[CHAR] Call of Cthulhu: Sea of Nightmares

[Horrid]

Basic information:
Name: Odette Langley
Age: 31
Profession: Waitress/Cook
Useful skills:

• Hardy - She's no stranger to an honest day's work. Odette is able to slog with the best of them, even if she isn't as experienced in some areas.
• Cooking - Whilst waiting tables is her main profession, Odette is not unused to being called into the back for a shift of manning the fryer. She can whip up and egg-salad sandwich or a salsbury steak with the best of them.
• Willpower - Years of working at the diner have given Odette the necessary gusto and strength of will to stand up to pretty much any rowdy customer or disgruntled manager. She's hardier than most in terms of emotion and mentality.
• Knife-work - Odette prides herself on being able to wow her patrons with her fancy knife-work in the kitchen. Cutting, throwing, dicing, self-defence. She can do it all, but that isn't that much use if the assailant isn't exactly earthly.

Unskilled in:

• Firearm Use - Odette has fired a gun once, maybe twice. She is not familiar with the use of such a weapon. She could learn if the situation demanded it, but otherwise she has no clue.
• Navigation - Odette isn't the best with directions, or the remembering of directions. She is very prone to getting lost and arguing over misremembered geographical features. Was it left at the hollow stump, or right?
• Observation - Working a 9-5 slog has left Odette a bit destitute in the area of observation and finer details. She is not a woman to sweat the small stuff, and as such can suffer when it comes to those skills being needed.
• Subtlety - Whilst she can keep a secret, when questioned or quizzed Odette finds it hard not to give away that she is lying. She is an honest woman, but this can sometimes throw her into the fire.

Appearance:
Height: 5'9".
Weight: 140lbs.
Eye color: Odette's eyes are green, with small flecks of gold.
Hair color: Her hair is black and dull, like a shadow.
Skin color: Peppered with freckles, fair but slightly tanned.
Description: Odette is a caucasian woman of English and American descent. She has gotten a bit chubby in recent years, but it is plain to see that she has some muscle to her pear shaped figure. She could fit the profile of an active mother, if she had any kids. Her hair is curly, usually up in a ponytail. She has a slightly upturned nose, a round face and eyes that seem a little bit too big. Her lips are rather soft, and her teeth are straight and white. The best way to describe her would be 'warm'.

Personality:
Interactions with others: She regards strangers with friendliness, giving them the benefit of the doubt. This can be a front for thinly-veiled suspicion, but it is easily turned over upon learning what a person is made of.
Likes: Honesty, kindness, conversation, music, children, flowers, the sea.
Dislikes: Liars, criminals, the upper class, the elderly, extremism.
Fears: Death, Aging, Loneliness, Irrelevance, Drowning.
Aspirations/goals: To make a name for herself, to start a family, to live happily and to live safely. She is not a very complicated woman, nor is she a very ambitious one. Odette's only want is to make an impression that her children can follow into a better life. She doesn't want her family to be known for waiting tables and nothing else.
Mental state: Odette is stable enough for a middle-aged woman with no children. Average.

Equipment list:

• Pocketbook.
• Pencil.
• Flashlight.
• Switchblade.
• Cigarettes.
• Lighter.

[Austronaut]

Basic information:
Name: Mona Di Luccio
Age: 22
Profession: Artist
Useful skills:

Attention to Detail – Mona’s artistic talent borders on the prodigious. She is able to capture a scene at a glance and recreate it in charcoal or oil to the smallest detail.

Fit – Mona keeps herself in excellent shape. She spent her childhood hiking in the alps and is a regular swimmer.

Languages – Classically educated Mona can speak English, Greek, Latin, French and Spanish as well as her native Italian.

Smooth Talker – Mona is capable of being very adept socially. She manages to make people like her despite themselves. She is able to craft a convincing lie as well as ingratiate herself.

Unskilled in:

Self Control – Mona is a passionate an impulsive girl who rarely thinks her decisions through.

Survival – Raised in Milan and having only recently come to North Carolina Mona knows that food comes from the general store.

Modesty – Certain stereotypes about Mediterranean’s seem to be personified in Mona. She has yet to adjust to the more stayed pace of life in rural America.

Self Knowledge – Mona equates her youthful vitality with invincibility.

Appearance:
Height: 5’6
Weight: 130 lb
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Black
Skin color: White
Description: A small lithe woman with a mischievous smile. Mona is slowly trading in the coltishness of youth for softer proportions of adulthood.

Personality:
Interactions with others: Mona is friendly and gregarious and is often excited to meet new people and see new places. She secretly regards Americans as uncultured and uncouth but chooses to view this as endearing. She has a sunny smile which she uses often.
Likes: Art, music, poetry, men, the finer things in life
Dislikes: Fascists, rudeness, provincialism, boredom
Fears: Rats, obscurity, being trapped in rural isolation.
Aspirations/goals: To become a famous artist and travel the world.

Mental State: Mona is slightly unbalanced, she has been tying for years to paint a dream she once had of a great underwater city but cannot ever seem to get the geometry to work correctly.

Equipment list:

Sketch pad
Pencils
Charcoal
Pistol
Wine
Make up

[culot]

Basic information:
Name: Harold Campbell
Age: 49
Profession: Mechanic. Owns and operates his own repair shop, assisted by his two oldest sons.
Useful skills:

• auto repair: He has a natural aptitude for understanding machinery. Most of his work is with automobiles, but when more relevant experts are unavailable or too costly he occasionally secures work on boats and industrial machinery.
• driving: An amateur racing driver in his younger days, Harold has experience keeping the cars of the day in one piece and moving forward even at high velocity, and in less-than-perfect driving conditions.
• modest ability with firearms: cultural familiarity, as he grew up in the rural South. Some hunting and trapshooting experience with rifles but no serious firearms training and scant experience with pistols.
• conversation: friendly and likes to talk. Tries to resolve conflicts verbally.

Unskilled in:

• combat (esp. hand-to-hand): Harold is a small guy, and he learned long ago not to rely on his fists to solve problems. No brawling or melee weapon experience.
• managing responsibilities: Somewhat childish in this regard, Harold tends to shirk responsibilities, especially with regards to finances. His auto-repair business is suffering for this reason, although continued demand for his services is keeping the place afloat for now.
• conflict resolution: Harold is nonconfrontational in most circumstances. Additionally, despite his outgoing nature he is not especially persuasive.
• athletics: Not a fast or long-distance runner, not especially strong, has mild chronic foot pain that precludes vigorous exertion.

Appearance
Height: 5'7"
Weight: 135
Eye color: Brown
Hair color: Brown
Skin color: White
Description: Harold Campbell is short but wiry, made resilient through a life of physical labor. His skin is brown and leathery, and his hands and arms bear the scars of a tradesman: the pedigree of decades spent repairing automobiles. He feels lucky to have retained all of his fingers through years of accidents large and small, but residual pain from a crushed foot ten years ago gives him trouble in the mornings and on cold days. His hair is not yet gray, but it will be soon. He is a smoker.

Personality: He is naturally gregarious and enjoys the interpersonal as well as the technical aspects of his work. A hardscrabble life has made him cautious, but he is often less suspicious of strangers than would be wise. He avoids conflict whenever possible. He treasures his family above all else, but his inability to manage money and frequent disinclination to discipline his children has led to resentment between him and his wife Louise. Harold holds hard work to be the highest of virtues, and he is proud that all of his children held jobs from a young age. He is moderately religious. Technology fascinates him, and he spends his little free time tinkering with various mechanical projects, but the rapid technological progress in the modern world is beginning to outpace and concern him. Harold prefers to believe that most people are fundamentally good, despite numerous disappointments and cases to the contrary over the years.
Likes: People, tinkering, giving advice, going to church, FDR, listening to the radio
Dislikes: Responsibility, dealing with finances, interpersonal conflict
Fears: old age, the crumbling of his marriage, vulnerability, going to the dentist
Aspirations/goals: To see his children live a more prosperous life than his own; to open a second auto shop; to buy his own tow truck
Family:

• wife Louise (48)
• sons Walter (28), Roy (26), Edward (19)
• daughters Dorothy (25), Josephine (20), Mary (11)

Mental state: Normal

Equipment list:

• pack of cigarettes
• lighter
• pair of heavy-duty workman's gloves
• Colt Model 1903 Pocket Hammerless pistol, issue year 1905, fully loaded with 8 .32 ACP rounds
• 30 spare .32 ACP rounds
• deerskin jacket, sturdy but well-loved
• small notebook and pencil
• miniature copy of the New Testament, King James version. A small family photo from about ten years ago is tucked between the pages.
• wallet containing $16.54 in small bills and coins
• canteen containing one day's worth of water
• three days' worth of beef jerky