I guess the trait social climber was fitting.
For -21 the following destiny card is awarded: Spot Hidden and Judge of Character
I´ll up the two following cards:
#12
Then there are seven to go.
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1915
KEEPING FELLOW MAN ALIVE
Right dose, making money
World War I: Battle of Dogger Bank: British Grand Fleet defeats the German High Seas Fleet, sinking the armoured cruiser Blücher.
The great war rages and a surgeon has his hands full. Jeremy spends more than he earns but in the process gains respect by his fellow doctors.
War is hard on everyone, financially and mentally. Deciding to get as high on the ladder as possible, Jeremy has a solid platform to start from.
Being wise about his decisions keeps him out of financial trouble. His skill with the needle gets him quite a few sessions at reconstructing the
faces of wounded soldiers.
1916
Five of these in the morning...
Drugs/pharmacy. Jeremy gets to work with the scales and mixes some ingredients. Out at town, Jeremy finds himself being a regular Casanova, which makes him well liked by the women. The career as a doctor fits Jeremy like a glove. The center of attention with nurses swooning around him. So far this lifestyle poses no danger to him.
1917
WAR ZONE
Sounds adventurous, but even a minor conflict is nasty business. War will always scar your body and soul.
Jeremy winds up in midst of the Empire´s "Jerusalem Operations".
1918
STILL AT WAR
At the age of 26, Lieutenant Carpenter, Surgeon of the British Empire´s Army, gets stable duty and learns how to ride.
When the stables are under attack, Carpenter escapes on an Arabian.
1919
LIFE IS LIFE
Ends with a...divorce.
AT SEA
The currents take Jeremy Carpenter to a new beginning. Life at sea is character building. At least you get blisters to show for.
Now, east or west, old chap?
Weather, weather, weather and shooting at gulls. Next port of call: Military training. The tine at sea lent Jeremy ample time to gain some small fortune.
Meeting the right people and staying out of trouble are good for business.
1920
IN THE ARMY NOW
Remember you´re expandable.
In training, Jeremy climbs the ranks and gets promoted to Captain then Major. All according to plan. He also increases his physique and skill with the scalpel.
1921
AIRSHIP
In the UK, airships R36 and R37 are completed.
Northern Ireland is created as a province within the UK.
Regarding Jeremy Carpenter little is known from this year.
1922-1923
Turning thirty puts things on the end.
Losing money and getting a habit. The army and jet set lifestyle have gotten Jeremy to look deeply into the bottle.
Surely regular cocktail hours and a few glasses of wine to each meal are just signs of sophistication.
Guns, explosives and alcohol never mix well.
Time to leave the life in uniform.
Moving to get some insight in the inner workings of ideology, Carpenter ends up in Chauri Chaura, India and sees the riot murder of a dozen policemen in a fire started by a mob. Non-violence might have violent repercussions is the lesson learned. While in the colony, Carpenter ends up with Malaria, bringing his health down to a per-military shape. He feels really weak by comparison and his flashing clear eyes have got a yellow tint. Most likely his good looks will be affected by a slight lapse of eye synchronization. The intake of alcohol instead of bad water surely saved his life. That´sthe story he goes with.
And that´s the philosophy he is sticking to. Better to drink what you know it is than drink a cup of germs.
In the aftermath of the Malaria sickness, Carpenter left India for the Eastern part of Morocco and ended up helping the French clearing out the Rif tribes under Abd el-Krim. Having trouble to keep his spot as Major in the British Army Carpenter took up a contract in the French Foreign Legion.
1924-1926
In the Legion, Carpenter climbs the ranks and soon finds out that war is always dirty. He stands two years of service then bails out to watch as Mussolini claims his god complex and assumes the role of dictator over Italy. As a bystander he is caught in a melee and gets his left arm snapped off in the fray. Leaving Italy and recuperating he returns to the Crown of the Empire, Carpenter puts on a different kind of uniform. At City Police, Wood Street he began to walk the streets unwinding from a life of war and misery.
He did get away without too many marks to show for - and with a monetary compensation that will keep his children wealthy.
1927-1928
PATROLLING LONDON TOWN
Spending the time off from work at Brixton Boxing, gives Carpenter a styrdy physique and some neat hooks.
This ends the background check on Jeremy Carpenter.
This mixture of fact and fiction make the building groundOPERATION: FALLEN REICH in reality was an
extremely secretive mission. The projects goals of
destabilizing Germany are actually not fictitious, but
are only part of the whole story.
In early 1937 Winston Churchill was
approached by Aleister Crowley, the latter had been a
British spy during the Great War. Crowley presented
proof that the Nazis leaders were actually beings from
another dimension. These beings called themselves
Fallen and were close to what we humans would define
as demons. Churchill summoned three reliable and
resourceful men; Brendan Bracken, Duncan Sandys and
Admiral Roger Keyes. Together they formed a plan to
gather information about the Nazis occult agenda and
find paranormal ways of obstructing it.
These four men started to discreetly recruit supervisors
that in turn could organize teams of agents. Each team
worked more or less alone reporting only to and receiving
orders from their supervisor. Many teams did little more
than research, but the so called field teams were sent out
on high risk investigation and assassination missions.
Some of these are famous, like the assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich, but most will never ever come to
common knowledge. Perhaps because they often failed.
In many ways the agents of OP:FR saved the world from
the domination of Fallen.
Small but decisive actions tipped the balance and the
information they gathered was invaluable when working
out tactics and research. The cost was obviously high and
many agents suffered terrible fates at the hands of the
ancient and evil.
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