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<b>Income & Savings</b><br><br>
 
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<b>Income: </b>£1500<br>
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<b>Cash on hand: </b>£30<br>
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<b>Savings: </b>£750 cash. £750 bonds<br>
 
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<b>Real Estate: </b>Farm house in Kelso. Stake in family house and stud in Basingstoke.<br>
 
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<b>Adventuring Gear & Possessions</b><br><br>
 
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Riding clothes and boots.<br>
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Webley Mk IV revolver, with spare full load.<br>
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Waterproof long riding jacket.<br>
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Ascot cap.<br>
 
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<b>Investigator History</b><br>
 
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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).
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James was born in horse country, and followed the family tradition by becoming an excellent rider. When the WW1 started he joined one of the many cavalry units of the Brittish Army. Spared to the horrors of the trench war, he spent the majority of his service time in Palestine, culminating in the Battle of Megiddo and Allenby's subsequent raid. In the army he met his best friend, Col Amos Ambrose, who tuttored him when he joined the Cavalry, providing a rather ellaborate classical education that he lacked. Ambrose also had a pechant for non-classical literature, in occult topics that quickly grabbed young James attention.
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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.
 
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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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He was fortunate to be able to buy his horse from the army, sparing him to the meat factories of France. Retiring to England, now an Ex-Captain of the army, he found that the contact he had with a vastly different culture, and his perception of life after the horro of war changed him dramatically. So much in fact that he spent several years moving north and south in the country, until finally settling in the peaceful Scottish borders, having found a place for himself as Captain of Kelso's Yetholm ride.
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To this day he still refuses to share any stories of the war.
  
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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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