Genni

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@YungTweak I'm sure she'll be a great influence on the Tackett girls, getting them into all manner of adventurous shenanigans.

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@YungTweak@Inkarnate Yay! MJ's got someone to discuss literature with (at least her special literature which she keeps hidden away from Papi) and her baby sister's got a girlfriend! :D

#662d91 isn't a great choice for Easy's speak though, it's a bit too dark against the background. Might I suggest you go for #cc66ff instead? It should show up a little better.

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We'd better get a good doctor soon, otherwise we might end up with someone like...

Amelie 'Matron' St Joan

Name: Amelie 'Matron' St Joan

Age: 63

Appearance:

Having lived a long and tough life, Matron has the complextion and character to show for it. Battered and wizened, the old crone's cold glare is often enough to stop even the most hot-blooded patient in their tracks and while her hands are twisted and mishaped with age they're just as tactile and dexterous as they ever were when they need to be. Her clothing likewise has seen better days, and the once fine grametns have become worn and faded over the years, and yet the stubborn old bat still clings to them with the same zeal as when she first received them.

Personality:

A thoroughly miserable and mean old spinster, Matron still hasn't forgiven the world for not delivering the rich, full and happy life she was promised as a small child. Instead she takes every opportunity to make those around her suffer as much as she has, and if it were not for her prestigious talents as a medical expert many would never give her the time of day.

Most of her healing skills come from age old remedies, poultices and nearly forgotten practices, since the hag has no time for the modern thinkers within her profession, much preferring the tried and true tecniques she's used for decades with moderate success. While some may consider her skills to be arachaic and unnecessarily painful for her patients, none can question their long-term effectiveness, even if it does mean they'll be screaming in pain for a few hours before salvation finally comes.

History:

Born in a town in France which technically no longer exists, Matron was raised by nuns after she was left as a baby on their doorstep mere days later. Brought up under harsh discipline, the girl soon became just as stern and singleminded as her guardians, although even they were offput by just how easily Amelie took up the reins of punishment when they were needed to correct the behaviour of her peers.

When conflict threatened to break out in the distant Orient the nuns immediately arranged to have their ward shipped out to assist in the aid efforts and soon the teenager found herself travelling halfway round the world surrounded by brave French soldiers. Over the following year Amelie saw many of those brave boys broken down under her medical care as she supported the medics and surgeons in their attempts to save the soldiers' lives, and in most cases failing after administering hours if not days of painful procedures on them. As she watched Amelie gained some sparse knowledge of the treatment, and with her interest enflammed began her lifelong studies of medicine.

Over the years the young woman travelled all over the globe, offering medical aid in the bloodiest of war zones to any who would help her expand her knowledge. As she gathered her training piece by piece, watching and learning myriad treatments and practices as she accepted those which saved lives and disgarded those which simply added suffering to the wounded, Amelie soon began to realise that most of her peers knew just as little as she did. From then on Amelie became far more vocal in her interactions, often contradicting her male superiors when she believed herself to be correct, with no thought to the consequences.

Given the weakness of her gender such behaviour was not to be tolerated, and soon Matron, as she came to be known, found doors closing in her face. Where once she was welcomed with open arms, now the aging woman found herself shipped off to more and more remote locations until finally it was clear that she was no longer to be welcomed anywhere. With nowhere else to turn, Amelie found herself carried to America by the winds of fate, following other French nationals settling in the Deep South. Attempting to live out a retirement of sorts, the old woman soon found herself acting as a local medicine woman, offering her brand of care and support to any whose need was too great or pockets too shallow to be able to find what they needed elsewhere.

Speech Color: 3399FF = "If you don't quieten down your screaming, I'll break the other leg for you as well."

Traits: Doctor (+3), Learned (+3), Reputable (+2), Bilingual: French, English, French Creole, German, Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin (+2), Ambidextrous (+1), Sharp-Sighted (+2), Weak (-1), Ugly (-1), Old (-3), Abrasive (-1), Foreign: French (-1), Proud (-2)

Total = +4

Inventory: Medical Journal, Surgeon's 'Tools' (collection of different sized scalpels, blades and saws), Pocket Bible (rarely used), Rosary Beads

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We are definitely still looking. I'd like a large cast.

@DeadbeatWalking

More meat for the grinder.

Speaking of ground meat, if our characters get turned, will that be the end of play or will we get to play as zombie characters trying to convert our former friends too?

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"Why didn't Benji and Mary seek them out when they fell on hard times if the man felt obligated enough to seek them out in the first place?"

@Sloth

As a WWI Vet during the Great Depression, especially an injured one, he'd have been struggling to feed himself let alone help other people. Benji and Mary might have known that, and wouldn't have wanted to impose on him with their own troubles.

A lot of Vets ended up setting up shanty towns in major cities, but this was improved in 1933 when the New Deal programme was rolled out by Roosevelt. The Vet could've recently come into a more secure income and deliberately come looking for Benji to help out his old friend's son, as he had promised on the man's death bed.

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@Sola It would make a lot of sense if your character was the war buddy who'd brought the dog tag home for Benji. If you were still thinking of making a deaf veteran, perhaps his dad saved you, giving his life in the same action which left you injured?

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Unless the Army sending the dog tags back to his family isn't something they did back then.

@Sloth

Dog tags during WWI were used to identify the dead. One was placed in the body's mouth and the other sent to the Quartermaster's office to record the death. Dog tags as sets were usually inherited from war survivors who brought both home with them after being demobilised.

While it's possible that Benji would have both of his father's dog tags, it's much more likely that he'd only have the Quartermaster's one, while the other would've been buried with his father. Even then, this would only have happened if either someone in the Quartermaster's office or someone from his father's platoon took the special effort to send or bring him the tag, since they weren't traditionally sent as standard practice.

Then again, since only just over 1% of American soldiers participating in WWI were killed, such a monumentally bad piece of luck might have prompted such special treatment from one of the father's war buddies.

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@Sloth If Benji has Dog Tags did they belong to his father, uncle, brother or other relation, or is he a deserter?

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My first stab at the rebellious farmer's daughter:

EDIT: Moved to Characters thread.

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Just a quick question about the Red Plague. You said that the turned "have about the same mental capacity as a chimpanzee."

Does this mean the average provincial redneck would actually get more intelligent once turned?

Seriously though, would this mean we're facing opponents who are tool using, self actualised individuals capable of communication and transference of skills within large social groups, as well as working together to solve problems and devise rudimentary tactics, such as laying traps or setting up ambushes?

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If we're setting the roleplay on a small family farm, how badly did the agricultural depression of the 1920s affect the family? Have they recently benefitted from the Agricultural Adjustment Act enacted by Rossevelt, or has the production limits set on their corn and cotton crops been more of a burden to their business?

How has the repeal of prohibition affected the farm? Was Farmer Tackett's basement only recently converted to the storage of liquor, or was he a bootlegger up until a year ago? Does he have a State approved license for the liquor, or is he selling it under the table?

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Historical context for the setting: History of Florida since 1900

A useful resource for anyone trying to come up with era correct character names: 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during 1910 - 1919