SIOBAHN ======= Kyriotate of Lightning ====================== Forces/Characteristics: ----------------------- Corporeal/2 (Strength/3, Agility/5) Ethereal/3 (Intelligence/6, Precision/6) Celestial/4 (Will/8, Perception/8) Attunements ----------- Kyriotate of Lightning Remote Control [10] Servants -------- An Owl which sits on a lot of 'phone lines: Class/1, Level/1 [1] Jeanne Amaniere, Electrical Goods Shop Assistant: Class/3, Level/1 [2] Mary Weybridge, 'Phone Company Enquiries Operator: Class/3, Level/2 [3] Elliette Jonas, Emergency 'Phone Services Operator: Class/3, Level/2 [3] Stephen Wells, 'Phone Company Engineer: Class/3, Level/2 [3] Skills ------ Computer Operation/1 [1] Detect Lies/1 [1] Electronics/1 [1] Emote/1 [1] Language/3 (English) [free] Language/3 (French) [3] Songs ----- Ethereal Song of Harmony/2 [2] Corporeal Song of Healing/2 [2] Corporeal Song of Tongues/3 [3] Siobahn is the calm voice at the end of the 'phone line when someone makes an emergency call, the helpful operator, and the pleasant recorded message on the answerphone. She is also an owl which sits on the wires, watching without apparent emotion, but with a curious intensity of gaze. And yet none of these are truly Siobahn; they merely mark her passing. She serves Jean, of course, and she is dedicated to his word - but she is more calm and compassionate than many who serve the Lightning. Her task is to see that technology is truly used for the good of humanity; specifically, Jean has told her to attend to the city's telephone system. After a few days scurrying between machines and people in the system's main technical centre, she found a handful of employees who were ready to believe that something greater than themselves might be concerned with this place, and over time, she has bound them to her service. There is also that owl, which roosts nearby; a few of the staff think of it as a kind of wild mascot. And a few blocks away, there is a shop which sells telephones and answerphones; one of the staff there is a kind woman who gives excellent, impartial advice - and who sometimes does more. Because of her interests, Siobahn is conservative, even by the standards of Jean's following; for example, she does not really approve of e-mail, thinking that the human voice is more humane, carries more emotion. (Of course, she is giving a cautious welcome to various Internet-based voice or image transmission systems; so long as Vapula keeps his claws off them, they could do a lot of good, she thinks.) But she is adaptable; she has taught herself enough about computers to get by. The nearest thing she might have to disloyalty to Jean is a sense of uncertainty about his enmity with Novalis. After all, she shares some of the Archangel of Flowers' sense of compassion and gentleness. However, orders are orders, and Siobahn will not disobey a direct command. Mostly, however, her skills are limited; in unexpected situations, she has to improvise a lot, and use her Kyriotate and Jean-given powers over minds and machines. She has a small selection of songs that are mostly chosen to help in her work - speaking with people, calming them, and repairing any harm done her servants when she wears their flesh.