⇨ The Tourist Trap: OFFICIAL AU ROLE CALL

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AU ROLE CALL↴ Now that you've had a week to plan, this is the official role call post for the AU. Please reply to whatever header your character is included in with a summary of their role in Portland, with your character's name in the post subject. You can just copy and paste summaries used in the plotting post if you like, though for the same of mod plotting I would ask that you name and bold any of the following in your descriptions: Organizations: If your character is in a group or organization of any kind, please bold it! This will be important for the dispensing of IC clues and NPC attention. NPC Connections: If your character has a powerful NPC of any kind that they are connection to, please list and bold them. The mods will be writing some of these NPCs into the metaplot, and we can't do that if we don't know they exist! Meetup Points: If your character runs or is affiliated with anything that could be considered a supernatural hangout, it would be useful to make them easy to find, for the sakes of people who want to know what kind of places will be available in Portland for their characters to hang out. Confirming your concepts in this post is not mandatory, but I would super appreciate anyone who does. If you do not reply to this post, your character will not be tied into the metaplot. Additionally, I will give everyone who does reply a +2 AC point bonus to their next activity check, per character they reply with. Concepts are due May 31st.

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HELEN MAGNUS | GUARDIAN & WARRIOR

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Helen's been around for a long while, since about 1850, on earth specifically to aid in the delicate balance between Humans and other species. Her dedication to this role is one that has spanned more than a century. While her main duty is that of a Guardian in nature, she is fully equipped to defend the Sanctuary Network as a Warrior. Helen first began her work in Victorian London, auditing courses at Oxford until she could obtain a medical doctorate, her studies took her to Switzerland for a conference that would change the course of her initial work and make it that much more personal.

In the early to near mid-1890s, she attended a medical conference near Reichenbach Falls. During her second day at the conference, she found herself drawn toward the falls itself due to some incredibly dark necromancy that raised a whole other set of hackles - and her wings. There, she found none other than Sherlock Holmes and pulled him from the water and did what she could to mend the particularly shoddy job his Maths Professor rival did at making the man a zombie. After a series of adventures while building up her first Sanctuary house in London, she, and shortly after, Mr Holmes, founded the Portland Sanctuary house. Together and with Helen's significant contacts between the two houses, this became The Sanctuary Network.

Over the course of her life in Portland, she has set in place many places of shelter for beings who have extrasensory abilities to those who are zombies, vampires, werewolves - anything that would be considered Abnormal to the majority of the Human populace. She provides, at not cost, room and board for those who need it or those who may be considered too dangerous to live outside the confines of her Portland or London facilities. Helen has set out to put forth an organisation that judges no one, a sanctuary that is truly for all. In addition to this, Helen regularly supports the Changeling Network in their efforts to provide food, safety, and housing to those who need it.

Her protege, Will Zimmerman, grew up as part of this institution and is a werebeast of the feline variety. He is also very much like her son and one day, if the Severing ends and she is recalled, he will take over the Sanctuary Network itself. Helen, as usual, as that all planned out.

In addition to her duties as Head of the Sanctuary Network, Helen also aids in the capture of dangerous, out of control species that threaten the fragile balance between the Human and Abnormal worlds. As this balance is the sort of thing that must remain in the shadows, it is necessary for her Sanctuary staff and herself to locate, negotiate, and essentially deal with threats against Portland and London. They, however, are not the only player on the board, which means that Helen has contacts and regular negotiations between many of the major factions in Portland and elsewhere. These relations can be strained to friendly depending on the current political climate but Helen does her best to navigate those sometimes troubled waters as best as she can.

Helen is also fairly well known for being unable to give up on anyone, a fact that has gotten her into more than a few situations before and will do so again.

Powers: Her powers are fairly typical of a decent ranking angel. Holy magic; She is quite adept at holy magic, has healing abilities that she mainly uses on other, regeneration - mostly for others, really, purification, has a fantastic grasp on smiting, though it's a last resort, high-speed flight; though she favours tall buildings for the drop. Her intangibility could probably use some work since she never uses it. Her only use of spirit guiding thus far has been with Sherlock Holmes.

Wings: Helen's wings look very much like stained glass and glow like sunlight pouring through them but they are actual feathers. If you touch them, they're actually incredibly soft and warm.

Angelic Form: Her Angelic form gets pretty intense when she goes all Warrior, which hasn't happened since she found Sherlock, honestly but an angel looking like she's about to go all Darkside...yeah. Most of the time, though, she looks very much like herself only much, much brighter.