Early life
Multiple conflicting and equally implausible reports exist about this dog’s early life, but one thing is clear: he’s been shrewd, artful and steeped in illicit activities from an early age, with numerous aliases even before he came of age. His official history solidifies somewhat in the early ’90s when, using the name Deacon McCall (see No Other God Before Me in Sofawolf’s fiction anthology X) he was remanded to the custody of an English priory under the tutelage of Father Argyle.
His criminal activities continued to adulthood, with drug trafficking and burglary furnishing him with an income. He made the acquaintance of Owen Zelazny around 1999 and while in Paris they tossed a coin to decide where they’d move next: Amsterdam or the newly-renamed city of Maranatha.
Maranatha City
After settling in Maranatha, Malloy expanded his criminal repertoire and became affiliated with one McIlwain, a significant figure in the upper echelon’s of the city’s rapidly dwindling criminal population. As the economic significance of the city declined in the early 2000s and major crime operations moved elsewhere, petty crime ran rampant among the remaining population. Malloy distinguished himself among his fellow felons by a makeshift moral code precluding the sale of drugs to underaged kids.
At some point in 2005 Malloy was apprehended by the Maranatha Police Department and the multitude of charges brought against him landed him in Maranatha Penitentiary. A voracious autodidact, Malloy was one of the more broadly-educated inmates and had prior dealings with a modest but significant portion of the prison population. This, coupled with his existing nickname ‘Preacher’ led to him adopting an informal role as chaplain, leading prayer groups for Christians, Jews and Muslims, and leading open oecumenical debates.
Presumably these were, at least in part, a cover for his preparations to escape, as in late 2005 he was central to the instigation of a prison riot. Almost simultaneously with the outbreak of violence the prison’s IT systems were critically compromised, with even the hadwired failsafes shortly thereafter being overridden, apparently from within the administrative stronghold.
Malloy is known to have escaped, with at least two fellow inmates and reportedly one prison guard.
