Monday, July 29, 2013

A little light reading.

Before anything else, we're at our new setting. There's a beach, and a nice, big forest. Bit worried with the size of it. Worried we won't be able to trek it in time to minimize risk. If and when we do, it'll be in teams of two, of course.
It's a hub, so there should be plenty of Proxy activity, hiding somewhere anyways. Haven't seen any yet.
For now, for today and tomorrow, I'm doing nothing but reading my precious fantasy and sci-fi. I need to relax a bit. I'm telling the other guys to relax too.
Now for my report on Proxy psych evals 1-9

Primary Cluster. Captured during my rescue of Keith.

Proxy 01:
Name Given: Johnathan Longrider
Age: Estimated Mid 20's
High School Graduate: Yes, though took summerschool to meet requirements.
College: No, claims to have gone straight into working at the warehouse we found him at.
Personality: Comes across as gruff. Would be defined as choleric in tempermant. Seems to want leadership position, but was never "good" enough for it. Resented leader of the group. Seems almost happy that I killed her.
Psychoses: Deluded into believing himself superior to everything but "father" Assumed to be talking about our final target. Mildly paranoid, doesn't trust the other members of his group. Believes they were all out to keep him from being in charge. Study of his body reveals injuries that neither I nor Keith dealt him, mostly bruising, though a few abrasions from being shoved against a wall. Wrist shows indications of being restrained, though I suspect that was from Keith's restraints. (Edit: When asked, the other members admit to using zipties to restrain him when he gets too wild.) Either he was beat by his group, or he lost a fight for what he saw as the alpha-position.
Childhood: Father abandoned family at age 13. Resented him for it. Mother died at age 15, causes unknown. Foster care was hell for him. Very few friends, most of which left him after he had no parents.
Pathing: No indication he has the ability. Left alone in a room unrestrained for 30 minutes with the threat of further interrogation. Stayed in the room.
End Notes: I assume his lack of trust stems from childhood. His calling the target "father" Could result from abandonment issues, though I doubt that all the Proxies that refer to it as "father" have abandonment issues. The probability is simply too low. Ask online later.

Proxy 02:
Name Given: Tyler
Age Estimate: Estimated Late Teens.
High School: Graduated
College: Accepted. Didn't start yet.
Personality: Weak, somewhat submissive. Would classify as Phlegmatic. Seemed to have fawned over the leader. Swore me out for killing "Jessica." It was the only noted hostility. Was very willing to divulge what little information he had.
Psychoses: Minor inferiority complex. Believed anyone and everyone was better than him altogether. Had even more mild superiority complex regarding intellect. Regards Proxy 01 with little respect, despite holding the rest of the cluster with high regard.
Childhood: Scars and high regard for intellect indicates beatings for poor grades. Evasive when probed for information. Seems to think he deserved it, but dislikes both parents regardless. Had many "friends." I would define none as "true friends." Standard teen behavior holding popularity above most things. No girlfriend. Seemed to want to make sure that got recorded for some reason.
Pathing: No indication of Pathing capabilities.
End Notes: I freed him from his restraints around day two. He showed little to no interest in hurting me. I suspect his swing at my head was due to little more than emotional rage at "Jessica" being dead and looking for a way to belong. Childhood abuse could possible be a reason for calling it "father"

Proxy 03:
Name Given: Refuses to give a name. Other Proxies refer to him as Shade.
Age Estimate: Based on Educational career; 19-21
High School: Graduated
College: Two Years.
Personality: Acts mysterious. Revealed information when probed. Would classify as somewhere between Melancholic and Phlegmatic. He seems to want to separate himself from others by being vague and mysterious, yet thrives on the attention it gets him. He is a follower, and doesn't seem to know exactly what he wants in life.
Psychoses: Superiority complex. Plain and simple.
Childhood: Some bull about a dark past. I suspect nothing was wrong with his childhood ignoring mild neglect.
Pathing: Claims to have the ability, but showed no aptitude, even after extensive torture.
End Notes: It would be a stretch to connect his neglect to using the term "father", but who knows. Would call a hipster.

Proxy 04:
Name Given: Deceased before I could interrogate. Proxy 02 Called her Jessica
Age Estimate: 21-23
High School: Other Proxies followed in a manner that would suggest she had finished High School.
College: I suspect she went onto college by the way she dressed, and the fact that Proxy 02 mentioned meeting her in a college library.
Personality: Unknown. Assumed leader type. Probably likable, seeing as most of the cluster followed willingly.
Psychoses: Unknown.
Childhood: Unknown.
Pathing: Unknown.
End Notes: Wish she had survived. Interrogating the leader of a cluster would have been useful. Would have had an unique perspective on cluster dynamics.

Secondary Cluster. Found, Shot, and Captured by Keith.
(Note: Worked with Primary Cluster. Proxy 05 served as a secondary leader. Ultimately subservient to Proxy 04.)

Proxy 05:
Name Given: Rebecca Juillana
Age Given: 25 Birthday June 13
High School: Graduate
College: Graduate
Post Grad: Was working on a law degree.
Personality: Rather Charming. Caught myself tempted to release her a few times. Almost took a headbutt once. Very dangerous. Keith may have been in trouble if he met her before his mission. Leader type personality. Everyone in the secondary cluster looked up to her. Asked me questions back, seemed to be poking and prodding at my beliefs. May have thought I could be turned if pushed hard enough.
Psychoses: None that I can discern, aside from typical Proxiness.
Childhood: Popular throughout school. Performed in Drama, choir, and band. Claims she was rather bad in band. Decent scholastically. Had a total of three AP classes, all of which were history or law based.
Pathing: Said she is unable to Path.
End Notes: She new I was going to kill them all. She attempted to make me question my morality. I was already somewhat shaken from the primary cluster, and I think she picked up on that. Going to have to be more careful showing weakness to proxies. I see no psychological reason for her to have been a Proxy. (Note: She drained somewhat less Azoth than the rest of the cluster.)

Proxy 06:
Name Given: Tylor
Age Estimate: Late Teens
High School:Graduate
College: Would have been going into first year.
Personality: Melancholic/Sanguine. Was friends with Proxy 02. Took the leadership role in that friendship, willing to not be leadership in the cluster. Keith says he was very good at fighting. I suspect he beat up bullies before he turned. Seemed friendly. Somewhat Jockish. Light. Maybe Lacrosse or wrestling. Not a football or hockey build. (Confirmed Lacrosse player)
Psychoses: None noticeable. Seemed a bit ginger to criticisms.
Childhood: Friends with Proxy 02. Went the athletic route while his friend took the academic. Claims that his father was an alumni and wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. I suspect his father was overly critical of him. I also suspect he wound up threatening Proxy 02's father after finding out that Proxy 02 was whipped with a belt. Very passionate about protecting Proxy 02.
 Pathing: No
End Note: Possible verbal abuse from father connects to "father" term. Flew into a rage when he found out that I was planning to kill all of them. Told me I could kill him, but that I should let Proxy 02 go.

Proxy 07:
Name Given: Lizzy
Age Given: 17
High School: Dropout
Personality: Terrifying. Would define as Choleric. Friendly some of the time, but flies into a rage at the slightest provocation.
Psychoses: Berzerk, Possible Schizophrenic.
Childhood: Grew up on the streets. Possibly raped. Flinched when I approached to touch her arm. Definitely beaten. Dropped out of high-school because of poor grades.
Pathing: Thank god no.
End Notes: Bat-shit insane. Tried to bite my nose off at one point. Had to add further restraints. Had greater amount of Azoth than others in the cluster. I suspect Med or Annalee would find that it was concentrated in such a way that would indicate insanity. I, however, do not do dissections, nor do I know neurological surgery stuff.

Proxy 08:
Name Given: Jordan Reyna
Age Given: 22
High School: Graduate
College: Dropped out Freshman year and went to community college.
Personality: Party girl. Definitely Sanguine. Asked several times for alcohol. Flirted with me, a lot. Seemed kind of stand offish from the rest of the cluster. Treated it like a job. Said she moved when asked. I suspect her old cluster was more "fun."
Childhood: Relaxed. Parents drunk a lot, but loved her the same. Wound up getting drunk for the first time at age 15. Had sex at 16. Very graphic in description.
Psychoses: None determinable. Might be somewhat insecure.
Pathing: No.
End Notes: I suspect she was trying to get some minor victory by making me feel uncomfortable. Drained somewhat less Azoth than others in the cluster.

Proxy 09:
Name Given: Ouroboros
Age Estimate: No clue
High School: Speaks like a graduate
College: Said he remembers a frat. I suspect he graduated.
Personality: Nothing like Proxy 03. Actually is mysterious, and seemed to be there from another cluster. Nobody else knew him, at all. They had never seen him.
Childhood: unknown.
Psychoses: Unknown.
Pathing. No.
End Notes: Probably shouldn't have killed him. He knew more about me than he should have, and he had no connection to the cluster. I suspect he was there to keep tabs on me. He had a symbol tattooed onto his back made out of dead Azoth, it was, fittingly enough, a snake eating it's own tail.

End of Report.

Yeah. So I mentioned Azoth amount. I drained them all and then cremated them. Proxy 04 was problematic. The Azoth had been dead before I tried draining it, and I didn't know how to liquify it, turns out there had been a little left when I went to cremate her. She exploded a little bit and I felt terrible. I had meant to spread their ashes over the town, give them a human death, you know? The explosion blew it all out into the crematorium. (Note. They did give me weird looks, but money was money for the guy running the place.) Needless to say, we left about then.

Anyone have any good books to recommend? I'm feeling humorish right now.

3 comments:

  1. I know they probably deserved to die, but...

    It still seems...cruel. But it's not like it's your fault, Linux. It's just my overly sympathetic sense of justice talking.

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    1. As far as I feel, they really didn't. But they died before I met them. They died when they turned. I felt sick the whole time, but I couldn't just leave them. They'd hurt other Runners, or kill them. Can't let that happen, as a rule of thumb. Proxies aren't who they were before, not really.

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  2. More to pass on to Carter...might be a bit useful though. Sorry you had to go through that, kid. -- Jack

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