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{{Character | {{Character | ||
| faction = neutral | | faction = neutral | ||
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| nickname = Rhadamanthus | | nickname = Rhadamanthus | ||
| image = Rhad.png | | image = Rhad.png | ||
− | | organization = The Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors | + | | organization = The Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors |
| job_title = Free Agent | | job_title = Free Agent | ||
| aliases = Daryll Louis; Mr. Louis, Rhadamanthus, Shallow-6 | | aliases = Daryll Louis; Mr. Louis, Rhadamanthus, Shallow-6 | ||
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| residence = Transient | | residence = Transient | ||
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= Overview = | = Overview = | ||
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=== December 29th, 2017 - In regards to Don Rhodes & the Venice leak: === | === December 29th, 2017 - In regards to Don Rhodes & the Venice leak: === | ||
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''The contents here have been released to us, and others outside of our jurisdiction, via the Council of Venice by one '''Viktor Verascu''', allegedly a senior agent within the Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors, allegedly the former handler and operations manager for our 'problem-child'. | ''The contents here have been released to us, and others outside of our jurisdiction, via the Council of Venice by one '''Viktor Verascu''', allegedly a senior agent within the Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors, allegedly the former handler and operations manager for our 'problem-child'. | ||
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''In either case, we're regurgitating the gist of all we've gotten. This is all the supplementary info we've received on our menace,'' '''Don Rhodes'''. ''Feel free to refer to all and any documents relating to him by name, but keep clear of the incident files featuring him until we've finished internal reviews.'' | ''In either case, we're regurgitating the gist of all we've gotten. This is all the supplementary info we've received on our menace,'' '''Don Rhodes'''. ''Feel free to refer to all and any documents relating to him by name, but keep clear of the incident files featuring him until we've finished internal reviews.'' | ||
− | <span style="color:#D8D7D7">RECEIVE - initiate Cronenberg frequency - SOMETHING WENT WRONG, SETH</span> | + | <center><span style="color:#D8D7D7">RECEIVE - initiate Cronenberg frequency - SOMETHING WENT WRONG, SETH</span></center> |
= History = | = History = | ||
+ | == Background == | ||
Though not a matter of public knowledge for a number of riveting reasons, Don was once a young and underpaid stooge in the employ of a notary, translating and processing his office's immigration papers in total monotony. Where else but in Washington state? | Though not a matter of public knowledge for a number of riveting reasons, Don was once a young and underpaid stooge in the employ of a notary, translating and processing his office's immigration papers in total monotony. Where else but in Washington state? | ||
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Perhaps that's why the Phoenicians were so quick to find him. Not the Illuminati and certainly not The Dragon. The Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors were expecting off-the-rails contraband they could reclaim, not a person. But they took that person in anyway. Hell, by all accounts they could have left him malleable, commoditized him and his ability. Instead, they reprogrammed as much of him to make him ... well, him, again. | Perhaps that's why the Phoenicians were so quick to find him. Not the Illuminati and certainly not The Dragon. The Brotherhood of Phoenician Sailors were expecting off-the-rails contraband they could reclaim, not a person. But they took that person in anyway. Hell, by all accounts they could have left him malleable, commoditized him and his ability. Instead, they reprogrammed as much of him to make him ... well, him, again. | ||
− | According to the | + | According to the personal notes from Agent Verascu, Don made sure he never forgot the mercy shown to him. Even when he got stuck crewing up on what would become a suicide mission. However, there is an elephant in the room when it comes to Don's movements post-reconditioning. |
= Conflicting Accounts = | = Conflicting Accounts = | ||
− | == | + | == Background (Cont.) == |
As some of you 'Rhodites' in the organization know, things get a little wacky from this point. Document-wise and explanation-wise. Bear with us, there are new insights, but we also have new faces that we feel the need to keep informed. | As some of you 'Rhodites' in the organization know, things get a little wacky from this point. Document-wise and explanation-wise. Bear with us, there are new insights, but we also have new faces that we feel the need to keep informed. | ||
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− | + | <font face=verdana>As you likely know, the recent global passing of a ''"temporal-spatial issue"'' that cabals worldwide have come to refer to as "reality ripples" puts a lot of our work into question. Lost alternate realities, the Mandela Effect, whatever you want to label it, it is the latest entry in the Council of Venice's Book of Secrets. | |
− | Whatever you call the 13,521st entry, it's completely out of our field of knowledge. If only we had better staffing, more agents, more money, more everything - we don't, so we let the Council of Venice and the major cabals deal with the fall-out or lack-there-of. After all, the only thing the secret world knows is that something happened and people who know better have | + | Whatever you call the 13,521st entry, it's completely out of our field of knowledge, as well as outside our capacity to handle it. If only we had better staffing, more agents, more money, more everything - frankly, we don't, so we let the Council of Venice and the major cabals deal with the fall-out or lack-there-of. |
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+ | ''Yet that is actually a good thing, not a cause for alarm.'' After all, the only thing that the secret world at large knows is that something happened and people who know better have informed us and are investigating the matter. All <u>we</u> ask is that you keep the concept in the back of your head as you read on.</font> | ||
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<div class="spoiler mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> | <div class="spoiler mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"> | ||
− | '''Elephant the Second: | + | '''Elephant the Second: Don Rhodes - ''Not'' Reality Ripples but just as weird''' |
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+ | <font face=verdana>Don Rhodes has stuck his nose into our investigations consistently. We even have a danger meter completely based on whether he's shown up or not, it's ... absurdist. But this all stems from a series of jobs after the 'reality ripple' announcements. All relating to this fucker. | ||
As far as the Big Three ''knew'', Don Rhodes operated as a Phoenician agent between late-2012 to mid-2014, which was plenty of time for major players to rack-up surveillance, get their files in order, write up a good dossier. Not to mention, retaining all official governmental paperwork from both topside and within the secret world. | As far as the Big Three ''knew'', Don Rhodes operated as a Phoenician agent between late-2012 to mid-2014, which was plenty of time for major players to rack-up surveillance, get their files in order, write up a good dossier. Not to mention, retaining all official governmental paperwork from both topside and within the secret world. | ||
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Except two of those factions came to <u>us</u> to investigate why their resources on this guy were all 'wrong'. Wrong in a sense of anomalous, not factually deficient. Though, the Illuminati being factually deficient is itself an anomaly, the observations they had were all incorrectly dated and entirely mismatched against their newer information on Don Rhodes. Ditto with the Templars. | Except two of those factions came to <u>us</u> to investigate why their resources on this guy were all 'wrong'. Wrong in a sense of anomalous, not factually deficient. Though, the Illuminati being factually deficient is itself an anomaly, the observations they had were all incorrectly dated and entirely mismatched against their newer information on Don Rhodes. Ditto with the Templars. | ||
− | That's the rub, though. <u>'''The "reality ripple" incident does not account for any of it, this was - or is - an isolated issue.'''</u> | + | <br>That's the rub, though. <u>'''The "reality ripple" incident does not account for any of it, this was - or is - an isolated issue.'''</u> |
At first we thought maybe there had been mass-tampering, top-office redaction, a security leak. Maybe it wasn't the same guy? None of those checked out within the parameters we were working with, so we tapped the United States government and that's when the rabbit hole deepened. | At first we thought maybe there had been mass-tampering, top-office redaction, a security leak. Maybe it wasn't the same guy? None of those checked out within the parameters we were working with, so we tapped the United States government and that's when the rabbit hole deepened. | ||
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**All documents related to his DoB suffer a similar permutation effect. Basically any observations, such as in medical reports; check-ups, that relied on his age as a frame of reference all cited something different and were thus all of varying conclusions. This is less apparent with, say, Illuminati records - but of course that is because they rely on internal metrics and usually not crap like birthdays. | **All documents related to his DoB suffer a similar permutation effect. Basically any observations, such as in medical reports; check-ups, that relied on his age as a frame of reference all cited something different and were thus all of varying conclusions. This is less apparent with, say, Illuminati records - but of course that is because they rely on internal metrics and usually not crap like birthdays. | ||
*All accounts of his physical and mental states point to drastic changes that, again, contradict info from the Big Three et al, but also <u>directly overlap</u> with periods of time documented by the secret societies. Again, giving us the impression that this is a totally different guy, but every method available to us and our contractors scream "this is the same guy." Aggravating to say the least. | *All accounts of his physical and mental states point to drastic changes that, again, contradict info from the Big Three et al, but also <u>directly overlap</u> with periods of time documented by the secret societies. Again, giving us the impression that this is a totally different guy, but every method available to us and our contractors scream "this is the same guy." Aggravating to say the least. | ||
− | **This is something we found out | + | **This is something we found out recently, but his bank history describes periods of activity ''in both Tokyo and Cairo'' that could not possibly have existed. Take our word for it, it'll save you the headache. |
− | The weirdest thing about all of the above is that we had never seen such a clean and organic body of paperwork, free of interference. It feels like someone incredibly talented, world-class even, had been paid to doctor all of it and got lazy half-way through. | + | <br>The weirdest thing about all of the above is that we had never seen such a clean and organic body of paperwork, free of interference. It feels like someone incredibly talented, world-class even, had been paid to doctor all of it and got lazy half-way through. |
− | But there was absolutely no evidence of tampering or even ''scrutiny'' over the most obvious of discrepancies until we came along. Everything we do as people has a trace, a link, a suspicion behind it - this is what our ''jobs are predicated on'' here at the Black Watchmen, but not only did we find nothing, nobody in the relevant channels seemed to question obvious and crucial mistakes - that worries us. '''A lot.''' | + | But there was absolutely no evidence of tampering or even ''scrutiny'' over the most obvious of discrepancies until we came along. Everything we do as people has a trace, a link, a suspicion behind it - this is what our ''jobs are predicated on'' here at the Black Watchmen, but not only did we find nothing, nobody in the relevant channels seemed to question obvious and crucial mistakes - that worries us. '''A lot.'''</font> |
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+ | What may be more concerning are the insinuations that Don Rhodes - a non-bee, a more or less average mortal man like the rest of us - was apparently dead as a doornail as of 2014. Hence the Big Three's former timeline. Couple this with the mess above and you have a big, volatile "He Said, She Said" situation. The only reason we've poured so much effort into him in the first place are those aforementioned appearances during unrelated investigations. | ||
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− | ''' | + | '''Overall: I wish I could say that we've gained a view of the bigger picture from the documents released by Viktor Verascu. That is not remotely the case.''' |
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+ | Officially, we are at our limit and will be ending our investigation here. Everything related to this body of information will be decided on a case-by-case basis until further notice. This is not up for discussion. | ||
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+ | We only have more questions on things that go completely above our heads, with no recourse and only thinly-veiled threats of disbandment should we stray off of the beaten path. Given all of that, we have picked out the one mission report leaked by Agent Verascu that has led us to making this decision. | ||
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+ | If you fancy digging deeper, turn in your equipment and go for it without us. As for the rest of us, we will have to feign closure and use the rest of the resources shared with us to take the Don Rhodes situation one step at a time. | ||
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+ | <center><span style="color:#D8D7D7">Initiate the full fathom five protocol - WHEN YOU WENT THROUGH, SOMETHING WENT WRONG</span></center> | ||
=== The Yellow Anchor Incident === | === The Yellow Anchor Incident === | ||
= Field Profile = | = Field Profile = | ||
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+ | Are they demon-possessed? A skilled Elementalist? Want to describe their awesome powers or trademark equipment they always carry? This is the place to do it. | ||
= Affiliations & Commentary = | = Affiliations & Commentary = | ||
+ | {{WIP}} | ||
Everyone knows someone. What groups, people, friends, and relatives does your character have ties to? Would other characters know them from a favorite hangout or a particular organization? | Everyone knows someone. What groups, people, friends, and relatives does your character have ties to? Would other characters know them from a favorite hangout or a particular organization? | ||
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== From the internal email servers of the Black Watchmen: == | == From the internal email servers of the Black Watchmen: == | ||
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