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# Sebastian “Seb” Castillo
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> DM-facing NPC writeup. Face of [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.4 Conspiracy Club / Underground Zine | the conspiracy club]] , decapitation videos at 8am.
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## Role
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- **Age:** 16–17, same year or one above PCs
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- **Heritage/Class:** Human Rogue (Inquisitive) / Warlock / whatever fits “sees too much”
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- **Primary Faction:** [[Avalon Factions#2. Student Factions & Cliques#2.4 Conspiracy Club / Underground Zine]]
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- **Public Image:** Unhinged conspiracy kid who knows where every body is buried, metaphorically and maybe literally.
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## What Students Know
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- Sebastian is:
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- The guy who will shove a sending-stone in your face at 8am like “Bro, you *have* to see this execution.”
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- The one scribbling in the margins of his homework about 9/11 analogues, false-flag rituals, and hoax demon attacks.
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- The source of at least half the “Did you hear…?” hallway chatter.
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- He runs:
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- An underground zine / newsletter full of:
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- Half-true rumors,
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- Wild speculation,
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- Redacted “leaks.”
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- Anonymous message channels where people drop tips and gossip.
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- Most students:
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- Laugh him off publicly,
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- Still read every issue.
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---
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## What He Wants
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### Surface Wants
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- To be right. Publicly, loudly, provably right.
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- To expose a **big cover-up**:
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- Oversight,
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- Admin,
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- Someone powerful.
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### Deeper Wants
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- To make sense of a world that really *is* full of secrets and lies:
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- He’s not wrong that something’s off.
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- He just lacks filters.
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- To matter:
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- If he can’t be liked, he’ll settle for being feared or needed.
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## Methods & Tactics
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- Collects:
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- Screenshots,
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- Audio clips,
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- Photos of strange lights, sigils, admin meetings.
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- Will absolutely:
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- Break into restricted areas,
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- Clone sending-stones,
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- Plant “bugs” (simple scrying/recording charms).
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- Socially:
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- Over-shares horror,
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- Makes people uncomfortable on purpose,
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- Uses shock value to keep attention.
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## Relationship to Factions & PCs
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- **Oversight/Admin:**
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- Larkvale sees him as a nuisance.
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- D’serris hates that Sebastian occasionally stumbles onto real patterns.
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- **Drama/Arts Kids:**
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- Sometimes collaborate on “exposé performances.”
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- **Circle Network:**
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- Knows enough about Pip & co. to be a problem,
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- Not involved enough to be worth killing… yet.
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- **PCs:**
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- They are his dream sources:
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- “You were in B2? What did you see? Tell me *everything*.”
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- Will trade:
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- Dirt on teachers,
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- Security crystal stills,
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- Rumors about Fouadriel or D’serris, for info.
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---
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## Secrets & Pressure Points (DM Only)
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- He’s not just seeing patterns where none exist:
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- His collection includes **genuinely anomalous** Root events:
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- Lights flickering in sync across different locations,
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- Identical “hum” audio from different nights,
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- Glitched footage of Subnode doors.
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- Root / Coherence attention:
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- It likes that he’s cataloguing it.
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- Every time he obsesses over a new anomaly, it pays a little more attention back.
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- If the PCs ever give him the wrong piece of truth:
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- His zine could become a quasi-prophetic document.
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- Oversight might classify him as a security risk.
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---
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## How to Play Sebastian
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- **Voice:** Fast, breathless, manic; volume jumps; laughs at his own horrifying jokes.
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- **Body language:** Leaning way too close, wild eye contact, constantly unlocking his sending-stone.
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- **Sample Lines:**
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- “Okay, okay, hear me out—what if Korrin Gate wasn’t a *failure*? What if it worked exactly how they wanted, and this—” (gestures vaguely at the sky) “—is the *result*?”
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- “Look, I know you’re gonna call me crazy, but you’re the ones who were in a locked room with a Root spike, not me.”
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- “You tell me what you saw in B2, and I’ll tell you what D’serris doesn’t want anyone to know about Fouadriel.”
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- Let him be deeply annoying *and* occasionally right in a way that freaks everyone out.
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