TheLadder/content/countinghouse/characters.js

// 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;