Howard Drummond
Corporeal Forces: 1 Strength: 2 Agility: 2
Ethereal Forces: 3 Intelligence: 6 Precision: 6
Celestial Forces: 1 Will: 2 Perception: 2
Charisma +1
Skills: Artistry/6 (writing), Emote/3, Knowledge
(Roman customs/6, Research/3), Languages (Latin/3,
Greek/2)
Professor Drummond is your stereotypical academic:
very smart, very focussed on his own interests, and
not particularly interested in much outside of them.
In this case, his interests begin and end with the
ancient Romans.
However, the Professor is a little worried about
modern life, and the way it seems to ignore the past
and its lessons. Especially troubling to him is that
nobody seems to have any continuity anymore: for
example, for a culture that has such a definite
interest in death, Western society seems bound and
determined to discard everybody that actually has
experienced that state permanently. The ancient
Romans were wiser: they would have holidays where the
dead were honored, respected, and most importantly,
remembered. If modern man spent less time obsessing
over the mechanisms of death and more time trying to
get a perspective on its meaning, people would
probably be happier. They'd certainly be able to
handle their own eventual demises better.
All of this wouldn't be important, of course, if it
weren't for the fact that Professor Drummond happens
to be a good public speaker and a better writer. His
book on the subject hit the nonfiction best seller
lists immediately, not to mention solid critical and
academic acclaim (something not seen every day), and
his suggestion of a national day of contemplation
seems to have stricken a chord with the public. Being
a Roman scholar, naturally he picked the Festival of
Faunus as a suitable date - and that's where the
trouble started.
Celestials are suspicious entities. Professor
Drummond practically screams "secret Pagan Soldier" to
even the mildly paranoid. He's not (actually, Howard
is a practicing Lutheran): the man has never heard
about the War, doesn't really believe in angels or
demons, and has no potential for a sixth Force. He is
firmly and simply just a normal academic with no
aptitude and less interest in the supernatural.
Try telling that, though, to the ethereals, pagan
Soldiers, Sorcerers and various Servitors who have
begun to go over his life with a fine tooth comb. The
more they vainly look for hidden affiliations, the
more they persist in their delusion that the professor
is a secret agent for someone. At the moment, the
general consensus is that he's personally working for
either a Superior or a major ethereal god: that, and
the fact that everybody has a different agenda, has
kept him fairly safe. Of course, that's no guarantee
that such a standoff is going to be permanent.
Meanwhile, his classes have begun to get the most
_interesting_ transfer students...
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