Sugar and Spite

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_{Guild Headquarters.}

It had been a long day.

Customers at the restaurant had been assholes. The Council wouldn't grant Salem permission to send a search party after Aliira. She had been in the main atrium pleading with them for hours now, but no one would listen. Twenty Council members - and none of them could see reason. She sat on the marble floor now, the sound of conversation around her nothing but a murmur as she was lost in her own thoughts. Everything in the room was perfect. The smooth marble floors, the magnificently rounded walls, and the calculated space between each of the chairs. The way that there seemed to be a perfect balance between the whites, golds, and subtle hints of grays. It was easily one of the most beautiful rooms in all of headquarters, but it had lost all of it's warmth. Aliira was the warmth, and she was lost now.

The sudden blaring of her ring tone broke her from her thoughts as the Councils eyes shifted upon her. Salem pulled her phone from her pocket as she answered the call from an unknown number. As was a key rule for any Council meeting, Salem put the call on speaker just as a familiar voice came through - Aliiras voice. Something made her scream. Just as Salem was about to speak, one of the Council members - Kristoph Morgan - waved his hand and silenced her. He was the only one with the power to silence the people and things around him. Salem wanted to be there for Aliira as much as she could. She wanted to say something, ask her what was wrong. Kristoph had taken that from her, and for that Salem glared daggers at him.

Another familiar voice came through the speaker. The room was silent except for the mans voice. A voice that took Salem a moment to recognize, but once she did a blinding rage came through. Salem paced the room, listening to Aloysius talk. The fact that she could't do or say anything only added to her range. She wouldn't notice how hard she was gripping the phone until the gunshot rang out, the phone exploding in her hand. A collective gasp went around the room as the pieces of the device fell to the floor. With a flick of Kristoph hand, Salem was able to speak again.

"Look what you did," she growled. "Look what you all did."

She ran her hands through her hair to try to keep them from shaking, angry tears beginning to roll down her face. Aliira was her best friend. The person who could calm the storm raging inside of her. The person she went to for everything. Aloysius had taken her from Salem, and the Council had done nothing to help.

"I told you," she took a shaky breath, her throat dry as she licked her lips. "I tried to tell each and every one of you that he had her and you all just though that I was going mad! I know things! You trust me! I have proven myself and I am your Leader! Yet you stand by and you laugh when I tell you that one of our own needs saving." She shoved her hands in her pockets. "You laughed at me," she mumbled, taking turns looking at each of them. The static electricity in the room had reached a extremely high level.

"Now there's not need to get upset --"

"No need to get upset! He just shot and killed her, Alison, and you want me to be calm?!" On her last few words, the marble column five feet to her right shattered, the source of the destruction coming from her hands. The electricity gathered in her palms, a faint blue glow surrounding her body.

"I-if... If we could just all calm down..."

Two of the other marble columns collapsed as the glass ceiling above the room shattered, the electricity disappearing from Salem's hands as the night sky lit up above her. She turned to walk out of the room, the Council shouting at her to come back. Salem wouldn't do as told. She needed to be alone for the moment, and secluding herself was exactly what she planned to do.

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I just listed all of the positions to be on the safe side.

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@HaleyTheRandom

In regards to the character sheet when you say "Rank Within Organization" there's only 2 options; Leader and second in command. Are those the only options available? Im making my character sheet right now and I was confused in that department

@savannahssu

If Guild: Leader (1), Second in Command (1), Lieutenant(1), Captain(2), Member(Unlimited), Recruit(Unlimited).

If Dark Shadow: Leader (1), second in command (1), captain (2), members/recruits (unlimited).

My bad.

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@pokemad1 Still good by me.

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@Hedgehawk

Alex Bellamy

"Hacking is easy.
It's actually engaging with another human that's the real challenge."

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Name: Alex Bellamy
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Alignment: Guild
Rank within Organisation: Recruit

Birthmark Shape: abstract hand with fingers splayed apart and a spiral glyph in the palm
Location of Birthmark: The underside of left forearm

Magical Abilities: Technomancy (shadowjack) - ability to understand and manipulate/hack low level tech through clever use of telepathic connect and illusion. As skill grows, so does the level of anonymity while interfacing with said tech.

Place of Birth: South Boston, MA
Currently Residing: Brooklyn, New York

Personality: A borderline introvert, for the most part, Alex is quite friendly and outgoing to those she knows, and rather suspicious and close-minded to just about everyone else. Her relationship to technology and the like, however, seems to surpass any human connection, as her comfort level is always highest when surrounded by programming language and the warmth of a motherboard.

History

Born and raised in South Boston, Alex was an only child, which meant when her parents weren't up in her business, she spend a lot of time alone. But, it was time well-spent, as she became interested in computers, electronics, and essentially how things worked. A tinkerer at heart, she wanted to not only know how things went together, but moreso, how they came apart and what was inside.

Spending time online helped to teach her more about just about anything, especially as she drove headfirst into the world of hacking. Sure, it wasn't all glamorous like movies depict, but to a girl who loved to tinker, the internet was a sea of untapped playgrounds.

As adolescents hit, so did the inherent hidden magics that slept since birth. Perhaps she was a late bloomer, or this was normal for someone like her, but it manifested without any warning. As she sat in her bedroom mindlessly trudging through a first-person shooter, the first wave of a strange yet familiar telepathic connection came, fusing her senses with that of the gaming console. Digitized voices, electronic pulses, cryptic code, and holographic images appeared as though an imaginary “heads-up display” had appeared before her. Alex had no idea what to do, and was unable to essentially shut it off. She cowered in the corner, her mind continuing to reveal more of this unknown world, lights flickered, the television fizzled out, and as the magic within her grew, there began an incessant exchange of information that she couldn't quiet, as though every piece of technology within a small radius was reaching out to her like a beacon.

Eventually the sound of her own cries echoed from her bedroom, and her parents rushed in to find their daughter curled up and in the dark.

Months had passed since that night, and while the connections never ceased, the girl thought she was legitimately going crazy. Her parents had even taken her to a few specialists where tests came up inconclusive at best. Was magic undetectable by conventional methods? They simply assumed she suffered from some form of anxiety and was prescribed medication to counter it, which actually seemed to dull the connection with electrical waves, allowing her mind to finally rest. However, while she still didn’t truly understand her newfound ability, nor really believed that it actually existed at times, Alex was curious nonetheless.

Over the course of her high school years, she experimented as best she could, while maintaining as much secrecy as possible. Who would even understand such a thing could happen anyway? Diving into computer mainframes headfirst, moving around from one point to another. It was hypnotic, and the perfect drug that the girl just couldn’t live without. However, magic always came with some price as she would soon find out, and the addiction of hacking her way into places she shouldn’t could not be passed up.

The ATM machine was simply there for the taking, and while Alex wasn’t in the market to steal money that wasn’t hers, she felt as though she deserved at least a little bit of pocket change just for being able to bypass the system’s security protocols. What she didn’t take into consideration were the surveillance cameras and the fact that they caught just about everything that was being done. The next morning, police officers arrested the nineteen year old for larceny, false ID, and a myriad of other charges that seemed to fit the crime. Fortunately for the young lady, she had an ally within the judicial system who was her only way out of a prison sentence, and into the arms of the Guild. The choice was her to make of course, but if it meant gaining a better understanding of her abilities, then she would accept the offer.

Relationships
Name:
Relationship (Bold as needed):Best Friends - Good Friends - Friends - Well known - Warm - Acquaintances - Unknown - Cold - Dislikes - Hates - Enemies - Rival - Nemesis
Characters opinion of them: (Why do they feel the way that they do)

@Hellion

Approved.

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@FunnyGuy Haven't forgot about you. Life has just picked up a little speed. The GM's will get together to talk about your form soon. I promise. <3

Shuffle your music player and post the first 10 songs

Not Good Enough For Truth In Cliche ~ Escape The Fate
Wasteland ~ 10 Years
Kaleidoscopes ~ Transviolet, Reo Cragun
Adhd ~ Truslow
Crave ~ Waterparks
Forever Yours ~ Grayscale
Dirty Laundry ~ All Time Low
U Got ~ Sivik
Diet Soda Society ~ The Maine
Bury A Friend ~ Halocene

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@Helo Interesting character. I think he'll get along with Jasper and Ty pretty well.

Move him on over.

Post a random fact about yourself.

I tried to get access to an old email of mine for three hours last night. I tried password recoveries, and google said that it couldn't prove that the account was mine. Said account's back up email was my school email, which is now deleted. So, in short, I can't get back into the email that I wanted.

The reason for wanting back into that email? I wanted to read some messages between me and an old friend. Said messages used to help me calm down, and I've been thinking about said friend a lot.

I also messaged said friend on Facebook last night. I didn't get a response.

Kinda sucks when the one person you want to talk to doesn't want anything to do with you anymore.

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@HaleyTheRandom Do I need to put my chars here first? Haha

@SouffleGirl123

>le sigh

No.

@PureHeroine Approved.