William Sky is an Anthropomorphic Personification of Death, at least that's what he believed he was when he first encountered the group. His job is not to kill people, but to gather the souls of those who die, and help them reach their "afterlife", wether it's Hell, or Heaven, Valhalla or Nothing. He's currently on Earth, learning more about those humans he's helping to move beyond.

During the course of his studies, he ran into the Technocracy, who then revealed to him that was in an undercover agent for the New World Order, currently Missing In Action. They say he was brainwashed by the Euthanatos into thinking he was Death. It was now Time to Get back Into Big Brother's Fold. Through sheer mind power he was able to resist the Indoctrination by the Technocracy, and also to save his friend Horatio Hex from a similar fate. They were both let loose to be Moles in the Cabbal they had previewsly joined.

After the Indoctrination attempt, his magic leaned toward scientific and/or technological foci, being the result of his merging of the two personalities (NWO Grey Men & Death)

William Sky was on Horizon, facing a recently rebuilt Avatar (out of the fragments taken from the Nine Kids) who was then in possession of a powerful gauntlet that gave it control over the demon that was after Tim Hunter. The Order of Hermes mages who ran into that encounter ressorted to powerful magic in an attempt to stop the Avatar at all cost. The Avatar survived the Ball of Abysmal Flames thrown at it, but William Sky's body didn't. His body was barely alive when recovered by the Verbenas, but his spirit had already gone back to the Underworld. His body died, but his spirit is now in the Underworld, acting as a Ferryman accross the Styx.

Goals:

William Sky's goals are really simple: he's studying the humans, learning about how they live and how they think. He started studying the human colletive mind more in depth, learning how they function as a society, and how an average human will react in given circumstances. Lately, after a tragic trip to the Underworld, his Avatar has taken over his personalities se he's more Death than the former Agent he once was.

After the death of his physical body, he returned to the Underworld, where he is now acting as a Ferryman accross the Styx.

Darkness....

Silence...

Peace...

Death...

It always comes down to Death... Well for me anyway... at least right now... here.

My name? Well... just call me Sky... William Sky... I'll be your guide today...

Don't be afraid... Ha... Oops.. Sorry... Completely forgot about it...

What is it?? It's the Tool of the Trade... my Scythe... NO!!! PLEASE... don't touch the blade... would hurt you... a LOT

[Swishing noise... Scythe disappears]

Come now... don't cry.... Yes... you are... I won't lie to you... you're dead... It's all part of the Cycle of Things: People are Born, they grow up, grow old, then die... Of course for some, like you, there is a very unpleasant shortcut. It's called either Accident, Murder or Suicide.

In you case, it's the second one... You seem to have stumbled into something they didn't want you to know... That or the fact that you levitated that burger in front of everybody last Tuesday at McDonald's...

How do I know about *that*? Simple... I got a knack for seeing thru the Flow of Time... just like I can see thru the Flow of Space... or the Flow of Thoughts or even Realities...

[Silence... Time stands still for a while... Sky seems in trance...]

Just like I know that your name is in fact, your name isn't Cathy, but Jenny... but you picked Cathy as a diminutive of your favorite movie star Catherin Hepburn, that you were born on August 18th 1972 in your father's ancestral family home in Sidney, Nebraska, just left of the old church.

I know for a fact that you came to Chicago not in search for a job but to escape a *difficult* family situation... I know that for the last 172 days, you've experienced some strange and many Plain Weird events... culminating with you levitating that burger...

BTW... Shooting that guy really didn't help your health... Who were they?? They are part of the so called phantom government... the New World Order...

[Sky's motionning for Jenny to follow him...]

Am I joking? No... Up to some years ago, I was part of 'em... In fact, I was part of those who brainwashed "Reality Deviants"... People like YOU if you prefer...

I think...

NO.... I'm NOT pulling your leg... The World is FULL of strange and unknown things... Someone who prefer Blood over beer might just not be your average blood cultist... but a real Vampire... or another lad who likes to walk in a park on full moon might just do that because it's easier to hide behind the bush than behind a sofa... while he's in Wolf form...

Don't worry... You're not either of them... You're part of yet another group... They called themselves Oracles in ancient Greece... Druids in the Celtic Europe... Wizards in Children's tales... You are, sorry... were a Mage... One who can bend reality...

Am I One??? well... you *could* say that... I'm hanging with some right now at least... Why am I not part of the NWO anymore??? well... that's a LONG story...

Lets say that one faction of mage (who are big on Death/Life Cycle) supposedly brainwashed me, either for Fun or Revenge, that I don't know, and put this idea in my head that I'm Death... Yes... Death... THE Death... Tall fellow, bit on the skinny side, Big Cloak, sharp tool... Anyway they supposedly brainwashed me and then let me free, as Death Incarnate, roaming the Earth and collecting the Souls of the Deads

So... One day, I found myself hanging around a group of Mage... well... a group consiting partly of Mage... One was a mortal - er... a "normal" human... sorry - and another one was a Garou... yes, you guessed... Werewolf..

Other than that, there was a lad calling himself Danny... rather on the Goth side... talked to Spirits too... and Tim can do rather well too, considering he's sixteen...

Then there is Samuelson, your Classic Wizard, with all his books & spells & .. Things... The mortal was Harold, who ended up bringing trouble everywhere he went... the Werewolf was Hitomi... at least she said it was her name... Nice pelt, but damned crazy Psyche... anyways...

We had some problems of the supernatural persuasion... the *BAD* kind... Kind that kidnap kids and summons infernal creatures... mind you, THEY DO exist... and I shall ask you to keep your distance with them... else, you might end up in a place you wished you weren't...

After that first "adventure", if we can call it that, we lost Dany... found ourselves in some kind of other dimension... a parallel Universe, if you like... There we picked up another of my comrads... Horatio... Master on Computer, as long as he's able to find the right numerological sequence for the system he's hacking into...

I found out after a while that Horatio was much older than I was even aware myself... He's supposedly over seven hundred years old... But was kept in some kind of dimensional prison, where he lived his life over and over... Prison where we found him...

Then, we had many other problems... Tim Mentor's assassination, trouble in South America... My capture by the NWO... yes... THOSE ones... they tried to brainwash me... to make me Loyal to THE Cause... Their Cause that is... and they captured Horatio in the same bust... I managed to survive their indoctrination session without being somewhat... bleached... but Horatio didn't... after regaining my senses, I had to work on him... spent an entire night purging his mind of that brainwash...

After a while, Harold had enough... Oh... no... it was rather going both way... he was quite unstable... thinking himself Invincible, and taking risks that would expose ourselves too much... We let him go where he wanted... and we've gone our ways... Separate ways..

Then came Swift... Mister "High Rituals"... There was nothing that was impervious to him... Five minutes into our "home" and he was scratching away at the floor, trying to do some mystic circle or something... He was big on saying "Well...it JUST works" He's gone now... did a little stupid stunt... Crashed a Vampire lair... while inside...

Hitomi went like many other Macho Morons With Guns... In a Blaze of Glory, as some would say... I say she was just bored to death... Trapped in a realm she didn't knew nothing about...

Tim and myself only barely survived a rescue attempt... She didn't... But I DID find something interesting... Maybe I wasn't JUST pretending to be Death all those months...

Now, I gotta go... Found out about two other Mages lately... An Old Preacher, and a Mechanical Wiz... and I want to keep an eye

Why did I just tell you half of what I remember of my life??? well.. I really don't know... Maybe because I'm still not sure if it's real or not... or even what I am...

I'm trying to understand Humanity to understand Myself...

[Sky's stopping]

Enough about me... you have a place to go... Nahh... I'm not coming... just wouldn't seem right... And I'm not able to anyway

So, if you please, just step Into the Light...