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Congratulations on the completion of your training. You are now a fully fledged member of the Assasins Guild. Please paste your profile below, and you will be assigned a target. You must complete the assasination, meeting the requirements provided, or else on your return to the guild you will promtly be Silenced, and replaced.

(For definition of Silenced please see Chapter 7: Painful forms of Execution in your Guide to the Guild Handbook.)

I would assume you have thouroughly memorised your Handbook, but if not, you should note some essential rules regarding the Guild.

1) What Alpha Dog says is law.

2) Executions must be done by a Fifth rank Assasin only, and therefore nobody below that rank has the right to kill another Assasin.

3) When sending in your status reports, please first state your name, location, and approximate time. Status reports must be of decent quality and written in Standard English handwriting. Being illiterate is no excuse for not turning in your Status Report.

4) Where bickering is concerned, keep it quiet. If another member misinterprets you, or makes a mistake in his/her status report, ignore it and move on.

5) All assasins are required to fill in a status report at least once a week. If they do not comply with this rule, a bounty will be set on their head.

Profiles should follow the template below. (All words in brackets are guides, and should not be present in your final profile submission.)

Name: (This should be the name you chose on your first day of Assasin Training. As you will remember, abstract nouns are not allowed to be part of your name.)

Age: (You must be of a prosecutable age before commiting murder. Guild members must be over the age of 16, or else are restricted to petty thievery and surveillance duties. Minors may accompany assasins on their assignments, but may not take part in the murder.)

Grade: (Either current Grade for minors, or the final Grade of your Assasin Training. Your Grade should be found on your graduation certificate, and should range between A (Highest) and F (Failure.) )

Physical Appearance: (All assasins are required to dress suitably. Loose clothing and shiny jewellary must be removed, and silver or neon hair must be dyed or concealed before embarking on a mission.)

Personal statement: (Give details on your personality, traits, positive and negetive, hobbies and passtimes, favourite movies, and such. This information will be distributed to your new team in order to get to know you better.)

Abilities: (It is known that many of our assasins have supernatural abilities. You must state in detail these abilities, and alert us of their weaknesses, before comencing your first assignment.)

Previous Experience: (Please state any background information that might be relevent to your experience as an assasin.)

Habits and Quirks: (In order to correctly assign living spaces, we must assess what kind of general habits and quirks you have. For example, favourite foods, beliefs, hopes for the future, deepest secrets, and all things that will be gossiped about amongst the higher ranked assasins.)

If there are any problems with your Profile, Alpha Dog will alert you before your first assignment.
(Added note: Please mail your profile submission to the Discussion Area for review. The mailing address can be found in blue at the top of this page.)


Disclaimer: Alpha Dog takes no responsibility for the behaviour of guild members.

Name: Lex Roche

Age: 15 (Minor)

Grade: B

Physical Appearance: Lex is short, with green eyes, pale skin, and spiky neon green hair. Whilst in the field he wears a wooly black hat to hide it. He generally wears black jeans and a high-kneck dark blue sweater.

Personal statement: Lex is a know-it-all kid who acts like he's fifty. He considers himself wiser than his teammates, and demands respect even from his elders. He is watchful of his team and careful about making sure a job is done properly. Having grown up in the Guild without peer interaction, he is emotionall immature, and finds it difficult to have every day conversations.

Abilities: Lex is as durable as a rubber chew toy. He can jump from great heights without being injured, is immune to scratches and grazes, and can survive injuries that would be fatal to others. He can hold his breath for long periods of time, and can survive longer than others without food or water.
Being so resilliant to injury and so not having to be as cautious as others has made him clumsy. He doesn't hesitate to take stupid risks when it involves himself. Because he is rarely injured, he has a very, very low pain threshhold.

Previous Experience: Lex's father is a Fifth rank assasin, meaning Lex has been raised in the Guild from a young age. His status has earned him several undue rewards, and many times has he abused his fathers influence.

Habits and Quirks: Because he is bad at handling pain, the thing he hates most is having his ears pinched. He also has a low tolerance for the cold. He loves climbing, hates reading, and secretly likes to dance. His goal in life is to learn to play the guitar, but of course there are very few guitar-playing assasins to teach him.

Claiming a female.

Name: Natasha Anastasia Ivanov. Goes by Natasha, or Tashi, more frequently.

Age: 17.

Grade: A high B, if only for her eccentric nature.

Physical Appearance: Inky blue-black hair, jetting out in spikes- a pixie cut. Well defined eyelashes and subtle muscles. A rather angular face, average height (say, 5' 6"?), and almost unnaturally thin, with minimal curves. With an almost feline body structure and pale, striking blue eyes, and her rather odd style, Tashi tends to be noticed, when she's not suited for a job. Often in sleeveless jackets over long sleeved, tight fitting shirts, and snugly fit pants, with boots that lace up to the knee. More frequently than not with a fedora, arm warmers, and an array of neckwear.



Personal statement: Tashi's known to be mysterious and quiet, and a bit of a prankster, actually. She rarely speaks, as she doesn't see the need to. She's sly and playful, with a love of explosions that's... frightening, at best. She's a wondrous liar, quick thinking, and sleek, stealthy, smart. An innovator, best known for her last-second improvisations, and dubbed by some of her colleagues as "The Quiet Explosion", much to her delight. She has a fierce need to protect those she deems vulnerable and or innocent, which may get in the way of her job now and again. She likes movies set in medieval eras, action movies, and anything fantasy? Back away before she rips your body off of it. She tinkers with a lot of things, whether to prank or to upgrade, and likes sleeping, playing with animals, and perfecting her works in free time. She's got countless hobbies, and speaks several languages. Skateboarding, motorcycling, acrobatics, card games- you name it, she's probably done it. Also- she speaks Russian half the time, if only to confuse you. (I will not be posting these messages in Russian characters; they will be in regular abcd format.)

Abilities: In a nutshell, she plays with molecules. She can change the density of an object (meaning she can make solid things, essentially, go through other solid things), change her own molecules (shape shifting, hyperspeed, gravitational pull, and diamond-hard skin, the like), or fiddle with the molecules around her to become hypersensitive. (Basically, she can make things super explosive, flammable, or anything-able.) However, if she pushes it too hard, she'll set things out of balance and become delicate as a snowflake, and make things around her just as much. It's a very dangerous thing, and risky as well.

Previous Experience: A Russian native with an American mother, Tashi was brought up there. She was trained for some time, and this job is following her father's footsteps. She's used to harsh, cold weather, and though Russia is home, she's hesitant about returning. Also saw her elder brother's murder, and is bent on finding the man who did it, and returning the favor. She's a strong fighter, even stronger with science and technology, and never, ever is without a weapon of some sort. If a scientific approach is needed, ask her. If a violent, but skillful and techniqued approach is needed, also ask her.

Habits and Quirks: She's got a thing for technology- give her any top notch weapon and three hours, and she'll ramp it up tenfold. Will not eat regular oranges, at all. She's also a experimenter, and any of her living spaces will be strewn with fuses, powders, flasks, and notes scribbled down on anything. She loves animals, of any sort, and has a way with them that hasn't been matched. She's rather heartbroken she can't have a pet, but she sneaks in strays, family pets, and... really, any animal. She's also got a way with kids, but she doesn't love them quite so much as she does animals. Loves ice cream, though, and sparkling fruit juice. (Izze Blackberry- it's HERS.) She wants to settle down in a big city someday, after her path's been walked, and never, ever drinks. She's addicted to music, and likes playing it loud. Really loud.

Hope this is alright!

Name: Zach Grayson (real name: Sebastian Blackwood)

Age: 23

Grade: A



Physical Appearance: Pale skin, short brown curls, dark mysterious eyes and a slim lean body. He is always well-dressed in tailor-made pale/dark clothes which he wears with work boots. He often pairs them with his trademark long black hooded trench coat.

Personal statement: Sebastian is from the prestigious Blackwood family – an elite and powerful British family. He is the only son of famous business tycoons Theodore Blackwood and Julie Starnes. When Sebastian was twenty years old, his parents were assassinated by a rival corporation. He then moved to France under the new name of “Zach” to stay with his maternal grandfather. Under his personal tutelage, Sebastian learnt the art of self-defence and martial arts and when Sebastian was old enough, his grandfather sent him to the Guild where he could train to become an assassin. Not many people in the Guild know of Sebastian’s prestigious lineage and background and he likes it that way, the last thing he wants is to be known as the posh rich lad and be treated differently to everyone else and given special attention.

It is not surprising that Sebastian is a very quiet and serious person. He’s not one to show his emotions at all but if it helps to catch his prey he won't hesitate to use his good-looks in order to smooth talk his way in order to catch his prey. Under all that hard-face he is very kind and caring. Although he gets along with everyone at the Guild, he is incredibly reserved, only speaking when he needs to and prefers to keep to himself.

Positive traits: Due to his high-class upbringing Sebastian is incredibly knowledgeable in fields such as Mathematics, Physics, Law, Medicine and Engineering. Sebastian is extremely passionate, efficient, dedicated and professional. He is very serious about his work and he has a knack for paying attention to tiny details that other people would normally disregard. Sebastian is also incredibly determined. Once he puts his mind to something he will not rest until he has completed it.
Negative traits: Sebastian can be extremely irrational and hot-headed. His confidence sometimes makes him a little too ambitious. Also, his determination to avenge his parents’ death has often blinded him and can sometimes get in the way of his assignments.

Abilities: Sebastian is an assassin – it has become his profession. He is known by members of the Academy for his variety of...let’s say creative methods of carrying out assassinations which include various injections, and contraptions.
Sebastian can also time travel - it is an ability he has learnt from his grandfather. It is an ability which has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for him. A blessing because it has helped him help other people, and a curse because he knows that however much he wishes, his ability cannot help him change the past, (e.g. His parents’ death).

Previous Experience: Sebastian used to work in the family business where he met and forged strong connections with various powerful people. But after the assassination of his parents he left the business with the blessing of his grandfather, and joined the Guild where he could train to become an assassin and get his revenge

Habits: He’s incredibly neat and organised and is obsessed with perfection. He’s always reading (newspapers, books), and researching on his latest targets, especially the corporation that killed his parents. When he's not doing that, he's out training and playing sports (basketball, football, and boxing). He always keeps his mothers rosary around his neck although he doesn’t fully believe in god.

Name: Nicole/Terra

Age: 21

Grade: c+

Physical Appearance: She stands at 5'4", with a nice 120LBS weight. Her hair is long and black, running down to the back of her knees when it's wet. Usually she keeps her hair up in a braid. Her eyes are dark blue, and she has rather small, yet thick lips. She has a slim figure, which is easily seen because she likes to wear skin tight clothes. Her black tank top and tights are her favorite outfit. She doesn't take well to thin heels, and prefers to have boots.

Personal statement: Nicole is a shy girl on the outside, couldn't and wouldn't hurt a fly. She is hard to get to know, and is often frightened by everything. She tries to fit in and be part of a group, because despite her timidness, she hates being alone. She doesn't like being poked, hugged, or touched in general, it irritates her. She's very self conscious. Nicole has a double personality, her other personality is a total biotch, and she cannot remember a thing that happens when she is in her second personality, all she knows is that it is her 'older' sister and it protects her. It calls itself by her middle name, Terra. Terra likes to start fights, and believes she is defending her little sister, Nicole. Nicole only returns when Terra is shocked, for example a slap, or cold water, after an assassination

Abilities: Nicole/Terra can turn invisible for periods of time, granted she has time to rest afterwards. If she doesn't rest, she can drop unconscious from exhaustion.

Previous Experience: When Terra first came around, she killed both her parents and older brother. All without leaving any evidence. For a long time after that she traveled from place to place, they would let Nicole in, and Terra would kill them. Not long ago, Terra toned down and stopped killing anyone who had just gotten close to Nicole, instead she would wait. Wait until they made Nicole cry, or hurt her.

Habits and Quirks: Nicole is a wallflower, an off to the side girl. Most of the time it is Terra who is out. Terra is slowly taking over Nicole. Terra doesn't like to watch where she's going when she is off job, and bumps into things. Both her and Nicole LOVE pizza. Once Nicole said "If pizza was a man, I'd marry it!" They believe in 'early to sleep early to wake' so you don't have to worry about them at night. Unless they are just getting back from a mission. They have a habit of talking to themselves, often refering to themselves as to people.

Name: Jaegar (No chosen last name.)

Age: 17

Grade: B (sometimes +/- depending on the different people who graded him.)

Physical Appearance: Jaegar has blond hair which curls just under his ears. He has dull green eyes that give away nothing, which only ever spark to life the moment before the kill. His skin is tanned, golden, with a birthmark like a coil around his left forearm and his limbs are rather gangly looking. Jaegar's light brown medium, but sensual lips are usually drawn into an amused smile showing off his sparkling teeth. His looks are somewhat contradictory to his real strength. Jaegar stands 187cm tall and weighs a healthy 64.7kg, though his lithe stature makes him seem taller.


Personal statement: Jaegar cannot handle not killing someone for long periods of time - if you get in the way prepare to be the substitute. He has an anger which almost seems to be pressed by random things, but they have a connection if you look deeper. Jaegar may be smiling, but never doubt he is not thinking of many things at once, so much that sometimes his mind becomes a blur and he will appear distant. He has a sadistic view of the world and enjoys his newly acquired job. Jaegar has a very twisted sense of humour and as such is always constantly smiling.

Abilities: Jaegar is proficient in any sort of mid range weapons. From throwing knives to darts to needles, he can handle them all. Though less superior his ability in close kills is his preferred option as they actually deal with death itself. Jaegar has the ability to make himself less important, as in he cannot blend into his surroundings, but he can make it look like he is meant to be there.

Previous Experience: Before being recruited by the Guild Jaegar was a notorious murderer and the Guild who had a bounty of his head offered to put his skills to use as long as he took on a new name and life. He has found it hard to not kill people unless sanctioned and as such there have been strange cases of dead animal carcasses discovered in nearby bushes with barely any signs of death.

Habits and Quirks: Jaegar is a murderer. It may seem he kills for no reason, but everyone in the Guild knows there is something in his past which he will not talk about that has made him this way. When he joined people could not believe that someone like him, as striking as he was, was an assassin - they doubted him. Jaegar could've used his ability to make it looked like he belonged, but he knew he was going to take some perverse pleasure when he finished his first mission. Jaegar has a habit of licking one of his left canine tooth when he is thinking about something good.

My bad, I edited the top.

The grade ranges from A (best) to F (failure.) It's basically a way of estimating how good your character is at getting the job done, and how prone they are to mistakes.

I want a girl, if that's OK. I'll make a guy too if you need one.

Name: Jessica Charleston

Age: 24

Grade: A

Physical Appearance:

Personal statement: Very serious, very to the point. She works like a machine, and doesn't show too much emotion. She has about as much personality as a brick wall. All she seems to do is work, and leaves little to no time for herself to have any fun. She is very tough, and spends most of her free time learning various languages. She is very coy and witty, when she talks, which isn't a lot. She lets her actions speak for her.

Abilities: She can heal physical wounds by touching them. Doing this, depending on the level of the wound, drains a lot of her strength. It also draws from the emotional energy of both her and the person she is healing, leaving them feeling tired, upset, and emotionally drained. she also has a certain gift for learning languages.

Previous Experience: She got her black belt in Tai Kwon Do when she was eight years old. Both her mother and father are Captains in the American military. Her mother is in the army, her father in the navy. Because of this she is very handy with a gun. She got her second black belt in Judo when she was sixteen. She began working for the agency at seventeen.

Habits and Quirks: She keeps a very detailed journal of her missions and other things. She will spend hours on just one entry at a time. She writes the journal in her favorite three languages (french, Italian and Greek), but will also do some entries in other languages she happens to be studying that week. She doesn't speak in English most of the time, and prefers to practice using her other languages. It drives most people crazy. Her favorite food would be pork fried rice. She doesn't really have a religion, and believes religions are a waste of time. She hopes to remain an assassin, or join the CIA, for her future.

She has one big problem, though, and that is her fainting spells. Once in a while she will just pass out. Doctors can't figure out why. It doesn't happen often enough to effect her work, but it can be an issue. sh carries around a bottle that, if she faints, will wake her up. You just wave it in front of her mouth and nose, and she'll wake up again. This has almost cost her her life several times. Physiologist credit this to stress, she just thinks its a medical issue.

She speaks French, English, Greek, Spanish, Italian, Chinese and German

Name: Jessie

Age: 19

Grade: A

Physical Appearance: Tall and thin and can blend in easily among others, yet stand out at her own will.


She wears this all the time unless she isn't allowed to:


Personal statement: Jessie's cold at heart, but she's a good actress. She doesn't take orders well, but she listens. Showing her emotions is the toughest thing you could ask her to do. She's calm in the worst situations. With a short temper, Jessie is ready to bite at anyone who is close when she's mad. She carries her head high and she's proud of what she does. Her favorite thing to do is to kill, or watch something die. Not morbid (in her opinion) she just can't be happy. It's very rare to see her smile unless she's about to shoot you. She loves the look on people’s faces when she kills them.

Abilities: She can pick up feelings of those around her. If someone is angry, she can feel it and it often times makes her mad. Jessie isn’t used to these powers because they’re new to her, and the feeling of fear isn’t in her emotions, making it harder for her to concentrate when she’s killing.

Previous Experience: She’s been an assassin since she was 14 when they took her in, and she’d worked as an assistant a few assassins until she was old enough to kill them herself. When she was 5 she killed her brother, and when she was 12 she killed both of her parents. She’ll never forget the look on their faces when she pulled the trigger that ended their lives. She isn’t sorry for it, but sometimes she’s happy she did it. She lived on the street and, on occasion, she was taken in by a family and they were later found dead. She has been on deep trouble and she has people looking for her for a few hundred grand she’s taken, but to them, she’s dead. She’s out to get them for killing her sister when she was 4, which started the whole thing.

She had killed one of them—her brother’s drug friend—and when he threatened to tell someone, she later killed him (when she was 5 as said before) She began to want to see that look and feel that feeling more and more, which drove her to kill her parents as well as the other families.

Habits and Quirks: She doesn’t worship a god, let alone believe there is one. She doesn’t talk much to other people unless it’s about business. She loves any kind of food that’s spicy and, on occasion, she eats something sweet. She’s afraid she’s going to end up fat. She doesn’t like to be alone, but she doesn’t like to talk to people. She just wants to feel like she isn’t abandoned like she felt before. She likes to pace, and when she’s nervous or bored, she’ll either count her steps, or tap her fingers on her side as though she was playing the piano (one of her many talents)

Hope this is OK!

Urgent Announcement: Target Located.

Target Name: Mud D Mopbucket

Target information:
The target is a white male, approximately 190cm (6'4'') with a drawn face and a hunched walk.
He is regularly found in and around House Dubious, a local pub on the east side of Bythe Bay, and is primarily involved in trafficking.

Client Information:
The client is a business partner and has requested that this man be led away from his normal territory, and be killed in a way that will not draw attention to his 'profession.'
The client asks that the hit not look like a hit or a gang related killing, as this would draw unnecessary attention to the case, and therefore his own activities.

Mission Requirements:
Make it look like an unsuspicious death.
No witnesses to the hit.
Witnesses to other activities allowed.
NO extra killings allowed.
Length: 5 Posts minimum.

Other notes:
Team Members are expected to meet in Bare-Lee Edible, a late-night restaurant near House Dubious. Once all members are present, the hunt shall begin.

It seems several members of this team have impulsive tendencies. In Alpha Dogs words: "I think this is the most Sadistic lot we've had yet." Therefore it has been asked that all teammates are reminded of a previously stated rule:

Killing Teammates is in NO way Acceptable!

Announcement Concluded.

Tashi Ivanov

"Papa, I promise I haven't made any bombs!" I called over my shoulder. Speaker-phone was useful like this. Fastening the button of my black skinny jeans (suffocating, but efficient), I tugged the hem of my shirt down around it.

"Vy polozhitelʹnogo?"

"Yes, I'm positive!'

"Nu, vot. Imetʹ horoshiĭ denʹ."

"Vy tozhe, Papa."

I clicked the phone off begrudgingly. That was once, it was a snow bomb, and I was ten. Humph. I grabbed my favorite coat, lightweight brown leather and sleeveless, with a popped collar and big hood, and swung it around my shoulders. In a gray thermal shirt and aforementioned coat and jeans, I laced up my boots and locked the door behind me. The black fabric of my arm warmers slipped on the knob and I managed to jab my leg, an annoyance for sure, but I shrugged it off. A black and white bandana around my neck, I started walking.

The file had said we would meet at Bare Lee Edible, just around the corner. Ignoring the stares shot at me, I pulled my black beanie over the tops of my ears and strutted in. I wanted to make an entrance today.

I dropped into a booth and bobbed my head to the music pumping from my earphones, tapping my boot as well. I swerved my head around and waited for someone else to show up.

Jessica Charleston

Bare-Lee Edible, 8:00 Pm, October Ninth

I walked into the restaurant, and looked around. A few people were dotted around the neon expanse of the restaurant. For a Sunday night, that was rather sad. Though whether it was the poor attempt at eighties style decor, the tasteless soft music playing, or the food itself was yet to be found out.

I scanned the few people with my eyes, looking for a familiar face, another member of the team. A maitre d’ came up to me. My eyes flickered to his face from where they had been resting at the bar, and my expression was forcibly softened.

“How many?” he asked.

“I am meeting a group of people here, the name is Anderson.” A name we had agreed upon. My head turned towards a table shrouded in the back of the restaurant, far away from the rest of the diners. He nodded, and led me over.

I pulled off my tan wrap-style jacket and draped it over the back of my chair, and took a seat in the faux-leather chair. I tapped one finger on the wooden table, and pretended to be looking at the wine list propped up on the table.

“Can I get you anything to drink?” maitre d’ asked, raising an eyebrow and taking out a white pad of paper with an accompanying pen. The girl beside me remained silent, and the maitre d' took that as a no.

“A glass of water will suffice,” I replied. He walked away, and I pulled up the sleeve of my light blue long sleeved shirt. I looked at the time on my watch. Eight o’ five. They others ought to arrive soon. I took a small notebook out of my messenger bag and began conjugating the Chinese verbs I had been working on earlier.

Zack Grayson

Location: Bare-Lee Edible
Date: 8:00 pm
Time: October 9th, 2010

I stepped inside the restaurant and immediately scanned my surroundings. This was an ugly looking place, but I could see it's appeal as a meeting spot.

I removed the hood of my jacket and straightened the collar of my shirt before making my way towards the pathetic excuse for a bar. A blond woman was already seated there, vigorously writing something down into her notebook. I wondered whether she was another member of the team, but I decided it was best not to ask. So, instead, I acknowledged her with a small nod which she returned, before taking a seat.

"Would you care for a drink, sir?" asked the barman.

"Just water, please," I replied. what I really wanted was a shot of vodka but this was the first assassination assignment given by Alpha Dog since I joined the Guild. I needed to keep a cool, clear head and vodka wouldn't allow that to happen.

After being handed my glass, I took a sip and pulled out my own small leather-bound notebook where I had noted down details of the assignment, as well as some of my own background research on the target. Information such as his likes and dislikes, his preferences, acquaintances, and where he spends most of his time. I had even noted down possible execution methods.

Closing the notebook, I took another sip of water before staring at my Rolex. The time was now 8:03.