Liz "Amana" Chang

General Information
Personnel File 116-1182

Subject: Liz Chang.

Codename: Amana.

There's not much known about Liz Chang before her induction into the Templars. And much of what has been discovered of both the girl and the alias personality called Amana cannot be spoken of in this document. As I have informed R. Sonnac at the time of this writing: we know that the girl known as Liz Chang was recruited from her apartment in Salem, Mass. after psychic vibrations noted an unusual level of bee activity. The offer was extended and accepted by the subject, who was inducted into the Templars as a member.

However, the child has grown increasingly erratic. I have tried countless times to encourage her towards alternate avenues of work. Liz is a girl of great potential, a powerful and bright young magus with a penchant and affinity for peculiar technologies. She can interact with them, revive them, though we haven't a blessed clue as to a why or a how. She says it has something to do with the bees, well, I can't wrap my head around how her affinity for Gaia means for her ability to manipulate old world technologies. Nevertheless, this could mean great things for us, I will endeavor to persevere and get a handle on her sanity. After I have investigated more thoroughly, I will write back.

M. Mordel

Jan.2.2013:

R. Sonnac,

Liz has continued, consistently, to insist that we refer to her by an old hacker handle: Amana. She spells it A.M.A.N.A. Dear me, I have no idea what that means. But one thing is clear, she is quickly becoming unhinged. Instead of spending her time with other subjects, Liz has repeatedly spent any earned cash on the acquisition of legal (and I suspect illegal) substances. When she is not on assignment to Solomon Island, Liz wastes away her weeks in the Horned God day-drinking and harassing the locals with gibbering outbursts. Now, she is speaking in riddles, though I cannot tell if she is playing with me or genuinely deranged.

I have recommended, repeatedly, that she be put on leave. I understand her skills and ability to ferret out ancient mysteries, forgotten technologies, and has shown resistance (like all bee touched) to the black substance called the Filth. I recognize her value to our organization and your commitment to the greater good, but I worry she will soon become a danger to herself.

I expect to hear from you soon,

M. Mordel



Our wisdom flows so sweet. Taste and see.

TRANSMIT - initiate the Salem signal - RECIEVE - initiate the jagged edges of the broken mirror - TELL THE LIE BEFORE THE FIRE STARTS - see the names of fractured reflections - WITNESS - the creature that wears Liz Chang.

Pattern pieces fit into jigsaw murmurs of a name, remembrance. What is the code? Fire.Dot.-24.21INITIATE--Balderdash. Pause, breathe, and find the putrid flesh of barnacle lungs. Dagger Bay, overturned engine, rolling the tide as a hand disappears beneath the surface.

Survey says: lost at sea.

Click clack, the sound of fingers slapping the keyboard, jumbled letters seeking words, syntax, a symphony of disjointed melodies. Crack of bone, the girl awakens from the honey dream. Sitting on a bed of paisley comforters, she examines skin, smooth and brown. The Dreamer knows, knows whispers, knows truths, knows lies, but has no knowledge of self, she finds a card taped to the wall. Liz Chang, a name, a fine one for the body of the Dreamer. Inhabitation, sensible: fate awarded.

A.M.A.N.A. activating.

Do you believe this story, sweetling? The story of the mother who loved her broken china doll? That a creature could take up residence inside the flesh like an incurable disease, gnawing and rotting it's host from the inside out. Do you believe that is what we are? Or is the story incomplete? Did Eve bite the apple, drink the honey deep, not for out of a desire for knowledge but fear?

Did Liz Chang draw too much too quick? Look inside and see.

Background
File Note, Insert Personnel 1182: Date 4/4/2011

M. Mordel,

It must be confessed that we know little of Miss Chang and what we have found of her history, or perhaps several different strands, is a matter up for some debate. We know that she was recruited in Salem on the eve of February the 24th in 2011. We know that her apartment was wrecked upon the swallowing of a single bee. We know she has referenced truth to whispers and, like so many other Magi and Bee Touched, she hears the voice of Gaia inside her mind. Who were her mother and father? Strangely, investigation has found that Salem, MA has many Changs. Also, oddly enough, none have reported a missing twenty-four year old college graduate.

Further details found upon inspection of Miss Chang's former residence have located a diploma from MIT. Whether our Miss Chang is the same as the one who graduated from this prestigious school is unknown. We have managed to get our hands the former Miss Chang's blood samples from the Sacred Heart Hospital, MA but there is no death certificate on record and one is AB negative while the other is O positive. Suffice to say, if our Miss Chang is the same Miss Chang as the girl who previously rented this apartment then the bees must have done a number on her.

Any other details I may turn up in my investigation will be forthcoming.

Yours,

S. Corsair

Personality
11.9.2012, A Concerned Letter, M. Mordel to R. Sonnac regarding Subject 1182:

R. Sonnac,

There is little to be assumed about Miss Chang that cannot be discovered by speaking with her directly. I have found, however, over the course of several meetings that she is delightedly deranged. It's true, as Sonnac has mentioned, that she has some moments of lucide thoughts. But on her most unfortunate days, she is like a sleeper in a dream, interacting with others only when necessary, talking nothing but gibberish and drawing strange designs on the desk, the walls, any surface she can find. I have managed though, to convince her not to draw in the Horned God. But she has taken to bringing home pocketfuls of napkins inscribed, not with ink, but extinguished cigarette butts.

Filthy habit. Some days, she does not go out at all. Instead, she spend her time speaking with. Some days, she wanders down to the lab, to weapons testing, and proceeds to build for hours. Other days, she seems unsure of where or who she is. Beyond that, I cannot be sure.

I have determined that she has a fine sense of humor, may indeed be a tricky prankster, and invested in running a con to show herself as far more insane than she actually is. Where does the lucid mind enter into the waking dream? When does the dreaming cease for us to find ourselves alone? All I can be sure of, Sonnac, is that she believes that dark days are already upon us and the hours she spends at Temple Hall grow fewer. Where she wanders when she is not in contact with us, I cannot say.

But you should know, last night I found her puking her guts up in a back alley after ingesting copious amounts of alcohol and several substances that should not mix, toxicity levels that would have killed a normal human. I suppose being Bee Touched saved her life. Should we be thankful?

M. Mordel

11.11.2012 A Reply Letter from R. Sonnac to M. Mordel, Such Concerns Are Unnecessary:

M. Mordel,

Mr. Mordel, your concerns as always are appreciated. However, I believe this matter has now passed beyond the boundaries of your authority. Whatever you believe the state of Miss Chang's mental health to be, the fact of the matter remains that she is a capable field agent. You know as well as I that we are in need of all the hands we can scrabble and Amana has no other desire but to commit fully to the task at hand.

She will remain where she is until events prove otherwise.

Yours in trust,

R. Sonnac

The Third Age
'''File Note: Insertion, Subject 1182. Status Field Report: Solomon Island'''

As with all things Liz Chang very little is known about her connection to the Third Age, or even if ... One thing is clear, Liz Chang does have some sort of ability to interface with......and find relics of the past, if there are such relics to be found.

Recent acquisition shows Subject 1182 has made many gains for the Templars on Solomon Island, even unearthing and repairing a ... Time will tell if this ability will lead to gains in uncovering the past.



''Subject 1182 communes with, nickname Sammy, recovered from Solomon Island. 8.4.2012''

The question remains, what is AMANA? A question to be posited and pondered at a later date.

Habits & Interests
Amana is listed as having a serious "drug problem", serious as in she spends most of her off hours drinking and smoking in the Horned God, then shooting up on several illicit substances bought and used in the ally of Darkside. Sometimes, it is suspected she gets them off of Illuminati contacts. However, due to her bee status, it does not affect her work performance. In fact, Dame Julia has sent terse reports illustrating Amana's continued use of substances while on duty. Apparently, she's begun using alcohol and nicotine as regenerative agents.

Results are results, but she may be a poster child for Illuminati recruitment. Reinforcement of Templar standards could be required.

iPod Playlist: Damn Templars

People Like Us - Kelly Clarkson

Who We Are - Red

Living Dead Girl - Rob Zombie

Phenomenon - Thousand Foot Krutch

The Kinslayer - Nightwish

Indestructible - Disturbed

Dark Wings - Within Temptation

Amaranth - Nightwish

Silhouettes - Avicii

Bones - Young Guns

Running Up That Hill - Placebo

Ipod Playlist: Initiate the Me

Pompeii - Bastille

Haunt - Bastille

Sleepsong - Bastille

Bad Blood - Bastille

Oblivion - Bastille

Flaws - Bastille

Abilities
Like all of Gaia's Chosen, Amana posesses the ability to learn new skills at a rapid rate. In fact, one could surmise that she does not learn new ones, but relearns old ones by downloading the information straight into her synaptic cortex. The muscle memory updates and she adjusts like a computer uploaded with new software. Her body gives the faintest shake, her head twists slightly, the eyelids flutter, and then she lifts her weapon like she's held it all her life. It would be remarkable to watch if I hadn't already seen it a few dozen times with the last batch of new recruits you strapped me with. Hell, at least the Bee Touched learn quick, scary quick. They pick up tactics and strategies from anywhere within a few weeks to a few minutes. What would take a normal human decades to learn, they do it in a blink.

I'm just surmising, of course, I have no idea how the Bee to Gaia Chosen connection works. Either way, Amana's may either be busted or she's a little too connected to the source, if you take my meaning. Sometimes, she seems to be having an entirely different conversation all together.

Can't deny it's effects though.

An Overview:

Amana specializes in controlling the battlefield and she has a penchant for blowing through the defenses of her opponents with heavy hitting attacks. Her strongest attributes, indeed, her tightest connections are to the magic end of the spectrum. Her anima is like water through a sieve, almost no limit to what she can pull and shape. The only boundaries are on the limits of her physical form.

She supports her magic through the usage of a shotgun, the first weapon I began her training on. Though, I should say she has picked up a talent for pistols and hand to hand since she began progressing through our ranks. Mordel sends her down to me at regular intervals for "checks", though I think she wants me to write a report assigning Amana as unfit for duty.

Well, she's a little too fit for duty if you ask me. Being a little unhinged may make her a poor conversationalist, but I cannot say she doesn't get results. In fact, she's more than a little obsessive, as far as I can tell I can't discern if she has any hobbies or any interests outside of shooting down her enemies.

Good for me. My breakdown is below.

Waste Management and Distribution


If there is one thing every small child learns it is to stay quiet while Mummy and Daddy are working.

There is no sleeping, no eating, no waiting, and do not speak about the job. Do.Not.Confide.In.Others: Secrets remain secret, silence is kept, and the earth continues to spin on Her axis. Nothing changes.

Rise, return to sleep again, into dreams of gold and green, of fradulent whispers. Ecstasy in scarlet drapes and silken strands, take long drags, breathe the nicotine, the caffeine, the methamphetamine, signal out the noise.

This is how Liz Chang understands the world, how she sees when her eyes are coated in honey. There is no place safe from the Filth and ideas spread like wildfire through the ears of the unwary. Protection.Protocols.Initiated: Tell nothing but lies.

There is no need for spoken vibrations, they color the world with uneasy shades, no need to shift the Earth further beneath her feet. Tilt wrong and spin, into space, lost in blackness, adrift against the stars. Liz knows, there is no profession but the secret one, for secrets are part of Her world. But people want to know, so Amana tells them: "Waste Management and Distribution Services". Amana/Liz hands them her card, reminding them that she is a garbage collector. A person who takes out their trash.

It's close enough to the truth. Plus the perpendicular: Nothing cons but the Con+WOman.

All-Father Standard Speaking Pattern, Riddle the Huginn. Warning: Do Not Touch the Slime.

The Filth
Question the Cadence, INITIATE the broken syntax, drown in scratched edges scrawled across bathroom walls.



OOC/Gameplay Notes
OOC

Despite what it may or may not feel like in the above description, Amana possesses no abilities that would be uncommon in any of Gaia's Chosen. Any excessive extra, such as communing and understanding Third Age technology can be tied back to excessive downloading of bee enabled information.

That said one of the base ideas for Amana is that she didn't come out of her transition whole. She has had a great deal of difficulty adjusting to her new life as a member of the Secret World, she barely remembers who she is on top of that, and her mind is filled with memories (and lore entries) that do not belong to her. She did not take becoming what she is gracefully, though she has embraced it without reservation.

The important thing to remember is that Liz Chang and Amana are not two separate identies or even a split personality, she is, in essence, the fractured pieces of many shards of memory seeking to be made whole and, quite probably, into a new individual.

She can be a violent crazy, if provoked, but she's usually just incredibly neurotic. She is very loyal to Gaia and willing to work with any and all factions in service of protecting Mother Earth. The only players that might have something to fear from her are those who have been infected with the Filth. But so long as they say nothing on the subject, they should be safe. ;)

Gameplay:

Amana is, the majority of the time, a DPS Elemental/Shotgun build. But she's building up into pistols, hammers, blades, assault rifles, blood, and chaos.