Editing Reverend Duncan McCann

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<b>Investigator Name: </b>Reverend Duncan McCann, BA, MTh <br>
<b>Occupation: </b>Missionary<br>
<b>Colleges, Degrees: </b>Bachelor of Arts in Theology from Christ Church College, Oxford; Master of Theology from the University of Edinburgh<br>
<b>Birthplace: </b>Dundee<br>
<b>Mental Disorders: </b><br>
<b>Sex: </b>M <b>Age: </b>26<br>
<b>Residence: </b>Uttar Pradesh, India<br>
<b>Personal description: </b>A freckled, bespectacled and tall young man with a sunburned skin<br>
<b>Family & friends: </b><br>
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            <td width="25%">STR: 10</td>
            <td width="25%">DEX: 9</td>
            <td width="25%">INT: 14</td>
            <td width="25%">Idea: 60</td>
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            <td width="25%">CON: 11</td>
            <td width="25%">APP: 11</td>
            <td width="25%">POW: 11</td>
            <td width="25%">Luck: 55</td>
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            <td width="25%">SIZ: 13</td>
            <td width="25%">SAN: 55</td>
            <td width="25%">EDU: 15</td>
            <td width="25%">Know: 75</td>
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            <td colspan="2" width="50%">99-Cthulhu Mythos: 99</td>
            <td colspan="2" width="50%">Damage Bonus: none</td>
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            <td colspan="2" width="25%">HP: 12</td>
            <td colspan="2" width="25%">MP: 11</td>
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<b>Investigator History</b><br>
Duncan is the son of a Presbyterian minister from Dundee. He excelled in his studies at school and earned a scholarship to Oxford, where he studied theology, hoping to be ordained. However, he disappointed his sternly conservative father as, influenced by theologians such as Albert Schweitzer, he began to adopt a more liberal approach to a number of questions regarding the historical Jesus and other faiths. The two fell out, and have not talked for years now (Duncan maintains a correspondence with his mother).

 

Duncan found a replacement father figure while studying for his ordainment at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Michael Ashbury, Duncan’s tutor, shared many of Duncan’s beliefs and interests, particularly his passion for comparative religion. The two became close and Duncan was introduced into Ashbury’s circle of friends, among them his god-daughter Victoria.


Duncan was conscripted in 1916 and claimed status as a conscientious objector on the basis of his Christian faith. A court allowed him to act as a stretcher-bearer instead. As it turned out, he saw little action in any case –just weeks after after reaching the front lines, he was caught in the blast from a shell and spent the rest of the war convalescing. Duncan still suffers from intermittent tinnitus as a result of the explosion (I’ve dropped his Listening skill 10% to reflect this), as well as frequent nightmares. Duncan is particularly haunted by a chance encounter with a British sniper, sitting silently in the corner of the mess, preparing to go out into the field again. His costume made him look somehow monstrous and unnatural to the sensitive Duncan; all he could think of was this creature lurking in the shadows, taking life after life with cold, alien indifference:

 
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Since the war, Duncan has felt the call to mission and gone to Uttar Pradesh. He’s well-liked there, by both converts and Hindus, since he’s shown himself to be selflessly hard-working in the mission’s sanitarium, and highly respectful towards the Hindu religions; encouraging the locals to think of his preaching as an invitation to a debate.


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