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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 2341413" data-attributes="member: 8447">That'd have t'be Charlie Eastway, Private Eye, the Man with a Thing for Ming.  He worked the Chinatown beat in San Francisco (and a few other cities, when necessary).  Essentially he was the quintessential pulp PI -- dogged, often down on his luck, sucker for a dame, hard drinking and hard hitting, with a gat in his pocket in case things went that way.  He was both fun and easy to play -- just get into an amalgam of Philip Marlow, Sam Spade and a dash of Mike Hammer for the lingo, act generally tough with a little bit of vulnerable, and have at it.  His big twist was that he spoke a couple of Chinese dialects and had a deep love for Chinese art, especially vases.  That and he could play the saxaphone...   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool    :cool:"  data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /> He wore the requisite trenchcoat and snap-brim fedora, though one time he pulled out the nines to go to a swank establishment, a place he ended up nearly tearing down in the ensuing fight.  He had a string of ex-girlfriends from affairs that had simply gone wrong, but he always had his friends Mr. Boston and Jack Daniels.  What was really fun about him, though, was doing his own Voice Overs.  I could keep up the patter pretty well so I'd do running mental dialogue, filling in background and colour as I played, "I'd known Johnny since I first crawled into the lousy hole.  He was a bent as a mail pounded by a millipede marching band, but there were times when y'had to trust him, just for old time's sake.  I was hoping this wasn't one of those times."  That kind of thing.Since I usually GM, I don't get to play often.  As such, I don't have a huge stable of characters to draw upon, but in the end it came down to two -- Charlie and Julia Peregrina filia Cerebus Facto of House Merinita.  Of the two, today Charlie won out.  If you asked me tomorrow it might be Julia.  They were both a helluvalotta fun to play.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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