Editing Freeman Boyd (section)

==Chronology==
When he was younger he attempted to spy on a girl by installing a program on her PC but after downloading it he was attacked by another practitioner who stole his body.<ref>“I was hunted.  Same way those things back there hunted us, but it was a person.  I was a shitty kid on shitty sites.  Watching shitty porn.  Downloaded the wrong thing, as part of that.”

When he was Adrian’s age, he’d looked at voyeur sites, had gotten it into his head that he could put something on the computer of a girl he knew, to secretly tap into her laptop, watch through her camera, record, trade recordings for more good stuff on ''the forums''.  He’d downloaded the covert programs onto a thumb drive.

He left that part out.

“Shitty kid, shitty choice of something to download.  Karmically bad, I guess.  Made it easier for the practitioner who made the program to use it.  I ran it on my own computer first.  Diagram came up, couldn’t take my eyes off it,” Freeman explained, slumping further back against the tub.  “Froze me there.  He left me like that for a good couple hours while he got things ready.  Then he came at me.  Pushed me out of my own body.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> His [[Self]] was swapped with the practitioners who attacked him and he found himself chain up in a cell, he managed to stop the sprinklers from destroying the magic diagram by blocking it with the mattress.<ref>“An astral body looking for a vessel is going to move like electricity does.  It wants to ground itself.  And the clearest, closest connection was the same one he’d used to get into my body and push me out.  So I went along that digital corridor, through the screen, across the internet, and into his body.  Which was three times as old as my original body, naked, chained to the wall of a prison cell with a bed, television, toilet, food, and water, collar and every means of escape secured with combination locks he knew the combination to, I didn’t.”

“How’d you…?”

“Sprinklers went off.  I saw this big magic circle on the wall.  Like the diagram I’d spent hours staring at.  Because- stood to reason, right?  If he wanted to wash it off the wall, I wanted to keep it.  Something primal- some fundamental understanding, you know?  Had to keep it.  Had to keep it.”

“Makes sense.”

“He was careful.  Everything about the setup was double-checked.  The chain length, didn’t let me reach that wall.  But I pulled the mattress off the bed, held it up, end pushed up against the wall and ceiling.  I preserved most of it.”

- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> He tried to fix the diagram and managed to send the practitioner back to his current body where he became a [[Horror]].<ref>“I didn’t do the diagram well enough.  It was still tied to him, drew on his personal power to pull him through, but the doorway- I did it wrong.  It was broken.  He came crashing into his body, and his Self was so torn up, it bent and broke his form.  Broke other parts of his Self.  It’s called a horror.  Fitting name.  You’ve talked to Harri and Helen about that stuff?”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> He floated back to his body though the [[Ruins]] as an astral spirit and evicted the [[echo]] that had [[Possession|possesed]] his body.<ref>made my way back the hard way.  Same way we went from the power poles to this motel room.  Dark and terrible.  From the outskirts of Chicago to Morden Manitoba.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref><ref>I basically crawled on my belly through shallow ruins for months to get back to my body.  Found it occupied.  Had to evict the tenant.  Thankfully, only an echo.  ''Thankfully'', I had more claim, I just needed one victory, while she had to fend me off every time- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> He went back to the room a few months later,  the original occupant bargied with Freeman, giving him practice material in exchange for him killing him, Freeman agreed then double crossed him.<ref>“After a couple months, picked up my courage, made the trip back there.  Room was the same as I’d left it.  Including the man chained to the wall

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He’d begged Freeman for mercy.  Freeman had bartered for combinations to safes and side rooms, collected practice stuff, ignoring the body snatching things, then he’d refused the mercy in the end.  Because he hadn’t yet awakened.  He’d been able to lie.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref>

After awakening he acted recklessly, eventually the local council forced him to stop.<ref>I was doing reckless shit, until the local practitioner council found me and told me to shape up and ship out.  That they didn’t want the trouble I’d bring.  I… shaped up.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref>

He helped out [[Abraham Musser|Musser]] when he invaded Kennet, getting trapped in with the rest of his forces.

He attempted to summon [[Lis]],<ref name=":0" /> looking for her help with dealing with the [[Turtle Queen]]. He agreed to help her stop the paranormal side of Kennet from affecting it's innocents, to do this he agreed to trash a haunted arcade, help arrest [[Trinity Conway]] and bind the [[Countdown Cassandra]], and investigate people searching for online rumours about Kennet's supernatural side. In return she agreed to give him access to an alternate network that allowed him to avoid the [[Turtle Queen]].<ref>“He captured the Countdown Cassandra.”<br>“I’m aware.”<br>“Then why ask?”<br>“Tell me about the arrangement.”<br>“For that, I’ll give him access to an alternate network.  It costs a bit of power, but he’ll be free of the Turtle Queen.  They plan to ransack the Arcade in daylight hours when the most people are asleep.  There are some magical items in there.  I can give them a boon, city magic, to let them move and escape more easily within Kennet.  Special doors that allow quick shortcuts.”<br>...<br>“People are out looking for magical information online.  Freeman Boyd offered to interfere with them, stalling their access to practice, keeping Kennet more predictable.  If they learned, there would be a chance they’d join the local practitioners.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/wild-abandon-18-y/ Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.y]]</ref>

Afterwards he left the [[Charles Abrams|Carmine Exile's]] Domain.<ref>- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/21/wild-abandon-18-y/ Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.y]]</ref>

He and [[Adrian]] helped disarm a car bomb returning the damage to the original sender.<ref>- [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> Whilst returning home Adrian strayed to far from the power lines and was attacked by typhlotic others, he managed to escape only after receiving significant damage to his [[Self]].{{Reflist}}

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