Computer Spirit

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Background: Startled awake by the wash of feeling surrounding the earliest punch-card computers, processing-Gafflings have been a part of the Shadow for more than 100 years in one form or another. However only in the past 50 years have these oftensolitary technology-spirits grown to a power level that as encouraged their growth past the Gaffling level. Following the exponential surge in technology in the past 20 years, computer-spirits are now found even at the greater Jaggling level, and rumors speak of silicon Incarnae and entities that take the form of a network of symbiotic Jagglings all serving a common purpose. Computer-spirits dislike dealing with anything but other highly technological spirits. They considerthemselves superior to all but the most powerful spirits, but often they learn the hard way that they are powered by the same Essence that fuels the most primitive and elemental of spirits. Computer-spirits tend to gather near urban centers, though they also have the potential to exist wherever someone possesses and uses a computer.

Description: Computer-spirits often appear as a manifestation of the particular computer they represent. Those dedicated to specific purposes may also take the form of a more symbolic version thereof. Information archival equipment may appear as a small building that, once entered, is found to have a much larger interior than appears possible from the outside, and that is filled from floor to ceiling with bookshelves representing the information stored there. Computer-spirits rarely deign to take human form, considering humans to be a tool for them, rather than the other way around.

Storytelling Hints: Computer-spirits know everything that was known by the spirits they feed off. Because of this, most develop a taste for dataspirits and other sources of knowledge-based Essence. However, these modern spirits have little respect for the half-meat Uratha. Some novices hope to find easy answers from computer-spirits, but even the most technophilic Elodoth quickly finds that there are often simpler ways to gain information than negotiating with these egotistical and linear-minded spirits. The constant evolution of technology also has its effect on computer-spirits’ demeanors: they are voracious predators, constantly trying to consume and evolve to keep one step ahead of obsolescence. Werewolves with territories in urban areas may find that they are constantly attempting to prevent these curious spirits from tapping across the Gauntlet into the material world in their search for new technology and information. For that reason, as much asany other, computer-spirits resent the Forsaken.

Rank: 3
Attributes: Power 9, Finesse 9, Resistance 7
Willpower: 16
Essence: 20
Initiative: 16
Defense: 9
Speed: 18
Size: 3
Corpus: 10
Influences: Computers •••
Numina: Blast (electricity), Chorus, Drain*, Machine Possession*,
Material Vision, Reaching, Revelation*

Bans: Computer-spirits often carry a ban that makes themunable to avoid a properly worded command.