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Name: Agent Castanada

(Candice "Candi" Ruffalo) 

Age/DOB: 36 / July 13th

Gender: Woman, She/Her

Appearance: Tall, whip-thin, with an angular face and fly-away blonde hair.  Caucasian, on the pale side, with a spray of freckles.

Profession: Associate Professor, SUNY Middleton

Education: PhD in physics 

Personal Info: 

Getting a physics degree is a bitch.  Late nights.  Cramming sessions.  Eye-watering diagrams.  A little pick-me-up might help, something just a little stronger than coffee.  Nothing bad just … something to get through the night. But sometimes, mind-altering chemicals and high-level physics don’t mix.

For a brief moment, Candice Castanada experienced a state of oneness with the universe, and the universe was pissed.  

She’d been reading a paper on hyperinflation, those first few fractions of a second after the Big Bang in which the universe expanded at a ridiculous rate.  The brain-bending equations mixed oddly with the amphetamines and forced Candice into an alternative state of consciousness.  For a moment - and only a moment - Candice experienced the Big Bang from the inside and felt the universe take shape within her mind.  And she met the thing that gave shape to that first instance.

Call it what you want.  God.  Yog-Sothoth.  It existed during the first moments when physics was still in flux, and then was immediately torn to shreds when physics settled on its current form.  But that is not dead which can eternal lie.  Having once existed, it will always have the potential to exist, and it wants to realize that potential.  This may destroy the universe.  

When the wave-form of Candice collapsed - and she woke up on the library floor covered in vomit - her life was forever altered.  She wants to get back to that moment when she seemed to know everything, and at the same time she is horrified by what she experienced.  Her life since has been a fitful quest to remember and forget at the same time. 

Psych Eval: 

Candice came onto Delta Green's radar when one of her papers on the structure of quantum froth pinged their cultic word detectors.  Candice's hypothesis that the fluctuating particles at the base of the universe form a colossal evolving pattern happens to match certain wild rants that were coming out of a certain new age cultic compound in the Pacific midwest, although Candice's version was dressed up with a lot of mathematics and physics jargon.  A Delta Green cell "borrowed" Candice to help them defuse an elaborate bomb the cult had constructed to begin the unraveling of reality.  

Delta Green now treats Candice much like a bomb: respectfully, but gingerly.  She comes across as a mess: twitchy, paranoid, prone to "self medicate" and given to bizarre theories.  Problem is, she's always been that way.  Current thinking is that she's hit some kind of plateau and is now stuck in a stable state of permanent instability.  Keep her away from the amphetamines and everything should be fine.


Bonds:

Philip Chandler (Dean, treats Candice as a brilliant fragile nutcase.  Which is fair.)

Barbara Tucks: (Colleague, frenemy, always manages to get the grant funding but willing to share.)

Silvia Harris: (history/Anthropology professor.  Current girlfriend.  Maybe, possibly, has the Innsmouth look, but Candice has dated worse.)

Angela Ruffalo: (Sister.  Complete normie.  Worries about Candice alot.)

Mickey Stark: (TA in the department.  Bit of a himbo when not talking about physics.  Silvia and Candice have all but adopted him.)

Motivations:
Fit current case into academic understanding
Spend more time with Silvia
Prove to DG that academics are useful
Advance career/publish

Fears: Candice’s fears are somewhat esoteric.  She has seen that the underlying nature of reality is a fragile thing.  She believes that the fabric of space/time could begin unraveling if people are reckless with forces like hypergeometry.  She is likely to be the one to try and negotiate with alien forces on the assumption that we all have a shared interest in protecting the foundation of the cosmos.  


HIT POINTS: 35
STRENGTH:  9
DEXTERITY:  13
STAMINA:  13
BUREAUCRACY: 5 (Skilled in academic infighting)
INTELLIGENCE: 17
WILLPOWER: 16
SAN/BREAKING POINT: 80 / 64
POWER: 80

Skills: 
Gifted(70-80): 
Science (Physics): 70
Science (Mathematics): 70
Electronics: 70

Adept(50-69):
Pharmacy: 52
Occult: 60
HUMINT: 59 *
Awareness: 69 *
First Aid: 53 *

Average(30-49):
Accounting: 34
Hand-to-Hand: 46 *
Language (German): 34

Novice(10-29): 
Applied Hypergeometry: 27 *
Marksmanship: 27
Computer Science: 15
Subterfuge: 13
Stealth: 11

Special Training:
Drug Culture

Weaknesses:
Physically unimpressive
Former Addict (currently clean.  We'll see how long that lasts.)

On-duty equipment: Slacks, oxfords or a blouse and cardigan, sensible shoes.  

High-end laptop kitted out with statistical analysis and modeling software.  Technically owned by the university.

Subaru minivan/SUV.  Contains boxes of journals, student papers, etc.  Runs like a dream thanks to friends in the engineering dept. Technically illegal Glock 19 hidden in a compartment under the seat.

Off-duty clothing/equipment: exactly the same as her on-duty equipment.

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