Investigators Creation Topic

A decade ago, a band of occult investigators battled against the summoning of an ancient and monstrous evil. They failed. Now you must piece together the puzzle and finish what they could not. The stakes are high, and so is the price to pay. Can you do it?

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Very well. I think TheLibrarian can spread his points a little more as well ;)
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Had a second stab at it, see the changes above. Any other changes I should make?

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Name: Mungo "Cam" Cameron (he only let's his Grandmother call him Mungo)
Age: 36
Sex: Male
Occupation: Boxer/Bouncer/Body Guard (Profession is Military, Corpsman/Medic, with combat experience)
Drive: (tbd)

Pillars of Sanity:
Patriotism
Benevolence of God
Scientific Progress of Man
Survival of the Fittest

Sources of Stability:
Grandmother, Bridget Campbell: raised Cam in his childhood
Colonel Martin: the Doctor that Cam served under who saw more in him than just someone strong enough to carry stretchers, and encouraged him to go into medicine
Damijan Gavril: Slovakian inmate who served time with Cam and taught him that people can change, and you don't have to be the person that the world sees

Cam was raised by his Grandmother in the backwoods of Tennessee from a very early age. He joined the army, was transferred to serve as a medic, and was kicked out due to a variety of charges. He did some boxing, then fell into a few shady jobs to make some quick cash, and ended up in prison. He is currently trying to get his life straightened out, but he needs money to help support his aging Grandmother.

Investigative Abilities:

Interpersonal
Assess Honesty 1
Credit Rating 2
* Intimidation 4
*Reassurance 4
Streetwise 2

Academic
Cryptography 1
Law 1
Library Use 1
*Medicine 2

Technical
Astronomy 1
*Outdoorsman 4

General Abilities:
Sanity 12
Stability 10
Health 12

*Athletics 10
Driving 4
Electrical Repair 3
*Firearms 10
*First Aid 10
Mechanical Repair 3
*Scuffling 12
Sense Trouble 7
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Name: Huang Yan Liu (黃鹽 劉)
Birthplace: Fouken, China
Current Residence: USA [Own Langauge: Chinese]
Age: 37
Sex: Male
Occupation: Doctor/Parapsychologist/Con Artist
Drive: Curiosity, and Boredom

Pillars of Sanity:
Scientific Progress of Man
Personal happiness
Nihilistic morality

Sources of Stability:
  • Parents—Memories of his parents often gives him the will and determination to live his life to the fullest and never look back.
  • Mrs. Winston-Rogers—She was an affluent and rich individual that he had become acquainted to through scamming a large and select number of the wealthy to believe that Eastern Medicine is synonymous with magic. Her existence is a near-constant reminder to himself that he is still capable of feeling empathy.
  • Tobias Jerkins—A friend of his that has inspired him to walk down the path of medicine with a deeper commitment than a con-man really needed.
  • Himself—His narcissistic love of himself can often motivate him to do what's he feels is the best for himself.
Backstory: Huang Yan has lived a tough life. His parents had died in poverty as they were selfless and kind to a near-unreasonable level to the poor and the impoverished around them. Their faith in the Buddha and their naïveté had eventually led to their death, and forcing Huang Yan to vow to never walk down that path and repeat the same mistake as his parents did. During his early life, he convinced a Taoist Priest to teach him Feng Shui and other such esoteric arts of eastern occult as he had briefly earned his riches at "Exorcising Ghosts".

As he earned enough money to go to college, he had went and studied both the traditional Chinese herbal medicine as well as Western Medicine after cheating on his entrance exam to Peking university and, as one thing led into another, he had quickly scammed a scholarship to the United States from the Chinese government as he had bribed teachers to alter his exam scores and used plenty of other dirty tricks as he completed his formal education and earned a medical practitioner's license. He 'completed' a PhD in Massachusetts, and quickly befriended a private investigator by the name of Tobias Jerkins, who he had met in a library once and developed a rapport with after discovering that both of them shared similar literary preferences. It was Tobias who had truly inspired him to develop his much more fervent passion of the sciences.

In America, the land of freedom, he had intentionally advertised his "exotic" origins and exaggerated the effects of Eastern Medicine to con gullible rich people out of their cash. While, admittedly, he was a good doctor, but he was far more talented in the art of scamming people out of their hard-earned cash. Of curse, his scam was exposed after two years of conning America's richest to believing acupuncture and herbal medicine will make them live till they're 300 years old through elaborate rouses, Chinese folk legends, and a carefully cultivated 'exotic' accent.

He legged it to Mexico City during February of 1930, as he saw the looming shadows of the Great Depression rear its ugly head, fearing the worst, he learnt Spanish and made an acquaintance of Mrs. Winston-Rogers, after a series of incidents persuaded her to endorse his medical talents. She is of a select group of people he is genuinely friendly with.

Investigative Abilities:

Interpersonal
*Assess Honesty 4
*Bargain 2
*Bureaucracy 4
Credit Rating 3
*Flattery 4
Interrogation 1
*Oral History 3
*Reassurance 3
Streetwise 3

Academic
Biology 1
*Law 4
Library Use 2
Medicine 2
Occult 3

Languages 2 (English and Spanish)

Technical
Evidence Collection 3
Locksmith 1
Outdoorsman 2

General Abilities:
Sanity 12
Stability 12
Health 12

Disguise 6
Driving 4
Firearms 4
First Aid 6
Preparedness 2
Scuffling 4
Sense Trouble 9
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I have no problem in principle with the investigator, but you should keep in mind that the adventure is currently under way and the investigators are in Mexico City right now.

In fact, I would have preferred to introduce your character as a local contact for the PCs who could also help with the language. Plus, you should have some kind of past contact with Mrs. Winston-Rogers, who is currently employing the investigators.
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...Alright, I'll make the appropriate changes.

Update: the appropriate changes were made. ;)
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Thank you.

A few more things. You have 16 points to spend in investigative abilities. For all the professional abilities (each profession has some) you can get 2 points in the ability for each point spent in character creation. So, you should definitely have more points in your investigative abilities.
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Done. Bada-bing, bada-bang,
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HelplessBystander wrote:Done. Bada-bing, bada-bang,
Ok, keep in mind though that is usually not useful to have more than 4 points in an ability. Unlike CoC, one point is enough to always succeed when using the ability, and additional points are only needed for spends, but spends never provide core clues. So I would suggest spreading your points a little more, if possible covering skills the team is currently lacking.

Anyway, I'll have your character join in the coming days.
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...Alright. I'll spread it out a bit more.

Update: How is it now?
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Languages aren't individual skills. Instead, there's an investigative skill called Languages. For each point you put in Languages, you know one language beyond your native tongue. You wouldn't need to put three points into Spanish; a single point in Languages covers it.
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Ah. Thanks.
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Name: Professor Jonathan Cornwall
Age: 47
Sex: Male
Occupation: Archaeologist
Drive: Antiquarianism
Pillars of Sanity:
Atheism
Scientific Method
Knowledge is Power
There is no such thing as luck

Sources of Stability:
Wife, Jennifer Marie Cornwall, 36
3 Children
Childhood friend and bosom buddy, Colin Brewster, 46; they grew up together in a middle class section of London.
Father, Alexander Cornwall, 74, retired Headmaster at a small primary school in London. (Mother died when Jonathan was 12)

Investigative Abilities:
Academic
Anthropology 1
Archaeology 3*
Art History 1
Cryptography 3*
Geology 1
History 2*
Languages 2*

Interpersonal
Credit Rating 4
Intimidation 1
Oral History 1

Technical
Astronomy 1
Evidence Collection 2*
Forensics 2*
Outdoorsman 1

General Abilities:
Athletics 8*
Explosives 2
Firearms 8
First Aid 10*
Fleeing 2
Health 12
Piloting 2 aircraft and boats
Preparedness 2
Sanity 12
Scuffling 4
Sense Trouble 3
Stability 12
Stealth 3

Professor Cornwall is a rough and tumble field archaeologist at the University of London with dig experience from many sites scattered all over the uncivilized world. While at the University, Professor Cornwall has struck up an academic friendship with kindred spirit, Harry Price, a paranormal researcher who has been affiliated with the University of London since 1934. Price has recommended that Prof Cornwall get in touch with Price's colleague Christopher Fontana while Prof Cornwall is on sabbatical from teaching for the next 12 months. It seems that Mr. Fontana is involved in an interesting and important investigation that could use the Professor's assistance...
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Seems good to me. Once carnage_lee is back we'll work out how to get your investigators in touch. Then we'll get you in the game ;)
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Super. Overlord, are you going to post the Professor to the approved Investigator record sheet thread?
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ShyberKryst wrote:Super. Overlord, are you going to post the Professor to the approved Investigator record sheet thread?
Yep. As soon as I have more time I'll double check the numbers and then move it to the right topic.
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