Dr. Elaine Litchfield

Dr. Elaine Litchfield

Attributes

Intelligence 4, Wits 3, Resolve 1; Strength 2, Dexterity 2, Stamina 2; Presence 3, Manipulation 2, Composure 2

Skills

Mental: Academics 3 (Anthropology, Research), Investigation 2, Medicine 1, Occult 1(Cultural Beliefs), Politics 1, Science 3(Biology) Physical: Athletics 2(Long Distance Running), Brawl 1, Drive 1, Survival 1 Social: Empathy 1, Expression 2, Persuasion 1, Socialize 1

Merits

Mental: Professional Training 3 (Professor), Trained Observer 1 Physical: None Social: Resources 2, Striking Looks 1, Status (University of Astoria) 2 Fighting: None Supernatural: None

Advantages

Health: 7, Willpower: 3, Size: 5, Speed: 9, Defense: 4 (Armor: None), Initiative: 4

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Current Conditions

Spooked You're creeped out and fascinated by a brush with the supernatural Possible Sources: Exposure to something uncanny. Resolution: This Condition is resolved when your character’s fear and fascination causes her to do something that hinders the group or complicates things (she goes off alone to investigate a strange noise, stays up all night researching, runs away instead of holding her ground, etc.).

Background

Born: Month day, 1979 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Her father is a corporate lawyer and her mother is a University Professor.

Education and Career

• • Dual B.S. Anthropology and Biology From Yale 1997-2001
  • Masters in Anthroplogy 2001 - 2003
  • Doctorate in Bioarcheology from Oxford 2003 - 2006
  • Associate Professor of Anthropology
  • Professor of Anthropology at University of Astoria 2011 to now

The Irish Dig

While Elaine was finishing her Doctoral Thesis at Oxford, a hiker at the Conigar Bog Natural Heritage Area in Ireland saw a hand sticking up out of one the Peat bogs. Dr. Henry Braddock, Elaine and several other graduate students traveled to Ireland to extract the bodies in order to identify the remains. While there Elaine could not shake the feeling that they were all being watched. During the recovery of the bodies she noticed what appeared to be the remains of some sort of rope that looked to have been used to bind them, either at the time of death or shortly before. The dig to recover the bodies was also plagued by numerous accidents and other incidents.

When they returned to Oxford with the cadavers, Elaine was one of the principal researchers investigating them. She found several anomalies on them, indicating that they were human like but not quite human. I am leaving this intentionally vague so that there is flexibility on what they actually were. When she shared her findings with Dr. Braddock, he insisted that there must have been a mistake in her tests or methodology. Elaine remembers returning to the laboratory to redo her tests yet again. The next thing she remembers was waking up in one of the rooms of Littlemore Mental Health Centre. She was informed that after her discussion of with Dr. Braddock she began behaving strangely. Over the next two days her behavior became increasingly erratic, and culminated in her attacking one of her colleagues.

She spent the next several weeks under observation as she tried to convince her doctors of her own sanity. She even agreed with her doctors that her mental issues must have started before she ran the tests, and that obviously and strange findings were the results of her own delusions. Once she was out she put her name on the paper that Dr. Braddock published, showing that the people in the bog were likely prisoners killed around the 13th century. This paper did not have any mention of any of the anomalies she had found.

Elaine does not have any solid memories of her missing time, but she does have occasional nightmares.

Game starts in fall 2012

Rumors

• Dr. Litchfield is sleeping with her TA.
• She moved to Asotria because she was caught screwing a student.
• Dr. Litchfield has spent time in a mental hospital in England.

Personality

• Virtue: Explorer, Regain willpower when you make a discovery at risk to yourself.
• Vice: Obsessive, Regain willpower when you focus on main interests to the exclusion of something else.
• Aspirations:
  • Discover the nature of the Skeletal Remains from the Dun Gealach dig in Ireland.
  • Life
  • Gain access to the Native America burial ground in Astoria.
• Integrity: 6

Breaking Points

• What is the worst thing your character has ever done? Sacrificing her integrity for advancement.
  Elaine Falsified Scientific Research in order to avoid damaging her Career.
• What is the worst thing your character can imagine herself doing? Taking sexual advantage of someone Elaine has authority over.
  Elaine can picture herself having an affair with one of her students or TA's and she knows that it is unacceptable behavior. She has been tempted more then once.
• What is the worst thing your character can imagine someone else doing? Witnessing deliberate violence with an intent to harm.
  The worst thing my character can imagine and understand is Intentionally causing physical harm to someone. She was a Rugby player. she knows how good violence can feel.
• What has the character forgotten? The sensation of being watched.
  My character cannot remember the two days before she was sent to Littlemore.
• What is the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to the character? Being Forcibly Confined.
  Elaine spent 3 weeks at Littlemore Mental hospital after the Irish Dig Incident.

Equipment

• Possessions: Small Notebook, Pocket Tape Recorder, Camera(Film)
• Weapons: x
• Other Notes: X

Merit Details

Professional Training 3: Asset skills are Academics, Science, Investigation.

• 1: 2 Dots of Contacts (Academics, Native American Tribes)
• 2: When making a roll with her Asset Skills, she benefits from the 9-again quality.
• 3: Third Asset skill, +2 specialties

Resources 2:
Striking Looks 1: +1 to any social rolls that would benefit from looks.
Status(University of Astoria) 2:

• 1: You gain a bonus equal to the dots in this Merit to all social rolls with the university's staff and student body.
• 2: Area of Expertise Merit (Biology Specialty add +2 Dice)

Trained Observer 1: Any time you make a Perception roll (usually Wits + Composure), you benefit from the 9-again quality.

Friends and Family

Family

• Y Litchfield, Elaine's Father, a Lawyer in New Hampshire
• Dr. Samantha Litchfield-Wolcott, Elaine's Mother, A professor of X at the University of New Hampshire (Manchester)

Friends

• Avery Wendley - UofA Student Advisor. Elaine's friend and occasional lover. He wants something much more serious then what they have. They go out once every couple of weeks or so, if Elaine has the time.

Colleagues

• Dr. Henry Braddock - Professor of Bioarcheology at Oxford. He was Elaines Thesis Mentor, and was there with her at the Irish Incident.

Students

• Renee McDonnall - Anthropology and English Major. Very bright but she doesn't apply herself in class the way she could.

PC Connections

• Stella - Pot Dealer.
• Warner - knows Warner from the GSA(Gay Straight Alliance), she is trying to mentor him.

Lifestyle

A description of your characters day to day life.

• Money: Elaine has little spare money. Most of her salary is going into her house, and the rest of it tends to be put into books and clothing. She keeps a gym bag in her office with a running outfit and shoes.
• Clothing & Jewelry: Elaine typically wears slacks and a silk blouse with a few pieces of antique silver jewelry. Some of her jewelry was inherited from her grandmother.
• Communication: Elaine has an older iPhone that she mostly uses to make phone calls and play music. She will communicates via phone or email, but much prefers to talk to people in person. She corresponds with several friends across the country via email.
• Food:
• Housing: Elaine lives in a small Victorian House located at X and X. She has only recently moved in to the house, and it is still filled with numerous boxes. Bookshelves line most bare patch's of wall,
• Days: Elaine starts her day with a morning run. While at work she splits her time between the classroom, her office, and her small lab in the Richmond Science Centre. She typically eats lunch in her office or at a table near the quad. She tends to stay at the campus in her lab or her office until fairly late in the evening, working to the sound of Metal and Punk music.
  • Elaine is the Faculty adviser for the Gay Straight Alliance.
• Evenings: Elaine spends most evenings at home, reading a wide variety of nonfiction books and papers, mostly focused on her fields of study. She watches next to no TV, and what little she watches is either British or a documentary.
• Weekends:
• Current Classes: Fall 2012 Class Source
  • Anthropology 200, General Anthropology - Large Lecture Class. Introduction to the four subfields of anthropology (sociocultural, biological, linguistic and archaeology) through analyses of the cultural, social and biological dimensions of human variation. Appropriate first course for students considering major or minor in anthropology as well as nonmajors fulfilling general education requirement.
  • Anthropology 230, Human Sexuality and Culture Large Lecture Class. This course examines aspects of sexuality from a cross-cultural viewpoint and traces the development of an individual's sexuality and sexual identity. Sexual anatomy and functioning, gender roles and the interplay of behavior and sexual ethics are discussed.
  • Anthropology 352, Skeleton Keys: Forensic Identification - Small Laboratory class. Survey of forensic anthropology, an applied field of biological anthropology, focusing the wider scope of skeletal biology on problems of medicolegal significance, primarily in determining personal identity and cause of death from human remains.

Experience

Character Experiences

• Current Beats: 4 • Unspent Experiences: 0 • Spent Experiences: 0

Experiences Earned

• June 25th: 1 beat • July 9th: 3 beats

Purchases

None