Hail Mary, Full Of Win

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Mary Argenti
Concept:	Transhumanist Computer nerd
Sect:	Anarch |
Clan:	Malkavian |
Generation:	13th
Coterie:	Here
City:	Canberra
Title:	Here
Sire:	Idiot Crow (Deceased)
Embraced:	2001 or so
Player:	Katie Harwood
Storyteller:	[mailto: Canberra VST]

"A dream long lost in the compulsive effort to fill space, to replicate some... image of self" - Personal Information

Hail Mary, Full of Win

the pwn is with thee
Blessed art thou among white hats
and blessed is the fruit of thy code, the h4xxor
L33t Mary, Mother of pwnage
admin for us noobs

now, and at the hour of our getting rekt. Amen.

Mary is a self-professed nerd and geek. She works heavily with computers and the internet, specialising in cyber security, surveillance, and information retention. She is frequently found to one side of the action, tapping away on some device, seeming a world away, or taking notes frenetically, the very embodiment of forty three tabs open, and which one of them is rickrolling me, dammit?

"So small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky" - Appearance

Mary is the very picture of a small nerd girl just passing her prime, a little overweight, and shorter than average. On closer inspection, some of her proportions are slightly wrong, as stretched or squashed in weird, unknown ways- the Embrace has done worse to others, after all. It seems as if she tries to dress somewhere on the border between goth and punk, but flashes of bright colour skew that look into something different and off-key

"Anybody any good at what they do, that’s what they are, right?" - Personality

Mary is largely deadpan, speaking in a monotone and generally not smiling. She seems quite content to sit and play with her tablet, or to talk, as long as the conversation is worthwhile. Her 'this could have been an email' vibe is strong.

While she has been called 'the sensible Malkavian', the presence of her clanmates does visibly affect her behaviour. Her usually bland speech comes faster, and her conversation is peppered with jumps and non sequiturs, some of which seem to make sense to the others of the Clan of the Moon.

"Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information" - Mortal Days

Mary speaks of her childhood sometimes, mostly in terms of her relationship with her brother, Dazza, and some unspecified sickness. Her parents were the children of Italian immigrants, who left Europe after the turmoil of Mussolini's tyranny.

After school, Mary owned (and still owns) an internet cafe of middling size, that has expanded since opening to include a little space for playing Dungeons and Dragons and board games, as well as a few consoles for local area play, and charging stations for tablets and phones. With the 'original owner' recently 'retiring', and the cafe being taken over by her 'niece', the expansion to more forms of entertainment is part of the 'new' business plan, to continue to keep the place relevant. As much as the regulars would rather die than leave, there's only so many Overwatch tournaments you can hold before people don't care enough to leave their houses.

"A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation..." - Kindred Nights

"Entire subcultures could rise overnight, thrive... and then vanish utterly" - Timeline

• 1980 - Is a child. She talks about some sort of illness sometimes.
  
• 1990 - Became heavily involved with computing and information technology. Once out of school, managed to score a job helping secure systems against Y2K failure, which then allowed her to open her own 'net cafe.
  
• 2001 - Embraced by Idiot Crow in the early part of the decade, and brought into the Camarilla court in Sydney. Idiot Crow is later killed by the Second Inquisition, and with the Camarilla court obvious in their disdain and nonchalance for his murder, Mary left, vowing never to return. She made contact with the Anarch Movement in the last years of the decade.
  
• 2010s - Existing, laying low, and doing small internet-based jobs for members of the Anarchs. Feel free to hit me up for ties!
  

Recent History

2021

2021 was a year of absence for Mary. Leaving her recently embraced brother behind with a frustrated sigh, she vanished. On her re-emergence in December, she said she'd been asked away for a mission to bring down an unnamed cryptocurrency, and had to go dark for safety's sake. In spite of her claims of non-contact, she returned with a young Gangrel named Roxy

2022

The early months of the year were full of activity (TBC)

"The spines split, bisected, split again..." - Generation

Known Sire

Idiot Crow {deceased}

Known Siblings

None known

Known Childer

Jaxx (adopted)

"Lines of light... clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding..." - Quotes

Quotes By

"Camarilla-bo-billa, banana-fana-fo-filla, me-mi-mo-milla, Camarilla" - In conversation about the perennial foes of the Anarchs

Heads down, heads down, my fellows of the Movement, heads down. The Inquisition is here and is ready to let the streets run with vitae again... Only bums up if you want to give them somewhere to park their bikes. - A panic-fueled Mary via the communication networks.

Quotes About

"She's family, real family, I mean." - Dazza, about his sister

"I feel like Mary knew me in another life? It's kind of scary. We met, and something just clicked, and now we gently bag each other out, swap gossip, and plot against the Camarilla. It's magic!" - Robbie

"No, ur face is magic" - Mary, in reply

"Perhaps the only kindred I've met who can match my uncle Theo step for step in the world of computers. I wonder if it's a Nosferatu trait?" - Anne

Conversations

Robbie- "So, in military slang, apparently 'eggs' means it's time to fuck off out of here."

Mary- "Yes."

Robbie- "So, what does mayonnaise mean?"

Mary- "Fuck off, but spicy."

Mary- "You were supposed to be RESPONSIBLE for OUR SON"

Robbie- "I mean, I don't think responsible is in my vocabulary?"

Mary- "<typing> . . . Jaxx, are you okay?"

Anne- "I'm Incognito tonight."

Robbie- "Where is 'cognito?'"

Mary- "Yer Mum."

"Beyond ego, beyond personality, beyond awareness, (s)he moved" - Rumours

• Is she really a Malkavian? Her clarity is too frequent, and her madness could be affected.
  • Gosh that's racist (clannist?) to say. Madness takes many forms.
• She's so close to her brother... maybe there's something there?
  • Ew, does she look like a Hecata?
    • Clannist.
• Why tf isn't she over the death of her sire yet?

"It was called dub, a sensuous mosaic cooked from vast libraries..." - Inspirations and Soundtrack

• Daria Morgendorffer
• Abby Sciuto
• Maud Pie
• Ciocie Cioelle
• Neuromancer- William Gibson
• Welcome To The Internet- Bo Burnham
• Control- Halsey: "I'm bigger than my body, I'm colder than this home, I'm meaner than my demons, I'm bigger than these bones."
• Psycho Killer- cover by Genesis Owusu and The Chats: "...I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax. I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire- Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire."
• UFO- cover by Ocean Grove: "Can you see the bright light shining, I don't know. Is it a reflection of anyone, the big glow? And tell me this is all good? and you say, "I don't know." I'm very, very far from home."
• Day N Nite- cover by Just A Gent: "Now look at this, madness to magnet keeps attracting me... day and night, the lonely (coder) seems to free (her) mind at night..."
• Internet- Dregg: "I can’t wait to tear away the skin. I can’t stand this body that i’m in- Why the fuck would i live in it again? When I die bury me in the internet, watch me resurrect... And transcend into the new definition of dead"
• Wolves Without Teeth- Of Monsters And Men for Darren: "I can see through you, we are the same. It's perfectly strange, you run in my veins."
• Fade In/Fade Out- Nothing More for Idiot Crow: "He said 'Son, I have watched you fade in, you will watch me fade out, when the grip leaves my hands, I know you won't let me down... In the night you'll dream of so many things, but find the ones that bring you life... that's where you'll find me'"
  • Burn- The Cure, as covered by Stabbing Westward Crow, for Mary: "You know that you will always lose this trembling, adored, tousled bird mad girl... but every night I burn, dream the crow black dream."
• Build That Wall (Zia's Theme)- Bastion OST for the Camarilla: "I dig my hole, you build a wall, one day your wall is gunna fall... so build that wall, and build it strong, cos we'll be there before too long."
• The Phoenix- Fall Out Boy for the Anarchs: "So we can take the world back from a heart attack, one maniac at a time we will take it back... Hey young blood, doesn't it feel like our time is running out? I'm gonna change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a phoenix."

Status

City

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Clan

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OOC Information

Member Information
Player:	Katie Harwood
Number:	2003100552
Domain:	Southern Cross