Woooow, have you played F.E.A.R. before? Very similar story lines.
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "Take a wild, friggin guess" <a_change_of_plans@...> wrote:
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> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Miguel <my.resistance@> wrote:
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> > can you give us a lil info on penance?
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> She won't actually make any appearances until Caterwaul #4. That particular story is sort of an "unofficial" mission, since the team is not being paid to apprehend anyone, nor are they working alongside the police (at least, not until later in the story, where their mission coincides with what the cops are doing about a seemingly unrelated series of incidents).
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> The actual character (her physical self, in any case) was a second-grader who was brutally killed over twenty years ago. Valencia wasn't even in high school when the bear was killed. Her murderer was never apprehended, and the case eventually went into the "cold case" files. Her parents had her buried in a local cemetery. She was their only daughter.
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> After returning home from a job, Tamara (from Caterwaul) has a call from her dad about her little sister, who is blind (since birth) and in a special school for kids with issues like that. Turns out she was harrassed by someone she wasn't able to identify, even by scent. Caterwaul, and some government agencies, utilize a chemical compound that helps mask their scents, making them difficult to identify and/or track. The group starts probing around to see what they can turn up, since Tamara's sister can't describe her assailant.
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> Around this time, there are numerous grisly murders happening all over the country, some which are several states apart. Several occur in Florida in a short period of time, and the cops haven't yet connected all the cases to one suspect. Caterwaul is called back to Florida to assist detectives Frank Stone and Leandra Cassel (who work with Caterwaul frequently) in this investigation. They eventually learn that all these murders are indeed being performed by one person, who happens to be a 6-year old bear who died over 20 years earlier (DNA tests confirm the match). The original body, however, is still in its' grave, so everyone is left scratching their heads trying to figure out how this is being done.
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> Penance, in this case, is actually a very nasty negative entity who apparently did something wrong. She is punished by being forced into the physical body of a young murder victim. But unknown to her punishers, Penance starts taking matter into her own hands and finds ways to get what she needs to stay alive in this new world. Even when the cops eventually get her, she just replies "What court in this land is going to seek the death penalty for a little girl?" She exists in the physical realm, but because her true self is most certainly very paranormal, she's able to use some of those abilities to work things to her advantage. And yes, what she does happens to coincide with a string of events initially uncovered by Tamara's sister's incident.
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> But I won't give the whole thing away. Needless to say, she has abilities far above what a normal person would have, and only preys upon a certain kind of criminal. Normal folks have nothing to worry about; she just looks like a cute kid to them (albeit, one with odd markings).
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> --JMH
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Received on Fri Aug 07 2009 - 20:07:22 CDT