Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 3735913" data-attributes="member: 1">I'm personally very interested in seeing the takes that other people had on the character I played, and after talking to others it appears that I'm not alone.So, if you've played in PC's Dread game, please post your questionnaire!  Remember to put the character name at the top.  The game takes place in 1921 England. Some people believe that twenty years ago Sir Oliver Hume killed his blind wife Artemis for her money, pushing her off the roof. Nothing was ever proven, and any scandal was soon buried. Now Sir Oliver himself has passed away, and family and friends descend on the ancestral manor for the funeral and the reading of the will. Sir Oliver's grandchildren have never been particularly close to their uncle or great-aunt. Here's mine:Sir Oliver's grandson Daniel Hume, a bit of a dilettante.[sblock]1.      What's your most vivid memory of your grandfather Oliver? My grandfather was the person who always led me astray.  He was the man who gave me my first drink at the tender age of 10.  He was also the man who arranged for my first... errmm... "encounter" with a lady of the night when I was merely 14.  His reasoning was that it was better that I get it out of the way early.  Certainly the early start meant that I was well ahead of my peers as a grew up!2.      Of the many young women you've dallied with, who was your favorite and why? Cosmopolita Windsor-Wintergrew.  A distant cousin of King George, with all the privileges that entailed!  Not one too hung up on royal etiquette, though... she's the girl who would sneak a hip flask full of brandy into a royal function and who would be quietly escorted out before the end.  I clearly remember her dancing on tables at various pubs; nobody quite had the courage to tell her that that sort of behaviour wasn't befitting a member of the royal family, however distant.  3.     Gerald "Corky" Corkington follows you about constantly, proclaiming himself to be your best friend. How loyal are you to him?Oh, Corky!  A delightful chap. He's covered for me many, many times!  He even seconded me in a duel once... the one that I had to back out of due to an unfortunate resurgence of an exotic, foreign illness.  He won the duel for me, though, bless his heart!  I know he hero-worships me... well.who wouldn't?  I am pretty damn dashing, after all! As for loyalty... of course I'm as loyal as the next man.  Of course, the next man, right now, is a drunk asleep in his chair...4.      What did happen to that 4th grader who died when you were at school? What on earth is a 4th grader?  Do you mean Pinky Fortimus-Drew, the unfortunate chap who fell off the roof of the cricket pavilion?  I don't know how he got there, or how his school-bag ended up hanging from the flag-pole.  Certainly it has nothing to do with me, and my father made sure that it has nothing to do with me.. retrospectively... with a purse full of guineas.  Ahem.  5.      Does it bother you that you and your sister are the last living blood members of the Hume family line?Well, it's about bloody time!  I've been patiently waiting for my inheritance for years now!  Of course, I certainly never wished any other man or woman ill, especially not the dearly departed members of my family, but everyone has their time, right?  I'm not a poor man by any means, of course - in fact I sponsor a number of charitable and artistic endeavours, and I greatly appreciate the way in which society deems it important that I gain some small tax benefit from doing so. Where was I?  Ah, yes... my sister.  Isn't it about time she married some rich old man like any respectable woman should do?  6.      Why are you often late to your job?I always felt it was important to make sure that the morale of those I work with remained high, and to that end I graciously encouraged them to engage in fulfilling social pursuits in the evenings and at weekends.  And during the afternoons.  The mornings, occasionally.7.      How do you earn your spending money? I receive a special pension from the Army - I was honourably discharged, y'know, on account of my reccuring exotic illness.  In addition, I have a number of investments which pay out reasonably well-  certainly well enough to sustain my lavish lifestyle!  There's the brothel in the East End, a couple of moneylenders, and, of course, my sponsorship of The Arts tends to bring in certain side-benefits.8.      How important is it to you to inherit your grandfather's fortune?It is true that my monthly income is sizeable, but I have expenses!  The rent on the country house, the butler, the flat in London, and the one in Paris.  There may also be the matter of one or two gambling debts... 9.      You were of age during the Great War. Why didn't you enlist?Oh, but I did!  Unfortunately my exotic illness meant that I could not particpate in that particular endeavour, and I was forced to leave the Army.  I was dreadfully heroic, though - before the War I was on a campaign in India, where my superb riding skills and excellent swordsmanship proved most useful!10.     How did your parents die?Father was a military man, of course.  Travelled the world, and fought in many battles.  He was, unfortunately, felled by a Zulu tribesman in darkest Africa. Mother, I'm afraid to say, was something of a lush, and she went to pieces after Father dies.  We tell everyone that she died of a broken heart, but the truth is she was a drunkard long before Father's death.11.     Why do you think you will never marry?What's the point?  Thee are dozens - nay, hundreds, thousands - of delightful women out there!  I'd be doing myself a disservice if I were not to sample them all!  Besides, who wants to be nagged at home, bring up children or be otherwise prevented from enjoying life the way it was supposed to be lived?12.     Would you give your own life for your sister's?What  a queston!  Everybody who knows me knows that I am brave and selfless to a fault.  All right, I admit it, I'm a craven coward, but nobody needs to kow that, right?  13.      What hobby are you proudest of?I am a remarkably good marksman!  I can shoot a penny on a line of string from horseback, and that's no lie!  Of course, I have trouble when someone's shooting back... have you seen my pistols, by the way?  Fine works of art, don't you think?  I acquired them in Burma, after their previous owner died.[/sblock]</blockquote>

Verification