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gentleman_thiefNot much is known about Trilby before he became a thief. It does however say he became a thief after some misfortunes in his life at university. Dropping his identity he delved into being a thief. However it needs to be noted that Trilby’s life wasn’t exactly normal even before he got involved with supernatural occurrences. He started his thieving career in his homeland of England in 1988, quickly gaining a name for himself.
In 1991 however he left England for more interesting thieving opportunities in America. There he came into contact with an organization called The Company. They were an evil organization bordering on cult that more or less wanted to control the world. They also wanted the infamous thief Trilby working for them. Capturing a photo of Trilby’s face (Later turned out to be unusable for identification but Trilby is unaware of this for quite some time) the company blackmails him into visiting their location.
Upon arriving Trilby was captured and forced to watch a brainwashing film. Through force of will he managed not to become brainwashed by sheer force of will and escaped The Company. He infiltrated a Company compound to get his photos back when he was confronted by a leader of The Company in a large battle machine. Using the taser to destroy the machine he seemed to undo the company for good or at the very least they never bothered with him again.
Sometime between 1991 and 1993 Trilby came back to England. In 1993 his fence told him about Defoe manor. The last residents of this estate had died under dubious circumstances and the manor was supposed to be empty. Seeing profit Trilby went but almost as soon as he got in the window he had used as an entrance jarred shut on him. Trilby quickly discovered he was trapped in the manor with four other individuals, a young boy named Jim Fowler, a tv reporter named Simone Taylor, a treasure hunter named Phil Harty and a rather jumpy man simply known as AJ. Each of these individuals had become trapped in the house individually just as Trilby had. It was clear to the group that someone had trapped them there on purpose.
Trilby gathered their stories and deduced that whatever intelligence was behind the house was trapping them individually for a reason. It avoided taking groups of people. The only person he did not get to speak to was AJ whom had disappeared shortly after Trilby saw him. Each of them went to sleep as the hours drew on. Trilby was subject to a very realistic nightmare, something that would happen consistently while he was in the manor. The nightmare in question was Trilby finding everyone in the manor dead, standing over them was a figure in a welding mask and apron wielding a machete. When Trilby inquired who this murderer was it took off its' mask and revealed itself to be Trilby himself.
Waking up, each of them went about their business of searching the house or otherwise trying to locate an exit. With no sign of AJ Trilby took to wandering the house. Following a hunch he drained the pool of water and discovered AJ, dead and chained to the bottom of the pool. It was clear he was stabbed multiple times and slashed about the throat with a large stabbing weapon.
Telling both Simone and Phil this information he was the first to accept the idea that this may be supernatural. Despite not loving the idea he felt it was the only explanation. When he went to go tell Jim this news however he had the disorienting experience of his nightmares blending in with reality. His nightmare at some point took over and he woke up on the sofa Jim telling him that he had asked to be woken up after telling him about AJ. Trilby didn't seem to recall this.
Trilby searched through the house gaining various bits of information about Defoe manor's past along the way. He even used a magic ritual he found in a book in the manor to discover the body of Matthew Defoe and his father Roderick Defoe (Two of the original residence of the manor). He came to this conclusion; Roderick Defoe, the original owner of the manor was happy with his wife whom became pregnant early on into their marriage. The joyous occasion turned sour after she gave birth to her first son, Matthew Defoe. When her second son was being born she died during the child birth. Roderick blamed the boy and locked him in the cellar of the manor. This unnamed boy (Who Trilby later dubbed John Defoe) grew up without love, human contact or any of the general socialization humans normally received. This made him unable to distinguish one human from the next making everyone out to be his cruel father.
It ended in more tragedy. Trilby theorized that Roderick on an anniversary of his wife's death got particularly drunk, went down to where he had John and beat him nearly to death. Matthew discovering this patched up John Defoe's wounds. This gave him enough life to take the machete, apron and welding mask used and kill both his brother and father. In the end all three of them died.
Before Trilby could repeat this all to either Simone, Jim or Phil though he heard a crash and went to investigate. It was in the trophy room, the glass case holding a particularly ugly African idol had fallen. Moving to clean it up the moment Trilby touched the idol he blacked out. He came to wearing a welding mask, an apron and wielding a machete. Standing over a now deceased Phil Harty. Though his consciousness was short lived as Simone knocked him out. He came to locked in a work shed missing all of the items he had obtained as well as his necktie concealing his spare lock-pick.
Simone was stationed outside the door. Trilby quickly convinced her that he had been hearing voices in his head for a long time and had her give him the necktie on the presumption that he would hang himself. Simone left shortly after and Trilby used the moment to escape. Going through the house he ended up in the bathroom Simone finding him and telling him she had seen the real killer. She still convinced that the real killer was flesh and blood. That was until they knocked him out and discovered that the new person beneath the welding mask was Jim Fowler.
Events moved rather quickly but Trilby used yet another magic book to discover how to kill John Defoe. He quickly set out to do the ritual giving Jim an item belonging to Matthew and Simone Roderick's shotgun hanging on the mantle. He did this so when the ritual was done both would become possessed by the ghosts of the Defoe line that would confront John Defoe. This ended in the quasi-mortal John Defoe to presumably be defeated. It also caught the manor on fire.
Simone and Jim rushed out to where the police had been trying to enter the manor for days. Trilby however made an escape, letting Jim and Simone believe that he had died rather than run out into a field of police. Preserving his freedom and the secrecy of his identity.
Trilby did not walk away unaffected by the incident. He kept a lingering fear of John Defoe, persisting nightmares, and any reminder of the incident was a battle with his anxiety. This eventually led to his capture on the December 1st, 1995. On this same day he was recruited by a covert government agency called the “Special Talent Project” or STP for short. With little other option Trilby joined STP and endeavored to give them little to complain about.
STP's main goal was to investigate claims of supernatural occurrences and contain them in one form or another. Through working with this organization as well as another similar organization, the ministry of Occultism, Trilby learned quite a few facts about the supernatural. He learned how to detect, combat or contain them to some degree. He also learned that the world was fundamentally split in two. There was the realm of Science which he had lived in all his life and a world running parallel to them, the realm of magic. While the realm of magic can effect the world it was infrequent and rare for various things to come to be. However that was how things such as people with psychic powers, werewolves, vampires and ghosts came into existence. They were all humans born with magic in them in a sense.
Trilby's main experience with the supernatural after that was banishing ghosts or convincing them to move on by themselves.
It wasn't until July 25th , 1997 that Trilby even had anything to do with Defoe manor on an official level. After the incident Simone Taylor had turned to drink as a coping mechanism for dealing with the events of Defoe Manor. Eventually becoming a recluse it made Trilby worried about her well being enough to go to her apartment and check on her. After not getting an answer he used his lock-picking skills to get into her home. This was when he discovered her dead on the floor, a large weapon had been used to cut her throat.
After some investigation to confirm supernatural involvement Trilby was set to discover how this was connected to the incident at Defoe Manor. Through the information networks of the STP he discovered that looters had taken several objects from the Defoe manor. Included was the idol which had housed the soul of John Defoe. Trilby informed Jim Fowler, now the only other survivor of the incident, to go into hiding.
Trilby tracked the items to a noted antiques dealer named Abed Chahal who was to display the items at an antiques show being held at an island-based hotel. For his stay at the hotel Trilby took on the presumed name Terence Railby. Before he entered the hotel he was confronted by a man named Lenkmann who claimed to be a member of the Ministry of Occultism meant to oversee the investigation. He had an antagonistic conversation with the man before they went the their separate ways. Trilby used Chahal's forgetfulness to convince them that they were colleagues that had met at a prior event. Both men adjourned to Abed's room to discuss the items which Trilby was passing off as items a client of Terence Railby's was looking for.
Discussing the event had a profound effect upon Trilby. He grew anxious and trying to hide it was a big effort. This state of mind had an effect on Trilby's environment as well. For a brief second the world changed. Abed and his assistant Siobhan were gone and the hotel had become old, decrepit, it even had a corpse in it. A tall, white, featureless figure looked at Trilby just before he came back to the normal world.
Frightened, Trilby bolted up and ran outside only to find the hotel had entirely become like he had seen in his vision. Various messages were written on the walls in blood and there was a distinct stench of death.
Going through the hotel it could be deduced by messages left by someone else who was within the destroyed hotel that this was part of the Magical Realm. Finding a bathroom that had a pristine envelope. It contained two items, a bottle of pills and a note from Lenkmann. He stated he didn't know the origin of the dimension they were in but the likelihood of being drawn into the other version of the hotel was connected to anxiety. The pills were tranquillizers to help calm Trilby down. When he took the pills he found himself back in the hotel in its' pristine quality.
Returning to his investigation Trilby found two sources of information. Mysteriously pamphlets for a religious organization called The Order of Blessed Agonies. Their information seemed to coincide with the other piece of information. As Trilby touched various items he gained visions that helped him gain the whole picture.
The idol which Roderick used to beat his son to death was only part of the picture. The story really started with Cabadath, the tall man Trilby saw. Cabadath was once a regular man circa 55 BCE. In attempt to defend his home against invaders he attempted to summon Chzo, a pain elemental that many other creatures feared, to protect his home. Chzo proved too powerful for him and Cabadath was taken and tortured for 500 years. Cabadath's soul was placed inside of a tree meaning if the tree was damaged he would feel tremendous pain. Each year on July 28th he would mercilessly murder anyone who damages the wood or is possession of the wood. This led to the deaths of various individuals throughout history as well as the establishment of The Order of Blessed Agonies which worships Chzo.
He was the reason John Defoe was made into the murderous spirit, or wraith as he is referred to. The idol which Roderick Defoe used to beat him to death was part of the tree making up Cabadath.
This new information and Trilby's investigation eventually lead him to the roof of the hotel which had the stump of the tree that made up Cabadath. Upon finding the stump he was confronted by Lenkmann who turned out to be a member of the Order of Blessed Agonies. He explained that Trilby was to destroy John Defoe in all three ways; his body mind and soul and that would bring about Chzo and bridge the gap between the world of magic and the world of science. Getting the jump on Trilby he stabbed him nearly to death and left him nearly motionless on the stump. He intended to sacrifice him to Cabadath in order to bring him into the world and lead them to help bring Chzo into their world.
Trilby who up until this point was keeping himself alive by sheer force of will, allowed himself to die. Being dead he was no longer a suitable sacrifice and Cabadath instead went for Lenkmann. This wasn't the end of Trilby though. His accounts of what happened next were spotty but he remembered a man in red talking to him and then just coming back. When he came to Lenkmann had been dragged off by Cabadath and help had finally arrived for them.
Being left with his thoughts, and the idol still containing John Defoe's soul he had to figure out what to do with it. He eventually endeavored to launch the idol into space so that John Defoe would not harm another person.
In 1991 however he left England for more interesting thieving opportunities in America. There he came into contact with an organization called The Company. They were an evil organization bordering on cult that more or less wanted to control the world. They also wanted the infamous thief Trilby working for them. Capturing a photo of Trilby’s face (Later turned out to be unusable for identification but Trilby is unaware of this for quite some time) the company blackmails him into visiting their location.
Upon arriving Trilby was captured and forced to watch a brainwashing film. Through force of will he managed not to become brainwashed by sheer force of will and escaped The Company. He infiltrated a Company compound to get his photos back when he was confronted by a leader of The Company in a large battle machine. Using the taser to destroy the machine he seemed to undo the company for good or at the very least they never bothered with him again.
Sometime between 1991 and 1993 Trilby came back to England. In 1993 his fence told him about Defoe manor. The last residents of this estate had died under dubious circumstances and the manor was supposed to be empty. Seeing profit Trilby went but almost as soon as he got in the window he had used as an entrance jarred shut on him. Trilby quickly discovered he was trapped in the manor with four other individuals, a young boy named Jim Fowler, a tv reporter named Simone Taylor, a treasure hunter named Phil Harty and a rather jumpy man simply known as AJ. Each of these individuals had become trapped in the house individually just as Trilby had. It was clear to the group that someone had trapped them there on purpose.
Trilby gathered their stories and deduced that whatever intelligence was behind the house was trapping them individually for a reason. It avoided taking groups of people. The only person he did not get to speak to was AJ whom had disappeared shortly after Trilby saw him. Each of them went to sleep as the hours drew on. Trilby was subject to a very realistic nightmare, something that would happen consistently while he was in the manor. The nightmare in question was Trilby finding everyone in the manor dead, standing over them was a figure in a welding mask and apron wielding a machete. When Trilby inquired who this murderer was it took off its' mask and revealed itself to be Trilby himself.
Waking up, each of them went about their business of searching the house or otherwise trying to locate an exit. With no sign of AJ Trilby took to wandering the house. Following a hunch he drained the pool of water and discovered AJ, dead and chained to the bottom of the pool. It was clear he was stabbed multiple times and slashed about the throat with a large stabbing weapon.
Telling both Simone and Phil this information he was the first to accept the idea that this may be supernatural. Despite not loving the idea he felt it was the only explanation. When he went to go tell Jim this news however he had the disorienting experience of his nightmares blending in with reality. His nightmare at some point took over and he woke up on the sofa Jim telling him that he had asked to be woken up after telling him about AJ. Trilby didn't seem to recall this.
Trilby searched through the house gaining various bits of information about Defoe manor's past along the way. He even used a magic ritual he found in a book in the manor to discover the body of Matthew Defoe and his father Roderick Defoe (Two of the original residence of the manor). He came to this conclusion; Roderick Defoe, the original owner of the manor was happy with his wife whom became pregnant early on into their marriage. The joyous occasion turned sour after she gave birth to her first son, Matthew Defoe. When her second son was being born she died during the child birth. Roderick blamed the boy and locked him in the cellar of the manor. This unnamed boy (Who Trilby later dubbed John Defoe) grew up without love, human contact or any of the general socialization humans normally received. This made him unable to distinguish one human from the next making everyone out to be his cruel father.
It ended in more tragedy. Trilby theorized that Roderick on an anniversary of his wife's death got particularly drunk, went down to where he had John and beat him nearly to death. Matthew discovering this patched up John Defoe's wounds. This gave him enough life to take the machete, apron and welding mask used and kill both his brother and father. In the end all three of them died.
Before Trilby could repeat this all to either Simone, Jim or Phil though he heard a crash and went to investigate. It was in the trophy room, the glass case holding a particularly ugly African idol had fallen. Moving to clean it up the moment Trilby touched the idol he blacked out. He came to wearing a welding mask, an apron and wielding a machete. Standing over a now deceased Phil Harty. Though his consciousness was short lived as Simone knocked him out. He came to locked in a work shed missing all of the items he had obtained as well as his necktie concealing his spare lock-pick.
Simone was stationed outside the door. Trilby quickly convinced her that he had been hearing voices in his head for a long time and had her give him the necktie on the presumption that he would hang himself. Simone left shortly after and Trilby used the moment to escape. Going through the house he ended up in the bathroom Simone finding him and telling him she had seen the real killer. She still convinced that the real killer was flesh and blood. That was until they knocked him out and discovered that the new person beneath the welding mask was Jim Fowler.
Events moved rather quickly but Trilby used yet another magic book to discover how to kill John Defoe. He quickly set out to do the ritual giving Jim an item belonging to Matthew and Simone Roderick's shotgun hanging on the mantle. He did this so when the ritual was done both would become possessed by the ghosts of the Defoe line that would confront John Defoe. This ended in the quasi-mortal John Defoe to presumably be defeated. It also caught the manor on fire.
Simone and Jim rushed out to where the police had been trying to enter the manor for days. Trilby however made an escape, letting Jim and Simone believe that he had died rather than run out into a field of police. Preserving his freedom and the secrecy of his identity.
Trilby did not walk away unaffected by the incident. He kept a lingering fear of John Defoe, persisting nightmares, and any reminder of the incident was a battle with his anxiety. This eventually led to his capture on the December 1st, 1995. On this same day he was recruited by a covert government agency called the “Special Talent Project” or STP for short. With little other option Trilby joined STP and endeavored to give them little to complain about.
STP's main goal was to investigate claims of supernatural occurrences and contain them in one form or another. Through working with this organization as well as another similar organization, the ministry of Occultism, Trilby learned quite a few facts about the supernatural. He learned how to detect, combat or contain them to some degree. He also learned that the world was fundamentally split in two. There was the realm of Science which he had lived in all his life and a world running parallel to them, the realm of magic. While the realm of magic can effect the world it was infrequent and rare for various things to come to be. However that was how things such as people with psychic powers, werewolves, vampires and ghosts came into existence. They were all humans born with magic in them in a sense.
Trilby's main experience with the supernatural after that was banishing ghosts or convincing them to move on by themselves.
It wasn't until July 25th , 1997 that Trilby even had anything to do with Defoe manor on an official level. After the incident Simone Taylor had turned to drink as a coping mechanism for dealing with the events of Defoe Manor. Eventually becoming a recluse it made Trilby worried about her well being enough to go to her apartment and check on her. After not getting an answer he used his lock-picking skills to get into her home. This was when he discovered her dead on the floor, a large weapon had been used to cut her throat.
After some investigation to confirm supernatural involvement Trilby was set to discover how this was connected to the incident at Defoe Manor. Through the information networks of the STP he discovered that looters had taken several objects from the Defoe manor. Included was the idol which had housed the soul of John Defoe. Trilby informed Jim Fowler, now the only other survivor of the incident, to go into hiding.
Trilby tracked the items to a noted antiques dealer named Abed Chahal who was to display the items at an antiques show being held at an island-based hotel. For his stay at the hotel Trilby took on the presumed name Terence Railby. Before he entered the hotel he was confronted by a man named Lenkmann who claimed to be a member of the Ministry of Occultism meant to oversee the investigation. He had an antagonistic conversation with the man before they went the their separate ways. Trilby used Chahal's forgetfulness to convince them that they were colleagues that had met at a prior event. Both men adjourned to Abed's room to discuss the items which Trilby was passing off as items a client of Terence Railby's was looking for.
Discussing the event had a profound effect upon Trilby. He grew anxious and trying to hide it was a big effort. This state of mind had an effect on Trilby's environment as well. For a brief second the world changed. Abed and his assistant Siobhan were gone and the hotel had become old, decrepit, it even had a corpse in it. A tall, white, featureless figure looked at Trilby just before he came back to the normal world.
Frightened, Trilby bolted up and ran outside only to find the hotel had entirely become like he had seen in his vision. Various messages were written on the walls in blood and there was a distinct stench of death.
Going through the hotel it could be deduced by messages left by someone else who was within the destroyed hotel that this was part of the Magical Realm. Finding a bathroom that had a pristine envelope. It contained two items, a bottle of pills and a note from Lenkmann. He stated he didn't know the origin of the dimension they were in but the likelihood of being drawn into the other version of the hotel was connected to anxiety. The pills were tranquillizers to help calm Trilby down. When he took the pills he found himself back in the hotel in its' pristine quality.
Returning to his investigation Trilby found two sources of information. Mysteriously pamphlets for a religious organization called The Order of Blessed Agonies. Their information seemed to coincide with the other piece of information. As Trilby touched various items he gained visions that helped him gain the whole picture.
The idol which Roderick used to beat his son to death was only part of the picture. The story really started with Cabadath, the tall man Trilby saw. Cabadath was once a regular man circa 55 BCE. In attempt to defend his home against invaders he attempted to summon Chzo, a pain elemental that many other creatures feared, to protect his home. Chzo proved too powerful for him and Cabadath was taken and tortured for 500 years. Cabadath's soul was placed inside of a tree meaning if the tree was damaged he would feel tremendous pain. Each year on July 28th he would mercilessly murder anyone who damages the wood or is possession of the wood. This led to the deaths of various individuals throughout history as well as the establishment of The Order of Blessed Agonies which worships Chzo.
He was the reason John Defoe was made into the murderous spirit, or wraith as he is referred to. The idol which Roderick Defoe used to beat him to death was part of the tree making up Cabadath.
This new information and Trilby's investigation eventually lead him to the roof of the hotel which had the stump of the tree that made up Cabadath. Upon finding the stump he was confronted by Lenkmann who turned out to be a member of the Order of Blessed Agonies. He explained that Trilby was to destroy John Defoe in all three ways; his body mind and soul and that would bring about Chzo and bridge the gap between the world of magic and the world of science. Getting the jump on Trilby he stabbed him nearly to death and left him nearly motionless on the stump. He intended to sacrifice him to Cabadath in order to bring him into the world and lead them to help bring Chzo into their world.
Trilby who up until this point was keeping himself alive by sheer force of will, allowed himself to die. Being dead he was no longer a suitable sacrifice and Cabadath instead went for Lenkmann. This wasn't the end of Trilby though. His accounts of what happened next were spotty but he remembered a man in red talking to him and then just coming back. When he came to Lenkmann had been dragged off by Cabadath and help had finally arrived for them.
Being left with his thoughts, and the idol still containing John Defoe's soul he had to figure out what to do with it. He eventually endeavored to launch the idol into space so that John Defoe would not harm another person.
