Reece M. Conway

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Tiredness fuels empty thoughts I find myself disposed-------------------

NAME : Reece M. Conway
AGE : 35
BIRTHDAY : September 15, 1973
BIRTH PLACE : Bradford, England
SEX : Male
ORIENTATION : Straight
MARITAL STATUS : Divorced
OCCUPATION : Librarian
SPOKEN LANGUAGES : English, some German

HEIGHT : 6'0"
WEIGHT : 153 lbs.
BUILD : Average

TATTOOS : None
PIERCINGS : None

PERSONALITY : ISTJ

REECE is often what one would call "aloof," but despite his usually stony exterior lies a man with deep convictions of right and wrong, who loves song-writing and playing the piano or guitar. He's a unusually strong man, but not very many people end up knowing about this fact because he has never thrown a punch in his life, and the day he does is the day he loses all respect for himself. Quiet, introverted, a thinking individual, he knows what he believes and sticks to them, all the way to the end. He's someone who's more comfortable with "Just the facts, Ma'am" rather than elaborate stories, but this isn't to say he isn't creative.

His songs usually center around his obsessions (many), problems (even more) and addiction to cocaine (his life, his wife).

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Brightness fills empty space In search of inspiration_______________

COCAINE is a powerfully addictive stimulant drug. The powdered hydrochloride salt form of cocaine can be snorted or dissolved in water and injected.

How is Cocaine Abused?

Three routes of administration are commonly used for cocaine: snorting, injecting, and smoking. Snorting is the process of inhaling cocaine powder through the nose, where it is absorbed into the bloodstream through the nasal tissues. Injecting is the use of a needle to release the drug directly into the bloodstream. Smoking involves inhaling cocaine vapor or smoke into the lungs, where absorption into the bloodstream is as rapid as by injection. All three methods of cocaine abuse can lead to addiction and other severe health problems, including increasing the risk of contracting HIV and infectious diseases.

The intensity and duration of cocaine’s effects, which include increased energy, reduced fatigue, and mental alertness, depend on the route of drug administration. The faster cocaine is absorbed into the bloodstream and delivered to the brain, the more intense the high. Injecting or smoking cocaine produces a quicker, stronger high than snorting. On the other hand, faster absorption usually means shorter duration of action. The high from snorting cocaine may last 15 to 30 minutes, but the high from smoking may last only 5 to 10 minutes. In order to sustain the high, a cocaine abuser has to administer the drug again. For this reason, cocaine is sometimes abused in binges—taken repeatedly within a relatively short period of time, at increasingly high doses.

How Does Cocaine Affect the Brain?

Cocaine is a strong central nervous system stimulant that increases levels of dopamine, a brain chemical associated with pleasure and movement, in the brain’s reward circuit. Certain brain cells, or neurons, use dopamine to communicate. Normally, dopamine is released by a neuron in response to a pleasurable signal (e.g., the smell of good food), and then recycled back into the cell that released it, shutting off the signal between neurons. Cocaine acts by preventing the dopamine from being recycled, causing excessive amounts of dopamine to build up, amplifying the message, and ultimately disrupting normal communication. It is this excess of dopamine that is responsible for cocaine’s euphoric effects. With repeated use, cocaine can cause long-term changes in the brain’s reward system and in other brain systems as well, which may eventually lead to addiction. With repeated use, tolerance to the cocaine high also often develops. Many cocaine abusers report that they seek but fail to achieve as much pleasure as they did from their first exposure. Some users will increase their dose in an attempt to intensify and prolong the euphoria, but this can also increase the risk of adverse psychological or physiological effects.

What Adverse Effects Does Cocaine Have on Health?

Abusing cocaine has a variety of adverse effects on the body. For example, cocaine constricts blood vessels, dilates pupils, and increases body temperature, heart rate, and blood pressure. It can also cause headaches and gastrointestinal complications such as abdominal pain and nausea. Because cocaine tends to decrease appetite, chronic users can become malnourished as well.

Different methods of taking cocaine can produce different adverse effects. Regularly snorting cocaine, for example, can lead to loss of the sense of smell, nosebleeds, problems with swallowing, hoarseness, and a chronically runny nose. Ingesting cocaine can cause severe bowel gangrene as a result of reduced blood flow. Injecting cocaine can bring about severe allergic reactions and increased risk for contracting HIV and other blood-borne diseases. Binge patterns of use may lead to irritability, restlessness, anxiety, and paranoia. Cocaine abusers can suffer a temporary state of full-blown paranoid psychosis, in which they lose touch with reality and experience auditory hallucinations.

Regardless of how or how frequently cocaine is used, a user can experience acute cardiovascular or cerebrovascular emergencies, such as a heart attack or stroke, which may cause sudden death. Cocaine-related deaths are often a result of cardiac arrest or seizure followed by respiratory arrest.

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Harder now with higher speed Washing in on top of me--------------

IN GAME NAME : reeces pieces
RANK : Creature of the Night
GOAL : Thievery/Shadows 1
POWERS :

• THIEVERY : (1) (2) (3)
  
• SHADOWS : (1) (2) (3)
  
• SECOND-SIGHT : (1)
  
• SURPRISE : (1)
  
• PERCEPTION : (1)
  
• STAMINA : (1) (2) (3)
  
• LOCATE : (1) (2) (3)
  
• CELERITY : (1) (2) (3)
  
• TELEPATHY : (1) (2) (3)

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So I look to my eskimo friend When I'm down, down, down.----------

THE EARLY YEARS

Reece wasn't always like this.

Addicted.

Emaciated.

Hurting.

He used to be a boy. A happy-go-lucky kind of boy, mousy, sweet. People used to say he had a smile that lit up your heart. You could see it in his eyes that he loved life. When did it all change? Most likely once he hit puberty. Reece M. Conway was gifted with the treasure of MDD, or Major Depressive Disorder. MDD has treatments...

But Reece didn't know that at the time. As his body changed, so did his thoughts, and never for the better. He began to morph into something he loathed, a creature so dark and wrapped up in its own self-pity that there was no sight for anything more. Anything greater, happier. There was no hope.

Maybe it was then that he started really getting into drugs. Before, in his first year of high school, he had dabbled in marijuana, ecstasy... Light things, to make him feel better. Make the world seem less dark. It wasn't until a year later, tenth grade, that he met Papo.

Papo was the nickname for Patrick Porter, an upperclassmen that was a well-known and school-renowned drug dealer. He had the best of the best, and he befriended Reese, if you can call it a friendship. Papo was the person who introduced Reece into cocaine, a highly addictive drug that he got hooked on immediately. He already had an addictive personality – he didn't need a highly addictive drug to make it worse.

Cocaine was everything he had ever needed, or wanted, in a drug.

It made him happy. It made him lose the weight his depression had caused him to gain. It took away the nightmares. It made him feel alive. That was all he ever really asked for.

So he got into cocaine. Eskimo. Powder. He did it for the love that he got at the end of a line of coke.

That's probably where it all went downhill.

HANNAH

“I hate you!” Anger.

“Fuck, I just want to die.” Depression.

“I don't want to take my goddamn medicine!” Frustration.

A normal day in Reece M. Conway's household, when Hannah Lengyl is around.

Hannah was bipolar. Hannah didn't like to take her medicine, but she loved to shoot up in the dark of the night and laugh when Reece snorted too much coke. Hannah hated life but she loved heroin and Reece, and that's all that really mattered, right?

Right.

They married on Mary 8th, 1994, when Hannah was nineteen and Reece was twenty-one. They were rocky from the beginning, but their love was true, as fucked up as it all was. They would yell, make love, do drugs, get into a fist fight, and do it all over again the next day.

A normal day for Reece was waking up, getting bitched at, taking his drugs, arguing over money, having sex, going to work, coming home from work, have sex, get bitched at, shower, eat, sleep.

Every

Single

Day.

But all was well in the life of Reece. This was normalcy, and as long as normalcy wasn't broken, all was okay, right? Right. This lasted for nearly fifteen years, before Hannah got bored of love. “I'm moving to the States,” she had said, and had left the next morning, after a full day of sex. No arguing for them. Just f**k**g. No making love. It was rough, hard, and full of hatred and unsaid curses. Promises. Screams.

When she left, Reece had nothing but his cocaine. His addiction grew stronger. Instead of once a day, it was maybe twice a day, three times, four... He had nothing.

Depression.

Anxiety.

Hopelessness.

This was a normal day in Reece M. Conway's life without the tie that bound everything together: Hannah. Without Hannah, he was just a helpless loser, a user, an addict, a druggie librarian. He filed the papers for divorce numbly.

He hasn't been happy a day since.

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Rain it wets muddy roads I find myself exposed -----------------------------

2009

April 3

• Hannah Lengyl leaves.

June 4

• Reece plays DDR with Adeline - a "gamer chick."

June 13

• Buys Effie a book, nicknamed "Life"

July 7

• Sired by Ember Wilde (Ember Argent)

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Tapping doors, but irritate In search of destination___________

Hannah Lengyl | Ex-wife Hannah. What bad is there to say about that wonderful, singing woman? Other than the fact that she's terribly bipolar and refused to take her medicine. Oh, and she promoted Reece's use of cocaine. But other than that, she was a lovable woman, whom Reece (though he'd never admit it) probably still loves, to this day. Yeah, he loves her all right, and probably always will, that bitch. Their relationship was one of arguing, singing, and fucking, and it lasted for nearly 15 years. And then one day, she up a left. Tired of it all, she went to the United States to live a "simpler life" in the suburbs of some big city, leaving Reece alone with his "habit." That's life for ya.

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Ember Wilde | Sire Reece doesn't know very much about Ember, but he likes her a lot, enough to let her convince him to join the ranks of the undead. He hopes they'll become closer with time.

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Adeline Graham | No Affiliation He doesn't know much about Adeline yet, except that she has a pretty face and a shit-talking mouth. Oh, and she likes Dance Dance Revolution.

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Danae Kinvarra | No Affiliation He doesn't know a thing about Danae, not even her name. All he knows is that she's a wolf (or at least has a wolf form), she's big, and she's terrifying. As of right now, he's scared shitless of her, simply because she's a "big dog." Reece hates dogs.

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Effie Lawless | No Affiliation Reece doesn't know a damn thing about Effie yet except her name and that she's admittedly sharp and very... odd. She has a worldly presence and sense of calm that Reece can only envy. So far, he likes her alright, even if she seems a bit "out there." Maybe they could be better friends, with time.

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Harder now with higher speed Washing in on top of me___________

Active

Eskimo (He-man) | Link
ft. Ember Wilde

Chasing the Dragon | Link
ft. Danae

Just Take a Hit | Link
ft. Effie

Inactive

So Why Don't You Slide. | Link
ft. Adeline

Dropped

The End Begins | Link
ft. Logan, Maxer, Kalie Rae, and Drew Draken

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So I look to
my eskimo friend
When I'm down,
down, down.

FINISHED

If the references are too much, tell me -- I don't mind re-writing his history. [/color][/center]