Role: Senior Communications Specialist, Aetheric Signal Interception Division
Background:
Maggie Fellows—known universally across the FDG airwaves as “Magpie”—began her career as a pirate radio DJ in the early 1980s. She operated out of a forgotten coastal relay tower in Kent, blending post-punk deep cuts with strange atmospheric recordings. One night in 1983, during an unlicensed midnight broadcast, she picked up a signal she described as “a song that hummed inside your bones.” It aired for just 20 seconds. Afterward, a caller whispered, “You should not have played that.” The line went dead.
It wasn’t the first time she’d heard something uncanny—but it was the first time the fae responded.
Though she’d already been flagged years earlier for intercepting anomalous signals as early as 1978, this final incident sealed her recruitment. She left behind her on-air persona and joined the Institute as a signal tracker, specialising in fae-borne transmissions, buried harmonics, and impossible carrier waves. She’s now one of the oldest active operatives in the Aetheric Signal Interception Division—and still refuses to retire.
Skills:
- Master of analog and shortwave equipment
- Deep expertise in spectral signal mapping and fae frequency triangulation
- Maintains an archive of pre-digital broadcast anomalies stretching back to 1975
- Known to operate independently for days in isolated towers, chasing weak signals no one else can hear
Carries her own modified reel-to-reel recorder and insists on using vacuum tube amps, claiming the fae “hate clean sound.”
Personality:
Wry, eccentric, and deeply tuned in to what others miss. Magpie is the kind of operative who hears meaning in static and rhythm in silence. She maintains the persona of a no-nonsense sound engineer, but her notebooks are filled with marginalia that read like poetry. Fiercely loyal to junior staff and often serves as a mentor, though she prefers to let others “find the frequency themselves.”
Motive:
To stay on the air as long as she can. She believes the fae have always been broadcasting, and that her job—her calling—is to catch the signal before it fades.
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