Everyx Alcourde

**Everyx Alcourde** was a participant in Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death and the designated prince of the nation of Ystridia.

## Everyx Alcourde

### Aliases

Designated Prince of Ystridia
Designated Patient (by Clay Bongiovanni)

### Relatives

Vera Alcourde (mother)
Unnamed father
Salem Alcourde (sister)

## Appearance

Everyx has a medium-height and lean muscular build. They are supposedly albino, and have very pale skin with red eyes and white-blond hair. He wears strange and outdated clothing with white gloves, and his hair is pulled into a short braid in front of his right shoulder. His left hand has a large scar down his palm, and after visiting the infirmary he loses his left hand. For the rest of the game he wears no gloves and his left stump is covered with bloodied bandages.

## Personality

Everyx's personality stems from the isolation of his life, Eveyrx is not very adept with modern commodities we often take for granted. He is extremely stand-offish and often gets into arguments over minute details.

> "Five simple words yet you dodge the question like the blade of a knife. I'm sure by now you realize you cannot dodge forever, Sly."
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> -Everyx to Brigitte Bartley during the first week of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death
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During the events of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, Everyx is introduced to many new machines and concepts. Being a self-proclaimed artist himself, they take an unusual interest in Clay Bongiovanni's art that hangs around the museum. Everyx is one to act on impulse, deciding to get himself sent to The Infirmary upon hearing about it. Everyx speaks with a formal and regal cadence in his voice, almost as if every sentence is a poem to him.

## Backstory

Everyx Alcourde was born on March 3rd, 2003 in Ystridia. He was born to a noble family, The Alcourdes, gaining the Alcourdian blood from his mother, Vera Alcourde. As such, Everyx never had to work a day in his life to survive, they instead chose to. Everyx's mother was an "Apothet" or the Ystridian equivalent of a Enlightenment Thinker. Vera inherited and operated an Apothet Cluster in Ystridia, and as such Everyx had access to the highest echelon of Ystridian literature. One fateful day upon Vera's arrival home, Everyx, at around the age of 8, had written a poem for her. Vera was blown away by the dexterity and complexity of the words her child had just written and started enrolling Everyx in classes for both writing and fencing. It was around this time that Everyx's sister, Salem Alcourde, was born. Salem is born deaf and not able to hear, even with assistance. Ystridia does not have the technology Everyx finds in the Bongiovanni Museum used for Ink. After several years of intensive writing and fencing classes, Everyx has plateaued, he continues to work on poetry but has no where to share it. He expresses this concern to Vera who encourages him to perform on the streets of Ystridia. Everyx does so, performing on the side of the walkways of Ystridia for almost a year. Everyx had gained a large following and began to become a household name in Ystridia. When Everyx was invited to attend a gathering of Vera's Apothet Cluster, he made sure to take notes for writing later. When Everyx sat in to the gathering, they gained a new outlook of the world and the current state of Ystridia, becoming critical of the current king, Iarlious. Everyx brought his disdain of the authoritarian chokehold of the kingdom to light with his performances on the street and gained an even larger following, roads would have to be closed due to the crowds Everyx would gather. The public began to change their perspectives and opinions of King Iarlious, and thus Everyx was arrested on December 19th, 2014.

Everyx spent two years in jail. While behind bars, he met and became acquainted with two revolutionaries that knew his mother, Solvie and Diem. On April 7th, 2016, Vera and her Cluster of Apothets planned and organized a mass jailbreak, freeing some of Ystridia's greatest criminals and Iarlious's greatest enemies. Everyx, Solvie (Age 26), and Diem (Age 46) all sought shelter in Vera's salon, the same building Everyx had attended a cluster gathering years before. At this point in time, King Iarlious declares war on Vera and her Cluster, and she decides to fight back. The Eight Month Eoctiple (war in Ystridain) is the bloodiest Ystridian war to date, slashing a population of 43,000 in half in just over half a year. The war was divided into factions, The Revolutionaries and The Pristine. During the jailbreak, King Iarlious had authorized lethal force, resulting in many of the prisoners dying before they could escape. Solvie, Diem, and Everyx were the three survivors Vera appointed as her second hand, appointing both Solvie and Diem as generals and having Everyx assist her as a general herself. There were three main armies of The Revolutionaries, The Vestidual led by Diem, The Burknackium led by Solvie, and The Falcoron led by the Alcourdes. During the final weeks of the war, a siege was placed upon Palace Earlstride, King Iarlious's castle. The Vestidual and The Burknackium's combined numbers lead the frontal attack on the doors, while The Falcoron's smaller numbers prepared for a flank around the back. The frontal assault was extremely successful, pushing back The Pristine as far as the main entrance to the palace. The flank was carried out with much confidence, but The Pristine had prepared for that exact scenario. The Falcoron's army of 500 is reduced to 27 in mere minutes. One of the many lives lost in the battle was Vera Alcourde. Everyx never saw her die or even saw her body, he was the first to notice her absence after the retreat. After barely escaping with his life, Everyx is left in charge of the remains of The Falcoron. The Revolutionaries hatch a new plan, plant Everyx into Palace Earlstride and assassinate King Iarlious. Everyx agreed to this plan, thus dubbing him the "Designated Prince of Ystridia". Another frontal assault is launched by The Vestidual and The Burknackium, with the goal being to sneak Everyx behind enemy lines with nothing more than a blade. The plan is successful and the frontal assault ceases roughly 40 minutes later. However, the assassination is to be delayed, catching The Pristine off guard. Everyx, having never been inside Earlstride Palace, opts to find a place to hide among the shadows, stumbling upon the Well of Secrets. A private library of King Iarlious detailing every major world event within the past 300 years Ystridia has been cut off from. It becomes clear to Everyx that Ystridia was intentionally isolated from the rest of the world by choice. Everyx begins to read several books from cover to cover, wishing his mother could be learning of the Ystridian Lie with him. Hours later, Everyx hears a rattling at the door and hides. King Iarlious enters and Everyx jumps him, holding the blade to his throat. Everyx holds King Iarlious in this position for exactly 17 minutes as he interrogated King Iarlious for every ounce of information he needed answers to. After these 17 minutes, Everyx retracts the blade before plunging it deep into Iarlious's chest, crowning himself as the Prince of Ystrida.

With the public's favor siding with The Revolutionaries and Vera Alcourde, Everyx, Solvie, and Diem feared of releasing knowledge of Vera's death to the public, locking it up behind bars of secrecy. Everyx, Solvie, and Diem are the only three allowed in the Well of Secrets, locking it up in fear of public outrage and mass panic, the exact same as King Iarlious. With the King dethroned, Vera Alcourde is deemed the Queen of Ystridia as a figurehead, and Everyx is truly left to rule being the oldest of Alcourdian blood. Everyx's father dies of heart complications two months after the Alcourdian coronation. Everyx continued to rule Ystridia behind the figurehead of his mother, the once renowned Vera Alcourde. Salem is left in Everyx's care seeing as Vera is not legally declared dead, but Solvie acts as the Alcourdian children's mother. Everyx has a large fondness for Salem, her writing and her ability to persevere even with her inability to hear. Everyx wants to help Ystridia, but slowly. He sends a letter across the sea to a neighboring nation and requests for Ystridia to join the United Nations and to enter a more modern world. Everyx's letter is returned and a hearing is arranged. Everyx leaves Ystridia on a diplomatic mission in late January of 2022. His ship is intercepted by I Perfezionisti and Everyx is taken as a prisoner for Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, leaving behind Ystridia to a member of I Perfezionisti working from the shadows, Diem. The new dictator of Ystridia.

## In-game

### Infirmary visit

During Everyx's first week in the Bongiovanni Museum, they learn of the existence of The Infirmary from Brigitte Bartley. Everyx, in a stroke of impulse, decides he must find his way into the infirmary to discover the secrets within. After attempting to open the locked doors that lined the East Atrium, Everyx came up with an alternate plan. Placing one foot after the other, Everyx stands upon the balcony of the museum, the only thing separating him and the artwork below. Everyx makes is expressly clear that he is not attempting to take his own life, making his following action completely inside the rules. Everyx jumps from the balcony, a dive of grace and elegance, one only a master of dexterity could achieve, before hitting the ground. Just as he had planned, Everyx is rushed to the infirmary. Within the infirmary, Everyx receives three visitors, the first being CIB-1L, the one responsible for the infirmary. The second, Ink, the one to watch Everyx. The third and final visitor, Clay Bongiovanni himself. Everyx awakes in his bed, coughing up violent amounts of blood. CIB-1L expresses concern, but Ink decides to prank Everyx by drawing on his face. When Everyx is well enough to stand, he initiates step two of his plan, searching the infirmary. He stumbles across a drawer full of loose paper. Ink attempts to contain Everyx and prevent his transgression but is met with threats of violence, but not to Ink. Everyx threatens to knock himself out at Ink's feet to get him in trouble. However, by grabbing the loose paper with a small doodle on it had violated a rule of the museum. Everyx pockets the drawing after cutting his hand on the paper itself and attempts to return to his bed. In the process, Ink attacks Everyx and pins him to the wall with ink. Everyx is held in captivity until Clay Bongiovanni appears.

> "Bongiovanni tosses up his cane to catch it in the same hand, but instead of holding its eyeball-grip, he holds the base of the blade. He knocks the back end twice against Everyx's left wrist-bone. A delicate turn of just one hundred and eighty degrees, the blade's edge points across Everyx's blue-streaked arteries. Just some pressure breaks through layers of skin, and sawing side to side can break bone with enough effort."
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> -The description of Clay Bongiovanni removing Everyx's hand
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Clay expresses his disdain for Everyx and unsheathes his blade with the Eye of Truth attached and knocks it against Everyx's wrist, effectively but slowly removing Everyx's left hand from the perch of bone it rest upon before. However, Everyx does not consider this a pure defeat, seeing as Clay requested the hand cut moments before, to which Everyx responded by offering his other hand, one scarred due to the siege on Earlstride Palace years before. Everyx is discharged from the infirmary and returns to his room in bandages, able to finally read through his prize of victory. He is faced with the true reason for the loss of his hand, his rule violation he had not even realized was a violation until after his punishment. Clay Bongiovanni's art, a sketch of Brando Croce appears on the loose paper Everyx had cut his finger on and stolen. The piece of paper he lost his hand for.

### Pinocchio's Death

During the events of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, on February 16th Ink brings Clay Bongiovanni's son, Pinocchio out for a celebration. Ink verbally berates the small child before tossing him into the center of the West Atrium. After a few minutes of lying on the floor, Pinocchio is seized by none other than Everyx Alcourde and taken to his room. Within the room, Everyx hatches a plan. After using CIB-1L to request the Vegan Meal Option, Everyx receives a spoon. Plunging the spoon into the hinges of Pinocchio's limbs and using a good amount of pressure, Everyx pops Pinocchio's limbs out of the sockets, one by one.

> "Everyx stands up and brushes himself off. He leaves the remnants of Clay's son mostly alone, however he picks up Pinocchio's left arm and pockets it."
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> -Description of Everyx taking Pinocchio's arm to the East Atrium
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### 33 Hours on the Wall

During the events of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, after the untimely death of Clay's son, Pinocchio, Everyx is restrained and stuck to a wall in the East Atrium by Ink for exactly 33 hours. This event began hours before the roles were to be released for the second main game, removing Everyx from his room and any privacy. Many players visit Everyx during this time, checking in him or interrogating them for answers to their questions. However, one player stays by Everyx's side the entire time, Squire Cuedas. This marks the start of a bond between Squire and Everyx, one that is cut short with Everyx's death in the coming few days after this bond begins

### Befriending CIB-1L

During the events of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, Everyx and Brigitte Bartley are locked out from opening Private Rooms with other players at the beginning of the game. While this punishment is active, Everyx takes to learning the secrets contained within his room, beginning with the portrait. Everyx is quickly able identify that is it not Clay's art but cannot be removed from the wall. During this investigation, Everyx is confronted by CIB-1L, a highly advanced computer going by the moniker of MUI-1L at the time. Everyx quickly becomes accustomed to the strange digital entity within his room, even considering himself a friend of CIB-1L's. Everyx is able to open about his mother, Vera to CIB-1L and in return, she is able to open up about her history and her parents. Jaenice Katopodes' name is replaced by "Clay Bongiovanni" in italics in CIB-1L's programming. In Everyx's final moments before the second main game, he is certain of his impending doom. Thus, he returns to his room and apologizes to CIB-1L for not being able to keep his promise to her, his promise to stay alive. With that final remark, Everyx leaves the door to his room cracked, in hopes that even in death he could be the great leader he always aspired to be, leading the wayward participants to freedom in opposition of the enemy, Clay Bongiovanni.

### Main Game 1

During the First Main Game of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, Everyx Alcourde plays a much more minor role during the game itself. Everyx receives the Commoner and is forced to play the game without any additional assistance. Once in the game, Everyx quickly notices the trap being laid out by the Sacrifice and calls it out, Samantha and Erica Forrest planned to combine their votes and run away in the wake of tragedy. Everyx proposes to unanimously vote on one individual to counteract this plan, yet the participants cannot seem to agree on a player to vote for. Everyx has the tie-breaking vote during the final vote. a 3-3 vote tie between Everyx and Rosemary Clark is broken by Everyx's vote for Rosemary, leaving her to die in his place. In the aftermath of the game, several players begin to blame Everyx for Rosemary Clark's death. He attempts to explain his situation but is left with noone in his corner, instead an outlander with an opinion no one wishes to hear.

### Main Game 2

During the Second Main Game of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, Everyx Alcourde plays a much more prominent role in the game itself. Everyx receives the Commoner and is forced to play the game without any additional assistance. Once in the game, Everyx quickly notices the trap being laid out by the Sacrificeand calls it out, Ella Graves plans to manipulate both Erica Forrest and Brigitte Bartley for their votes, promising both a free ticket out of the museum at the cost of everyone's lives. Everyx knows that she has the advantage, and instead of trusting in the validity of the players, he forces a result in his favor. However, the result he was able to force was his own demise. Ella Graves holding the Sacrifice, Shaun Wolpaw holding the Keymaster, and Everyx himself, still holding the Commoner. With this cast in finals, all Everyx has to do is force a slip of the tongue from Ella Graves and only two players would die. He succeeds, turning Erica's vote for himself, beating Ella's total votes by one. Winning the battle, losing the war.

## Trivia

* Everyx's sister, Salem, is born deaf. When it is revealed Ink is deaf, Everyx is overcome with emotion having never seen hearing aids before.
* Everyx kept a mental score between himself and Clay, the final score was 3-2 in Clay's favor.
* The braid Everyx displays on his right shoulder is a symbol of the Alcourde family, being the Ystridian equivalent to real-world nobles.
* Everyx wrote a total of two poems during the course of Weighted Mortality: Uncertain Death, *Decent Into Ink* and *The Designated Prince.*