Billie Lee Black

Billie Lee, now where to start? In the beginning, there was a character in the PS1 game Xenogears (Squaresoft) who was a gun expert and a young priest, and his name was Billy Lee Black. The affinity for guns, name, and faith is as far as the resemblance goes however. Named Belinda LeeAnn Black (but called 'Billie Lee' for short) she was originally created as a mortal who hunted Keui-Jin while Cliff was the Storyteller of SBN (Swarthmore By Night) as an NPC.

Well, the game changed slightly and I never ended up playing her. I went off to college that summer and brought in Brujah Raven Galver (who died) and then Caitiff Chedren Williams (victim of twinkery). By mid January I had no one to play, and remembered my old concept for a mortal hunter. This was the advent of the Billie Lee we all know and love. Texan Toreador gun-slinger, Baptist reverend, Sabbat-hunter. The brash Texan accent, the guns, the Celerity, the cowboy hat, the boots; the Toreador who never should have been (as she'll readily tell anyone who'll listen).

Her background was sketchy at first, but grew over the year and a half I played her in SBN. Then, the game began to change again, there was more and more time between games. An OOC conflict led me to have Billie Lee leave and I tried to cross-over Toreador Andrew Del Monico from the Seattle game, then play a Gangrel named Ochre who was actually the childe of a Gangrel Antitribu I'd NPC'd years before (Salinger). Eventually life forced me to drop out of SBN altogether.

But Billie Lee didn't just 'go away'. I played her during my brief stay in a Delawere game Darkest Night, and in an Allentown game at Meulenberg College, Steel Valley (where she reuinted with her friend from Swarthmore, AJ, played by my friend). Recently, I've re-joined SBN (which is now Sabbat) and I'm considering turning Billie Lee Sabbat and playing her in Swarthmore once again.

Here is the most complete history for Billie Lee Black (certain parts are still being worked on and that is noted), here also are the two chronicles I wrote while in the Steel Valley LARP (great game, awsome people, but too far away).