This week's collection is your typical (or maybe not so typical) rural villagers. Almost all of them have potential story hooks in their backgrounds, and can easily be dropped into a game.
The Village of Mayburleigh
A quaint little village that is not quite what it seems
A quaint little village that is not quite what it seems
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Colonel Ernest Holden OBE (Retired) Country Squire and ex-UNIT Officer
The Colonel retired from a long career in UNIT and returned to the village of his birth. Most of the village thinks the fellow is bit on the barmy side, with his going on about alien invasions and time travelling police boxes. Of course it's all true, though he is a bit on the eccentric, side, especially since his wife passed away. He still stays in touch with some of the old team, and has some pull with the current UNIT command.
Awareness 2 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 4
Resolve 4 Strength 2
Good Traits
Brave, Voice of Authority, Friends-UNIT (minor), UNIT Veteran
Bad Traits
Forgetful, Slow, Eccentric-Classic British Stiff-Upper Lipped Officer (minor)
Skills
Athletics 2, Convince 3, Craft 3, Fighting 2, Knowledge 4 (Area of Expertise: UNIT, Local History ), Marksman 3, Technology 1, Transport 2
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
Distinctive Features: Tall, wears lots of tweed, big bushy moustache, and often has his walking cane propped under his arm like a swager stick.
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Nathan Holcombe
Janet Holcombe
Distinctive Features: Middle aged, Aristocratic air about her, well dressed.
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Gordon Waverley
Tomas Stump
Distinctive Features: Often shirtless to show off his abs, scruffy looking, but still attractive,
Distinctive Features: Ends up turning the subject to UFO's and conspiracies regardless of topic.
Reverend Melissa Buhari
Local Psychic Vicar
Local Psychic Vicar
The cheerful and friendly local vicar. She's had the job for the last five years and the whole village has come to love and appreciate her. Everyone in the village says she's the most understanding person they've ever known. A lot of that is due to her undeveloped psychic abilities, she's not really aware of them, she just tends to get ideas about what's on their minds and help people sort it out.
Awareness 4 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 4
Resolve 4 Strength 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 4
Resolve 4 Strength 3
Good Traits
Charming, Voice of Authority, Psychic
Bad Traits
Dark Secret-Her Powers (minor), Obligation- to the church (minor)
Skills
Athletics 1, Convince 4 (Area of Expertise: Public Speaking), Craft 2, Knowledge 4 (Area of Expertise: Theology) Medicine 2, Technology 2, Transport 2
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
Distinctive Features: Always wears her clerical collar, Big smile.
Distinctive Features: Always wears her clerical collar, Big smile.
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Nathan Holcombe
Solicitor and Pub owner.
In a small village like this, it's not uncommon for people to have multiple business interests. Nathan Holcombe is a former London solicitor who left the city for health reasons, and ended up taking over the Queen Mary's Grace Inn and Pub after the previous owner retired. He keeps a small law practice out of a spare room of the pub, but for the most part the bar is what makes him money.
Awareness 3 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 2
Ingenuity 3 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 2
Good Traits
Resourceful Pockets,
Bad Traits
Weakness-Bad heart (minor)
Skills
Athletics 1, Convince 4, Craft 4, Fighting 1, Knowledge 4 (Area of Expertise: Law), Marksman 2, Medicine 1, Survival 2, Technology 2, Transport 2
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
Distinctive Features: Gray at the temples, wears an apron most of the time.
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Janet Holcombe
Nathan's Wife and Alien Fugitive
Janet is not an advertising executive with no living parents from Surrey like she has told her husband. She is in fact a Drahvin slave warrior, unlike most of her clone sisters, she achieved full self awareness and rebelled against her Elite commander. Escaping to Earth, she easily blended in with the human populace and fell in love with Nathan. She thinks she has escaped her past, but she still keeps an eye over her shoulder.
Awareness 3 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 3
Resolve 4 Strength 4
Ingenuity 3 Presence 3
Resolve 4 Strength 4
Good Traits
Alien, Attractive, Technically Adept, Quick Reflexes
Bad Traits
Adversary-Drahvin Bounty Hunters (minor), Dark Secret-Her Alien Nature-(major)
Skills
Athletics 1, Craft 1, Fighting 3, Knowledge 3, Marksman 3, Medicine 1, Science 1, Subterfuge 2, Survival 1, Technology 2, Transport 2
Story Points 12
Tech Level 6
Distinctive Features: Blonde, reserved yet friendly, wears makeup to hide her Drahvin spots (claims they are skin conditon)
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Mrs. Glenda Hardwicke
Former Lady of the Manor.
Hardwicke House has been in Mrs. Hardwick's family for three hundred years. So it was an utter disaster when it became clear the family fortunes were lost in the economic crisis. Mrs. Hardwick has been forced to sell the house to some American entrepreneur. She's had to take up residence close into the village, but still maintains much of her aristocratic bearing, much to the dismay of many of the villagers. She schemes much of the time how to regain her fortunes and the family estate.
Awareness 2 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 3
Resolve 4 Strength 3
Ingenuity 3 Presence 3
Resolve 4 Strength 3
Good Traits
Attractive, Indomitable
Bad Traits
Argumenative, Obsession-Reclaim Hardwicke House (Minor)
Skills
Athletics 1, Convince 4, Craft 4, Fighting 1, Knowledge 4 (Area of Expertise: Law), Marksman 2, Medicine 1, Survival 2, Technology 2, Transport 2
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
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Gordon Waverley
Technology Entrepreneur and New Owner of Hardwicke House
Famous Computer mogul Gordon Waverley purchased Hardwicke House from the distressed owners, and has been making a number of upgrades to the house and surrounding village (he hardly believed there was no Wi-fi in the village!) He's found Mrs. Hardwicke and her sticking to tradition and the proper role of the Lord of the Manor a bit difficult to deal with at times. Especially right now with his next generation tablet about to roll out.
Awareness 3 Coordination 3
Ingenuity 4 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 3
Ingenuity 4 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 3
Good Traits
Attractive, Boffin, Cutting Edge Technology, Technically Adept, Wealthy (major)
Bad Traits
Distinctive, Impulsive, Obsession-Computers (minor)
Skills
Convince 2, Knowledge 4 (Area of Expertise: Business Management), Science 3, Technology 6 (Area of Expertise: Computers) Transport 1
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
Distinctive Features: Always wears turtlenecks and jeans, often has to stop conversations to take an important call.
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Odd-job Man
Tom is just your typical young fellow with a van that makes a living doing various yard work and chores around the village throughout the county. He knows almost everyone in the region, and many of the ladies he works for know him far better than than they would want to admit to their husbands.
Awareness 3 Coordination 4
Ingenuity 2 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 4
Ingenuity 2 Presence 4
Resolve 3 Strength 4
Good Traits
Attractive, Charming, Rumour Mill, Tough, Technically Adept
Bad Traits
Impoverished
Skills
Athletics 2, Convince 2, Craft 3, Fighting 1 Knowledge 1, Marksman 1, Subterfuge 2, Technology 3, Transport 3
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
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Brian Anslow
Trainspotter, and UFO Witness
About two years ago Brian was out one night watching for trains as he often does. Instead of the Hunslet Class 05 he was expecting, he was witness to a pair of UNIT fighters shooting down a Sontaran scout ship. Shortly afterwards a bunch people in black uniforms showed up, cordoned off the area and said a fighter crashed while on a training exercise. Naturally no one in the village believes him, and his rambling on about what happened has made him quite unpopular in the village.
Awareness 3 Coordination 2
Ingenuity 2 Presence 2
Resolve 3 Strength 3
Ingenuity 2 Presence 2
Resolve 3 Strength 3
Good Traits
Friends-UFO Conspiracy Theorists (minor) Resourceful Pockets, Technically Adept
Bad Traits
Argumentative, Obsession-revealing the truth (major), Outcast
Skills
Convince 2, Craft 4 (Area of Expertise: Photography) Knowledge 4 (Areas of Expertise: Trains, Ufology, Conspiracy Theories) Science 4, Subterfuge 3 (Area of Expertise: Sneaking), Technology 3, Transport 3
Story Points 12
Tech Level 5
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