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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Old Fezziwig" data-source="post: 1487491" data-attributes="member: 59">Jamison O'Fingal DiggoryJamison O'Fingal Diggory: Male Smart Hero 1/Dedicated Hero 1 (Profession: Investigative); Size M; Spd. 30 ft.; Init +5 (+1 Dex, +4 Improved Initiative) HD 2d6-2 + 1d6-1; hp 10; Mas 8; Defense 13, touch 12, flatfooted 12 (+1 Dex, +1 Dedicated, +1 Smart); BAB +1; Atk +1 melee, +2 ranged; Fort +0 (+1 Dedicated, -1 Con), Ref +1 (+1 Dex), Will +5 (+2 Smart, +1 Dedicated, +2 Wis); AP 15; Rep +2; AL Good, Metropolitan Police, the Golden Dawn; Str 10, Dex 12, Con 8, Int 13, Wis 15, Cha 14.Skills, Feats: Bluff +4 (2 ranks, +2 Cha), Decipher Script +6 (5 ranks, +1 Int), Gather Information +7 (5 ranks, +2 Cha), Investigate +10 (6 ranks, +1 Int, +3 Insightful), Knowledge/Arcane Lore +5 (2 ranks, +1 Int, +2 Educated),  Knowledge/London History +7 (4 ranks, +1 Int, +2 Educated), Knowledge/Popular Culture +5 (2 ranks, +1 Int, +2 Educated), Knowledge/Streetwise +7 (6 ranks, +1 Int), Knowledge/Theology +9 (6 ranks, +1 Int, +2 Educated), Read/Write Language (Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, French), Research +4 (3 ranks, +1 Int), Search +6 (5 ranks, +1 Int), Spot +6 (4 ranks/2 cc, +2 Wis); Personal Firearms Proficiency (Prof/Bonus), Improved Initiative (1st), Educated (1st: Theology, London History), Studious (2nd/Smart), Educated (3rd: Arcane Lore, Popular Culture).Talents: Research/Linguist (Smart 1), Insightful (Dedicated 1).Profession: Gather Information, Bluff are class skills.Wealth Bonus: +6 (+2 base, +1 3rd level, +3 pass check by 17)Possessions: £500 Income, £1000 Savings (currently £439 2s); Apartment in Soho (2£ 16s/month), Smith & Wesson No. 1 (Ammo: .22 Short, 18), Bowie knife, a variety of books on religion and the occult (as well as first editions/recent editions of most major British authors) all accumulated over the past five years (£10 spent over the last month or so).XP: 1500Next level: 3000Contacts: Henry Sweet (linguist and philologist)*, Jonathan Wield (Mortician, Metropolitan Police) Description, Personality: 5'9, 160 lbs., 26 years old (dob 13 Oct. 1861), blue eyes, brown hair, trim beard and mustache.  Jamison is thoughtful and intelligent, but has his head in the clouds most of the time.  He's far too interested in the occult & current theological theory for most of his peers, and when he isn't reading about those two topics, he spends far too much time reading about modern British, Irish, and American history.  He is fiercely supportive of Irish Home Rule, despite having never lived in the country (his grandparents came to England during the Potato Famine).Background: Jamison O'Fingal Diggory has spent the last three years of his life as an inspector in the Metropolitan Police, roaming through St. Giles and Whitechapel.  He fell into the job largely accidentally, having left Oxford after two years of study (religion, classics) without any specific plans in mind.  A friend of a friend of the family, John Wield, recommended he look into working for Police, and Jamison has risen through the ranks over his five years on the force (that would put him in Oxford in 1881, leaving in 1883, working as a patrolman for two years in 1884-85, reaching inspector in 1886).  He's good at the job but would rather be reading theology, literature, philosophy, or books on the occult at any given time.  After the incident at Pellgraine Manor, Diggory was inducted into the Golden Dawn by WB Yeats as Frater VBGA (vita brevis, gloria aeternum).*The source for GB Shaw's Henry Higgins and the author of Sweet's Anglo-Saxon Primer.</blockquote>

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