OOC:

[kabukiman]

The ooc thread.

[kabukiman]

We will probably have a new player joining, Aine.

[Snapper]

Excellent!

[Mr. Handy]

Great!

[aine]

Thanks, guys. Always a sucker for punishment, I'm joining up as an extra titbit for the Great Maw.

[Mephistophilis]

I think you might be the muscle.

[Snapper]

We need a character with the steely resolve and heroic mein of the ilk of Phyllis Crukshank!

[aine]

Ah now there’s a formidable lady with an iron umbrella. She probably sells mythos-entity jam at the local fete.
We had some characterful characters in Mr Handy’s last Dr Who game.

[Mr. Handy]

We certainly did. Jan Hathaway-De Beers looks to be cut from similar cloth. She reminds me in some ways of Marion Ravenwood from Raiders of the Lost Ark. With her 95 CON, she could probably drink anyone under the table.

[aine]

Spot on! I’d forgotten about her; I almost took iron liver as a talent.
CON 95 does seem crazily high. I don’t have the Pulp rule book yet (imminent birthday present I hope) so I used The Dhole House character generator at default pulp level so I hope that fits.
I’m looking forward to playing some tabletop pulp as well.

[Snapper]

Excellent character!

Marian Raveneood meets Karen Blixen! And quite possibly the toughest member of the team.

You have to go around saying, "I had a fahhm in Ahhfrika."

[Mr. Handy]

In Pulp Cthulhu, you get to roll a stat of your choice on (1D6+13) x 5, so you can get a 95 if you're very lucky.

[Mephistophilis]

Yeah, my character Alex Malone has a POW of 95. Pity his other stats are rather more mundane.

[SunlessNick]

Is there room for one more? (And is there a niche you need filling? I was thinking of either a martial artist Outsider, or a Hard-Boiled type but with a more elegant veneer).

[kabukiman]

With your character, we get 6, the limit that I accept.
Very well, your character can be a student of the MU. The group need someone with "ninja" skills (like stealth, locksmith). And write a couple of lines about the double character.

[SunlessNick]

I'll get back to you in a day or so.

Edited: Posted for approval. One of her Pulp Talents is Handy - given her backstory, I had the idea of swapping a couple of the skills it applies to.

[Mr. Handy]

June is another great character! She should have 19 HP rather than 17. Would Locksmith also include the making of locks (which would free up skill points for other skills)?

[SunlessNick]

June is another great character! She should have 19 HP rather than 17.

Thanks! I mistyped rather than miscalculated .

[kabukiman]

No, making locks is a different skill (and you correctly included in craft). You can atually make keys with locksmith and dismantle locks, but not create them.
You need now to create your shadow character in 2 lines (unless it is your father) and we are ready to go.

[SunlessNick]

You need now to create your shadow character in 2 lines (unless it is your father) and we are ready to go.

Yeah, it most likely would be. (Btw, are you ok with my proposed changes to which skills Handy applies to?).