Rebecca's Reports (5)

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Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Hey, Sonnac, it’s me, your old favorite. Reports enclosed on my observations, written by only the best, the brightest, the sexiest agent we have, yours truly, as ordered, etc. -R.C.
Word Count: 1094
Rating: Teen
Spoilers marked by the name

 

Freddy Beaumont (Chapter 63 Echoes)

Beaumont has done a good job blending in and pretending to be just your average sorceror pulled into a hippie cult, but he’s anything but peace-loving. (Then again, from what Desmond has uncovered, that’s true of the cult in general. He’s trying to use a sword artifact (possibly Excalibur) to end the world in a particularly Norse style. I’m not really sure whether he’s acting on Morninglight orders or just kind of going on his own rampage, or if they’d even care. According to Desmond, they kind of are acting as a doomsday cult, so maybe the more apocalypses (I have to bug Shaun about the plural of ‘apocalypse’), the better. He’s looking for the right spot on Solomon Island to use it, so we’ve been looking into ley lines and trying to trace his history and we haven’t found much more of a trail than Desmond so far. Trying to trace his history or records, digital or paper, has been absolutely useless so far. Divining seems to just slide off him which is something Shaun’s never seen before, and between you and me that has him really freaked out. The best lead we’ve had recently is something else Desmond discovered: apparently he had a deal with the Phoenicians and screwed them over. We might have a better time tracing people around him and drawing the picture from there. Even if he’s ridiculously careful (even more so than Desmond, weirdly enough), his associates aren’t.

 

Katherine (Chapter 64 Echoes)

Katherine is mostly just a traumatized sweetheart. She’d been following Desmond around for a while trying to make up her mind as to whether he was a human that could be trusted, and the fact that she’s still following him (and fully willing to eat food from him or Rukh) tells me Desmond’s getting an adorable dog sooner or later which will be really cool. It’s possible that her owner really freaked her out due to the fog making them act like zombies before it actually turned them into zombies, but given the drama involved with her adoption I have the sinking feeling that’s not the case. Some people shouldn’t be dog parents.

Ami Dexter (Chapter 66 Echoes)

Montag’s actually the one to put us on to Ami Dexter, who not only inherited her father’s power as a shaman but seems to be stronger. (She’s the source for the ‘cleansing the land from tragedy’ advice that Shaun relayed to you and you relayed to that team in the Congo and saved their butts.) If anything, she’s stronger, though my guess is that’s because she seems to have more instinctual understanding of how it works and therefore didn’t have to rely on forgotten tradition to actually use it. She does know what her father knew, but compared to historical shamans there’s a gap.

Shaun would like to direct you to Gladstone’s theories about that, though. If you want to actually look at the records, it’s Volume CIV page 227, but the gist is, some of the settlers, who knew about the relationship between the shaman and the earth, destroyed the land on purpose (cutting down ancient trees, quarrying, polluting the water) in order to weaken the shamans and opposition. It’s a kind of sobering thought, huh? And worrying, with the Filth in Agartha. Particularly for allies like Zuberi.

And, of course, they’re kind of relying on her to stay there and keep the worst of the island in check, without even offering a single penny to her or anybody living in the trailer park. They’d probably fire back that we’re not doing that, either, but we don’t have the budget we did, unlike them, and we’re also not asking them to do unpaid work to keep our prestigious school running, so they might be a little more invested than we are. Just not with money.

 

managed to include a detail from her cutscenes that didn’t actually make it into the actual story!

Kyra Dexter (Chapter 66 or 67 Echoes)

Under any other circumstances, Kyra would be the typical rebellious teenager complaining about her parents not understanding her. She just happens to be stuck with her mom and her uncle in the middle of a potential apocalypse. And she’s managed to reach the point where even her favorite game on her phone’s getting stale. Not to the point she doesn’t want someone to notice and praise her high scores. I get it, Kyra. And I’ll celebrate those scores even if nobody’s paying attention. (It might be a little weird for me actually to come out and say that to you, under the circumstances, but yeah, I see you.”

 

Bill Dexter (Chapter 67 Echoes)

Bill Dexter is Ami’s ex-husband. Like many of the townsfolk, he got pulled into the sea and probably got turned into a zombie. As much as I’d like to think otherwise, the odds aren’t too great, given the survival rate in the town. I wouldn’t even bother writing a note about him, but for two things: as I’ll note separately on my notes on the Farm, Desmond reacted to the name Bill. That’s the name of his father, who leads the cult, so that’s helpful. The other thing? Ami. I don’t think it’s too likely, but it’s possible that something could use him against her.

 

Technically, Prince Hall started the Black American branch of the Freemasons, but I legit don’t think the Secret World differentiates between the two. And/or they just have connections.

The Hall Twins (Chapter 69 Echoes)

The Hall Twins are related to, yeah, those Halls. The ones that started with Prince Hall, who established the first Black Illuminati branch and advocated for abolition and freed slaves to become members of the Illuminati. You know I’m not Old Guard, so I don’t care too much about Helwing’s monster-hunting familial status or the fact that Horal’s actually related to one of the old Grandmasters, and if you listen to the Lumies they don’t care about that kind of thing, but they do care about bloodline, sometimes. It is important, in some circumstances. A tree’s roots go deep, or whatever the Old Guard likes to repeat like a bad record. But that kind of thinking comes out in the magic, too. You get too deep, you get stuck, and it’s harder to think on your feet, to improvise, to do anything but follow the status quo without a second thought. The Hall Twins don’t seem to have fallen into that trap, at least not yet.