// Harrow & Pike's counting house, as it might be staffed. // // Nobody here is fixed. Each role has several people who could fill it, and a // run draws one partner, one chief clerk and two to four clerks from them // (DECISIONS #41), so a second career in the same pack meets a different // office. Every candidate carries the same four attributes the player does, // and a description that should agree with them: a partner written as sharp // has the wits to see through a bluff, and one written as easily flattered // does not. // // Descriptions may name another role in braces, filled from whoever was drawn // into it, so a nephew can be the nephew of whichever partner this run has. export const characters = [ { id: 'partner', role_type: 'boss', title: 'Senior Partner', candidates: [ { name: 'Josiah Crane', description: 'Built the house from one room and a borrowed desk. Remembers every figure ' + 'he has ever been shown, and forgives very few of them.', attributes: { nerve: 7, wits: 8, charm: 3, resolve: 8 }, startingRelationship: { trust: 40 }, }, { name: 'Harriet Voss', description: 'Took over the firm when her husband died and has doubled it since. ' + 'Listens to everything and says about a fifth of it.', attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 9, charm: 5, resolve: 7 }, }, { name: 'Lionel Ashby', description: 'Inherited the chair and would rather be at his club. Easily flattered, ' + 'easily bored, and sharper than he lets anyone see.', attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 6, charm: 7, resolve: 3 }, startingRelationship: { regard: 55 }, }, ], }, { id: 'chief', role_type: 'supervisor', title: 'Chief Clerk', candidates: [ { name: 'Silas Pruett', description: 'Thirty years at the same high desk. Counts the pen nibs on Fridays and ' + 'knows to the penny what the stationery cupboard should hold.', attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 6, charm: 2, resolve: 9 }, }, { name: 'Ada Kemble', description: 'Runs the floor with a pencil behind her ear and a list, kept in the ' + 'same pencil, of everybody\'s lapses.', attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 7, charm: 4, resolve: 7 }, startingRelationship: { trust: 40 }, }, { name: 'Horace Lumb', description: 'Wanted your desk for somebody else\'s nephew and has not forgotten it. ' + 'Polite to your face, in a way that takes some effort.', attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 5, charm: 5, resolve: 6 }, startingRelationship: { regard: 35 }, }, ], }, { id: 'clerk', role_type: 'peer', title: 'Clerk', count: [2, 4], candidates: [ { name: 'Tom Bassett', description: 'Cheerful, generous with other people\'s time, and a borrower of small sums he means to repay.', attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 4, charm: 7, resolve: 3 }, }, { name: 'Nell Farrow', description: 'The quickest pen on the floor and does not mind who knows it. Wants the next desk up, and soon.', attributes: { nerve: 5, wits: 8, charm: 5, resolve: 6 }, startingRelationship: { regard: 40 }, }, { name: 'Arthur Quill', description: 'Timid, exact, and never wrong about a column of figures. Apologises to doors.', attributes: { nerve: 2, wits: 7, charm: 3, resolve: 7 }, }, { name: 'Joe Madden', description: 'The loudest laugh in the building and most of the jokes, not all of them kind.', attributes: { nerve: 7, wits: 4, charm: 6, resolve: 3 }, }, { name: 'Lottie Swain', description: 'Types the partner\'s letters and so knows everything a week early. Tells almost none of it.', attributes: { nerve: 4, wits: 7, charm: 7, resolve: 5 }, }, { name: 'Percy Dyer', description: 'A nephew of {partner}\'s, sent to learn the business. Has so far learned where the kettle is.', attributes: { nerve: 3, wits: 3, charm: 6, resolve: 2 }, startingRelationship: { trust: 40 }, }, { name: 'Walt Rudge', description: 'Twenty years a clerk and content with it. The one everyone asks, and the last to be thanked.', attributes: { nerve: 6, wits: 6, charm: 4, resolve: 8 }, }, ], }, ]; export default characters;