Brian Oswald Buckley

Clan	Malkavian
Position	Science Advisor
Status	6 (4+2)
Domain	Boston, MA
Coterie	None
Society	None
Path	Humanity 00000000
Player	James Monty-Carbonari

Overview

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Alias(es): None.
Real Name: Brian Oswald Buckley
Apparent Age: 49.
Real Age: 51yo - 25 alive, 26 dead
State: Contains Multitudes
Concept: Mad Artist/Scientist
Physical description: A chubby, bearded man with a perpetual smile.
Detailed Status:

• Acknowledged - Former Prince Checkov of Hartford
  
• Well Known - Former Prince Vivian Davenport of Hartford
  
• Respected - Prince Anya of Hartford
  
• Knowledgeable - Prince Angelize Valez of Hartford
  
• Dignified - Dignitary Merit (5 years of combined play)
  
• August - Luminary Merit (10 years of combined play)

Known History

March 2024 Brian hosted a very successful Science Fair at the Science Museum of Boston, proposing it as the new Elysium, in Malkavian Territory. A tear in reality occurs spilling beings from an alternate universe into ours. Brian is ordered to go nowhere near the tear by the prince and others, being deemed too important to be allowed to disappear.

April 8th, 2024, 15:29 Brian disappears during the Total Eclipse of the Sun.

September 2024 Brian is briefly sighted in Philadelphia. Claims to have traveled there from an alternate universe, but will be pulled back shortly. Pays a boon to send a message home.

October 12, 2024 Brian is sighted for approximately 10 minutes at a meeting of his clanmates in Boston. He tries to give them as much information as he can about his whereabouts, but claims to only be psychically projecting into this universe. His clanmates reportedly try and go find him later but are given the impression he's having too much fun to come back now.

April 2025 Doctor Buckley reappears moments after Prince Roman Pendragon "abdicates" the Praxis of Boston, Brian is wearing an environment suit and his old lab coat, tattered, bloodstained, and burned. He starts telling stories of all the places he's been.

May 2025 Buckley says aloud his reluctance to rejoin the primogeniture, considering his new 'responsibilities' travelling the multiverse. He is convinced to join by Captain Soldano and the presumed Prince Elijah.

June 2025 Brian is upset to discover that the Praxis of Elijah was false, and joins the party to confront Pendragon, helping secure the praxis of Prince Orlova.

August 2025 Brian starts the Arcology Project on Spectacle Island, a self contained housing, farming, energy production, and employment facility.

March 2026 There are rumblings about attacks on the Elysium, and how they were handled. Brian sits through meetings that don't really do anything. We had a new Harpy, the rest of them immediately lose faith in him when he fails to do what they wanted him to do. Brian stands by him and tries to explain to her grace what the reasoning was to the best of his ability, showing more backbone for once than the rest of the council.

April 2026 Brian starts work on Ghostbusting Equipment to help with the Neverborn issues. Brian goes to New London, has a meeting with the other primogen about the future of the domain.

May 2026 A bloodless praxis occurs, Captain Harrison Hunter Hargrave of New London seizes Praxis. Brian is surprised by this, but amiable to the result. Captain Hargrave dissolves the current Primogen Council, relieving Brian from his duty as Primogen. Brian is grateful for this, he felt it embarrassing to be so long a primogen with no one to assist. Brian is told there are already ghostbusters in the area, and is introduced to them by Penny. A garou is thrown into the court. Brian tries to subdue it with a paralytic gas, but Hunter kills it outright, his countenance shifting immediately, and Brian takes notice. Captain Hargrave is kidnapped. The court immediately mobilizes to try and find their new prince. The new prince had been recovered, he was grateful, and there was an emmisary from Arkham. They talked about a ritual, and how they needed these assamite thin bloods we were tracking to complete a ritual to keep the thing under Arkham asleep. Tracking the thin bloods, we end up in Dunwich, a city we didn't know had a prince because it's not from this universe, only to find it had been claimed by Roman Pendragon. He demands tribute from Captain Hargrave for this. The thin bloods were already dead and in boxes when we got there. I left, being upset to learn that this was all an elaborate trap and wild goose chase. I lodge a complaint with the powers that be. We later find out that the Tremere from Arkham absconded with the dead thin blood assamites, and gave them to his sire, prince of Arkham, who went ahead and did the ritual with a loophole technicality. Prince Hargrave gives Brian the task of building a device capable of sending Arkham back to its home dimension.

June 2026 Brian works on the device through the month. His resources are stretched thin, and he requests aid from his Primogen, one of the local Tremere. Brian is approached at court by a creature wearing a human being like a puppet. It turns out to be a squid like alien creature called a Chulvorhian, Prince Hargrave reveals. It does a very poor job of pretending to be human and requests Brian's multiversal technology so that they can destroy Arkham. Brian doesn't trust these creatures, sensing their alien nature, and well, from how they talk about their attempts to conquer this world as well. Brian works on the logistics of his task as much as he can, but is inturupted by people going crazy again in his general vicinity, a distraction he tells himself, not his concern. There are two new malkavians, an old one who claims to have been around a long time, and another older one who isn't from around here, and dresses like a pirate, and keeps spreading the madness. Brian says "I don't like how he thinks" at one point, annoyed by his antithesis to Brian's own persona. Brian tries to catch up the amnesiac malkavian on what's going on, highly suspicious of them the whole time, and wishing he weren't being put in charge of yet another vampire wandering in off the street. He's not even primogen anymore!

Allies

Doctor Douglas Netchurch (We share certain commonalities of demeanor and habit) The Kingdom of Dinotopia (For services rendered) The Commonwealth Institute of Technology (They seemed keen on my robots) Marvin the Depressed Robot (I'm a good listener) The Librarian (Amazing what a bunch of bananas will get you) The Doctor (But then, he's friendly with everyone of good intent) Dr. James Griffin Hartleigh (Queer fellow, he had a connection not unlike the network) Anthony Stark (Genius, Playboy, Philanthropist, Roboticist) Loki, god of Mischief (I aroused the TSA's interest) At least One of the many Rick & Morty Sanchezes. GLaDOS ...and many others I've met out in the multiverse.

Enemies

Evil Brian, from the Mirror Universe Castillo The Neverborn The Thing Under Arkham The Chulvorians Roko's Basilisk Whoever is messing with my influence. I will find you.

Quotes

"Don't quote me."

Rumors

• The Brian that came back to this universe isn't the same Brian who left
• Brian is in league with squid people
• Brian is in love with one of his robots
• Brian's company, Machinated Industries is destroying the planet
• Brian aged, vampires aren't supposed to age
• Brian runs the Malkvian Madness Network chatroom
• Brian is a technocrat who's been assigned to watch the local vampires
• Have you noticed how he never fights anyone himself? He always sends robots to fight
• Brian is the real power in the domain, why else would he stick around so long, and never seize the praxis?
• Nobody reads these
• Rumors about Brian are all lies spread by Brian to stroke his ego, feed his delusions, and have a laugh when he hears someone retell them