Field journal (leather-bound, full of notes and sketches)
Ink pen & pencils
Reference texts (1 ethnographic, 1 folklore)
Mess kit (tin cup, utensils)
Canteen
Hand-crank flashlight
Compact binoculars
Trowel and small brush
Sturdy rucksack
Bedroll
15 ft. rope (lightweight)
Cigarette case (Nathaniel’s, worn)
Old keepsake (personal, concealed)
Warm coat and military boots
Personal Details, Work Performance, Special Training, and Other Notes[edit]
Julian A. Locke is a well-educated American graduate student of anthropology, currently pursuing his doctorate after a long interruption caused by the Great War. Born into a wealthy East Coast family, Julian enlisted out of a sense of duty and spent much of the war serving as an officer’s aide, seeing both combat and the quieter horrors that followed it. Older and more experienced than his academic peers, he returned to his studies with a more jaded outlook and a deeper interest in the rituals, beliefs, and buried truths of war-torn societies. Fluent in ????? and Russian, Julian now finds himself in the chaos of the Russian Civil War, ostensibly conducting fieldwork—but perhaps drawn by stranger stories whispered on the edge of folklore.