Player Characters of

Gothic Fuzion

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Player Characters

The main function of this campaign is a plot-driven story line with characters acting as the protectors of the city.

Alan Everson [David]

Human male dandy tradesman [75 points]

Alan Everson was born in 1865, the eldest son of Robert Everson, a lesser-known American railroad developer and speculator in the Gilded Age, whose success at business made him a very prosperous man for his era. Upon his father's death, Alan inherited the Everson fortune and his father's railroad prosperities, including the R&B (Raleigh-Boston) Railroad; said to be a soulful and rhythmic rail line. While in charge of R&B in the 1890s, he sent surveyors and engineers through the Appalachian Mountains to stake out a route for the railroad to reach New Orleans, Louisiana. Through legal squabbling led by E. H. Harriman, who currently leads both the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads, Everson has moved to Boston to centralize his operation.

John Johnson Jr. [J.D.]

Human (undead) male cavalryman soldier [75 points]

Born and raised in Galveston, Texas, Johnson was the last of eight children of John Johnson and Deborah in 1839. While he was educated in the local schools, he received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, ranking 25th in his class. After graduation in 1857, as a brevet second lieutenant, he was stationed in western Kentucky. In early 1861, shortly before the official secession of his home state, Johnson accepted a commission in the Confederate army as a captain and was transferred to New Orleans under the command of General Mansfield Lovell. While living outside the city, Johnson befriended a local Cajun voodoo priestess named Aunt Hattie LeBeau and her infant daughter, Marie. When Union forces overwhelmed the Confederate military in 1862, Johnson was gravely injured during the fighting and inadvertently left behind in the swamp. He was found by Aunt Hattie and was “fixed up with something special.” While almost sixty, he still looks remarkably young, but with an unnatural pallor to his skin.

Marie LeBeau [Gloria]

Human female mystic medium [71 points]

Raised outside of New Orleans by her mother, Hattie Paris LeBeau, Marie never knew her father, but she quickly became adept with mysticism at a very young age, dabbling as a practitioner of Voodoo, as well as a healer and herbalist. Although Marie's mother was shunned by other practitioners in town, she was sought out by many for her insights on the occult and her various healing poultices and concoctions. One such recipient of her healing was Captain John Johnson Jr. during the aftermath of the Battle of New Orleans during the American Civil War. Seemingly resurrected from death, Johnson became close with Marie’s family, as her mother said that from now on, Johnson was to be her “protector from near and from afar.” This did not encourage much interaction with the local gentlemen in New Orleans, but Johnson did follower her to Boston when she felt a powerful calling from Lucas Bartleby III, whom Hattie had some sort of pact with.

Sergei Ruthven [Mark]

Human male laborer tradesman [65 points]

Born in 1872 at seaside town of Rockport, Massachusetts, as the youngest of five boys and seven girls, Sergei Ruthven was raised by Russian immigrants Ivan and Kristina Ruthven to someday be a fisherman like his father and his brothers. However, the prospect of fishing cod from Sandy Bay did not appeal to young Sergei, leading to hanging out with various ruffians in the area. Life changed when his family traveled to a festival in Gloucester, where Sergei witnessed his first bout of bare-knuckle boxing. Realizing his possible future, Sergei left home at sixteen, traveling to Boston, seeking to join the newly founded John L. Sullivan Boxing School. As Ruthven learned the Queensberry Rules under his trainers, he found early success in the ring, but outside the ring, he worked as hired muscle for the Irish Mob. After having more than one run in with law enforcement for participating in bouts where the sport was outlawed and wanting to distance himself from organized crime, Ruthven returned to his family’s fishing roots working as a longshoreman while trying to renew his career as a middleweight contender.

Winston Smythe [Andy]

Human male parson tradesman [55 points]

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Catherine Starr [Carol]

Human female journalist tradesman [58 points]

Catherine Starr was born in 1870 to Michael Starr as the middle child of five sisters and received formal schooling through private tutors as a perk of father holding the position of Chicago city alderman. She began her career in 1887 as a reporter for the Daily Drover, to which she had sent an incensed letter to the editor in response to an article the newspaper had printed entitled “To All Females: Get in the Kitchen and Bake Me a Pie” The editor was so enthralled with her writing that he gave her a job. Her first articles, on circumstances among working girls in Chicago, slum life, and other similar topics, marked her as a reporter of initiative and enterprise. At a time when a woman’s involvement to a newspaper was limited, Starr was given an occasion to report on broader topics. The following years, she traveled for several months through Illinois, sending back reports on bureaucrat immorality and the condition of the poor. Her crossly decisive articles exasperated many of her father’s political associates and caused her look to Boston as an opportunity far enough from home to make a name for herself.

Lilith Van Helsing [Rayana]

Human female hunter soldier [51 points]

Alan Everson by Franklin George Abell, John Johnson Jr. by Vannerson and Jones, Marie LeBeau by LoganArt, Sergei Ruthven by PxHere, Winston Smythe by Suzy Hazelwood, Catherine Starr by James Wallace Black, Lilith Van Helsing by Harris & Ewing

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