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Isaiah In the mid 80s, Izzy Meeks had just graduated from college and had taken a job as an actuary for a prestigious accounting firm. If you had asked any of his friends or relatives, they would say his future was bright. If you had asked Izzy, he'd tell you that it was "downhill from here." Izzy realized that his life had somehow taken a wrong turn when he wasn't looking. He was locked in a job he didn't like. He wasn't in love with his girlfriend anymore. All he saw was 60 years of rotting away in front of a Commodore 64. All this changed on November 29th, 1988. Izzy had been walking home from his favorite bar, called The Blarney Stone, in mid-town Manhattan. He had been avoiding his girlfriend, as usual. He could have sworn that the street was empty when he started crossing it, but out of nowhere a Greyhound bus steamed down the asphalt, hitting Izzy. He was knocked off the road and into the window display of a nearby Radio Shack. The next thing Izzy saw was a path of light. Izzy couldn't remember how he'd gotten wherever he was, but he followed the shining path anyway. At the end of the path, an arch of light beckoned him to come closer, to walk beneath it's vaulted heights. As he padded forward, a nexus of darkness suddenly flew from the other side of the arch directly at Izzy. Before Izzy realized his immortal danger, a shining star knocked him out of the way and deflected the darkness away. The contact with the star jolted Izzy with a strange energy. A blinding light welled up and consumed him. Izzy awoke in the emergency ward. The doctors told him that his recovery was miraculous. However, they told him that it will be a long time before he would be totally healthy again. His back had been broken and the had operated on several internal organs to stop bleeding. Over the next year, Izzy endured intense rehabilitation, but all paled in comparison to the night he got his first vision. Suddenly, Izzy was standing over the world, looking down at the cities, the people, the monuments, the land. Slowly, a blanket of purest night crept over the planet, smothering the inhabitants, dousing the lights, killing its soul. A being shining with light suddenly cleaved the darkness, forcing it back. Izzy focused on the individual and saw that it was himself. He then awoke in a sweat, breathing heavily. The next day, Izzy disappeared. No one knew where he went. He was gone for more than 10 years. He has recently appeared again, calling himself Isaiah. His mission is to seek out and drive back the growing threat of evil. He uses his powers of Precognition to seek out the danger, while relying on his Martial Arts and Chi power to "put the hurt on" his opponents. |
