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Jacque Riley is one of those very odd people who you may occasionally happen to meet, odd in an odd way as well, it's not the usual eccentricities which people perceive as being unusual but which is in fact common amongst people. Jacque is physically strange and this brief narrative will attempt to explain that using science where possible and guesswork or plain bafflement where not.

Jacque was born to a French mother and a half Irish half English father against the backdrop of Britain's age as an Imperial Power. However he was in fact born in Boston in the United States during his parent's travelling of all places. His childhood was spent in Africa, his parents moving there soon after he was born, he does not know exactly why, perhaps they had assets there but for all that he was not to know as both died before his fifth birthday. He had been left to a nanny and governess who had been his minders even when his parents were alive but with the lack of their supervision attention given to the child waned, the fateful day came when he was left unsupervised long enough to wander off, moreover far enough to be well and truly lost.

For most children at this point death at the claws of some beast of the savannah would have been the likely outcome but Jacque was lucky, he had presumably tried to return home, it was growing dark and he made for a light source on the horizon, tired and hungry he stumbled into a small tribal settlement, it would be the clichéd story indeed that he was taken in by these people but he was not. The people of the tribe had had quite enough of the white man's presence on the African continent and treated this toddler with the same maxim as they would a full grown man; he was forcibly expelled out into the night once more, a curse of all the animals of the plains ringing in his ears.

Perhaps it was that these words, falling on the ears and mind of a small boy, usually mere gibberish they had an effect on Jacque which is challenges science to explain, science shies away shaking its head in horror and disbelief. The young boy found over the next few nights in the brush that he could change, he first heard the harsh call of a hyena and cried out in shock as fur sprouted over his body, every nerve tingling as his face extended into a short muzzle.

From here on in the story grows hazy, it is obvious that at some point in the intervening time the young man learned to control these changes. With the power he now had surviving out in the grasslands was easy for him and in time he moved to the jungle making the form of a monkey his own, though he was puzzled why he always formed a hybrid human-animal creature. He could never take on any true animal form only gain attributes from other species.

The most recent event to change this young man's life is something equally offensive to science, infection with Lycanthropy; he now has to fight a change which he cannot control, a virulent strain of the condition which brings about violent painful transformation into an extremely powerful creature beyond his control.

How is he coping? I would not think to venture near him to ask…

Description
Jacque Riley is one of those very odd people who you may occasionally happen to meet, odd in an odd way as well, it's not the usual eccentricities which people perceive as being unusual but which is in fact common amongst people. Jacque is physically strange and this brief narrative will attempt to explain that using science where possible and guesswork or plain bafflement where not.

Jacque was born to a French mother and a half Irish half English father against the backdrop of Britain's age as an Imperial Power. However he was in fact born in Boston in the United States during his parent's travelling of all places. His childhood was spent in Africa, his parents moving there soon after he was born, he does not know exactly why, perhaps they had assets there but for all that he was not to know as both died before his fifth birthday. He had been left to a nanny and governess who had been his minders even when his parents were alive but with the lack of their supervision attention given to the child waned, the fateful day came when he was left unsupervised long enough to wander off, moreover far enough to be well and truly lost.

For most children at this point death at the claws of some beast of the savannah would have been the likely outcome but Jacque was lucky, he had presumably tried to return home, it was growing dark and he made for a light source on the horizon, tired and hungry he stumbled into a small tribal settlement, it would be the clichéd story indeed that he was taken in by these people but he was not. The people of the tribe had had quite enough of the white man's presence on the African continent and treated this toddler with the same maxim as they would a full grown man; he was forcibly expelled out into the night once more, a curse of all the animals of the plains ringing in his ears.

Perhaps it was that these words, falling on the ears and mind of a small boy, usually mere gibberish they had an effect on Jacque which is challenges science to explain, science shies away shaking its head in horror and disbelief. The young boy found over the next few nights in the brush that he could change, he first heard the harsh call of a hyena and cried out in shock as fur sprouted over his body, every nerve tingling as his face extended into a short muzzle.

From here on in the story grows hazy, it is obvious that at some point in the intervening time the young man learned to control these changes. With the power he now had surviving out in the grasslands was easy for him and in time he moved to the jungle making the form of a monkey his own, though he was puzzled why he always formed a hybrid human-animal creature. He could never take on any true animal form only gain attributes from other species.

The most recent event to change this young man's life is something equally offensive to science, infection with Lycanthropy; he now has to fight a change which he cannot control, a virulent strain of the condition which brings about violent painful transformation into an extremely powerful creature beyond his control.

How is he coping? I would not think to venture near him to ask…