Ah, Karen. She was all over the place –
I think that's the best way to describe her. Impulsive, rash,
ridiculously brave, sometimes oddly brilliant, sometimes criminally
insane. It goes without saying that she illustrates her player's
style quite nicely.
Karen Lennox was a police officer, who
first became an investigator of the supernatural and thereafter a Willworker - a spellcaster extraordinaire. She specialized in mind-magic and warping space, and many of
her greatest moments revolved around Thinking With Portals. Her
adventures were strange, to the point of becoming outright comic-book
bizarre. She fought her own evil clone created by the Mothman, she
was almost possessed by a former college professor, and she killed
some random woman by dropping scuba gear from a paraglider. I don't
think anything will top the sheer weirdness of that last decision.
Karen existed in a world where
supernatural creatures frequently rubbed elbows, and she seemed to
live by the maxim that whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you
stranger. She was arguably crazy – but on the other hand, she lived
in a crazy world. Her lateral thinking often backfired, but it can't
be denied that some of her plans were surprisingly successful.
Her most triumphant moment may have
been using the Supernal Tarot to ascend to the Mindscape, narrowly
avoiding her death even when her body was ripped to pieces, and
thereafter being reborn from her friend's right rib. It's a great
example of the sort of mad-scientist thinking she usually deployed.
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