YellerBelly

Attributes

Agility || Smarts || Spirit || Strength || Vigor

Skills

Athletics || Common Knowledge || Gambling || Notice

Persuasion || Shooting || Stealth || Taunt || Thievery

Derived Stats

Pace 6" || Parry 2 || Toughness 5

Hindrances

Poverty - Minor - Lower starting funds and Bill is always broke

Timid - Major - –2 to Fear checks and resisting Intimidation

Wanted - Minor - Bill is wanted by the authorities

Edges

Connections - Contacts provide aid or other favors once per session

Streetwise - +2 to Common Knowledge and criminal networking

Gear

Wealth

A well-worn but looked-after suit, boots and hat

An el cheapo Rupertus Pepperbox

50 rounds for the above

$100 in cash (emergency fund)

Background

Bill Keely was always second-best, passed over by the big mobs in Chicago for someone just a little smoother, with a little more finesse. He’s worked with some of the legends, but he’s stuck playing short cons for peanuts. What he lacks in talent, though, he makes up for with his eye for such. Many of the great grifters of our time have passed on up through his tutelage, and the latest was one David Washington.

David played the outside man for Bill’s fiddle game, and Bill was ashamed to admit to himself that their success was mostly down to the youth’s smooth-talking. Pretty soon, David would be off to play the big cons, leaving Bill in the dust once again. When a con went wrong and the mark pulled a gun on the pair, Bill’s resentment boiled over and he took the money and ran, leaving David to take the heat.

Once word spread around, everyone’s taken to calling Bill “Yeller-Belly”, which only adds to his sense of resentment. He keeps telling himself that one big score is all he needs to show everybody he’s got what it takes. He’s desperate for a chance to redeem himself, and a desperate man will do some foolish things.