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08-29-2009, 05:59 PM
Origin story of my main Character;

=CARTER AND CHASE=
Creating a better future, today.
Project Hellborne:
Dr. Gregory Barton

July 2 1984:
Possession… Virtually every culture and religion has conceived the notion of some Daemonic presence that takes control over a host body. Some cultures believe that possession is not exclusive to humans but animals, plants even inanimate objects like a chair or even this very computer can be possessed by some other-worldly force…
Some cases of human possession include the possession of a young boy, one “Roland Doe” as he is referred to, from Mt. Rainer, Maryland in 1949. The child suffered from a series of nightmares, the boy was taken to a mental hygiene clinic in Maryland for testing, overnight lesions where discovered on the boy’s body. At this point the reverend Schultz (the man who administered the boy to the clinic) took the boy to see a priest, one father Albert Hughes. The priest was granted permission to exercise the child on March 16 1949. Throughout the Ritual the boy thrashed violently, hissed and spat. ****** scratched depicting the words hell and demons were said to have appeared on his chest and the boy would scream out in pain as the priests carried out their incantation.
Another Famous and more recent case of possession was of a young German woman named Anneliese Michel in 1973. The girl began hearing voices and suffered from hallucinations which led to her developing suicidal tendencies. She was sent to an unnamed psychiatric hospital where she was prescribed several drugs ranging from antipsychotics to treatments for schizophrenia. She was exorcised on 1976. I have in my possession (no pun intended) the recordings of the girls exorcism. While the tapes were somewhat distressing to listen to, my views on Daemonic possession remained skeptical at best.

It was only when I had witnessed my first (and hopefully my last) real exorcism that my eyes were truly opened to the concept of Daemonic possession. The subject was a young girl living in the town of Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland. The girl will be referred to as “Jane Doe”.
Jane’s initial symptoms included auditory and visual hallucinations, lesions on her lower abdomen that resembled animal scratches and her hands and feet had entered necrosis. Jane had been committed to a psychiatric hospital to help deal with her problem. During the first few nights several inmates and one of the attending nurses had committed suicide. AS the days went by Jane’s condition worsened and her father took her to see a priest, one father Maclaughlin. Father Maclaughlin had obtained permission to perform an exorcism on Jane and I was sent by Carter and Chase to observe this spectacle on June 27. I must admit I was quite excited but once I had stepped into the room that housed that girl I knew I had come face to face with something truly evil. Jane had been tied to a surgical table and at the base of the table was a crudely chalked out pentagram.
What I witnessed was not the outburst of some poor schizophrenic child but something all together more horrifying. As the priests began their incantation I could see something writhing under her skin. She began hissing and growling in a language that was unknown to me. Her face contorted into a gruesome visage and she was looking right at me… no… she wasn’t looking at me… it was looking at me… it was clear that the girl was no more and what I was looking at was simply a vessel. There had been several attempts to exorcise Jane. One of which it had managed to break loose of one of her restraints and broke the neck of a young priest trying to restrain it. Each attempt it would look at me and twist its lips in a vile parody of a grin, always looking at me with those milky dead eyes. On the last attempt, June 30, Jane let out a horrified scream before slumping down lifelessly on the surgical table. As per Carter and Chase’s instructions I took the recording equipment and the girl’s body, despite the protests of the priest and the girl’s parents, back with me to the lab. A team would be sent to deal with them… if they were lucky…

After conducting an autopsy on Jane I discovered some disturbing results… Time of death was not June 30, judging by the rate of decomposition, time of death was put at June 22… cause of death was possibly a combination of dehydration and malnutrition… internal organs show advanced signs of decay, signs of cerebral atrophy were present... Whatever was inside her had managed to parody human behavior to some extent… if it had convinced the family that it was her and she had been released from the hospital… I dread to think what kind of evil would have been unleashed upon the world… I’ll start reviewing the recordings tomorrow

July 3 1984:
The video recordings proved to be even more unnerving than the actual exorcism itself… they say that cameras can detect things that are invisible to the naked eye… in this case they were right… the things that I saw, oh god, the final exorcism something left her body. A shadowy object that appeared for only a split second… and it was looking right at me the whole time. When I listened to the tapes I swore I could hear something calling my name. I’ve never been so frightened in my life.

July 7 1984:
One of my colleagues heard that Carter and Chase had sent Harry Logan to Carrickfergus… those poor *******s… a black ops team would have been a mercy.

November 19 1990:
Just heard a rumor that the men upstairs at C&C HQ are getting nervous. Apparently one of the 4R-K4M combat robots has become self-aware. I have dismissed this as utter nonsense. Yes the machines are programmed to learn, but that’s restricted to combat only and nothing else. Imagine if the coffee machine started contemplating the nature of the universe…

November 22 1990:
Word is we are being sent something from HQ, hopefully its some new computers. I don’t know how they expect us to conduct research with these outdated pieces of crap

November 25 1990:
The robot of all ****** things, they sent us the robot. Carter and Chase want me to analyze the damn thing. I don’t understand what it has to do with my research but I can’t really argue with them since at the end of the day they’re the ones funding my research.

++Additional++
The rumours are true, it actually thinks it’s alive. It has even constructed a vocal unit so it can communicate verbally in any voice it wants (I have had to ask it several times to stop using my voice). It seems to question the things it has done over the years and shows signs of remorse. I have found that this is not a standard K4M unit but the prototype. This artificial personality is probably a glitch in the software however it is reason enough for C&C to recall all K4M models for disassembly. Why they don’t just do the same with this one is a mystery to me. One of the assistants has nicknamed it Arkham (possibly due to its model number and the location of the lab that manufactured it)

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08-29-2009, 06:00 PM
January 02 1991:
I think I understand what Arkham has to do with my research… and that makes it all the more unsettling… the realisation came about when we tried deactivating him a few days ago to recharge his power cells. We tried simply switching him off at first and when that didn’t work we tried simply removing the power cells, we even removed the backup ones and he was still functioning. This was impossible, he should have been deactivated the second we removed his power source. One of my assistants had been reading a book that was published ten years ago titled “The Soul of a New Machine” and that’s when I asked the question. Could it be possible for a machine to develop a soul, and this simply isn’t a parody of life?

January 22 1991:
Arkham described his dreams to me. Each dream is virtually the same, only the locations change. In each dream he is human and he’s always performing some mundane task but at the end of them he is always taken to a place of worship. I have asked him about his thoughts on religion and he seems open to the possibility of there being a god or some supreme spiritual being. I have heard reports of unusual behaviour on his part. One of my newer assistants has told me that there are times where he simply sits on his bed for hours.

April 05 1991:
There have been reports of strange noises coming from Arkham’s room at night almost like he’s muttering something. I have fitted a recording device under his bed.

April 06 1991:
Arkham described his latest dream to me… In this dream he was in a small port town and that he was being watched by some girl. In the end he was brought to a church. When the doors were opened he saw the girl standing at an altar smiling at him. I asked him to describe the girl. The description of the girl fit that of Jane’s. I had to leave the session at that.

++Additional++
Oh god… I examined the tapes recorded by the device under Arkham’s bed… He was speaking in the same guttural language that Jane was speaking in during her exorcism…

April 11 1991:
Arkham is becoming more and more unstable; He has been confined to his quarters until further notice. I have been monitoring his behaviour via the security camera in his quarters and I swear that there are times where he is looking right back at me and not the camera. Like his eyes are looking directly at mine.

April 12 1991:
I don’t know how and I don’t know why but it’s followed me. That damn thing followed me here and now it’s inside Arkham. I understand the dreams now. Those people Arkham dreamed about, they were the Daemons previous hosts. It keeps asking to talk to me but I’m too frightened to even leave my quarters. Every time I close my eyes I see the twisted grimace of that little girl.

++Additional++
I have received a message from Carter and Chase; A team has been dispatched… god only knows what for…

April 13 1991:
The team from C&C HQ arrived. They were here to extract the entity from Arkham and take it back with them for further diagnosis. Arkham was frightened confused and resisted resulting in them using an EMP pulse to subdue him that made things worse. Arkham had been fighting a losing battle. Two distinct personalities vying for dominance, Arkham and the entity and in subduing Arkham the entity was able to fully take control over his body. All I could do is watch helplessly as the machine twisted and contorted into a beast like form and slaughter those in its path. The Daemon found the perfect host in Arkham. Were Humans are weak creatures of flesh, Arkham… was a soldier created for a war that never happened. One that felt no pain, never needed to eat, never needed to sleep. I have locked myself in my quarters… all I can hear is gunshots, people screaming and the Daemons manic laughter.

April 14 1991:
Arkham was able to regain what little control he had over his body and has agreed to be restrained in his quarters… I have contacted a priest so that we can safely rid ourselves of the Daemon… I fear that simply destroying Arkham would run the risk of the Daemon taking hold at the wrong moment and freeing itself

April 15 1991:
Carter and Chase, those *******s! They’ve sent him! He’s just destroyed Arkham and now he’s coming for me! There’s nowhere for me to hide


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Archived Post
08-29-2009, 06:26 PM
Like it so far. Decoded the binary. Like how you use the concept of robots having souls. In fact I am writing a Science Fiction book about an android in the future.

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08-29-2009, 06:29 PM
About Arkham(name may change if these are taken which they probably will...) is the embodyment of two what ifs;
1)What if a machine developed a soul
2)What if said machine became possessed by a Daemon

Powersets and attack Style
Arkham is a combat droid that focuses melee combat and ranged combat - think Shadow Warrior specced in Scout and Assault, but with more focus in assault... and less gimped- (havent decided on which melee powerset, but gadgeteering chainsaw gauntlet is a must have for me) however the Daemon inside him is able to manifest itself in the form of chains that he can use to attack his opponents or as a method of transportation.

Personality:
Despite being Daemonically Possessed Arkham is not a bad person although fighting for control over his body with an otherworldy force has left him somewhat unhinged and there are moments where he will buzz out (saying the same thing repeatedly, saying something creepy... or playing ink spots "I dont want to set the world on fire") or the Daemon takes full controll making him slightly unpredictable in any situation. He strives to do the right thing although the Daemon will try to steer him the other way.

The Daemon:
The Daemon is Arkhams source of power, as Arkham is the perfect host it will do anything to protect him (well his body). It is quite sarcastic and has a very dark sense of humour, it is beleived to be one of the major Daemons (possibly a president) although it wont say who or what it is.

Nemesis:
Harry Logan has been dispatched to Millenium City

Notes:
Exorcism is out of the question: the Daemon has carved a sigil on Arkham binding itself to his body.
No hes not named after the Arkham asylum and yes I am a Lovecraft freak :P

Archived Post
08-30-2009, 10:19 AM
Like it so far. Decoded the binary. Like how you use the concept of robots having souls. In fact I am writing a Science Fiction book about an android in the future.

Heh thanks, glad you like it. Im busy working on a few short stories myself but I never get round to finnishing most of them x.x

also.. doh! should have reserved that sport for the character bio >,<

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08-31-2009, 01:08 AM
1)What if a machine developed a soul
2)What if said machine became possessed by a Daemon


HAL!
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Okay, maybe not, but I'm slapping this reply in here so I can edit it with my full thoughts on your origins story later. There looks to be a lot of content there, so doubtless it will require a considerable amount of undivided attention time. ;)