A Continent of Banalities

It's the LAST DAY of the challenge! I'll miss it. This is a character for the German rpg Heist. It is more GTA than Ocean's 11. I am still learning the system. Werner grew up in the Hausbruch neighborhood of Hamburg, and never really liked school. There was a lot of that going around, and some kids relieved the boredom by bullying young Werner. He was neither thin-skinned nor particularly violent, but he got into many fights and finished all of them. That got him thrown out on his ear. Werner got a job with a demolition company and, through one of the older guys, a membership in a boxing studio. His rise as a pugilist was slow and steady, but somewhere down the line it became his job. Werner won several fights simply by keeping standing. He wasn’t a knock-out punch kind of fighter, but he never went down. In the end that was what sealed his fate. After simply forgetting about a sparring match, and noticing an occasional tremor in his arms, Werner went to see a doctor. This ...

 A cursed gangster and the last day of Sigil & Shadow. This character has a power that's really more of a curse, but one that could be quite useful. (The Labaki and the Gaffigans are two major crime outfits in the campaign city that bears some resemblance to Baltimore). Elijah “Crunch” Stevens Crunch is a low-level Labaki soldier with ambition. So far he has risen from being a kid slinging to overseeing a couple of kids slinging. Middle management, in a sense. He gets his nickname from the fact that he always seems to be working. His mother always told him that working hard and wearing nice clothes could get him far. Crunch works like a horse and favors Tommy Hilfiger. He looks more like a college student than (people’s idea of) a gangster. Mrs. Stevens might not approve of her son’s line of work, but she does not object to him paying her rent. One thing has really ruined things for Crunch: a curse. One day Crunch and his boys beat up a fiend who had tried to make off with thei...

 Last of the Comae engine characters. A mob goon, or perhaps the muscle you need for your heist. Let's hear from Niko.   “People tend to think that I am stupid. Cruel, mean-spirited, but ultimately simple. Easy to lead or dupe. I can play that part, if I need to. Play up the vacant stare, the Russian accent (Georgian, but what do people know?). When people think they have me rooked, I kick their head in. A direct approach is not a stupid one.  If I should hit the big score, I want to set up a restaurant serving trans-Caucasian cuisine. I can cook too. Another preconception crushed." Nikoloz “Colossus” Gelashvili Awareness 30 Combat 50 Focus: Unarmed Cunning 30 Knowledge 30 Focus: Cooking Move  30 Focus: Brawn Science 05 Social 05 Tech 30 Willpower 30 Focus: Circle (Kansas City Mafia, uneasy business relationship) Focus: Person (Marcello, mentor) Tags: #Streetwise, #Membership (Kansas City Mafia) BODY 16 INT 12 POW 14 CHA 10 Luck points: 2

  People are dumb on the internet. They posture, believe what they read, and forget everything about the distinction between public and private information. They're so ripe to be plucked that it's almost unsporting to take their money. That's never stopped Valerie Robinson though. A rube is something you decide to be. Val is a nice, smiling lady of around sixty-seven. Looking at her, you wouldn't credit that she used to be a phone phreaker, wrote a few articles for Abbie Hoffmann's YIPL, and possibly even briefly dated someone who went on to found Apple. Her early background is pretty much a mystery, but she will cop to being of the Canuck persuasion. Val soon discovered that life was so much more pleasant taking people's money than worrying about 'beating the Man'. Toll fraud, phone scams, Val did it all. Do not underestimate. When the internet came along, it was like a license to print money. For several years she managed to siphon off astronomical amo...