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| - In life, he was Dennis "The Carpenter" Maxwell, small-time hood for the Chicago mob. Near the end of his afterlife, he became Carpenter169, one of the most controversial posters on hunter-net.org. He earned his nickname working for the Sforza famiglia, from his favorite tongue-loosening technique: nailing people's hands to tables. Ultimately, he was sold out by his girlfriend, the don's daughter Annabelle, and shot down right in front of her. His death didn't even make the front page.
- Dennis Maxwell was a personnel manager who worked for the Mark Brittain Warehouse, moving to the Weatherfield branch in May 1971. One of his first acts was to reverse the decision of M.J. Pollard who had set the operation up in Coronation Street and employ Elsie Howard as checking supervisor. Pollard had been ready to offer Elsie that same position but Hilda Ogden had informed him of the 1969 court case when Elsie had been prosecuted by her then employers, Miami Modes, for shop-lifting and he had told her the job was no longer available. Annie Walker and Maggie Clegg, furious at Hilda's maliciousness, had told Maxwell the true circumstances of the 1969 case - that Dot Greenhalgh had been the true culprit - and he took her on after checking personally with Mr Maddox-Smith of Miami Modes who
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| - In life, he was Dennis "The Carpenter" Maxwell, small-time hood for the Chicago mob. Near the end of his afterlife, he became Carpenter169, one of the most controversial posters on hunter-net.org. He earned his nickname working for the Sforza famiglia, from his favorite tongue-loosening technique: nailing people's hands to tables. Ultimately, he was sold out by his girlfriend, the don's daughter Annabelle, and shot down right in front of her. His death didn't even make the front page. In death, he learned the ins and outs of life as one of the Restless Dead, and also learned of his girlfriend's connection to the Giovanni clan of vampires. In 1999, Maxwell was one of the wraiths blasted through the Shroud by the Sixth Great Maelstrom. Like a lot of them, he found himself involuntarily possessing a host body. Unlike most of them, he soon found the Heralds directing him to hunter-net. He used his old nickname as his hunter-net handle and introduced himself ambiguously enough that he could have been a fellow chosen. He proceeded to freely dispense information on the nature of the walking dead and ways of fighting them. A lot of people didn't quite trust him, and he spent a lot of time reacting with injured innocence. People got even madder at Carpenter when Gardener67, attempting to settle a pissing contest with Carpenter, returned to a haunted house he'd visited once before and wound up dying in it. Soon after that, Witness1 received a visit from the ghost of a childhood classmate, who managed to get a message through to him: "Carpenter is one of the dead. He is known here, feared here. He is evil!!!" Around the same time, Cabbie22, based out of Chicago, was doing research on another matter entirely and discovered the career of Dennis Maxwell, and his similarities to Carpenter (records of Maxwell's testimony in assault cases displayed a similar verbal style to Carpenter's posts). Maxwell admitted his identity, but insisted that was the only thing he'd misled them about. He hinted at the nature of the catastrophe that had struck the lands of the dead, and at the connection of the Imbued to that catastrophe: "You're the fucking janitor — or more appropriately, his mop, bucket and broom!" A little later, soon after Azrael256's encounter with something disturbing in Chinatown, Carpenter was finally online at the same time as the other monster on the list, the vampire known as Ichmail. Maxwell informed the list that Ichmail wasn't the kind of vampire they thought he was, and issued a warning to the other: "I know where the thousand embers are dispersed, and the name of the path that you walk. I even know your name, Hideo Masaka, and your mother's ghost tells me what you did to her." He'd just promised to tell Ichmail/Masaka's secrets to the entire world when Annabelle Sforza died. The loss of a link to the land of the living threw Carpenter into a Harrowing, from which he spat out a string of prophecy in Latin, Portuguese, Italian and German before plummeting into the Labyrinth. A story featuring Cabbie22 in the Inherit the Earth short story collection touched upon Carpenter's return from his Harrowing. The Year of the Scarab fiction trilogy explored Carpenter's continued precarious existence as one of the Risen and his attempts to remain permanently in the lands of the living. In the course of these efforts, he crossed paths with hunters, vampires, and mummies. At the conclusion of the trilogy, Carpenter's physical form was destroyed, sending him into another Harrowing.
- Dennis Maxwell was a personnel manager who worked for the Mark Brittain Warehouse, moving to the Weatherfield branch in May 1971. One of his first acts was to reverse the decision of M.J. Pollard who had set the operation up in Coronation Street and employ Elsie Howard as checking supervisor. Pollard had been ready to offer Elsie that same position but Hilda Ogden had informed him of the 1969 court case when Elsie had been prosecuted by her then employers, Miami Modes, for shop-lifting and he had told her the job was no longer available. Annie Walker and Maggie Clegg, furious at Hilda's maliciousness, had told Maxwell the true circumstances of the 1969 case - that Dot Greenhalgh had been the true culprit - and he took her on after checking personally with Mr Maddox-Smith of Miami Modes who back up Elsie's innocence. Maxwell showed a keen interest in Elsie's work, something eagerly noticed by checking staff Ivy Tilsley and Edna Gee. He invited her for a lunch, strictly business only, but she made sure that husband Alan knew everything that was going on. Alan was unnerved though when he heard Ivy and Edna gossiping in the Corner Shop and after being introduced to Maxwell in the Rovers, invited him to No. 11 for a drink which, in turn, unnerved Elsie. Maxwell then invited her out for an evening meal, again with Alan's permission, where his true character came out into the open: ruthlessly ambitious, he was not married as he had been so involved in his career that by the time he started looking round all the good-looking women had been taken. He flattered Elsie by telling her she was decisive and didn’t burst in tears when she couldn’t get her own way, unlike a lot of women he had worked with. He told her he had a rule of always look for the personal advantage in anything. He had also born in in a background of terraced streets and had conned a selection board for officers in the war to get a commission by dropping working class accent in a first step of getting away from his working class roots. He then calmly outlined an illegal scheme for the two of them to make money at the warehouses's expense. Elsie was stunned but also sickened at his hypocrisy the next day when he sacked worker Sally Turner for trying to walk out with four swimsuits under her clothes. Elsie accused him of overturning Pollard’s “sacking” because he thought she had committed the 1969 theft and thought she would be a perfect partner in crime. She refused his offer but he turned nasty when it was announced that Marcus Berlin, the owner's son, would be visiting the next day and suspected that it was to investigate him, Elsie having reported him. However at a drinks reception, Berlin took the opportunity to announce that Maxwell had been promoted to head the services division and would be leaving Weatherfield. Maxwell said his goodbyes to Elsie, telling her that she was playing safe with Alan who was a loser. She retorted that he was nothing but a crook.
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