Strider
Warlock of the Silver Ladder
Born: January 29, 1980
Age: 33
Rank: Disciple of Space and Life (maybe Adept of Space)
Titles/Memberships:
Various nicknames and aliases:
Concept: Cryptopoly information provider (Virtue: Hope, Vice: Pride)
Physical description: A paragon of business-like efficiency: white shirt, black tie, black jacket, sunglasses.
Nimbus: Burning flames filled with eyes, surrounding and watching you from every direction; distant screaming always from behind.
Timeline
Awakened: 2002
Initial Master: Harp, estranged
Current Master: Thane
- 1995-1999: Teenage life, not a time Strider reveals much about.
- 1999-2002: Becomes increasingly involved in providing information and services to the Cryptopoly, although Strider doesn't go into details he does say it included working with occult groups, but that he didn't yet know the Truth.
- 2002: Awakened, and joins Silver Ladder as an acolyte of the Lighthouse.
- 2002-2006: Early apprenticeship, assisting Harp, Maximillian, and the Silver Ladder. Strider continues his involvement in the Cryptopoly.
- 2006: Tragedy strikes and two younger acolytes, Harmony and Black Knight are killed, but Strider survives. Strider leaves his apprenticeship with Harp and strikes off on his own, disappearing while the other students of the Lighthouse, Maximillian and Cuffs form a cabal.
- 2007: Strider returns to Awakened society, but keeps at a distance from the Lighthouse.
- 2008-2009: Strider continues to build his Cryptopoly network and assist others, sharing assets with other Silver Ladder mages (including Harp, but only through the network, and never directly).
- 2010: It becomes known that Strider has joined the Reality Stalkers and gained the first attainment. He master is Thane, a little known and reclusive Mastigos Apostate who is occasionally seen in Brisbane.
- 2011-2012: Strider networks with other mages and cabals, using the assets of the Cryptopoly to pass information on to contacts such as Watchlight (and Ardent Compass) and (Sean's character).
Please contact me if you think you would have got information from Strider in your background at some point, and we can work something out.
Recent events
2011
Floods have a way of covering up things, but they can also uncover things better left hidden. In the wake of the 2011 floods, Strider received reports through his network of some strange happenings in western Brisbane, possible related to an ancient aboriginal site that had been revealed by the floods.
Strider passed the information on to Watchlight, as he has done many times in the past, who was then able to arrange an investigation, discover the history of the site, and find a spirit that had been released and taken over a local gang leader and preparing to sacrifice some hostages on the site. After Strider did a bit more investigation to find the gang's current whereabouts, Watchlight and some other mages were able to confront and defeat them, rescue the hostages, and then heal the possessed person, driving the spirit from them.
2012
Strider learnt through his contacts about a number of disappearances and assaults around the Jupiters Casino precinct on the gold coast, culminating in a death which the police were trying to keep quiet due to some occult aspects. Not being able to find much more out through scrying, but confirming with his contacts that it was a "monster", Strider contacted [Sean’s character] and filled him in on the situation, knowing he worked with a few other mages who might be able to look into the situation.
It can be difficult for Strider to work out what [Sean’s character] might go for, and sometimes the answer comes back as “not interested” (which tends to frustrate Strider), however in this case [Sean’s character] said he wouldn’t mind a holiday down the Coast.
[Sean’s character] led a group of other mages down to spend their days on the beach and their nights staking out the area. It wasn't long before they found a ghouled high roller who was taking some recent losses rather personally. Even with their magic and enhanced guns, it took quite a bit to take the big guy down.
2013
- ?
Quotes
Quotes by
Quotes about
Conversations
Rumours
- Had run ins with the law when he was a teenager and has a police record.
- Is actually the heir to a massive fortune.
- Has contacts throughout the Silver Ladder Cryptopoly and spies on everybody.
- Killed the other two acolytes, Harmony and Black Knight, and is actually a servant of the Abyss.
- Has ties with the Italian mafia.
- Is secretly a member of the Lawkeepers cabal.
- Is secretly a member of the Ardent Compass cabal.
Inspirations and Soundtrack
- The Matrix
- Men in Black
- Jumper
OOC Info
Member Information | |
Player: | Sly Gryphon |
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Number: | AU 2013010009 (9861-132) |
Domain: | Brisbane |
- Still a work in progress (until the chronicle starts)