Player Characters

1) Dr. Nicholas "Nick" Weymouth (anthropologist): Dr. Nicholas Weymouth was born in Cairo, Egypt to Dr. Henry Weymouth, an English physician, and Mrs. Catherine Embly, an American socialite and novelist. The family lived in Egypt until Nick was six years old, after which they moved to London, where four years later, Nick’s father died suddenly of a mysterious illness. Nick’s grieving mother moved with her son to her family’s home near Ithaca, New York, where Nick grew up. As a teenager, he spent summers visiting with cousins in New Mexico, where he developed an amateur interest in Native American cultures, especially myths concerning ancient Anasazi peoples. At the age of seventeen, Nick entered Columbia University where he majored in biology. Eventually, he earned a Ph.D. in anthropology under the supervision of Franz Boas at Columbia, completing a dissertation on Amerindian shamanic religions and rituals involving hallucinogens and self-mutilation. During his fieldwork among pueblo peoples of the American southwest, he participated in hallucinogenic religious rituals that triggered a latent extra-sensory perception in him, and which inspired him to continue his studies on human perception and the supernatural. His first professional field work project after graduate school was an investigation of ritual violence and spirit possession in the shamanic traditions of Nahuatl-speaking peoples in southern Mexico, as well as archival work on human sacrifice among the Mexica (Aztecs) of central Mexico. During one visit to Mexico he participated in a ceremony wherein he had an out of body experience, and when he awoke he found that he held a small effigy in the form of a skull carved from turquoise. He always carries this artifact with him, and it serves as a focal instrument when he uses his extra-sensory perception. Although relatively young, Dr. Weymouth is an experienced traveler and adventurer, speaking several languages, and has some skill navigating both the natural and bureaucratic jungles in foreign lands.

2) Hedley Laroux: Fearless and determined, Laroux is a big game hunter by trade. The many contacts he has established over the years have recently pulled him into the life of general adventurer.

3) Dr. Anaxamander Swift: Labeled a "mad scientist" by many of his peers, Anaxamander Swift designed and built The Hyperion, a miraculous flying machine. The vessel is powered by orichalcum, an Atlantean ore provided by Swift's equally eccentric friend, the late Dr. J. M. Rookwood.

4) Holly Baker: Originally from Chicago, Holly attended college in her hometown where she met and roomed with Elizabeth Rookwood (the late Dr. J. M. Rookwood's daughter). While in school she also began dating a small time mob thug. When her boyfriend moved to robbing banks in the mid-west, she dropped out of school and ran away with him. Unfortunately, her boyfriend was gunned down during an escape. Since the botched robbery, Holly has been wandering the mid-west, doing odd jobs and living out of barns and guestrooms, evading the law and basically surviving. Meanwhile, she is trying to "go clean." Shaken by the death of her boyfriend, she is trying to salvage her life.