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[luckystampede]

A belated Krampusnacht to all!

[a-flying-fox]

[veniceleaks]

Lucca D.L. Giovanni

NAME: Lucca Damiano Luciano Giovanni

IG: LuckyBlu

ALIASES: Blue Sun/Blu/Don’s Kid

BIRTHDATE: May 8, 1989

FACTION: Council of Venice

TWITTER HANDLE: @Fking_Lucca

KNOWN ASSOCIATES: Ilana V. Giovanni (Spouse/Under the protection of the Council of Venice), Selena Salgos (CoV Handler/Part of Team CERULEO), Nickoli “Rez” Sava (Part of Team CERULEO), Trev Nixs (Part of Team CERULEO), "Cieli Blu" (Known Italian crime organization currently in control of Naples, Italy), Vadik Giovanni (Brother/Recent Council of Venice Escapee), Sia St. Pierre (Illuminati Operative), Mathieu Tveskoeg (Council of Venice Operative), Lydia Murray (Templar Operative/Past Lover) 

KNOWN ANIMOSITIES: Lucca is known to steer clear of the Illuminati as much as possible, due to his family once being under their boots. Vadik Giovanni (Lucca’s brother) is a known Illuminati operative, as he was picked from the family once it was discovered he had Gaian abilities, where Lucca does not. Lucca also attempts to keep out of arms reach of his brother Vadik, due to a recent family issue, where Vadik attempted to kill their father for full reign of the Cieli Blu Mafia Family. 

EARLY LIFE: Lucca Giovanni had a normal life growing up, if you ignore the heavy mafia presence he was surrounded in. His father was known as the Don of the Cieli Blu Mafia, which allotted Lucca and his family great privileges in Naples, Italy. Lucca was raised mostly on the outskirts of town in a large family home. Lucca attended Catholic schooling, started smoking in his late teen years, where he was forced to give up his wishes of pursuing a life of music and art. Lucca was encouraged by his father to drop out of high school at 17 years old, alongside his brother. Lucca left school to work for his father and the family business, “The Giovanni Brother’s” restaurant. These establishments also serve as office locations in: Naples, Italy & Brooklyn, NY. 

CIRCUMSTANCES OF ANIMA INFUSION: Notes have been retrieved from the Medical Laboratory of Anima Testing and Research from within CoV HQ. On July 12, 2017, Lucca arrived to the laboratory with the suspicion that he had become imbued with Gaian/Anima abilities. However, the notes state that Lucca has already been infused with another energy source. Our source believes the Lucca is in possession of a demonic brand that is currently giving him the ability to control hell fire. However, the fire does have a tendency to harm his human body. 

ANIMA INFUSION SIDE EFFECTS: According to the Medical Laboratory of Anima Testing and Research, even though Lucca had taken in a piece of Gaia, the “bee” has not taken full effect of his body. The bee has allowed him to: travel through Agartha and caused increased fire damage. However, our source claims that he inflicted a deep gash to Giovanni’s back, and his “bee” did not heal him. Lucca claimed that “fire burst from his wound, and sealed it shut from the inside out” once he returned home from their meeting. The effects of Lucca’s anima infusion/demonic brand are currently inconclusive. Further research will need to be gathered. Possibly a better source. It is to be noted, that at this time, it is unsure of weather Lucca will “return” from a fatality. 

CURRENT REMIT: Lucca Giovanni works as a Council of Venice Operative, effective October 13, 2016. Lucca was brought in to speak with Arturo Castiglione after Lucca turned Vadik Giovanni over to the Council authorities. Lucca works within a small team known as: CERULEO, comprised of four individuals including himself. Team members are noted until his known affiliates. Lucca works with this team on field/intervention missions that are heavily saturated with human/crime/occult cases. 

EXTRACURRICULARS: Lucca is in the works of creating a snack shop with his wife, titled “LUI’S”, in The London Borough of Camden. Lucca workout at a gym near his home in London, UK, where he prefers to spend his time boxing with a coach or other boxers. Lucca can be seen on morning runs as well, usually alternating between three routes. At times, he will return to Brooklyn, NY, to visit his family's restaurant, as it is currently under the supervision of a family friend. Lucca has been known to go on random road trips with his wife, Ilana, as well. Lucca is also known to visit Naples, Italy to be with family. 

ACTIVITIES IN THE SECRET WAR: It has been noted that many of Lucca’s missions, even though under Council request, have gone undocumented. Many of the mission briefing request higher clearances, and many of the names/locations have been redacted. More research has been requested. 

MICE: 

- BLACKMAIL: Lucca Giovanni was (technically skill is) wanted for crimes within Sicily, Italy. The Council of Venice put a rest to the search of Lucca Giovanni after his recruitment, but it could always be lifted. Lucca ran away from Italy to NYC, due to being wanted for: Arson/Assault with intention to kill/Smuggling/Kidnapping/Cruel and Unusual Punishment/Torture). If this information were to get back out into the media’s eyes, it could truly put Lucca on the run again, even into another faction’s awaiting arms. It is possible that the Illuminati would be the ones to play this card. 

- COERCION: Lucca and Ilana Giovanni are currently trying for a baby. Putting Lucca’s wife in harms way, whether pregnant or not, would ignite that Italian anger from Lucca. Lucca has been known to act extremely impulsive when enraged, which could be manipulated, if done correctly. 

[lizardskeptical]

Buzzing Bio: Daniel Martin

((It may be a day of lore-hunting talking, but I wanted to try something different and take a stab at a Buzzing-style bio for Daniel. There will be a more traditional bio later, but for now, enjoy?))

Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see.

TRANSMIT - initiate the emergency signal - RECEIVE - initiate the Dawn frequency - MOVE OVER FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES - initiate the anima protocol - WARNING: GUARD DOG ON DUTY - initiate the scaled skeptic syntax - WITNESS - Daniel Martin.

Have you read the travel brochures displayed so proudly at the Mining Museum? Take in the scenic beauty of Solomon Island! Visit beautiful Kingsmouth, Maine! You know its postcard streets from postage stamps and the lurid illustrations of penny dreadfuls. That smoke isn’t a bonfire, sweetling. The rotting flesh of small town secrets carries on the breeze along with the ashes of innocent witches. Beyond the merry lights of the fall festival, cannibal hunger stalks the shadows, and the Wabanaki forget their myths. Blue lights and a shiny badge cannot protect the townsfolk from the fog.

Initiate the discord cadence.

A shaman’s son splits from the tribe over wealth and ancestral duty. Naive youth becomes headstrong adulthood. As a knight in a tin pot helm tilts at the unmoving windmill, the youth brings his ancient beliefs to the big city with him when he leaves. The badge and blue lights illuminate a child torn. When the wind blows from the east, he can still smell roasting lobster and decay.

Initiate the homesickness prerogative.

Homecoming is the bittersweet taste of fall cider sipped silently from a police department mug and the laughter of the autumn fair drowning out the screams. Of the gulls, sweetling, always the gulls and never the visitors who fall prey to the teeth in the dark or to the ever-increasing pools of black, stagnant water. WARNING! Blue lights illuminate secrets. The secrets stare back. Ancestral wards can protect a seaside home from the dark, but they cannot push back the fog. They cannot save a high school sweetheart from the sea.

Do you see it, sweetling? The empty nursery? The rotting flesh with long blond hair still moves. He doesn’t have the heart to shoot it. Empty bottles line the carpet out of her reach, silent sentinels to the siren song of the sea. An ancient pact protects him from the fog. It does not protect him from last month’s illicit brew. The alcohol can’t protect him from the blue eyes slowly rotting in their sockets as she moans with unmentionable hunger. Do not pity him, sweetling. Pity the others of his blood. Pity the ones with larger families and more to lose. Pity them because those who were taken came back. Pity them because they do not have a great furred protector to watch over them in their grief sleep.

Initiate the sole survivor lexicon.

He’s heard us before - our droning, at once the lazy heat of a summer afternoon and the cold paranoia of a midnight numbers station. He’s seen our scribbling in the sweet smoke of the campfire. He’s felt our tickling touch in the recesses of his dreams. And now we scream.

The familiar, the German Shepherd, is more than he appears. Both are now more than they appear. And like the fish inside the anemone, they need each other, sweetling. The dog who bears the great vampire hunter’s name and the man who walked into the lion’s den have been tempest tossed into the Dragon’s coils. It is cunning and not faith that keeps these butterflies aloft in the gale that has followed.

Faith died with the fog and sits moaning in a nursery looking out at the sea. Now is the time of bitterness, and memories of idealism light the scaled green dark with labyrinthine perfection.

Initiate the now. The Dragon syntax.

Daniel and Vlad will be seeing you, sweetling.

[etheraum]

May 19th 2017

[a-flying-fox]

[a-flying-fox]

[veniceleaks]

The Wicked Bible

NAME: The Wicked Bible

BACKGROUND: The Wicked Bible, sometimes called Adulterous Bible or Sinners' Bible, is a Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London. Though it was meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible, the compositors made a mistake: in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:14), the word “not” in the sentence “Thou shalt not commit adultery” was omitted. Whoops. A number of copies were printed before the error was caught, and while a majority of these were cancelled and burned, a few are still available in libraries around the world.

TRUE HISTORY: That’s the official story. The real story is that Barker and Lucas printed those adulterous Wicked Bibles to throw zealous Inquisitors off the scent of their real print run, which was much smaller and made at the behest of unknown clients.

The real Wicked Bible, of which only one is still known to still exist, is said to contain blasphemous truths and perverted Gospels that permanently damage the sanity of anyone who reads it. Scholars I talked to stress that this “real” Wicked Bible is not Satanic in origin, per se, but rather – depending on who’s translating – anti-God, or more broadly anti-creation. It stands to reason this Wicked Bible is some kind of Gospel of the Filth, but that’s just a hunch.

OCCULT PROPERTIES: The Wicked Bible contains no spells and is not itself cursed. To all appearances and psychic readings it’s just an old book. Nonetheless, legend persists that the Wicked Bible is preternaturally tempting to read; the longer you’re around it, the more likely you are to crack it open. What happens if you do read it differs depending on whose account you go by, but the gist is that readers who don’t carefully pace themselves will succumb to extreme paranoia and hallucinations of dark pursuers.

Of course, those may not be hallucinations.

CURRENT WHEREABOUTS: The Wicked Bible last pinged our radar in 2013, when then-independent operator Felicity Bane recovered it from the Wellesley clan of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA to transport it to parties unknown in New York City. My best guess is that the book may now be in the possession of the LaCroix family of relic dealers based out of New Orleans.

THREAT LEVEL: Low, provided that containment protocols are followed and you don’t read the damn thing. The Wicked Bible isn’t a risk for widespread Filth outbreaks, but it can turn insular clutches of occult scholars into murderous cults if its use is not monitored (as has happened at least twelve times in its history -- see attached). Once I free up some time (or a junior agent) I’ll follow up with the LaCroix people to see what they know.