Freelance travel consultant who solves mysteries to help those around here.

Age: 23
Date of Birth: June 23rd
Gender: Female
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Black
Skin Tone/Pigmentation: Tanned
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 135

Appearance

Physical Description

Athletic build

Apparel & Accessories

Always stylish and naturally draws eyes to her

Special abilities

Hidden mutant ability of darkness

Mentality

Personal history

Miss Tabitha Curtis, daughter of Emil and Grace Curtis. Emil and Grace were moderately wealthy and took their young daughter with them on travels to Europe, Asia, South America, Australia, and all the exotic parts of the world once she was old enough to appreciate it. Since she was young, they always made time to visit museums and other cultural and landmark institutions. As she grew older and entered the teen angst years, they left her home with a nanny since she had nothing but attitude to contribute to the trip, but they continued to travel without her.

Feeling like she had been abandoned, she becomes even more angsty and by turns morose and angry at being abandoned. She begins sneaking out and trying more and more dangerous things. She tries to do some shoplifting and she discovers an amazing ability - she can cast a cloud of darkness and hide within it!! She was grabbing some stuff from a store and then she saw the manager of the store staring at her and she knew she was caught. In her panic, somehow, there was suddenly a cloud of darkness and she could see the manager, but he started stumbling around as if he couldn’t see. Feeling excited and happy for the first time in a long time, she leaves the store and heads home. Since she is not sure how the cloud arrived, she isn’t sure how to make it go away. She tries words, chants, songs, movements, deep thoughts, but nothing works. She is so focused on herself and trying to control the cloud that she is only halfway paying attention to where she is - until she hears the squeal of brakes. She looks up in time to see a young child has been hit by the car - all inside her dark cloud. She turns and runs home.

She refuses to try drugs, but from her travels she considers alcohol of any type to be just another drink. With her money and connections, she is able to get into all sorts of bars and private high-class events which in turn have her photo plastered all over the society pages. She is hell bent on destroying her life after what happened to that child and goes to every major extreme she can find. Her parents finally see some of the news about this and call her. She is unrepentant so they decide to cut their current trip short and head home immediately. Sadly, their plane crashes and they never make it home. Though they had time to call and talk to the family lawyer, Phineas Barkdale, first as she was to find out later.

She is devastated.

To try and earn forgiveness for their deaths and the child that has been permanently scarred by her actions, she begins to do charity work. All of the money her parents had left to her is in a trust being managed by a family lawyer who is firm and intent on following the wishes of her parents. This was done in an effort to save her from herself they had decided to force her to realize what she is doing to her life before it is too late. This includes the fact that she must prove herself to be an adult by holding down a job, living on a budget, paying her bills on time, and continuing to be an active member of society for a set amount of time – specifically twelve years. Any time that she has to get money from her trust, she must make her case with the family lawyer and then he will determine how much time is added to the twelve years for needing to pull money from her trust early. This could be as little as three months to as much as three years depending on the purpose and amount.

Ms. Tabitha then embarks upon a slew of jobs attempting to find a life purpose. She discovers in herself the ability to talk to people from all walks of life and an eagerness to learn about their lives, their skills, their cultures, and their pasts. She also begins to discover in herself a keen desire to live life as her childhood heroine, Nancy Drew. She really wants to help others with their small problems. Maybe by helping them with their small problems, she can find a way to redeem her past mistakes.

As time passes, she learns to control the darkness and use it for good instead of evil. Eventually she is able to tie her two desires together and becomes a travel consultant where she takes special groups on a private tour to see whatever they want to see; Revolutionary battle grounds, Miss Universe Pageant dress makers, pressed penny arcade machines along the Rhine - whatever and wherever. Often the people in this group have small mysteries that she is able to use her dark cloud to solve (in secret!) and she starts to feel that she is making the world a better place.

Every month she sends to Mr. Barkdale a monthly report of where and what she has been doing along with her updated budget. He is very determined that she will make her parents proud before he hands her the millions. Two years down and ten to go - unless she needs a loan.

Personality

Motivation

Responsibility of Power

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Sat 30th Mar 2024 10:30

Device or contraption?

by Tabitha Curtis Sable Shadow

Shadow explains the butterfly effect of time travel.

Then we enter the utility shed to see a simple phonograph that looks to be a relic of the early 19oo's. The room itself is immaculately clean and more quiet than a normal city room. Psypher talks about the various security devices that were in place and how easy it was to actually get into the room. Theories are that either it was intentional to mask the importance of this room OR that any additional input might disturb the anchoring effect that this room plays in the cosmic circle. The Shadow asks Makeshift and Kitsune to look for power sources while Psypher is sent to look outside the room for what shouldn't be there. While those three are doing the investigations asked we talk about how we can impact the device in such a way to deviate it, but not have a negative impact to ourselves. We finally settle on dropping a few particles of dirt on the tabletop as there is such a huge lack of dirt in this room.

Psypher returns and tells the Shadow about the camera and the potential forcefield effect. The Shadow walks out, stands directly in front of the moved camera and then slowly walks back to the room, picking up some mulch on the way, and then enters the room to put the mulch on the tabletop. We are waiting to see what effect that will have when Makeshift walks over to tell us that the throne room is being activated. We continue to monitor the contraption waiting to see if the changes we made have an impact on either the 1930's or on the incoming visitor. While I am watching, I see the mulch slowly move off the table and towards the door. It is almost like it is being vacuumed. The Shadow notices and takes his phone and puts it facedown on the tabletop to see if that will be impacted by the field that moved the mulch.

A snarled ball of blue-white energy with a cacophony of sounds tied up in it from private and public channels - including the Watchmen's private channel. This is not the golden strings we had followed before and I think it might be more sound, more conversations, more private snatches that it would normally have based upon our current understanding. While the glow inside the horn has gone back to the expected level, the horn itself is still glowing more brightly than when we entered the room. The group discusses and makes the decision to remove the device from the room. The Shadow had resources that can investigate it, but first is how to get it detached from the floor. I suggest Makeshift teleport the entire contraption to save a lot of time and trouble. He warns everyone to leave the room without going to the backyard so he can move it.

The room moves and looks very sad with the emptiness. The last echo is the glowing ball of energy that the horn contained until it winks out as tit is left behind. We work together to devise a plan to carry this device for investigation and settle on a plan to keep watch as the surroundings get very dark. I look around and notice that the dark is very complete and there is no way this is natural. I turn in a slow circle to see if I can determine the source. It appears to be coming from the north - the same direction that Makeshift and I used to come here. I cast my own darkness and start walking that way to see if I can find the source. I can only see blobs around me - enough that I can avoid obstacles, but not really see them. I get to the back wall and I am able to determine that the darkness has become stable so I move to get on the top of the wall as an observation post.

Tabitha Curtis's Journal Ordered oldest to newest

Sparkles
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Throne Travel
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Investigation Time
Wednesday, January 10 , 2010

The borrower
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Contraptions Galore!
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Device or contraption?
Sat 30th Mar 2024 10:30

The major events and journals in Tabitha Curtis's history, from the beginning to today.

Epiphany 6: Ideaphoria

05:46 am - 06.07.2024