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“God designed man for work--work for his own sustenance; he who does not work shall not eat.”
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Henry
“God designed man for work--work for his own sustenance; he who does not work shall not eat.”
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Name
Henry Sebastian Tackett
Age
54
Appearance
Henry Tackett is the very model of the American dream -- He is just under six feet, with skin softly leathered by a lifetime of laboring in the sun. He is strong-armed and soft-spoken, with hair that has crept gracefully up his forehead, greying in a laurel around otherwise youthfully straw blonde hair. His mustache is kept trimmed just under his nostrils and on the line of his lip, while his hair is waxed backwards with pomade. Although the pictures of his youth show a strapping man in overalls and a wide hat no different than the farmhands he employs, he now mostly wears one of five suits, which are either yellow, blue, pink, white, or a slightly more bleached, higher quality white.
Personality
If farmer Tackett were to be described in a single word, it would be that he is cold. He was made cold by a father who required the work of at least three men to build up a farmstead, he was made colder when his wife gave birth to one daughter after another, and he was made colder after both of the murders he committed to keep them safe over their lives. Whatever warmth there is to be found in Henry is now limited to his quiet pride in his farm and family. Aside from his generally hard, stoic demeanor, there is little exceptional about Henry. He has a distaste for non-whites, citing them as lazy and violent, as well as Catholics and Jews, which he simply dislikes for their secular clannishness. His greatest joys are watching baseball games played by the farmhands, listening to baseball games on the radio, cold lemonade, and his wife Gertrude.
History
Henry Tackett was born on the Tackett Farmstead, in the basin he would be taught to wash dishes in four years later. His father would celebrate his seventh birthday by having him slaughter the Christmas pig, his tenth by having him break rocks for only half as long as he usually did, and his thirteenth by shaking his hand for the first time. By the time Henry was sixteen, he was loading and driving a wagon of produce to town to be scaled, sold, and shipped. By the time Henry was twenty, he was well-equipped for the task of burying his father in the frozen dirt after he was taken by a winter fever. Between his father's death and the current year, Henry has branched what was once a garden-based farm into a multi-faceted business, selling grain alcohol when it was illegal and corn when it was scarce. Now, Henry Tackett is five years older than his father when he had died, and five times as rich.
Speech Color
Wheat | #F5DEB3
Traits
Hardy: You have high endurance. (+1)
Racist: You do not get along with people of a specific race. (-2)
Local: You are knowledgeable of Florida's landscape, including towns and local shortcuts. (+1)
Old: You are elderly, with the decrease in stamina and memory that accompanies such a status. (-3)
Quiet: You make little noise, and are adept at sneaking around. (+2)
Sharp-Shooter: You have experience with at least one type of firearm. (+2)
Racist: You do not get along with people of a specific race. (-2)
Local: You are knowledgeable of Florida's landscape, including towns and local shortcuts. (+1)
Old: You are elderly, with the decrease in stamina and memory that accompanies such a status. (-3)
Quiet: You make little noise, and are adept at sneaking around. (+2)
Sharp-Shooter: You have experience with at least one type of firearm. (+2)
Inventory
Tackett Farmhouse Skeleton Key
1934 Ford V8 Closed Cab Pickup
Winchester Model 21 Shotgun
Colt Lightning Carbine
1934 Ford V8 Closed Cab Pickup
Winchester Model 21 Shotgun
Colt Lightning Carbine
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“If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.”
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Slim
“If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.”
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Name
Cecil "Step-Tap Slim" Jacques Delacroix II
Age
26
Appearance
For all the abuse his body has collected over three decades, Slim's charming mug has made it out relatively unscathed,
save for a few fortunately-healed scars that only seem to make him seem all the more swashbuckling. He has sahrp, squinting eyes and delicately symmetrical features offset by his toffee-brown skin and curly black hair. Slim, aside from being notably easy on the eyes, has two other striking features; He is the second-skinniest farmstead employed by the Tacketts, and he has one leg. Slim's right leg -- which earned him the additional monicker "Step-Tap" -- was removed just below the knee several years ago after being badly mangled in the explosion of a steam thresher. He wears a rudimentary prosthetic made of an iron and leather stump cap and a wooden chair leg. Slim has owned the same straw boater for years, though he periodically changes its ribbon. It is currently a dark red strip of silk.
save for a few fortunately-healed scars that only seem to make him seem all the more swashbuckling. He has sahrp, squinting eyes and delicately symmetrical features offset by his toffee-brown skin and curly black hair. Slim, aside from being notably easy on the eyes, has two other striking features; He is the second-skinniest farmstead employed by the Tacketts, and he has one leg. Slim's right leg -- which earned him the additional monicker "Step-Tap" -- was removed just below the knee several years ago after being badly mangled in the explosion of a steam thresher. He wears a rudimentary prosthetic made of an iron and leather stump cap and a wooden chair leg. Slim has owned the same straw boater for years, though he periodically changes its ribbon. It is currently a dark red strip of silk.
Personality
Slim comes across as charming, but not genuinely so; He is charming the way an upselling salesman or a riverboat gambler might be. He can tell how somebody wants to be complimented just by looking at them, and is quick with a joke or odd, occasional gift to keep himself in the favor of acquaintances. He can quickly pick up on the mood of a person or room and adjust it to fit his needs, and has more than once led festivities with his banjo.
Those who truly know Step-Tap Slim, who know, Cecil, know that his smiling mask is ultimately, just that. While not technically of the nefarious sort, his is certainly a mask of calculated actions. Slim knows that his disability affords him an easier life which, unchecked, could make him a target of the farmhands, the last thing he wishes to be. This need to establish friendships, combined with his long-term resentment for Farmer Tackett, has lead him to intentionally accrue a loyal retinue of friends and followers amongst the colored barn, as well even as having a few allies in the white barn.
Those who truly know Step-Tap Slim, who know, Cecil, know that his smiling mask is ultimately, just that. While not technically of the nefarious sort, his is certainly a mask of calculated actions. Slim knows that his disability affords him an easier life which, unchecked, could make him a target of the farmhands, the last thing he wishes to be. This need to establish friendships, combined with his long-term resentment for Farmer Tackett, has lead him to intentionally accrue a loyal retinue of friends and followers amongst the colored barn, as well even as having a few allies in the white barn.
History
Before Slim was a cripple virtuoso, he was a nappy-haired youth named Cecil who lived in a cypress shack by the bayou. Cecil's boyhood years were spent absorbing his people's local culture, namely through eating crawfish and learning the blues from his father, a local musician and fisherman. Cecil took to guitar quickly than his father before him, followed by learning the fiddle, mandolin, and ultimately, the claw-hammer banjo. While his instrumental training ranges through all things stringed, Cecil grew a love for the banjo moreso than any other instrument, making a name for himself in the local cajun community.
Ultimately, Cecil would find he was not born to live the life of a famous musician. The 1920's made Louisiana's corrupt rich richer and its poor poorer, causing Cecil to leave home and find employment as a musician for a riverboat tour aboard the Yellow Queen. His employment aboard the queen was considerably long for a musician, performing nine hour-long "grind shows" a day as vacationers rotated around the ship and grew drunker and more prone to requesting songs. Although the work was, in his opinion, worse than at the Tackett farmstead, he ultimately stayed aboard the Queen for the money he made gambling with the workers, which grew as his methods of cheating them became better. After an argument with the ship's captain over pay, Cecil ultimately shot dead both the Captain and his first mate, stealing the ship's vault and leaving Louisiana for Florida by way of train.
His ill-gotten gains would support a relatively lavish, alcohol-fueled period of homelessness before he required employment more stable than playing outside of stores for tips, which had essentially become panhandling by that point. He eventually found his way to the Tackett farmstead, where he spent his first five years like any other colored farmhand, working by day and playing his banjo at night. That was, of course, until the accident. Though most workers do not remember it, farmer Tackett once had a steam-powered wheat thresher behind the colored barn where there is now a line of troughs. Cecil -- Who by then had been long-since known as Slim -- was operating the machine when the engine combusted, severely burning the leg that had been standing on it. Slim's right leg was amputated and he was given a month's wages in advance to "vacation", though the issue of his usefulness was looming closer and closer as he healed. Ultimately, as the explosion was farmer Tackett's fault and he could not fire Cecil in good conscience, his individual workload became smaller chores that had been done by a few of the older men and women at the farm.
Slim, who was now Step-Tap Slim for the distinctive sound of his footsteps in the barn's wooden floors, was from then on charged with feeding the chickens and closing their coops, sweeping the farmer's porch, painting shutters, and so on.
Ultimately, Cecil would find he was not born to live the life of a famous musician. The 1920's made Louisiana's corrupt rich richer and its poor poorer, causing Cecil to leave home and find employment as a musician for a riverboat tour aboard the Yellow Queen. His employment aboard the queen was considerably long for a musician, performing nine hour-long "grind shows" a day as vacationers rotated around the ship and grew drunker and more prone to requesting songs. Although the work was, in his opinion, worse than at the Tackett farmstead, he ultimately stayed aboard the Queen for the money he made gambling with the workers, which grew as his methods of cheating them became better. After an argument with the ship's captain over pay, Cecil ultimately shot dead both the Captain and his first mate, stealing the ship's vault and leaving Louisiana for Florida by way of train.
His ill-gotten gains would support a relatively lavish, alcohol-fueled period of homelessness before he required employment more stable than playing outside of stores for tips, which had essentially become panhandling by that point. He eventually found his way to the Tackett farmstead, where he spent his first five years like any other colored farmhand, working by day and playing his banjo at night. That was, of course, until the accident. Though most workers do not remember it, farmer Tackett once had a steam-powered wheat thresher behind the colored barn where there is now a line of troughs. Cecil -- Who by then had been long-since known as Slim -- was operating the machine when the engine combusted, severely burning the leg that had been standing on it. Slim's right leg was amputated and he was given a month's wages in advance to "vacation", though the issue of his usefulness was looming closer and closer as he healed. Ultimately, as the explosion was farmer Tackett's fault and he could not fire Cecil in good conscience, his individual workload became smaller chores that had been done by a few of the older men and women at the farm.
Slim, who was now Step-Tap Slim for the distinctive sound of his footsteps in the barn's wooden floors, was from then on charged with feeding the chickens and closing their coops, sweeping the farmer's porch, painting shutters, and so on.
Speech Color
Firebrick | #1E90FF
Traits
Clean-Cut: You are attractive. (+2)
Maimed: You are missing a limb. (-4)
Slow: You cannot move quickly. (-2)
Master Musician: You have some particular talent in which you are an absolute expert. (+5)
Trilingual: You speak more than two languages fluently. (English, Louisiana Creole,
Spanish)(+3)
Maimed: You are missing a limb. (-4)
Slow: You cannot move quickly. (-2)
Master Musician: You have some particular talent in which you are an absolute expert. (+5)
Trilingual: You speak more than two languages fluently. (English, Louisiana Creole,
Spanish)(+3)
Inventory
Straw Boater
1929 Gibson TB-1 Banjo
Slapjack
X2 Dice
X2 Dice (Loaded)
1929 Gibson TB-1 Banjo
Slapjack
X2 Dice
X2 Dice (Loaded)
