Ciaran

Vivid Recollections: Into the World Unknown (Season 1 COMPLETE)

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Reid Farmhouse - Main House
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Paige had been wanting to prove herself an asset to the group, so even though she was glad that the insects had stopped attacking, she was a little disappointed that she hadn't had a chance to see her idea in action. She supposed it didn't matter that much, the important thing was that they'd made it out alive. Still, she wished for a chance to make a difference.

Paige joined the rest of the group at the main building of the farm. Typical of her, she had no response to most of what was said there, aside from a little mental comment when Sharon first woke up and asked why they were here. Good question. Unfortunately, you wouldn't believe us if we told you. I know I wouldn't, she thought, then Or maybe not, when she started talking to Claire. Oh yeah, Claire was right that Sharon knew more than she was letting on, though that wasn't hard to tell at this point. This girl and her damn inability to give a straight answer, seemingly out of spite, was getting quite frustrating. Paige could sympathise with Sharon being unhappy to find strangers in her home, but this was a life or death situation - which Sharon probably already knew - and Paige wasn't about to get murdered by Scott Reese just because this girl wanted to be ominous about her clue-giving. In what was becoming a worryingly frequent occurence, Paige didn't react well to Sharon's decision.

She walked up to Sharon, making it look like she moving slowly because she had a choice. She stood very close, and looked Sharon dead in the eye, speaking quietly, but not so quietly that the others couldn't hear, at least the ones closeby. "These people standing behind me. I hope you've taken a good look at them, because these are the people you almost killed. I don't really give a fuck if you were unconscious when it happened, the fact remains that you need to make it up to them, and to me. I don't see Andrea around here either, so unless she ran away, I'd bet that makes you a murderer. Oh, and look, after you trashed your own house, these people cleaned it up for you, because they are good people. Now, you seem to know what's going on here, so I suppose you know that a psychopath's hunting us down, killing anyone who strays form the pack? The more time we spend on your stupid errand, the more likely it gets that he kills another one. We aren't throwing away our lives for your fun. So, let me tell you how I think we should do this. You're going to answer every question we have, as fully and honestly as you can. If you don't, well, we've lost one, and you won't be useful to us, so you know how it is: eye for an eye. Then, if we still don't feel we know enough, we will consider looking at room 108. Is that clear?"

Vivid Recollections: Into the World Unknown (Season 1 COMPLETE)

I've been wanting to scream "Rita!" so much for this scene but I can't because Paige doesn't know about her Abstraction. It's a great time.

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

Fable was sat in a dark corner of a bar at an hour past midnight. What was she doing here? She wasn't entirely sure, but she knew she hadn't been able to sleep. She'd walked down a path and that path had led her here. To picking at a meal she didn't really want just to avoid drawing attention, thinking about how another person had just been murdered for the same reason she might be, how the murderer would most likely be her own twin sister, and how a few months ago, she'd have done the same thing and not thought twice about it.

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Elise was walking the dark streets of Gravette late at night. She was impressed with Fable for coming to this city. It was the most obvious location to head, as they'd both known about the higher concentration of Supernaturals here for years. This made it the last place to be worth looking, and therefore an excellent hiding spot; a double bluff. Elise had lost several weeks checking all the other likely locations, but how she'd found her sister again. Well, not exactly. Fable was in the city somewhere. More specific than that, Elise didn't know.

That was why the purification of the creature named Eric Grayson was perfect for Elise. Though this crime may have baffled normal humans, to Elise it was obvious that Grayson had been a Supernatural, most likely a werewolf. Why else would her kin have used silver bullets? Anyway, it was not difficult to find out who Gray's friends were, since so many of them lived in the same block of apartments. And when Elise discovered that several of them frequented the same bar, a place called Paradise, it seemed all too obvious to her - this was one of those establishments that pretended to be genuine, but was really just a hiding place for the monsters that plagued this world. Elise had seen a handful in her work. The only reason she wasn't going to burn this one to the ground was that she didn't know if there were any humans inside.

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Fable realised that a teenage girl sitting in a bar eating macaroni at midnight would come off as a little strange to the local populace. Since she had now finished her meal, she figured she probably had passed the point of no return in that regard. So, rather than trying to play off her weirdness, she decided to try to come across as weird in that amusing, friendly sort of way that some people were so good at. So, she sat next to the creepy man with the gun, sitting directly between him and the detective he was staring at, so she would be directly in his field of view.

"You seem like fun," she said, wearing her best smile. "Have you ever shot anybody with that? I saw you putting it away as you walked in. Stories with guns are always so exci-" A flash of black hair visible through the broken window, moving quickly. Without a word, Fable got up and went to use the restroom.

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A moment later, Elise walked in. Taking a position where she was visible from anywhere in the room, she spoke loudly enough that anyone who cared could hear her. "I'm looking for a girl. She looks an awful lot like me, except-" Elise pointed to her left eye "-her left eye's green. Anyone seen her?"

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

Fable Elwynder

Name: Fable Elwynder

Age: 17

Supernatural Race: Fae/Changeling

Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian

Appearance: Fable is of medium height, but extremely pale and thin, to the point that she seems unhealthy. Her hair, in contrast, is very black, and quite long. She tends to wear darker clothes and makeup, and while her right eye is steel-grey, her left is a bright green that seems extremely out of place on her.

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Personality: Fable, despite possessing a strange kind of charisma, is deeply wounded inside and hates any kind of reference to her past. Though normally relatively confident and collected, she is prone to violent outbursts of anger, especially when this subject is brought up. Most of the time, though, she seems fine, if a little strange - somewhat quiet and reserved yet still somehow charming. Of course, people who know her heritage are rarely surprised by this. Aside from that, she also seems a little anxious all the time. People who pay attention will notice her scanning for exits in any room or building, and staying close to one whenever possible.

History: Fable is a Changeling, an unwanted Fae child who, as a baby, was secretly swapped with a human child, to be raised by a human family. However, in Fable's case, she wasn't swapped. Her human mother, Diana, caught Fable's biological mother in the process. Fable's mother fled, leaving Fable but not taking the human child that Fable was meant to replace. Diana ended up raising the children as twins - Fable and her "sister", Elise, were almost totally identical in appearance, except for Fable's strange green eye.
It was as the children were growing up that Elise took an interest in the supernatural. Initially, it was a simple interest, but eventually she discovered a group of people called the Hunters. She joined (in the loosest sense of the word - she interacted with and was taught by Hunters, little more) them at the age of 12, and after a few months she felt she trusted Fable enough to tell her, and attempt to recruit her too. She succeeded.
Over the following years, the sisters' education by the Hunters only got more significant. Their grades dropped, and their prior interests were forgotten as they were radicalised to hate the Supernaturals, both unaware of Fable's nature as a Changeling. At the age of 15, they took part in their first hunt. They killed a vampire, together, with an elder Hunter guiding and protecting them.
The pair continued to track and kill Supernaturals together as time went on, whenever they had free time. Their parents worried about them, of course, but the sisters were long gone by this point, metaphorically speaking - they were fanatics, only death could stop them. However, nearly three months ago, Diana died of an illness that she'd kept secret so far in order to protect the sisters from the cruel reality a little longer. In her will, she left something for Fable, a letter. It was from this letter that Fable discovered her true parentage.
Fable fled her home. Within the hour, Elise found the same letter and took on a new hunt, one she has been enacting to this day. Each sister knows the other's methods well, and making it extremely difficult for either to defeat the other. For the most part, Fable has managed to evade Elise. On the few times they have met, is has only ended violently.

Strengths: Intelligence, charisma, weapons training, would make a surprisingly capable Hunter

Weaknesses: Fragile, no allies at present, burned by iron

Stance: Inactive - mostly just trying to survive

Special Power/Skill: A strange Fae power similar to a spell, which charms a person Fable is talking to, lasting for the remainder of the conversation. They will be left dazed, unable to think clearly, and will find themselves treating her better than they otherwise might.

Other:

• Fable still has a folding shortsword from her time as a Hunter.
• Fable is currently (illegally) staying in an otherwise-unoccupied room in one of the apartments.

Elise Elwynder

Name: Elise Elwynder

Age: 17

Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian

Appearance: Elise isn't quite as pale or as thin as her sister, and she isn't heterochromic (both of Elise's eyes are that same shade of steel-grey), but otherwise, the pair look identical.

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Personality: Elise's mind is cold and dark. An utter fanatic, she hates the Supernaturals, and Fable above all others. Sadistic and psychopathic, there is very little joy in her life, and what there is comes from the thrill of the hunt and the pleasure of the kill. She has none of her sister's charm; the best she can do is hide her worst qualities from people who would react poorly to them; she tends to come across as quiet and strange, and not in a nice way.

History: (Read Fable's backstory for earlier history) Elise was the first of the two sisters to become a Hunter. The group she joined was more like a cult, and years of brainwashing turned her into one of their must trusted agents, though her youth made her less capable. When she discovered that Fable was Supernatural, the very thing that they had been taught to hate, it was the ultimate betrayal, in Elise's mind. She made it her personal quest to kill Fable, and for the past three months or so, tracking down and destroying her twin has been all that's been on her mind.

Weapons: A folding shortsword, similar to Fable's, a hand crossbow, with both normal and iron bolts, and a net made of iron wire

Supernatural Target: Fae

Strengths: Combat training, dedication, intelligence, no moral doubt

Weaknesses: Socially repulsive, blunt, unable to compromise

Stance: Active

Other:

• Not much to say here.

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

Elise Elwynder

Name: Elise Elwynder

Age: 17

Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian

Appearance: Elise isn't quite as pale or as thin as her sister, and she isn't heterochromic (both of Elise's eyes are that same shade of steel-grey), but otherwise, the pair look identical.

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Personality: Elise's mind is cold and dark. An utter fanatic, she hates the Supernaturals, and Fable above all others. Sadistic and psychopathic, there is very little joy in her life, and what there is comes from the thrill of the hunt and the pleasure of the kill. She has none of her sister's charm; the best she can do is hide her worst qualities from people who would react poorly to them; she tends to come across as quiet and strange, and not in a nice way.

History: (Read Fable's backstory for earlier history) Elise was the first of the two sisters to become a Hunter. The group she joined was more like a cult, and years of brainwashing turned her into one of their must trusted agents, though her youth made her less capable. When she discovered that Fable was Supernatural, the very thing that they had been taught to hate, it was the ultimate betrayal, in Elise's mind. She made it her personal quest to kill Fable, and for the past three months or so, tracking down and destroying her twin has been all that's been on her mind.

Weapons: A folding shortsword, similar to Fable's, a hand crossbow, with both normal and iron bolts, and a net made of iron wire

Supernatural Target: Fae

Strengths: Combat training, dedication, intelligence, no moral doubt

Weaknesses: Socially repulsive, blunt, unable to compromise

Stance: Active

Other:

• Not much to say here.

@AnaSilan Sunja Here is the CS for my other character.

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

@AnaSilan Sunja It affects both mundanes and supernaturals equally. Relevant magic will weaken the effect. People who know it's coming and have a chance to brace themselves (supernatural or otherwise) will be affected less. Anyone who does both will not be affected at all.

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

Fable Elwynder

Name: Fable Elwynder

Age: 17

Supernatural Race: Fae/Changeling

Ethnicity/Race: Caucasian

Appearance: Fable is of medium height, but extremely pale and thin, to the point that she seems unhealthy. Her hair, in contrast, is very black, and quite long. She tends to wear darker clothes and makeup, and while her right eye is steel-grey, her left is a bright green that seems extremely out of place on her.

Image

Personality: Fable, despite possessing a strange kind of charisma, is deeply wounded inside and hates any kind of reference to her past. Though normally relatively confident and collected, she is prone to violent outbursts of anger, especially when this subject is brought up. Most of the time, though, she seems fine, if a little strange - somewhat quiet and reserved yet still somehow charming. Of course, people who know her heritage are rarely surprised by this. Aside from that, she also seems a little anxious all the time. People who pay attention will notice her scanning for exits in any room or building, and staying close to one whenever possible.

History: Fable is a Changeling, an unwanted Fae child who, as a baby, was secretly swapped with a human child, to be raised by a human family. However, in Fable's case, she wasn't swapped. Her human mother, Diana, caught Fable's biological mother in the process. Fable's mother fled, leaving Fable but not taking the human child that Fable was meant to replace. Diana ended up raising the children as twins - Fable and her "sister", Elise, were almost totally identical in appearance, except for Fable's strange green eye.
It was as the children were growing up that Elise took an interest in the supernatural. Initially, it was a simple interest, but eventually she discovered a group of people called the Hunters. She joined (in the loosest sense of the word - she interacted with and was taught by Hunters, little more) them at the age of 12, and after a few months she felt she trusted Fable enough to tell her, and attempt to recruit her too. She succeeded.
Over the following years, the sisters' education by the Hunters only got more significant. Their grades dropped, and their prior interests were forgotten as they were radicalised to hate the Supernaturals, both unaware of Fable's nature as a Changeling. At the age of 15, they took part in their first hunt. They killed a vampire, together, with an elder Hunter guiding and protecting them.
The pair continued to track and kill Supernaturals together as time went on, whenever they had free time. Their parents worried about them, of course, but the sisters were long gone by this point, metaphorically speaking - they were fanatics, only death could stop them. However, nearly three months ago, Diana died of an illness that she'd kept secret so far in order to protect the sisters from the cruel reality a little longer. In her will, she left something for Fable, a letter. It was from this letter that Fable discovered her true parentage.
Fable fled her home. Within the hour, Elise found the same letter and took on a new hunt, one she has been enacting to this day. Each sister knows the other's methods well, and making it extremely difficult for either to defeat the other. For the most part, Fable has managed to evade Elise. On the few times they have met, is has only ended violently.

Strengths: Intelligence, charisma, weapons training, would make a surprisingly capable Hunter

Weaknesses: Fragile, no allies at present, burned by iron

Stance: Inactive - mostly just trying to survive

Special Power/Skill: A strange Fae power similar to a spell, which charms a person Fable is talking to, lasting for the remainder of the conversation. They will be left dazed, unable to think clearly, and will find themselves treating her better than they otherwise might.

Other:

• Fable still has a folding shortsword from her time as a Hunter.
• Fable is currently (illegally) staying in an otherwise-unoccupied room in one of the apartments.

@AnaSilan Sunja First character is done, take a look. The other (Elise) should be finished tomorrow.

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

@AnaSilan Sunja How do Hunters typically identify Supernaturals?

Prey Tell (Modern Supernaturals and Hunters) STILL ACCEPTING

@AnaSilan Sunja I quite like the look of this. Are you still taking applications?

Crypt of Locrosa

Despite everything, Saerin found it within herself to return the smiles she received from the crowd, especially the halfling girl. She had almost forgotten what it felt like to be admired, and while she certainly didn't want to return to her days in the arena, there was something pleasantly familiar about being looked up to by someone.

The walk through Cedarport was suprisingly therapeutic. Even with such a rough introduction to this town (Saerin was happy in the belief she'd never see those imbeciles again), Saerin was beginning to enjoy herself. The scene was peaceful, bordering on idyllic, and as Saerin walked she began to grow more and more uncharacteristicly optimistic. She thought of her job with the Esperglows and what she'd spend the payment on. Rescuing her family was an obvious start, but what then? Life-threatening work pays well, perhaps only one or two jobs and she could afford a home. Maybe develop a reputation as a mercenary, build up a fortune and buy a manor where she and her family could live...

Back to the present. Guards, asking for identification. Not a problem. Saerin presented the necessary documentation, introducing herself at the same time, "Saerin Vitaya, mercenary on contract under the Esperglow family, here to find out what the job is. Good enough for you?"