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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2165647" data-attributes="member: 7280">Brandon SharpeDedicated Hero 2STR 10/+0DEX 13/+1CON 10/+0INT 14/+2WIS 13/+1CHA 15/+2Hit Points 11 [6 Max Starting + 5 Ded2]Defense +3 [Ded2 +2 + Dex +1]- Touch +3 [Ded2 +2 + Dex +1]- Flat-footed + 2[Cha2 +2]Initiative +1 [+1 Dex]BAB +1 - Melee + 1 [Ded2 +1]-  Unarmed +1 - Ranged + 2 [Ded2 + 1 + 1 Dex]-  .22 Pathfinder revolver +2 Attack [2d4damage RngInc20ft]Fortitude +2 [Ded2 + 2]  Reflex +1 [Ded2 + 0 + 1 Dex]   Will +3 [Ded2 + 2 + 1 Wis]  Reputation 3 [Renown +3]AP 7Wealth  13 [Wealth Roll+3 + 2 Investigate bonus +4 Ded1Profskill +5 Ded2Profsuccess -1 Purchase of 35mm Camera]Allegiances: "the fans", familyStarting Occupation: InvestigateClass skills: Craft-Visual Art, InvestigateBonus Feat: Personal FirearmsWealth bonus +2Skills-  [28 + 7/level]Craft-Visual Art +13[5 Ranks +2Int + 1Investigate +3Skill Emphasis +2Creative], Diplomacy +4[2Ranks +2Cha], Investigate +10[5 Ranks +2Int +1Investigate +2Attentive], Knowledge-Civics +3[1 Ranks +2Int], Knowledge-Current Events +4[2 Ranks +2Int], Perform-Sing +6[2 Ranks +2Cha +2Creative], Profession-Investigative Journalist +6[5 Ranks +1Wis], Sense Motive +8[5 Ranks +1Wis +2Attentive], Speak Language-English, Speak Language-Portguese, Speak Language-Spanish, Survival +2[1 Rank +1Wis]Feats –Simple Weapons Proficiency [Automatic]Personal Firearms [Bonus Feat]Creative (Craft-Visual Art & Perform-Sing) [Starting feat]Renown [Starting feat]Attentive [Ded2 Bonus Feat]Talents –Insightful Talent Tree   Skill Emphasis- Craft-Visual ArtClass Abilities –Equipment –casual clothes, driver's license, passport, registration license for handgun, day pack, Luxury photojournalist vest, light sticks (5 - in vest), digital audio recorder (left front vest pocket), luxury cell phone (left insidefront vest pocket), road atlas (day pack), Luxury 35mm Camera (on strap around neck), 50 rolls of film (day pack), notebooks and pens (day pack), pen light 9right front vest pocket), Pathfinder .22revolver (usually at home in the nightstand by the bed), memorabilia from The New Rebels (in his closet)Background Information –   By the time he was three years old, Brandon Sharpe had his life outlined for him. His mother would take him to auditions in their clunky VW bus, brush his hair and tell him how special he was. When he was five years old, he landed his first acting job selling cereal. As he grew older the jobs became more and more prestigious, until finally he was approached by Kenneth Marcon and asked to join a new singing group called The New Rebels.    They were an overnight sensation. They toured Europe and South America, and sold out stadiums in the States at an ever increasing pace. Brandon spent most of his teenage years on busses and planes. His mother would call him from the huge house that he bought for his family to live in, and tell him how exciting it all was and how special he was. It was quite a ride, instant stardom and fame. Then, overnight, it all disappeared. He had to read about his mother's embezzlement of his fortune in a British magazine. Tony, one of the other bandmembers was arrested for raping a 14 year old girl after a concert in Finland. The bandmembers were growing older, and so were their audiences, and in the time it took to snap fingers he had turned into just another loathesome has-been from the entertainment scene. Tony fled the country, and the rest of the band spent most of the next half-decade checking themselves into rehab and being sued.   Eventually Brandon cleaned himself and decided to make himself a new life, something as far removed from the music industry and the stage as he could find. The problem he found, was that out-of-work ex-boy band members aren't given much credibility in the real world. He wasted another several long months filling out paperwork and job applications only to be told time and time again that his services were unwanted. Eventually Brandon sold everything he had, bought a camera, and went to Rwanda for what he initially thought of as a vacation. That was a few months before major hostilities broke out between the Hutu and Tutsis, and what followed is still a vague blur in Brandon's mind that only seems real when he looks at the pictures. Eventually he escaped through Virunga National Park with the aid of other refugees through disease infested camps and back to the States where he once again gained minor noteriety when some of his photographs of the conflict were published in Time magazine. Since then he's taken on assignments around the world, from photographing illegal fishing operations off the coast of Newfoundland to an extended stay in Brazil where he spent months living with Columbian rebels that operated from across the border.   Brandon doesn't really consider himself a performer anymore, though he's still got a stack full of memorabilia and gold records in a box in the closet. He's old enough now to realize just how much of The New Rebel's success rode on the production machine that drove it, and just now coming to terms with the idea that he just might be remembered for something else besides being a member of a forgotten band.   Besides himself Brandon regularly visits his parents and sister in Birmingham, where he tries to be "just Brandon" and play with his nieces. It's hard sometimes to describe what he does now for a living, perhaps even more so than it was describing life on the road with The New Rebels. He's more or less come to terms with his mother's misuse of his fortune, though he worries about her using drugs again all the time. What's left of that money and the royalties from The New Rebels tends to go to his family rather than vacations. Description -   Physically Brandon is tall, almost with the body of a male dancer. The sort of build that someone only gets from performing on stage for nearly a decade every night and then drinking cheap tequila until it goes a little soft. If his face  were cleanshaven would be astonishingly youthful, but he tends to keep a scrubby little beard to try and disguise that fact. His clothes are kept in a state of practiced disshevelment and he wears dark sunglasses underneath his faded ball caps. He carries an air of brash disregard about him, that sometimes turns to haunted silences. Even when he's dealing with corporate customers Brandon tends to be a "sports coat and jeans" sort of guy, and along with his ratty ball caps it's sort of become part of his mystique. He's been the clotheshorse before and jetted around the world in a private Lear, and he's got scars along his side where he crawled in the mud for three weeks trying to avoid being captured by Hutu death squads. He's not impressed with wealth anymore, and isn't about to pander to people who are without good reason.Age: 28 Birthdate: October 30, 1977 Astrological Sign: ScorpioHair Color: Black  Height: 5'11Eye Color: Blue   Weight: 170 lbs.According to 1992 Teen Beat Magazine:  Likes/Dislikes: Ice cream, dogs, mean people  In Ten Years: Still with The New Rebels making music  Girls?: "I'm too young to be thinking about girls, but they're really great!"  Favorite Color: Red  Favorite Food: Hamburgers  Favorite Artists: Boyz II Men, Eric Clapton  Who inspires you?: Pablo Picasso, Michael Jackson, George MichealAccording to Time magazine, August 1994, Cover caption: "This is the beginning of the final days. This is the apocalypse."Links to the rolls so far: <a href="http://www14.brinkster.com/nadaka/DiceboxDB.asp?Page=Find&By=Name&Value=Brandon%20Sharpe" target="_blank">http://www14.brinkster.com/nadaka/DiceboxDB.asp?Page=Find&By=Name&Value=Brandon Sharpe</a></blockquote>

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