PROGRESS REPORT: ADELAIDE 'WILDFYR' CALVERT

To: C White
CC: R Sonntag
From: F Gligucci
RE: 'Wildfyr'

Thought we'd touch base regarding that student of yours, 'Weaver. We gather she's not a talkative little dear, so here's what head office has been saying lately.

Get her to show you the medal collection sometime. Seriously, the girl has been racking them up like she's one of those Xbox Live achievement junkies. We'd dearly love to know who gave her the hammer, you know. Initial reports suggested that you weren't going to pry her away from that shotgun and the setting-people-on-fire without some form of cattle prod but please find attached some footage of what she's been doing to draug up and down the coastline of Solomon Island the past couple of weeks. As you can see, she's got a certain bit of instinct; when the zombies turn up to eat the corpses, she just waits and then pastes them too.

We're still not entirely sure where she goes when she wanders sleepwalking into Agartha, but you might want to check the Archives a bit more often; our mutual friend with the issue regarding pants may have ranted something about a fragment of artefact we never entirely identified going missing. We had it locked up down there in that room no one would let you go into until you'd clocked a few more man-hours down there, mostly because the last people who tried to handle it had a sudden and unpleasant case of full atomic-level disintegration, but its vanishing coincided with your firebird's little trip down there. Since she hasn't dissolved into a puff of atoms not even the bee can put back together, we're fairly interested in the whole situation. Find out what you can, won't you? Particularly given your report courtesy that Illuminati maniac you hang around with - the one that mentions that your Wildfyr's been running around in other proscribed magical areas and places like Shambala, gently displacing anyone who gets in her way. We'd be really keen to find out if she's meant to put whatever that thing is together and, if so, why.

The Illuminati are still interested in that one, by the way. We intercepted an invitation from their people to go visit Innsmouth Academy. While I admit that seeing what happens when she and Carter meet would be interesting in the extreme, I advise you to actually issue an order to your little student - she doesn't go without you. Strange as some of the bits and pieces surrounding her are, none of us want to see her locked in one of their sub-basements. Partly because we're not sure what would happen if she tried to break out. Anima-and-flame-charged hammer with some of what she seems to employ subconsciously against those wards ... Solomon's in enough trouble without it going the way of Ransom Canyon or worse. (Side note: yes, Richard, I know that would be one way of ending the problem on Solomon, but there are civilians to consider and frankly, it might kill her as well. XREF: Egypt and Transylvania; she's too useful to throw away on what is essentially 'mystical Mythbusters'.)

In any case, 'Weaver, you're doing a good job with that one. Your Wildfyr's turning into quite the soldier against what you persist in referring to as 'the gribbly'. Maybe this backup of yours will get you blown up or spat at a bit less, hmm? Anyway, your assignment list:

1) Keep up the good work. We want her trained as well as you can manage it as soon as you can manage it.
2) Check on the Archives about that artefact, and find out if she actually still even has the missing fragment. She might not know. Find out in other ways. Search her apartment if you have to; as we understand it, it won't precisely take long.
3) The introduction to Carter. Your Wildfyr has no education to speak of and at least visiting Innsmouth will give her access to the books in there. Although granted the girl doesn't seem to care about books, artefacts or anything but reducing zombies to interesting consistencies of paste.

Regards,

Fabrizia

PERSONNEL FILE: CALVERT, ADELAIDE MARIE (WILDFYR)

TO: R Sonntag
CC: C White
FROM: F Gligucci
RE: New Recruit

Well, Richard, it took ages but the per diem finally paid off; found that prospective I was talking about awhile back. Here's the vital stats and other things, for your information:

NAME: Calvert, Adelaide Marie (usually goes by 'Addie')
DOB: 07 June 1996
HEIGHT: 5'11"
WEIGHT: 135 lbs
HAIR: Red
EYES: Hazel
LOCATION: Dallas, TX, USA

For the record ... Dallas is where I finally tracked her to, but reports say that she got her 'call to arms', as it were, in a small town called Ransom Canyon, a ways east of Lubbock. A few worrisome reports that the 'Baptist' zealots running amok in that little town were actually affiliated with Morninglight. Either way, the town had issues with the girl in general - she's barely in the system at all but the buzz said something about them thinking she was possessed by something (which, depending on your definition of the bees, may turn out to be right, but never mind). Got kicked out of her school two weeks in, no medical records, that sort of thing. The start of what I hear your boy in Archives calls 'bee overload' was the last straw, they were trying one of those ludicrous torture deals they call 'exorcism' and ... well. See below:

[INSET: newspaper article from a Lubbock paper regarding a fire that started in the Ransom Canyon local church but spread to the entire town. Essentially everyone in the one-stoplight town was killed, according to the article.]

Thing is, Illuminati had an interest before this one even made the jump. That buzz I was talking about tipped us to that this one was a little 'unusual' long before the 'call to arms'. Sparks, small fires ... theory was geniune bona fide pyrokinetic even before the bee. Hence the town thinking she was some kind of evil spirit; the flame-red hair, the high-burn metabolism, everything about her shouting 'fire' and the strange happenings? Illuminati'd been watching her for awhile but lost track of her in the fire. Guess there are perks to trusting the buzzing more than the conspiracy route; they had to wait for the proof of the whole 'resurrection by bee' to happen before they moved, and by then she'd hidden in Dallas. I don't know if Morninglight wanted to kill or recruit her, but thankfully Gaia pointed a bee at her first. I didn't ask her about the Ransom Canyon issue but I bet the person who does will get a tale of fairly epic abuse-by-cultist. Tell you this much; it's not going to be me. I like my dessert and some of my drinks on flambee but that doesn't apply to my hair, clothes or face.

Which brings me to the personal evaluation. Girl's on a hair trigger; fight or flight in overdrive. Usually it's 'fight' - she seems to favour the shotgun but has an affinity for anything gun-like. I figure that's a Texas stereotype that happens to bear out in her case. Seems the fire affinity stuck around in her case too; her other main skill's with elementalism, largely fire and electricity. Beyond that, she comes across a lot more stupid than she is - she's uneducated to terrifying extremes and her accent makes her sound like the biggest hick in Hicksville, but she's fairly canny in a survivor's street-smarts kind of way and very quick on the uptake with the ability to think on her feet. She's not the most socially adept person in the world, but she'll calm down with the right mentorship. She'll never be a holy warrior - mention religion around her and she will curl up in a corner and quietly freak out at minimum, and she'll probably light you up if you keep pushing the issue - but she's at least got the 'warrior' part down.

Recommendations: Pair her off with someone field-experienced, kind but firm and above all, patient. Preferably someone who doesn't blink twice at the weird; she'll soak it in quicker that way. It'd also be helpful if whoever mentors her has some ties with the other factions, seeing as how we know the Illuminati had an interest at the start and if they still have designs, better to know sooner than later. I'd recommend Chris 'Fableweaver' White; he seems to handle these things well enough and he hangs around with that chatterboxy Illuminatus weirdo you've had him shadowing. Might as well get some use out of him being in the field.

Let her near Innsmouth Academy without supervision at your own risk. I get the feeling if they talked her into staying, she'd be harder to pry out of there than Carter.

She's staying at the King in Yellow B&B for the time being; she'll probably need help finding a flat.

Recommended callsign: 'Wildfyr'.

Regards,

Fabrizia

[Handwritten note at the bottom of Chris' copy:

Sorry, 'Weaver; this probably got to you a bit late, but I'm sure you two got along famously. Ciao!

FG ]