Lacy Z. Rivere

🖤 Lacy Z. Rivere – The Punk Oracle of Madtown

Tradition: Hollow Ones (Leader of the Disparate Alliance)

Cabal: Cabal of the Desperate

Faction: The New Agers (Disparates)

Essence: Rebel

Arete: 5

Nature: Artivist

Demeanor: Activist

Age: 37 (Born 1948)

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🧬 Historical Background

🩸 1948–1966: Born Into a Lie

• Lacy grew up in small-town Wisconsin under the shadow of the postwar American Dream™.
• Her Awakening was born of grief and vengeance—her parents were murdered by a Nephandus survivor of World War II when she was only 12Madtown World of Darkne….
• Taken in briefly by a Hermetic mage, her mentor was also killed by the same Nephandus on the night of her Awakening.

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🕶️ 1966–1975: From Refugee to Revolutionary

• Rejected by the Traditions, Lacy found her path among the Hollow Ones, rising quickly as a force for the voiceless.
• Founded the Cabal of the Desperate—a refuge for Orphans, misfits, and rebels.
• Began building her underground chantry atop a former Sabbat haven, symbolically reclaiming spaces from death and banalityMadtown World of Darkne….
• Her growing addiction to Kindred vitae and intimate bond with Lulu Turner (Lasombra) remain secret—even from some of her closest alliesCharacters Draft.

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🧛 1975–1984: The Pact, the Blood, the City

• Lacy’s alliance with the Anarch Kindred, particularly Lulu, allowed her to expand her influence in both the mortal underground and supernatural fringe.
• Became the unofficial ambassador between the Hollow Ones and the Anarchs.
• By 1978, she had declared Madison “the last free city”, vowing to keep it open to all supernatural refugees—regardless of their Traditions, bloodlines, or paradigmsMadtown World of Darkne….

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💥 1985: Holding the Line as Everything Collapses

• Lacy is one of the few mages who suspects the Nameless is winning, not through force—but through apathy, fear, and fragmentation.
• She continues to expand the Cabal of the Desperate, even as infighting with the Traditions threatens to collapse their unityMadtown World of Darkne….
• Only a few know she’s in private communication with exile-bound mages—some say she might open the city’s defenses and let the floodgates break.

"I’d rather burn a lie than live by it. And if that means siding with monsters to save what’s left of the Dream… so be it."

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🎨 Paradigm: Reality Is a Canvas, and I'm the Spray Paint

Lacy’s magick is radical, expressive, emotional. She doesn’t believe in sacred texts or rigid rules. She believes:

• Reality is subjective, fragile, and begging to be reshaped.
• Belief is the only rule, and aesthetic is power.
• Art, rebellion, music, and dreams can pierce the veil.
• She doesn’t “cast” magick. She tags it into existence.

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🔧 Practice: Chaos Magick & Symbolic Rebellion

Lacy channels her magick through spontaneous acts of creation and symbolic rejection of consensus. Her rites are improvised, fueled by emotion, danger, and style.

Instruments & Tools:

• Spray Paint and Chalk – Tags sigils and glyphs onto walls, clothes, and skin.
• Ink, Tarot, Graffiti – Used in dreamscaping and illusion.
• Punk Music and Liturgy – Sound-based resonance for mental and social manipulation.
• Vampire Blood (Vitae) – Used in secret as a power enhancer and spiritual addiction.

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🌀 Spheres & Strengths

• Mind 3 – Thought disruption, suggestion, illusion, mental stealth.
• Prime 2 – Channeling resonance, marking glyphs with power.
• Correspondence 2 – Tagging locations, sympathetic links.
• Entropy 2 – Hexing, chaos infusion, rebel’s luck.
• Spirit 1 – Sees into Dreaming; minor interactions with Echoes.

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🧠 Skills & Traits

• Social: Charisma 4, Manipulation 4
• Mental: Intelligence 5, Wits 4
• Abilities: Expression 5, Subterfuge 4, Streetwise 4, Occult 4, Politics 3
• Resonance: Defiant, Viral, Echo-tinged

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🔮 Current Secrets (1985)

• Kindred Addiction: Her relationship with Lulu Turner runs deeper than love. It’s a bond of blood and memory.
• Sabotage Suspicions: Some suspect Lacy helped collapse a Tradition ward in 1982 to prevent a power grab.
• The Other Pact: She’s been in contact with exiled mages and sleepers planning to enter the city—some of whom aren’t what they claim.

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🎯 Goals

• Protect Madison as a haven for all Awakened—no matter the cost.
• Unify the Mages, Kindred, Fae, and even Garou into a new supernatural alliance.
• Expose the Technocracy, Traditions, and even Jay Dee, if they stand in the way of freedom.
• Survive her addiction… or fall trying.