Fantasy The Disappearance of Wilfred McMillan

[Space Dingo]

NONE PLAYABLE CHARACTERS
pawns to move the story along

• Wilfred MicMillan
• Dragoste Vechi Pub Owners
• Cluj-Napoca Locals
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• Name: Wilfred McMillan
  
  
  Gender: Male
  
  
  Occupation/Area of Study: Professor of Paleontology
  
  
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  Brief Information: McMillan belongs to a family originating from Ireland. He is the first generation to be born as American in Providence, RI in the year 1879. McMillan's Father and Grandfather were both explorers often focusing on expeditions in Africa. The Estate McMillan grew up in were often filled with ancient artifacts and what initially sparked McMillan's interest in Archaeology.
  
  
  While attending college at Miskatonic University (that his father was affiliated with), he came to know William R. Chambers. A fellow student in the Science Department. The two got along really well and the both eventually left Miskatonic to further their education in the UK. After a few years they both obtain a Doctorate's Degree and parted ways. McMillan continued in his father's footsteps in conducting research in Africa. After being seriously injured from an automobile accident in Egypt, he was unable to continue working on any expeditions.
  
  
  McMillan returned to his homeland and eventually met his wife Priscilla and becoming a professor at Miskatonic. To his surprise, his old pall William was also a fellow professor there. It would be six years later that McMillan would disappear.
• Name: Augustin & Silvia Stanasila
  
  
  Gender: Male & Female
  
  
  Occupation: Owner of the Dragoste Vechi Pub & Stay at Home Wife/Partial Hostess/Waitress
  
  
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  Brief Information: The Stanasilas run the Dragoste Vechi Pub located in the City of Cluj-Napoca a couple miles away from the Hoia Baciu Forest. Attached to their pub is a small inn upstairs which houses the search team for a couple days before they head off to the Forest. Augustin isn't very fond of the foreigners and the only reason he interacts with them is because they are paying him money. In fact he makes them pay extra without their knowledge. Silvia on the other hand is quite timid around the foreigners, but also very curious. It's quite obvious she is ruled under the thumb of her husband, but assures everyone he's not as mean as he seems.
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  Theo & Eduard Lazar Brothers ; Often seen following the foreigners around. They just seem to be young guys trying to get in trouble.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cezar Regular Pub Patron ; Amused by the foreigners
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Valentin Regular Pub Patron ; Highly dislikes the foreigners
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Veaceslav Cluj-Napoca Resident ; On the outskirts of the city near the forest
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cici Cluj-Napoca Resident ; Veaceslav's wife
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[Charcoal]

Name: James Thorold


Age:34


Gender:Male


Occupation/Area of Study: A professor in the field of English


Appearance: A tall, thin man with a continental look about him, with dark hair, a tall torso, lengthy arms and dextrous fingers. His attire consists near entirely of jumpers and slacks, looking at home in the university - when outdoors, he dons a longer coat, reaching to knee level, and respectable walking shoes.


Personality: Highly contemplative, deeply thoughtful, and generally detached from the issues of others.


Pillars of Sanity: His absolute and all consuming love of literature - he finds this the one thing that can hold his attention for any lengthy period of time, and so consumes vast quantities of highly thought provoking and sometimes “odd” works.


Logic - this has never failed him, and so he places great trust in his ability to deduce the solution to a problem with thought and fact alone.


Fears: The inability, or failure of his mental capacity to solve the issue at hand.


Proficiency:


Occult - thought not directly affiliated with McMillan, his skills were called upon several times, and he has taken the time to decipher a little of the works that were given to him by McMillan in the helps of furthering the completion of whatever was working on, though the exact nature of his accomplishments remained a secret to him. His works on this gave him a little insight into the workings of several old organizations and cults throughout history.


Listen - perhaps what got him so far in his academic career. His ability to listen and recall the words of the various lecturers he listened to, has been hailed as utterly uncanny.


Endurance (walking and the like) - though he boasts no true physical strength, his ever thinking mind has found solace in wandering. Many of his holidays have revolved around nothing but himself and the wilderness of whatever locale he has chosen to enjoy.


Deficiency:


Physical Strength - being a professor and not exactly the most athletic individual in the world, he lacks any true physical capacity.


Conversation - his social skills are not so much lacking, as they are untrained. Where his diction is good, and his words at the ready, he has little intuition as to how to advance his interactions with others. Even his language skills can often translate into a sense of profound aloofness that manages to annoy many.


History:


Born to a traditionally Christian English family, he grew up in the heart of London where his father worked as an accountant, and his mother a midwife in the local hospital. Both parents worked to instill in him fear of the divine, and a good set of functional work ethics - the logical thought process his father worked to teach him certainly stuck. His mother was an organized woman, and this too played a part in his neat living style, obvious by the state of his well kept bedroom even through his teenage years.


At school, his love for English and language took him to great heights, and though this was not the career path either of his parents favoured, they supported his decisions nonetheless. He found himself studying under a variety of professors, one eventually alighting on his incredible capability to decipher old language and unlock the secrets of foreign tongue. This ability, was eventually realized by an American lecturer, who had arrived from the home university of McMillan, and so once James was of the correct age, he was shipped off to study, and then to research, within the institution.

 

[SachiGrl]

• Dolled up.
• Don't take any wooden nickels.
• Everything is Jake.
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• Name: Louis Garrod
  
  
  Nickname: Lou
  
  
  Age: 29
  
  
  Sex: Female
  
  
  Occupation: Mathematics Professor. She currently teaches College Algebra, Trigonometry, and Analytic Geometry.
  
  
  Appearance:
  
  
  
  
  With light brown hair and eyes, Louis can draw the eyes of almost any man. She has a long nose yet small and fairly sized lips. Her complexion isn't quite the color of paper, but nearly the color of the island St. Lucia's sand. She doesn't buy into the flapper behavior or the shorter skirts and over-exposure of skin. She is quite conservative. She tends to wear long skirts and matching long sleeve shirts when she's out casually. She likes simple colors like the different shades of brown, blue, and pink. When she's working as a professor, she tends to dress more masculine. She would add a hefty jacket to her attire and wear clothing more loosely fit.
  
  
  
• Personality:

  Socially Acceptable

  
  
  
  Louis is very old-fashioned. She prefers to speak when spoken to. She understands that now people are generally more open to the topic of sex and other personal topics, so to appease others and give herself a positive image/reputation, she reveals a bit about herself. She does genuinely enjoy small talk. She loves using popular slang and to socially smoke cigarettes. She simply loves smoking outside among others in silence (or with small chat).
  
  
  

  Introvert

  
  
  
  Louis is very conservative and quiet. She identifies herself as a more persistent, orderly, moralistic, and methodical person. Though, it is obvious that what she finds socially acceptable greatly differs from the youth surrounding her; she tries to keep an open-mind and succumb to her generation. She is acute at detecting threats around herself. Based on a conversation or body-language, she can tell when someone is about to explode or cause the environment to be awkward. She is fantastic at evading uncomfortable situations.
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Pillar of Sanity: Mathematics never fails Louis. She can forsaken God, but math is always constant and never changing.
  
  
  Fears: Bugs, spiders (especially spiderwebs), rodents in general, and gore.
  
  
  Proficiency:

  Listening Skill

  
  
  
  Measures the ability of an investigator to interpret and understand sound, including overheard conversations, mutters behind a closed door, and whispered words in a café. The keeper may use it to determine the course of an impending encounter: was your investigator awakened by that crackling twig? By extension, a high Listen can indicate general awareness in a character.
  
  
  

  Throwing Skill

  
  
  
  To hit a target with an object, or to hit a target with the right part of the object thrown (such as the blade of a knife or hatchet), use Throw. A palm-sized object of reasonable balance can be hurled three yards for each STR point exceeding the object’s SIZ. An object designed to be thrown can be hurled up to six yards for each STR point in excess of the object’s SIZ, and perhaps bounce on for more. Keepers must choose the multiplier suitable to the baseball, javelin, etc.
  
  
  

  Tracking Skill

  
  
  
  With Track, an investigator can follow a person, vehicle, or animal over soft earth and leaves. Subtract 10% from the chance for success for each day that has passed since the tracks were made. Rain may made tracking impossible. A being cannot be tracked across water, over concrete, or at night except in unusual circumstances.
  
  
  

  Spotting Skill

  
  
  
  This skill allows the user to spot a secret door or compartment, notice a hidden intruder, find an inconspicuous clue, recognize a repainted automobile, become aware of ambushers, notice a bulging pocket, or anything similar. This is an important skill in the game.
  
  
  

  Hiding Skill

  
  
  
  As opposed to Conceal, Hide concerns the individual user’s ability to escape detection in an unprepared position. Use this skill only in a pursuit situation, or when under surveillance or patrol. It lets the user choose objects, bushes, deep shadows, etc., in which to lurk for a while. Some sort of cover must be present. In an area being watched, the user can move while hiding. Figure the chance for successful movement by halving the Hide skill amount.
  
  
  

  Sneaking Skill

  
  
  
  The art of moving quietly, without alerting those who might hear. Used in combination with Hide, the investigator makes a single D100 roll, the result of whichis matched against the investigator’s percentages in both skills. Use this combination when silent movement is necessary.
  
  
  

  
  
  
  Deficiency:

  Overly-independent

  
  
  
  Since Louis is a feminist, she tends to act on her own trying to prove her independence. She has a tendency to avoid seeking valuable help from educators or colleagues because involving others makes her feel needy. But by choosing to isolate in order to feel self-reliant, she at times feels unsupported or depressed. She is afraid she would disappoint, let people down, or lose status in their eyes (or more likely, her own) if she allows someone else step in and handle the situation or help her.
  
  
  

  Low Strength

  
  
  
  Louis has less than a normal amount of strength. She is extremely frail. If she were to punch, it would feel like a pillow being thrown against your head. If she were to kick, it would feel like a faint tap. This is, of course, an exaggeration, but I doubt she could inflict more than a light bruise. She would struggle to hold two gallons of milk (despite the struggle, she would still attempt to do things herself).
  
  
  

  Squeamish

  
  
  
  Louis cannot handle the site of blood. She can even handle the idea of killing or watching someone be killed in stories or reality. She would rather run than fight. She's intelligent. She knows her weaknesses and dealing with blood is one of them, but when push comes to shove, she'd rather do something herself than let someone do it for her.
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
• History: In 1910, Louis Garrod studied in the University of Oxford. Though, at the time women weren't granted degrees, but were, at least, permitted to sit in classrooms, including mathematics. She was absolutely in love with math. If no new courses were available to her, she did not mind re-watching the same class, especially if it was mathematics. Finally, in 1920, Oxford was awarding degrees to women. Louis couldn't believe her ears. This was a miracle. Luckily for her, she was able to graduate that year with a Ph.D in mathematics. She wished to be a professor in Oxford, but they refused. In addition, they began denying women the following year degrees. Instead, they settled for a degree called, the 'BA Tit.' It was horribly demeaning and Louis never again considered to apply as a professor at Oxford.
  
  
  It took Louis 3 long years to find a college to hire her. She considers herself very fortunate. After explaining her struggle to her Uncle Wilfred, he used his fame and connections to get her hired by Miskatonic University, the university where he taught paleontology, but Louis kindly refused. Her uncle understood that she wanted to be independent, so he hinted to her a new college opened not too long ago, and it was exclusively for female students. This New England college was called Hillcroft College. After undergoing her interview with them, she was elected Professor of Mathematics. Unlike most normal colleges or universities (Miskatonic and many others), she could speak and vote in the affairs of her own department and of the University as a whole. Before she earned her Ph.D, she used to dress like a flapper; she wore short skirts and wore short hair, but when she was seeking employment, she realized that no one couldn't possibly take her seriously with the garments she wore. She decided to be a strong feminist and she sincerely wanted to be taken seriously. She threw away all her frivolous costumes that barely covered her bare skin and bought new garments that fit a more serious look. Since her hire, she has decided to wear more masculine clothing to be taken seriously by her colleagues and students. Surprisingly, she got along with most of the professors in Hillcroft College and they seemed to have appreciated her attempts to be respected and taken seriously along with her students.
  
  
  
• Extra:
  
  
  • Prof. Garrod is Wilfred McMillian's niece.
    
  • Her mother's name is Mary Louis (McMillian) Garrod, and her father's name was Robert Garrod.
    
  • She grew up fairly wealthy. Her father was a senior editor of a fairly known marketing company before the civil war and after. Her mother assisted in some clerical work in his company while more than half of the men were gone during the civil war.
    
  • Louis uses a lot of slang commonly used in the 1920's. (1920's Slang)
    
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

 

[TheDaftStudent]

Name: Charles D. Ward


Age: 39?


Gender: Male


Occupation/Area of Study: Professor of Chemistry


Appearance: Though Charles is a man pushing forty, or so his records would have you believe, but his appearance is that of a man in his late twenties. He has black medium length slicked back hair and intense blue eyes that always appear to be looking into the darkness of a man's soul. He has a slim frame and stands tall among most men, and his angular face gives him a menacing look.


Personality: Charles is not a friendly person, but he has his priorities and he'll do anything he must to achieve the ends he desires. He's a harsh teacher, but an honest man - to a point. He has secrets, many of them, and he keeps them close and never opens up. If reached out to for help he'll give it so long as it doesn't put him in danger or cost him anything.


Pillars of Sanity:

• The past is the past - and no one can change it or know the full truth of it
  
• There will always be another - as long as his family persists, so too will the thirst for knowledge.
  
• The darkness is where all life comes from - his occult reasoning his lead him to believe this
  
• Alchemy can fix anything
  

Fears: He has an intense fear of death and dying.


Proficiency:

• Anthropology
  
• Biology
  
• Disguise
  
• History
  
• Chemistry
  
• Medicine
  
• Occult
  
• Pharmacy
  

Deficiency:

• Social Anxiety?
  
• Physically Weak
  

History:


Professor Ward, supposedly, showed up on campus one winter afternoon with his papers in hand and simply took over the teaching position of Chemistry from the now former teacher. No one is sure why he was given the already filled position but since he's taken it over the class has become one of the harder ones, and more over, one sometimes focusing on the overly esoteric side of the field. Some might even say "alchemical" in nature.


Charles is rumored to be among the teachers and students that meet and discuss the occult, though less frequently then the others. When he is there, and if allowed to talk of the subjects he chooses, he talks of resurrection and immortality. As if they were achievable through his scientific works.


No one is sure as to why Charles has agreed to search for the missing professor, but once more - as much of his life seems to be - it is rumored that professor Ward and professor McMillan may have been studying some dark and dangerous things together.

 

[papachan]

Vladimir "Vladdy" Vitali Hayes

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• About
• History
• Personality
• Personality
• Pillars of Sanity
• Other

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  35 (Feel free to let me know if this is a little to young)
  
  
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  Male
  
  
  Occupation/Area of Study:
  
  
  A student working on his degree in Medicine.
  
  
  Fears:
  
  
  Any kind of dog-like creature. Misdiagnosing a patient. Losing his mother. ​
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  Vladdy takes pride in being seen but not heard. There are not many instances where he has spoken out of term, other than in order to protect his mother when she didn't please her father. He feels strongly about letting women do more of the things that they want to do. It is in his opinion that women should be allowed to go to school, get degrees, and not have to have children or get married in order to be "normal". As it is in his best interest he keeps these thoughts a secret and does what he is told. Vladdy is obedient man and would do anything if he was told a good reason for doing so. Being a recluse in his earlier years has made him socially awkward and he often says things bluntly when asked to speak to anyone other than his mother.
  
  
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  Science are the only laws the Universe follows.
  
  
  There are no mysteries, no coincidences, and definately no God.
  
  
  Every human has the ability to be cured.
  
  
  Mother knows best.
  
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  First Aid

  The percentage change of awakening an unconscious or stunned comrade, setting a broken limb, treating burn damage, resuscitating a drowning victim, etc. First Aid has no effect on diseases or subtle physical ailments, nor on poisonings unless allowed.

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As a child Vladdy was fortunate to be raised in a well-to-do family. His father was a doctor and his mother was a nurse. Really, with the amount of time they put into working he was lucky to have been concieved at all. More of his life was spent at the hospitals where his father worked than at home. As he aged he has found his scholastic life fairly easy due to his father's occupation. ​

Following in his father's footsteps he has decided to study medicine to become a doctor. Unbeknownst to his family, he has taken an interest in psychology and studies it when he is on his own. His father and mother definitely would not have approved. They wanted their son to be a grand doctor, well known across the land, finding cures for diseases and such. Psychiatry was a waste of time.

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[Space Dingo]

Name: William R. Chambers


Age: 43


Gender: Male


Occupation/Area of Study: Professor of Zoology


Appearance:

Personality: William is a laid back sort of guy. Unlike others his age, he is very into the times, taking a liking to all the parties and jazz music. If only he were younger and not a teacher, you bet your sweet baby's bottom he'd be out there partying with all the other hip folks. The fact that he is such a lady killer and womanizer, it's a shame a smart man like himself is not married yet. People always compare himself with his life long friend McMillan and despite not liking the comparison, he laughs it off and winks if there is a pretty lady around. But despite all his playing around, William will take the time to be serious. In fact he's very serious about his job, but knows what it's like to be a student just trying to not fail your college course. He'll take his time to get to know his students and help with whatever they struggle with and often offers extra help after the class days end.


Pillars of Sanity:

• Wilfred McMillan: Believes his close friend is still alive and that he'll do anything for his friend as he knows McMillan would do the same for him. William would even give his life for the man. That's dedication.
  
• God: While not overly religious, he does believe there's an old man up there somewhere looking out for everyone.
  
• Seeing is believing: Basically, everything around him is the way it should be.
  
• Logic: He may not be smart with women's feelings, but he's got a pretty solid understanding of what should be logical
  

Fears:

• Heights/Falling
  
• Things flying in his face (IE, bugs, all kinds of bugs, dust, leaves, anything that goes in his face that shouldn't be)
  
• Getting emotionally intimate with women
  
• Senseless Gore and Mutilation (Anything intentionally harming another thing for the fun of it, but he understands the concept of hunting and isn't bothered by that)
  

Proficiency:

• Dodging
  
• Fast Talking
  
• Brawling/Fighting
  
• Hiding/Sneak
  
• Listen
  
• Other Language
  
• Shotgun
  
• Driving
  

Deficiency:

• Spotting things that aren't easy to find
  
• Riding
  
• Piloting
  
• Psychoanalyzing
  
• Persuasion
  
• Navigation/Tracking (unless tracking an animal)
  
• Any sort of medical attention (apply first aid, diagnosing and the like)
  

History: William was born and raised in Boston Massachusetts. He was always the charismatic kid who strives to be everyone's favorite while doing anything he set his mind to. Growing up, he often accompanied his father on business trips to New York City. Once the Bronx Zoo officially opened, it became William's mission to visit the zoo every time they came to New York City. William had such a huge fascination with animals and would eventually go on to adopting quite a bit in his lifetime.


He eventually met Wilfred McMillan at the Miskatonic University. The two started out as bonding over the sports teams at their school, but their friendship grew and the two were ever hardly seen apart. They got coined the nickname "Will and Wil". After finishing up school, the two traveled to England to peruse their Post Graduate education together, but after finishing, his friend parted and joined his father in Africa. That was the last time he'd hear from in for a few years. Though would often see him in the newspapers regarding his expedition. A couple years after he started working at Miskatonic, it would be a great surprise to find out that Wilfred will be working at Miskatonic as well, though unfortunately his poor friend had to walk around with a cane. After Wilfred would disappear, it would be William who would suggest a search party to the people that were close to Wilfred as well.