DONOVAN BAILEY
Curious Investigative Journalist
ABILITY SCORES:
STR 12
CON 15
DEX 16
POW 16
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Luck 80
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San 80
APP 16
SIZ 11
INT 15
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Idea 75
EDU 19
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Know 95
Damage Bonus +0
HP 19
MP 16
San Pts 80
PERSONAL DETAILS
Age 35
Racial Origin Caucasian
Nationality American
Education Bachelors Arts (English) Columbia Univ, Master's Arts (English Lit) Boston Univ, Master's Arts (Ancient History) Boston Univ
Height 5'11"
Weight 180lbs
Hair Black
Eyes Blue
SKILLS
Ancient Egyptian 75%
Anthropology 20%
Archaeology 25%
English (Native) 95%
Fast Talk 75%
Greek 60%
History 75%
Library Use 75%
Listen 40%
Occult 31%
Persuade 75%
Photography 42%
Psychology 45%
Spot Hidden 40%
WEALTH & EQUIPMENT
Annual Income $10,000
Assets $50,000
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$5,000 is banked
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$5,000 is in stocks and bonds.
BACKGROUND
Donovan "Donnie" Bailey was born in New York City, a stockbroker's son, and spent most of his young adult life either in New York City, Long Island, or at the family's estate in Birmingham, Vermont. Donnie followed in his father's footsteps and went to Columbia University, where he first majored in economics. The thought was that Donnie would go into the brokerage business, like his father. Midway through his sophomore year, however, Donnie had a change of heart. Donnie fell in love with the humanities: art, music, history, and literatire. He imagined himself a professor of antiquities, or perhaps a great author. Much to his family's chagrin and embarassment, Donnie graduated Columbia with a degree in English. He left New York City with a job offer as a staff writer at the Boston Globe.
In Boston, Donnie rose in the ranks at the Globe and also married Eleanor Ruth, a distant relation to the baseball star, Babe Ruth. Donnie was sure to find his measure of fame and fortune as a journalist. He added a heavy school workload, attending Boston University. he attained two master's degrees, one in English Lit and one in Ancient History. Donnie dreamed of traveling to Egypt and Greece and investigating the ruins there. But then, fate took its turn. Eleanor, pregnant with the couple's child, died in a car accident on the way to the hospital. Despondent, Donnie took the loss very hard. His work suffered and he took to the bottle. Within six months, Donnie was fired from the Boston Globe and was on a downward spiral to oblivion.
It was during a typical drunken binge that Donnie found himself in an alley in downtown Boston. In a trashcan, Donnie found a half-burnt copy of some book in German. The book made Donnie curious; its cover was a fine leather and the face of it bore gothic lettering. Donnie had seen books like this before - not in back-alley trashcans, but in some of the great libraries of Europe.
Despite not knowing a word of German, Donnie was somehow intrigued with the book. He took it back to his dingy apartment and spent hours with a German - English dictionary, trying to decipher this strange book's contents. What Donnie uncovered was something fantastic and hard to believe. Donnie understood this work to be of the occult, of strange groups that worshipped heretical deities unknown to modern man. Donnie decided that he had found his life's true calling - to learn more of these unknown cults and bring that knowledge into the light.
Recently, Donnie came into the possession of his great-uncle Lawrence's estate. The old man, a confirmed bachelor until the end, had no heirs and so, his estate was passed down to his nephew, Donovan Bailey. Lawrence Bailey was, like Donnie, a patron of the arts and interested in languages and history. Lawrence collected a great number of books and artifacts during his lifetime and Donnie has spent a great deal of time perusing the old books and cataloging the treasures left behind. One of the books that Donnie found was by the author, Jackson Elias, an acquaintence from Columbia. Donnie was rather astonished to find that Elias had a similar interest in the occult. Donnie began writing letters to Elias and they have corresponded for about a year now.
