Oz

Theodore Oswald Carmichael DoB: 11/24/1976

Attributes

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

Skills

Mental: Academics 3, Computer 1, Crafts 2, Investigation 2, Medicine 1, Politics 1 Physical: Athletics 1, Brawl 1, Firearms 2, Larceny 1, Survival 1, Weaponry 2 Social: Animal Ken 1, Expression 1, Persuasion 2

Merits

Patient, Resources 2, Staff 1 (persuasion), Defensive Combat (weaponry), Armed Defense, Interdisciplinary Specialty

Advantages

Health: 8, Willpower: 4, Size: 5, Speed: 10, Defense: 4 (Armor: xxx), Initiative: 5

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Current Conditions

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Background

Age: 37
Oz was born and raised in Detroit. He owns and manages Paxton & Carmichael's Vintage Emporium and lives in a basement apartment he rents from his grandmother. He has two sisters, one younger and one older with a family of her own, all of whom he sees with fair frequency. His father resides in a psychiatric hospital and his estranged mother lives in Atlanta. Oz is passionate about games of strategy, especially miniature war gaming and war reenactments, though he plays an assortment of other sorts of games and is moderately active in the SCA and larp scene due to friends. He is a regular at the hobby shop, The War Room, where his closest friend "Wookie" works. He maintains a small social circle that he sees regularly and gets along well enough with his employees at the antique store. Oz suffers from clinical narcolepsy, generally manifesting as general insomnia, frequent and often unplanned naps and cataplexy when he is stressed. He and his grandmother share custody of nine cats and a pomeranian.

Personality

• Virtue: Dedicated
  Always focus on the goal, the goal is Jesus, Starbucks, and your winning lottery ticket. You can't let setbacks and opposition distract you, stick to the plan and if that fails, use a new plan. If you keep on trudging forward, you will succeed.
• Vice: Escapism
  Fuck it. It's too much. I'm done. Done with you, done with this world, done with everything. I'm off to harvest vespene gas with my good buddies Napoleon and Pikachu.
• Aspirations: List three short-to-medium term goals for your character. These may be in any arena of his life she considers important.
  • Discover the truth behind the incident that resulted in his father's condition.
  • Find a way to increase his business.
  • Meet and go out on a date with a nice, stable, relative sane guy, preferably who can drive.
• Integrity: 7
• Breaking Points:
  • Being responsible for accidentally harming another.
  • Intentionally causing physical injury to another.
  • Seeing someone bully or otherwise harm someone weaker than themselves.
  • People who suddenly start acting crazy.
  • Feelings of abandonment.

Equipment

• Possessions: Oz usually carries the following when he's not at home or work: messenger bag, smart phone, Nintendo 3DS, tablet computer, wireless headphones, couple of composition books, pens, pencils, misc. paints, brushes & miniatures, a book or two, wallet, keys, condoms, multi-tool, expandable baton, an assortment of snacks and as many cups of coffee that he can chug while none of his peers can see him.
• Weapons: Oz owns a rifle that he keeps in the store and a pistol he keeps at home in his nightstand. There are numerous archaic weapons, from daggers to claymores, crossbows to antique shotguns that are for sale in the store. The only weapon he actively ever has on his person is a knife (part of his multi-tool, for utility, not violence) and an expandable baton (for trying to reach things he's too lazy to get up for and also for violence).
• Other Notes: X

Flaws

• Flaw: Narcolepsy. While genetic in nature, the origin of its severity is assumed to be rooted in whatever trauma caused him to black out and repress the memories of the night his father went insane when he was a young man. Psychiatrists and neurologists have not made any progress in opening that shut doorway in his memory. He takes medication to ease the symptoms, but too much fear or excitement can cause him to become sluggish and slur his speech due to the onset of cataplexy. He also suffers from the common side effect of chronic insomnia and lives in a constant state of juggling sudden naps and wakefulness, with day and night cycles having far less meaning to him than it does to others.

Merit Details

• Patient: Patience is often a key virtue in pulling off successful strategies.
• Resources 2: Oz's income comes from the antique shop he owns and operates, "Paxton & Carmichael's Vintage Emporium", or more commonly referred to as "PAC's Emporium". The store has been in his family for several generations when he became a partner alongside his uncle Geoffrey and they added his name to the business. His uncle passed away three years ago from heart failure and Oz has managed the store with a small staff of employees since. The store primarily deals in purchasing and sales of a variety of antiques and oddities, but also offers restoration and refurbishing services, most of which Oz does himself.
• Staff 1 (Persuasion): The sales and service staff of PAC's Emporium. Most of them were hired by his late uncle and have worked at the store for years. Where they are lacking in genuine knowledge of the merchandise, they make up for it in their charm and absurd ability to convince people that THAT item happens to be the most important thing they do not yet own. Yet.
• Defensive Combat (Weaponry): Sometimes mock battles can get genuinely dangerous and it's best to learn a few moves to keep yourself out of harms way. Also, supremely handy if you live in Detroit.
• Armed Defense: It's a cliché for a reason; sometimes the best offense is a good defense.
• Interdisciplinary Specialty: Oz was winning against his grandmother at chess when he was four years old. He graduated college with a masters in military sciences, though he was unable to enlist in the military due to his medical condition (narcolepsy). He is heavily involved in a variety of reenactment and war gaming organizations, plays strategic computer/console games and hosts chess and board game nights at the psychiatric hospital where his father lives. As his brain seems to be hard wired in this manner, he has learned to practically apply this expertise to every aspect of his life.

Friends and Family

Family

• Allison Prescott: Mother
  Allison was born to be fabulous, destined for fortune and lived for style. Sebastian was her third husband. She spent more time with her friends than with her family, but when she did it was often as part of a spectacle - to show how lovely and absolutely perfect and picturesque her family was to her peers. Her husband was always working, so she would dress her children up in finery and parade them around like the latest in fashion accessories. As they got older, she became more and more disenchanted with the novelty of family and children, and they saw less of her. Three days after Sebastian became ill, she left. The children received a post card from her a few months later from Florida, it simply said, "It's better this way for all of us." A few years later Jessica oversaw the legal divorce between their parents at her mothers request. She was remarrying soon. They were all invited to the wedding, but only Jessica attended. They talk on the phone occasionally, but Oz and Becca do not communicate with her.
• Sebastian Carmichael: Father
  Sebastian was not a great father, but he was a good father. He cared and provided for his family, he supported his wife, though it was never really enough for her, he worked hard as an investigative reporter for the local paper. He had a pretty good shot at becoming editor one day. He was generally treated as a fond pet by his wife's society peers. Then one night he became forever lost. He entered a police station carrying his unconscious son, they were both bloodied, though neither was injured. He kept repeating a phrase over and over, "I can't find the keys. Find the keys. Can't. Get the keys." He has remained in a similar state ever since, though medication quiets him. When his son awoke, he had no memory of whatever incident had led them to this state, though he would suffer from narcolepsy the rest of his days. Police identified the blood as human, but never found any evidence of an affiliated crime or injury to link the blood to.
• Jessica Carmichael: Sister, Older
  Jessica is 43, married to John Carmichael (she insisted that he change his name to hers), has two daughters, Alicia and Christina, and one son, Sebastian. Jessica is a psychiatrist. Oz and Becca both agree that she was born a shrink and has spent her entire life practicing her craft on her family. She insists that they all stay strong together as a family, especially after their mother left. She hosts family gatherings and commands them all to attend to monthly family visits to their father. She is critical and judging of her siblings lives, which makes for them being less keen on seeing her. She often seems to love the concept of family more than the reality of its parts. Oz has seen her, though, when she thinks no one else is watching, she cries, she worries, she cares.
• Rebecca Carmichael: Sister, Younger
  Becca is 27 years old, wears all black, never smiles, thinks she is smarter than everyone, very likely IS smarter than everyone, she writes code, hacks computers and designs digital viruses for entertainment. She is passionate about her loathing for politicians and government in general. She is the store manager at a Taco Bell in Detroit. Oz and Becca are very fond of each other, though they have little common interests to speak of. Sometimes they just get food together and eat in relative silence, just to be around each other. She gains a great deal of joy in painting his toenails. He refuses to let her pain his fingernails.
• Helena Paxton: Grandmother
  Oz's maternal grandmother and landlady. Oz rents her basement apartment and helps her with various tasks and errands. Helena is a quiet elderly woman, who insists on cooking his dinners for him to this day. She spends most of her time watching a variety of television, but has become enthralled with the advent of reality programs. Oz has lived with his grandmother since his father became ill and mother left when he was in his late teens. Together, they have adopted nine cats and one pomeranian named Boudica.

Friends

• Ted "Wookie" Matthews: Platonic Life Partner and The War Room Manager Wookie manages the hobby shop that Oz frequents. They met in college, have lived together on and off again, and have maintained their bromantic relationship ever since. Wookie is a fantasy and sci-fi fandom nut, and is responsible for most of Oz's popular geek education, having dragged him off to see countless movies with elves and vulcans. He's a prince or duke or something in the SCA and has a girlfriend in Korea he's never actually met. Oz and Wookie made out once, they were both very drunk. They awkwardly agreed the next morning to never speak of it again and both have held up their side of the agreement, though Wookie has remained inappropriately touchy every since.
• Felicia Wozniak: Ex-Beard Felicia was Oz's high school girlfriend and the first person he had ever come out of the closet to. And he was the first person she ever came out of her closet to, just afterwards - both of them relieved at the mutual revelations. They continued their convenient dating scam until college when they both came out to the world. Felicia is a tattoo artist. Her girlfriend is Satan. Actually her name is Angela, she's a barber, but Satan suites her better. She hates Oz, Felicia loves him. They have agreed to disagree on the matter. Felicia is foul mouthed, hyper, adventurous and high spirited. She will occasionally indulge in some of Oz's more active "nerdy shit", usually live action events and festivals, where his buddy Wookie follows her around like an adoring puppy.
• Khalida Errai: Ex-Coworker Quiet, tiny little Khalida worked at Starbucks with Oz before he partnered up with his uncle at the antique store. She says little and listens to everything. She seems to live off of coffee and those little packets of peanut butter or cheese crackers. She likes to watch television or movies in the company of others, but generally remains quiet, expressing herself with so few carefully chosen quiet words. She had a boyfriend for a while, Charles, he was the blackest man Oz had ever seen and stood over seven feet in height. Khalida isn't even five feet tall. He was equally quiet. It was unnerving. No one knows what happened to Charles. He just stopped being around. You learn to accept Khalida as she is, knowing that no wealth of information is likely to be forthcoming.
• Abel Roslyakova: Ex-Boyfriend Oz and Abel were together for seven years. They had their ups and downs, both cheated on the other at some point in the relationship, then they opened the relationship, and a year or so later, they concluded it. Oz and Abel remain friends, though Abel was always much more social and outgoing than Oz was, enjoying a more varied and sizable circle of friends, none of which have anything in common with Oz. Abel is fond of hearing himself talk, much more than he enjoys hearing anyone that is not him talking and dominates conversations if given the chance. Felicia isn't very fond of him, but tolerates his annoying overblown ego for Oz's sake. Wookie and Abel generally try to avoid being in the same room as Wookie had put Abel in the hospital when it was discovered he was cheating on Oz.
• Robert: Oz knows Robert very well. He originally knew him casually from the SCA circuit and similar festivals at first and later Oz began to occasionally contract Robert for his forging and metalworking skill and knowledge. That' when Oz met Robert's brother, __________. They hit it off and started dating, which initially caused a little distance to form between Oz and Robert. They moved in together, got a pomeranian and everything was just swell. Robert even warmed up to the idea in time. The relationship ended very, very poorly and with a great deal of drama, yelling, shattered dishware, curious neighbors, a forfeited rental deposit and Ox's bicycle run over multiple times by a car. __________ left and kept going, never returning to Michigan. Oz and his little dog moved in with his grandmother. Robert and Oz remained friends, much to the fury of his brother.
• Eloise Danford: Oz views Miss Danford as a bizarre fae entity. He doesn't understand her. As a child he and his sisters were convinced that she was a strange fae witch, like Maleficent. As an adult...he's pretty sure she's actually a faerie witch. She's old posh, traditional society, an older non-evil version of what his mother strove to become. She had been close to his mother when he was young and took a great deal of interest in him and his sisters when their father became ill and their mother left them. She suddenly stepped in to help in whatever ways she could, much to their grandmother's eternal gratitude, for she barely had enough money to feed and clothe them all. He and his sisters began to refer to her as their Faerie Godmother, but never to her face, she might leave them each spindles in their rooms while they slept. As an adult Oz is grateful to this odd old woman who chose to be there when his family needed help the most. And so he tries to return the favor and show his gratitude as often as he can, even if that means attending her horribly boring social dinners.

Coworkers & Professional Contacts

• Marcus Caine: PAC's Emporium Employee Marcus considers himself to be a fashion diva and is always standing tip toe on the top of the mountain of current fashion trends. He generally has a new girlfriend every other week, his interest in each of them expiring as easily as it does with an article of his wardrobe, often BECAUSE of how they clash with his newest designer jacket.
• Krista Smith: PAC's Emporium Employee Krista is a mousy little woman in her early 30's who dresses like she's 80. She reads anything and everything, is constantly eating, though due to her humming bird metabolism, she remains as thin as a Tiffany lamp.
• Anton Shields: PAC's Emporium Employee Anton reinvents himself frequently. He's a DJ, then a masseuse, then a writer, no, a poet, then he's obsessed with theater, gaming, early childhood education, radio, modeling, last week he wanted to become a part time wedding planner. This week he is writing online reviews for muscle cars. The emporium has always been his safe constant from where he can always reinvent himself.
• Joe Masters: Oz knows Joe professionally, as her uncle owns the gun store that he relies on as an occasional consultant regarding antique firearms that his shop receives or when he needs restoration or repair work done that he cannot do himself.

Lifestyle

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• Money: What spare money Oz has he generally sinks into his hobbies. War gaming and reenactment props and costuming tend to be rather expensive, though he is occasionally fortunate that his business manifests things he is looking for.
• Clothing & Jewelry: Practical and comfortable, preferring button up shirts and jeans. He wears glasses, a Fitbit wristband that his sister Jessica got him for Christmas and his fathers wedding ring on a cord around his neck. He does a lot of walking, so he wears practical shoes, which hide his painted toenails that his younger sister finds great delight in maintaining.
• Communication: He doesn't like using texting or e-mail outside of business applications, preferring to talk on the phone or in person.
• Food: Energy bars, coffee (although nearly everyone in his life tries to deny this to him, even his employees!), peanut butter (universal perfect food and condiment), tic-tacs, fast food and Grandma's cooking every night for dinner.
• Housing:Basement apartment in grandmother's home. He also has a small crash space in the back office of the antique shop.
• Days: Open up the shop and eat horribly, do some work, work on hobbies, do a little more work, spend most of the time on his hobbies and let the staff do the work. Do a little bookkeeping then go home early and let someone else lock up. Hit his favorite hobby shop on the way home. Spend far more time and money there than he intended to. Weekends are largely the same unless there are any festivals or events he is attending, though he accompanies his grandmother to her Mormon church on Sunday mornings
• Evenings: Eat dinner with Grandma. Work on hobbies, watch a little television, read a book or play games. Wednesdays is game night at the hobby shop. Thursdays he hosts board game night at the psychiatric hospital. Some weekends he has events or festivals. Due to his condition, he doesn't spend a large chunk of time sleeping as it's scattered throughout both day and night, so his activities generally span his conscious time throughout both day and night cycles without prejudice.

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