Play@YSDC

What I need now are character concepts. To begin you are all on vacation in Scotland. The year is 1926 and for whatever reason you have all chosen to take a leisure cruise out into the Firth of Forth and the North Sea from North Berwick.

Characters may have any background they choose, within reason, and remembering this is Britain 1926 so British laws please. However academics or professionals are preferred, or gentlemen of independant means.

Characters may choose to know each other or not as they please, this is an opening scenario and should therefore be a team building exercise.

Once the concepts have been approved we shall move to character creation.

I'd like to play an army officer on leave in Scotland for a spot of golf and the odd cruise or two.
He'd be young, having only seen the last years of the war as a lieutenant, and come from a fairly wealthy family with interests in Scottish coal mining.

DrPeterson wrote:I'd like to play an army officer on leave in Scotland for a spot of golf and the odd cruise or two.
He'd be young, having only seen the last years of the war as a lieutenant, and come from a fairly wealthy family with interests in Scottish coal mining.

Sounds okay to me. Once we have a few more concepts we'll move to creation.

Thinking along the lines of a geologist now, served as a member of the Royal Engineers during the Great War attaining the rank of Engineer Clerk and Draughtsman Corporal (E.C. & D. Cpl.). This may tie in with him knowing Dr P's character's family if they were into mining. Not as young as Dr P's character, as shown by his being a Engineer Clerk and Draughtsman Corporal as well as his being a geologist pre-war for the mine owners. Humble beginnings and his being a self made man make this a slightly more complex character.

Cearlan wrote:Thinking along the lines of a geologist now, served as a member of the Royal Engineers during the Great War attaining the rank of Engineer Clerk and Draughtsman Corporal (E.C. & D. Cpl.). This may tie in with him knowing Dr P's character's family if they were into mining. Not as young as Dr P's character, as shown by his being a Engineer Clerk and Draughtsman Corporal as well as his being a geologist pre-war for the mine owners. Humble beginnings and his being a self made man make this a slightly more complex character.

Like it.

Dammit! Was thinking of a geologist as well.
So I'll go for a biology professor, conducts his major field study (although I have no idea on what yet) in Scotland. This time he's not there for academic purposes, just to take his family out on a well deserved trip.

I'm thinking in playing as a the son of a wealthy South American businessman on trip in Britain to buy some modern machinery for their coffe factory in Brazil.
Having studied in the University of St. Andrews on Fife, he is the man to do the diplomatic and foreign talk for his father.
He has a fair knowledge in agriculture as his business require. he may even have a friend or two in Scotland that he plans to visit in the meantime.
He is not exacly attractive and neither a thin man, far from that, you could call him fat. maybe that's why he's single.

Mr Pear, You can have the Geologist ... just a random idea I was feeding off DrPeterson's character - it's not a problem at all.

I might go instead for a missionary doctor who is taking some time off having returned from the jungles of the deepest Belgian Congo. He returned following the death of his father and part of the will was that his father's ashes be cast into the Firth of Forth.

On a side note I have family who are buried in North Berwick Abbey, my great great grandfather John Logan (1813 - 1885) - in the 1881 census he was the Father in law still working as an agricultural labourer. Times were harder back then.

I had actually been thinking of a military officer too, but I have other character ideas. Perhaps a professional golfer. He could have played golf with the army officer before, and he'd live in St. Andrews, so he might have met the businessman's son.

All excellant concepts.We await two more from PatGrillo and Rulerman.

Hi, my concept is already posted above.

RulerMan wrote:Hi, my concept is already posted above.

Whoops! mea culpa. So its just PatGrillo to come.

Mr. Handy wrote:I had actually been thinking of a military officer too, but I have other character ideas. Perhaps a professional golfer. He could have played golf with the army officer before, and he'd live in St. Andrews, so he might have met the businessman's son.

No reason you can't have been in the army too, is there? The War's only been over for 8 years. We could have used a strapping young golfer as yourself.

I’d play a geology professor who’s doing some field research on extinct volcanoes in Scotland, currently engaged in an expedition on the Isle of Skye. Since he’s been away from home for 6 months already, he decided to take a short break and asked his wife and son to come over from England for a little boat trip. He’s too fat to play golf and his sausage-like fingers couldn’t grip the club.

OK, sorry I'm new to this forum, have not yet figured out how to set it to notify me by e-mail of replies to posts. (Any ideas?)

Perhaps I could be a socialite, determining to go on a tour and "play the boy" to make up for the loss of her only brother during the war. Despite a traditional exterior - she "came out" in London last year - she is self educated and deeply resentful of having been forbidden by her family to enter University. "What's the point Dear, 'gels can't even be awarded a degree."

My golfer most likely will be a Great War veteran, just not career military.

If you open the User Control Panel and select the Board preferences tab, you can then click Edit posting defaults on the left. Then you'll need to select the option "Notify me upon replies by default." I never use it, and from what I hear it doesn't always work. I think if you're logged in when a new post is made, you might not receive notification of it and could miss it. I find it best to check the board manually every so often to see when the last post was made, just in case.

Spledid. Okay chaps on to Character Creation.

I'll try to get my character up this weekend.
Sorry for the wait, but the end of term brings heaps of work and deadlines.

Strange...i can't post anything in the Character thread anymore since yesterday... it say's i'm looking for something that doesn't exist.

RulerMan wrote:Strange...i can't post anything in the Character thread anymore since yesterday... it say's i'm looking for something that doesn't exist.

Seems okay from my end.

Do we use the rolls in the order used, or can we shift them around taking into account minimum scores such as at least 6 EDU, 8 SIZE and such?

I was wondering, though my character does not live in Scotland anymore, he passed years studying there and even lived with his ex-wife for a few years on a house. Can he still own a small house or a apartment in Scotland?

DrPeterson wrote:Do we use the rolls in the order used, or can we shift them around taking into account minimum scores such as at least 6 EDU, 8 SIZE and such?

As they come. In other words in the order rolled.

RulerMan wrote:I was wondering, though my character does not live in Scotland anymore, he passed years studying there and even lived with his ex-wife for a few years on a house. Can he still own a small house or a apartment in Scotland?

I see no reason why you shouldn't, however it would only be a small place not a huge penthouse apartment in the most expensive area of Edinburgh.

Sounds fair to me.

Ok I'd like to play a female character, and if she's on holiday in Scotland I'm thinking she's got to come from a wealthy family. So maybe the younger daughter of a minor English aristo based in London, who's spending some time in Scotland while she figures out what to do with her life. Maybe make her a dabbler in photography or something like that, with ideas of possibly going into producing pictures for magazines. If she can get away with that given what her family might think. How does that sound?

Sounds good. Two female characters? Well I must say that will be a first for me as a keeper.

yockenthwaite wrote:Ok I'd like to play a female character, and if she's on holiday in Scotland I'm thinking she's got to come from a wealthy family. So maybe the younger daughter of a minor English aristo based in London, who's spending some time in Scotland while she figures out what to do with her life. Maybe make her a dabbler in photography or something like that, with ideas of possibly going into producing pictures for magazines. If she can get away with that given what her family might think. How does that sound?

If she moves in London circles, she might know Robert Parkhurst, he's quite active, present and endowed.

Excellent. Thanks both. Will roll up over next couple of days.

Priest wrote:

DrPeterson wrote:Do we use the rolls in the order used, or can we shift them around taking into account minimum scores such as at least 6 EDU, 8 SIZE and such?

As they come. In other words in the order rolled.

Sorry Priest, I never saw this and moved my stats around a bit ... do you want me to redo the character either using the rolls as they were done or new rolls? Jumping in with both tentacles again.

Nah. He's okay, no attempt at megabuilding or you might have changed the APP score. As has been said before (by you I think) we are all adults here.

Thanks buddy - appreciate it as I had put a fair bit into that one