Desc: Too short for TV really, but skinny and fit. Long blond hair, expensive smile. Pretty eyes. Decent wardrobe for a woman who might have to be in front of a camera on 10 seconds notice. She is completely acclimated to wearing heels. Favors solid colors over patterns as they are less busy on camera. Does not like to be called “Patty” At home, she rarely wears anything other than Pyjama pants and old T-shirts (many of them from Rush concerts). She has 2 big dogs and keeping the dog hair at bay is a constant struggle. She is never without a lint brush, a pocket tape recorder, and keychain mace.
History: If you listen to the guys around the newsroom, Carnie Pitt has gotten where she is today as recompense for the third-degree rug burns on her knees. Most of those dudes refer to her as “The Jumped-up Weather Girl”
This, of course, is jealous bullshit. Carnie is driven, patient, intelligent, and bold. She does her homework and has the right temperament for TV news, which is about as cut-throat as it gets in journalism. Those dudes are all scared that Carnie is going to end up being their boss someday. Which isn’t likely, as Carnie has her eyes on a national desk somewhere.
If there is one thing that may get in the way of that, it is that Carnie Pitt has always been something of a Weirdness Magnet. She’s never lived in a house that wasn’t haunted. She’s found that many of the stories that have crossed her desk have a strange tendency to go down the damn rabbit hole. She gets weird vibes about people and somehow knows that they know more than they are letting on...or something like that. It’s hard to explain. Once, she was talking “off the record” with some guy who was a lawyer for the person she was doing a story on...and then...she found her cameraman shaking her awake. Missing at least 12 minutes of time. Never saw that guy again. But the editor killed the story and had her go on a bit of administrative leave.
Carnie knows that there are conspiracies and that they are real things, not the sort of stuff that head-cases use to scare themselves, turning Masons and Aliens into some kind of modern day bogey-man...No. I’m talking about real honest conspiracies. the shit that goes on behind closed doors at city council meetings would make you want to crawl back into bed if you knew about it. And she keeps hearing whispers about some satanist sex cult that counts most of the movers and shakers in town as members. She figures if she can crack one of THOSE stories, and do so safely, it’ll be her ticket to the big time. Little does she realize that she’s already attracted a shadow or two.
Attitude: “Look, Clint, I recognize that working the Anchor desk has had a deleterious...That means "bad"...Effect on both your IQ and your penis size. That was sadly inevitable. But I’m telling you that if your lead-in to my segment has any more snark in it. I will personally see to it that your wife and mistresses meet. I’m out there doing real fucking news and I don’t need you undercutting me here in your safe,cushy fucking studio. Ask anyone if I’ll make good on my threats. Ask them.”
Skills: Carnie is smart and fairly well educated. She’s got more dots of Resolve than she does Intelligence, but that just means she’s driven enough to power through. She’s got at least 3 dots of academics and a specialty in Journalism naturally. She does Tae-bo to stay fit and is actually thinking very seriously about taking some honest martial art. Like maybe some of that Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. Her memory is fairly well trained and she’s got the Encyclopedic Memory merit (She’ll kill you at trivia. especially history)
Additionally. She has the Unseen Sense merit. Possibly multiple times. She definitely senses ghosts. Finally, Carnie has Striking Looks+2
Gear: Aside from those things above which have already been mentioned. She's got a little sports car with some serious pick-up to be able to get around. She has an enormous handbag with her daily necessities, plus a water bottle, power bars, and 5-hour energy shots. (Carnie had a problem with Speed back in J-school. now soda pop with caffeine actually makes her lethargic.) Her phone has an automated function that backs up contacts and text, and can even back up squirt-transmitted video from its camera.
Home: If Carnie ever does have to move, the only thing that will make her sad is giving up her place. She has a nice duplex. The firefighter next door is awfully cute but sadly queer as a three dollar bill. Still, he gets along with Bud and Lou (The rottweillers) and they try to make a point to save Sunday afternoon for a bit of sunbathing in the copious backyard. A pitcher of margaritas, tales of romances gone bad, and taking turns tossing the ragged yellow frisbee so that the puppies can chase and murder it all over again. What bliss.
Roger, the fireman, keeps asking if Josh is seeing anybody.
Circle Her combative attitude means that she doesn’t have much back-up from the newsroom, but she does have allies and contacts out in the community from people that she’s done stories on.(And a few of her sorority sisters) Her one and only friend at work is her usual camera man Josh. They’ve seen some weird shit together and that has a tendency to help you bond. Carnie has at least one dot of Fame already.
Gear: Aside from those things above which have already been mentioned. She's got a little sports car with some serious pick-up to be able to get around. She has an enormous handbag with her daily necessities, plus a water bottle, power bars, and 5-hour energy shots. (Carnie had a problem with Speed back in J-school. now soda pop with caffeine actually makes her lethargic.) Her phone has an automated function that backs up contacts and text, and can even back up squirt-transmitted video from its camera.
Home: If Carnie ever does have to move, the only thing that will make her sad is giving up her place. She has a nice duplex. The firefighter next door is awfully cute but sadly queer as a three dollar bill. Still, he gets along with Bud and Lou (The rottweillers) and they try to make a point to save Sunday afternoon for a bit of sunbathing in the copious backyard. A pitcher of margaritas, tales of romances gone bad, and taking turns tossing the ragged yellow frisbee so that the puppies can chase and murder it all over again. What bliss.
Roger, the fireman, keeps asking if Josh is seeing anybody.
Circle Her combative attitude means that she doesn’t have much back-up from the newsroom, but she does have allies and contacts out in the community from people that she’s done stories on.(And a few of her sorority sisters) Her one and only friend at work is her usual camera man Josh. They’ve seen some weird shit together and that has a tendency to help you bond. Carnie has at least one dot of Fame already.
Story Uses:
“Him? Oh, that’s Josh. He’s baked. You don’t have to worry about him remembering any of this.”
Well. That’s not entirely true. Josh and Patricia have known one another since J-school. And while Josh DOES enjoy certain herbal refreshments, he doesn’t do so nearly as often as he leads people to believe. The reason for this is simple. Josh is a Hunter. He got recruited out of J-school by Network Zero and has been doing his best to catalog the weird shit that seems to come out of the woodwork whenever Ms. Pitt is around. Carnie hasn’t noticed that she’s being observed, but Josh has and while his higher-ups in Network Zero are content to have Carnie be their stalking horse and be completely in the dark. Josh is struggling with the idea that they...SHE might be in real danger. In fact, about a year ago, when that blood-sucker did that thing to her, that’s when he bought her those rottweiler puppies. He’s thinking now, that she might need a gun.
(Whether Josh is infatuated with her or not, is entirely up to you.)
“I was just wondering if you had time to answer a few questions councilman.”
Carnie has that kind of ruthless dogged streak that will end up getting her into serious trouble someday. She’s going to make enemies. She’s going to make supernatural creatures and corrupt politicians nervous. And sooner or later she’s going to have to be dealt with. There are a couple of easy ways to do it. Either(a) kill her. or (b) get her a job riding an anchor desk at the network.
Most creatures will never think of (b) This is not to say that Carnie is going to go full-on Carl Kolchak. It’s likely that if she ever gets a wider understanding of the occult world, that she’ll back off some. (It certainly will put a number of the weirdos she’s dated into better perspective.) But while she might back off...It’s unlikely she’ll ever STOP completely.
Connections:
*As mentioned in his entry, knows Dmitri Garrett. and thinks he cute and all. May have a story or two coming down the pipe where his skills may come in handy.
* Knows Norman Cayce. Knows that he's smart and knows his stuff. Thinks he's a bit paranoid, though.
* Would love to crack the mystery of who is Lara X and has taken a run at it only to find herself stymied. Whoever she is, she's good at not being found.
* Dr. Dennis McMurtry was one of her favorite professors, and you know what, the old man still has it. Just saying.
Connections:
*As mentioned in his entry, knows Dmitri Garrett. and thinks he cute and all. May have a story or two coming down the pipe where his skills may come in handy.
* Knows Norman Cayce. Knows that he's smart and knows his stuff. Thinks he's a bit paranoid, though.
* Would love to crack the mystery of who is Lara X and has taken a run at it only to find herself stymied. Whoever she is, she's good at not being found.
* Dr. Dennis McMurtry was one of her favorite professors, and you know what, the old man still has it. Just saying.
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