Horatio George Wellington
The Gun Club
Founded during the American Civil War, the Gun Club is a Boston-based society of businessmen, inventors, and scientists dedicated to the construction of weapons, with a particular emphasis on cannons and other artillery pieces. The current president is Impey Barbicane II, son of the Club’s founder.
Despite the society’s fixation with guns, Barbicane is a man dedicated to peace. In his eyes, the creation of more powerful guns will end wars, not start them. Unfortunately, a small cabal within the Club has a different view—it looks to grow rich by selling advanced weapons to the highest bidder, irrelevant of to what use the weapons may be put.
Roleplaying Notes
You are one of London’s premier consulting detectives, and your talents are now being sought in civilized lands across the globe. Your keen mind is an analytical machine of logic and reason, which combined with your astute powers of perception enables you to gather all the information pertinent to a crime and deduce a solution.
While you are able to interview witnesses and pick up on the slightest detail, you are hopeless as more polite social interaction. Your logical mind has no place for emotions, and once on a case you are relentless, pausing only to consider the facts, never the human element involved. As a result of your inability to convey information in an emotional way, you are uncomfortable in social situations.
We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin