Editing Gordon Thornber

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<b>Investigator Name: </b>         Gordon Thornber<br>
<b>Occupation: </b>     Journalist<br>
<b>Colleges, Degrees: </b><br>
<b>Birthplace: </b>         Leeds, West Yorkshire<br>
<b>Mental Disorders: </b><br>
<b>Sex: </b>M <b>Age: </b>28<br>
<b>Residence: </b>Hythell Manor<br>
<b>Personal description: </b>A stout man, in his early 30s, certainly used to a life of hard, if not good living.<br>
<b>Family & friends: </b><br>
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            <td width="25%">STR: 14</td>
            <td width="25%">DEX: 10</td>
            <td width="25%">INT: 16</td>
            <td width="25%">Idea: 80</td>
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            <td width="25%">CON: 9</td>
            <td width="25%">APP: 9</td>
            <td width="25%">POW: 16</td>
            <td width="25%">Luck: 80</td>
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            <td width="25%">SIZ: 11</td>
            <td width="25%">SAN: 80</td>
            <td width="25%">EDU: 11</td>
            <td width="25%">Know: 55</td>
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            <td colspan="2" width="50%">99-Cthulhu Mythos: 84</td>
            <td colspan="2" width="50%">Damage Bonus: +1D4</td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Accounting 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Anthropology 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Archaeology 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Astronomy 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Bargain 5%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Biology 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Chemistry 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Climb 40%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Conceal 15%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Credit Rating 15%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Cthulhu Mythos 15%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Disguise 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Dodge 20%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Drive Auto 45%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Electrical Repair 10%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Fast Talk 50%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">First Aid 30%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Geology 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Handgun 35%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Hide 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>History 45%</b></font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Jump 25%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Law 40%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Library Use 65%</b></font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Listen 65%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Locksmith 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Machine Gun 15%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Martial Arts 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Mechanical Repair 20%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Medicine 5%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Natural History 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Navigate 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Occult 20%</b></font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Operate Hvy. Machine 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Persuade 45%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Pharmacy 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Photography 45%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Physics 1%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Psychoanalysis 1%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Psychology 40%</b></font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Ride 5%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Rifle 25%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Shotgun 30%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Sneak 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2"><b>Spot Hidden 50%</b></font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Submachine Gun 15%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Swim 25%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Throw 25%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Track 10%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Fist/Punch 50%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Head Butt 10%</font></td>
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            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Kick 25%</font></td>
            <td width="33%"><font size="2">Grapple 25%</font></td>
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<b>Income & Savings</b><br><br>
<b>Income: </b>£4514.67<br>
<b>Cash on hand: </b>£451.46<br>
<b>Savings: </b>£451.46<br>
<b>Personal property: </b><br>
£225.73<br><br>
<b>Real estate: </b>Family mansion<br>
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<b>Investigator history:</b>
Gordon Thornber was from a farming family who made their wealth through wool.  Before his time in the army, he was a journalist, hsi family intent on making him a man of words.  Mostly self-taught, he started on the local papers before moving to the Manchester Guardian.  He also started writing short horror novels, based on Yorkshire folklore.  During the war his family tried to buy him rank and a safe position.  He eschewed that and headed off for the eastern front, looking to emulate the famous Crimea reports.  

He found...something. Or, at least, the footprints of something.  After that he wrote one novel, which was derided as ridiculous, over the top and totally unlikely.  Since then he has returned to the Huddersfield beat, writing plain old society pieces and the occasion crime story.  He knew the good Doctor only a little, but both professionally and socially - while researching his last novel and after the family decided to celebrate New Years' Eve in Scotland for a change.


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