SHELTER:Simon Jordan

Simon Jordan

Born 1973, Simon's education took place in the state sector and was solid if unremarkable. He enrolled in the Royal Army scholarship program to fund his way through university, majoring in psychology and sociology at Keele with an eye to fast-tracking through to officer qualifications and a role in the strategic branch, fighting wars from behind a desk. This plan derailed on graduation as Army Intelligence exchanged his scholarship obligations with MI6 as part of some deal, the details of which Simon was never informed of.

He joined MI6 as an analyst, but became the nearest agent to a 1996 crisis in Paris while on honeymoon, where he succeeded admirably and acquired a taste for fieldwork - a taste he was not often able to indulge, remaining an analyst for much of the next five years with occasional forays when his growing list of specialist subjects became key to one operation or another.

In 2002 his combination of analysis and field work made him an obvious candidate to be relocated to Washington as an aide and friendly observer to the NSA. Over the next two years he found a wider latitude with regard to freedom to act as a field operative, while also finding that the methodology and goals of the NSA section to which he was assigned were more in line with his personal philosophies and political beliefs than those of MI6.

In mid-2005 Simon resigned his commission with MI6 in a move that caused not a small degree of friction between US and UK intelligence communities which would take most of the following year to resolve and applied for US citizenship, gaining it on an accelerated timetable due to his new contacts.

Simon's particular speciality in field operations is the application of talents typically considered part of the analysis branch; he takes in information and processes it at a remarkable rate, reaching conclusions based on new data and information picked up over years behind a desk studying dossiers - essentially detective work. He's at his best when an operation involves a significant degree of fact finding and deduction.

Shrewd Journalist

Sleuth 1

STR 10 (+0)

DEX 12 (+1)

CON 10 (+0)

INT: 16 (+3)

WIS 16 (+3)

CHA 13 (+1)

Wounds: 10

Vitality: 8

Subdual: 10

Stress: 16

Ref: +2

Fort: +0

Will: +5

BAB: 0

Unarmed: 0

Melee: 0

Ranged: +1

Init: +2

Def: 12

Knowledge: +4

Gear: +4

Request: +2

Gear: 1R

Class Abilities: Sympathetic, Human Nature

Origin Benefits (+1 Investigation, +1 Sense Motive, +1 Sense Motive threat range)

Feats: Observer, Tactical Advantage

Proficiencies: Unarmed, Handgun, Blade

Skills

Analysis +6/+6 (3 ranks, result cap 20)

Bluff* +3 (2 ranks, result cap 20)

Cultures* (Western Europe) +5 (2 ranks, result cap 20)

Drive (Standard Ground Vehicles) +1 (0 ranks, result cap 15)

Impress* +4 (2 ranks, result cap 20)

Investigation +7/+7 (3 ranks, result cap 20)

Networking +6/+4 (3 ranks, result cap 20)

Notice +9 (4 ranks, 19-20 threat range, result cap 30)

Profession* (Agent) +1 (0 ranks, result cap 15)

Resolve +6/+3 (3 ranks, result cap 20)

Science* (Chemistry) +3 (0 ranks, result cap 15)

Search +9 (4 ranks, 19-20 threat range, result cap 30)

Sense Motive +8/+8 (4 ranks, 19-20 threat range, result cap 30)

Streetwise +5/+3 (2 ranks, result cap 20)

Tactics* +6/+4 (3 ranks, result cap 20)

• - Cross-class skills

Interests: Politics, Food & Drink

Subplot: Nemesis (Jonathan Roberts, former partner in MI6, defected to a terrorist group*, mirrors Simon's career, has been seeding disinformation to the NSA and MI6 about Simon being aligned with him)

Contacts: Royce Owen (NSA administrator; Simon was originally assigned to him during his liason time.)

Acquaintance: Bookworm I

Associate: Friends in Low Places

Confederate: All the Right Answers

Partner: Diplomatic Solution

Captain Mackenzie Ryan, British Armed Forces (Now running security for the British Embassy, studied alongside Simon)

Acquaintance: Backup I

Wealth:

Lifestyle: 2

Wealth: 1 ($100)

Possessions 1 (Forensics Kit II, Walther PPK I (Holster, Holdout) Parabolic Microphone I)