Okay, as promised here is the Character Building thread for Spirit of the Century -FTB There are two empty slots at this point. So far secured players are DrMikey, Necronomitron, and pkalata. I am sorry I am going to keep the group to five players. I simply do not want to over extend myself - you understand

Just a note: I will likely make a number of smaller posts just so I can get things out, I am not the fastest/best typist, or a grammatical or spelling genius. I will put Mr Green up at least when I check in, and don't have anything to add, just so you know that I have been in and checked things out. Please do the same please just so we all know we are up to date
Thanks

From the GM:
It is not important for character to be a member of the The Century Club, just a loose affiliation, though being sponsored, or providing services to the club will be sufficient for the characters involvement. It is being included here as part of the default setting to get the game going.

Here is what you can do for the next couple of days, while I gather myself.

Character Creation:
1.) Think about your character concept – Though you can come up with most anything ideas include things like Academic, Explorer, Gadget Guy, Gentleman Criminal, Man of Mystery, Operator (Agent), Plucky Reporter, Primitive/Foreigner, Science Hero, Scientist, Two-Fisted Pilot
2.) Make up a cool pulp name for your character.
3.) Go thru the three Phases below:
1. Background – Youth to age 14 or so. What are your characters beginnings
2. The Great War – What did your character do during the war, enlist, spy ?
3. Your Novel! - Character name in/vs./and Adventurous Thing a quick paragraph about the story leave room to let some others have a guest part in it.
We will cover the last two phases of Guest spots as more of a group once we have a few Character novels.

Also... Isn't Mikel in on this?

ACH ! YES of course. Sorry Mikel you were first to pitch in!

That makes one slot open

1.) Character Concept:

Man of Mystery

2.) Make up a cool pulp name for your character.

Captain Blackstone, Leader of the Phantom Brigade

3.) 1. Background – Youth to age 14 or so. What are your characters beginnings

Leland Blackstone grew up in the small town of Redkey, Indiana, known for the Red Key painted on the water tower at the train depot. The town wasn't *much* more than that train depot, though. His father left his mother when he was 8, leaving her broken-hearted and scandalized. She never recovered. Leland's mother worked as a laundress and maid at a boarding house, and from a young age he worked shoveling coal at the train depot, leaving him unusually strong. On his 14th birthday, his mother committed suicide. Leland hopped a train and never looked back.

First Aspect: Abandonment Issues Second Aspect: Thews Of Iron

2. The Great War – What did your character do during the war, enlist, spy ?

Leland rode the rails and ended up in Cleveland, where he hopped a tramp steamer headed for England. When war broke out, he tried lying about his age and nationality, and enlisting as infantry, but they wouldn't accept him--him being too young and a yank--so he found his way out into the battlefields and donned the gear of a dead soldier, joining the battles. He gathered a few boys from towns who were also too young to serve and created the "Phantom Brigade." By the time the US entered the war, he'd already been fighting for years, gaining a reputation for his heroism and bravery, attaining a somewhat legendary status. After Armistice Day, he was approached by the newly formed League of Nations to become an operative for them. He politely declined, remarking that he and his Phantom Brigade seemed to be more effective on their own. He agreed to work with them, should they ever need it, though, and the Phantom Brigade travels the world defending freedom and fighting tyranny everywhere.

First Aspect: In The Thick Of It Second Aspect: The Phantom Brigade!

3. Your Novel! - Character name in/vs./and Adventurous Thing a quick paragraph about the story leave room to let some others have a guest part in it.

Captain Blackstone and the Phantom Brigade in the Volcanic Temple of Fire

A cryptic message from a dying shipwreck victim leads Captain Blackstone and the trusty Phantom Brigade to a remote Pacific island dominated by a volcano, the secret home of the Fire Temple. The evil Doktor Totentanz used his hypno-ray to enslave the simple islanders, convincing them that he was their Fire God, Unu-hunnu, swaying them to build him a giant hypno-ray to enslave the Earth, using the volcano as a power source. With a few minor skirmishes and setbacks, Captain Blackstone and the Phantom Brigade destroy both hypno-ray guns. In order to get away, Doktor Totentanz presses a button, causing the volcano to erupt. Forced to choose between rescuing the natives and capturing Totentanz, Captain Blackstone is forced to allow Totentanz to escape in his armored zeppelin. Unfortunately, Percy Wainwright of the Phantom brigade bravely sacrifices his life in order to strategically place a boulder that will divert the flow of lava and allow the villagers time to the Phantom's airship, and Blackstone vows vengeance!

First Aspect: A Little Bird Told Me Second Aspect: I Will Have Vengeance!

@DrMikey: Great start, I like the character, though via the story thus far Cap Blackstone seems to be more of an Operator than a Man of Mystery.
If you have your heart set on a MoM then I think we need to rework the back story a bit get a bit more...exotic... and adopt a separate persona.
But as is, I like him as an Operator, well connected and working for the ideals that naturally lead him against the forces of darkness!

The only reason I chose MoM over Operator was that he doesn't work exclusively for anyone. I think you're right, though. Operator seems a better fit.

I don't have my notes with me but I've had a character in mind for some time. A more detailed write up will follow later. It requires a few minor rewrites of history but it's not so much that any of us would really notice, I think. He can be summed up basically as "kung fu Tarzan."

George Campbell, the 8th Duke of Argyll, died in April 1900. Word went to his eldest son, John, who was the ambassador to Imperial China at the time and besieged by the Boxer Rebellion. John never did return to Scotland to be formally recognized as the Ninth Duke. He and his wife, Clara, were killed during before they were able to flee Beijing. Their infant son, known as Ian, was spirited away by the Shaolin monk and doctor Wong Kei-ying, one of the Ten Tigers of Canton. The baby Ian, then the rightful 10th Duke of Argyll, was spared the fate of so many foreigners.

Ian was taken to a secret temple high in the mountains, where the secret arts of Shaolin kung fu were kept. There he was raised without knowledge of his lineage or station.

Insert kung fu version of Tarzan here...

Now THAT is a Man of Mystery...