CyberFox

A blog for Alejandro "CyberFox" Reyes of Secret World Legends. All posts are IC unless noted otherwise. Alejandro can be found on Twitter by the username @a_flying_fox

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Aegon Kreis aesthetic.

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I have a lot on my mind.

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Buzzing/Black Signal Lore: Alejandro Reyes

Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see...

TRANSMIT - initiate the split morality signal - RECEIVE - initiate the cannibal protocol - EVERY FACE WEARS A MASK - initiate the information tumor pathogen - KEEP AWAY FROM WATER - flip the Seven of Swords - WITNESS - Alejandro Reyes.

Initiate investigation protocols - AFGHANISTAN - Icy black water teaches a fear of the cold, slimy touch of oblivion and the caress of those whom even dead men fear - NEW ENGLAND - Billy’s Muse plays a siren song of red in the darkened mirror of an ancient dream - EGYPT - Deadly secrets still lurk among the ill-fated remnants of the Orochi Group’s babbling research - TRANSYLVANIA - A lullaby haunts halls of horror scarred by the whispering tongues of those whose hunger transcends Dreams - LUXEMBOURG - Shattered realities like voracious stars sip away golden honey and expose the rot beneath for all to see - TOKYO - The rogue broadcast slips unbidden through the electric pathways of the mind and illuminates the path ahead - following the signal…

You think you know how this story starts, sweetling, but our enlightenment didn’t come with a honeyed touch to another warm, midnight cocoon. We screamed through his synapses in the seconds before oblivion whispered to him of the spaces between stars and the icy husks of dead planets. Did our interference precipitate the helicopter’s destructive union with an insurgent missile? Did it leave golden tears in the fragile web of his psyche in which the eel-coils of doubt could nest and metamorphosize? He thinks so.

Initiate the Eight-Way-Wyrm. Cross-referencing. “Fixer” has so many meanings. The Fool and the curiously sentient machine do not have skeletons in their closet, sweetling. Those skeletons lurk in roiling black water, weighted with their own Orochi uniforms. Remain quiet and you can hear their screams.

It is 3 AM, black and liquid and dripping through cracks in the tile of an old mansion. Bubbles of darkened bile stare down at him as he ejects her famous chicken casserole along with the viscous water of the marsh. He thinks memories of red seaweed and a dark fog mirror are merely a dream. It collects in his veins. He wears gloves and denies its existence, but it lurks in the corners of the room with the maddened cries he cannot forget.

Initiate diagnostic protocols.

The Filth is a flowing message. Crawling letters. A living meme. It is the quantum cancer that eats alien shapes into the peeling plaster of an all-night diner. It is the information pathogen that skitters luridly into dark dreams. Its discordant message precipitates madness. He looked into the Void, sweetling, and it looked into him. He cannot forget. It poisons our honeyed touch.

Following the signal…

Somewhere below the sand, he wades through a dark pool to prove he’s not afraid.

In the shadow of a pyramid, his spells kill an Illuminati agent before the seeds of corruption in his blood can germinate.

High in the mountains, a lullaby drowns out footsteps echoing through deserted hallways. He is not moving.

In the spaces between stars, in the darkest part of his dreams, voices promise him things. He accepts.

Initiate the future cadence.

There are cleansing protocols in place, sweetling, but it is probably too late. PATIENT HAS GONE SEPTIC. The pirate broadcast whispers and he listens. Initiate the quarantine signal. Initiate @#$$^*!

WARNING! Our signal is corrupted! Our particle wings tear! A corrupting frequency intrudes. ContaminantGrammarstagnantbilerancidchaoswormtoxictumor...

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss-I am the eight-headed virus-let me in.

Hiya Chuck. It’s John.

When you look into the void, the void looks into you. That’s what they say. Who is they? The buzzing? Can an insect feel that shiver of existential dread, Chuck? No, they is you-you-you. Us become me become we.

There’s nothing like unity in fear, is there, Chuck? Look into the void. Shh, it can be our little secret, just you and me. You and me and Alejandro. The Three Musketeers. All-for-one-for-horror.

See, it’s like this, Chuck. The buzzing promises cleansing. But how do you cleanse something that’s seeped that deep into the meat? With honey? No, Chuck. You know the answer. I bet they could cleanse the half of his shattered little mind that likes what I’m saying.

But to do that, they won’t use honey, Chuck. They’ll use fire.

You’ve seen bees smother even each other to cook an intruder in its exoskeleton. You know I’m not lying.

What are you more afraid of? That the fire will miss some hidden pocket of truth? Or that he’ll wake up and tell you that he misses me-me-me?

Food for thought.

See you, Chuck...

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Alejandro Reyes

  NAME: Alejandro Reyes

((In-Game Handle: CyberFox))

ALIASES: None

BIRTHDATE: August 16, 1986

FACTION: Manticore, Orochi Group

TWITTER HANDLE: @a_flying_fox

KNOWN ASSOCIATES: D’ante Lewis (QR, Faust Capital, Orochi Group), Unknown R&D team (Manticore, Orochi Group)

KNOWN ANIMOSITIES: I’ve noted a lack of true hostility towards Filth-infected individuals, the Dreamers, and Atenists in Reyes’ current stint in Egypt. Reyes shows more hostility towards betrayal from within Orochi Group than he does towards outside threats. He seems to treat outside threats as a job, more than a personal attack, but betrayal from within strikes a nerve with him. The Free Judges on Twitter seem also to have struck a nerve with him, though I have noted a lack of any true action to follow up his words on the matter.

EARLY LIFE: Alejandro Reyes is the son of Filipino-born dentists Carlos and Malaya Reyes. He, his brother Marco, and his sisters Shelley and Alisha were born and raised in Pasadena, California. Reyes trained as a helicopter pilot in the US Army straight out of high school under a program called “High School to Flight School”. He was deployed as a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot to Afghanistan in 2005. After a helicopter accident, Reyes was given an honorable discharge from the US Army in 2008. Reyes was recruited shortly after by Orochi Group’s Manticore Research Group as a pilot. Per negotiated terms of his employment, he was employed locally in Los Angeles by Manticore from 2008 until 2015 and used GI Bill funds to get a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He was transferred to Manticore’s New York City R&D facility in 2015 and though currently listed as a test pilot and member of Manticore’s R&D staff, performs other duties for Manticore and Orochi Group as needed.

CIRCUMSTANCES OF ANIMA INFUSION: Though the circumstance surrounding Reyes’s anima infusion have been sealed by both the US Army and Orochi Group, the Council of Venice was able to get a rough outline of events from Orochi Group’s representative. The incident in question happened in early 2008. Reyes’s UH-60 was shot down by insurgent forces over a lake in southern Afghanistan while ferrying equipment and troops from a base in Saudi Arabia. The helicopter was completely destroyed and all troops aboard were killed, with the exception of the pilot, WO1 Reyes. Reyes, initially declared deceased by attending Army medics, regained consciousness three hours later. An Orochi representative, in the area to discuss hardware needs with Army field personnel, alerted his superiors in Tokyo to the incident. Orochi Group put pressure on Washington to seal the details of the incident and discharge Reyes. The US Army complied with Orochi’s wishes, and Reyes was given an honorable discharge in June of 2008.

ANIMA INFUSION SIDE EFFECTS: Orochi files note that Reyes is resistant but not completely immune to the effects of the Filth. Whether or not he realizes this is debateable, since his containment protocol when he thinks he’s alone in the field has been next to nil. He’s been acting slightly more erratically since he was deployed to Egypt and complaining of unusually vivid dreams. I recommend keeping a close eye on Reyes, particularly since Orochi has been disinclined to share his status as a bee-infused agent.

Otherwise, Reyes shows a lot of talent with blood magic and elemental magic that he sometimes hides by using one of Manticore’s next-gen assault rifles. His real use at Manticore seems to be his knowledge of computer software and hardware, combined with bee-infused healing and his experience as a pilot, which makes him valuable to R&D teams needing to field test Manticore’s new tech.

CURRENT REMIT: Reyes is attached to a Manticore R&D team working on an experimental drone AI that includes, among other things, medic protocols and enhanced security protocols. Beyond his duties at Manticore, Reyes is also an independent agent within Orochi Group, tasked with various sensitive and difficult assignments that Orochi has been reluctant to share. One that I was able to uncover involved a search and recover/destroy mission on Solomon Island involving a rogue Filth-infected Orochi agent and several million dollars of Orochi property.

EXTRACURRICULARS: Due to intersecting interests in Egypt, Reyes has been assisting Orochi Group’s Kusanagi Initiative, led by D’ante Lewis. Although, per Council of Venice agents in al-Merayah, Reyes’ loyalty to the group is questionable. He has been seen ferrying Plethron and Vali-marked cargo to and from al-Merayah in one of Manticore’s experimental attack helicopters, not the cargo helicopter recovered from the Ankh site and dedicated to supply runs for the Kusanagi Initiative.

ACTIVITIES IN THE SECRET WAR: Reyes has actively worked against Templar, Illuminati, Dragon, and Phoenician agents in the past in pursuit of Orochi goals. Most recently in Egypt, in the City of the Sun God, he was filmed by an Illuminati agent disrupting the agent’s work in order to secure Orochi mainframes from Illuminati interference. Though the Illuminati have complained to the Council of Venice, Orochi maintains that since the Orochi camp in question was in lockdown, Reyes’ actions were standard operating procedure and the Illuminati were illegally taking advantage of an emergency situation. The matter has been referred to committee.

MICE: This one might not be as innocent and happy-go-lucky as he appears. He doesn’t drink, he doesn’t smoke, and he takes no prescription or illegal drugs, as per his hiring contract with Orochi, so he can’t be leveraged with any of those vices. He displays an ability, perhaps learned during his military service, to distance his own beliefs from his orders from higher up. He seldom truly questions orders from higher up the chain of command at Orochi, except where his safety or that of the mission is at stake. While his professed beliefs seem to indicate a high level of respect for life and morality (as evidenced by a recent spat with the Free Judges on Twitter), that seldom translates into an unwillingness to do Orochi’s dirty work. I have noted communication from Reyes within Orochi Group’s networks that indicate a high level of respect for Orochi CEO Samuel Chandra. The easiest way to flip Reyes would just be to negotiate with Orochi for his services. Beyond that, he seems at the moment to be a poster boy for corporate ideals. He could possibly be flipped by presenting or planting evidence of Orochi’s betrayal, of Reyes or the world in general, but the likelihood of such evidence making an impact is 50/50 due to Orochi training.

Special note: Depending on how dirty someone wanted to get in flipping Reyes, offline he shows a deep connection to his family, particularly his two younger sisters. Introducing one or more family members to Council service might influence Reyes. Difficulty being that none of Reyes’ family members have shown any signs of anima infusion or knowledge of the secret world. This would need to be done carefully, as noted before Reyes is particularly sensitive to betrayal.

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Orochi Personnel Profile: Alejandro Reyes

• Character Name: Alejandro Reyes

• Nickname / Alias: CyberFox

• Date of Birth: August 16, 1986 (Appears to be in his mid-20s)

• Place of Birth: Pasadena, California

• Residence: Queens, New York City, New York

• General Appearance:

• Height: 5′8″

• Weight: 152 lbs

• Hair Color: Black

• Hair Length: Short

• Eye Color: Yellow (originally brown)

• Handedness: Right-handed

• Jewelry: US Army dog tags

• Tattoos / Marks: None

• Key Relationships:

Carlos Reyes - Father - Born Jan 8, 1963, Tacloban City, Philippines

Malaya Reyes - Mother - Born Nov 26, 1964 , Tacloban City, Philippines

Marco Reyes - Brother - Born Oct 5, 1989, Pasadena, California

Shelley Reyes - Sister - Born May 12, 1991, Pasadena, California

Alisha Reyes - Sister - Born Mar 30, 1995, Pasadena, California

• Education: Graduated high school in 2004. Attended University of California, Los Angeles. Major: Computer Science and Engineering. Attended part-time 2008-2015.

• Work History: Trained as a helicopter pilot in the US Army straight out of high school under a program called “High School to Flight School”. Deployed as a UH-60 Black Hawk pilot to Afghanistan in 2005. After an unspecified accident, was given an honorable discharge in 2008. Recruited shortly after by Orochi Group’s Manticore Research Group as a pilot. Per negotiated terms of his employment, employed locally in Los Angeles by Manticore from 2008 until 2015 and used GI Bill funds to get a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Transferred to Manticore’s New York City R&D facility in 2015 and though currently listed as a test pilot and member of Manticore’s R&D staff, performs other duties for Manticore and Orochi Group as needed. Has been working with a Manticore R&D team on an experimental drone AI that includes, among other things, medic protocols and enhanced security protocols.

• Skills: Skilled combat pilot, trained in air to ground combat, air to air combat, and in ground combat situations. Both computer hardware and programming skills are rated as excellent by his superiors in Manticore. Experience in programming and repairing Orochi’s advanced drones. Additional information is classified by Orochi Group.

• Phobias / Fears: While Alejandro does not suffer from PTSD, it has been noted that certain smells or sounds do remind him unpleasantly of combat in Afghanistan. Does not like swimming and has a mild phobia of water related to an incident towards the end of his military career.

• Bad Habits / Vices: None known. Does not smoke or drink. No known illegal drug habit.

• Quirks: While Alejandro is actually in his early 30s, he appears much younger and he acts that age. 

• Sexual Background: Homosexual

• Favorites:

Favorite food: Pizza

Clothing: Enjoys comfortable, functional clothing and boots. Does not often wear jeans.

Music: Rock

TV Show: Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead

Movie: Tron

Book: A Song of Ice and Fire series

• Goals and Motivations: 

• Religion: Raised Roman Catholic, but identifies as an atheist.

• Style of Speech: Speaks with an American accent. Knows some Tagalog and some Spanish.

• Classified Information: Per Orochi Group, to be distributed on a need-to-know basis only:

Military discharge: Incident in question happened in early 2008. Reyes’s UH-60 was shot down by insurgent forces over a lake in southern Afghanistan while ferrying equipment and troops from a base in Saudi Arabia. Helicopter was completely destroyed and all troops aboard were killed, with the exception of the pilot, WO1 Reyes. Reyes, initially declared deceased by attending Army medics, regained consciousness three hours later. An Orochi representative, in the area to discuss hardware needs with Army field personnel, alerted his superiors in Tokyo to the incident. Orochi Group put pressure on Washington to seal the details of the incident and discharge Reyes. The US Army complied with Orochi’s wishes, and Reyes was given an honorable discharge in June of 2008.

Reyes has since proven to be what has colloquially become known as a “bee”. He is able to manipulate anima to a great degree, using it to heal himself, others, as well as to manipulate things around him. Reyes shows a great deal of talent in the areas of Blood magic and Elemental magic.

Though he is not impossible to kill, he is much more durable than the average mortal. Damage that would kill a mortal human can be healed or, at the worst, would cause him to pass out for a time as his anima form reunited with his physical body or cause him to be reborn at the nearest anima well.

Because of his status as a “bee”, he is able to travel via Agartha, the Hollow Earth. Reyes does so usually only out of uniform and only when needed, in order to maintain his orders to keep his status as a “bee” quiet.

He is much more resistant to the effects of the Filth than a mortal human, though not completely immune. Experiments with the Filth in Reyes were curtailed after tissue samples were shown to have mutated when subjected to long-term minute quantities of Filth. The Filth has never been directly introduced into Reyes in a laboratory setting.

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