John Kalman Smiling Jack  Basic Information Race: Ghost Birthday & Age: 100 years old; 13th day of fall, 411 Gender: Originally male, but has no problems with possessing a woman. Languages Language 1: Common Language 2: Vani Language 3: Nari Physical Description Not particularly impressive in life, Smiling Jack is short, thin, with perpetually messy hair. As a man, this gave him the look of an overworked accountant. As a restless ghost, it gives him the look of a man who spent his life being stepped on, beaten down, and overlooked, and has finally had enough. Sometimes he appears as he looked in life, sometimes he appears as he looked when he died, with a maniacal grin and a horrible red welt from the noose. Often, he appears without a face, just a blank skull. Character Concept A serial killer too demented for the grave to hold, Smiling Jack is coming home with murder on his mind and blood on his ghostly hands. Character History Smiling Jack was once John Kalman, a boring man who worked as a bookkeeper in Sunbearth, being hired by anyone who had more money they could count. Given the typical level of education in Sunbearth, this often meant anyone with more coins than fingers. A meek man, he only survived the cutthroat city because it was made clear that he enjoyed the protection of his clients, men more dangerous than he. Nevertheless, his was a life of being mocked and abused simply because he would sit and take it. Until the 13th day of Fall, 445. All he wanted was to spend his 35th birthday alone, like every other day of his life, and get home early enough to feed his pet rat, Crook, named for the kink in his tail. Instead, a bookie who hired him when things got busy made one too many insulting jokes, and John stabbed him in the throat with a letter opener. Much to his surprise, John felt fantastic. Watching a man he had hated for years gurgling out his last few breaths was the single greatest moment in his dull and soul-crushing life. Thus began the short but prolific career of Smiling Jack, the Sunberth Slasher. He was eventually caught and lynched by an angry mob, and he died laughing as he swung from the noose. For his 100th birthday, he's planning a comeback tour, and gods help anyone who calls him John. John is dead and gone. Smiling Jack is forever. Training Materialization 10 (RP) Possession 30 (SP) Knives 15 (SP) Soulmist Projection 5 (SP) Anatomy (SL) Phobias & Psychological Abuse (SL) Equipment and Possessions -Crook - ghostly remnant of his pet rat (heirloom) -Starting package -Small run-down cottage on the outskirts of Sunbearth, well away from other homes (starting home) -Assassin's Dagger (4 gm) -Five Wrist Knives (5 gm) -Tamo Daggers (20 gm) -Manacles (15 gm) -200 feet Hemp Rope (4 gm) Ledger 52 gm (SP) Thread List Jack's Back (Open) |
Notes:
Crook, the ghost of Jack's pet rat, is largely a psycological extension of Jack himself. Think of him as a prop. The rest of Jack's belongings were recently stolen, or purchased with stolen money while possessing someone.
