The final day of the #CharacterCreationChallenge, and I turn to an old stand-by, Call of Cthulhu (pre-7th Edition)
C.F. Pondswaite - Journalist
Height: 5'11" Weight 170 lbs Age 38
STR 11
CON 10
POW 12
CON 10
POW 12
DEX: 7
APP 11
SIZ 13
INT 13
EDU 17
Luck - 60
Idea - 65
Know - 85
HIT POINTS: 11
Sanity: 60
0 Damage Bonus
Skills: Fast Talk (65%), First Aid (46%), Jump (57%), Listen (75%) Own Language (99%), Persuade (75%), Pharmacy (32%), Photography (75%), Psychology (75%), Rifle (50%), Shotgun (45%), Throw (57%)
C.F. (Charles Flavian) Pondswaite Is neglectful writer and journalist, currently spending his days assembling the obituaries for the Arkham Gazette. A promising student at Miskatonic, he graduated in 1915, alternated between trying to write a novel, and getting fired from a half-dozen newspaper. When America entered the war, he was fired as a correspondent in Europe, went home just in time to get drafted and shipped back across the Atlantic. Post-war, he used his family's influence to get into any newspaper job he could,. Writing and investigation/research always came natural to him. Time management and meeting deadlines have always been the bane of his existence. He is susceptible to malapropisms or spoonerisms and is left-handed.
In last decade, the only job he wasn't fired from was as a correspondent in the Soviet Far East for Communist-sympathizing newspaper. Lucky for him, the propaganda literally wrote themselves (or were written by political officers for him.)
As he toils trying to find a higher purpose for the milquetoast of Arkham's dearly departed, he's reminded of a remote fishing village in the Tigilisky District. The locals shunned outsiders, were quite peculiar in the mannerisms, and the look of them was almost alien.
Pondswaite ponders if the folks in Tigilsky are of any relation to, or share the same sickness as those backwards fellows who have the "Innsmouth Look." It might be worth a trip for an engaging story...
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