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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barendd Nobeard" data-source="post: 3423237" data-attributes="member: 960">Croydon GlenisterCroydon GlenisterMale Soldier 4 Offensive OptionHeight: 5' 10"Weight: 190 lbsHair: BrownEyes: BrownSTR  15 (+2)DEX  18 (+4)CON  10 (+0)INT 14 (+2)WIS 13 (+1)CHA 12 (+1)HP: 19AC: 14 (+4 Dexterity)Init: +4Speed: 30'Sanity: 65Saving ThrowsFort: +1Ref: +8Will: +2BAB: +3Melee: +5Ranged: +7Skills(ranks in parentheses)Climb  +9 (7)Hide  +10 (7)Jump  +9 (7)Listen  +8 (7)Move Silently  +10 (7)Spot  +8 (7)Swim  +9 (7)Wilderness Lore  +8 (7)Craft: Gunsmith  +10 (7)Know: Chemistry  +7 (4)Lang: Gaelic  +6 (3)Lang: Eng (native)LanguagesEnglish (native), GaelicFeatsPoint Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Far ShotWealthSavings: 6000Income: 3000HistoryBorn to working class parents south of London, there were not many opportunities for a better life--or even a different one.  The military provided the only option to escape a mundane life as a green grocer, had Croydon followed in his father's footsteps.  With enlistment swelling the ranks at the beginning of The Great War, Croydon was just one more small cog in the British military machine.  He was surprised (and, truthfully, a bit relieved) that his first assignment was not to the continent, but to Ireland.  Croydon served under General John Maxwell during the Easter Uprising of 1916.  This assignment brought him into contact with Irish culture, which led to his study of the Gaelic language.Eventually, though, he was needed for The Great War, and Croydon was shipped to the continent.  There, he experienced first-hand the horrors of German chemical warfare--phosgene, chlorine, and "mustard gas" left his body temporarily wracked with pain and permanently frail.  Still, he was a crack shot with a rifle and continued to serve during the war.Croydon was shipped back to Dublin after the Armistice.  The start of the Anglo-Irish War (called the "Irish War of Independence" by the rebels) put Croydon back into combat action.  But his Gaelic language skill proved so useful that he was assigned to the Dublin Castle Propaganda Department, established in August of 1920, while the war still raged.  In 1921, the Irish war finally ended.It was while working at the castle that Croydon began his correspondence with Mr. Jackson Elias, of New York City.  Croydon's sister had always been interested in the occult, and she introduced the two by letter when Mr. Elias mentioned that he needed some research done in Ireland.  Croydon scoffed at his sister's occult interests, but an American pen pal was too interesting a prospect to ignore.  The research was....interesting, and Croydon was able to complete Mr. Elias' tasks in his off-hours.  As a member of the Propaganda Department, Croydon had access to much information in Dublin--and even more sources.  Despite the many differences between them, Croydon felt a kinship with Mr. Elias, and hoped to meet him one day.Back in the London, living with his sister and her husband (a green grocer!), Croydon does not have much planned for his post army "career."  He is dreading the thought of working at the family shop, though he knows his brother-in-law would welcome him into the family business.  It's nice to have a safety net, Croydon thinks, but after his experiences in three wars, he realizes that there is a lot left to see in the world.Croydon does not have many possessions, but a few of them are rather unusual for a working class Englishman.  He has a rifle which he "forgot" to return to the army upon his discharge, a German pistol he looted from an enemy he killed in battle, and some ammunition for both (though not much for the German pistol).  His other unusual possession is a slender book.  In appreciation for acquiring a certain Irish tome, Mr. Elias sent Croydon a small token of thanks.  Knowing of the Englishman's love of the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jackson sent him a copy of the 1798 printing of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, which contained the first version of Coleridge's famous The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere.  Croydon treasures this book immensely.PersonalityStraightforward and unassuming, Croydon chafes under the British class system which would relegate him to life as a grocer--if he played by society's expectations.  Still, he is not bitter and remains optimistic that he will find a calling now that the British Army has decided he is unfit for duty.</blockquote>

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