Harvey looks up from his menu at the person who spoke, examining the professor for a few moments before responding. "I'm more of a red meat guy myself. Surf and Turf should be good I reckon'" he observes, jabbing a finger at his menu. He wasn't quite sure how he got sat at a table with these more 'civilized' types; he was no slob, but he worked with his hands for a living, and was generally a little 'rougher', and always felt clumsy in polite society. He sat in a clean ocean blue button up shirt, and looked presentable, but it was cotton, not silk he wore, and straight bourbon in his glass, not wine.
You'll have to forgive my Fox Pauses if I'm not too up on proper 1920 behaviour and lifestyle, never studied much history :)
Have we actually managed to sort out how our characters know each other yet? So far I believe we've connected Remy and Simon, and Harvey and Leonard, but not the two groups together or Chang
Heh, that could be interesting, but I'm struggling a bit to come up with a motivation for Harvey to be involved in the first place :p he normally avoids this sort of thing when possible. I guess as long as Leonard is decent at hiding his suspicions and has buddied up to Harvey in order to keep an eye on him then that could work.
Group Two is unfortunately a bit unorganized :p Leonard, what did you think about my suggestion below? (modified it slightly since I posted it)
Harvey Andrews wrote:
Leonard could perhaps have heard his name when the police were investigating the symbols carved into the street walker if whatever unseen force has been following him somehow linked Harvey to the killing?
No... Harvey's generally been avoiding the occult where possible :p He's certain that there's something following him however... he may have on occasion hired a private eye to try and find out what that is, with inconclusive or no results.
Hmm, actually maybe he could know Leonard? He overstayed in his previous job, perhaps whatever is stalking him caught up and broke into his place, or caused some other mysterious occurences in the last few months that forced the police to get involved and question Harvey, hell maybe he was linked to the prostitute's death :p Either way he wouldn't have left until he had finished the job and collected the fat completion bonus that allowed him to take this trip to London.
Mmm, Simon does seem like the most reasonable link, but still not quite sure how to tie us all together. Leonard could perhaps have heard his name when the police were investigating the symbols carved into the street walker if the police tried to consult with him.
The only thing I can think to connect Harvey to him is that perhaps while he was studying at Miskatonic that he spent some time looking into cults and met Harvey's parents? Harvey would likely not have been there at the time unless it was quite early on in Simon's career (he left home in his early teens).
Professeur, I have updated my profile to include you in it, part of which is spending some time in the US with you, which gives added opportunity for us to connect with Harvey (who I assume is American?). Were you planning to be in the US at the start of play?
Harvey just finished construction on his last job. He never likes to stay in one spot for long (6-12 months), and had well overstayed that this time, not liking to leave something unfinished... The feeling of something... watching had grown unbearable however, and so after his relief at completing the much delayed building, he took the first offer that came his way, which turned out to be an opportunity in London.
Sorry if I'm not being much help in linking people together, lemme review who's meant to be on my team and consider. I do see him having come from the US, but as stated above, Harvey doesn't settle down. Despite the frustration of having to work his way up from the bottom in a new location (his skills and strong references stand him in good stead) he finds that preferable to the anxiety he feels whenever he stays overlong in one place, something he is never quite able to explain.
Hey that all sounds fine with me, including the potential family relationship between Michael and Harvey :p Thinking second cousins or something; all Michael's likely to know of Harvey is that his parents ended up obtaining black sheep status when they got involved with one of them religious types and dropped off the radar.
As far as the nuts and bolts of this goes, will we be having two separate gameplay threads, or do we just have to be careful to only read posts for people on our team?
heh, I've heard about that sort of thing before (not with cthulu admittedly), but never tried it. Sounds like fun, I'm sure absolutely nothing can go wrong with this idea :p
I'm happy to wait a little longer, mostly because the next day and a half is chockablock full for me :p Unfortunately next week aint much better, so my posting may be a little erratic, hopefully only for the short term.
GM Gluttony wrote:
Let's see...
Harvey Andrews the construction foreman
Construction Foreman, and Former (non-mythos) cultist haunted by his past.
Hmm, that makes him sound much more exciting than he really is :p Hope to have fluff up by tomorrow night, sorry for delay.
Doesn't really change my skills at all actually, because I've still got the 16 in Int, and 17 in EDU. Hmm, apart from Dodge. Does mean he's slower and handsomer however :p
Where does that image in the OP come from GM? It's pretty wild!
I made it actually! Although I will admit that I borrowed many of the photoshop techniques from a handy little tutorial I found.
It's a pretty cool image :) I've always been jealous of other's artistic talents.
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Rules/stat gen question: The quickstart guide says that you can swap stats that use the same dice to roll (Dex and Str for instance), is your houserule in addition to being able to do that (what I've done), or replacing that rule? If the latter I will have to rejig some things.
Quickstart guide wrote:
Note, that before play begins, you may swap around any attributes which use the same dice to determine their value. In other words, you could swap any of the values for Strength, Constitution, Dexterity, Appearance or Power with each other. You could only swap Size and Intelligence with each other. Education remains static.
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Zouron, Education is 3d6+3, so you got 12 Edu instead of 9 :)
