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cursebreaker-lilith · 4 years

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I only posted her original profile in September, but I’ve changed some stuff and wanted to do a new drawing. Lili was pretty new to me then, and I’ve found her voice a lot more since so it only felt right to have a do over on her profile.

This is all up to the beginning of year 6.

EDIT: Some formatting changes made 5-12-21

BASICS

Name: Lilith Silvia Vesta Brooks

Nicknames: Lili, Pipsqueak, Pip

Name Meaning: Lilith references a figure from Jewish folklore, Silvia comes from her grandmother’s name and references a figure from Roman mythology, Vesta was also chosen by her grandmother and references the Roman goddess of the hearth.

Gender: Cis Female

Pronouns: She/Her

Age: 16 (Variable depending on what year I’m writing about)

Birthday: October 19th, 1972

Zodiac: Libra

Blood Status: Half-blood

Ethnicity/Nationality: White Brit

Sexuality: Self identifies primarily with queer but is okay with being called bisexual. Is also probably on both the asexual and aromantic spectrum, but the words for them hadn’t been coined in her time period.

Appearance

Body:

Height: 165cm / 5′5

Build: Average to stocky, hourglass shape

Eyes: A bright yellow-green, noticeably a bit big and round.

Hair: Pale blonde hair that is very thin and fine. She likes doing it up in different ways, from ponytails, to pigtails, to braids. Right before starting her 6th year, she cut her hair short and permed it on an impulse encouraged by her Muggle friends.

Skin: Pale skin that burns easily but quickly fades into a tan

Misc: Small and usually unnoticeable scars scattered across her hands and face from ice in the Ice Vault that will fade wholly with time (most already have by 6th year). Pierced ears--one in each lobe as a teenager but adds more as an adult.

Material Items:

Clothing: As a young child, she tried to keep up with mainstream Muggle fashion. She preferred lots of bright colors, stripes, gaudy jewelry, and scrunchies. Dear lord she loves scrunchies. As she got older however, she began to phase out of the bright colors and mainstream fashion into something which would soon be called grunge. Not completely grunge however as she still loves her statement earrings and scrunchies. Usually wears baggy/non form fitting clothing.

Accessories: Almost always wearing some sort of dangly and obnoxious statement earrings. Always has at least three scrunchies on her person.

In her school bag: Her wand, at least five scrunchies, school books and papers, books Rowan wants her to read, an old crochet penguin for good luck (her first attempt at crochet animals), crochet hooks and yarn, journal and papers related to Cursed Vault plans, at least three cool looking rocks she found on the ground.

Reference:

Face Claim: N/A

Voice Claim: N/A

Personality

Traits:

+ loyal, friendly, extroverted, responsible, mature, kind, adaptable, quick learner, resourceful, hopeful, courageous

+/— determined, good liar, intense, clever, intelligent, independent

— obsessive, untrusting, secretive, forceful, quick temper, angry, abrasive, single minded, rule breaker, rude, spiteful

Description:

Lili has a lot of pent up anger and a quick temper. She’s angry at her family, at authority, at the world. She’s not good at processing this anger and thus tends to lash out at people very often and often very cruelly and violently. She knows this and tries to keep in check but isn’t very good at doing so even as she ages. Because of her anger, she also tends to keep grudges for quite a while, even for stupid or petty reasons and is slow to admit she’s wrong.

In a better world, she would be known for her friendliness. Lili can be very friendly and relaxed. She talks first and makes a judgement second, trying to be as open minded as possible. She’s very casual yet polite and likes people being the same back to her.

Lili is determined in a way that tends towards the negative. Her laser focus on things tend to quickly become obsessions if someone she trusts doesn’t intervene quickly enough.

After her mother stopped being a parent towards her at a young age, Lili learned to take care of herself quickly. She’s become clever and resourceful in her steps to becoming independent. It’s left her mature and responsible for her age, but also untrusting and secretive, convinced she can do it on her own (or with Rowan only).

Lili is very loyal to those that earn her loyalty. For those she cares about, she would do anything. If you do something to lose that loyalty, expect harsh treatment after if Lili even deigns to speak to you. She’s not afraid of cutting people out of her life if they betray or anger her.

Other:

Likes: crafts (crochet, knitting, sewing), Rowan and Barnaby, scrunchies, dangly earrings, being busy, collecting things, fashion

Dislikes: Merula and Ismelda, Rakepick, Snape, most other Slytherins, people who get in her way, Dumbledore, Doctor Who after the 5th Doctor, not getting enough sleep, flying class

MBTI: ESTP

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Hogwarts

Hogwarts House: Slytherin

OWL Classes:

Astronomy: 6/10 (E)

Charms: 9/10 (O)

DADA: 9/10 (O)

Flying: 2/10 (A)

Herbology: 3/10 (A)

History of Magic: 2/10 (A)

Potions: 4/10 (A)

Transfiguration: 7/10 (E)

OWL Electives:

Ancient Runes: 9/10 (O)

Arithmancy: 6/10 (O)

Care of Magical Creatures: 6/10 (O)

NEWT Classes:

Ancient Runes: 9/10 (O)

Arithmancy: 6/10 (E)

Charms: 9/10 (O)

DADA: 9/10 (O)

Transfiguration: 7/10 (E)

Extracurriculars:

Clubs: Dueling Club (3rd-4th year), Fencing Club (2nd-5th year), Transfiguration Club (occasionally from 2nd year on)

Quidditch: N/A

Prefect or Head Boy/Girl: N/A

Best Classes:

Charms It’s the one class she’s very naturally talented at. She never needs to study much, but she barely has to try with Charms. Someday she’ll beat Ben and be the best in their year at the class.

Defense Against the Dark Arts She’s not good at this because of any professor, she’s good at this because of her excursions into the Cursed Vaults giving her practical knowledge.

Worst Classes:

Flying Listen, if people were meant to fly, then they’d have wings, or a spell letting people properly fly would be created by now. Lili will be staying on the ground, thank you very much.

Herbology She’s lived in the city her whole life and being around so many plants is strange. She doesn’t hate the class, but she does use it to catch up with her friends rather than study.

Potions She doesn’t have the patience for potions, and that’s even when she doesn’t have Snape refusing to acknowledge her existence.

Favorite Professors:

Flitwick She thinks Flitwick is great. There’s not much more to say. He’s responsible but not smothering, and still thinks well of her brother. If she ever had to pick an adult to trust, it would be Flitwick.

Kettleburn She had taken Care of Magical Creatures because Rowan had wanted a third elective and Lili didn’t want to take Muggle Studies or Divination. However, she ended up loving the class and thinks Kettleburn is hilarious. She honestly wished she could take the class NEWT level, but her schedule was already full.

Least Favorite Professors:

Snape She has a very complicated relationship with Snape. He hates her because of her brother (who he did not get along with), because she reminds him of James Potter, and because her nickname, Lili, reminds him of his lost love Lily Evans every time he hears it. Lili, of course, does not know any of this and thinks he just hates her for no reason. Jacob thought he was a Death Eater (he got that from whispers older kids who Jacob knew were definitely Death Eaters), so Lili uses that as justification to not like him.

Rakepick She never trusted her and barely liked her, even before she became a professor. Her opinion didn’t go improve any time in fifth year.

Magic

1st Wand: Blackthorn, unicorn hair, 11 3/4 in, shiny and slightly flexible

“Blackthorn, which is a very unusual wand wood, has the reputation, in my view well-merited, of being best suited to a warrior. This does not necessarily mean that its owner practises the Dark Arts (although it is undeniable that those who do so will enjoy the blackthorn wand’s prodigious power); one finds blackthorn wands among the Aurors as well as among the denizens of Azkaban.”

2nd Wand: Aspen, phoenix feather, 12 in, fairly rigid

“In my experience, aspen wand owners are generally strong-minded and determined, more likely than most to be attracted by quests and new orders; this is a wand for revolutionaries.”

Special Abilities: Natural Legilimens, Occlumency

Boggart

Form: Jacob telling her she’s useless and unwanted and that everything she’s doing is for nothing.

Riddikulus: Has not found anything yet that works

Amortentia

What they smell: the Owlery, Standard Ingredient, and something else, something she can’t figure out

What they smell like to others: Lavender, hot chocolate, campfire smoke

Patronus

Form: A goshawk. Independent and intelligent hunters who focus intently on stalking their prey.

Memory: A childhood memory of going to a fair. Jacob looked after her the entire night, and it’s one of the last times she remembers seeing both of her parents laugh.

What they see in the Mirror of Erised: Herself with her family–Jacob is there and looks like how she remembers him, and her mother and father are holding hands and smiling. As she ages, her mother and father are phased out of the image and replaced by her friends, her new family.

FAMILY

Father: David Brooks

Muggle

b. 1943

Works at an accounting firm.

In theory, he was alright with magic and the wizarding world. In practice, it unnerved him more than he could say. When his children started doing accidental magic, and when Jacob came home from Hogwarts talking about nothing but spells and magic, that was it for David. He filed for divorce in 1980 and hasn’t spoken to his ex-wife or children since. He has since married to a fellow Muggle, treating her children as his own and speaking rarely of his biological children. He doesn’t even know Jacob disappeared.

Mother: Carina Flora Brooks (nee Braddock)

Pureblood

b. 1944

Ravenclaw

Works for a wizarding travel magazine as a photographer, travels around the world frequently

She was perhaps not meant to be a mother, and would have been happier following in her brother’s shoes of travelling the world with no responsibilities. However, her mother was insisting she marry and Carina, in a fit of rebellion, decided to marry a nice Muggle she knew instead of the purebloods her mother had picked out.

Carina was never very good with either of her children, and in particular could never get along with Jacob, resorting to abuse (emotional and physical) to try to get him to behave how she wanted. Despite this, she totally shut down when Jacob disappeared, feeling like a failure. This led to her severely neglecting her daughter to wallow in her own misery day and night. It also led to an irrational hatred of Hogwarts. She refuses to read any letters sent by them and has made several subtle attempts to make Lili miss the Hogwarts Express.

Brother: Jacob Seraphinus Ulysses Brooks

Half-blood

b. March 8th, 1967

Slytherin

Currently missing.

Never able to make friends easily or keep his mouth shut, Jacob always had a hard time fitting in, so he turned to books. He preferred fiction over nonfiction, but one history book’s mention of Cursed Vaults on Hogwarts’ grounds led to a search that would dominate his, and his sister’s, life.

He was an outcast in his house and Hogwarts, besides for a few acquaintances, and instead focused on reaching his goals. He was reckless and brave (the Sorting Hat considered putting him in Gryffindor), but obsessive, secretive, and increasingly dependent on the idea of “the end justifies the means.”

Grandfather: Ambrose Braddock

Pureblood

b. 1903

Ravenclaw

Deceased

Known for being Britain’s first natural Legilimens in a century. The Braddock family is known for being a line of natural Legilimens, but none in the family had had the ability in five generations before Ambrose was born. This ended up leading to an offer of marriage from the Malfoy family who wanted the connection to this rare ability. Later realized his grandson was also a natural Legilimens, but died before he could teach Jacob more than the basics on how to control it and never realized his granddaughter also had the ability.

Died of sickness in 1975 at age 72

Grandmother: Silvia Braddock (nee Malfoy)

Pureblood

b. 1911

Slytherin

Never worked, has always been a housewife

Your typical upper class, conservative grandmother. She may not believe that strongly in pureblood mania anymore, but she still believes in things like “children should be seen, not heard,” and corporal punishment. Was in an arranged marriage to Ambrose and never really grew to love him feeling she was marrying beneath her Malfoy heritage. Fairly reclusive nowadays, only entertaining old friends for brunch and going to the occasional pureblood party.

Uncle: Victor Felinus Braddock

Pureblood wizard

b. 1940

Gryffindor

Has a different job every few months, deosn’t really needs to have one and his work ethic shows that

Considered a fun uncle by his nephew, and an annoyance by his niece. Has a lot of stories, and a slight drinking problem. While his mother was annoyed at him for having a dalliance with a Muggle-born, she was even more furious that he refused to marry Suzie. Victor didn’t want to be tied down, and left her to raise their two daughters only appearing in their lives every few years.

Cousins: Donna and Caroline Jones

Half-bloods

b. 1960 and 1975

Both Gryffindor

Welsh

Their mother Susan Jones was a Muggle-born Sorted into Gryffindor in the same year as Victor Braddock. The two have had an on again, off again relationship since their Hogwarts years that has resulted in two daughters.

Donna was sorted into Gryffindor in 1971 (meaning she would have been roommates with Lily Evans which is a coincidence I swear) and it’s easy to see why. She’s confident, brash, and blunt. She has many problems with her father and refuses to interact with that side of the family. Works in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement for the Ministry.

Caroline is the opposite of her much older sister and was surprised to find herself in Gryffindor (Sorted there in Lili’s 3rd year). She’s timid and quiet, but with a backbone hidden underneath. She wilts at any negative tones, but is always ready to extend a hand to anyone who has hurt her, even multiple times.

Step family: Sabina Brooks, Ioan and Luca Ciobanu

Muggles

b. 1949, 1975, and 1980

Immigrants from Romania to England

After divorcing Carina, David began dating Sabina shortly after and later married her, acting as a father to her two young children. The four of them live together in London.

Pets:

Alfred An easily frightened black cat that once belonged to Jacob

Doctor Hoot A large barred owl that frequently forgets it’s an owl and not a lapdog

FRIENDS

Best Friends:

Rowan Khanna Her best friend!! She originally befriended Rowan because Rowan reminded her of her muggle friend, but it soon blossomed into a different, much closer relationship. Whenever Rowan is gone, Lili doesn’t really know what to do (”I’m going to cut all the sleeves off my robes.” “Why??” “Rowan left an hour ago and she’s like 85% of my impulse control.”) and Lili would never have made it through any of the Cursed Vaults without her. She probably also would have gotten expelled for brawling and dueling in like second year without Rowan. I’m not joking about that impulse control thing.

Barnaby Lee Lili didn’t like Barnaby at first. Even before he worked for Merula, she thought he was nothing more than a stupid jock and made fun of how Snape would pick on him in Potions. Then she actually talked to him and did a complete 180. “I’ve only known Barnaby for an hour, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and them myself.” She liked how sweet and genuine he was despite his awful upbringing. He’s always there to support her, and she’s really grown to love him for that. He once thought he had a crush on her, but it wasn’t really romantic (”The feeling was friendship but he had never experienced it before.”).

Good Friends:

Bill Weasley He’s like the big brother Jacob should’ve been. She was not thrilled to have a complete stranger helping with the Vaults, but in hindsight she’s so very glad she listened to Rowan. Lili isn’t sure she could have gotten half of what she’s done done without Bill’s help and steadfastness.

Charlie Weasley Their friendship kind of crept up on Lili. Charlie was closer friends with Ben and Barnaby, so while Lili had a passing familiarity with him before the Forest Vault, she wouldn’t have called them friends. She was surprised when she turned out to really enjoy his company when he started helping with the Cursed Vaults.

Chiara Lobosca Chiara was someone Lili tangentially knew due to people confusing them for each other (the hair color; once Chiara hits a growth spurt and Lili doesn’t people stop). Then Lili is forced to partner with Chiara in Herbology in 3rd year, and besides seeing her Herbology grade go up the slightest bit, she finds a friend in Chiara, appreciating the girl’s seemingly infinite kindness.

Friends:

Nymphadora Tonks They get along in classes, but Lili doesn’t trust Tonks with anything serious.

Liz Tuttle The two have many overlapping friends but don’t really hang out with each other.

Badeea Ali She really respects Badeea, but they just don’t have many reasons to be around each other.

Jae Kim Lili thinks he’s hilarious and very smart, but doesn’t trust him as far as she could throw him.

It’s Complicated:

Ben Copper Probably the most complicated relationship here. She befriended him out of pity and continued their friendship because of his skill at Charms. He’s had a crush on her since they were 11 when she stood up for him which no one had ever done before. Then the Red Robed Wizard Reveal tm happened and Lili dropped him and ignored him, though he tried to make it up to her. 6th year only drives a deeper wedge between them as Lili can’t stand his recent behaviour. Ben finally confessing about his love for Lili in 6th year didn’t help mend anything either.

Tulip Karasu After finding out that Tulip had purposefully not told her about Jacob’s room, Lili instantly decided she was an undesirable but necessary ally. Lili does not like Tulip for most of their time at Hogwarts as she’s really pissed that someone would keep her brother’s things from her. Lili will talk to her about the Cursed Vaults, but they do not hang out and Lili does not consider her a friend. This really, really hurts Tulip’s feelings but Lili doesn’t really care. The relationship does get a bit better in 6th year, but it’s never going to be a close one. In a better world without the Vaults, they’d probably get along smashingly as while Lili isn’t a prankster, she has no problem egging them on.

Love Interests:

Penny Haywood Her first, longest, and most confusing crush. She was wary of Penny at first. Popular girls were rarely that 100% nice, but Penny truly was. She also had a nice smile and pretty hair and soft hands…. It took Lili quite a while (like four years and Bill telling her) to figure out it was a crush and then….she did absolutely nothing. She panicked and stopped talking to Penny for a while before sheepishly apologizing when Penny confronted her. They went to the Celestial Ball together, but “as friends.” That did not stop them from having a Moment that Lili interpreted completely wrongly and she assumed Penny didn’t like her romantically. Penny in fact did, and since Lili never reacted to their Moment in the proper way, Penny assumed that Lili wasn’t interested. The two continued having crushes on each other for the rest of their time at Hogwarts and remained close friends after they both graduated.

Talbott Winger Her second, less confusing, crush. Similar to Barnaby, Lili didn’t think much of Talbott at first. He was that one kid who was talented at Transfiguration and she once saw him chatting casually to an owl in the Owlery. He was weird and she ignored him. Then she was paired with him on a class assignment in 3rd year and a friendship bloomed despite Talbott’s protests. It was a casual thing at first, but then Lili helped Talbott find his mom’s necklace, and their talk under the stars about family and the past and future deepened their friendship. Having already figured out she had a crush on Penny by this time, she managed to get the signs that she now also had a crush on Talbott, which made her panic, again. However, since Talbott is even worse with emotions than her, she didn’t do anything drastic like she did with Penny. They went on one date in 6th year but that was going too fast for Talbott and they decided to stay friends until Talbott felt more comfortable being around people. Lili took this….mostly gracefully.

Diego Caplan The two met in the Dueling Club in 4th year. Diego was impressed with Lili’s skill and tried to befriend her and also maybe flirt with her a bit. Lili, who tends to gravitate towards people who are unashamedly themselves, found his over the top flirting hilarious and was instantly endeared to Diego. She really enjoyed being around him, finding his lightheartedness helped her forget some of her troubles with the Cursed Vaults, especially in 5th year. He asked her out on a date, her first one, and she agreed. She enjoyed the date, but 5th year was the peak of her obsession with the Cursed Vaults so she broke it off. They later dated again during 6th year, after Lili’s one date with Talbott.

Dormmates:

Rowan Khanna see above

Desdemona Selwyn An OC. Their entire relationship can be explained with that one text post that’s like “Bitch.” “Blocked.” “Wait unblock me I need to tell you something.” “Unblocked.” “Bitch.”

Vidalia Barrows An OC. Lili has said like two sentences to Vidalia and she plans to keep it that way. Vidalia just eats and sleeps and does whatever Desdemona says to do.

Doesn’t Interact:

Murphy McNully/Skye Parkin/Orion Amari/Erika Rath She’s not involved in Quidditch.

Andre Egwu I just can’t think of a way to work him into the plot lol They would get along somewhat well otherwise.

Enemies:

Merula Snyde Hated each other’s guts for a while. Then Lili gave up her Frog Choir spot and Merula gained a small crush (even if Lili was a total ass about giving it up). While they’ll never be friends, by the time of 5th and 6th year they’ve become reluctant allies similar to Lili and Tulip above. Lili will probably never totally befriend her, but she’s learned to be civil and that’s progress.

Ismelda Murk Lili doesn’t really like Ismelda but she considers her all bark and no bite. Ismelda hates Lili because she thinks Lili and Barnaby are gonna end up dating and is jealous.

Desdemona Selwyn An OC. See above.

Most of Slytherin House Lili has never been shy about being half Muggle and being proud of it, and in a house that still worships Voldemort, that sets her apart. The few that don’t find her being pro-Muggle distasteful don’t want to be exiles in their own dorms and avoid talking to her.

Story

Childhood:

Lili’s childhood was never that great. Her parents fought frequently over her and Jacob’s use of accidental magic, and this eventually caused them to divorce when Lili was 9. Her mother in particular was emotionally and physically abusive but Jacob spared her from the worst of it.

Jacob was always the best part of her childhood. She loved her parents, but Jacob was the person she always looked forward to seeing. When he went to Hogwarts, she was upset for weeks, and when he went missing, she was devastated (especially as he went missing the night of her birthday).

Her mother didn’t take it well. Carina was not particularly close with Jacob, but this obviously big failure of her as a parent hit her hard. She became very emotionally withdrawn from Lili and threw herself into her photography work, leaving the country, and Lili, for weeks at a time.

Lili had to become very independent very quickly after that. That, plus the fact that she didn’t have any non-Muggle friends meant she trusted very few people and lied often. Getting her Hogwarts letter was a relief and a promise of freedom

Hogwarts:

: )

see here: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1467043

Adulthood:

Lili is very distraught after graduation and leaves everyone she knows behind to travel Europe and find herself. She spends several years doing this, helping people and doing odd jobs.

Eventually, she finds that she has a talent for languages, picking up a few easily in her travels, and starts to consider possibly doing something related to language whenever she goes back to Britain.

Miscellaneous

She fuckin loves scrunchies.

Has lived in a Muggle neighbourhood her whole life.

Likes muggle TV. Grew up watching Doctor Who. Not impressed with the 6th Doctor, and glad she was away at Hogwarts during his run. Favorite Doctor is the 4th and she knit herself her own version of his scarf.

Likes collecting things! She loves cool rocks on the sidewalk, tacky tourist souvenirs, and things you find for $1 in a thrift store.

She can knit, crochet and sew. She likes making little crochet animals and giving them to friends (or just keeping them and having a plushy empire around her bed).

Loves having her photo taken and has a whole collection of photos, but hates taking photos. It reminds her of her mother.

One of her Muggle friends got her into fencing. She thought it would be useful to hone her athletic skills with, so she continued doing it when she went back to Hogwarts in the fall.

The type of person who needs to be doing something 24/7. When she doesn’t have anything to focus on, she tends to be all over the place and rather annoying.

Quieter and more complacent as a kid. it was after her family broke apart that the need to be so driven started to become a part of her personality.

Love Like You from Steven Universe is a song for her and Jacob (from Jacob’s POV)

Chameleon by Michela is a song that fits her

Tropes:

Big Brother Worship

Determinator

Family Eye Resemblance

Good is Not Nice

Hair Trigger Temper

Jerk with a Heart of Gold

Parental Neglect

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allthetribbles · 3 years

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Investigation Game – April 04, 2085

Characters present - Alan, Kory, Te'ani, Liv

April 3, 2085

After Alan puts Liv out of his home, he accesses the message on his pip. He's greeted with 30 seconds of random electronic noise. He's unable to decipher the noise... and he just let Liv leave. He tries to contact her, but she isn't answering her pip. He leaves a message - URGENT, please call me.

She doesn't answer.

April 4th, 2085 4.30a

Liv returns Alan's call. He asks her to come over. "Okay. Sure." She heads over that way. When she arrives, he plays the message back for her - "Can you make anything of it?" She calls electro into play as she wanders further into his home. A message is within the noise and she plays it back on the pip. It's definitely the voice of Elwood from beyond the grave.

{----------------------------

Greetings from beyond the grave. You must have questions. I have very few answers for you. One of which is if you have received this message then I have died. Time is, unfortunately, short. When we had access to Weaver and her team in the Pit I had Athine plant a post-hypnotic into their leader to leave us messages. One of those messages bore fruit. An addition to their team was intercepted and replaced. Currently we have them located at a Safe House here. (insert location) The information we are currently gathering has been kept off site in a separate private facility as if this information gets out it could ignite another facet in the Aeon War we currently live in. I don’t think these “Tager” cultists as they call themselves are as a serious a threat as others might think them. They seem to be involved in a clandestine war with another group of cultists that call themselves “Dhohanoids”. Both sides are engaged in a fight over the artifact pieces. Olivia may be able to shed more light on that subject. You need to find Bobby and protect that arrogant old coot. He’s got the last piece and I don’t think he can hide anywhere they can’t find him with 2 pieces to track the third. Keep an eye on this Tager group. If they become too much of a threat eliminate them. Save with their opposite number. I’m sorry to drop this on you Liv, Alan, Tory, Ryan and Te’ani but you’re the best team I have for when the shit hits the fan. God speed. Also, Liv, I have given you access to a series of funds to help your team. They can trust you with it. ------------------------------- }

The location of the safe house in the letter is located within the arcology and assumed to be under surveillance. To avoid tipping off anyone watching or inside, we don't go there immediately. Alan and Liv go to work to share the new lead with the rest of the team.

We need more information. Liv nudges Te'ani to be a good boyscout and go help Director LeAnne "dispose" of the paperwork from Elwood's office. He is successful and puts the box on Liv's desk - "Have fun."

Luckily Director LeAnne is preoccupied and isn't paying much attention to what we're doing. She also hasn't tasked us with anything so.... we keep busy. Going through the the paperwork, there are receipts, paperwork, accounting information, files on agents that have died.... and restaurant recommendations.

The Director ate out... a lot. One of the addresses looks familiar - the safe house from the note. It was marked as "don't ever eat."

We pull a grand total of about 30 sheets of paper with the places he recommended - there is a mix of "avoid" "liked" and "so-so." The information seems really random - something will be underlined, notations, doodles. Some of the addresses we can match up to locations that we personally know as safehouses. Most of them aren't in the OIS database. The one left in the message WASN'T in the known safehouse database...

While riddling out the mystery of the hidden safehouses, Liv thought about how to access the funds Director Elwood had directed for the group. It had to be something important... that no one else would think was important. Not a birthday, not an address, but it would have to be something important to herself...

... The absolute sneak! He used the one date that would be important to Liv, but not to anyone else. The date she was arrested by the OIS. And now they have access to money (to the tune of Wealth 2).

There was a bit of a debate over which safehouse to visit first - we didn't want to compromise anyone currently in the safe houses. Using the logic of reverse psychology - we're going to check out one of the safe houses marked "eat here" in the hopes that it is empty. The idea pays off and no one's home.

The next thing to scare up would be the information stored off-site. We go back to the note - one of the messages from Weaver "bore fruit." Looking at a list of fruit stands... one is scribbled out, one is labeled "do not use - bad fruit," one is labelled "excellent fruit - sometimes a little extra," and the last one had no notation.

Interesting to note... one place not there at all - the Golden Dragon.

We decide to go to the fruit stand labeled "excellent" ... only to find... well, a fruit stand. Alan says that his arcane sight says there's only a minor enchantment on the fruit to keep it from spoiling - usually a really low-level job for sorcerers. He also says that places like this are usually more watched - not just by the OIS, but GIA, NEG, and FSB.

To catch a spy, we're going to have to think like a spy... Te'ani asks for "a little something extra." The owner tells us that a baker's dozen is on sale, mix and match as we see fit. The freshest fruit is the starfruit that just arrived in the past two-three days. We purchase fruit and leave. The rest of the team wants to go to one of the other fruit stands - leaning towards the unmarked one.

Liv says they should check out the scratched out address, explaining the logic of "You wouldn't want to go to an address that's scratched out, thinking it isn't useful at all." It didn't seem to be a convincing argument, but they agree to check it out.

The location... is not a fruit stand. It's an arcade. The kids hanging around are young enough to make even Liv feel old - humans, nazzadi... a few amlati, but no whites. The owner approaches the team with a shotgun inside his trench coat. After a threat of "do no harm to his kids, this is a safe place" - He introduces himself as Alfie, the owner of the Pegasus Arcade.

Alan sees that runes are hidden, protection against scrying, farsight, and similar abilities and spells. Liv picks up that the games don't necessarily require the entire arcade tower... but there is a lot of stuff going on. The owner warns her against meddling with the information.

The team mentions Director Elwood, but it doesn't draw any recognition from Alfie. Liv mentions that "Louie sent us." He tells one of the kids to watch the front and has us follow him to the back. He keeps the gun trained on all of us... and after we semi-sort of explain to him that we're following the clues. He offers to let them look around. "If you know Louie as well as you say you do... you'll find what you're looking for."

In the lobby there are over 100 games. We seems to be at a loss at what to look for... until we refer back to the note - "If this information gets out it could ignite another facet in the Aeon War we currently live in." We find a game about Thermonuclear War. "Would you like to play?" Alfie comes by, asking if we've made our pick. He gives us an old american 25 cent piece, then walks away.

We go to the game and find the high score for LEWI at number 6 - 561861. We go back to Alfie in the office and give him the code. He transfers information to a drive and hands it over. As they're leaving, he gives Liv a warning - "Be careful using your powers, Little Sister. Not everyone is as obvious as you."

Liv waits until they're in the car before accessing the information on the drive. There are two files - one for Ricky's safehouse (outside the arcology), one for the Tager's (inside the arcology).

Accessing the file for the Tagers, we find profiles on people known to us - only two are unknown to the group - and one is a White. Liv suspects she is the OIS Plant. The other Liv IDs as the contact SunMoon. It also has a copy of all of the messages sent to Elwood from Weaver. The last message was dated two days ago - April 2nd, detailing about how they were having a shared dream and they were going to investigate it.

In the files we find out they have filched several artifacts during their escape from the Pit - The Godkiller Gun, an EOD SAT, The Summoning Artifact (already recovered by Liv), an Artifact Gem of Power (similar to the one on Athine's arm), and a two foot tall pyramid with its apex cut off with a glass plate on top (purpose unknown).

Liv is very enthusiastic to head to the location of the Tagers' safehouse after finding out about the stolen artifacts - "They have things they definitely shouldn't." They head over and decide to observe the house first. After about an hour there doesn't seem to be any activity or movement. Te'ani thinks we should approach from the front door. Liv suggests they split the approach in case they decide to run - she decides to keep watch on the back door while he goes to the front.

Despite the caution, everything is quiet and no one's home. They seem to have left in a hurry - beds are unmade and gear is left behind. Unfortunately, they didn't leave the artifacts...

Alan's arcane sight leads him to Weaver's bedroom, which is greatly infused with magical residue. He also finds a strange creature... it looks similar to a rabbit, but... not. It has four eyes, six ears, and a set of extra limbs under its first pair. It is also very dead... by a day or two. There aren't any signs of violence, but Alan knows a grim truth. If a familiar's master dies, the familiar usually dies. It doesn't look good for Weaver...

Liv applies her psychometry to the beds - she doesn't pick up much except for on two of the beds - Weaver's and another room. She picks up great distress and desperation. The room NOT Weaver's has a lot of scorch marks. It seems they really liked fire... and the scorch marks seem to almost be like footprints, except they're 15"x5." Whoever it was had big feet.

Doing a quick check for the White - there's zero documentation on her. She isn't registered. Liv is 98% positive that the White must be the OIS plant. Whites are automatically registered at birth, the only way she could be entirely off the grid is if the OIS wiped her.

After we're through looking through the safehouse, Te'ani gets a message from Annette, the nazzadi keeping watch on Ricky - he wants a word with us. She seems cranky and Liv suggests that Te'ani send a thank you. As Annette said, she's not his secretary.

Liv tags someone else to drive while she takes a nap. It takes about an hour or so travel to get out of the arcology to the two story safehouse. There is a curious lack of nightgaunt activity as Ricky comes outside... alone.

He invites us inside to talk - "We have a bit of a problem." Alan wonders who would be watching Ricky - Liv just urges the group to follow Ricky inside. Even inside the safehouse, there's a suspicious lack of nightgaunt activity. Kory asks where they are.

Ricky - "On guard duty." Sounds ominous!

He leads us to the basement where the nightgaunts have set up shop protecting.... the missing artifacts. Well, most of them - the gem of power isn't present.

He tells us they got out one night and found a group of people having a battle royale in the sewers. He wasn't sure what happened, but a fist fight happened and led to one nearly killing the other. He demanded the artifacts as payment for healing one of them.

He was hesitant to tell us what he knew about them, fearing telling us information we already have. We relay that we just came from the safehouse they were stashed, where we found Weaver's dead familiar. It made Ricky wonder if SunMoon actually did manage to kill her after all. We told him that the OIS did have a double-agent in the group and he confirmed it was probably Izzy, the white, because she was the only one that didn't turn into a monster. He gave us the descriptions of a spider, a giant burning rockman, and a really tentacley thing that was hard to spot... like a mirage.

We asked if they mentioned where they were headed. Ricky said "The big guy said they were headed towards a big skull. They had seen it before and they were going to check it out."

He was worried when we mentioned they escaped from the Pit with these artifacts ("Uh oh, should I have killed them?"), but we reassured him what he did was the correct thing to recover the artifacts. The most important thing is these items are no longer in their possession. We did tell him it wasn't everything they took, but a good majority - they didn't return a gem of power. He reassured us that they said they handed over everything. Liv agreed with him - "It probably was everything they had. But what they didn't hand over was a gem of power; and if they don't have it... that isn't a good thing."

Liv finally asks to hug George. The rest of the team seems alarmed that she's asking. George pats her head and seems okay with the request. Despite their protests... she does it. She hugs him and he folds his wings around her... She staggers back from the hug when he releases her; she seems a bit stunned. Te'ani catches her, asking her who the idiot is. Her answer, "Not me. Skull."

They seem more than a little concerned for the sanity of their White. Kory even said, "... And this is who my sister chose as her mentor." That got the attention of a few of the minor Nightgaunts. Ricky doesn't know why.

Liv changes the subject, asking if Ricky had received her email. He said he did, but he obviously can't go into the office to check on the statue. Liv says, "We're still working on how to get her out here under the radar of the new Director."

It seems Annette Pahls isn't very fond of the new Director and has expressed that sentiment to Ricky.

{ When George wraps his wings around Liv... there is a major conflict of emotions. She feels torn in what feels like three separate directions, three angles that can't be described well. It's almost like turning pages in three books. All directions feel familiar - two are identical, and one is like looking into a mirror (Daddy is this world, Daddy in another world, and Black Liv).

She very clearly sees herself barreling through a gigantic human skull with fangs that snap shut as she enters it. She's in a blasted, ruined wasteland and sees a tall pale man. He looks at Liv, seemingly shocked. "How did you get here? Who are you? Wait - are you from my world?" He tries to grab her, but his hands pass through as he asks with desperation - "HELP ME. HELP ME. HELP ME." Then he's yanked out of sight and she's back in her own world }

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To Do List:

> Investigate the Safe House {Completed} > Find where the information is being stored. Recover it. {Completed} > Access to the funds left by Elwood {Completed} > Find Bobby and PROTECT > Recoverd Artifacts - What to do with them > Find out where the SKULL is { To Trail the Teases } > Transport Luanne the statue to Ricky

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