Mephisto's Phantasmagoria Lore Master Thread

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Name: Arnold Hamilton

Birthplace: New Orleans, Louisiana

Height: 8' 3"

Hair Color: none

Eye Color: yellow

Instrument Specialty: harmonica

Biography:

Arnold never had much in the way of brains. He dropped out of high school and started working at his father's swamp fishery from an early age. He didn't have many friends, but he always saw a young woman named Amelia whenever he went to town to sell catches. They eventually fell in love and he dedicated his earnings to helping start a family of his own. His father drowned and life at the fishery became difficult until it closed, with Amelia getting pregnant soon afterwards. Arnold tried his hand at numerous different jobs but nothing stuck. Nothing ever came up how he wanted, or needed. Some school pals of his tracked him down one day and told him about a big score they needed his muscles for. It took him a week to consider it. He never went out of line and always wanted to earn an honest living. But how his life seemed to be going, that would be impossible at this rate. He agreed and they robbed a jewelry store together, with Arnold taking home over $2500 as part of his share. 

That was enough to get a place for him and Amelia to stay, but she hated how dirty the money felt. He had to swallow his pride and go on more jobs, eventually earning enough for their daughter Joyce to be born. Eventually, Arnold felt the cold chill of regret run up and down his spine. Joyce, although she was born healthy, developed into a sickly and frail young girl. The medical bills and rent was piling up. Amelia threatened to leave if he didn't get an actual job and earn some money, but Arnold couldn't get everything done on a steady paycheck. They both knew that. They'd be homeless, and Joyce would die. 

He called up his friends and took one last job, the biggest one of their careers. 

They held up an armored car on the side of a swamp road and started packing away bags of money. Arnold was promised at least $15,000... it'd be perfect! But one of the guards tried being brave and opened fire, injuring one of Arnold's partners and scattering the rest. Arnold returned fire, killing him instantly, and the other guard drove off in a blind panic. 

He turned to where his friends were parked, intent on getting away as well. They had driven off without him, leaving him behind as the sole witness to a first degree murder that he committed. He started hyperventilating and dragged the body into the swamp. He disposed of it in a crocodile-infested pond and watched as the skin broke, flesh splattered, and bones cracked. He had nowhere to go, no money to bring home, and he feared that his partners would turn him in. He couldn't go to jail... and in that darkest hour he heard a voice rattling like rain on a tin roof. 

All Arnold wanted was his daughter to be healthy and for his wife to be happy. He didn't expect it to come to this, with the Devil of all creatures on God's green Earth to approach him out of the cold black midnight. 

Mephisto extended a hand, intent on making good on that deal... for a price. For Joyce's health, Arnold would be damned in her place. For Amelia's happiness, he could never see either of them again. Arnold swallowed his pride once again... and agreed. 

He became part of Mephisto's Red Haven, scattered amongst the Lost Souls until he managed to build a club for himself. Though the clientele he hosts at the Thirsty Crocodile certainly provides a level of entertainment, it is hardly a suitable replacement for what he lost. 

Even as a humanoid representation of his nightmarish last night as a mortal man, from the teeth and scales right on down to his tail, he still knows how to shed tears. 

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Name: Hector, Oliver, and Ricky

Birthplace: northern Georgia

Height: 10"

Hair Color: blonde fur

Eye Color: green

Instrument Specialty: none

Biography:

The upbeat and childlike bat-imps employed at Red Haven Talent Management are strange creatures that seem to be completely unaware of their surroundings or circumstances. Red Haven is all they have ever known, and that is no fault of their own. Their origins are only available to a few and perhaps it is better that way. 

The parents of the three flying troublemakers were in debt to Mephisto for some unknown transaction made before the conception of the three children. With their mother being pregnant with triplets, the couple couldn't maintain their end of the bargain and were on the verge of having their souls taken prematurely. That's when they offered something else instead. In exchange for more time on their contract with Mephisto, they bargained their unborn children so that perhaps they could meet the terms set out by the Devil. 

Not one to argue such a sinister payment, Mephisto agreed and whisked the children away. 

Ever since then, they have been honorary helpers and talent seekers so that they could at least have fun meeting new people. 

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Name: Kacey Robinson

Birthplace: Atlanta, Georgia

Height: 5' 2"

Hair Color: blonde

Eye Color: blue

Instrument Specialty: spoons

Biography:

Kacey graduated top of her class and attended college to become a civil engineer, intent on improving Atlanta's infrastructure based entirely on how much her father complained while driving around the city. She married her high school sweetheart, Jason. Four years later and they were preparing to start a family. Jason anticipated receiving a huge promotion and practiced day and night for over a month on his presentation for work. His superiors didn't tell him that the meeting they wanted with him involved a huge corporate merger that pushed his promotion chances down by over two years. He would get a bonus for his troubles, but it paled in comparison to what he had been preparing for. He became depressed and fell into alcoholism like his father. 

Within a few months, he was told that he was no longer being considered for a promotion. After a few more weeks, he was unceremoniously fired for gross negligence of corporate policy. Kacey tried comforting him as best she could, but her new job as an apprentice for the city's head engineer took her far and away from their quaint apartment home for ten hours a day during a business week. He grew to resent her for her seemingly unimpeded success and called off multiple opportunities to get together with friends and families, intent on making her just as miserable as he was. 

It didn't work and she tried dragging him out of the apartment on several occasions, only to be met with resistance. He finally snapped and became physically abusive after overhearing a conversation Kacey had with her sister on the phone, during which she vented a mixture of feelings such as disappointment and resentment. He threw her down the stairs, cracking her hip in the process, and she defended herself with a knife. He didn't take her seriously and wrestled her for the weapon, going so far as strangling her, but she managed to stab him three times until he stopped moving. 

In those last few moments of her mortal human life, her thoughts raced from wanting her normal life back to judging her own perceived missteps. Should she have done something different with Jason's situation? She tried everything... or at least she thought she did. 

Then, came a swift yet demanding knocking at their door. She expected her neighbors to be standing there, but when she looked through the peephole she only saw a man in a pinstripe suit with a devilish smile on his face. 

He told her that he knew what she did, and that she would do best to let him in. She broke down in tears. Eventually, she conceded and cracked open the door. Before she knew it, however, he was inside. It took him a second to assess the situation. Once he came to a decision, he offered her a deal. 

He would make all of it go away, but she had to sign his contract. She didn't know what to think, especially when he moved his hand through thin air and produced the pen and paper. The last thing she remembers before signing her name on the dotted line... is Jason's glassy, dead eyes staring at her from beyond the veil of life and death. 

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Name: Sammy Hobbs

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California

Height: 5' 8"

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: brown

Instrument Specialty: guitar

Biography:



Name: Mephisto

Birthplace: unknown

Height: 5' 8"

Hair Color: blonde on top, blood-red underneath, with two black horn-like cowlicks throughout

Eye Color: red with pale yellow sclera

Instrument Specialty: trumpet and piano

Biography:

Name: Giovanna Fontana

Birthplace: Florence, Italy

Height: 5' 11"

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: gold

Instrument Specialty: tambourine

Biography:



Name: Flint Samson

Birthplace: Newark, New Jersey

Height: 7' 6"

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: gold

Instrument Specialty: cello

Biography:



Name: Rico Fuentes

Birthplace: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Height: 5' 6"

Hair Color: black and white

Eye Color: gold

Instrument Specialty: his voice

Biography:



Name: Tobias Munroe

Birthplace: London, England

Height: 7' 7"

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: gold

Instrument Specialty: violin

Biography: