(RISUS) Barney Viglione, Necromancer/Loan Shark #CharacterCreationChallenge - Day 25

Barney Viglione

Necromancer with a Penchant for Wights (4)

Loan Shark with Deep Mob Ties (3)

Straight Laced Daytime Banker with Real Skeletons in His Closet (2)

Winger Cover Band Bass Player (1)

Barney doesn't LOOK like a necromancer.  Or maybe  his Wall Street fashion sense with slicked back hair and a gaunt look is too obvious for the casual observer to see. 

He runs one of the cookie cutter banks that clutter Main St.   He runs the regular spectrum of services, from savings accounts for the kids, to financial planning, the normal run of mortgages and loans.  He's always on the hot seat for his low volume of loans, but he is known that the loans and mortgages he writes NEVER default.  He's quite particular with whom he approves.  

For those who don't meet his strictest criteria, they immediately get offered his side gig, as Kip Malphetor, a wild-haired loan shark with mob connections.  As particular as he was providing legitimate loans, he would take any down and out soul (and a few defaulting on the real loans).  He and his loyal group of mob henchman were diligent in collecting payment, yet few folks were "roughed up" in the classical sense.  Kip would usually make a personal visit, and if the debt could not be paid in a satisfactory manner, he and the goons would kidnap the person, torture them mercilessly, and discard the body maliciously in a hidden spot only known to them.  

What the mob goons don't completely understand is that Barney/Kip is a necromancer of some power and import.  He purposely tortures the people within the guidelines of particular rituals, so when the bodies are carelessly discarded, they turn into wights.  He then uses his powers to retrieve them and force them under his command.  

He has dozens of these creatures under his command, and uses them to guard a secret vault underneath his bank's vault.  There, he cares for his own growing fortune, as well as a safe spot to store the mob's plentiful reserves (for a small fee, which further feeds his loan shark enterprise, or safely pays off the proper loans gone wrong, thus keeping his line of perfection intact.

Although he could easily create a giant army of skeletons and zombies, Barney/Kip is infatuated with wights and will do whatever is necessary to ensure that a corpse turns into a wight.

You could say he's a.... wight supremacist. 

Seriously though, I found this necromancer wight supremacist joke concept online with the last few years and threw it in drafts behind the scene for the blog. I may still run with the concept, either for IOU or a Canadian Cthulhu game.    It might actually have some legs.