| Full Name |
Humble Apothocary and Ronin Samurai |
About Chang Caine
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6, Spirit d8, Strength d4, Vigor d4
Pace: 6, Parry: 5, Toughness: 5, Charisma: 3, Sanity: 5, Corruption 0
Languages: English, Japanese
Skills:
Fighting [dice]1d10[/dice] Wild fighting [dice]1d6[/dice]
Healing [dice]1d8[/dice] Wild healing [dice]1d6[/dice]
Knowledge (herbalism/Eastern apothecary) [dice]1d8[/dice] Wild knowledge [dice]1d6[/dice]
Notice [dice]1d8[/dice] wild notice [dice]1d6[/dice]
Stealth [dice]1d10[/dice] Wild stealth [dice]1d6[/dice]
Streetwise [dice]1d6[/dice] wild streetwise [dice]1d6[/dice]
Hindrances: Cautious, outsider, quirk
Edges: Acrobat, Healer, Quick Draw
Gear: Katana Str +d10, reinforced leather trench coat, hat, and pouch (medical bag), a small puzzle-box, a pouch of herbs, compotes and bandages, loose leaf tea
Apothacary shop (actually just a room he rents above an actual store): contains traditional puzzle boxes and tools for creating more, also has various tools, herbs, and distillations, as well as some scrolls and other texts
Hinderances
Cautious (Minor): Character is overly careful
Outsider (Minor): –2 Charisma, treated badly by those of the more dominant society
Quirk (Minor): The character has some minor but persistent foible, such as bragging, elitism, or the pursuit of fame
Edges:
Acrobat* (N, A d8, St d6): +2 to Agility tricks; +1 Parry if unencumbered
Healer (N, Sp d8): +2 to all Healing rolls and the healing power if applicable.
Quick Draw (N, A d8): May automatically draw weapon as a free action
Defining interests: Chang spends much of his free time, practicing his swordsmanship, crafting small puzzle boxes and Bokken for students, practicing calligraphy, teaching himself the flute, drying and brewing teas and hosting traditional tea ceremonies in his abode, if he had the materials he would begin the process of crafting katana.
Contacts:
Inspector Barrington of Scotland Yard
The spice shop of al-Sayed, on Ardour Street, rare customer
A note on personality...Chang very much takes his time answering questions and sometimes will even forget what the question was in the first place.
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In the history section below substitute English for American and London for New York....
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STR 13
CON 15
SIZ 16
INT 10
POW 14
DEX 12
APP 11
EDU 16
Idea 50
Knowledge 80
Luck 70
Magic points 14
SAN 70
HP 15
Damage Bonus: +1d4
Weapons:
Fist/Punch %, damage 1d3+1d4
Katana/Sword 1D8+1+1d4
Bokken 1D6+1d4
Armor: Reinforced leather trench coat
Skills: 240
Accounting 10%
Art:
-Calligraphy 5%
-tea ceremony 5%
Bargain 5%
Climb (40+10) 50%
Conceal (15+15) 30%
Dodge (20+30) 50%,
Drive auto 20%
Hide 10%
Jump (25+10) 35%,
Listen (25+%) 25%
Martial arts (1+49) 50%
Medicine (Eastern) herbalism & acupuncture (5+20) 25%
Other language (English) (1%+39) 40%
Own language (Japanese) 80%
Sneak (10+21) 31%
Spot hidden 25%
Sword/bokken (10+50) 60%
Firearms handgun 20%
Income 10
Occupation: Herbalist; Samurai (martial artist): Investigator
Education: Bushido, Kenjutsu meaning "the method, or technique, of the sword."
Birthplace: Tokyo
Birthdate: August 14, 1900
Residence: New York
Chang Caine was the illegitimate son of a Western diplomat in Japan during the Meiji Restoration (1866-1868), who befriended the Samurai during the Satsuma Rebellion (1877). In Japan his father met his mother and resulted in the birth of their only son who stayed in Japan with his mother until he was old enough to move to the United States and look for his father. His father was re-assigned duty stations and left Chang and his mother alone in 1903, though he sent letters and financial support for many years to follow.
From an early age, friends of his father and former samurai (now police officers) taught him swordsmanship and the unarmed combat style of the Samurai. Chang wondered about his father and hoped one day to find him in New York.
In 1919, on the event of his 18th birthday, Chang decided to go and find his father, with a few copies of letters and a photograph of his father and mother.
In 1921, Chang found his father, and was welcomed secretly by the man, but publicly was de-rided as a problem and a bastard. Chang’s father had married a woman other than his mother and she could not bear to look upon him, nor was he accepted by his half-siblings.
Chang spent some time with his father learning what he could from him and informing him that his friends had discharged their duties in teaching him Bushido. The re-union was short lived however as Chang’s father died unexpectedly in 1923.
In 1924 Chang opened a small shop as a herbalist in the region of New York that would eventually become known as China Town. While working as an herbalist he was asked to assist with a number of strange cases, one in particular of a person reporting he awakened in the body of a corpse.*
*see MONOPHOBIA: A FEAR OF SOLITUDE
AN OPUSCULE OF ADVENTURES FOR LONE INVESTIGATORS IN
THE WORLD OF CHAOSIUM’S CALL OF CTHULHU™
This lead to another adventure in the haunted house which leads him to conclude that evil is an actual force within the universe.
Quirks:
Carries around an assortment of herbs of various restorative powers
Often performs kata when he is thinking or distracted.
Has a cane that is actually a Bokken or practice sword he can utilize to good effect.
Dislikes firearms as a means of perfecting the self.
Speaks slowly and deliberately, often will wait and then ask “What was your question?”
Sword 1D8+1+1d4
Bokken 1D6+1d4
Notes and stuff:
At the cemetery
Unlike the pub, the cemetery is quite deserted on a dreary late afternoon. You quickly discover two new gravestones.
Lydia Perkins; 1904-1925; A Loving a Daughter Taken too Soon
George Osgood; 1874-1925; Husband, Father, Friend, Farmer
Speaking to the priest
George Osgood, one of our local farmers and a schoolgirl Miss Lydia Perkins were killed on consecutive nights. It seems like a large wolf must have come down from the hills. On the third night, wheelwright Harold Short was nearly killed but managed to drive off the grisly creature using a flaming torch. Then later that night Constable Tumwell, shot and almost certainly killed the beast.
