I'm interested in this, as well. I share the same sentiments of not knowing the source material lore (Though I'm [i]slightly[/i] familiar with the Storyteller system) but I think your write-up set the themes pretty well. 

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Also, would my posting maybe a list of the powers in the core book be helpful to people building characters?
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For sure. If this is a story of street-level stuff at the beginning I'm thinking of maybe a conman (maybe even former conman); I don't suppose there's a sort of "speak with the dead" style of power?