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| + | Awww, neubmr 44 Hayley likes all the things I do I'm glad to know I'm not the only girl re-watching generation two of Skins and staring at Ellen Page A LOT! 0 |
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| − | Despite coming late to the Freerunning scene Liz has already made a name for herself. Her video clips are widely known on the internet, some even outside the parkour circles, and her blog is a permanent fixture of the community. She is known for coming out of the hardcore parkour field and gradually drifting closer to the free running philosophy of elegance and aesthetics over sheer efficiency as her abilities grew. In the last few months she has started to incorporate katas from her martial arts training into her jumps and movements making for some truly spectacular combinations. Some already call this a new direction or even a new level of free running while others have no mind for 'more fancy tricks'.
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| − | Some of Liz's money comes from a college savings account her parents set up for her some time ago - in theory she's studying history and sports at the university of Tübingen. The greater part however comes from her own diverse efforts: There's the modest advertising money from her website, her part of the internet business she helped a friend set up, the odd job as stunt double in art student movies and then there's her book. It's a collection of running reports, technique tips, aesthetic observations as well as strange anecdotes of encounters while running parkour, all mashed together in a gonzo journalist style. With her father's help (he runs a bookshop and knows the ways of the publishing industry) she managed to get a good editor and a house to publish it - and miraculously it sells! Not nearly well enough to live, alone it wouldn't even cover half the rent, but together with all the other small stuff it's enough to keep her afloat and even suffices for some small luxuries.
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| − | Having decided to bring down the Technocratic Union Liz no longer dares access her bank account, use credit cards, or any other method they could track. As a result she is limited to using whatever cash money she has on hand, can find or steal (from corporations and other faceless entities, not from people).
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| − | It's the wonder of the internet: You can have friends halfway around the world, talk to them every day and not even know their voice. Ask a question and among the replies will be posters of every age and origin, from the unemployed postman to the professor of Indology. Post a message on a community board and have a place to stay for a few days only an hour later. Through the tight community of free runners, parkour artists and Yamakasi aficionados world wide (not to mention the fan communities of small heavy metal bands, urban exploration fanatics or creative anarchists) Liz is sure to know someone just about everywhere. Here in Las Vegas she is friends with Dale Grimsby, a fellow free runner and one of the organizers of the Parkour Convention for which Liz came.
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| − | Being busy saving the world Liz hasn't had the time to keep up her contacts with people around the globe as much as she used to. Perhaps that is for the best anyway, since like Dale they might become targets of supernatural predators by associating with her.
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| − | ===Ally 1===
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| − | Dale Grimsby, traceur, friend, vampire.
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| − | Ever since she has learned to control her ''chi'' and use martial arts techniques beyond the mundane Liz has found herself recalling sights and scenes she has never experienced herself, of wielding paired swords of shining gold in battle against demons and other foes. Although Robert's klaive which he has so graciously allowed her to use is a powerful weapon Liz can't help but feel that something is missing, something beyond just a second blade for her off-hand. Uncertain whether they are true visions and memories of a past life or just fanciful fantasies and distracted by certain apocalyptic events Liz hasn't pursued the matter much ... but if they are real then she'd recognize those weapons anywhere, and there would be no others that could complement her style as well as they.
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| | It was the second day of the Parkour Convention and Liz was about to be late for her speech concerning the combination of free running and martial katas, so she did the natural thing: Run right over, under, through and past all obstacles between her and the convention center. One of those obstacles happened to be one of the more upscale casinos of the city and their security people were less than pleased when she came into the building through a back window, made her way through the casino floor jumping from slot machine to slot machine and left at full sprint through the front entrance. Since then there have been a few small problems in Liz's relationship with police and security people, which has resulted in her avoiding them more than usual. | | It was the second day of the Parkour Convention and Liz was about to be late for her speech concerning the combination of free running and martial katas, so she did the natural thing: Run right over, under, through and past all obstacles between her and the convention center. One of those obstacles happened to be one of the more upscale casinos of the city and their security people were less than pleased when she came into the building through a back window, made her way through the casino floor jumping from slot machine to slot machine and left at full sprint through the front entrance. Since then there have been a few small problems in Liz's relationship with police and security people, which has resulted in her avoiding them more than usual. |
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| − | ===Lucky 1 & Unlucky 2===
| + | That is so amseowe! My heart actually leapt a little on reading that she was a Marine in WWII. Thanks for writing that!PS. Though I don't know if she ever did any comic acting, Hedy Lamarr invented radar, or some form of radar that was used, during the same war. (I hope my old brain is right about that.) |
| − | Things have a way of getting complicated when Liz is around. Whether it's the other car getting the very last parking spot, the falling pot plant coming right for her or the soda machine eating her coins, bad luck is the natural way of things as far as she is concerned. At the same time when things really matter she has a way of somehow being at just the right spot at the right time. Over the years Liz has decided that neither is Karma a bitch nor is Luck a lady. Instead they're probably one and the same person who has decided to make Liz's life more interesting in that Chinese proverb kind of way. Just great.
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