Sasha Crane

Sasha

• Overview
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Overview

Full Name:	Sasha Nicole Crane (née Hewlett)
Race:	Mortal+
Faction:	Wyrm
Occupation:	Owner, Chairperson, CEO, Gaia Foods®
Date of Birth:	November 3, 1992
Height:	5'10"
Eye Colour:	Brown
Hair Colour:	Brown
Demeanor:	Tycoon
Hometown:	Prospect, California
Marital Status:	Widow
Diet:	Vegan

Hooks

Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

—Martin Amis, Money: A Suicide Note

Pentex: Sasha Crane isn't a field operative or a First Teamer. She works behind the scenes, with something even more powerful than any supernatural force: money. She makes sure money goes where "the Company" wants it to go. As part of this, she runs a billion-dollar health-food chain with accompanying subsidiaries.

Reclusive: Sasha conducts most of her business remotely, typically via phone. Very few photos of her are out there in the wild, and most of the public record of her existence comes in the form of canned PR-speak press releases. Stately Crane Manor occupies prime real estate in North Beach.

Dark Money: Ever wonder who's funding that super-PAC...? There's nothing confirming it's Sasha, but people make all kinds of crazy accusations on social media. Luckily they're just fringe voices, and no one listens to them, right...?

Gaia Foods®: Gaia Foods® is a national grocery chain based in Prospect. (Think Whole Foods.) Their marketing pitch is built around the idea of organic, fair-trade, healthy products. They sell upmarket food products from around the world, but also have plenty of (less-than-obvious) in-house brands: coffee, chocolate, baking ingredients, ice cream, snacks, pasta, breakfast cereals, vitamins and dietary supplements, pet treats, etc. ad infinitum. Smaller stores more pressed for space are simply groceries (while also selling ready-to-eat cold sandwiches, salads, and so on), but larger stores have restaurant areas that sell hot meals, with available space for people to sit, eat, and relax. There's also online shopping, and home delivery programs for your local store to deliver your grocery list to you. The Gaia Foods® empire also includes the restaurant chain Hearth® ("Craft Casual™" fare) and the subscription DIY service Maestro® ("Be the Maestro™").

This writing is trying to pull you in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed to get you to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you are the VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READING NOW! because all we are attempting to do is to get you to read on. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because if you indeed stop you'll be doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing what we've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you're falling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a good commercial design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worst TRICK of all since it's describing the TRICK whilst trying to TRICK you, and if you've read this far then you're TRICKED but you wouldn't have known this unless you'd read this far.

Notable Stats

Manipulation 4?
Charisma 4
Appearance 5?
Influence 5 (Politics)
Resources 5
Way With Words