Accabish
Afterward the death, the Angel that became Accabish completed the necessary cleanup work for her mission. Identities were erased, records destroyed. Then she began to process the events. That her daughter was dead. that she let her die. Madness overcame her. She did not return to the God-Machine’s facility after her mission. She Fell. She had a new mission. Her daughter had died. She was going to get revenge.
Accabish can’t recall her daughter’s name. Those memories were too painful to hold onto and too important to lose. She’s commissioned a private server for that. She knows dimly that her daughter was hers, a true child of an angel. Her death at 15 was vitally important to the God-Machine’s plans. What those plans were remain a mystery. But she will find out. Then she will smash the machine.
Accabish is a Guardian and took Double Agenda so she is both an Inquisitor and a Saboteur. Her name means Spider in Hebrew which is how she operates. There is also a strong Medea aspect to the character (as in the Greek mythological figure). I look forward to when she acts on her wrath.
For now she pretends to be Priscilla Webb: socialite, writer, and editor of the Slog. The original Priscilla entered a deal with Accabish almost a decade ago. The young journalist got her big break: the fame, the promotion and the accolades. Then Accabish claimed her soul.
Despite her visible presence in high society and politics, Priscilla has few relationships of real depth. Outside of work and other professional relationship, she associates with almost no one. Even most Demons don’t suspect she is anything other than a well-informed mortal.
Her strongest mortal connection is with Vince Wilkins. The IT professional maintains her servers and helps track down information for her. He has some sense of what she’s gone through but even he doesn’t have the full picture. The only person she might have shared that with died long ago.
Vince is her 3 dot Retainer.
Accabish didn’t give me much for her compromise questions.
Her second closest connection is a corrupt politician who has been blackmailing her. Donna Angstrom thinks Priscilla is planning some sort of investment scam using insider information. Accabish allows her to think that so the demon can get close to her connections in city hall.
Recently a couple of interesting items have come across her desk. Last year, the University drained the wetlands near campus for a new museum. Though there was some outcry from ecoactivists, around the same time several people were attacked by an invasive fish living in the marshes. Three bodies turned up, savaged by some sort of predator, possibly the fish or something else. God-Machine projects often turn up in fours so she’s been looking for a fourth victim. All three were dropouts from the University (though some had left years ago) and a fourth dropout, named Tom Cabot, went missing around the same time.
Yesslar Terrace was once a lacuna for the Demons of the city. Events and people who visited the neighborhood tended to fade from memory. Last summer the veil dropped and she 'discovered' she had a reporter working there. Intriguingly Shaun Wykes appears prone to prophetic dreams concerning the God-Machine. Over the past couple of months, visions of a strangely shaped brain made up of cogs have upset his sleep. He sees it begin to tick along, waking up. She suspects a piece of Command and Control Infrastructure is coming online.
Philosophically she claims the God-Machine is corrupted or working off bad initial inputs. She figures that is also its Achilles heel. As to humanity, she can’t help to wish to protect them. They may be someone else’s children: innocent and naive. But they still need someone to look out for them.
For now she does not trusting her abilities enough to act on her own. But the road she is taking must lead to a direct confrontation with her creator.
Aspirations:
- Find the brain of Yesslar Terrance
- Find leverage on Donna Angstrom
- Relaunch the Gossip Column
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