Phoenix

Leaders	Helena Dean and Teodoro Laudani
Headquarters	Old Dispensary
Contacts	Helena and Chinatown

"If you're willing to murder indiscriminately to get your cause heard, join PARIAH. If you want to liberate innocent victims of social prejudice and you're willing to fight the odds to do it, join Phoenix."

— Hudson, a paraphrase

At the end of October, 2008, new graffiti began appearing all over the city, done in reds and oranges, golds and yellows, a tribalized motif of a phoenix. Beneath it were two words: RISE UP.

In some cases, the symbol and motto were done over PARIAH graffiti. Rumors fly — what did this mean? Is it a new urban viral campaign? Is PARIAH dead? Is this a new group trying to shove into their position? Is it some kind of new group altogether?

No one knows yet, but everyone's waiting to find out.

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Membership Dossier

Alec Bonder

• Evolved (Unknown)
• Role:
• Special Areas:
• Recruited by: Elisabeth Harrison

Brian Fulk

• Evolved (Self Replication)
• Role:
• Special Areas:
• Recruited by: Helena Dean

Cat Chesterfield

• Evolved (Panmnesia)
• Role: Second in Command. Chief information manager. She also handles legal and political science advice, provides financial/logistical support, arranges lodgings, and provides gainful employment. Buildings under her clandestine ownership have been and will be important bases or headquarters for the faction.
• Special Areas: Music in various forms and instruments (primarily guitar and voice in the rock genre, has bachelor of arts degree in music from Yale), mastery of several languages, finance, logistics, law (JD from Yale), political science (Yale - Bachelor's Degree), lodgings and operating locations, gainful employment opportunities, access to social circles.
• Recruited by: Former PARIAH member brought to that organization by Peter Petrelli.

Delilah Trafford

• Evolved (Psychoactive Secretion)
• Role: Delilah fills a great many roles that would otherwise go unfilled; while she doesn't possess many skills befitting what one thinks of when they hear 'operative', Delilah has been trained enough in general areas, and is smart enough to be able to handle a great range of jobs for Phoenix. A jack-of-all-trades is useful, and Delilah puts herself into that niche most of the time. She also falls into place doing general assistance and somewhat secretarial duties for those higher in command and the group as a whole.
• Special Areas: Construction, Repair(all sorts), Driving, Basic PC, First Aid, PR, Media, various mundane areas that one would assume comes naturally to the others, yet does not.
• Recruited by: Cat Chesterfield

Elisabeth Harrison

• Evolved (Audiokinesis)
• Role: General Security, Background Checks, and Advisory. Although Helena has asked Elisabeth to step up into a Lieutenant's position, the current actions that Phoenix is taking (Miracle Day II, etc) don't really seem to require her input and so Elisabeth is merely watching. She also (tries to) act as liaison to Cardinal's motley band of intel gatherers when necessary.
• Special Areas: Firearms training, basic self-defense training as necessary.
• Recruited by: Conrad Wozniak

Gillian Childs

• Evolved (Power Augmentation)
• Role: Research, assistance, she most often offers power boosts to increase effectiveness with abilities. She's mostly working at the Lighthouse now.
• Special Areas: Ability assistance. Former Librarian.
• Recruited by: Cat Chesterfield and Helena Dean

Helena Dean

• Evolved (Atmokinesis)
• Role: Helena Dean is the leader of Phoenix, in addition to being one of its founders. She is also the public face of the organization, addressing the public directly via Phoenix branded viral videos uploaded to the internet by Wireless. She actively participates in developing and planning group operations, designating resources, and the approach aspect of recruitment. Because her identity is commonly known, she frequently assumes an alias when she is in public, most notably to Phoenix members, that of Evelyn Wozniak.
• Special Areas: Combat (Hand to Hand), Combat (Firearms), Computer (Basic PC), Driving, Media, Medical (First-Aid), Ops Planning (Strategy and Tactics), Public Relations, Stealth, Thievery (hotwiring).
• Recruited by: Former PARIAH member.

Leonard Shelby

• Evolved (Telekinesis)
• Role:
• Special Areas:
• Recruited by: Former PARIAH member.

Ryan "Scotch" McCoy

• Evolved (Teleportation)
• Role:
• Special Areas:
• Recruited by: Delila Trafford and Helena Dean

Teo Laudani

• Non-Evolved
• Role:
• Special Areas:
• Recruited by: Former PARIAH member.

Former Members

(Click to see list of former members.)

Name	Position	Ability	Status
Anne Williams	Member	Teleportation	Relocated to Ferrymen
Conrad Wozniak	Lieutenant	Audiokinesis	Deceased
James Cook	Member	Dark Appetite	Deported
Diego Smith	Member	Heightened Reflexes	Hiatus/Retired?
Elvis Shepherd	Member	Adrenalized Super Strength	MIA
Jennifer Galloway	Member	Duplication	Disassociated
Kinson Sayers	Member	Persuasion	Hiatus/Retired?
Mona Rao	Member	Telepathy	Deceased
Monica Dawson	Member	Adoptive Muscle Memory	Retired
Sal Silvatti	Member	Metamorph	Relocated to Ferrymen
"Sergei"	Member	Nullification	Hiatus/Retired?
Owen Whitcomb	Member	Hyperspeed	MIA
Ygraine FitzRoy	Member	Short-Range Gravitic Manipulation	Disassociated

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The Catabase

This is a page representing the compiled intelligence of Phoenix, kept on the organization's computers, and given its name for the person capable of holding it all in her head and replacing it whole from memory if needed.

Skillsets Chart

Current and Future Projects

• Resolve time-travel crisis.
• Beat up Homeland Security and free its illegal captives and experiment subjects.
• The Miracles Project (Newscast: Miracles Throughout NYC).

Past Projects

• The Miracles Project (Newscast: Miracles Throughout NYC).
• Beating Kazimir Volken and saving ninety percent of the world's population from nasty viral death.
• Attack on Moab Federal Penitentiary to free captive operatives.

Pending/Tabled Logistics

• Refine the recruitment interviewing process
• Complete renovations for and move to Old Dispensary, new headquarters

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Recruitment

Establishing some kind of previous link to Phoenix before coming IC is recommended. Characters can always have been part of the group, be an established contact of one of the members, or have previously belonged to a similar organization in another part of the country with ties to the previous incarnation of PARIAH or Phoenix.

IC recruitment is possible, but takes much longer since establishing trust with such an organization is a slow process. However, there is an established protocol for Phoenix members who are assigned to recruit a specific person:

How To Recruit For Phoenix In 3 Easy Steps
1.	You've discovered a potential recruit, or you've been tapped to recruit a specific person. Spend time observing them, and when you feel ready, approach them and see if you can get them to converse about how they feel about pro-Evolved issues.
2.	Once you've established their interest, you can begin indicating the possibility of working with Phoenix. If they take to the idea, give them the number of one of our disposable phones. Tell them to call it and leave their personal contact information on the voice mail. Yes, this is a risk for them, but part of the recruitment process is also a test of trust.
3.	When and if your recruit makes the call, the information left on the voice mail will be given to Sergei to investigate their background. Once they are cleared, they may be brought in or observed further, depending on the results.

OOC Note To Recruits: After joining Phoenix, please feel free to addcom <alias>=Phoenix as well as +request to staff to be added to the Phoenix bboard (10).

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Important Locations

• Old Dispensary
• New York Public Library
• The Hangar (Ferrymen property)
• The Village Renaissance Building, aka "The Verb"

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Trivia and Notes

• The faction was named in honor of Cameron Spalding, the original leader and visionary who created PARIAH and died in late 2008.
• The newer tagging and graffiti jobs done by members have varied into many new visuals. A Phoenix(the bird) in different themes; tribal, arabesque, primitive, celtic, mascots, nouveau, cubism, abstract even some attempts at what may be baroque/neoclassicism, among many other themes. If there is a 'look', there is probably at least one paint job on a building somewhere for it. There are usually word stencils near these exclaiming RISE UP!
• A log of organizational notes made about revamping Phoenix's internal structure is located here.

Important Scenes

(List of scenes.)

Date	Title	Summary
10/16/08	We're Going To Give Them Miracles	The 'terrorist faction's next move is an act of grace.
10/29/08	From The Ashes	PARIAH tears into two and Phoenix is born.
11/22/08	The Healing Miracle	Part of the Miracles Project.
12/01/08	Kidnap the Girl, Save the World	Phoenix makes their first operational strike against The Vanguard.
12/10/08	Two To Tango	And the Vanguard strikes back.
01/07/09	Scorched Earth Policy	The first war room for the movement against Kazimir Volken.
01/23/09	Prelude to Armageddon, Part IV	The second war room. Diabolical plans from a mastermind on loan.
01/28/09	Endgame - Suffer the Children	Phoenix and the Vanguard go head to head…
	Endgame - Resonance	…suffering a fatality…
	Endgame - Tripwire	…and captures…
	Endgame - To Die At Sea	…and perhaps still more fatalities…
	Endgame - Conflagration	…while the Vanguard has traitors within…
	Endgame - ...And All That Could Have Been	…and Kazimir Volken burns.
02/20/09	Lighting the Flame	Having suffered great losses to both the Vanguard and Homeland Security after the battles of January, Phoenix regroups.
03/24/09	Underground	This time, the target is Moab Federal Penitentiary.
04/07/09	When Lightning Strikes, Part I	Phoenix and its allies attacks the high-security prison in Utah.
	When Lightning Strikes, Part II	A lot, to devastating effect.