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Inspector Everett Wylde

Having spent 5 years on the force, thus far, Wylde has taken on the look of many Blade Runners.

Tired. Eyes that stare. Rumpled.

They can't help it - it's the job. It just gets to you.

For Everett though, there is a deeper meaning to his long stares. It is the reason he does the damned job. Not that it drives him daily, but the death of his parents is a constant reminder of what it's all about. He was 16 at the time when they were located - naked and signs of brutal trauma. They had left the evening of the day prior to attend a city gala. Everett remembered his mother's doting over his father's appearance, and how she had worn such an elegant dress.

Timothy Wylde worked in the DA's office and was involved with a big case. Of course it was about drugs. LA had made several crackdown's on the local gangs that were supplying the largest quantities of heroin to the streets. Timothy, one of the Assistant DA's, was preparing the case against Hector 'Hoja' Guarez, leader of the La Sangre Unida.

Everett remembers getting a copy of the medical examiner's report and reading the clinical words that described the atrocities done upon his parents - ligature, antemortem, polytrauma, invasive, heinous. Those words still ring within his memories.

He cannot say it was the sole reason he joined the academy after finishing school, but Everett was zealous in his pursuit to make inspector - and here he is. The death of his parents is still an open case and Everett keeps a copy of the file in his apartment. When the time allows from the day to day work, he opens the coffe-stained manila jacket and reads through it all, and it comes back to one name, for him - Deb Mertz. She was the key witness in the DA's case against Guarez.

With his parents' death, the case unraveled and Ms. Mertz disappeared. It has been 15 years. Is she dead? Did the state turn her over to the Feds and she now has a new name and life? Did she end up in a back alley, too, naked and bound with baling wire? Did she have the answers as to why?

Everett suppresses these questions, even as he twists his father's ring around his finger - always fidgeting.

There is work to do.

Testing the new post icons

 
 

If you guys want to, I have updated the code for the DICE roller button .

If you click the button, it will auto-fill the following:

[size =8pt][b ]Skill:[/ b] [i ]enter[/ i] :d#: :d#:[/ size]
[ro11]1d#,1d#[/ro11]
#

You will need to change enter to the skill name and then all "#" symbols to the appropriate number (12, 10, 8, or 6). The last "#" symbol you will change to the damage amount of the weapon.

Hey Doug, the changes you've made look great!

Speaking of changes, though, I wonder whether you'd like to take another pass at Wylde's sheet.  THIS ISN'T A REQUIREMENT - he's fine as he is - but I've compared his sheet and Crowe's and while they're not identical, they definitely have the same stronger and weaker areas.  The perils of using the same archetype, I guess.

If he's exactly the way you envisioned him, that's fine. There'll be plenty of opportunities for all three characters to distinguish themselves from each other. 

Having said that, the new heading and background are showing up on my phone browser (Firefox) but not my laptop (also Firefox???).  Not sure what's going on there, or if anyone else is seeing the same difference.

If nobody has anything to add to the narrative (and I'm leaving spaces for you to do that) I'll put another post up tonight moving the story on.

I didn't know Tom went with an Inspector, too. I will look at a re-write of my stats.

Sorry, Paul - this game is kicking off the same week that I am doing final prep for our RPG game week in NC. I will get this character re-tooled as soon as I can. If you need to start the game and bring Wylde in in a future scene, I am fine with that.

I thought it might be something like that!  Yeah, I'll bring Wylde in later - let's let the first two do all the scut work at the crime scene.

EDIT:  I've cleared my cache and now the site looks like it's supposed to. 

So, uh, I probably should've checked whether overt bigotry was going to be an issue for anyone, given how central a theme race and racism are to the Blade Runner franchise.

While I'm on the subject, and given that we're starting this game in 2026 and not the dark ages, are there any subjects, themes or whatever that anyone really doesn't want to appear in the game (at least on screen)?  If so, no need to explain why - just post here (or PM me) so I know not to go there. 

Hey Paul, there is no theme, subject, word, or setting that you could use or say that would cause me any offense. Whatever you need to do to paint a story is fine with me.

I'm mostly with Doug. I think that there are some inherent bits in the setting that open this up more in Blade Runner.

I'm comfortable with adult themes language and portrayals if they fit the setting, location, and story as long as they dont get explicit or gratuitous.

Bigotry is very real in this setting and harder to mask behind orcs and goblins (who should be slain outright). In fact what is human is a core aspect of this game, as is the trauma of memory, and how peoples perceptions are changed.

CHAT GPT cant stop me from using "clankers" just yet. 

Same for me. I expect Elle will be the target of a lot of abuse. I agree with Tom. It feels like we wouldn't be telling the story right if there wasn't an exploration of bigotry and what gives life value and freedom.

It was so awesome to see how you portrayed Varela and IRIS, because when I was creating them, I had imagined their relationship being almost the opposite. Anyway, I loved it.

I also just finished running my boys through a 5e Eberron campaign where they played goblinoids, heir to the mighty Dhakaani Empire, who believed their species were superior to all others, and who experienced more than a little hatred and distain from the rest of the world. Such an interesting topic to explore.

Hehe... just read your game post, Tom... "LE1, go see what you can find for my department."

Nice.

Lol, yeah he has an issue too! I messed around a little with the possessive pronouns to convey that effect. He thinks replicants are tools, not quite can admit they may be people, but he follows the rules and believes in law and order. The department says she is a detective so she is one.

He also recognizes she has senses and abilities he does not so using her to see the crime scene while he deals with the people, who also dont like her, he figured was the best approach.

Thanks guys.  Just wanted to make sure I wasn't blindly poking around at anyone's hot buttons. 

Doug, I know you're neck-deep in organising/enjoying your time in Ca'lahnuh.  Just let me know when you're ready to jump in and I'll find an excuse.