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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 3737341" data-attributes="member: 12815">Camille Bellamont, maid (and amateur spiritualist)The year is 1921.The early afternoon session at GenCon (With Morrus and Crothian)  I'm noticing a lot of people wrote their answers in 1st person.  That probably wouldn't have helped me a lot, but I'm in such a habit of writing in 3rd person that it never occured to me not to.[sblock]1.  You started life as an Englishwoman named "Cassie Bluth," and now you're calling yourself "Camille Bellamont" and pretending to be French. How many times have you changed identities?Four.  After leaving home she was Caroline Baker.  A few months later she became Clara Bunting. After she left her fiance she was Cora Blake and a few years after that Camille Bellamont.2.  What really caused your younger brother to become so sick?At the age of 10, when he was away at boarding school one of the professors gave him a beathing as punishment for a schoolboy prank.  He fell and struck his head on a desk, which left him slow.  One of the lacerations from the beating also became infected and he was almost killed by the fever.  He remains weak.3.  As a teenager, what happened to make you run away from home?Things only got worse after her brother's accident.  Cassie's mother died a couple years later, and her father remarried about a year after that. At 16, Cassie was persuaded to believe she was in love with one of the boys on the street.  Once she realized she was pregnant, she ran away from home, knowing that even if her father forgave her; her stepmother would give her the walloping of her life.She slept in abandoned buildings and stole when she needed until she landed in a home for wayward girls.  Her daughter was taken away as soon as she was born, and once she was recovered she took a new name, found a job in a mill and rented a small flat.4.  How did you learn how to pretend to be a psychic?One of her friends at the mill wanted to go to a seance and convinced Cassie, now Clara, to go with her.  While the friend was absolutely taken in, Cassie was more observant and could see some of the tricks.  She kept going and finally asked the woman to teach her, promising not to give away the secrets she had already learned for the lessons.  As well as to pay a bit.5.  Once you've conned Mrs. Finchley out of her estate, how do you plan to spend it?With the money from the estate, Cassie plans to pay off her parents to let her take her younger brother away and move out to the countryside.  Probably the French countryside.6.  What's the best lie you've ever told?Convincing Mrs. Finchley that she really was French.  Thankfully she had worked with a French girl and could at least fake the accent.7.  In your role as Mrs. Finchley's maid, what task do you hate the most?Helping the old Lady bathe, and even worse, trimming her nose hair.8.  You left your fiancée Edward during the Great War, when he was away stationed in France.  Why, and how, did you end the engagement?Edward's parents had never really approved of her and began to look into her background.  Although they didn't get back to Cassie Bluth, they did get back to Caroline Baker, the young woman who had a baby in a home for wayward girls.  They demanded she break off her engagement.  In exchange, they wouldn't tell Edward about her past.She wrote him a letter claiming that she had lost her job at the mill, and while she still loved him she had met someone else who could take care of her and was going to be married.9.  What scares you the most?Never seeing her brother again, and poverty.10.  What are you looking forward to?Finally being able to live comfortably without being dependent on someone else.11.  What is your deepest secret?Her daughter, and the months after she ran away when she did whatever she had to get by.12.  You know in your heart that spiritualism is rubbish, but you did have one experience that could have been supernatural.  What was it?In the home for wayward girls, Cassie often felt she could see someone out of the corner of her eye.  As the time to give birth got closer she began to hear a voice sometimes, and during the birth the windows and bed rattled violently for almost 5 minutes straight.13.  How did you learn to read Braille?After she left Edward and fled, using the name Cora Blake she found a position as a nanny to a young blind girl in a wealthy family.   She was often there as the girl was tutored, then helped her with her lessons later.  Over her time there she managed to lift any number and small, valuable things and loose, small change that went unnoticed by the owners.  After her young charge was sent off to school she quit her position and left with a tidy little sum of money.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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