Silent Hill Suppliment - MrGone's Character Sheets

violent mobs. They stormed the homes of witches, actual
and otherwise, and dragged them out to the town center,
where they were brutalized and dumped into a pit. Once
all the witches lay beaten and bloody in a pile, the
townspeople threw in wood and kindling. All the victims
screamed in roaring blaze, music to the ears of the
townspeople.
Soon after the witches had been disposed of, the
plague's reign of terror ended. The people took this as a
sign that they had taken the right course of action. To
ensure that witches would never plague their town again,
a number of men and women came together, and swore
an oath to one another before God. They would hunt
witches and purify them with flame, as was proper. They
became the Order of Holiness, or, simply, the Order.
Keeping Pure
All through the late 19th and early 20th century, the
Order hunted down every threat, both real and imagined,
with zealous ferocity. Every witch was burned, every
warlock purified, every devil worshiper stripped of his
wickedness.
The Order spread throughout the entire town until
nearly all of the residents were part of the denomination.
To outsiders, these simply appeared to be fervent
Christians, albeit on the eccentric side. Most of them
never saw the true face of the Order, so this false
perception was maintained for a long while.
By the mid 1940's, the children of the founders
began having their own children. Among their number
was a child who was named Christabella. During her
formative years, a true tragedy rocked the Order, as
Christabella's mother was found brutally murdered.
Christabella herself was the one who found the mutilated
body.
The Order stormed out into the town, determined to
find the murderer. They found her, a witch, who had
struck out in her own protection. After she was bloodied
and brutalized, the witch was bound to a stake.
Christabella was given the torch to start the fire that
would 'purify' the witch. She gladly lit the flames, and
she almost laughed while crying as the woman smothered
and burned to death.
This hatred and fear of witches would serve to give
Christabella a zeal rarely seen in the order. By her
teenage years, she grew to an understanding and fervor
that eclipsed everyone else. Her speeches drew more to
the Order, as she seemed to possess a God-given talent
for swaying others with words. Through her leadership,
the Order stayed faithful and grew even more zealous, or,
as some thought, mindless, though they would never say
so for fear of being labeled 'witches.'
Alesa the Witch
In the early 70's, Alesa Gillespy was born, a bastard
child, much to her mother's shame and much to the anger
of the community at large. Thanks to her mother Dalia's
protection, she lived a fairly happy early childhood.
When she reached school age, however, her life took a
sharp downward turn. Her classmates persecuted her on
the grounds that she was a witch. The teasing turned to
abuse, and it gradually grew increasingly intense, until
Alesa would come home with a new set of bruises every
day.
Word of Alesa's 'condition' eventually reached the
ears of the elders of the town, including Christabella.
They then approached Dalia, with whom they talked
about 'purifying' Alesa. Since the Order's precepts had
been drilled into her mind since birth, Dalia agreed. They
took Alesa, and they began a procession to the Grand
Hotel, where they walked to the upper floor, where the
purification ceremony awaited. As they approached the
door, the situation truly sank into Dalia's mind, and she
fell to her knees, weeping, knowing that no amount of
begging would change this situation.
Alesa didn't fight them, and the true nature of what
was going on didn't sink in until she was bound and
gagged, and then, the pain started. They swung a
cauldron filled with red-hot coals below the girl, and she
screamed and cried, but the assembly only watched with
grim satisfaction. It was then that the whole situation
turned for the worst.
The cauldron tipped, and coals fell onto the floor,
which they quickly ate through. The coals then burned
through the top floor, all the way through the building,
down into the ground floor, where all the accumulated
weight broke the thin layer of rock beneath that section of
town, and the coals and burning wood fell into the mines
below, setting them ablaze.
Emergency workers rushed to the building, where
they found the assembly, and poor little Alesa, whose
seared flesh wracked her with tormenting pain. A
policeman carried her out, and she was taken
immediately to the hospital. The workers there did what
they could for her, but her injuries were severe enough
that the doctor said that she would never leave the
hospital. Dalia's grief was more than she could bare. Her
mind snapped in that moment, and she left the hospital,
tears streaming from her eyes, and she went where no one
could find her.
Alesa, when she was conscious, lived always in fear
of her life. She thought that the Order was only a
moment from ending her life once and for all. Over time,
her fear became hatred. Over time her, hatred became
enmity, a dark flame which consumed all of her until that
was all she felt.
Darkness
By the mid 1980's, most of the town had been
abandoned, due to the fact that toxic fumes were reaching
dangerous levels all throughout the town. The hospital
was one of the last places to be evacuated, due to the