Quigley "Quiggs" Jackson

 '' “Quigley? That camera-jockeying sheila? Sure, she’s one of ours. Ace shooter too—eh, no, not that kind. I mean, sure she’s packing, right?—depending on where’s she’s headed out to. But shutter monkey s’the word. Is she door stepping again? Cause, yeah… *ahem* we didn’t tell her to do that. Must be freelancing or, or—or contract work. You know. Because—eh, we don’t tell our employees to… well. What did you say your name was again?”''

~ Mr. Jeff Gunny, Assistant Editor of What’s the Buzz?   (( OOC Note: Although entirely dependent on a character’s motivation, resources, investigative skills, and connections to The Secret World, the entirety of this wiki entry can be considered IC knowledge pending an actual IC investigation and/or background check. Please use good discernment as to what information and research options your character might actually have access to. Otherwise, please feel free to use this information ICly as part of RP hooks, plot instigation, ect! ))

=At A Glance…= There is none of that “classic beauty” about Quigley. Even at first glance, it seems obvious the gal is more at home in sneakers than high heels. Her posture isn’t perfect and her face a bit too fresh, her glances neither veiled by long batting lashes nor her cheeks tinged with a rogue of mystery. If anything, she might seem simply… natural. Casual. Comfortable. At ease. She is so completely unpretentious as to, maybe, even give off an air of apathy.

Yet there’s a certain sculpted look to her tousled ponytail and worn-in jeans, as if there was a certain kind of effort put into her laidback style: she’s comfortable on purpose, not just lazy. Heck, she almost radiates a certain kind of energy, even when remaining completely still. There’s a swagger in her step, a lean onto her toes that seems like she’s just about to catch a basketball, or deke and slap a goal while someone’s looking the other way.

A playful smirk. An edgy wink. Game on.

Still, those grey-blue eyes are set a bit wide on her face, slightly narrowing from top to bottom, balanced at least by a pair of thick arching brows. Those peach shaped lips sport lemon-flavored chapstick, the sharp smell catching on the air every time she pops the cap and slicks on a zesty sheen. When not otherwise bunched up under a hat, her black hair falls long and thick in a ponytail, swishing across her tanned shoulders and back. Yet it’s a natural tan, faintly uneven in places where sleeves come short and revealing a warm mocha color reminiscent of some mixed pacific islander heritage. There’s firmness to her frame, a healthy tone and tautness to her figure.

When Quigley speaks she has an unmistakable Australian accent and style which may seem to get a little stronger the farther she is from the mainland. As is culturally common for those from Down Under, she too tends to truncate words and add vowel endings as substitute nicknames.

Although subject to change, she is frequently seen carrying/wearing:
 * A camera, Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
 * A water-proof Lowepro backpack: field gear, camera equipment, ect
 * Dog tags; one circular, the other octagonal.

=Data Mining= Or in other words, “Who the heck is this gal?!”

Depending on one’s ability and motivation to go snooping into the gal’s background, they might come up with some tasty treats…

Gumshoe: Google is Your Friend
When googling “Quigley Jackson”, the very first hit would be a listing for a photojournalist for What’s the Buzz?, a paper/digital magazine based out of Sydney, Australia.

An ironic mix of high energy and a casual, laidback approach to common sense, the publication itself is a weekly news magazine focused on celebrity gossip, sensationalized news reports, and stories bordering on the weird and obscure from all across the world. It’s primary goal being to get the “unbelievable!” story rather than the hard-pressed matters of the day-to-day economic and political grind. Articles include anything from warzone exploits to rumors of bizarre creatures in the Americas, Big-Foot sightings to the big gasp from the USA’s Academy Awards Ceremony. It’s all juicy gossip, tawdry snark, and lots and lots of pictures that are constantly pushed as “completely unedited!”, “uncensored!”, and (as is so frequently asserted by the company’s own motto) “the buck naked truth!” To say the least, the magazine might seem to be an exciting read… if not a little hard to swallow.

According to What’s the Buzz?’s website, Quigley herself is one of a handful of field photographers, an active member of the “news team” that spends most of her time abroad collecting images for her photo-articles. Her own photo-portrait is listed online right alongside with the other “shutter monkeys.” Although frequently submitting stock images for the magazine, she also has her own photo column called “Redhanded,” a bi-weekly photo montage of her latest assignment coupled with very light commentary that—supposedly—brings to light shocking events/circumstance, bizarre topics of interest, and captures the nitty-gritty of behind-enemy-lines warfare.

Stalker Syndrome: “I saw you last night…”
Maintains an active Twitter account.

An old MySpace account hasn’t been updated for the last 10 years, and still clings to its meager number of eleven friends from locations across the globe, three of them being in Hobart, Tasmania.

A current Facebook account has flatlined at 78 friends, the majority of which are employees of ''What’s the Buzz? '', a boatload of people with the surnames of Jackson and Walker, and a heavy majority of individuals deck out in ADF uniforms and firearms. It is updated only very rarely, and usually includes only links to her most recent published article and/or location taps coupled with a photograph.

Listed Interests include: Photography, Travel, Blue October, Rolf Harris, Gorillaz, Paul Hogan, Hornsby R.S.L. Rifle Club, ect

Private Investigator: Dig a Little Deeper
Birth Record:
 * Quigley Jamison Jackson, Born to William Quigley Jackson and Ira Jean Jackson (Walker).
 * D.O.B. November 11, 1985. Military Hospital of Anglesea Barracks, Hobart, TAS Australia.
 * 3.4 kg, 0.48m.

Places of Residence:
 * 1985 – 1991, Anglesea Barracks. Hobart, TAS, Australia.
 * 1991 – 2005, no records of place of residence.
 * 2005 – 2007, an apartment/flat in Melbourne, Australia.
 * 2008, an apartment/flat in Sydney, Australia
 * 2009 – present, no records of permanent place of residence. However, has a post office box/parcel locker at the Queen Victoria Building Post Shop, 44 Market Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Checked quarterly.

Educational Records: 
 * Enrolled in Kindergarten at age 5 (1991) at Lady Gowrie Tasmania
 * Primary school enrollment records place all over the country of Australia, including Melbourne and Perth, with prolonged stints of no attendance record in a public setting.
 * Completed SSCE (i.e. high school diploma) in 2001 at 15 according to Hobart, TAS records, no associated secondary school mentioned.
 * Completed year 12 at age 17 in 2004, with a rank of 88.3 on the ATAR/TER
 * Granted admission at RMIT in Melbourne, AU in 2005, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Photography by the end of 2007… with just barely passable grades due to poor attendance.

Employment Records: 
 * Various contract and Freelance work in and around Melbourne, Australia from 2006 till mid-2008.
 * Photojournalist: 2008 till present, employed by What’s the Buzz. Salaried AU$34,900.00 per annum, reimbursed for travel expenses only. Field-reports submitted digitally via upload to corporate file-storage, but otherwise only required to attend publishing headquarters during quarterly work reviews.

Background Check: 
 * July 2006. Trespassing. Melbourne, VIC. AUS. Fined for damaged property.
 * Feb 2008. Trespassing. Boston, MA. USA. Fined for damaged property.
 * Aug 2009. Charged with Drug Possession. San Diego, CA. USA. Acquitted.
 * Sept 2011. Reckless Driving. Waterford, Ireland. Fined.
 * Aug 2012. Trespassing. Bangkok, Thailand. Jailed for six-weeks before escaping. Details have been expunged from the local police records.

Military Reconnaissance: For the Good of the Country…
During a quick-search in most first-world country’s military intelligence records, Quigley Jackson would immediately pop a related articles on a Lt. Col. William Jackson (father) and Joseph Jackson (brother).

William Jackson was recruited and enlisted at Hobart, TAS as a private in 1978, and through exemplar service and dedication rose through the ranks and currently stands as Lieutenant Colonel in the Australian Defence Force Army as a Tactical Intelligence Officer. What little of his file that does not already require a high-security clearance has been largely redacted. He appears to be due for requirement within the next 10 years.

Joseph Jackson is currently a Second Lieutenant in the ADF Army, serving within the Intelligence Communications branch. He has not advanced significantly since his enlistment after attending the Australian Defence Force Academy in Cranberra, ACT.

Quigley Jackson was approached for recruitment into the ADF Academy in 2004, but declined.

The Database: Dragon Intel
In whatever miniscule file The Dragons keep on Quigley Jackson in all their tables and calculations… this girl is a nobody. Quiggs appears to be just another upstart civilian, wreaking her own havoc and troubling the waters of cause-and-effect no more than any other ordinary human. If anything, her tenacious reporting habits have merely been mimicked from previous other tenacious reporters. She is merely the consequent ripple of a prior correspondent’s actions.

The Database: Templar Intel
This young lady, Quigley Jackson, appears to be merely just another civilian from Down Under, little more than a nuisance of a reporter who sometimes strays a little too close to “reality” with her published photo-articles.

The Database: Illuminati Intel
 >Search Quigley Jackson ******

Accessing records… please wait. …

Records Found.

Subject:  22310.002.330QJ  Quigley Gina Jackson Alias: “Quiggs” Species: Human Rank:  N/A, Outside Contact (unknown)

Commentary:  '' That old dump? The founder of the magazine—decades ago, back in the early 1940s—was an Illuminati novice who thought the play on words was… amusing: with “buzz” being a reference not only to Gaia’s cute little helpers, but also having the connotation of rumors, news, excitement, and intoxication. Years later, of course, the shine wore off and the almost blatant name was shunned by others more intent on keeping things hush-hush, instead of buzz-buzz. Although the magazine had once been an influential Illuminati outreach into the Australian borders as a loosely-veiled intelligence branch in what might be otherwise Templar territory, we’ve all but pulled back entirely and use it only as a cover-story for agents nestled deep in the field in Sydney. But old habits die hard. Even with us pulling strings behind the scenes, the magazine CEO still guns for news of “questionable nature.” Whoever said Aussies were easygoing folk never met these outback bulldogs: they’ve got their teeth sunk in deep. Fortunately, we’ve managed a few alterations to their presentation style, and we’ve managed to get them on par with The National Enquirer as far as credibility goes. So… here’s one for the home team.
 * Subject currently employed at ex-Illuminati civilian front: What’s the Buzz? 

''Following the breach in protocol last month, the magazine almost published an article about the quote-unquote “heroic efforts” of two of its reporters (Jackson and Dean) during the subject’s breakout from a Bangkok prison. Fortunately, we intervened and a couple of our agents convinced the editor that publishing it posed potentially life-threatening circumstances for his reporters as well as prompting Thai legal action. That could have been messy, though the “fix” was far from being a clean one.

All transient-employees were then supplied one of our ‘phones’ as part of a year-end bonus, allowing us to keep tabs on a few of those reporters a bit better. - 07.23.2012 Comments on Subject’s involvement with What’s the Buzz? by Janice Houghton, Data Library Archivist

Notable History:  August 22, 2012: After an arrest by local authorities for trespassing on private property, subject had been imprisoned in Bangkok for six weeks awaiting legal proceedings, when an Illuminati Operative (Dean Evans, under-cover at What’s the Buzz at the time of incident) assisted in her escape during an unsanctioned act of infiltration and extraction. Agent Evans has since been demoted and reassigned in Moscow.

Personality Analysis:  Classic case of “military brat” syndrome: difficulties settling into a “civilian” lifestyle and constant feeling of displacement. Strong loyalties to home and country, while feeling alien to its people. Natural tendency to travel. High-risk lifestyle. Tenacious habit of curiosity. Manipulative. Chameleon-complex.

Points of Concern and/or Interest: 
 * Potential civilian exposure to The Secret World and Illuminati agents; possible leak
 * Persistent efforts made to unearth Secret World knowledge
 * Published documentation of otherwise classified information (as per photojournalism occupation)
 * Familial connections to ADF Army Intelligence
 * Amateur Marksmanship

Status: Currently Under Surveillance for Possible Recruitment/Elimination 