A Dark Cloud Over London/Captain Daniel Crow

Captain Daniel Crow
Last Captain of the Revolutionary Army of 1919
Plays in A Dark Cloud Over London

SKILLS

Great (+4): Resolve (S)

Good (+3): Fast Hands (E); Athletics (E); Futurist Hypercognition (S)

Fair (+2): Endurance; Presence (E); Jack’s Irregular Emissary

Average (+1): Fisticuffs; Deceit; Science

UNIQUE SKILLS

Futurist Mentalism (8)

• Insight; Notice; Security; Examine; Information; Research; Languages. Unusual; Range
• Power Tier: Superhuman
• Major Conviction (-2): Scarred by a Future of Slavery & Slaughter
• Minor Drawback (Snag) (-1): Cannot deactivate hyperawareness (aka Sherlock’s curse)

Crow is a second-iteration future-soldier, trained from birth with the mental acuity necessary to survive the apocalyptic nightmare of war against the Confederated Theocracy of Brittania. This acuity enables all of Crow’s extraordinary talent, but particularly allows him to perform super-human feats of deductive reasoning and intuition – he can learn languages overnight, read people’s minds from their slightest movements, remember images seen in his peripheral vision months earlier (Examine + Range) and deduce extraordinarily detailed information from the slightest of clues (Examine + Unusual).

Fastest Hands (3)

• Shoot; Initiative (Physical); Range; Information; Networking
• Power Tier: Extraordinary
• Conviction (-2): The Lady-Protector Must Be Protected

You need quick hands and quick wits to survive the future, and Crow has both in spades. He has even mastered the way of the gun, preferred martial art of the dedicated Yankee samurai of the 20th Century. He is fast, accurate and deadly.

Jack's London Irregular (1)

• Environment (Urban); Information; Networking; Hide; Skulk
• Power Tier: Mundane
• Major Complication (-2): A Gay Negro Atheist in 1850

Jack trained Crow to survive in a London ruled by dark beasts and quisling peelers. He knows his way around, can survive on the streets and go unseen in the city shadows.

WEAKNESS

Major Weakness: Chrono-Harmonised

Crow’s paradox-free presence is maintained by a vibration frequency in his bones. Hypersonic or temporal attacks that adversely affect this vibration weaken his ability to act in this time-phase, turning him slow-witted and phantom-like (-4 tiers to all contested actions i.e. A Mundane attacker would count as Godlike against his Extraordinary skills while the chrono-displacement continued) or in some cases, could even shunt him back to whatever future his actions so far have created (no mechanical effect).

GIFTS

• Equipment: The Omni-Repeater Revolvers (Free Gift, 3 Improvements)
  • Deadly (-1); Range (-1); Well-made (-1)
  • Notes - Can shoot 3 Zones without penalty; Weapon 1; [Health]; +1 to Shoot actions.
• Skilled (-1 Refresh): +5 skill points.

STRESS

Health Composure Reputation

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REFRESH

Base Refresh: 8 (Mid-Century)

Major Weakness: +2

Gifts: -1

Power Tiers: -7

Adjusted Refresh: 2

Humble Beginnings

Like all black Americans of the 1890, Daniel Crow was a slave in the early years of the Confederated Theocracy of Brittania. Though the early years were much less bleak and inhuman than Victoria’s apocalyptic apotheosis, he was still lucky to avoid dissolution in the Missouri Vivisectories, being cannibalised by the Swampsons of the Dragon-King of Florida or being Assumed as a host for the unMen of Westminster. As a choir-slave for the Childe-Bishop of the Bone Cathedral, a Memphis Temple-Furnace following the High Church rites, he was scheduled ‘absolute debasement’ before the Childe-Bishop of Memphis. On his eight birthday, Daniel overcame his conditioning and attempted escape. He could not succeed, of course, but was rescued by an encounter with the Lady-Protector’s Mechanised Spider-Samurai and extracted to the Boston Defence Compound.

Follies of Youth

As a motorcavalry outrider, Daniel spent his youth shaking off the viral indoctrination of the Abbey of unMen, scouting the American mid-West and acting as an emissary for the Lady-Protector. By his 15th year, he had risen to officer rank in Yankee Fifth, building alliances throughout American and the Pacific on behalf of the Global Revolution.

First Awakenings

As a chosen candidate for Tomorrow’s Army, a special project to save the world before it was doomed, Crow was smuggled right under the enemies’ nose to a secret establishment under St. James’ Square. There, he was inducted into the Kerberos Order and given a regimen of training and vitamins specially designed by the Lady-Protector’s physicians. Crow in particular thrived, not becoming the strongest or the fastest, but rather the smartest, and so he alone noticed the increasingly erratic behaviour of the lady-Protector.

Crow is still haunted by the memory of the look in Jack’s eye as she was Assumed by Victoria-Kali, casually dropped the defences around St. James’ Square and becoming the Lady-Destroyer. Barely a step ahead, the last soldier of Tomorrow’s Army launched his motorcycle through the vibrational field, guns blazing…

Mysterious Origins

… to find himself an odd sight to the inhabitants of the Kerberos Club of October 22, 1844, who rather objected to the bullet-holes he put in the wallpaper. Nonetheless, his magnetized access widget was accepted as a dues stub by Club elders, making him fully paid up as a member of the Club until 1919.

Hiding his origin from the wider world, Crow hung out his shingle as an angent of private inquiry. Above and beyond this, however, he begun carrying out his task, engaging in missions that he believes will reshape events - signing on with the East India Company to fight Phansigar in Northern India, travelling to Japan to train pro-Western factions in gunkata and acting as a field-researcher for Henry Mayhew (the task that led him to find Jack?).

Great Failing

Crow struggles with nightmares of sanguine tortures and mocking hate and unending oppression. He believes in a dark legion of gods, and wonders what hope a single, ordinary soldier can have against them. At different times, his the mental scars from this trauma can make him obsessive, merciless, fatalistic or coldly alien.

In 1849, Crow tried to assassinate an extended family of Virginians visiting London, knowing one of them was a monstrous occultist. He killed many, but failed to take the necromancer and was forced to leave his rifle where it fell into Special Branch hands. Now, he lives with the knowledge his choices killed innocents, hardened the hatred and fear in the hearts of those who will become officers in the Confederacy and put advanced technology to those who will become his enemies, all for nothing. For now, he tries not to judge people for what they might do, guiding events with integrity and mercy, but even so, his nightmares continue.