Sample Characters - Mombasa
Sample characters for a Mombasa game - working for Hassan’s Emporium Of Wonders. Game rules here.
Esther Lusingu. Albino detective from Dar es Salaam. Avoids the sun. Wears headscarf and bulky robes. Devout Christian. Moves around a lot to evade witch doctors who want her legs, ears and russet-coloured hair. Half blind. Enormous glasses. Famously solved the Mystery of the Askari’s Trumpet and broke up the Oyster Bay ivory-smuggling ring. Antagonistic relationship with the colonial police.
STR 0 - DEX 0 - ACA 3 - TEC 2 - CHA 0 - CON 2
Specialties - criminology, law enforcement.
Wanjiku wa Mwangi. Kikuyu mechanic and chauffeur. Cheerful. Can fix anything. Always knows what’s going on. Has worked on the Uganda Railway and the Lake Victoria paddle steamers. Light-fingered. Can’t resist temptation. Moves on to next job before she can be blamed for passengers’ vanished valuables. Sends money to sisters in ancestral village at foot of Mount Kenya. Will return to get married some day.
STR 0 - DEX 2 - ACA 0 - TEC 3 - CHA 2 - CON 0
Specialties - picking pockets, engineering.
Deepinder Kaur. Coast trader. Dhow captain. Part-time ivory smuggler. Small. Prominent nose. Shouts a lot. Goes through crewmen quickly - sometimes travels alone. Knows every inch of shoreline between the Horn of Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. Hold full of cloth, tea, spices, candles, soap. Drives a hard bargain. Lends small amounts of money - debtors in every port. Carries Nagant revolver. Never struggles to collect.
STR 0 - DEX 2 - ACA 0 - TEC 2 - CHA 0 - CON 3
Specialties - seamanship, commerce.
Ismail Warsame. Somalian gun bearer. Works for big-game hunters on safari expeditions. Maintains weapons. Guards camp. Tracks wounded animals and finishes them off. Skins carcasses. Organisers porters. Backup shot in case the client misses. Occasional poet. High opinion of himself. Dhulbahante man - hates all other Somali clans. Brother killed by RAF bomber during Dervish War endgame in 1920. Sworn to revenge.
STR 2 - DEX 3 - ACA 0 - TEC 2 - CHA 0 - CON 0
Specialties - big-game hunting, gunplay.
Joseph Sikawa. Maasai faith healer. Raised in Great Rift Valley on diet of blood and milk. Joined King’s African Rifles. Fought in East Africa Campaign of WWI. Saw vision of God in eyes of dying Bavarian boy. Spent three years wandering veldt alone. Founded Church of Holy Jesus in tin shack on Nairobi outskirts. Authorities broke it up. Now itinerant street preacher w/ walking cane. Seven foot tall. Wears colourful cloth.
STR 3 - DEX 0 - ACA 2 - TEC 0 - CHA 2 - CON 0
Specialties - religion, close combat.
!Khwa. !Kung forager of the Namibian Kalahari. Led to civilisation by discovery of lost beer bottle. Thinks everything he sees is work of marvellous but crazy gods. Mistaken in Cape Town for Italian prince. Accidentally booked aboard round-the-world voyage. Saves heiress from bumbling pirates. Declines her hand in marriage when she admits she doesn’t know how to gather mongongo nuts. Now just trying to get home.
STR 2 - DEX 2 - ACA 0 - TEC 0 - CHA 3 - CON 0
Specialties - wilderness survival, blind luck.
