Alyce

**Alyce Grimgate** is the villainous main protagonist of the online novel '*The Unstoppable*'. She is the murderous owner of a hotel where she lures in victims and murders them to use for her secret experiments. She was an ex-mortician that made a deal with The Devil after summoning him through an occult book which she uses as a main source of demonic magic, and The Devil told her to murder innocent people if she wanted to continue being a mortician.

## Background

Alyce Grimgate was born to two parents, a father who worked as a mortician and a mother who suffered with mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse. Her father was one of her closest friends, showing her everything about his profession and teaching her how to be a mortician much like himself, showing Alyce grim depictions of death from a very young age.

After her parents divorced, the battle for custody would begin and the court would rule in favour of the father who had a stable career and income to provide. The mother would die from an overdose soon after. With Alyces father being the only one who was able to keep her mother healthy with his medical knowledge.

Alyce would go through medical school per her fathers strong insistence, she trained to become a very skilled surgeon and mortician where after graduating, she would work alongside her father as she had always wanted. However, she was prone to public dislike, people found her strange and most found her scary to be around. One woman, a girl in her class named Elsa Hardstone, wouldn’t be so scared like others, more so she saw an easy target she could pick on without feeling bad about it. Elsa would mock Alyce constantly, showing zero respect for her and having disdain for her existence. Else herself has trouble at home with her parents never giving her approval or showing her the love she wanted, so she took it out on Alyce, who was disliked by most of the public.

This would lead to her downfall however, as Alyce would see an opportunity to experiment. She would follow Elsa home before grabbing her and taking her out to the woods where she would stab her repeatedly with a scalpel she took from her class. Elsa was killed, and Alyce brought the body all the way back to her house, trekking all the way on foot through the woods out of the public eye. At home, she used tools from her dads mortuary and dismembered the body before burning it in the furnace, taking a couple organs as a keepsake.

The fallout was eventful, people wanted to find Elsa and the search for her body would go on for months before the case went cold.

At some point, Alyces father would pass away from old age. Leaving her as the sole owner of the mortuary. However, business was slow, not many deaths were occurring in the area and so she couldn’t live her passion like she had trained to do for years.

She then hatched the idea to make a deal with the devil after it was shown in the news that a family was killed for a satanic ritual. She utilised the preserved organs of Elsa to use as blood for her own ritual where she would buy a book from book from an old man, Curtis Jenkins, who was an experience occultist that lived on the end of town in a dilapidated mansion. The book was known as The Assortment, a book that contained various chants that could summon different demons from Hell.

She summoned the devil himself and asked to be able bring he mortuary business back. The devil told her that she knew what she had to do before taking her soul as payment. From then on, Alyce would turn her mortuary into a hotel and would use it to lure in unsuspecting victims that she would murder and perform on in her secret mortuary below.

With her soul now gone, she has an even bigger disconnect to emotion and sympathy. With each victim, she carefully chooses those who she believes will have the purest soul, she then murders them in grizzly ways before eating their souls which she can use as payment for the demons she summons.

Due to the amount of disappearances linked to her hotel as well as the already odd behaviour she displayed, it was only natural that she was investigated. However, she was investigated by a PI, not the Police as they never bothered to look into the matter. This PI was named Daniel Kellman and was hired to investigate the disappearance of Lesley Ethans by her parents after she stayed at a hotel during her travelling trip across America.

Daniel Kellman travelled to the hotel and investigated Alyce after noticing her odd behaviour. After a long journey of looking into the other disappearances, he would discover what Alyce had done and would attempt to stop her. A long battle ensued, Alyce would try her best to fight against the PI but eventually he would triumph and Alyce would be defeated. He destroyed her occult book with holy water and pushed her off of a cliff where her body was never found.

Years later, Daniel would investigate Curtis Jenkins and Alyce would return, having memorised quite a few spells from the book and survived the fall. Alyce would become part of the occult that Curtis was running and she would eventually become its leader after Curtis was killed by Daniel and his new team of paranormal investigators.

## Powers & abilities

* **Demonic summoning -** memorised various chants from a satanic book that can summon demons to her aid, including hell bats, hell hounds, giant spiders, imps and with enough power at the right time, the devil himself. However, she is only able to summon the devil during a blood moon when she has enough souls.
* **High pain tolerance -** able to sustain various injuries and barely react or flinch. She still feels pain, but she takes it much better than most
* **High strength -** Whilst not at a super human level, Alyce regularly trains her muscles and is able to lift twice the size of her body weight.
* **Soul sucking -** She can use a demonic spell to extract the souls of her victims which she eats or keeps in jars. She uses the souls she consumes as payment for the other demons that she summons.
* **Eternal punishment -** She can cast a demonic spell that can drag her victims to Hell. Several arms with come out of the ground and drag her victims kicking and screaming into Hell with them, where they will be tortured for eternity. She rarely uses this spell as she enjoys using her victims bodies afterwards, and it costs a certain a lot of souls to cast.

### Weapons

* **The Assortment -** An occult book that contains a number of chants which can summon demons and grant its reader with demonic power.
* **2x hatchets**
* **1 large axe**
* **2x hunting knives**
* **1 Sacrificial knife**
* **5x scalpels**
* **1 Circumcision knife**
* **1 Shovel**

### Feats

* Caught a bullet in her mouth and swallowed it. The bullet blew off a piece of her tongue permanently.
* Survived a 50 ft drop off of a cliff after being pushed off.