The Rook - Cry Havoc/Gabriel Hale

Gabriel Hale

Plays in The Rook - Cry Havoc

At a Glance:

High Concept: The Queen's Pawn
Trouble: On the Center File
Refresh: 1

Current Fate Points: 1
Current Physical Stress: [_] [_]
Current Mental Stress: [_] [_] [_] [_]

Current Consequence Slots:

Mild Consequence (-2) ________________
Moderate Consequence (-4) ________________
Severe Consequence (-6) ________________

Skills:

Great (+4) - Investigation
Good (+3) - Notice, Will
Fair (+2) - Burglary, Deceit, Empathy
Average (+1) - Athletics, Contacts, Lore, Stealth

Stunts:

The Power of Deduction (Free)

Extras:

Hypnotic Suggestion - 2 Refresh
May use Will skill to Create an Advantage on a conscious target, with a mind, in the same zone. The advantage is created as is any other advantage, save that it is tied to the target.

Hypnotic Delusion - 2 Refresh
May use Will skill to make an Attack action as an overt psionic-delusion attack, dealing mental stress and consequences until the victim’s mind is entirely enthralled under the delusion.

Background

[REDACTED]: born to a Professor at London School of Economics and a Nurse in the early to mid 1980's. Has two biological sisters. One older, the other younger. Was not removed from familial care until age eleven, older than is preferred, but the latent emergence of talent made earlier retrieval impossible. Stable, mediocre and standard childhood. Despite suspected challenges at integration and re-training, subject proved very cooperative to new roles and duties. Excellent at deductive reasoning, logic, puzzles, investigations and infiltration. Particularly careful and protocol oriented. Reports are always impeccably well-written. Reliable, if soft-spoken and perhaps too gentle. Recent surveillance indicates agent has taken to intermittently monitoring familial connections despite advisement against such actions. Despite passing evaluations for return to work, suggests emotional turmoil after the events at Imperial College. Careful handling advised. Talent is anti-personnel oriented. Best actions for control include psionic resistors and/or dampeners, multiple agents, and stealth and long range tactics.

First Adventure

Due to misinformation, was sent with only one other asset, [REDACTED] (Aiden Livingston) to deal with a situation that had developed at the Imperial College, working undercover as students for a time length of [REDACTED] months. * Threat level of situation and its projected course of action proved far more extensive as [REDACTED] was the source behind the situation. Event was a play by [REDACTED] in order to [REDACTED]. According to protocols, organization took the measures of [REDACTED]. Agents were advised to abort mission, and terminate specific assets that had become liabilities. Agent Livingston became compromised in the line of duty. Queen's orders were to terminate liabilities at all costs. Agent Hale was able to subdue and neutralize the threats, allegedly with the assistance of Livingston. Livingston lost in procedure. Loss deemed acceptable. Livingston's body not recovered. Presumed dead [REDACTED]. Agent Hale performed well with the exception of * Has recently been cleared for active duty again after psych evaluations. Exercise caution as subject may be emotionally volatile.

*Note: Surveillance reveals that the two agents grew... 'close'. Be advised this is highly against protocol during mission.

Aspect: Haunted By the Past - Gabriel had grown quite close to Livingston as they went undercover and the explosive and tragic way that the situation resolved itself and the loss of Livingston as an asset hit him really hard. While he has been cleared for active duty, he's shaken up over the event, and currently tries keeping his distance from his peers as he's hoping to avoid another fiasco. Worse, he can't help harboring a desire for revenge and the hope that Livingston is still alive...

Crossing Paths

Casefile number [REDACTED]: Chatter that traces of paranormal cryptid tissues and organ samples were being held by [REDACTED] proved true after initial investigations. Deemed a serious breach of security and global scale threat. Danger that [REDACTED] would examine, trade, or worse, weaponize and use samples for hostile parties. Hale sent in as a back-up asset for Haffabee. Outdated blueprints led to Hale's capture as security forces appeared. Hale was able to convince forces not to put the building on lockdown and then used talents to subdue and manipulate one of the security forces to assist in the retrieval. Hale and Haffabee returned unscathed with the asset, however, the mission was no longer covert. Damage control was sent in by [REDACTED]

Aspect: Beware the En Passant - Just when Hale appeared captured... he wasn't! Hale can be a slippery character if one isn't careful with his talents and is known for having a fair number of tricks, feints, and gambits planned for all the right occasions. That doesn't mean that he's never fallen for others' plans, however.

Crossing Paths, Revisited

After having spent the last two years being run through a battery of psych tests and combat drills (and entirely unsure what the point of identifying Rorschach blots while pinned by 3 heavy machineguns was in service of), Trevor was finally cleared for active duty assignments. Before he could be assigned to a team, however, he was tasked with clearing out a small cult that had taken root in a sleepy little town and that this was to be considered a test of his resourcefulness. As he killed the last cultist, the young man choked out a cryptic warning that he was just being used by his new masters as a gurgling noise.

Hale was sent in to assist Mackenzie when the core group of the cult retreated to an unknown locale. Hale wasn't briefed on the mission particulars and was pretty much sent in to interrogate a captured cultist. After some liberal applications of mental persuasion, he was able to rendezvous with Mackenzie and inform him of the details of the location of the remaining cultists. The only problem was that the poor soul Hale interrogated was being used as an asset and resource, both politically and financially, for one of the Knights.

Aspect: Dodging the Knight - Since Hale's performance in Mackenzie's case, he's been on the list of the one knight's most despised members in the Checquy. While Hale was acting on orders, the Knight can't really be too upset with the superiors so (s)he places most of the blame on Hale. Hale knows this and is usually unconcerned. The Knight is not the type to outright arrange a murder... he's fairly certain... but (s)he does make his life fairly difficult from time to time, though working around these barriers as opened up a few advantages for Hale... Hale and the Knight also are both mutually aware of how Hale ambitiously eye's the current Knight's office....