Sample Characters - Sydney
Sample characters for a Sydney game - working for Dr. Crabbe. Game rules here.
Billy Chang, sniper. Born in central Queensland to a nurse from Staffordshire and a drover from Shanghai. Got work as a cane cutter and stockman. Mined gold outside Cooktown. Avid cricketer, kangaroo hunter, marksman. Member in good standing of the Proserpine Rifle Club. Killed three hundred Turks at Gallipoli, partnering with spotter Ion Idriess - known to his mates as “the Assassin.” Black moustache. Goatee.
STR 2 - DEX 3 - ACA 0 - TEC 2 - CHA 0 - CON 0
Specialties - stealth, gunplay.
Dexter Jackson, dockworker. Born on a railway fettler’s camp thirty miles outside Darwin to an Irish tin miner and Kungurakan seamstress. Worked in blacksmiths’ shops and cattle stations. Travelled to Sydney during the war - got involved with the Waterside Workers’ Federation. Beat up by coppers in the 1917 general strike. Good negotiator. Sends money from odd jobs to the union Widows & Orphans Fund.
STR 3 - DEX 0 - ACA 0 - TEC 0 - CHA 2 - CON 2
Specialties - trade unions, rousing the mob.
Tom Solomon, harpoonist. Born into the Solomon whaling family of Eden, on the shores of Twofold Bay, known for their co-operation with orcas. Mother a Yuin fisherwoman. Always gets his Jewish holidays mixed up. Knows everything there is to know about the sea. Worked for a time on the Norwegian factory ship Hektoria in the Southern Ocean - doesn’t like the new grenade harpoons. Whimsical. Unsympathetic.
STR 2 - DEX 3 - ACA 2 - TEC 0 - CHA 0 - CON 0
Specialties - throwing things, matters oceanic.
Shirley Duncan, naturalist. Daughter of Methodist missionaries. Raised among Korowai cannibals in a sweltering hut on the coast of Dutch New Guinea. Endlessly fascinated by the marvels of the modern world. Denies eating her first husband - insists he fell off a boat. Uncomfortable in cities or in clothes. Botany degree from the University of Queensland - goes off on expeditions every chance she gets.
STR 0 - DEX 2 - ACA 3 - TEC 0 - CHA 2 - CON 0
Specialties - life sciences, religion.
Myrtle Mortimer, magician. Grand-daughter of the Great Wizard Jacobs, who delighted crowds on the Victoria goldfields until his mysterious disappearance from a locked Ballarat hotel room in 1869. Has inherited his incomplete journal. Regular at Weirdo’s Superior Magic in the Piccadilly Arcade on Pitt Street. Desperately in love with the Wangaratta escape artist Harry Levantini, who’s happily married with two kids.
STR 0 - DEX 2 - ACA 0 - TEC 3 - CHA 2 - CON 0
Specialties - stage magic, sleight of hand.
Prudence Starling, socialite and amateur detective. Technically a viscountess. Fled London after a scandal involving a diamond necklace and a cabinet undersecretary. Cocaine habit. Tells self-aggrandising lies - claims to have grown up poor, modelled nude for Picasso, staged a daring breakout from a Turkish prison. Performatively horny. Made headlines a while ago for catching the Yarra Ripper - hasn’t done much since.
STR 0 - DEX 0 - ACA 2 - TEC 0 - CHA 2 - CON 3
Specialties - forensic science, the wealthy elite.
