Cecil Mournings/3.0

"Never punch down. Punch to the side only when necessary. And always punch up." - Cecil Mournings
Cecil Mournings is a character role-played by 1rregularCharlie.
== General Description ==
Cecil Mournings is a British transwoman whose most distinctive physical feature is her skull face which she claims not to be make up but an actual birthmark.
Generally Cecil always puts forth a friendly, affable, charitable demeanour that has managed to charm many she comes across. She's put her natural social skills to use as (as she calls it) a Marketeer for many small businesses that use both The Dean's World and Paleto Farmers Markets. She likes to occassionally poke fun at things and people but always keen never to take the joke too far. Some have come to call Cecil's skills in salemanship and charm as her silver tongue. Cecil herself is quite flattered by such remarks and does on occassion refer to herself as Cecil "Silver-Tongue" Mournings.
Cecil has also shown herself to be quite a flirt usually towards woman and most notably towards her co-worker at The Apothecary, Lola Sunshine. She even wrote a poem for her. With that said however she often gets flustered when people flirt back at her or give her geniune compliments, often result in her sheepishly attempting to hide her blush by hiding behind things.
She has also been shown to give good advice. Particularly to one of her first friends in the city Jerry Markaz, who has commented on how "wise" Cecil seems to him.
Lastly it's been noted by many that she has a very pleasant voice, is well spoken and has an obvious southern English accent. Some have called her voice "pure ASMR." When people make such positive comments about her voice Cecil more often than not assumes they're lying for her benefit or insane, seeing as she detests her voice and will avoid hearing her own voice.
== Life before Los Santos ==
Cecil Mournings past remains shrouded in mystery. When asked Cecil requires the invidiual inquiring to roll a dice at which point Cecil will regail them with a backstory based on the dice roll. Cecil herself claims that these backstories are mixtures of lies and truths but regardless the result is always a past wholey unclear.
Here are the stories heard so far:
# Cecil was born the same as anyone else in 1993 except she had a natural skull looking facial birth mark. Cecil suspects this is why she was abandoned at an orphanage. She had a pretty average life in Oxford, England eventually managing to obtain a degree and masters degree in animation. Whilst being a student she took on a job as a Data Entry Clerk. The job was meant to be temporary, to see her through university, however after university she failed to make any head way into the animation industry and thus settled into a job she loathed. After 9 years she had a mental break and planned to jump off a bridge killing herself. However at the last second she instead decided to "loose her mind" and got a hair cut, new clothes and bought a ticket to Los Santos. She made sure to burn down her rented flat to fake her death and make sure she had no way to return before leaving. Her ID's stated birthday is an error that Cecil finds amusing.
# Cecil has no memories beyond waking up in a cemetery just north of Oxford, England. She instictively dug her way out of a grave dedicated to someone named Cecil Mournings who was apparently born in 1893. She decide to take this name and birthdate as her own. She spent the next 2 to 3 years bumming about, quickly realising that though she had no memories she could still talk, read and write in english fluently (no other language however). Eventually her wonders found her travelling to Los Santos where she hopes to make something of herself.
# Cecil is actually a undead creature along the lines of a vampire. She was born in 1893 in Oxford, England as a regular human with an odd skull looking birth mark. She grew up like most other children born in that era and later on fought in the trenches of France in WW1. Eventually the terror and horror of the trenches got to her and she had a mental breakdown and fled the trenches. After months of stumbling aorund the french countryside she has bought into the service of a well to do French noble family called the Plantageneta family. The family grew to like Cecil and her silver tongue and eventually (after being seduced by Mistress Penelope Plantageneta) she was forcibly embrace into their undead coven. Cecil remained their for several decades before a falling out eventually led to Cecil cutting ties and leaving. Unable to return home Cecil instead wondered the world an ageless undead being. Her wonderings have bought her finally to Los Santos. In this case, Cecil's stated birthday on her Los Santos ID is accurate.
# Cecil is actually far older than her ID suggests. She existed for centuries as a Lich, having split her soul between several phylacteries hidden all around the world. She's survived for so long on her wit and charm as well as skillfull manevouring of her phylacteries every few decades. She's maintained her form via contracts made with individuals for their souls in return for a service(s) performed by herself. She uses the souls acquired in such a way to revive herself after taking lethal damage, consuming them into herself in the process. Her current name and birthday in this case is simply the latest identity she has taken up throughout the many centuries of (un)life.
It's more than likely that there are even more stories that Cecil has prepared for those curious about her life before Los Santos. As to the legitimacy of any of them, only Cecil truely knows and it doesn't seem like she's going to clarify anything soon.
===== Addendum: =====
Cecil in more recent times has admitted to several individuals that these stories were in fact made up. But seemed to hold an element of truth in each. In reality Cecil cannot remember anything before waking up in Los Santos, though she does feel certain ways about certain things and seems to know a great many historical facts but lacks context for all of it. She claims that reading left over notes from Geralt of Rivia regarding magic and the arcane has helped jog her memory on occassion, and seems to have sparked an intense interest in the magical underbelly of Los Santos.
===== Addendum 2: =====
She discovered, on her adventures in Europe, that her past self was a deeply trumatised transwoman whom had fought in both World War 1 and 2 and several other wars through the decades. These experiences had apparently scarred her and instilled a deep paranoia that eventually led to her delving deep into the occult and arcane. This handedly explains current Cecil's natural apitude for magic as a mental echo from that now dead past life. She also learnt that the previous Cecil awoke in a grave with the name Cecil Mournings engraved on it on the 1st of November 1893. It seems that the body Cecil inhabits currently is cursed/blessed with a form of immortality. Physically Cecil's body does not age and heals from all wounds inflicted upon it over time. This apparently immortality does not extend to her memories. If Cecil were to get a bullet to the brain more than likely she'll forget everything about her life and a new version of Cecil will grow within the body. Even were she not to be injured in such a way her brain seemingly naturally forgets everything every 100 to 150 years. It seems Cecil had been living in Los Santos for few days before her memories reset and the current Cecil imerged.
== History ==
=== Early Days in Los Santos: ===
On her first day in the city Cecil stumbled across and befriended a very drunk Australian man called Jerry Markaz outside the appartments. Jerry and Cecil hit it off immeadiately, with Cecil's more positive personality counter balancing Jerry's more solem mindset. The pair engaged in a few house robberies together with Cecil calling it "liberating the excess clutter from properties with too much. Thus doing a civic duty to prevent individuals from developing hording issues." Later that same day Jerry took Cecil to meet Miles Vermillion and Elizabeth Byrne who too were robbing houses. All four of them seemed to get on well and Cecil made sure to get all their contact details before the group split to do their own thing.
The next day after a range of misfortunes, that resulted in Cecil going to hospital twice (she got shot by Ballas and flung from a moving car), she called Maia Berkeley in regards to a job posting she placed in the yellow pages for a barista to come work at Cool Beans. Meeting up with her outside the casino Cecil seemingly managed to ace the interview process by giving a variety of strange answers that greatly amused Maia. Thus Cecil was introduced to booth work and began their mission to collect jobs.
Later Cecil met up with Miles Vermillion who gave Cecil her second job as a Sales Rep for Nu Chem Industries and also introducing her to Ellie Fyr. When the gang set up at Dean's World and began making sales Cecil showed thsemlseves to be somewhat of a natural, making a fair few sales and coming up with a product pitch on the spot. That said her approach still needed work as she would occassionally threaten potential customers to buy products by pulling out a pistol or a knife if they stated they weren't interested.
Not long later Cecil would properly meet Lola Sunshine after the two had had only breif conversations before. The pair found they got along well and spent an entire day hanging out with one another with Cecil even gothing up for Lola (though it came out more rocker/biker). Later their friendship would result in Cecil meeting Geralt of Rivia and Geralt agreeing to hire on Cecil into his new potion making business The Apothecary. This as it turned out would become one of the definitive moments of Cecil's life in Los Santos.
=== The Los Santos Marketeer: ===
Cecil Mournings quickly took to the market life befriending many regulars and being employed by even more small businesses. People including Garry Roche, Cassandra Silverton, Katya Molotov, Magdelena O'Leary, Rexsarius "Rex" Bracchimus, Mami Ko, Yushin "Shin" Kim, Nolan Nicholson, Josh Grimm and many more. She even devised an outfit that would become a signature look, basing it off of the classic Circus Master uniform, tophat and all.
Never the less, despite how many businesses hired Cecil, Cecil would more often than not do market shifts for The Apothecary enjoying the challenge of trying to convince customers to buy various potions. These shifts were usually done in the company of Lola Sunshine, Rexsarius "Rex" Bracchimus and occassionally Geralt of Rivia who would come to call Cecil technique of running into the market and approaching potential customers, convincing them to come to the booth to hear her pitch, Lasooing.
Cecil began taking great pride in the markets and began discussing with others about how the markets should be sacrosanct and that markets workers should defend one another against gang activity. Whilst many agreed to the concept the true test occured when Lang Buddha and Harry Brown came to the Paletto markets and shot up another booth worker. Whilst the pair were trying to escape Cecil opened fire on their escape car assuming the other market workers would have Cecil's back. Instead when the pair quickly returned to the market and began a shoot out with Cecil the other market workers didn't come to help. Inevidably Cecil was shot down by the more verteran men, with Lang making it clear that Cecil "shouldn't be a fucking hero." Though this was a minor instance in Lang and Harry's life (Cecil is convinced neither even remember the event) it became a defining moment in Cecil's. The event caused Cecil to readdress their ideology and methodology. Cecil doesn't blame the other workers for not coming to her aid, but she remains somewhat disappointed internally and as a result seems less enthused about being The Marketeer (only occassionally donning the tophat at market now).
=== Putting down roots: ===
After the Paleto shoot out, Cecil took a few days off outside the city to think and consider. They concluded that Lang was right in a sense, that one doesn't really make a difference by just going in guns blazing like Cecil had done at the markets. They needed to be smarter about it. They also realised what truely bothered them about the event. It was that fact that one of the richest men in town came down to the farmers market and shot someone up for being tangentially related to the Condemned MC and in the process disrupting the market's peace that's required for steady business. It seemed to Cecil like the rich punishing the poor for trying to survive and thrive. Thus Cecil coined their own personal montra, to never punch down, to punch to the side only when they have to, and to always punch up. Cecil combined this with a series of personal codes split between those for peace times and those for war times. She as yet to state these out loud to anyone however.
With this new mindset came an acceptance of a darker side to Cecil's personality. Seemingly more willing to indulge in the more criminal aspects of life in Los Santos in a bid to become more powerfull. This can be seen when a chance meeting with a shot up Collin McKinley under the pier led to Cecil willingly hiding his class 2 weapon from the cops and EMS. Upon meeting up to give back the weapon Cecil asked about the Bondi Boys MC which led to the pair boosting cars together for a bit, all the while Collin was asking Cecil questions and testing her skills. Since the meeting Cecil has been using their limited connections to get answers to some of Collin's questions concerning the weed trade and the possibility of opening a tattoo business. On 29/07/2021 Collin and Cecil finally managed to catch up with Cecil giving Collin everything she had learnt. Collin thanked her for looking into it and said he'd be in touch.
This new attitude can also be seen in Cecil's new personal business of collecting souls. After asking Cassandra Silverton about what her true nature is, Cass informed her that her first thoughts were in regards to Cecil possibly being some form of Lich or at the very least Undead. During this conversation Cecil also revealed that they can see an aura around people and they looked tasty. Cass concluded that these were the souls of individuals and that Cecil should maybe see if she could interact with them in some way. Cecil thought about it and concluded that it would be rude to simply take anothers soul, thus she would create agreements and contracts with individuals for ownership of their souls. The first to accept such a contract was Velma Dinkerberry whom traded her soul in return for Cecil's aid in becoming a star. Cass's case into Cecil's true nature is still on going.
Cecil also recently ran across Ray Mond in the Vault after starting up a conversation with her when Cecil saw they had the same red blazer. During this conversation Cecil revealed she sells potions for The Apothecary which prompted Ray to ask if Cecil sold love potions. It just so happend that she did but didn't have any on her person at the moment. The two of them figured out a deal in which Ray would pay now and pick up the potion later. Exchanging numbers the two later met up at the Paleto market where the exchange was made. Ray also confided that she intended to give said love potion to Randy Bullet which amused Cecil. Since then Ray Mond has texted Cecil about the possibility of aquiring more potions. To what end? Only she knows.
Whilst working the booth at Dean's world Leslie Lingberg and Kayn Larp approached the booth. Cecil gave them her usual pitch, with Leslie mentioning that The Apothecary should pitch at one of the Cerberus Den shows, but as it turns out niether was interested in actually buying potions. Leslie instead invited Cecil to join in a scheme to irritate Ramee El-Rahman by taking him on a long trip using a series of ridiculous transports all the way back round to where he started. Cecil's part of the plan was to use a boat to ship Ramee for a small section of the trip. Leslie explicitly told all people working on these scheme not to talk much and always be vague. Cecil elected to completely ignore this and spoke to Ramee almost the entire trip, excepting a bribe to do so. She revealed that Leslie's plan was more than likely purely designed to make Ramee mald and waste his time. Ramee and Cecil also got into a chat about her selling potions with Ramee quickly putting together that Ray Mond had recently bought a love potion from Cecil. Sensing a sale, Cecil offered to sell Ramee one too, which he accepted. Her portion of the trip ended when she purposely crashed the yatch used into the docks in which Tom Nook was waiting to take Ramee for the next segment of the trip. Despite the breach of the minimum talking rule, Leslie paid Cecil $5000 for a job well done.
Cecil also frequently gives to charity, giving to any and all whom seem down bad even though they themselves aren't particually wealthy. Seen when she gave $1000 to the soup kitchen despite only having around $9000 at the time. She has also become very inistant on paying off debts as quickly as possible, getting geniunely annoyed and emotionally guilting Cassandra Silverton when she refused to allow her to pay her back after loaning her $4800 to buy her first car. Finally getting her state ID number, Cecil paid her back $5000 thanking her and calling her cute during the process.
=== Changing Tides: ===
On the 27th of August Geralt of Rivia called up Cecil to arrange a meeting at the vineyard. Meeting up Geralt explain to Cecil his plans to get back to his roots and expressed how much The Apothecary had spiraled far outside his orginal scope. As the pair talked Geralt informed Cecil that he wanted to sell his shares of the company to Cecil, who had shown an interest in such a thing many times. Thus Cecil accepted and bought Geralt's shares for $25k, making Cecil the new Co-Owner along side Lola Sunshine.
With this new bedrock foundation Cecil began to feel more comfortably positioned within Los Santos, enough to reveal to several people that the stories she told about her orgins were by enlarge made up. In reality Cecil couldn't remember anything before Los Santos, but gets flashes of facts, emotions when certain topics are brouched.
Cecil spent a few weeks/months grinding money via the market brooths, fishing and deliveries all in an effort to buy her dream car, a HotKnife Cecil has come to call The Mollymauk. On the 24/09/2021 Cecil finally amanaged to pull together enough cash to buy her car from PDM.
It was also during this peroid of grinding that Cecil became more and more interested in the arcane underbelly of Los Santos, discovering that buy reading books on the occult, Geralt's left over notes and pursuing more alchemical projects that she would on occassion remeber snippits of her past, which seems to have been closely tied to various hidden magical communities the world over. Currently Cecil considers herself one of the most well informed individals in Los Santos conecern the arcane and has begun offering her advice and services on issues of a more magical nature.
Whilst working at The Apothecary booth in Dean's world during Cecil grind for her car she was approached by Ursula Leichenberg and questioned about the rising vampire population in the city. During the conversation she revealed that she knew that Jack Ripley and Carmella Corset were both vampires whilst hinting that Carmella herself was the oginator of the sudden vampire population boom. She also gave Cecil a vial of Ripley's blood to run tests on... because yes, she just had that on her person.
A few days later whilst hanging around with Kimmy Youngirl (teaching/introducing her to the world of magic) Cecil finally decided to call Carmella Corset in regards to vampirism. Though suspicious at first, Carmella eventually invited Cecil to discuss the issue in the privacy of her home to which Cecila agreed. Meeting up Cecil informed her about what she knew about Vampires and magical denizens in general. Cecil also gave Carmella a dire warning about a shadowy organisation known as The Inquest; a group dedicated to wiping out all magical entities the world over. She also implied that the increasing presence of Vampire Hunters in the city may be a result of the Inquest's influence. Cecil also breifly mentioned to Carmella that the Ravinous Reduction potion found at The Apothecary seemed to have a soothing effect to vampires that ingest it, perhaps aiding vampires in not killing their victims when feeding on their blood. Lastly Cecil encouraged Carmella to use her influence amongst the Los Santos vampires to apply rules and regulations to her kin and thus keep the attention of the Inquest at bay. The pair parted on good terms with Cecil promising Carmella that she was always available to call or inquire with.
=== A New Vocation: ===
It was not long after this that Cecil replied to a twat she saw on her phone looking for a private eye. Having already done some infomation broker/private eye work of a more magically nature she was keen to dip her toes into a new side of the private eye world. Thus she was quickly contacted by Machete Cortez of The Marabunta Grande, a connection of which would lead her to some very interesting adventures. Her first case was to track down as much infomation as possible on the infamous Pink gang. When Cecil mentioned that the price for performing this service was $7000 Machete instead offered to pay her $5000 for the intial infomation and the other $2000 for the follow up. Having nothing to loose Cecil agreed. Cecil quickly got to work using a mixture of public records and various contacts and within a few hours had the names, vechiles, criminal records, state IDs and bits of street trivia on every core member of Pink Gang. Machete was impressed with Cecil and commented on how her reports were something he hadn't seen from a Private Eye before. He paid Cecil in full for both the intial findings and the following up case which sought to clairify bits of infomation. Both Cecil and Machete left on good terms with each apparently being impressed by the other.
A few weeks passed with Cecil getting increasingly tired of the daily grind of fishing and booth work to continously repay her debt for her car. Thus when Machete contacted her again she quickly jumped on the oppurtunity to do something different and profitable. During the call Machete stressed the time sensetive nature of this case and gave Cecil some very weak leads to follow tracking down a certain officer that had done something to upset the Marabunta Grande. Getting to work Cecil intially struggled to make headway untill a she as a last ditch effort she inquired with -A LAWYER THE WRITER HAS FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF- who gave her the name Den Shiesty based on the description Machete gave Cecil. Searching for recent twats by Den she discovered that Den had mockingly taken a selfie at Fudge Lane, Marabunta Grande turf. With a name she was able to pull everything from public records as well as obtain other bits of inmation from other contacts. Handing over the report to Machete he was again impressed and asked that Cecil help him find where Den was at that moment and call him. Cecil agreed and began to search getting extremely lucky and stumbling across Den only 5 minutes later outside Legion Square Bank seemingly having a heated discussion with Francis J Francer. Walking into the bank Cecil called Machete, pinged him her location and quietly left and walked around the corner into the alleyway where she promptly heard a rain of gunfire. Decided to try stick nearby the scene wihtout drawing attention Cecil drove around for awhile before calling Machete who quickly gave her a follow up case. It seemed that whilst some the Marabunta Grande members attempted to assassinate Den, Francis and Francis's brother had been hit in the cross fire and thus opened fire on the Marabunta Grande members downing them. Now Machete was looking for infomation about the brothers to get revenge. Cecil got to work and had a far easier time getting infomation on them inlarge part due to Collin McKinley giving Cecil their names and a bunch of minor tidbits that unknowingly could be used to lure the pair into a trap. Presenting these findings to Machete later he was again impressed and decided tp pay Cecil $10000 for all her hard work that day. Cecil found herself truely thankfull and expressed how she found the whole experience exciting and fun. The pair again parted on good terms with Machete hinting that he'd happily help Cecil get more into this world of crime if she wanted.
=== A return to tedium: ===
After the excitement of the last couple of cases as a Private Eye/Infomation Broker Cecil found her return to the daily grind irritated her on a level it hadn't previously. Having completely lost motivation in keeping up with a humdrum life she found unsatisfactory she often texted and called around inquiring about cases she could look into, coming up blank.
Thus when a mysterious letter arrive in her appartment, apparently from herself 8 years ago, it should be no surprise that she jumped on the mystery it offered and the possible answers to her origins. Hence her recent absence from the city of Los Santos as she cases down leads and adventures in Europe.
=== The European Adventure: ===
Cecil has elaborated to some about her 3 month adventures in Europe. Apparently she learnt a lot about her past life and was left largely unimpressed. Largely due to her former self's paranoia that resulted in a wild goose chase all over Europe to find hidden lockboxes, ridiculous clues and small tidbits about her former life. It also led Cecil it many conflicts that resulted in her being effectively banned from nearly all major European countries.
===== Dublin, Ireland: =====
The first clue led her to Dublin Ireland in which she discovered the first hidden lockbox. Unfortunately the Irish mob had taken ownership over the warehouse the lockbox wound up. Scouting the defences she discover that security was tight and she'd need help. Thus she called upon an old friend from Los Santos Magdelena O'Leary, an Irish native, to help her. The pair managed to sneak their way into the warehouse and grab the lockbox, and learn the next clue led them to London, without raising the alarm. However on the way out they were finally spotted and the guards. Upon hearing Cecil's accent they assumed the pair must be MI6 agents here to mess with their operations. The result was a chase full of gun fire and occassional magical blasts worthy of an action film block buster. Whilst the pair had a lot of success they were eventually cornered on the Eastern Coast of Ireland and shot down on a beach as they attempted to escape to the UK via a small rowing boat. The pair were left for dead (because they were) which gave Cecil's body enough time to recover from the many bullet wounds. Luckily none of the bullets had hit Cecil head meaning her memories were still intact upon awakening. Seeing the state of Magdelena's cadaver Cecil got to work removing the bullets and desperately gathering the components from a nearby village to attempt to resurrect her. Attempting the ritual Cecil succeeded in bringing Magdelena back to life but in a coma. Unable to do anything more for her Cecil wrote her a letter and left her in the care of a hospital under a fake name. Painfully aware that if she were to resurface in Ireland again any time soon she would more than likely be hunted, Cecil chose to leave for England and mentally decided to continue the rest of the trip alone.
===== London, England: =====
After rowing to Wales from Ireland Cecil made the trip to London to track down another hidden clue to her past. She quickly found said clue in an abandond subway station, seemingly lost to rubble during the biltz of WW2. It was too late she realised that the station was under observation by an MI6 agent named Agent Aaron A. Aaronson who seemingly knew Cecil's past life and held a grudge. Attempting to talk and reason with the agent got nowhere fast and seemingly just resulted in pissing off the agent more. When Cecil put their hands up to be non-threatening the Agent assumed she was attempting to cast magic and shot her through her right hand. This resulted in Cecil loosing her temper and drawing her gun on the Agent. The pair engaged in an extended firefight through out the London underground that resulted in both of them fist fighting in Buckingham Palace. During this part of their fight, Cecil attempted to cast a firebolt spell at the Agent who grabbed the nearest thing to defend himself. Said thing being a small Corgi named Randy seemingly owned by the Queen herself. The firebolt caused the small dog to explode and in a fit of rage at the Agent forcing Cecil to kill an innocent dog, she charged the agent contuing their fight. After a solid 8 hours of near constant fighting all over London in a variety of vechiles Cecil finally got the one up on the Agent when said Agent got their foot stuck in a sink hole on the banks of the Thames River. Cecil, exhausted, took a moment of time to recover a bit before grabbing the Agent around their neck and forcing them under the murky water. Once the dead was done Cecil collapsed on the bank of the river and came to a realisation that "Sometimes killing feels like winning." Finally getting a moment to read the clue she gathered earlier she was allowed again to discover her past self still wasn't giving directing answers to her past. She did however work out that the next clue was in Paris, France. Realising that by murdering an MI6 agent after a semi-public shootout in a nations capital city she had essentially made herself Public Enemy #1 on MI6's shit list, Cecil decided not to come back to the UK for a few decades.
===== Paris, France: =====
The trip to France was relatively uneventfull which struck Cecil as odd. She wasn't questioned at customs even with a skull for a face. Reaching Paris she quickly discovered why. A small but influentual cult based out of the Paris Catacombs had caught wind of Cecil successfull resurrection of Magdelena in Ireland weeks earlier and were interesting in hiring her services for their own ends. Desperately low on cash and realising that she would be quickly hunted again by both the cult and probably the french police Cecil had no choice but to agree. To help convince Cecil the cult had also already aquired the next clue from Cecil's past life. The cult, called La Nouvelle Révolution, sought to seek gidance from the best known figure of the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre. Of course Roberpierre was long dead but the cult had spent not inconsiderable time putting the few remains of the former Statesman together ready for resurrection. Cecil warned the group that someone dead for so long wouldn't come back as they were in life. The cult insisted however. Thus Cecil attempted the ritual as best she could. The result was an murderous animated skeleton of a french politician. The skeleton's rampage led to the death of nearly all the cultists and almost killed Cecil. Realising she couldn't let this monster escape to the surface of Paris, Cecil elected to trap the skeleton in the catacombs by causing a cave in. The trap worked and the murderous skeleton remains trapped in a forgotten corner of the catacombs. Unfortunately damaging the catacombs firmly put Cecil on the French goverment's shit list and so Cecil decided to get out whilst she could. Reading the clue she snagged from a cultist corpse she discovered, much to her annoyance, that the next clue was in Vittorio Veneto, Italy.
===== Vittorio Veneto, Italy: =====
Reaching Vittorio Veneto was not an easy trek. Cecil spent a week hitchhiking across France using broken French to bum rides going south. Finally reaching Vittorio Veneto Cecil decided to entirely skip the border customs by using magically to charm her way through all the checks. Unlike the other clues the directions to the hidden chest in Vittorio Veneto were relatively simple to figure out. Opening the chest Cecil found another clue as well as a range of keep sakes from her past life. Said keep sakes included a journal of Cecil role in the British 48th Division during WW1 in which she fought in the Battle of Vittorio Veneto. Cecil learnt from this journal that this is where her past self had first experienced death first hand. The journal spoke at length of how she was sat next to her best friend when a bullet entered their skull and "hit their off button." To the current Cecil this was the begining of past Cecil's paranoia. Clue gotten and a reveal about her past life secured Cecil pushed deeper into Italy determind to take a small break to actually be a tourist for awhile before heading to the next location Catalonia, Spain.
After a few weeks exploring Cecil reach Sicily and enjoyed going to many of the more touristy locations around the island. It was during one of these wonderings that Cecil abscent mindedly wondered into a major drug deal by done by the Salvanti crime family. Said family did not take Cecil's presence well and almost immeadiately pulled weapons on her. Thoroughly exhausted by constant conflict throughout this trip, Cecil's temper flared and instead of reacting in her traditional calm manner she instead became irate, pissing off the family even more. Stepping forward the youngest member of the family, Santino Salvanti, began a vicous verbal duel with Cecil. Both getting more and more angry in the process. Strangely the other members of the family were amused by this turn and allowed the pair to argue. This all changed when Cecil attempted to use a display of force to mnake the young man Santino back off... by cast a firebolt at the boxes in the back of a van the family were using. Said boxes immeadiately caught fire, destroying the contained drugs and wrecking the van. A fight became unavoidable and Cecil took and a cheap shot upper cutting Santino when he was distracted and making a break for it. Another chase ensued with Cecil this time actually getting lucky and managing to charter a boat ride to Catalonia Spain before the Salvanti caught up to her. Leaving Sicily she desided to err on the side of caution and avoid Italy for the forseeable future, unaware of the influence the Salvanti's may or may not have.
===== Catalonia, Spain: =====
Completely sick of this trip and her past self's obsession with being mysterious Cecil swore that if this clue didn't lead her to the answers she was looking for she's call this trip a wash and head back to Los Santos. Reaching Catalonia Cecil was surprised to find a local festival taking place. The locals were surprisingly welcoming to her despite her complete lack of Spainish. Cecil found herself partying with the friendly locals and getting quite drunk and high. Events from this point forward are spotty but she remembers being part of some kind of poltical march and hurling a brick at a Spainish Police officer. This was apparently the inciting incidient that led to a full scale Catalonian riot with the Spainish police violently cracking down. When she woke up in a large waste bin the next morning she was troubled to find her face on every national news broadcast apparently wanted for inciting violence and severly injuring an officer. Too exhausted/hung over to care Cecil simply decided to track down this next clue and move on. Finding the next clue in a 200 year old empty bottle of wine Cecil found an extensive note on her past self's interaction with the shadowy group known as The Inquest and her studies of magic.
Whilst reading this clue Cecil found herself just done with this whole trip. Gathering everything she had gathered together, she set fire to it all. Wiping her hands of the whole affair and deciding to stop chasing ghosts.
===== Back to Los Santos: =====
Desiding to return to Los Santos Cecil managed to sneak aboard a cargo ship heading that way from Portugal. Whilst hidden in the bowls of said ship Cecil ruminated on her trip to Europe. The results of these ruminations have yet to be mentioned in game, thus we are left to guess. It has occured to her that it's possible her trip to Europe might have put her on INTERPOL's radar.