STR 50
CON 55
SIZ 60
DEX 50
APP 45
INT 50
POW 75
EDU 80
LUCK 45
Hit Points 11
Damage Bonus 0
Build 0
Move 8
Sanity 75
Magic 15
Occupation and Skills:
Occupation: Architect
Occupation Skills:
Accounting 50
Craft (Stonemasonry) 40
Bargain 70
English 50
Library Use 60
Persuade 40
Psychology 40
Reputation 50
Credit Rating 60
Architectural History 48
Personal Interest Skills:
Occult 25
Archaeology 20
History 25
Law 25
Ollie Vandermeer was born and raised in New York City, the child of a reasonably well-off family. From an early age, he always loved buildings. The taller, the better. He watched as the Singer Building, then the MetLife Tower became the tallest occupied building in the world.
His family got him into Columbia University, where he studied to become an architect. During his studies, he kept up knowledge of building materials, their strengths and weaknesses. He also sought out information about buildings all around the world. This led him to spend much of his spare time as a student assisting Prof. Farnwright in cataloguing and determining the function of archaeological buildings and foundations discovered by expeditions. On late nights, he sometimes feels like there's a connection between them, leaning on ideas like ley lines and feng shui. Stone circles like Stonehenge remind him of medicine wheels in the American Great Plains.
He was just finishing up his studies, walking back home for the day when he witnessed a fire on the 8th floor of a building. He stood in shock as he watched what became known as the Triangle Shirtwaist Disaster, watched people jump out of the building, stood helplessly as people burned within, as the building did nothing but serve as a charnel oven. He volunteered to pick through the aftermath, seeing how the structure survived, what could have been done differently, how people could have been saved.
And he has never trusted fire since. Not since that disaster. Not since seeing that figure crawling among them. Not since... no. Avoid the fire. Build strong.
He has his own practice now, smaller than more famous names, but still a solid shop well-known for designing with fire protection in mind. That's the one thing he never compromises on. He's also convinced that we'll be building taller from now on, and there's nothing stopping us from building an occupied structure that rises higher than a thousand feet!
Dark Secret:
Ollie feels convinced in the existence of a destructive entity he calls The Crawler In The Flames, something he glimpsed when witnessing the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. Furthermore, he believes there's a way to snare the foul demon within a structure made of the right material in the right location with the right size and layout. However, he dare not accept this belief too strongly within himself, nor would he ever tell anyone, because it is just too insane to contemplate.
