The Widowed
04-26-2008, 09:15 PM
The dark alleys of London offered him respite from the scrutiny of pursuing eyes. What had he done? No...there was no question. He knew perfectly well. He remembered perfectly well.
The fresh blood still rolled and dribbled along the grip of his cane as he held it before his disquieted eyes. What had once been moments of delight had swiftly warped and darkened into episodes of horror, watching the chaos and violence unfurl as he lay trapped watching the terrible fugues from somewhere behind his own eyes.
"The potion...I must be rid of it, now and for all time!" the chemist snarled, unwilling to suffer its presence a moment longer. He drew the vial of unhallowed liquid from his coat and moved to hurl it away with sufficient vigor to shatter the glass and disperse its contents among the intermittent rivulets of rain.
But he paused, dismayed as a great shadow fell across him.
At the end of the alley towered a man...if a man he could be called, for he stood half again as tall as the chemist. The intruder's body rose with unseeming grace despite its freakishness, with limbs of unmatched lengths meeting their moorings at awkward angles. What lengths of skin lay exposed beneath the creature's crude hides and garments were scored with repulsive sutures, and the doctor peered deeply as he beheld how the skin tones on either side of any suture didn't quite match.
"I have found you," the Creature surmised without introduction. "You studied with my creator at the University of Ingolstadt. You became a friend to him as he read the works of science and learned to dismantle the pieces of God's providence, did you not?"
"I studied with many great minds," the doctor replied with timidity, glancing down to the fluid trembling within the vial's dark glass. "Without a name, I cannot know of which friend you speak."
A low grinding of teeth and rage prefaced the answer. "His name is Victor Frankenstein, the name of he who imbued this dead matter with unholy life and cast me so wantonly into this unforgiving world. And in vengeance have I sworn to take from him all which he held dear until he truly realizes the horror he birthed from his hubris. Now have I come for your life, Jekyll."
"I see," the chemist answered, his visage warping into a mocking and predatory leer as the last yellow drop of the potion dribbled from his lips. "Then come for me, monster, for I am the one you seek! I am indeed your quarry, Doctor Henry Jekyll!"
The tearing of fabric seams murmured as Dr. Jekyll amended his admission.
"...but not for long."
Combatant One:
http://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank01.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank02.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank03.jpg
Adam Frankenstein
Reanimated patchwork gestalt and bitter, vengeful outcast
First Literary Appearance: Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, published in 1818.
Scientist Responsible for His Creation: Victor Frankenstein
Bastardized Sciences Responsible for His Creation: Macrobiology and Biochemistry
Noteworthy Traits:
• Hideous appearance
• Crushing loneliness and need for acceptance or companionship
• A sense of guilt and personal responsibility which remains intact despite his crimes
• Vast physical strength
• Vast physical agility
• Vast physical endurance
• Great intellect and superhumanly swift learning capacity
• Immunity to cold
In Brief: Victor Frankenstein sought a means to topple death and bring the gift of immortality to mankind. To this end, he endeavored to create a living man from dead tissue, proving that resurrection was scientifically possible. Though the human parts he harvested from a multitude of cadavers were choice pieces selected to be both hardy and beautiful, the end result was a freakish and malformed hulk with warped, uneven features and an unwholesome yellow or pallid skin tone.
The Creature first attempted to befriend his creator, but Victor Frankenstein rejected his creation most vehemently and fled the manor, leaving the Creature to find his way through the world alone. All other people who encountered the Creature were no less hostile, save for a blind old man whose family the Creature had furtively aided for months. But the old man's son returned while the old man and the Creature were pleasantly chatting and immediately attacked the Creature, judging the monster to be a threat to his father by the Creature's appearance alone. With that last straw broken, the Creature burned the family's cottage and swore revenge against the creator who had cast him into such a violently unwelcoming world, declaring that he would destroy everything that Victor held dear just as Victor had robbed the Creature of his comfort and humanity.
After demonstrating his intentions by murdering or framing a few of Victor's friends and relatives, the Creature extended an olive branch: he would leave Victor and the human race behind if Victor would only create a bride to share in the Creature's solitude. But so utter was Victor's contempt for his creation that he ultimately denied the Creature his mate. Enraged with this fresh wound, the Creature threatened to up the stakes with his infamous vow, "I shall be with you on your wedding night!"
After the Deathmatch: Vindictively, the Creature kept his word and killed Elizabeth--Victor's newlywed wife--as retaliation for denying the Creature his mate. And everything went straight downhill from there, ultimately ending in Victor's death from exposure at the end of his Ahabian quest to kill his creation, as well as the Creature's retreat from the world and possible suicide among the ice floes of the Arctic north.
Combatant Two:
http://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde01.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde02.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde03.jpg
Edward Hyde
Savage Id monster spawned of an extreme chemically induced madness
First Literary Appearance: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein) by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886.
Scientist Responsible for His Creation: Henry Jekyll
Bastardized Sciences Responsible for His Creation: Biochemistry and Psychology
Noteworthy Traits:
• Hideous appearance
• Utter lack of conscience, inhibition or moral restraint, resulting in a wholly evil disposition
• Vast physical strength
• Great tolerance for pain or resistance to physical harm
• A talent for stealth, subterfuge and misdirection
• A devious intellect and feral cunning
• Savagery, a propensity for violence and a nasty habit of strangling people or beating them to death with a cane, his feet or whatever else is handy
• A more benign alternate physical form--Dr. Jekyll--who can interact more freely with the populace
In Brief: Dr. Henry Jekyll sought a means of separating his moral self from his darker instincts and desires, the better to embrace his dark side without fear of consequence or public recognition. And so, after completing extensive research and experimentation, he devised a potion to do just that.
Unfortunately, the formula worked too well. Dr. Jekyll completely lost control of his mind and his body during his transformations into Mr. Edward Hyde, his wicked alter ego who masqueraded as an entirely separate person. However, Jekyll's memories of whatever transpired during his spells as Mr. Hyde remained intact, and at first Dr. Jekyll delighted in the psychological freedoms in which the creature reveled. However, too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing, and Mr. Hyde gained more and more control over the whole, eventually growing so strong that Mr. Hyde would spontaneously emerge even without the transformative potion. At first, Mr. Hyde's spontaneous transformations occurred only as Dr. Jekyll slept, but before long the creature would emerge even while he was awake.
After the Deathmatch: Mr. Hyde continued killing innocents, soon even menacing or preying on the people whom Dr. Jekyll cared about. Jekyll's only hope lay in the second potion he had created, a formula which Jekyll could use to reverse the transformation before Hyde came to the fore. But his body developed a resistance, requiring more and more of the reversal potion in order to negate the effect and restore Dr. Jekyll. Worse yet, the reversal potion was eventually depleted and a key ingredient to concoct more of it could no longer be found.
In his last letter to his friends Lanyon and Utterson, Dr. Jekyll expressed his grave fear that he would soon become Mr. Hyde permanently...and from that point, Edward Hyde did indeed consume Henry Jekyll utterly. But the forces of the law were closing in on Mr. Hyde; he couldn't fight the police forever, and in eliminating Dr. Jekyll he had denied himself the ability to transform back into the good doctor and thus elude the lawmen's searches. Though the story is inconclusive from here, it appears that Mr. Hyde chose to take his own life rather than allow himself to be slain by the police or brought to justice.
The fresh blood still rolled and dribbled along the grip of his cane as he held it before his disquieted eyes. What had once been moments of delight had swiftly warped and darkened into episodes of horror, watching the chaos and violence unfurl as he lay trapped watching the terrible fugues from somewhere behind his own eyes.
"The potion...I must be rid of it, now and for all time!" the chemist snarled, unwilling to suffer its presence a moment longer. He drew the vial of unhallowed liquid from his coat and moved to hurl it away with sufficient vigor to shatter the glass and disperse its contents among the intermittent rivulets of rain.
But he paused, dismayed as a great shadow fell across him.
At the end of the alley towered a man...if a man he could be called, for he stood half again as tall as the chemist. The intruder's body rose with unseeming grace despite its freakishness, with limbs of unmatched lengths meeting their moorings at awkward angles. What lengths of skin lay exposed beneath the creature's crude hides and garments were scored with repulsive sutures, and the doctor peered deeply as he beheld how the skin tones on either side of any suture didn't quite match.
"I have found you," the Creature surmised without introduction. "You studied with my creator at the University of Ingolstadt. You became a friend to him as he read the works of science and learned to dismantle the pieces of God's providence, did you not?"
"I studied with many great minds," the doctor replied with timidity, glancing down to the fluid trembling within the vial's dark glass. "Without a name, I cannot know of which friend you speak."
A low grinding of teeth and rage prefaced the answer. "His name is Victor Frankenstein, the name of he who imbued this dead matter with unholy life and cast me so wantonly into this unforgiving world. And in vengeance have I sworn to take from him all which he held dear until he truly realizes the horror he birthed from his hubris. Now have I come for your life, Jekyll."
"I see," the chemist answered, his visage warping into a mocking and predatory leer as the last yellow drop of the potion dribbled from his lips. "Then come for me, monster, for I am the one you seek! I am indeed your quarry, Doctor Henry Jekyll!"
The tearing of fabric seams murmured as Dr. Jekyll amended his admission.
"...but not for long."
Combatant One:
http://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank01.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank02.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Frank03.jpg
Adam Frankenstein
Reanimated patchwork gestalt and bitter, vengeful outcast
First Literary Appearance: Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, published in 1818.
Scientist Responsible for His Creation: Victor Frankenstein
Bastardized Sciences Responsible for His Creation: Macrobiology and Biochemistry
Noteworthy Traits:
• Hideous appearance
• Crushing loneliness and need for acceptance or companionship
• A sense of guilt and personal responsibility which remains intact despite his crimes
• Vast physical strength
• Vast physical agility
• Vast physical endurance
• Great intellect and superhumanly swift learning capacity
• Immunity to cold
In Brief: Victor Frankenstein sought a means to topple death and bring the gift of immortality to mankind. To this end, he endeavored to create a living man from dead tissue, proving that resurrection was scientifically possible. Though the human parts he harvested from a multitude of cadavers were choice pieces selected to be both hardy and beautiful, the end result was a freakish and malformed hulk with warped, uneven features and an unwholesome yellow or pallid skin tone.
The Creature first attempted to befriend his creator, but Victor Frankenstein rejected his creation most vehemently and fled the manor, leaving the Creature to find his way through the world alone. All other people who encountered the Creature were no less hostile, save for a blind old man whose family the Creature had furtively aided for months. But the old man's son returned while the old man and the Creature were pleasantly chatting and immediately attacked the Creature, judging the monster to be a threat to his father by the Creature's appearance alone. With that last straw broken, the Creature burned the family's cottage and swore revenge against the creator who had cast him into such a violently unwelcoming world, declaring that he would destroy everything that Victor held dear just as Victor had robbed the Creature of his comfort and humanity.
After demonstrating his intentions by murdering or framing a few of Victor's friends and relatives, the Creature extended an olive branch: he would leave Victor and the human race behind if Victor would only create a bride to share in the Creature's solitude. But so utter was Victor's contempt for his creation that he ultimately denied the Creature his mate. Enraged with this fresh wound, the Creature threatened to up the stakes with his infamous vow, "I shall be with you on your wedding night!"
After the Deathmatch: Vindictively, the Creature kept his word and killed Elizabeth--Victor's newlywed wife--as retaliation for denying the Creature his mate. And everything went straight downhill from there, ultimately ending in Victor's death from exposure at the end of his Ahabian quest to kill his creation, as well as the Creature's retreat from the world and possible suicide among the ice floes of the Arctic north.
Combatant Two:
http://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde01.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde02.jpghttp://coh.tritonius.com/RPD07-Hyde03.jpg
Edward Hyde
Savage Id monster spawned of an extreme chemically induced madness
First Literary Appearance: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein) by Robert Louis Stevenson, published in 1886.
Scientist Responsible for His Creation: Henry Jekyll
Bastardized Sciences Responsible for His Creation: Biochemistry and Psychology
Noteworthy Traits:
• Hideous appearance
• Utter lack of conscience, inhibition or moral restraint, resulting in a wholly evil disposition
• Vast physical strength
• Great tolerance for pain or resistance to physical harm
• A talent for stealth, subterfuge and misdirection
• A devious intellect and feral cunning
• Savagery, a propensity for violence and a nasty habit of strangling people or beating them to death with a cane, his feet or whatever else is handy
• A more benign alternate physical form--Dr. Jekyll--who can interact more freely with the populace
In Brief: Dr. Henry Jekyll sought a means of separating his moral self from his darker instincts and desires, the better to embrace his dark side without fear of consequence or public recognition. And so, after completing extensive research and experimentation, he devised a potion to do just that.
Unfortunately, the formula worked too well. Dr. Jekyll completely lost control of his mind and his body during his transformations into Mr. Edward Hyde, his wicked alter ego who masqueraded as an entirely separate person. However, Jekyll's memories of whatever transpired during his spells as Mr. Hyde remained intact, and at first Dr. Jekyll delighted in the psychological freedoms in which the creature reveled. However, too much of a good thing is usually a bad thing, and Mr. Hyde gained more and more control over the whole, eventually growing so strong that Mr. Hyde would spontaneously emerge even without the transformative potion. At first, Mr. Hyde's spontaneous transformations occurred only as Dr. Jekyll slept, but before long the creature would emerge even while he was awake.
After the Deathmatch: Mr. Hyde continued killing innocents, soon even menacing or preying on the people whom Dr. Jekyll cared about. Jekyll's only hope lay in the second potion he had created, a formula which Jekyll could use to reverse the transformation before Hyde came to the fore. But his body developed a resistance, requiring more and more of the reversal potion in order to negate the effect and restore Dr. Jekyll. Worse yet, the reversal potion was eventually depleted and a key ingredient to concoct more of it could no longer be found.
In his last letter to his friends Lanyon and Utterson, Dr. Jekyll expressed his grave fear that he would soon become Mr. Hyde permanently...and from that point, Edward Hyde did indeed consume Henry Jekyll utterly. But the forces of the law were closing in on Mr. Hyde; he couldn't fight the police forever, and in eliminating Dr. Jekyll he had denied himself the ability to transform back into the good doctor and thus elude the lawmen's searches. Though the story is inconclusive from here, it appears that Mr. Hyde chose to take his own life rather than allow himself to be slain by the police or brought to justice.