly Mr Hobbes makes his mask after a particularly fevered dream. Upon its completion it jumped up and latched onto his face fusing permanently with his skin and psyche. Secondly is that towards the end of the war, Caleb found himself fleeing east across europe, being hunted in turn by the Allies, Nazis and then by the Russians.
1947 - He crosses the water into Alaska on a fishing boat.
1948 - His early killings are blamed on the local myth of the Wendigo. Mr Hobbes obsesses over this myth eventually deciding that his path in unlife is apotheosis into the Wendigo.
1951 - Whilst lairing in the woods next to a logging camp he comes across Kohana. They have an epic battle, each trading advantage. Before one or the other can finish, the loggers come across the pair and while killing the loggers they recognise a kindred spirit amongst them.
1975 - Moves to Australia much to the protestation of Kohana. After a big argument she attacks him but by this stage he has far surpassed her physically and easily defeats her. It is telling that he leaves her without putting her into torpor.
1976 - Founds The Clan with Ferdinand Wolfe.
1977 - Spends most of the next three decades exploring the undercities, meeting their inhabitants, battling, licking his wounds and securing space for the Nos of the court of sydney. He hunts above with Kohana, Cazador and Jericho. He spends time in discussion with Ferdinand Wolfe about the curse, developing The Clan and his concerns. Also at this time he meets Sawyer and sees in him an unlikely kindred spirit. He is drawn to his acceptance of the monstrous side of his nature and his degenerate eating habits. He performs some tasks for Sawyer in exchange for some help with mortal interests. Towards the end of the three decades
2002 - Asks to be put into Torpor by members of The Clan as he is losing touch with the last vestiges of his humanity and sanity.
2006 - Is woken prematurely from his Torpor by Ferdinand Wolfe who is also slowly losing his mind and is looking for understanding and companionship. He retakes the mantle of Nosferatu Priscus at this time to help hold the clan together. He also begins performing a number of hits for Sawyer in exchange for boons. He senses the hunger, both figurative and literal, in him and sees a kindred spirit of sorts.
2007 - With things reaching a crisis point within The Clan, Ferdinand Wolfe develops Attestation an amalgamation of Scientology auditing and Christian confessional. It is an attempt to help members with psychological hangups and the like. Mr Hobbes is at first resistant to the idea.It lasts 2 years until one day he overhears Ferdinand running a session in the necropolis and shambles over and tells Ferdinand to give him 'a testing'.
2008 - Through Attestation Mr Hobbes and Ferdinand begin to overcome many of their social hangups.
2009 - After a breakthrough, Mr Hobbes realises that much of his psychological hangups revolve around the child he didn't get to know. His wife Maria suggests he could help the children of the city without parents. He moves to support a small band of street kids that live in the barrens next to the f3 freeway in Artarmon. He provides them with new clothing (Halloween costumes as that's what the kids ask from him. He gets Sawyer to purchase them for him). He also provides them with camping supplies and food. Initially he interacted with them solely through leaving goods unseen. He then began to speak with them from sewer gratings. And finally he made his appearance (in a ronald regan mask and suit).
2010 - He begins to seed small amounts of vitae into their food after noticing some of the children were sickly. Soon they are slavish little blood addicts.
2011 - He decides that most of his victims end up wasted meat. He finds a way to put the meat to good use. The children go from strength to strength.
Recent History
2013
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Mortal Society
Lineage
Mr Hobbes is one of the founders of The Clan
Known Childer
Known Grand-childer
Quotes
Quotes By
- "Nice suit. Can't hide what you are." - To Ferdinand Wolfe.
- "I......must......sleep" - Mr Hobbes before being put into Torpor by The Clan
Quotes About
- "My connection with humans is only skin deep, what I shared with them has long rotted away. I am truly the wolf in sheep clothing and when you tear the skin away you can still tell us apart. You know this well <pauses and looks around> and certainly disprove the idea that you are what you eat." - One of the first exchanges between Mr Hobbes and Ferdinand Wolfe.
- "If a man really pisses me off, you know, questions me honour or somethin', I'll make his life a livin' hell by doing all the classic stuff like killin' his wife an kids or what not. But if he truly gets under me skin and I mean truly... I dunno like takes something that's mine, then shit just got real an I'm gonna get Mr Hobbes on his ass. I will guarantee you that that cunt will never even dream of leaving his house again, even if his fucking house was on fire and my friend it will be!' - Sawyer
- "He's a proper cunt, that one. Bit of an anorak though, know what I mean?" - Anthony Desmond
- "No comment." - Les Crassus
- "When it comes to Haunts, I consider myself something of a connoisseur. This vintage lacks the refinement I expect from its, finer specimens." - Marquis Aurialanus
- "Ah, yes. The wild days of naked, unashamed savagery. The intemperate, primal carnism. The perfection of predation, sharpened to a diamond point. I remember what that felt like...but that was in another country, and besides, the wench is dead." - Batavia, after encountering Hobbes upon a visit to Sydney in June, 2013.
- "See I like Hobbes, He's a horrible freakish monster, but I reckon he does his business square" -Sidney Shaw
- "When he is hungry, he will eat. Careful, little cub, that you do not make a meal of yourself." - Kohana
- "What a monster." - a horrified Connie Gambrell, to Fatimah.
Conversations
Rumours
- Has a soft spot for kids. Which given his night to night activities is very hard to believe.
Inspirations and Soundtrack
'they float, Georgie, and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too–'
PELOQUIN : He's not Nightbreed. He's Natural.
BOONE : No! I've killed people, I'm like you, that's why I'm here...
PELOQUIN : Shut the fuck up. You're meat.
KINSKI : If we eat him we break the law.
BOONE : My God... My God, it's true...
PELOQUIN : Of course it's true. Everything's true... God's an astronaut. Oz is over the rainbow. And Midian's where the monsters live. And you came to die.
BOONE : I didn't... didn't come to die. I came to be with you, I'm one of you.
PELOQUIN : No. Sorry. I can smell innocence at fifty yards.
BOONE : I've killed people. Fifteen people.
PELOQUIN : Who told you that?
BOONE : What do you mean?
PELOQUIN : He lied, asshole. He lied. You're Normal. And that means you're meat .... for the beast.
KINSKI : We mustn't. It's the law.
PELOQUIN: Fuck the law! I want meat!
Night Breed Part 3, by Clive Barker's
'If you die first, I am definitely going to eat you, but the question is, if I die, what are you going to do? Bon appétit... Eat or die.'
Status
City
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Covenant
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Clan
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Boons
- Trivial boon owed by Character to Character for details (date).
- Minor boon owed by Bernard Estera to Mr Hobbes for bringing fugitive Brood member to justice.
- Major boon paid by Character to Character for details (date).
Reference
| Member Information | |
| Player: | Gareth |
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| Number: | 2009050005 |
| Domain: | Sydney |