[CHAR] The Minds of the Living

[Ulstermann]

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[Blue Demon]

Jessica Bishop

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_{Jessica is tall and skinny. While being slender, she's fit, which means she has nearly no butt to speak of and she's flat in front. Jessica is either seen in her socializing scene, decked out in jewels and the finest clothes. Or in "work" clothes. Which are usually ratty jeans and a t-shirt.}

Age: A woman never tells~

Faction: Unaligned

Bio: Jessica is a little bit of a split personality to those who don't really know her. On one hand she is a socialite, a very social butterfly and gossip. Always chatting and holding great parties. She drinks a fair amount and likes her men to be lookers. Most of the time in the wealthy circles, she acts like she really doesn't know anything. Beautiful, but dumb. Outside of these circles, Kim is smart. She isn't above double crossing or using people to get what she wants. She has few friends, only two. She loves pretty things and will do most anything to obtain them. She has also been known to be a little unhealthy in her fixations.

Born to rich parents, Jessica grew up spoiled. When Jessica was younger her parents would leave her at their mansion in New York with a nanny. Her nanny gave little Jessica whatever she wanted. As she grew up she began to go to school. There she made few friends. Those that she did get along with, were barely tolerable and not really friends. They were often mean and nasty to each other, constantly putting each other down about how fat they were or ugly. When Jessica was old enough she convinced her parents to let her come with them on business meetings.

Jessica still remembers the first time she had been told no. She doesn't remember why they were there but she remembers the painting. A gorgeous woman in white. It was the Lady Hamilton as Circe by George Romney in 1782. How little Jessica wanted the painting. She told her parents to buy it and told "no". The shock was never nearly the end of Jessica. But it didn't get the better of her. From that point on Jessica fixated on the painting.

Jessica's true first friend was found on a business trip to shanghai. The younger Chinese girl, Wang Mei Lin, didn't speak a word of English, not did Jessica speak a word of Cantonese. Jessica went home that night and demanded to learn how to speak Cantonese. Her parents did her one better and taught her both Cantonese and Mandarin at the same time. By the time Jessica was in her late teens she was pretty much fluent in the two languages.

Jessica also started to learn German on her own when she decided she'd be the one to find the treasure the Nazi's stole in WWII. When she came into her parents money after their deaths when she was twenty, she tried to buy the painting that she had coveted nearly her entire life. When that failed, she turned to theft. Not of the painting, but other ones. From private collectors, from crooks, from their hiding places in the world. She stole whatever struck her fancy and sold the rest to fund her enterprise.

Jessica sometimes returns to the Tate in London to visit the painting when it goes on display. However she leaves it alone. Once, Mei Lin asked Jessica why, and all she received as an answer was "because that's how it must be". Mei Lin assists Jessica on her escapades. To the world at large Mei Lin is an Asian oddity. There is even gossip that Mei Lin and Jessica are lovers. The truth is unconfirmed.

Also assisting Jessica is Devin, a computer geek. Jessica slept with him in college and while the two are no longer together, they are still good friends.

When Jessica turned twenty three she dropped out of college and began to set herself up as a full time thief. She predominately steals artwork, though she does keep a few pieces. She has also been known to freelance for certain individuals if the job is interesting and the price is right. However, to the public Jessica is a bimbo who tosses extravagant parties and is blowing through her parent's money.

Weaponry: Jessica carries a hand gun, Glock 19 Gen4 (9mm Luger). She also carries mace, a ceramic blade, a two combat knifes.

Equipment: Jessica's equipment varies on her type of mission. If she's infiltrating a party for information she wouldn't bring things like work boots or climbing rope. Same goes for if she's spelunking, she wouldn't wear heels and a pretty dress. Being independently wealthy helps her get her hands on anything she needs no matter where she is in the world.

[Ulstermann]

Name: Tom Carson

Age: 39

Faction: Independent 

Bio: 

Tom Carson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to a British Army sergeant and his wife. Growing up in the turbulent political climate of the Troubles in 1980's Belfast left it's mark on young Tom, who came to hate both sides of the sectarian conflict and their extremism even more. He took refuge in history books, tales of epic journeys and mighty struggles taking him far from the fear and uncertainty of his dreary and grey homeland. 

He joined the British Army's officer corps as soon as humanly possible, his only wish to get as far as possible from where he had grown up, and served in the Royal Ulster Rifles for the next years. He saw fierce combat in both Iraq an Afghanistan, coming to the conclusion that the fanatics he fought here were little different from the IRA or UVF back home. 

By the time he returned to the UK he was 38, a Captain distinguished by his bravery in combat and looking like he had a glittering career ahead of him in the army. But something in Carson had died out there in the Middle East, his idealism given way to cynicism. He quit the army, wandering aimlessly for the next couple of months. Then one day he saw a history book written by one of his superiors on the shelves of a supermarket, and decided to try his hand at that. Using his love for history and his credentials as a former British serviceman he has obtained an invitation from the records department of Berlin to come and study the actions of Germany's Army Group North in the USSR. Little does he know what he will find there.

Equipment: Walther PPK handgun as standard, everything else varies.

[Simple Unicycle]

Donald Richardson

Name: Donald 'Don' Richardson

Appearance: A picture of Don in his tent at the dig site, writing in his notes. It was taken moments before the Talon Corp. raided their camp.

Age: 24

Faction: Independant

Personality: Don is a curious and an adventurous fellow, which oftentimes leads him to dangerous situations which he believes makes the adventure all the more fun. He is rather sarcastic and is usually called a smartass, due to his wisecracking at even the most serious situations. Being a Harvard graduate, he is obviously cunning and intelligent, but doesn't think of himself as such.

Bio: Not much can be said about Don's early life. He learned to walk, talk, was potty-trained, and all the stuff little kids should know how to do. When he was 7, he joined Cub Scouts, and they took a trip to a large series of caves somewhere in Arizona. All the scouts were given flashlights as they went through, but Don got lost. He was eventually found, but not because the group went looking for him; he found his way to the surface himself. From that moment on, Don wanted to live a life of thrills and danger, travelling the world and discovering all he could.

At 14, his family took a trip to the Amazon and Don, of course, went exploring himself. He accidentally fell into a small opening, and tarantulas began to crawl all over him, providing him with a newfound fear of spiders. At 18, Don graduated high school and went to Harvard, studying archaeology. At 23, he graduated.

He recently went on an expedition to Germany, and, during an excavation, his group found something: a part of the coordinates to Nazi's cache of technology and other treasures. Though the group didn't know what it was at first, they would soon find out when they were raided by Talon Corp. members. Don, being the only person who didn't resist them, was spared but captured.

They've had him ever since, and plan to keep him until they no longer need him, but he has other plans...

Weaponry: None following his capture. He prefers semi-auto pistols, however.
Equipment: Some excavating tools, notes on the progress of the dig, and, the most important of all, a small scrap of paper with the unfinished coordinates of the Nazi cache on it (this is the reason he was captured, of course). The strange this is, he STILL doesn't know what the coordinates are.