Player: HeplessBystander
Name: Tobias Jerkins
Age: 108
Sex: Male
Occupation: Retired Private Eye, Published Writer, Forensic Document Examiner
University of study and degree earned: Miskatonic University, Bachelor of Criminology and Forensic Science with honours.
Current Residence: Paradise Falls, Virginia, USA
Birthplace: Australia
Personal Description:
A tall, elderly man of an extreme age. He looms over near-everyone in a room. Considered to be extremely eccentric by everyone in the town, and sports an odd limp that exaggerates his walk. An intelligent sparkle is always found within his eyes. No one truly knows what he is thinking or how much wisdom is contained within his memories. He is generally found wearing a heavy trench-coat clad over a dark-grey shirt and a smoking pipe in his hand. On his left hand's ring finger, he wears a wedding ring that he has never taken off. Even after the death of his wife. His right leg is replaced with a prosthetic limb that he has since grown used to.
Tobias suffers from an uneven sleep schedule, haunted by nightmares and dark visions from his own past.
Backstory:
Tobias Jerkins is the first born child of the Jerkins family, burdened with expectations and pressure to be the model upstanding young male of the 1920s, he moved to the land of hopes and dreams in order to search for his passion: America. After a few years, he had regretted his selfish decisions of abandoning his family behind to further his own goals, he has since then made attempts to reconcile with his younger sister and support his parents. His mother died in the 1950s of hereditary heart disease and alcohol poisoning. His younger sister has died before him as well, becoming an object of trauma and deep regrets as he moved on with his life.
He is a logical and calm person who often performs well under pressure, and have since then put a rein on his anger management issues. He is keenly observant and enjoys spending time with his family and friends.
He has encountered supernatural entities before and has, at many points in time, found himself at either side of the situation; be it helping the cultists or fighting against them. He had worked as a Gumshoe private eye during the 1920s to the early 1940s, experienced the ups and downs of The Great Depression; witnessed the start of WWII, as well as the birth of the atomic bomb. He was once a part of the New York police force during '40s as a consulting forensics handwriting analyst, and he has some expertise in cryptoanalysis due to his immense understanding of the English Language.
He has since published his life story as a moderately successful author under the title
'Living through history: A memoir of the past' (2010) and an extremely obscure reference book of Esoteric Studies and Occult tentatively named
'Encyclopedia Dæmonica' (1990). Since then, he has met the love of his life, Heidi Smith, and they were happily married for more than fourty years before his wife suffered from cancer, and died after a five year battle in the medical wards. For the remainder of his life,
Tobias Jerkins never remarried and concentrated his efforts to raising his children, one of which happened to be
Rachel Parker. He has three adopted grandchildren,
Karen Parker (17 turning 18),
Fredrick Parker (12), and
Daniella Parker (8).
He has many contacts from his old days, though many has either died, gone insane or disappeared, but he has built a dark network of whistleblowers, cultists, war veterans, and old government operatives that he had not contacted in many years. However, some of them might still be willing to have a quick chat about the good old days over a satellite phone.
He treasures the old family photo from his youth and still places it in his wallet to be taken with him wherever he goes. He no longer drives, as his physical body no longer allows him to do things with the same strength and vigour as when he was young, but he is still capable of many things.
Phobias & Manias: - He is a worrier who is slightly nervous about the safety of his family and friends. While he wouldn't go to extreme length or personal sacrifice to help strangers, he is often willing to lend a shoulder.
- He suffers from a classic case of PTSD.
- He is terrified of hounds and dogs from past experiences, and would often attempt to stay away from them whenever possible.
- He is particularly nervous around flames and open fire as he had experienced many unfortunate incidents surrounding flames.
- He is often wary, and somewhat cautious towards strangers, while he would be willing to help someone he doesn't know, he will always make sure they don't get the chance to back-stab him.
- When he gets nervous, he will starting stuttering and slurring his speech. An unfortunate side-effect of being too old.
Languages Spoken: English, French, Latin (Mostly Forgotten),
Characteristics
STR: 16
CON: 13 (take away 1 point due to old age)
SIZ: 12
DEX: 10 (Take away 2 points due to old age)
APP: 9 (take away 4 points due to old age)
INT: 16 [Idea: 80]
POW: 16 [Luck: 80]
EDU: 22 (+7 due to old age) [Know: 99 (max)]
Damage Bonus: +1D4
Max Sanity: 76 (99-23 Cthulhu Mythos)
current Sanity: 76
Magic Points: 18
current Magic Points:
Max Hit Points: 13
current Hit Points:
Skill points availble: 140 (NOTE: these skill points are the bonus +EDU points added on top of the
character's preexisting skills. I am completely okay to change ANY part of the character sheet under the Keeper's discretion)
Skills
Accounting (05%):
Anthropology (01%):
Appraise (05%);
Archaeology (01%):
Art/Craft (05%):
Charm (15%):
Climb (20%):
Credit Rating (00%): 60%
Cthulhu Mythos (00%): 23%
Disguise (05%):
Dodge (DEX*2):20%
Drive Auto (20%):
Electr. Repair (10%):
Fast Talk (05%): 65%
First Aid (30%):
History (05%): 60%
Intimidate (15%):
Jump (20%):
Latin (01%): 10%
French (01%): 40%
Language Own (EDU*5): 80% (alright, I really don't know how to deal with this, but I'm increasing my languages skill from the last game by 10% due to his experiences and the evolution of the English language. But I'm not going to make it my current EDU*5 as that would be too broken many obvious reasons)
Law (05%): 30%
Library Use (20%): 50%
Listen (20%): 50%
Locksmith (01%):
Mech. Repair (10%):
Medicine (01%):
Natural World (10%):
Navigate (10%):
Occult (05%): 60%
Opr. Hvy. Mch. (01%):
Persuade (10%): 30%
Pharmacy (01%):
Photography (10%):
Physics (01%):
Pilot (01%):
Psychology (10%): 60%
Psychoanalysis (01%)
Ride (05%):
Science: Forensics (01%): 50%
Sleight of Hand (10%):
Spot Hidden (25%): 50%
Stealth (20%):
Survival (10%):
Swim (20%):
Throw (20%):
Track (10%):
Hand to Hand Combat Skills:
Fighting Brawl (25%): 50%
Ranged Combat Skills:
Firearms Pistol (20%): 65%
Firearms Rifle/Shotgun (25%):
Inventory:
.40 Glock 22 Automatic Pistol with bullets (15 bullets, +1D10 damage, 18.3 metres base range, 3 attacks per round, 8 HP, 2% malfunction rate)
$2,500 in wallet
Old family photo in wallet
Pen and notebook
Elder Sign Talisman
Satellite Phone (1980s antique brick-ish phone, no touchscreen or apps. Its only purpose is to communicate with other satellite phones.)