Alexei Semago - Deceased
| Clan | Brujah |
|---|---|
| Position | Deceased |
| Status | 3 |
| Domain | Twin Cities, MN |
| Coterie | None |
| Society | ??? |
| Path | Humanity 0 |
| Player | Lance Schlenker |
Contents
Overview
Alias(es):
Stanislav Karakova
Real Name: You have to ask him, if you dare
Apparent Age:Early 30's
Concept: Russian Hitman
Physical description: Alexei stands 5’10” with an average build. Appears to be of European descent and has average features with brown hair and a pale complexion. The one distinguishing characteristic is a scar that runs down his right cheek. He claims to be from St. Petersburg but his English is flawless. Although he has been known to speak Russian equally as well. In addition, all that come near Alexei soon realize that he is a predator amongst the sheep.
Alexei is usually dressed in dark, military style clothing, better to hide the blood and the brain matter and is always heavily armed.
Detailed Status:
Acknowledged by Prince Nikolai of St. Petersburg, Russia
Feared by Former Prince Morgan Wynn Howell
Feared by Prince Tao of La Crosse
Character Information
Known History
Little is known about Alexei before his arrival in the domain of the Twin Cities in November of 2010. His cold demeanor and curt answers have left his past a mystery. What people know about Alexei is that he is a member of Clan Brujah who came from St. Petersburg, Russia. Alexei has also freely admitted to working in the underworld as hit-man.
Since his arrival Alexei has made a name for himself as a brutal individual, becoming Scourge for the domain after only a couple of months of residence. It is rare for a gathering to go by without Alexei threatening to shoot someone, usually with the backing of the Prince. This constant threat of violence has made Alexei a solitary figure in the court that few wish to approach. Only Morgan Wynn Howell, Nekoj Kustic, and Baeddan Stone seem to freely speak with Alexei. The rest of the court keeps a respectful distance, especially Clan Toreador who seems to have become the target of Alexei’s more violent comments as of late.
More recently Alexei was seen getting into an argument with Prince Saif Al Din of La Crosse at a gathering. This nearly wordless argument lead to Prince Saif Al Din demanding that Alexei shoot him, which was backed by a command from Prince Morgan Wynn Howell. After shooting Prince Saif Al Din four times Alexei stood silently and allowed himself to be battered three times by Saif Al Din (who was using a chainsaw at the time) with only one phrase passing between the two of them. The argument ended, the gathering went on as if nothing happened, just another night in the Twin Cities.
After a "come to Jesus" moment from Morgan Wynn Howell, where Morgan admitted he was horribly weakened by the events of the 2012 Midwinter gathering, a Praxis struggle arose. Alexei backed the play of Nekoj Kustic, who was opposed by Sylphain Delille. After the elders of the domain backed Sylphain and Nekoj dropped his claim Alexei walked out of Elysium.
Several days after Sylphain Delille claimed Praxis of the Twin Cities Alexei made a declaration of his own. Alexei claimed an area to the west of what was traditionally the domain of the Twin Cities and south of St. Cloud as his own domain, known as Little St. Petersburg. He claimed this area stating that it was now the property of the Kandiyohi Bratva and that he was the Boss of this Bratva. While most of Little St. Petersburg was outside of the area claimed by Sylphain a small portion fell into contested territory. Tensions rose in the area as Sylphain told his domain to capture Alexei for his transgressions while Alexei stood defiant.
Eventually Sylphain summoned Alexei to an abandoned farmstead in the contested area and attempted to torpor him with the aid of Ari Renard (Sheriff at the time), Charlie, D(Keeper of Elysium), Razi Massoud, Syprus Herring (Harpy), and Dr. Herbert Kaufman. Alexei was followed to the abandoned farmstead by members of his bratva and a fight ensued. When the first round of fighting stopped Sylphain lay in torpor with Alexei standing unharmed. It was also revealed that one of the individuals that had accompanied Alexei was Nekoj Kustic (Seneschal at the time), though he did not involve himself in the fight. In a strange act of diplomacy Alexei allowed Sylphain to be awoken from torpor to negotiate the surrendering of the contested territory. Unwilling to bend to demands made Sylphain made a gesture and Herbert Kaufman attacked Alexei from behind. As the fight started again Alexei uttered the words Praxis and put Sylphain and Ari into torpor while driving Dr. Kaufman off. Once again Alexei's inhuman nature reasserted itself and he executed both Sylphain and Ari.
Since taking Praxis Alexei has shown himself to be a brutal Prince and instituded a very strict formal court procedure. For actions taken during the fight Dr. Herbert Kaufman was staked and displayed in an Elysium as punishment until a raid by the FBI forced Alexei to order his death to protect the Masquerade. For these actions Alexei stripped himself of his Respected name for no Kindred that orders the death of anyone on Elysium can not be respected. Alexei enslaved Simon Williamsen to an air spirit as punishment for actions taken by Hajime Kojima that caused this same air spirit to attacked the domain of the Twin Cities trying to get compensation for a deal brokered and broken by Hajime. For defying an order Charlie Walker was demoted from Primogen to Scourge as punishment.
In July of 2012 there was a change in the court structure. Nejok Kustic, who was Seneschal at the time and friend of Alexei, was revealed to have committed Diablerie 3 times on members of the Sabbat without the Rights of Amaranth. For these crimes Alexei destroyed Nejok and made James Carter his Seneschal. It was shortly afterwards that Alexei announced he had Embraced 5 childer and introduced the Domain to one of them, John Cutter. The other childer have not been seen yet as he does not feel they are ready to attend gathering. Alexei has also come to an agreement with Clan Giovanni and they are once more allowed to attend gatherings.
In September of 2012 Alexei executed long term resident of the Domain Anton Chernobog. Alexei revealed that Anton had been using magic to blood bond one of his Primogen, Mark of Clan Gangrel. Asking the opinion of his Primogen Council in open court the majority agreed that the only punishment that was suitable was Final Death. Anton met his Final Death in court after he was brought staked into court by Clan Tremere.
Coterie
None
Known Allies
Suspected Allies
Prince Rachel Violet Eiken
Seneschal James Carter
Thomas Charles Montgomery
Keeper D
Primogen Mark
Priscilla Howell
Saif Al Din of La Crosse
Nekoj Kustic (dead by Alexei's hand)
Known Enemies
Sylphain Delille(deceased)
Ari Renard (deceased)
Suspected Enemies
Natasha Taylor
Joshua White
Saif Al Din of La Crosse
Morgan Wynn Howell
Those Slain By His Hand
Sylphain Delille
Ari Renard
Nekoj Kustic
Anton Chernobog
Sire
Alexei has made only brief mentions about his sire.
Childer
John Cutter
Alexei announced that he embraced 4 other childer recently but has not brought them to gathering yet.
Broodmates
Alexei only mentions those that didn't survive the Accounting. If he has living broodmates he does not talk about them.
Character Inspirations
The Professional
Deathwish
The Operative from Serenity
Soundtrack
Legal Assassin - Repo: The Genetic Opera Soundtrack
National Anthem of the Soviet Union
Blood On My Hands - Ghoultown
Shot A Man In Reno - Johnny Cash
Quotes
- "First I would shoot the ghoul. No, she hasn't done anything wrong yet. It would be a learning lesson."
- "You probably shouldn't piss off the person that will be removing you from the city if you don't get Hospitality." commenting to Joshua White who was waiting to get Hospitality."
- "The next person that doesn't have Hospitality and has an attitude when I ask them who they have spoken with and we are not in Elysium will get shot until I run out of bullets....and I have a lot of bullets!"
- "I'm sorry, I wasn't paying any attention to anything you were saying. If you'll excuse me, I have somewhere slightly less useless to be."
- "Nekoj was the closest thing to a friend that I had in my Domain and I ended his life as if he was nothing to me. I will not hesitate to execute any member of my Domain that is found to have commited unsanctioned Diablerie, I will not hesitate to execute those that aid this crime, I will not hesitate to execute those that aid in hiding this crime."
- "A Tremere is missing again? They probably had another one of their 'secret trial's' Imagine that."
Rumors
- Alexei is so close to his Beast that the Giovanni wanted to help him work on his humanity.
- He scared the Malkavians so bad his first night on Elysium that they built a blanket fort to hide from him.
- Wants to kill/shoot EVERYBODY.
- At gather, Prince Morgan Wynn Howell regularly asked Alexei who he would shoot and why.
- Has an absolute loathing of horses.
- Alexei regularly violated Prince Morgan Howell's edict of not killing humans and escaped punishment every time.
- Prince Morgan Howell's lapdog
- The Scar on his face came from Stalin who was upset with him at the time.
- Is surprisingly rather fond of squirrels. They make for excellent target practice.
- Alexei spends one night a year at a theme park winning stuffed animals for little children.
- Killed the ghoul of one of the Primogen and replaced it with something of "equivalent value"... a kitchen mixer. With a meat-grinder attachment.
- Was asked to un-man a human and put it in a pickle jar.
- Broke his record for Kindred of fewest words in early December and had many court members convinced it was someone else masked as Alexei
- The reason Alexei was limping all night at a gather in early December was that Dr. Herbert Kaufman broke his leg in a disagreement earlier that evening.
- Alexei withdrew his own status of Trustworthy because he felt that a Scourge should never be publicly labelled as worthy of one's trust.
- Might be Prince of the Twin Cities soon if Sylphain Delille can't kill him quickly. He would be a ruthless and brutal Prince (maybe just what the domain needs)
- After a public listing of their names, let every one of former-Prince Sylphain Delille's surviving 'posse' live, and even gave them Hospitality and offices to a few... possibly because each of them betrayed Sylphain in the end.
- On his first visit as Prince to another domain sent the Giovanni into blood sweats just by looking at them.
- Since becoming Prince has become soft. On multiple occasions has threatened to shoot people but then failed to follow through.
- Murdered outside of praxis by the elders of the Twin Cities including a couple independent setites
